Smyrna times., 1855-06-20
A Glorious Promise to the Land.

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A Glorious Promise to the Land.
If the year through which we have passed
mas been to the people of the United States.
and OF every country in Christendom. a period
OF severe trial and suffering, occasioned by the
scarcity and consequent high price of proyi-
slons, and by one of the most rigorous winters
that has been experienced for many cycles. 50 Is
the NeU York Herald, Providence, in its nm
erring justice, and in its inscrutable wavs.
comes 20 make compensation to humanity for
those trles and sufferings, by blessing the earth
with more than ordinarily fruitful productive
ness. We have the qualification of spread
ing before our readers and the public the CO.
temporaneous testimony of the journals through
out every part of the country, all agreeing in
the glad tdingS that the harvest promises to be
one of the most plenteous that has, perhaps.
ever blessed the land. From the golden fields
OF California, as rich in vegetable as in mineral
productions; from the fertile soil of the South
ern States-Georgia, Virginia, Alabama, Flori-
da, South Carolina, Louisiana and Kentucky:
from the great grain producing States of the
West-Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri and
Iowa; and from the less fertile regions of New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New York and Fenn-
sylvana, come the same gratifying assurances
OF the uawonted richness and plenty of the
gram and other crops. And all the advices
which we have received from the European
continent convey to US the like agreeable intel
ligence.
sThe coincident accounts from all parts of the
country, OF this great righteousness, and the
very brief space of time which has only 10
elapse before the new harvest is brOuoht into
the market, have already had the effect of re.
duclng the cxorbitant famine prices at which
flour has been held and in the course Of tho
next week or two. this influence of the good
prospects will be far more considerably devel-
Oped. la Georgia, and some others of the
Southern States, the new -four has already IN.
peared, and supply of it will soon enter and
affect our market The night of want and
suffering Is past, and the morning star of Dlen-
~ and prosperity has appeared above the hori,
zon. Let us exhibit our gratefulness for these
blessings. by showing that we know how TO an.
preciate and nationally enjoy them. The past
year has taught severe lesson of the madness
OF cxtravagant living, and of unhealthy ex.
panded speculation. That lesson should moi
soon be forgotten. II commends itself as well
to the residents of Fifth avenue, the Wall street
and the large commercial traders of
the city and country, us it does to the humble
mechanic, the toling artisan, and the salaried
clerk. 1t is the duty of "A wise man to be CONN.,
selled by experience it is the province of
fool to reject the counsel
The bountiful harvest which is about to bless
The land will do much more than relieve the
misery which the famine prices of the last
twelve months have Occasioned 1t will enrich
The whole country and give that impetus to
trade and commerce which is necessary to re-
pair the disasters recently experienced, Not
that the countries OF Europe ap-
pear to be similarly blessed with ours in the
matter OF good crops, still will the Western
portion OF the continent, at least, be compelled
to depend upon us for a supply of grain, pork
and other produce. The shores of the Black
Sea, on which they were accustomed to relv
Tor supplies of food, are now, and will probably
long continue to be, Theoretically sealed against
them. The immense armies now in the field
Or camp to the aggregate number of couple |
Of millions of men, will soon exhaust the gra- |
narles OF Europe; and it is the American con- |
tlnent which must supply the deficit. The |
capital thus brought into the country will ne
cessarily incrersc the prosperity of the United
States, agricultural and commercial, and tend
to deVeloPe still more its resources. We only
now need to be true to ourselves, to tread ont
every disorganizing political element, to ex- |
hibit the attitude of great and free people,
proud of and deserving the name of republi- |
cans, and we will present to the admirng gaze
Of the world powerful community, unaffected
BY the mad wars of despots, progressing in the
ways. Of peace, enlightenment and prosperity.
So may it be rgr. s.ft ....s..