The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1858-09-30


internal resourceS the extension TO the
utmost oftifc commercial system, and
the appearance Of new moral causes
which are TO- modly the State, are
giving an aspect Of greatness to the fi.
ture, which the imagination fears to
open. One thing is plain for all men Of
common sense and common conscience,
that here, herein America, is the home
of man. After all the deductions which
are to be made for our pitifal and un-
worthy politics, which stake every
grave national question On the silly
die, whether James or whether Jon.
athan shall sit in the chair and hold the
purse, after all the deduction is made
for our frivoities and insanities,, there
still remains an organic simplicity and
liberty, which, whehN II loses it's balance
redresses itselfpresently, which offers
opportunity to the human mind not
known in any other region.
1t is true the pubic mind wants SELF
respect. We are full ofvanityof which
the most signal proof is our sensitive
ness to foreign, and especially to En-.
glish censure. One canse Of this is our
Immense reading, and that reading
chiefly confined to the productions Of
the English press. But . more mis-
placed sensibility than this tenderness
to fame on the subject Of our country
and civil institutions, I cannot recall
Could we net defend and apologize for
the sun and ram? Here we ares men of
Eng!ish blood, plapted How fer fye,
Fsik, Of seven seherstions, on dis in
mense tract in the temperate zone, and
ESQ planted at such 8 junctnre Of time
and events, that We have left behind
US whatever old and odious establish-
fments the mind Of men had outgrown.
The unsupportable burdens under
which Europe staegers. and almsss
eyry month utters" A revolution !'srev-
[olution r. we have escaped from as by
one bound. No thanks to rs; but in
the blessed course Of events it did hap
tpen that this country was not open 70
the Puritans until they had felt the
burden ofthe feudal systems, and until
the commercial era in modern Europe
had dawned, so that without knowing
what they did, they left the whole
course behind, and put the storms Of
the Atlantic between them and this
antiquity. And the telling Of the forest
and the settling in 30 far Of the area Of
this continent, was accomplished under
the free spirit Of trading communities
with . complete success. Not by ou,
fright hand, or foresight, or skill, wa
it done, but by the. simple acceptance
of the plainest road ever shown men "a
walk in. It was the human race, I'm.
der Divine leading, going forth to re-
cei,e, and inhabit their patrimony.
And now, if any ,Englhshman, q
Frenchman, or Spaniard, or Russian, oi
German, can find any food for merri.
ment in the spectacle, make him vel.
come to shake his sides. There never
: was a people that could better afford
to be the subject ofa little. fun, thar
1--we. An honest man may, perhaps
wonder how, with so much to call forth
congratulation, our lively visitors
should be 80 merry and critical. Per.
haps they have great need Of little
holiday, and diversion from their do.
nestle cares, like other housekeeperl
who have heavy time Of it at home,
and need all the refreshment they can
get from kicking up their feet 8 little,
now that they have got away on . ffol-
ic.-R. w. Emerson
| The KANSAS GoLD DIesMs.-It i
settled that the reported gold discov.
cries in Western Kansas, are more
than mere pretensions. The gold dig
gings ON Cherry River, near Pixies
/ Peak Aro aoune TAO y,,;loa xvoaf of Ka