The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1857-11-11
HAPPY AMERICA.

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The New Orleans Bulletin INDUCES
in the following reflections upon the
hard times. Read every word and be
contented that you are in A-nerica. II
political insanity sometimes tells that
we have the worst Government in the
world, let us turn to the contemplation
of our real situation and gather comfort
and patriotism from the comparison
We talk of hard times. of failures, of
fearful forebodings, of distress, bank
ruptcy and ruin, and we almost succeed
in persuading ourselves that in fact we
are very miserable people. Yet how
little do We actually know of real suffer-
ing, and how strangely we overlook and
forget the difference between distress
SO called in this country, and the idea
it instantly suggested as used in Europe.
In the midst Of the financial embarrass-
ment of the country, the 'panic," the
"crisis" the pecuniary connections ex-
perienced, there never wasa a greater, q
more bountiful harvest of all sorts Of
breadstuffs, of food for man and beast,
than the present year has produceds
The earth has almost groaned beneath
superabundance of wheat, corn, hay,
oats, potatoes, fruits, etc.
The West has raised grain enough to
support all America and a good portion
Of Europe. Actual Isufferirs, Therefore.
as a people, for the necessities of life,
we cannot have. The food is already
harvested. and in the barns and sore.
houses. When we talk of distress wo
can mean only that we are in danger of
making less money than we anticipated,
less than would satisfy our ambition, or
perhaps lose portion Of what we already
possess. This is the kind of distress,
except in isolated cases caused by pecu-
Far and abnormal circumstances, we ex.
periencc in America, or ever can expe-
rience, unless We madly bring it upon
ourselves by cur extravaganza, idleness.
vices, crimes and insane social and
political blindness. Our fields are broad.
and every year expcnding; our soil is
rich and climate genial. Millions of
acres of virgin lands are waiting for the
husbandman to extract their yielding
wealth. Practically speaking, we may
say that our internal resources are mex
haustible. All who are willing to work
may find employment, and all may obtain
tie substantials, and many the luxuries
and elegancies of life.
No artificial, impossible boundaries
confns our people within narrow limits
and Compel them 10 crush each other
until life is exhausted in the terrible
and whole hectaoombs of vio-
Tins be trampled to death. If the some-
what crowded marts of the East begin
to pinch their inhabitants, 10 is not the
'whole boundless continent" theirs, to
90 whittier they please, and when they
please !? There are Iowa, Minnesota,
Nebraska, Kansas, Arkansas,
Texas, New Mexico, ETC., etc., each large
enough for kingdom in itself, stretch
ing forth their arms to the people of
populous cities, and States, and shout
ing at the top of their lungs, "Come,
We want you! We want the strength
Of your sinews, you industry, energy,
to clear away our forests,
turn up our prairies, exhume the mex
haustible wealth of our mines, and in a
word, to make us rich, strong, refined
and prosperous ........
How different from all this is dis
tress" in Europe! There it means short
crops, hunger, or starvation of the mill
lions. 1t means the hoarse mutterings
Of these same millions in the streets,
and which startle their rulers in their
splendid palaces, like the quick and
terrible rumbling which precedes an
Let us, therefore, while
ooking during temporary pressure in
he moneyed circles of the country, and
he consequent interruption which it
'uperinduces, upon the dark side of tho
picture, recollect the real, substantial
ofabundent resources and COM
oarative comfort in which we actually
ind ourselves, and not add through mere
lypocondriacism and imaginary wretch
,dness, to the Inconvenience and general
wills of the hour which the financial ex-
'losion has produced. @ s