The daily union., 1854-07-28

70 81 900 oo6o0 and al this moment may be taken 10
be ! Sls00.oo06s0 We proauce Slsp 100000 IN
against S210O00 >5GOVo0 the beginning Of tbs
tury Our sugar crup rs already Sl.ooaeoo si5oo00o0
4 There was third more Of wheat and double much
! corn, produced in 1850 thar In 1870.
We have ll3,0ooO00 Of land IN cultivation, or
30oO00uO0 in occupancy about one-sigth part Of The
Of the republic These carved into about
l44s0 farms, distinct AGRICULTURAL interests with
S35oo 900 invested In tarEns implements
extent TO Zach farm OF 2s2 hat other eountry
Ia The world show results like these II four-fths OF
the slaves the South be added the capital
vested in the agricultural interests Of America wiz be
s., ,000.G00 000.
The ply sica well-being Of people has much 70 90 with
their social advancement In The Cnitsd States fourteen
henss OF the free families have houses henselyes
whilst IN Great Britain only sk-sevenths favored
about half the proportion. Comparing the dierrnt
sections OF the Union would appear that the Territories
have most houses m proportion 20 population the South
comes nsxt; the Southwest then New England; and
last the North The number Of persons TO family il
smallest in Tie Territories next in New England and
largest Il the North.
that 2I5oooo boys, and nearly l,sO000o girls a,
schools and coegesbng about one-hh of the ffsr pop
uation. The proportion in England and Wales is in
Spain, in II; Russia, in 77 The number OF white pea
twenty years Of age in the United States who
read and write is lo53 ooo about one-twehh Of
the persons OF that age In England and Waes three
wears half the persons who their marriages
Incapable of reading and wrinag
In comparing different sections of the Union with regard
TO education find that whilst in New England only
adult in about 3T5 cannot read and write; in the middle
States in 400 cannot southern States, in 100
southwestern 81 northern northwestern II, growing
out of the great proportion Of gnborn-fourieen ou
Of every hundred there being incapable OF reading and
writing which Is the proportion oree
in New England. In the whole Union ! in Is cannot
read aud write uf the nave-born and IN IL of the for
eign-born.
These are gratifying results and they should incite us
TO rn further efforts in the OF education Shall
great and wealthy country pause TO consider the difficult
ties enuperaie the cost OF distributing light and nsruc
ton throughout all lis extent and Of bringing home 10
each embryo ctzenyen the yeresi offspring Of beggary
and want--the nUDeIHnD the only
in which Institutions admit of mobility and in
which the might Of intellect can make all noble?
know Of patriot service exalted than of that
who will forward in Legislative halls to produc
and carry out from enlightened appreciation of the
subject in all its behring's such eucat atonal movements as
the exeencies OF the country demand
Let dtuse knowledge throughout the length and
breadth Of this great county multiply the of in
formation send the schoolmasier into every hovel dot
every hin with the schoohoEse and college let the press
without ntermssion night and day. pour forth lis steady
of hgt foster science and the arts let the civil
izng and God-hke influences e machinery uninterrupi
edly extend Then Ill the future of country open
boundless and great beyond all example beyond all com
and countless bless its mission anu acno Wedge
It's glorious dominion.
II was our intention 10 have said something sou pau,
perism attendant ills in country, compared
with Others but this Is unnecessary te number is not
osc-birteth as great as in Great Britain This evil
how which advances with advancing country.
The social and agraran doctrines OF France cannot take
among tor very long period unless We encourage
class legislation and ncite the poor TO think there Is
thing Of robbery in idea of property The sound pa
the teachings the utnagDEuS which
TO this He will know the of property and OF
its laws BE VIII know that it is naturnand, il natural
proper though may not see the reasen-that pover,
and disease ana misery should DC the next-door
neighoor uf wealth and unh0unded prosperity. The
es OF the palace their shadows down upon the rooe5
hovel as naturally as the mountains do upon the peis
boring hills Iet that ncblenan has oppressed tat
He may indeed be liberal and generous and just anf
mourn the misery ali the wealth in the world could
relieve Nor is the beggaF victim OF society and its laws
without society those laws be had ezis,ed
could axis; win the security h fathers before him
rupurcd for generations Of misery in the same house
lod scarcely sappusahe case and his children woUG
have no hope Exclam against Nature that she has
YOU In the world hall finished, manned diseased imbece
an idiohat you were under the frozen serpent
the North and struggle against rambling ioeperg
in the death-dealing breath OF torrid sunsbut limit
your complaints TO these. In erincing her partiaip
n these respects has she proclaimed impartialiy in
every other Is il not equally an outrage upon youi
rights yonr equality that your neighbor rs taller or stout
/ er better favored more intellectual, that he has
broader ACRES greater possessions, and more comforts
All governments in the world could not these
distinctions The government only would attemp
IL for in the effort how much injustice and wrong must
be done those who say the least of it. have much
right their possessions however earned, you have to
take them away The remedy is within ourselves II ID
for to apply it, Be industrious. be frugal be circum.
spect; if these not ine evil we have CLAIM upon
the jspoieaee moi upon the justice OF our fellows sue
but not demand II this benerolence fail, simply
another victim of that nexpcabe yet az we ought 20 be
eve wise Providence which strikes down without
or sxpanalion ana teaches the nosngness of
I by her frequent indifference TO mis- fate.
In 1928 began the construction OF railroads. IN 1880
we had Al miles in is4o 2l67 miles in 1854 1858
miles being twice the Of those in Great Britain
and considerably than in all the rest of e world to-
gche W Wbilst the cost IN country has been
about $4,000 mile the cost in Europe has averaged
ahout SlOoDo We have put in operation in the last year
about 5000 miles and have in course of construction
I programme of 2dl2 miles
The mineral OF the United States include al
most every article Of great commercial value The coal
and OF of western States as
large those OF the whole OF Britain have lead and
copper in profuson and The gold resources OF California
are almost equal those of the fabulous reports of orr1uz
and the Ind As labor cheapens, and population central
and dense the mineral resources OF the Union
will be Developed and 1t need give little concern That
they remain Gndeyeoped now since our capital and labor
are so Abundantly and prohtably employed IN Thousand
other channels The pairimony shall leave TO our chill
aren The results of the gold mines of California alone IN
market value equal almost the value Of the whole cotton
\ crop Of the southern States of the l nioR-
But to conclude in sketching thus rapidly the history
OF our counry striking JIG the contrast Of its early
colonial periods with the present hour II was IN the
sixteenth century that the leading European powers were
introduced minute acquaintance With the continent Of
America Adventurous narigaiien had rescued world
from savage dominion, and there were adventurous spirits
enough 10 people that world and identify thenceorward
their destines with IL hundred Years after and cylil-
zaton planted her abode through al this waste Peculiar
indeed The feeling with which these infant daFs OF our
country is regarded like insion does II all seciri
so hike dream of glowing imagery. We look back s TO
classic and the OF Pccahontas and OF hegh
Of Fernando de Solo, and Juan Ponce de Leon do they
thrill less than the beatihc visions OF TIE Greek recur
ring 10 noe@ loug ago when Ion resisted The shocks OF
Aranennons heroes and the Argo sailed away TO dsani
Coichis The dim antiquity seems gathered around poth
of alike Bat let il ahe rarince oi our MS
tory They imagined not the men o. ihat dny imagined
not the stupenaous results which have occurred SO
soon Thsv saw not ne benign and rpgencrating