The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1853-07-15
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lplate the condition Of that country.
In every respect We are great Our ter
ITitorial limits comprise fully half Of the
New World: and within those limits are riy.
ers which water the most fertile districts
upon which The sun shines, and pay to Old
Ocean bis largest tribute Lakes second
ionly 70 oceans in msgnitude-m mountains
which those Of most other lands are but
slight elevations -cataraots to which the
Irest Of the world could scarcely supply the
waters- every variety Of climate -every
vegetable production and every mineral
wealth.
Truly Nature has given us great coun-
try, and our Republican Institutions have
made ns great people
Our cities. which riral the emporiums of
the Old World, and which have sprung up
Is if by enchantment. where but few years
ago were the solitudes of the wilderness.
the hunts of wild beasts. and the abode Of
savage life-our Institutions Of learning
our men Of science, and our world-renown-
I'd statesmen. al arc testimonials Of ourna-
tional greatness.
Natures bOunties have laid the founda-
ton ofour greatness-our increasing knowl-
edgeis developing it; our Legislative wis
dom is giving to that development proper
direction; and our perseverance and mscaani-
cal skili are destined to perfect it.
Yes. our MEcHANIcAL SKILL. for it has be-
come obvious that in the exercise and de-
velopment of this. We must owe much, if
not most Of our future prosperity. IF We
glance at the past, and behold the creations
of our mechanical ingenuity. and the bene-
fits attendant on them. at the present, and
behold mechanical improvements springing
up in almost every business pursuit. and the
advantages they bring with them, we can.
in slight degree. realize the benefits which
they must dispense in the future. Who can
estimate fully the advantages which have
resulted to mankind from the application of !
steam to navigation.
Nations. that were once almost total
strangers, have become. by its space re-
moving influence, within few days jour-
ney of each other, and are mutually bcne- ]
fitted By the exchange Of their various and
varied products. and the interchange of
views, sentiments. and opinions. on the DIFF
ferent subjects of general interest. In fact.
they have become neighbors, and in becom
ing neighbors. any former subjects of dis
satisfaction are forgotten, national jealous
les and prejudices are dying awayaandthey
have become friends; and if ought can make
all nations one people, it is steam, which
has annihilated the great natural boundaries
which existed between them as
The Magnetic Telegraph is another nigh
y engine Of public good. the advantages of
which the distant future can only determine.
These arc the children Of Mechanical gem
iuss in the past. and although infants Of the
largest growth, and the first to attract the
attention, still there is numerous. and not
progeny. dispensing among our
people invaluable benefits.
It is we'll known fact that during the
asst war with Great Britain, for clothing and
blankets for our soldiery we were depend
mt upon our enemies Now the hum of
drawns the roar of almost every
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gater-fall in New England: ahdsthe silky
ibres Of the cotton plant and the woody
oatof the American sheep, pass from our
pindles and our looms into clothing for !:
urselses and for almost every nation Eng
and included with which we hold CONNER
ial intercourse, every country paying trib-
to to our Notwithstanding Of the
fspring Of our mechanical genius.
The Printing Press, the great guardian
+ our political Institutions. has become the
1ster-child Of our mechanical genius. Our
wn ingenuity has impaired to its iron arms !,
ew yigor, given to its iron tongue new
alaBility, increased its power Of good. and |.
made It, more than ever. an object Of bene.
/ to mankind. Il dispersea art, science.
terature, and an the blessings which fol /.
w in their train. to every one Of our peo- !
le; for this IS the age Of cheap pnblica-
ons-tLe pictorial era IN the worlds exis-
nee. Mechanism whose touch Is crea- :
on orimp1oy has given new stim-
loug 70 tie press, and libraries, under the
Iiluence Of that stimulous. are furnished, !,
what century ago would be the cost Of ]
single volume. ],
If.thk1z Be Erlt viii 1nallial 6anacitv silf. J.