The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-04-05

the human mind. All being free, all are
interested in the success of each indi-
vidual. The general great successful
results are but the aggregate of individ-
ual success. If individuals attain to in-
telligence and freedom, We then have
State intelligent and free. If individuals
are successful in inventions, and arts. and
sciences we then have State distinguish
ed for its skill, industry and general In
telligence.
Peaceful villages, smiling cottages.
happy homes, free schools, Independent
churches, fruitful fields. and loaded
barns, with an intelligent population, are
the elements from which spring indepen-
dent States, and great and wise govern
ments. These elements will soon sur
round US. We shall be ia their midst,
and be part and parcel of them-snd this
very system which has produced such
glorious results in the old States, has
already sprung into new and vigorous
life in our great and glorious West. The
attempt of base marauders to crush it
out, and the murder of some of our
peaceful and valuable citizens, but en-
dears it to us the more. The contrast
bringing out, in bold relief, the excel
lence, the beauty, the safety of liberty,
while it shows the baseness and depravi-
ty of slavery. That we shall succeed in
establishing freedom here is certain. if
We can put any confidence in the COM
mon sense of mankind. There has new
er been any permanent peace. safety.
and success in any nation or government
that did not have for its object the pro-
lection and welfare of its individual
members. 1t has become truism in
all self-governing States, that the inter-
est and welfare of one is the interest and
welfare of all; and that we are bound
together in one grand destiny-and
whether we sink or swim, survive or
perish, we are involved in one general
fate.
To illustrate the unity of society, we
will suppose that in this country none
but the ancient plow was ever used OF
heard of. This was a crooked stick,
shod with a piece of iron. With it. a
man could put in and tend three or four
acres of corn in year, and perhaps OBJ.
tain from FIVE to ten bushels per acre.
| A free man, genius, conceives the
idea of an iron plow, which will enable
the farmer to increase his crops an hun.
dred fold in a year. The worst punish.
ment he will get in free country for in
Producing new idea, will be to be laugh
ed at, and perhaps called visionary, ye
Everybody wishes him success. If he
succeeds it will make his fortune, and i
will also make the fortune of thousands o
others; and consequently, it "ill add i'm
mensely to the wealth and prosperity o
the State. He makes the trial and il
successful. Now who is benefited BY
this success? In the FIRST place, the in
ventor makes a fortune by his paten
right. In the second place. plow facto
ries are started all over the land. Thi
gives employment to many hands in iror
foundries, to teamsters. towood choppers
to mill-rights, and then to farmers. in
creasing in every department the demand
for labor. All hear the resurrection
trump. The latent energies of the coun
try are quickened into new life, and /:
general activity pervades all classes o
men. Abundance is bursting out on ev
cry hand. The farmer is burdened will
his surplus of grain, and it becomes I
question of anxiety with him how to dis
pose of it. If the manufacturers of th,
East had it, provisions would be cheaper
more workmen could be employed, mus
; Inns, calicoes and broad cloth would b,
cheaper, and all would be benefited. II
order that our abundance may reach then
} and their surplus goods reach us. some
thing new must come to light-a railroat
must be built; locomotives must be in
: vented. This quickens into aetivit,
again the genius of the country. Nam
; new things are brought out. and MANI
new kinds of business established-man
ufactories for cars and locomotives; foun
dries for rails, dc. All these emplo,
hands-directors. agents, foremen, con
ductors and laborers-and the beauty O
it ell is. if you break one link out of ,hi
; chain, you.destroy the whole system
Take away the plow shop, and yeu des
troy the handspring which moves tn
whole; dispense with the 6remen, Q
breakman, or teamster. or wood chopper
: or farmer, and again does the machiner.
stop. and the system return to the dus
, from whence it sprung. Society hs
been centuries in progressing from tn