The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1851-07-12

tiO4I AedEt. It's St6lAdl ldpOl hhO"'
no rest, no joy but in countless accu
mutation, no hope but in future fields
of speculation. And we may with rea.
son expect to see in the fruition of this
never-ending toll vast network cast
around the length and breadth of the
land, delying, by its firm and rich tex
ture, even the wasting, moulderlng
mildews of time itself
A scrap from our recent history af-
fords US here an apt illustration. One
of our great northern marts now counts
its losses for the past year by millions
And why? Because for time there
seemed to be lack of moral power in
the people to enforce the laws of the
land. But, waking up TO a full reality
Of their loss, (and to just sense OF their
obligations to the country the strong
arm of the law in Boston soon reigned
triumphant. Let US bring the matter
nearer home, and we of Louisiana
would sigh at being compelled to draw
a hostile line between ourselves and
the main consumers Of that great and
sweet staple by which we live. And
SO it is with every nook and corner Of
this wide confederacy our common
wants, our common language, our COM
mon good unites and binds the whole
And it will be in no small degree to the
influence of this powerful magnet that
we may expect to see quiet restored to
that bright but waning star which for
the moment seems so restless in her orb,
as if half inclined to shoot from her glo-
rious orb, and pass away into fearful
future-and by that act of madness,
perchance to throw the march of human
liberty back on many weary mile, and
cause its foes throughout the world TO
smile with fiendish JOY.
But, ladies and gentlemen, there is
no cause more potent, none more pow
erful in It's influence for the good Of our
common country than internal Improve
m,ents, created by whom they may
Indeed this may be considered one
of the main props, if not the very key
stone of that great political fabric under
which we live. Isolate this extended
republic, one portion from another, and
our days are numbered. Unite US
bring US together by all those improve
ments of which our country is suscep-
tible, and the last page of history will
be ours. In the ever-varied pursuits of
man there is nothing, so far as this
world is concerned, more deserving
our highest notwithstanding which
gives stronger claims to be considered
the benefactors of our race than his
efforts in the advancement of those
great works of improvement intended
not alone for our own wealth and honor,
but as rich legacies to future generations
so grand in their conception, SO
enduring in their character, as TO bear
more the impress of the great archi-
tect himself, than the mere creation of
human hands. Imagine for moment
that if that mighty host led by Alex
ander against the world, had left, in
stead of wild desolation and mourning
empires, vast canal, connecting the
Red Sea with the Mediterranean, whose
waters would even to this day be bear
ing its rich burden of commerce, and
strewing its whole line with blessings
to generations of millions after millions,
what a cloud of grateful incense would
now be rising to great name, instead
of that almost pity we feel for that truly
individual who refused to
be comforted because there were no
more worlds to enslaVe.
By glancing back to the commence
ment of the nineteenth century, at the
achievements of the mind
Of man, and by reasoning q pr'ori of
what is in reserve for the future, the
brain grows giddy at the contempla-
lion, and we sadden to think we have |
lived too soon. But why despond FL
It is ungrateful! Why determine to
forget that we who have lived to see
he 4th day of July, 1851, have lived to
zee so much more than human eyes
aver rested upon, or the human imagin-
ation in its widest flights had ever con-
how much more may be
n reserve. Many of US here to-day
will live to see one-half of this broad
and of ours checkered with railroads
II pierced with canalso And is not
he future, the boundless future, ours?
Cor in our day the achievements of sci
,nce and of art have been on scale SO
that the mind has become
atiated with wonder, and the future to
is in this can hardly be said to be
ealed book. The time for great de-
is near at hand. That
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