The organizer., 1850-06-15
improvements o. the Day.


Every exchange paper we open
contains some records of the benefits
resulting from railroads already com.
pleted, or in anticipation. Cities and
towns, to use a provincialism, swell
located" and enjoying, what's called
'natural advantages" are eagerly
striving to improve their condition,
Ind those which unfortunately have
no such advantages. are endeavoring
10 supply the,deficiency by the adven-
litious aid of art and enterprise. BY
this species Of physical metempsy-
Ghosts, time and space become annihi-
lated, and towns and cities remote
from ocean navigation, and from each
other undergo a kind of reciprocal
translation and are brought in close
proximity. The world is all agog TO
become united, and a spirit of social
ism, mot as sectaries understand it,
but as literally undersoodh prevails
every where.-Men are becom-
ing more what The creator de-
signed them to be, social beings, anx-
ious to travel, to see each other, and
to become acquainted. The grand
secret of national prosperity, to say
nothing Of individual convenience
and comfort, is to make mankind as
much as practicable. members OF one
great family-.to bring them into con-
tact and acquaintanceship-to know
each others peculiarities and idiosyn-
cracies-to learn the progress Of mind
Ito become participants in the great
results of the exercise Of genius and
enterprise, and to enjoy the various
products Of diversified soils and cli-
mates.
Future ages may pronounce Us
laggards, for as improvements ad-
vance in occelerating and constantly
accumulating ratio, we may to pos
terity seem a stand still and do moths
ing age; but, compared with all past
time, we live in a rapid gO.ahead
era. Progress is the characteristic OF
the age. We see. hear, and read OF
progress in every direction; the human
mind iI constantly on the stretch to
invent, devise or discover; and physi'
cal action is at hand, with the con
comitants Of labor and money, to ex'
ecute whatever project will add to the
sum total Of temporal happiness
Every day we live we arc becoming
more gregarious, and our affinitie'
stronger-more disposed TO give anC
take, to teach and 10 be taught, and
thus to fulfl the high destinies Of ouI
creation
The most efectual means for per
fecting the conditions Of man, advan
cling bis mental progress, and rescu
ing the ever living principle OF sou
from degradation, Is TO bring mind u
contact with mind; 10 promote fre'
and easy intercourse between Oh,
different races that inhabit this fai
earth. Where ignorance and miser
prevail, there is isolation with exclu
sivsness.-The Chinese wall enclose
millions Of human beings, without Oh
susceptibility OF enjoyment, beeaus
q eontracted policy excludes thei
from communion with ''outside bar
barians."-The absence ofintereours
between nations il a grand source
evil: the cause perhaps gilmore huma
misery than any nameable agen
Bring the races into close cOmmuniu
merge them into cosmOpolita
world, and there is an end Of all NJ
tional antipathiss-the greatest ba
rier ofprogress. War will then has
lost ell lee tsFrors, for war will has
fed 20 brute beasts.
The present age in the calender
time win be memorable Tor the impuli
given, and the progress attained,
psrfeeting this great agency Of civil
ration. The oesan is traced, a.
were, with well defined huge wal
roads, and the globes Iurfacs
ehsqlersd With railroads making q