The Nevada journal., 1851-12-18
From the Boston Zion's Herald.
AMERICA IN A RACE WITH THE WORLD,
By REV. G.. f. COX.

has endured the natural drawbacks OF
two wars with the most powerful ma
ton of the earth; and one of these she
was obliged to bear while struggling
for her own national existence-at the
very hour when she needed most the
fostering care of the mother country.
Surrounded by the attendant difficult
ties of profound wilderness, which
she was to clear and make fruitful
an uncivilized and even barbarous ma
ton within herself, which she was to
subdue; contending with climate that
seemed rough beyond endurance, and
soil that had rocks of iron without
wealth, without arms, without armies
she started upon her career as ma
ton, and demanded her rights from
the world. We say nothing of a thou
sand other difficulties necessarily cons
Aected with her new position But
where is America now? Her race ,caS
with kings, queens, aristocrats, auto
Gratis, with governments; with China,
of the hoary age three thousand years
with Russia, then in possession of one
seventh of the globe; with England,
already in her glory; with France,
with the Turks nay, with Bone, with
the wide world. The race was for
life; who could best live, best govern,
best defend, best educate, best pray.
best provide for her poor, her sick, her
healthy sons?
How does the race come out? To
day America is seen with a territory
equalling that Of the whole Of Europe,
all under her control, with popula-
ton of twenty-five millions with a
soil so subdued, that, with the usual
blessings of Providence, she could feed
and clothe, beside herself, half of Eu>
rope. Her poor and sick have their
thousand asylums; other nations are
visiting her to take their dimensions,
and pattern by their internal economy.
The people are educated j; they are all
readers. No nation in the world can
present the like picture. They are
all taught of God. Her sanctuaries
are in every State, town and village.
Her colleges, her academies, her other
scminaries of learning, her common
schools, are nowhere surpassed in the
history of nations.
Recently America has been put to
the test Your readers all know of the
great Industrial Fair of the World at
London. At this place the nations
have come together to be friends-to
Sc how each has Jared since the child
America left the lap of England. And
to give interest to the occasion, they
have agreed to test each the others
skill, strength, wealth, beauty even.
AT the first, when the nations did look
upon us, we did seem mnseemly. They
were arrayed in scarlet; we in wool
and cotton They had diamonds; we
machine to make candles Their
machines were exquisitely wrought ;
ours lacked the polish They had
beautiful designs, paintings, sculpture (;
we had a plough
But how does the ace come out /!
As no human mind could have antici-
pated. The trial gives America the
command Of all tie great interests Of
Nts 1t gives her command Of tie sea.
Her yacht, the America, out-distances,
in sailing, all nations in the world. 1t
gives America command Of tie earth.
Her plough turns the best furrow, and
thereby draws from the earth the most
fruitfulness with the least labor. The
trial gives to America the command OF
the hayrest scorld. Her grain reaper,
though unpublished, controls the har-
1 vest fields as does none other, and is
among those implements which take:
i the prize of the GREAT MEDAL OF THE
+ WORLD. 1t gives America command
4 Of the battle, ,feH CoLT's REvoLvEF
generals all other experiments, ant
e will put into the hands Of the inventor
= a half million of dollars.
The trial has also given us prccc
5 dcnce in proceeding for misfortune
= One of our Springfield citizens ha'
presented at the fair an ARTIFICIAL
LG for the unfortunate, that so ial
exceeds all others, that in walking one
:; can scarcely distinguish the natura
= from the artificial
s. What more could be asked for A
merica? The Grain Reaper is wortl
l more to the world than the Koh-i-noa
diamond, or ten thousand OF them
; 50 is the Plough; so is even th'
> American Candle Machine; yes, it i
/, worth more than all the diamonds 0
:. earth. II is worth more than silk
tbonoh thot silk were scarlet.