The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-11-01

easy OF acquisition BY all the members OF the community,
will society be sound the main pontthat 10, the alb
sence either OF seridom OF paupefsm and OF the
criminal classes created by the unequal distribution OF
limited national wealth II, IN that prdusion Of produc'
live land there be nothing 10 check the natural progress
there be rapid growth Of the country In power II the
land be Ill taken up. II be deficient In quantity. man
uiacturng and commercial interests have ovegrown the
agricultural then is the condition OF the country abnor.
NAL, and the continuance oil lis prosperity dependant
on circumstances foreign TO itself and beyond its CONTROL
and the accidents Of political change may al any moment
produce its decline or downfall
In saying this, let not be understood TO speak ~
dsparagement OF manufacture and commerce. those hand
aidens Of agriculture but only as a,,rbuting 70 each
that which is, in my estimation its everlasting place IN
the great scheme Of human affairs, and IN the welfare OF
nations.
been held by some OF the great States OF ancient and
modern times-such as Egypt. Lacedamon, Rome, and
feuda Europe-has not been, many have enormously
material element OF their greatness and the safeguard OF
their nationality The Old political communities, whose
Industry exclusively ufacturing CONNER
cal-as Tyre, Carthage. Athens Palmyrasach with lis
territory and lis massed civic popua tion shone
Tor brief with unsurpassed and dazzling bril-
ancy wealth. learning and art, and then passed away
like the blaze OF meteor, which leaves only the reiec
ton OF its transient luse upon the page OF history and
peradveniure some hali-baried monumental stones 70
Holland, are examples oil modern date. Britain Us no
exception this great political laws Tor, though she be
pre- eminent in manufacture and commences set the ruling
class there rooted in the land repairs 70 the city In
the pursuit OF power and OF pleasure but its rich abodes
It's household GODS the birth place and nurture OF ls
children the graves 81 IT, progsnors and ITSELF are 70
ceased produce for her It's corn It's COAL and IFS iron
and the landed interest be no longer potential IN her gov.
ernment then for her. also, will need but The accident
OF a battle 10 decide her fate.
Gentlemen, applying these propositions 10 the main
question: say these United States are as whole and
always have BEEN chiefly dependant Tor their wealth and
1t tile
spontaneous products OF our forests our mnes and our
seas and the cultivated products OF our SOIL which have
faciure but modify these, commerce only distribute
accumulate them, and exchange them for others, 10
crafty taste promote convenience Land Is the loot
STOOL of power; land is the throne OF our empire.
Generation after generation may give themselves up to
slaughter in civil or foreign war dynasty follow dynasty
each with new varieties OF oppression or msrule the
frairicda rage OF domestic factions rend the enas Of
their country temples, and basica, and CAPT
tolls crumbe 10 DUST proud naves melt into the yeast OF
self disappear like the phanasm OF troubled dream; but
Nature is everlasting; and above the wreck and nproar
OF our vain devices and childish umus, the utelary
continue 10 sparkle upon US from their distant
and heat the earh-the elements to dissolve in
grateful rainthe majestic River to roll on his fezing
unceasing yand the ungrudgng soil TO yield up
the righteousness OF its harvest year after year, to the
hand OF the husbandman.
He the husbandman is the servant OF those divine ee
mens OF earth and air he sthe minister OF that gracious,
that benign that bounteous that fostering that nonrlsh
ing that renovatng, that inexhanstibe that adorable
Nalure and, SUCH the stewardship OF our nationality
is in him.
God has in all times voucbsafed country minis
tiers Of religion. whose hearts and whose life were
touched with holy fire from his altar soldiers. OF
whom the very name sounds in the minds trum
pet-cal 10 battle and victory; statesmen, the glory 81
whose eloquence, whose wisdom, whose patriotism, will
descend e future ages oosGung IN ae eugeaGs o. ~
that Anglo-Saxon which Taciius commentaries
OF old inclined to shun the crowded city, and TO choose
gades or in the solemn depths Of the forest; whose
passion land whose ndivdualism, whose genius OF
separation and seaclon, whose rural tendencies rem
der especially apt for that period in the OF
litical community when land is superintendent with IT,
and when the nculivaed earth to be reclaimed 10 the
dominion of man. God has endowed us with courage,
energy, activity genius, invention, industry, love OF
knowledge, Improvement and virtue at least equal 10
those Of the most favored members OF the human family
God has blessed and protected in our efforts to esab
lish and MAINTAIN wise and good institutions OF govern
men and has enabled 10 defend them against all
mics, alike the and the land But God IN his
great mercy has also given us coaaty. geographically
speaking wiihou, the singular festGrea and situation OF
which all the wisdom viIlue and s~ercsso fathers
and ourselves would but have served Ike those OF Swe
dish Charles,
"To pon, moral, and adorn nle;'
and without which the specific qualities OF parent
stock their instincts OF personal psndence severance
OF interests diffusion OF authority repellence OF race,
aggeraied sefconhdence of Judgment intolerance OF any
opinion tasies habits differing from their own, and
very Wouiu W NC
the elements Of dissolution and destruction, rather than
OF wealth and power.
We OF the United States possess portion oil the earth
in which all the natural sources OF wealth, mineral or
vegetable abound which constitutes approximately
the whole Of the temperate OF this continent and Is
therefore highly congenia animal life; which. by the
cong OF the seacoast abounds IN harbors which
contains interior and whose superhces are 80 dis
posed with numerous moderate elevations, with no
glomeraion OF lofty mountains. but with extensive,
gently incned plains. that contains larger system oil
rivers and greater proportion of tabe lands, than
any other country IN the world except possibly Russia
and China.
Compare, for illustration with the condition OF the
American republic in this respect, the contrary state oil
things in the Mexican. Such is the confguraon OF the
coast OF Mexico that she has almost good barbor
the Atlantic ocean Vera Cruz is but roads,ead along
the beach, mperfecty sheltered by reef OF rocks
Of its natural and power from either
coast without ascending 10 a height OF seven thou.
sand feet IN a line OF one hundred miles, and the whole
surface oil the earth confused oil mountains O
course navgable rivers canals, and railways, either to
connect together the interior parts OF the country or to
connect them with the sea, impossible OF course,
aso the relative proportion oil arabic land is much less
than IL in this country Moreover, the climate is
dry, and the running few and small therefore, OF
the land in general only those portions be cultivated
probably which susceptible of irrigation. II God
bad the lot OF fathers IN that part of America,
not ours would be the mighty ships which now bear
flag and the fame OF greatness and the rich pro-
ductons of our soil, our fisheries kshops, and
our looms 10 the uttermost bounds OF the earth-not
the floating palaces OF the Hudson, the Delaware,
the Ohio, and the Mississippi the wonders OF
mechanic art in the of the steam engne-not the
iron bands OF many railroads, which il in
"a nd he Ia md