The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-01-01
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(E{ Another eyentful year mas auueu It's
chapter to the history of our individual lives.
and to the annals Of our country. In peri
cd Of such energetic activity the revolution OF
twelve months brings marked changes to US
as individuals, and, to the nation. Adversely
the results of error or faults-has come to q
few; but neutrality-suspicious. been
the happy lot of a vast majority. The growth
Of the country, in wealth and strength, is un-
precedented in the world. The smiles of
heaven have visited tin all its material in
terests-as constantly and copiously as the
daily sunshine. 1t stands, this day, in the
eightieth year of it's existence-the mightiest
empire of the world, in all the elements Of
national strength and native resources, and
with promise of future that cannot be cal
culated upon by any statistical basis. She has
outstript in commerce the former mistress of
the Seas;'' in the extent Of her agricultural
products she has no rival-only in her me-
chanical industry is she second to any; and
for this she has sources of increase that
will make her the great workshop of the
world and as dominant in the market of sup
ply in the coming era, as Great Britain has
been in the past. Wherever we turn-if to
the sea, covered with her. feets-or inland
upon her plains and rich Halleys-or look up
ward to her mountains, stratifed with ores,
her wealth and greatness is everywhere re-
Elected. The most glorious visions ever re-
vealed to patriots eye, cannot surpass her
splendor, power and happiness, if her people
can achieve that hardest of victories a con-
quest over themselves;-a subjugation Of
popular passions-party spirit-sectional joal-
ousies and local prejudices 10" reason and
truth. The strength and glory of the country
is not in her numbers; in her extent; in her
natural resources; in her commerce; but in
the Union; and that union is not in the writ
ten provisions of the Constitution; nor in the
power of the central Government, but in the
minds and hearts of her individual citizens
Her riches are not in the SOIL nor forest, nor
depths of the minds and hearts of her people;
the moral and intellectual powers of her citi-
zens are the alchemy that turns all the crude
elements into riches and strength; our wealth
comes not so much from the soil as from the
Internal commerce that makes its products
valuable. Our currency is not from the mines
Sof California but from our credit-which'is
in the mutual faith-the protection Of the
laws of the Confederacy and the prosperity
which the Union, by its free trade among the
people, secures to all. The moral elements
are of greater consideration to all our material
interests than we make them And these
seem all bound up in our glorious Union,
which is the fountain ofour patriotism; our
enterprise; our mental and physical activity;
and of our peculiar national developments and
civilization. The spirit-in whatever form it
appears---that impairs the strength of its
bonds, should be crushed, as the worst form
of treas on to us all. We offer to all our read
ers the congratulations of the season., with
sincere wishes for their personal prosperity
and happiness. In the discharge of our obi
cations towards them, We shall endeavor to
follow our convictions Of truth and right,
conveying to them an honest account Of pub
lie events, striving to mitigate rather than to
aggravate party and sectional prejudices.