Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1857-10-15

thought TO US of the United States at the
present time? Not upon our land. as upon
that of France, have periodical foundations
and failures of crops come to neutralize
the labor of man: nor for us as for her has
The best OF our blood and of our resources
been squandered in sterile wars of pride,
caprice. or national jealousy; not along our
sky as in hers has the avenglng demon Of
domestic discord passed. shaking from be-
meath the thunder. cloud Of his black wings
the lightning shafts of revolu' ion and evil
war, in terror and desvlalion, upon mems
devoted heads; not among us as there is q
redundant population pent up in over
crowded cities, and condemned to extort
from long tasked soil its unwilling yield
bat instead of all this, we have never-ceas-
ing terrestrial productiveness. unbroken do
nestle peace, institutions strong in their
well-ordered freedom, and this rich coun-
try of ours to cultivate and occupy. with
IFS glorious forests, its fertile prairies, its
flowing rivers, It's inland seas, Its metal
teeming earth-in a word, this great land,
IN all its untouched native strength. as it
was on that first holy sabbath of the crea-
ton, when, as it bloomed and smiled in its
maiden charms beneath His we'll pleased
eye, 1t was declared to be good by the ON
nicient Mind and Omnipresent Voice of
the Almighty.
If, then, it can be so truly said in France
that she his a sufficient remedy for all,
even the greatest calamities, in her agricul
tural resources, how much more confidently
may we look to the same quarter for relief
for whatever there is most unwelcOme IN
the commercial crisis which at the present
moment, afflicts the United States. do
not hesitate, therefore, to say, that in you.
the landed interest of the country, is to be
found the solid substrattum of our material
welfare, and now, as at all other times, the
sure salvation of the commercial prosperi-
ty Of the country. Banks may suspend
payment in specie. but the sun does not
cease to shine; merchants may fail, but the
earth does not; railroad stocks and bonds
may go down, but the harvest comes, and
its cotton, tobacco, sugar, wheat, corn and
rice, fill our storehouses and our graneries;
bills of exchange may be protested, but
the coal and iron of Pennsylvania and Vir-
gina, the lead of Wisconsin, the copper of
Michigan, and the gold and quick silver of
California remain; many a weary merchant
as he scans the pages of his ledger may
sink in dependency. but millions of strong
hands and bold hearts will survive to carry
On the business of life, promote individual
well-being, and work out the great prob
EN- Of the growth and grandeur Of the
United States.
We, it is true, have our pet public aflic-
ions, and we make most of them. feel
ashamed sometimes to think how petty are
he political troubles which pre-occupy us,
md then. again, rejoice ard feel proud to
hink how supernal is the condition of our
which enables us to enjoy the sat
sfaction of grumbling and fretling about
such trivial and insignificant things. If
you were to heed the sensation paragraphs
If the public journals and the vague dec
amation of the hustings, you might con-
;eive that millions of men here in the Uni
ed STATES were in arms for fratricidal COM
,at; that mighty citidels were lost and won
laily by contending hosts; that embattled
egions were in the field pouring cut against
ZACH other .he deadly hail of the musket
md rifle; that our cities were undergoing
capture and sack at the hands of enfuriated
ncmics; and that all the worst calamities
# war, pestilence and famine, were now,
md for years had been, raging throughout
he Union. All these things unhappy Eng
and now has upon her hanls in distracted
md devastated India. But we-what is
hat we have for political trouble? Why
ors 10Th, some petty frontier squabble in
Utah, Neosho, Dacotah, Nebraska, Kansas
n some other out-of-the- way place, with
II without a name, and of no more account
my way in the great current of national
Welfare and happiness than the bubbles
which form and break one after the other
IN the surface of that great river as it rolls
on before us to throw Itself,
oviDgly as it were, into the lap of the ex
,ectant ocean.
Once more, then, to you, my friends, L
ay. be of good cheer; earth and sea, with
IL their genial neutrality-suspicious..
mineral, animal--are yours; the mind to
u ide, the will to impel. the hands to do.
re yours. Nature and man work in con-
ert still in the everlasting co-partnership
f generation and regeneration and they
ogether are omnipotent in this our heaven
avored land Of America