Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-05-20
American Indnstrv.

If we take a standpoint between the old and
new world, and look upon them with the eye of i'm
partial comparison, feelings of patriotic graduation
must inevitably swell the breast Of every true Amer
lean as he does So Has BEEN is written in care
worn lines upon every feature of life in the Eastern
hemisphere. Her landscape is interspersed with the
hoary ruins of empress her society is sick with the
diseases of luxury and misery; and her vitality seems
only canahe of sPaA-Ac efforts relpna itself of
the incubus of hereditary misgovernment.
In old times, from the abundance of her indus
trial energy and physical resources, she built mighty
pyramids, and aqueducts, and roads that centuries
have not been able 10 destroy; now her powers are
spent upon the execution of no gigantic enterprises,
but upon the elaborate finish of little things There
is not for giants to exercise themselves within
her borders the Crystal Palace of Hyde Park is
found to be more than large enough to contain all the
present products of her genius and the proudes tro
phies of her handiwork Her industrial excellence
is seen in her cups and decanters and in the pecu-
liar brancy of her needles and pins.
1t is not wonderful to US that in competition of
ntck-ndcks, American industry should not win the
palm. Our people rise every morning with the sun,
not to expend their labors in polishing bjouterie,
but to make new world. They do not bend with
fncal particularly the designs of buttons and
brocade. but they calculate upon tunnelling through
ridges Of bassaltc mountains, and of betting three
thousand miles of continent with iron rails. To
6e' comes whispering from the broad prairie, where
the buffalo and deer browse and from the forest
where the stately maple and majestic magnolia
shake hands together over the murmuring streams :
and the clang OF anvlls in our workshops, and the
roar of treess machinery in our factories, and the
blows of the woodman's axe, and the swo haw', Of
the husbandman as he drives the plowshare through
the virgin SOIL all declare, that day by day the pro-
phecy is being fulfilled.
The great distinctive element Of American indus
try is active, aggressive energy EVER man amongst
US, with mind governing his muscles and sinews,
knows by intuition, that great is the work before
him; and the spontaneous expression Of his natural
logic is ''put it throughp' Tomorrow he may sit
down and make paste pearls and crystal opals, but
to-day he must carry the Atlantic to the Pacific /:
and clear the way in the wilderness for one hundred
millions of men, who are coming fast behind him.
bearing In their midst civilization and the arts and
all the majesty and mystery of the Future. In all
his relations, the citizen OF this republic finds him.
self centred in circumstances which demand the ex.
erclse of Herculean energies, gigantic activities and
great capacities. The political evils which he has
to correct are such as only he could grappIe with
and successfully eradicate and the boundess field
OF industrial enterprise that opens every where be-
fore him, has developed in him size and force Of
character proportlonate to the exgencies of his stu
alton. We thank God that we do not contest the
palm in glass-cutting and gliding, with the old world
and we feel some pride in the fact, that the great
palace oil nature alone, has capacity to exhibit our
proudest trophies of industry.
In seventy years we have lined the Eastern sea-
board with cities, riyalling in wealth, and bv far
outsrlppng in enterprise, the most famous of those
in Europe. We have spread twenty millions of in
dustrlous people over the forest and meadows. and
welded them to freedom and plenty unknown n|
the history ofany other nation We have brought the
great inland lakes to the ocean, and made the bor-
ders of the Eastern continent shake hands with the
prairles ofthe West; and it is our destiny and mis-
sion to multiply all those blessings until the genius
OF America shall rule over an united world
The smiles aud affected condescension Of the Ion-
Rf'ita ~ y I ID ne
partment Of the Worlds Fair, need not call forth
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