The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-06-05

ton. then looked upon TO its proportions aud Its
.Iehectur.l designs for in that day II was probably
NOT present admired the permanency Of the
tur admired the dssign, and supposed
Suan~ aid not that -. To m
w,,ssi them !. 50 much indebted. iAppl.ass.J Old
not suppose that meeting like this was to assemble
here and that to be the object Of that mesting
Great sppla believe now gentlemen that you have
testimony to Inc energy Of ehsr.i nso' to the
genius and to the ability which has brought your city
such thing to myfsf; but It belongs TO You all (Ap.
plause) The hsnor which You are now comforting
me = one Of those honors which would have had
have loci.d forward to this testimony, il could have
much would have dsns to have nerved the energies OF
my chsracter Ay il had then known that would have
ness o. PERCEPTION; If could have looked forward and
seen what was before me; mad that this would
have happened, it would have been inducsmens to
me at that time, which would have dwet in my
ton snd carried me through many important scenes,
and many ing ones where almost the energies OF
cemplishmept OF those thirg which have yet
aimed ~. (AppAuse Such is the easctof the appre.
try. know that this hsI almost every pursuit IN
your city is represenedthe mechanic che architect
now tat Il Is little Are cam nsl throw os
upon this subject, bot Notwithstanding will beg your
indulgence for short time. lApplause) Whatever
We are, TO the institutions OF our country
(Cbeers) No point Of merit reach which is
equal TO the advantages that country has bestowed
upon us. (Applause) The II >htutions which placed
all equality, which strip the mind from all re
straintsye. which allow those faculties with which hui
nature has endowed to be brought for ward by
eDergies and pressed BY no ipiustice-is
is these institutions which enable to arrive great
ress we live 10 an age In looking back
Ig to view it, 1t is within this century that your
nous improvements giving facilities TO- intercourse bs
w POI mai ri nj nnfru haun haas
menced and have been completed. TSe railroad in
this country was commenced in about 1927 Tho first
that was completed was about 1881 1882, This was
for the transportation Of passengers and freight from
the coal mines Of aDis to their rivers The To-
origin a,ed about 1881 1892 and it was then very
thing hoped to attain speed of some four or
forty City miles hour this DOES not excite any
great degree OF curiosity The application Of steam to
the propulsion Of boats also within the present
century, II took place in about 1905 or 1905 and
Fulton Great applause The electric s1 Telegraph 1ssa,
it hack as far as Benjamin franklin "" Il 'l was
with bis kite and string-a Yankee fixture indeed
that he enzhtened the world with ele,trcity That
Is among the most astonishing inventions of the age
Your Erie capal was also begon and completed within
the present century and to that than to any
internal commerce. Another Of your citizens bas i'm
mortslized himself within the time. mean De
ments, and see individuals doing what we were sccus
tened to see States do, aud States doing what ma
tlons were supposed TO do, We may well say tSat
which ss Nile %h the Med stss.
rsnean was constructed by the greatest monarch
not lrow how to join the to the Rel SEA-
till Ingenuity devised lock joined Them and thus
the commerce Of Europe into the Mediterranean
and hence those cities Of commerce which former
y studded tie Mediterranean. They made their way
step By STEP III they reached Venice and tin thy
row. gentlemen, we are looking for another STEP and
can oreses where that next step Will bet viii not be
structed work which their pride and oosst-the
Appiap Way-the great military road leading from the
power, constructed work by which he crossed the
Alps That was also q military road; but these were
woils which we're pu. for.ard and accomplished BY
moDarcbs at the head OF mighty empires absolute
OF Rome which military pro to all parts
plause But what the American people to these
great Improvements at the present osy2 1t IL not for
Ditsry conquest. It is not that they may obtain
victory their neighbours and rob them OF their v
ing and their property but it is that they may estab
h an Intercourse between the different parts of our
urion, mat We may carry en- our commerce and ex.
change the con modties Of manutac. and apr
culture, by which know there more to be made
Ard it ia these indueeme which Stir up lis Anne
rcan People and lead them to progress rap dy in all
,bst they entitled 10 such credit. Nature nas be-
slowed on tie American people contpe Mt such as no
otae. p.o,e on the globe possess II you take the
Hnd them to be the mouth Of the Huason the mouth Of
tire Mississippi, the mouth OF the oronoco and the
mouth Of the Amszon rhe last two is rue are not
IN that state Of progress in which the first two
Probably of all ihe rivers the babe globe there
is not which possesses the advantages Of
witch the valley OF the Mississippi presents swept as IL
10 by that immense river and its trib 1tares running
Eor,h and south which is very different matter from
rue ling east and west carrying with il alwa,s the
fruits of agriculture which grow from so deg Of north
latitude to tie termination If the river the Gulf Of
Caribbean Sea- will find that there Is distance of
about two thousand miles between the mouth of the
that within that circle you have a Continent an one
tide on the east the north and on the south anc
that you have these two nclosea BY islands run
ping fIom Cuba TO the mouth OF the Orono,o. Within
that space then have centred facilities of com
Dtrce than any other portion Of the globe. There
Amazon enc is tributaries Oronoao and It's irbuta
'ies the Mississippi and its tribut,resthan by all tae
rivers Of xsis Eorops and the MedterTanesn zap
centrated within that spacewhere the bud ths bios
som, and the ripe fruit grow the same .see
is that, right in The cfntre Of that sea- where
al these facilities Of our commerce .si.t, you nave
agriculture than any otner portion ftne globe
oisance Of merely iortysia milrn ntervenss u you
cross 10 the Pa7i6c and then yon sweep the western
miles. (Cfeers) Now, With these oommun satons
open with New York by distance even seven days az
the present time and it may be brought nearer BY tie
in prove which win be msde-rSsy we not antci
pate that New York will be the next port in which hs
great mart Of comGerce will loc..ed9 (Appaass
Here OF cut the ccnrb ent IN two You Join The two
seas by what Is but 6istan,e of forty six mills aaa
you thus distance of fifteen the miles, four
or ave months difficult gation-which you no &C
coppbsh in as many hours. Cheers Why shoald
fuch improve Mt this the heArs OF the
American PEI ple, ard maze them look forwAr3 to day
OF such as the world has not yet SEEM yet
eoptidtre? applause 1t Is one of those improve.
neuts which never viii be appreciated, till 1t breaks
Ike the rays of the morning without twilight.
Oh it 10 from such events these that we have reason
TO ray that tbis the age Of progress and of improve
ment Gentlemen what has been the cause Of this i'm
pTtvementY i IN IA
to that ailded daughter Of the Union which we have
row brought into the family of States that that
improvement for without the great anxiety Of citi
10 go there and participate in her vast gold iaes
and that vast enterprise which is going there this
improve nent would remaned dormant and in that
state to be talked about it period OF three
hunored years It has been written upon con siderea
examined or supposed TO have been examined almost
every nation in E9rope and yet was AL nothing but talk