The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-07-31


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NATIONAL BLESSINGS.
This subject occurs so often in the annual
Thanksgiving Messages Of Governors who
once year remember their Creator that rue
appesrauce of the words, at the head OF
newspaper article, is enough to deter the
reader from going any farther. Yet wno can
refrain from indulging JOY and gratitude
whenever the contrast presented by our coun-
try to the nations of the old world occurs to
the mindg At all events, il one does not pos
SEES, those feelings, there is reason enough for
them. We are SO used to these blessings that
we do not know how to appreciate them at
their true value. Since the days of the peo-
ple of Israel, under the reign of Solomon
there never has been nation possessing such
abundant means of happiness, moral maze
rial, social and religious, as the American
people. They are free as the air while ON
ers are oppressed; politically equal Wills. po-
lifical equality exists no where else al hoef-
ty to worship God in any manner or lot"
they choose, whilst others are denied liberty
of conscience dwelling on virgin con'i-
nent, as yet sparsely settled, and whose capa-
cites for supplying every want ana appe'i'e
are perfectly inexhaustibie. They do not
know what famine is Whilst it has stalked
abroad in Europe, and time and again
brought multitudes to death of protracted
and uncomfortable agony, our people nave
revelled In boundless plenty Our harves1s
never seem to fail, and, notwithstanding the
dismal forebodings which we hear every
summer, the husbandman's labor uniformly
reaps rich reward. We know little Oh
that other curse of the human race, WAR
Whilst ambitious kings and aspiring soldiers
desolate the face of Europe with their quar-
rels, giving the flower of its youth to the
sword, exposing its wives and maidens to
brutal RIGHTEOUSNESS, trampiing down It's
fields, and giving its cities to the torch, we
sheltered by the Atlantic, are safe from every
foreign foe, and thanks to our national
Union, are exempt from strife among our
selves. The Mexican war was not felt with
in our own borders and even in the last war
with England, 40 years ago, the great interior
of the country suffered no peril and little in
convenience Civil and religious liberty, po-
litical and social equality, an abundance Of
the fruits of the earth, exemption from war
and famine the opportunities of education
extended to every man; these are some OF
the innumerable and diversified blessings
which crown the lot of the American citizen
We once heard distinguished Irishman
remark, that the change in the condition of
his countrymen between their native land
and their new home in the United States, was
almost miraculous. None but foreigners can
truly appreciate the advantages and happi-
ness of our condition. 1t is only the men
who L.-,a ffor eeo .tua hung vv..-
fnement to bed of pain, that know how to
appreciate the blessings of health the pure,
bracing air of the morning; the joy and lux
ury of vigorous life Nor do Americans,
who, from their cradles, have enjoyed politi-
cal, social and religious blessings in the most
unlimited abundance, realize the felicity of
their condition. If they did, they would GER
tainly never place at peril so many sources
of happiness, when they would dissolve that
union of States which has secured their civil
and religious liberty, and the respect and ad-
miration of all mankind. They would pause
and consider long before they would begin
the work of cutting up America into as
many Independent States as Europe, for
when division begins, it will not stop with
one division, nor with one subdivision. The
real question for disunionists to consider, is
between one great Union and twenty petty
and divided States.
THE RAuR0AD DIEEICIII TIES