The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-08-01


attention, and leave little of spirit.
1t was ordained, suffered by the Almighty, that nation
should have through great and poraced struggles
Every step of national progress independence
has been of painful exertion and loss of blood This
try has, in its various portions and different ages of its
stenee been engaged in more than 6y wars and ourb
more than hundred battles by land aud before the
of the revolution commenced. We have been a nation
ofpeace from our birth, exist il once beat
our stUord into ploughshdreS, and spears pruning
hooks In such state the Phstines would be upon U.S.
This the decree of the God of battles that freedom can
only by brave hearts and muscular and 1T
equally true, that the most powerful when enlightened
the most generous
The arts are necessary for the strength the HONOR
PRIDE and GLORY of nation. The strength of nation
consists of high souled but also battiemen pa and
toner word their possessions: such wealth as is real
and will go down to postery improved and increased
the soil which live, of wealth and strength
has been the growth of about half century We have
least IN the United States two millions of buildings private
anu PUBIC houses, Stores warehouses; workshops, halls OF
legislation, of Justice, school houses churches
These with few exceptions, have been erected since the
close OF the revolutionary war In addition to these have
more than hundred bridges upon great rivers these
erected with great besides thousands of ones the
larger have all been erected since 1885, To these
added more than fifteen hundred miles of canal Our FORTH
cations and navy yards, &c public properiy but
free country, every has his share in them We MIGHT
here speak with pride of Nays but history
we treating Of but possesons-the growth of
few years indeed with pleasure and pride that we view
our vessels of they models of their knd-ani fine
specimens of this art among the highest productions of
human genius and SKILL and mechanics behind
tneH 10 the observer, ship,
first stroke of the woodlands the finish of herself and
armament all admirable She exhibits in her construction
high portions of the knowledge skill of every age and
nation, and her existence be traced the abor of more
than million of menand her completion embraces nearly
the whole circle of the sciences. She bosom
of the great deep her native home and guided in her
course by the heavens She only the perfection
but the concentration of and the august image Of
tona digny-beautiu in the breeze and terrible the
hght-sho bears the flag of eemen round the world
The following glowing of the origin and present
state OF steam-navgation full of TRUTH interest and beauty
Our claims to the invention Of the last great effort Of
human genusthe of for the purposes of nayioa
on are paramount and unequvoca true that the be-
hef that steam might in future day. be used for this
purpose prevailed with few ardent hopes and warm
temperament long snce but such impressions were consider
ed by the great mass of philosophers cherca the ex
treme Some struggles hnd been made bring steam to the
uses OF navigation, but had in practical measure
succeeded until our countryman Robert Fulton arose and
harnessed himself for the great labor the Steamship has
less Of majesty in than ship of the line has much more
OF wonder and utility AS 10 the shore with lis
splendid cabins, its extended decks beautiful galleries. and
awnings, full of life of beauty, and capabiy of motion
with lie banners floating the breeze seems like NOTHING
IN nature or art, but only thing for effect to grace
the tumphal return of naval hero, nations
gatune bursting, every form that taste and o.nu
could devise Look at again. against the most
potent of the sesgods the winds and the tide with yeoc
~ that mocks all competition Had the ancents seen the
steamship IN its swift they would have left it on re-
cord, that Neptune furious his car ashng his
oceansteed they paved the bow and gaoped on the
wave, and that they painted after the moving wonder in vain
BY and and stars the ponderous forged
they would have said by Vulcan and bis Cyclops o6ev
giants, drives +" the thing of life' along
for II