The southern press., 1851-07-09

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threatened him with s&ssva&ion and Ana1h. No
entxsaiss FROM home followed hin = Aeekon
him back no admonition from oihsfs armed
him Of Isis fate. But the hour Of reflection had
come, and nature and conscience wrought within
him, until at length " he came to himself"
And now, W uen Of the new States Of the
South You are not of the original r,ecn.
The battle had been fought and won, I've revo-
luton achieved ai le Constitution establ lished,
before your Stat had any existenee as States
You came into .lePared banquet, and had seats
assigned you al liable, just as honorable az those
which were filled by older guests You have
been and are singulary prosT erous; and if any
one should deny this, you would at once contra
diet his assertion. You have bought vast guam
titles Of choice and excellent land at tho lowest
price and If the public domain has not been
avished upon you, you yourselves will admit
that it has been appropriated TO your own uses
by very liberal hand. And yet in some OF these
States-not in all--persons are found In favor
of dissolution of the Union, or Of secession
from it. Such op Mons are expressed even whers
the general prosperity of the community has
been the most rapidly advanced Ia the flourish
ing and interesting State Of Mississippi, forex-
ample, there is large party which insists that
her grievances are intolerable, that the whole
BODY polite is in state of suffering, and all
along, and through her whole extent on the Mis-
sissippi, loud cry rings that her only remedy is
" secession" " secession" Now, gentlemen,
what nflicion does the State of Mississippi suf-
fer under! What opposition prostrates her
strength or destroys Ter happiness! Before we
can Judge of the proper remedy we must know
something Of the disease and, for my part,
confess that the real evil existing in the case ap-
pears to me to be certain inquietude, or unea-
siness, growing out Of n high degree of pros
perty and consciousness of wealth and power,
which sometimes leads men to be ready for
changes, and to push on to still higher elevation.
II this be the truth of the natter the doctors are
about right. II the complaint spring from over
wrought prosperity, for that disease have no
doubt that secession would prove sovereign
remedy.
But return to the leading topic on which
wac engaged. In the department Of invention
there has been wonderful applications of science
to arts within the last sixty years. The
spacious hall Of the Patent Cffice is at once the
repository and proof of American inventive art
and genius Their results are seen in the nu.
merous improvements by which human labor is
abridged.
Without going into details, it may be suffi-
cient to say that many of the applications of
steam to locomotion and manufactures; of cleo
tricity and magnetism to the production Of
mechanical motion; to the electrical telegraph
to the registration of astronomical phenomena;
to the art of multiplying engravngs; the intro
duction and improvement among us Of all the
important inventions of the Old World, are
strikingy Indicative of this country in the
useful arts.
The network of railroad and telegraph lines
by which this vast country is reticulated Inve
not only developed it's resources, but united
emphatically, in metallic bands, all parts Of the
Union
The hydraulic works of New York, Philadel-
phia and Boston surpass in extent and impor-
tance those of ancient Rome.
But we have not confined our attention to
the immediate application of science to tho
useful arts. We have entered the field of ori-
ginal research, and have enlarged the bounds Of
scientific knowledge.
Sixty years ago, besides the brilliant discoy-
cries of franklin in electricity scarcely any
thing had been done among us in the way Of
original discovery. Our men Of science were
content with repeating the experiments and dif-
fus;ng knowledge of the discoveries OF the
learned of the Old World, without attemptingto
add single new fact or principle to the existing
stock Within the last twenty five or thirty
years remarkable improvement has taken place
in this respect. Our natural history has been
explored in all its branches; our geology has
been investigated with results OF the highest
interest to practical and theoretical seeEce Dis.
coveries have been made in pure chemistry and
electricity which have received the appreciation
of the world. The advance which have been
made in meteorology in this country, within
the last twenty years, is equal to that made
during the same period in all the world besides
In 1893 there was not in the United States an
instrument with which good observation of the
heavenly bodies could be made. There nre now
instruments at Washington, Cambridge and
Cincinnati, equal to those at the best European
observatories, and the original discoveries in
astronomy within the last FIVE years in this
country are among the most brilliant of the
age ! can hardly refrain from saying, in this
connexon, that La Place has been translated.
explained and some instances his illustrations
improved by Bowdth.
Our knowledge Of the geography and to-
biography Of the American continent has been
rapidly extended by the labor and science Of the
officers of the United States army, and discove-
Ties of much interest in distant seas have re-
suited from the enterprise of the navy.
In 1907 n survey of the coast of the United
States was commenced, which at that time it
supposed no American was competent to
direct. The work has, however, grown within
the last few years, under native superinten-
dent, in Importance and extent beyond AM en-
terprise of the kind ever before attempted.
These facts concusively prove that great
advance has been made among us, not only in
The application of science to the wants Of ordi-
nary life, but to science itself in its highest
branches--in its application to satisfy the crnv-
ngs of the human mind.
In respect to literature, with the exception Of
some books Of elementary education, and some
theological treati.es of which scarcely any but
those of Jonathan Edwards have any permanent
value, and some works on local history and poll
ties like Hutchnsoa's Massachusetts, Jefferson's
Notes on Virginia, the Federaist, Belknap's
New Hampshire, and Morse's Geography, and
few others, America had not produced single
work of any repute in literature. We were
almost wholly dependant on imported books.
E'en our Bibles and Testaments were, for the