The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1857-11-05
Happy America.

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Under this caption the New Orleans
Bulletin has Che following reflections,
which, even in the midst of the gloom
that pervades the land, should serve to in
spire us all with feelings Of thankfulness
and gratitude and make us content with
the peculiarly happy lot Of ours
1--WE talk of hard times, Of failures, Of
fearful forebodings, Of distress, bankrupt
cy and ruin, and we almost succeed in
persuading ourselves that vie are 10 fret
a very miserable people. Yet how little
do we actually know Of real suffering, and
how strangely we overlook and forget the
difference between distress, so called in
this country, and the ideas ii INSTANTLY
suggests as used in Europel In the midst
Of The financial embarrassments of The
country, the panic the crisis the pc
Cuniary connections experienced, there
never was greater, more bountiful
harvest Of all sorts of breadstuffs, of food
for man and beast, than the present year
has produced. The earth has almost
groaned beneath superabundancet Of
wheat, corn, oats, potatoes. hay. fruits.
etc. - -
The great West has raised grain esouSh
to support all America and a goodfpor-
ton of Europe. Actual suffering, there
fore, as a people, for the necessiN &life
we cannot have. The food e alreads
harvested and in the barns and store.
houses. When we talk of distress we
can mean only That we are in danger.of
making less money than we had anticipia-
ted, less than would satisfy cur ambition,
or perhaps lose portions Iwhat, veal
ready possess. Thiais kind,of dis:
tress, except ia isolated e 1sdsb
peculiar and obnormal circuE
experience in America, or even
rience,. unless we madly bring
ourselves by our extravaganceS
vices, crimes and insane social
ical blindness Our fields are 8
every year expanding; our soil is
climate genial. Millions Of aS
gin lands are waiting for che
man to extract their yielding
Practically speaking, we may hat
our internal resources are in Gbe.
All who are willing to work d q en-
ployment, all may obtain the suBsantials,
and many the luxuries and elegancies of
live.
No artificial, impossible boundaries
confine Our people within narrow limits
and compel them to tread upon each 9TH
er until life is exhausted il the terrible
struggle, and whole hetacombs Of victims
be trampled to death. If the somewhat
crowded marts of the East begin to pinch
their inhabitants, 10! is not the whole
boundless continent theirs, to 90 whilh-
er they please, and when they please?--
There are Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri.
Nebraska, Kansas, Arkansas, Texas, New
Mexico, etc., etc., each large enough for
a kingdom in itself, stretching forth their
arms to the people of populous cities and
States, and shouting at the top of their
lungs, "Come, we want you! We want
the strength of your sineWs, your indus
try, energy, intelligence to clear away
our forests, turn up our prairies, exhume
the inexhaustible wealth of our mines,
and, in word, to make US rich, strong,
refined and prosperous"
GLOW different from all this is 'sdis-
tress" in Europe! There it means shot ,
crops, hunger or starvation of the mil.
lions. ltmeans the hoarse mutlerings of
these same millions in the streets, and
which startle their rulers in their spIen-
did palaces, like the quick and terrible
rumbling which precedes al earthquake.
Let US, therefore, while looking, during
temporary pressure in. the moneyed cir
cles of Che country. and the consequent
interruptions which it superindaces, upon
the dark side of the picture, recoIect the
real, substantial conditioned abundant re-
sources and comparative comIort in which
we actually fnd ourselves, md NOT add
through mere hypocpndriacism and i'm,
aEF ywFetehedaess, 8 the inconvs-
general exie of The hour which
60 has produced"
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