The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-07-08

no. r,rrp the Delaware and the Ohio But similar works
are everywhere In progress Tunneling The mountains OF
following the valleys in their seIpentne course they form
together with the canals complete network ihtefAohs
your whole Atlantic slope while the same iron arms are
reaching out towards the lakes to grasp poru9n o. m
trade of hosc inland piercing the most distant and
inaccessible portions of the State 10 draw forth from each
10 this great mart, its peculiar products Cheers1
Blu, e inferior to New York in square miles OF sur
tcegreay superior her in domestic resonroesin the
chxrscer of her population she boasts similar descent
and has the retrospect of revolutionary memories
The Commonwealth Of Penn inviting to settlement by rs
foundation in deeds of peace in charity tolerance and
brotherhood not alone the English but Germans OF su
nor character and the adventurous and enteprsing OF
other European States found here chosen retreat In
The words of the amened bard who wrote 50 well thai he
has left US 10 regre, that he wrote 80 little
q For here the exile from every cline,
And spoke in trieodship every d1sant tongue
Men from the blood OF warning E1rope sprung
Wee bat divided by the running brook
And here,
The tueeyed German changed his sword 70 pruning
hook"
The patriotism Of this varied popation has
itscf upon many bloody field. While raRasylyania
Fort Necessity and rsddck the earliest scenes
upo which the Father Of his Country exhibited his youth
full proves he gallant crossed the Delaware and par
tcipsted in nearly all the battles OF the revouuon MI It's
FINAL and triumphant close. Great cheering.l -,
While the States Of the great basins drained BY the Mis-
sssippi and the ST. Lawrence have advanced with mighty
strides ia the career of progress while Ohio with her two
millions Indiana and Illinois with their respective mil,
lions; who Michigan, and Wisconsin, and Missouri and
pouring their abundant products into the market of the
world: while Louisville and Cincinnati Detroit and Nil
wAukie Chicago ST Louis and San Francisco have sprung
into great centres of trade and civilization which the be-
ginning of the century knew not at all or only
Villages Pennsylvania has lost of her importance
TCheers Virginia and Kentucky and the southern States
81 The aId Thirteen if they do not show proporonate
advance have sent annually their migrating streams TO
build up the States of the West and South and while
the great prarcs the tasseis to many Of
the Carolinas and Virginia, the cotton bolls when
many field upon the Arkansas the Red river, and the
Trinity In the time Pitisburg has become the great
workshop of valley with fifty thousand miles Of boatabe
navigation; and Philadelphia while contributing to
untold the growth Of the younger members of the
Union has come TO embrace within her limits more than
half million of happy people and in her present fresh
ness and vigor but just ready launch forth upon
new career fGreat cheering.
But let look at Pennsy lyania in another point of
view We find she is the first State west of the Hudson
yes west of New Engandthat established system of
common schools Her attempts system Of popular ed
ucaion, almost coeval indeed, with her colonial origin
completely successful under the administration OF
Governor Wolf; and stream Of knowledge is borne
into every valley and every mountain dehle and purifes
every breeze that visits her vast extent Cheers Coll
leges academies female seminares found in every
county in the Commonwealth while every township and,
indeed almost every road presents its
house, furnishing education for thousands of children
and reminding of the beautiful expression of the Irish
orator. Who knows but among those little inmates there
may be some mind wrought of the finest mould and
stamped with the patent of the Deity some mind that
thus cultured and fostered and rpened in the spirit of
publican freedom may yet the civil destnes Of this
country or its future conflicts may lead the armies Of
the nation TO battle and to victory. TCheers.
Who, then, would not be Pennsylvanian TCheers. I
Who does not feel proud of his lineage and his native
home In reviewing our HISTORY iun the time rrun
first entered the of the Delaware and the smoke of
his Indian frsr curled above the tall forest
which stood where this beautiful city stands through
the long train Of illustrious incidents which crowd the
pages her history who does feel his heart glow with
pride that his lot has been cast within the limits OF such
Commonwealth? fCheers] The mind indulging in such
retrospect knows nothing the feelings of Maus while
of Gin of
are here incipent decay but all is life, energy
prosperity, and progress
Nor do find aught dim these bright anticpations
when we look abroad CHANGING for instant at our
mother land that she has grown great by the force
of her position and maritime power Illustrious in
her long line Of classic literature and in the profound a5
y Of her statesmen, in the splendid rumphs Of her
and the brilliant achievements of her navy the nations
Europe have qualed before the power Of England and the
limits of her empire beyond the setting Yet
the young America-even now in the morning of her
onal exstenchas proven than her equal upon the
battlefield, [cheers has struck down the cross Of St
George in triumph upon the ocean fcheers 4 whilst her
Statesmen will compare proudly with Chatham Fox Burke
and their lustrious compeers Cheers Her superior in
the general intelligence and enterprise of peopeher equal
in all tie clements Of aEona strength and prosperityn
ths race Of commercial greatness she will hold
the trident Of the and command the trnde of the
world. [Great cheering] In view of the rich prizes
which the future offers the position Of Pennsylvania
of marked prominence The Keystone Staer-ber hon
ored appeationis destined be still more expressive
her position and advantages than at present. and in
distinguished degree than will she form the shining
mark Of the confederacy. Long and loud cleering.]
We now Mr.. President n the full enjoyment Of the
heritage Of the revolutions and casting eyes TO the Other
side Of the Atlantic that the nation from which
chiefly we derive our origin, and from which ouI
independence is of the allied powers engaged
n resisting th extension Of despotsm. Belgium which
10 long figured in history the battlefield Of Europe
TO be 10 no longer 1t is not upon Paris that the allied
armies now marching but with Paris in the alliance
they are marching upon the Danube for at this very time
French and English cannun heard in the mountains
the Balkan while their naval guns sending the nera