Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-03-31

wherever it floats it must be protected. Oui
immense inland frontier will always req lire q
considerable army, aud it should be kept 10 The
highest state of discipline. The schools at Ana
napolis aud West Point ought to be the foster
children of our Republic. Our arseuals and our
armores ought TO be kept filed with every wea
pom aud munitiou of war, aud every vulnerable
point on the coast ought to be fortified. But
while we act on the maxim "in peace prepare
for war; let US also remember that the best pre-
paration tor war is peace. This swels your
numbers, this augments your means, this kuits
the sinews of your strength, this covers you all
over with pauoply of might; and then, if war
must come, in just, cause, no powor earth
sir. all combined-cau send forth
adversary from whose encounter you need
shrink.
But give us these twenty-five years of pence.
do believe that the coming quarter of cen-
fury is to be the most important IN whole
history, and do beseeeh you let US have the
twenty FIVE years. at leas., of peace. Let our
fertile waters be filled up with swarming mil
lions; let the tide OF immigration continue to
flow in from Europe; let the steamer, the canal,
let the railway, subdue these mighty distances,
and bring this vast extension into a span; let US
pay back the ingots of California gold with the
bars of Atlantic iron; ie. agriculture clothe our
vast wastes with waving plenty: let the industrial
and mechanic arts erect their peaceful fortresses
at the waterfalls of rivers; and then in the
train of this growing populations; let the printing
office. the lecture room, the schoo-room, and
village church, be scattered over the country;
and, sir, in these twenty FIVE years. we shall ex-
hibit a spectacle of national prosperity. such as
the world has never on so large scale, and
yet within the reach of sober, pratical contenl-
patton
These are words of wisdom-the couuse Is of
truly great statesmen. Let them be cherished
by all VIII live in this land
Mighty in its youth.
Where though with widest rites, freedom and .ruh
Are worshpped.
1t is PEACE that can only make nation great,
aud preserve the happiness and prosperity of its
people. Emphaticay SO is it with the United
States. Give quarter of century, in which
efforts shall only be to develope the resour-
ces Of the land we live in. to bring out the talent
and to reward the spirit of true enterprise and
industry, and to encourage the arts and the social
feelings that belong to peace, and then, indeed
the republic of the United States shall come to
be- what the poet in years past depicted it would
be.
That land is like an eagle whose young gaze
Feeds on the tide beam, whose golden plume
Floats nolseesS on the storm; and in the blaze
OF sunshine CLEANS, when earthis wrept in gloom.
An epitaph of glory, for the tomb
Oi murdered Europe shall thy fame be made,
Great people! As the sands shall thou become!
Thy growth is swift morn, when night must fade,
The mutltudnous earth shall sleep beneath thy shade!
It'll the work of PEACE to do this. Let, then,
the words of the eloquent Senator-.'give us
twenty five years of peace''-have an echo il
every breast, and be cherished in every heart.
then we shall find that other sentiment of the
great man, who has gone from among US, bu
whose name can neverdie, or his lessons be for
gotten, Liberty and Union, one and indissolube'
and with them happiness and prosperity goin,
hand 10 haud.-Bau Pat