Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-03-09

From wandering on . foreign strand
Ii such there bscths, 60 mark him we'll.
For him no minstrel rsptures swell"
"Iaaeh. thousb his titles proud his name
BoundlesS kis wealth a. wish can claim;
Dospite thGDe titles, owee and pit.
The wretch cenccntered all in self,
L.ng shall forfeit fair renown
And doubly dying shall 60 down,
To the vile dust from whence he sprung
Unwspt, uni onored and unsung."
Let us never cease, therefore, to re-
member with love and reverence, the
homes of our youth, and the institutions
under which we were reared.
Of Iowa shall say but little tonight.
We have all seen her in her prosperity
and in her reverses. Her misfortnnes
are simply retributions. They come to
teach as that wealth isonly abidiug,when
it il dug from the virgin Of soil, or is
the reward Of honest labor. Hence
forth we .hall move more wisely on to
that bright future which is evidently be-
fore u.s. II gloom does now overspread
the West, it is like the depression which
follows debauch and will pass away with
returning reason. The brightest days
for the West are not past, but are yet
to come. You might as well attempt to
dam the Mississippi from the Sea as to
prevent this Western county from at
tanning prosperity and greatness. The
river checked in its career, patiently re-
traces her steps, and more wisely
selecting her pathway. At last reaches
tho Ocean 1t is thus with us we
are now rctracing our steps, and It we
but wisely improve the lesson we have
received, we shall find that all the past
has been but "the shadow of good things
to come"
For inexhaustable resources and mar
vellous fertility this Valley Of the Mis-
.issippi cannot be excelled in the world
In the slow processes Of the centuries it
has been forming for us; and it is with
in the possibilities of not distant flu.
ture that it shall become the centre Of
influence and power in our country. 1t
depends upon lis. Let Us as Sons OF
New York do our part; and into
all the activities of the busy life around
us, let us carry in our hearts that noble
motto Of our native State, Excelsior
| Pardon me one other reflection ere
close. This fair Union of ours seems
to have been the favored Of Providence.
The extent and rapdity Of her growth
will be among the marvels Of history
In the future only one danger looms up
black and protentious and that is-dis-
uuion ! and it may be that the rest
le.sness of disposition which induces SO
many of us to leave certain good for un-
certain-to emigrate from the old States
to hew out our fortunes in the new, is
one of those providential circumstances
by which these great States are to be
kept united. The emigrants from one
of the old States to the South or West,
if his love for his native home be pure
and his patriotism untainted will not
willingly relinquish that Union which
antics his adopted home with the home
Of his fathers under one Government
If dark hours do come for our coun.
try along those invisible nerves which
unite the patriot citizen with his ear
ly home, will shoot-more rapid than the
lightuing-that quick sympathy, which
stronger than constitutions-will KEEP
united these fair States, and by the gray.
itation of mutual love and dependence
will swing them in their appointed or
bits with the certainty and steadtastnes'
of the revolving worlds.
Sail on, Oh ship of State
Sail On Oh Union strong and great;
humanity With all its fears
With all its hopes of future years
Is hanging breathless on thy fate"