Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-07-23

them togethet. We are not OF those who
affect to despise wealth, or to be uninterested
in the means for its requirement. On the
contrary, We would rejoice to have all the re-
sources of this country and of the world fully
developed we should be glad to see wealth
abound on every side, and all mankind in the
enjoyment Of such portions Of it as will most
conduce to their own happiness. We gladly
hail the commencement, and how much more
the completion of every feasible plan for the
production of wealth, not of fictitious, nomi-
nal wealth, but that which is real. We
would have our country so intersected by
railroads, so traversed by canals, SO connect
ed by highways on land and on water, that
or the manufacturer produced might be readi-
ly transported to where it was most needed.
We would have its mineral treasures brought
up TO the light Of. day, its soil clothed with
fertility, and its very rocks and ice made
available for mans enjoyment.
The object which the members of the Chi
cago Convention came together to promote
is national in its character, and it was fitting
that a general interest should be felt in it.
OF this we do not complain; but it is a cause
for deep regret that while so much interest
is felt in a question of dollars and cents, so
little is manifested in regard to human rights.
There are two kinds Of Internal Improve
ments-lhe one digs canals, builds railroads,
deepens rivers, erects lighthouses, secures
harbors; the other enunciates great truths,
applies principles, tears down error, builds
up righteousness and p%urifes the soul. AS
the latter is immeasurably the most import
ant it should receive greater attention but
such is not the case. The Internal Improve
! ment of the country is regarded as OF more
moment than the Internal Improvement of
to deepen the channtl of a river and improve
its navigation, than to multiply works of be-
nevolence and love. They will labor harder
to obtain a charter for a railroad, than to pro-
cure a universal charter of mans right
Lake navigation is more attractive to them
than practical righteousness-the building of
lighthouses of greater interest than the
weightier matters of the law.
The Wings profess to condemn the Mexi-
can war, many of the Northern Democrats
are sick of it, it has already cost the nation
dollars a day would probably fall short Of the
actual expense to which the people are sub
jected by it. If it is regarded merely in a
business point of view, as a transaction which
involves the risk of life and property as does
lake and river navigation, it must be con-
coded to be more important than the latter.
Take, for instance, the last twelve-month
and we hesitate not to affirm that all the
snags, and sawyers, and sand bars of the
western rivers, and all the rocks and lee
shores of our lakes have not occasioned one.
tenth so great a destruction of human life as
the balls of the Mexicans, and their ally the
romitO; and as for the glory acquired for the
sufferers by these respective modes of death
we think the balance is decidedly in favor o
the former. So far as the loss Of property il
concerned, no one, who understands enough
Of arithmetic TO add together the various item;
of enormous expense which the war has cost
can avoid the conclusion that it is a create
pecuniary loss by far than all which resul
from our lake and river accidents. Yet W,
hear of no great Anti Mexican War meeting
at Chicago or elsewhere, embodying its sen
} timents in strong resolutions, and appointin!
t its committee Of eighteen-each committee
man representing a State" to gather stats
tics and present the same 10 the Congress q
t the United States,'' as did the River an
a Harbor Convention. The call for such
T meeting would fall upon heavy ears, tn
t hearts of such as should respond to it ar
: worshipping at the shrine of Mammon. TIL
S American people place money above MAJ
r and exalt policy above principle. The sy'
o TEN Of Internal Improvement which is mos
r attractive to them, although it may increas
S their wealth, is not of the kind TO elevate an
e ennoble them, and promote their growth
S those things which, above all others, be-
becometh a nation-Justice, Mercy, an
e Truth.