The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-11-22


never before has been exhibited an amount Of
ignorance, folly and Implicitly equal to that
shown by the combined American and Euro
pean abolitionists in their efforts to overthrow
the federal constitution. About twenty years
ago they organised q party in this country
For many winters and summers-when Hale
was democrat and Seward was q whig-when
Van Buren, was planetary star Of a great
party, and not at the tail of driving comet
| when jackson was President and the acknow
lodged chief of the democracy-when Clay
was in the vigor Of manhood, in the pride OF
| intellect, strong as the embodiment of gal
| liant, patriotic and chivalrous host of national
men-then it was that the abolitionists were
stunned and degraded people. They were
regarded as the harlots of our political system
abandoned outlaws-lOst to every sense OF
patriotism, to every just conception of duty, to
every obligation of faith, to every instinct of
justice, and to every conjunction of con-
science. During the present season this party
eliminated in the republican league, in the ac-
tive service of undermining the constitution,
and under the immediate leadership of William
II. Seward, the prelate OF our political dispen-
sation.
These twenty years of peaceful and success.
full industry, which have served to raise up
! into something like formidable proportions this
abolition party looking to the dismemberment
of the Union, have been years Of marvellous
progress in science and discovery by the
American people. As if anticipating the
growth Of a formidable and daring band of
traitors bent on the destruction of the repub-
lie, Providence, it would seem, raised up in our
midst vast works Of impregnable defence and
fortifcation.
Amongst these, and most prominent, are the
electric telegraphs, the railways internal and
external commerce-the very physical contigu-
ration of the country, its long line of sea coast,
its great lakes, the course and volume of its
rivers, from North to South-all internetted by
the discoveries Of science and the hand Of in
dustry. Within that time the plain of the lakes
has been rescued from the savage and studded
with magnificent cities the valley of the Mis-
sissippi has been transformed into garden of
production, and teens with the conquests of
man and the comforts Of home California
and Texas have been added to the Union, ex.
tending our commerce to the centre of the Gulf
OF Mexico, and spreading it over the Pacific
Ocean. All our inland waters have been CO.
vered by our messengers of trade; the great
oceans have been reduced to few days navi
cation; Europe has been brought nearer to us
than was Lake Michigan /; population and
wealth have everywhere increased prosperity
is everywhere apparent contentment is the
lot Of oil.
In the midst Of these wonderful conquests,
and foremost in its service to man and in its
effects upon the institutions of the country, is
the electric telegraph. 1t is the nervous sys-
tenn Of the republic, having its origin in and
giving action to its intellectual system. 1t is
I the language Of politics, economising mind as
much as commerce and trade. 1t is the great
equalizer of the value of products by the ra-
pidity in which it communicates the knowledge
of supplies and the existence of demands. 1t
is the representation Of money, the medium of
exchange /; the organ of social and political
unity. It is the detector of crime, the adjunct
Of the police, the friend of order, and in the
very nature of its business, by its extension
over all the States, by its strictly national Of
flee, the enemy of every species of disoyalty
to the federal system. Amongst all the inven-
tions of modern times the electric telegraph
may be said to stand foremost as the represeu-
tative of the existing order of things. 1t de-
rives its position and its profits from the bust
ness Of the States 1t speaks for the Union it
is not even formed by State links it has no
strictly local Office any more than it has local
language.
The recent discoveries in this branch OF
science to which we have called public atten-
ton, are another step from infancy to manhood,
by which facility and accuracy of utterance
have been greatly increased and improved.
The time is soon coming in the progress of this
great modern invention, when newspapers will
contain little else besides the reports furnished
from all parts OF the world by the electric tele-
graph. 1t will thus by degrees extend its
power, and become the great organ of thought
and communication, if we may so speak, for
the whole people. Had there been some means
Of doubling by single decree the specie of
the world, its effect upon that article as me-
dunn of trade would not have been greater
than has been the operations of the telegraph
upon commerce and exchange. II is not too
much to say that its increased facilities afforded
to trade are equal to those afforded before its
existence by all the gold and silver in the
world. As political instrument it is destined
to be scarcely less effective. It is the advancing
power Of science drawing our whole country
and the world into closer social and political
intimacy. There is an old maxim, Absent,
always wrong" There will be no absence
nobody will be from home. 1t will bring men
together, make them acquainted, soften their
asperities, strengthen the comties of life, re-
move prejudces enlghtcn the understanding
ripen friendship and perpetuate our political
union. 1t will consolidate the public judgments
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