The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-04-03

TO propel wagon on The Lancaster pike, (near Pha-
delpha) BY the force Of sleamsuccesdsd too-out wac
dow as theorsi and dramer BY all piaeueai
men Well Doctor look over the land roWi The con
tnent worked with iron ways lie scream " ue
locomotive is heard eyeywhereit Is never silent! from
the cataract 10 the gun ana lne duIo" ss ~ ,hs
west send up night and day, the smoke OF the steamboat
10 heaven-ihe very steamboat Doctor which John
Fitch in imperfect form, tired one day on me Delaware
river and In miniature upon The New York kolch.
From The Arooslook 10 the bay OF San Francisco Doctor
The steam engnedumb matter hred into strong, terrible
fe al the command OF scieDee-neyer rests not Tor an
hour nay, not for moment, out OF the twenty four
Through the still night you hear lis mighty breahings
its fires through the Ikness from ocean lis
iron tramp never still upon iron ways and upon river
and lis hoarse anthem dies But as II this was
not enough Doctor as II steam last enough for
this hurryiHg age, here comes the Ericsson, gliding
up New York bay with It's motor, destined 10 de-
throne steam annihated the stage coaches,
numbering wagons, and snail-like moving hand labor
Of 10. Surprising that Fran kiln has learned nothing
since his transit TO another sphere, (and if the Tappng
utter which the mountebank supernaturasts put
in FIanklns mouth, be true, he has sadly gone back
IN every respect) let US imagine him risen from the
grave, and confronted with Nineteenth Century Erics-
son. How the great Doctor would open his eyes as
he found himself board the Ericsson. gliding down
the bay of New York, and with the inventor OF the
motor by his side, explaining plain terms the
features OF his invention! Put Franklin and Ericsson
side by side and two centuries look wonder struck on
each others face Not the expansion OF territory alone,
the Increase OF population, yet the miraculous
advance OF all Industrial interests, even yet toe
wondrous life gwen by science TO dumb machinery,
would excite the surprise OF Washington and Franklin.
could they come back into our world The greatest
wonder OF all would be the great progress which The
people--the masses-haye made since the OF the
crossing OF the Delaware. Then the masses wore a
distinctive dress, which set them apart from the wealthy
class and wrote serldom their very externas they
were ridden down by odieus laws, gathered from the
charnel-bouse Of the Past such Imprisonment ioI
debt, and other fragments OF the legal Mooch OF ME
red and black ages; the masses are men, and mol
serfs machines, and they have risen into full man
hood with the fragments OF many an internal law
tramped firmly under loot Now the masses know no
such word I" Go-hack!" in their upward march
their Future is in the OF benign Destiny and all
pa,enal God. II is good thought and fall OF consoa
lion for every lover of his kind that despite all the clouds
that have lowered upon country through the last
seventy years-despite the thousand obstacles which
have from time TO lime blocked the pathway OF the peo-
pe-yet still :. the world does move" and the Des-
lny Of the country and the people cannot 60 back, but
inevitably march onward The next seventy years
will tell the story.