The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-04-21
The True Prosperity of individuals
and Nations. 49,


-GFFG3fa& 5iA 5A
and Nations At -. i
Extracts from Mr.. Crows Speech on the Home
s5e2ssst ~ ss5zs1 stead Bill $50 u st9iefst
re But there are soldiers of peaceaas well as
of war and though no waving plume beck
ons them on to glory or to death, their ~
ing scene is often a crimson one. They
fall leading the van of civilization along IN :
troddenl paths; and are buried in the dustof
its advancing columns.5' No monument
marks the; scene of deadly strife; no stone
their resting place; the, winds signing
through the branches of the forest alone
sigh their requiem. Yet they are the mer-
itorious men of the Republic.
If you would lead the erring back from
the paths of vice aud crime, ,to, virtue and
to honor, give him a bome-give him a
hearthstone, and be will surround it with
household gods. IF you would. make men
wiser and better, relieve your alnls-houses,
close the doors of your penetentiaries. aud
break in pieces your gallows, purify the9do-
mestic freside, for that is the school in
which human character is formed, and there
its destiny is shaped; there the soul re-
ceives its first impress, and man his first
woe through life. For purifying the senti-
ments, elevating The thoughts, and develop
ing the noblest impulses of mans nature,
the influences of a rural Preside and an .ag-
ricultural life, aresthe noblest and BEST In
the obscurity of the cottage, far removed
from tie seductive influence of rank and
affiuence, are nourished the virtues that
counteract the decay of human institutions.
I. AZ = IL
pendehce, aud the industry that supports
all classes of the State. Ssse*q = ~
The prosperity of a State, depends not on
the mass of wealth, but its distribution.-
That country is greatest and most glorious
in which there is the greatest number of
happy fFesides. And if you make the
Preside happy raise the fallen from their
degradation, elevate the seryile from their
groveling pursuits TO the rights and dignity
of men, you must first place within their
reach the means for supplying their physical
wants, so that religion can exert its inf1u-,
ence on the soul, and sooth the weary pill
grim in his pathway to the tomb. z%2 =
National disasters are not the growth of
day, but the fruit of long years of injus
tice and wrong. The seeds planted by false,
pernicious legislation often require ages to
terminate and ripen into their harvests of
ruin and death. The most pernieious of all
the baleful seeds aof national existence is a
policy that degrades its labor. Whenever.
agricultural labor becomes dishonorable, it
will, of course, be confined to those who
have no interest Ia the soil they till; and
whenever the iahorer ceases to have any
interest la the land he cultivates, he ceases
to have astake in the advancement and good
order of society, for he has nothing to lose.
nothing to defend, nothing to hope for
The associations of an independent freehold
are eminently qualified TO elevate and emo
bic the possessor. Il is the life-spring of a.
manly national character, and of generous
patriotism a patriotism that rushes to the
defence of its country and the 'yindieation
of its honor with the same zeal and alaerity
that it guards the shearthstone and the fire.
side. Whenever Freedom has unfurled her
banner, the men who have rallied around to
sustain and uphold il have come from the
workshop and the field, where, Injured to
heat and % cold. and TO all the inelemencies
Of the seasons, they have acquired the hardi-
hood necessary to endure the trials and
privations of the camp. An independent
yeomanry, scattered over our vast domain.
is ihe best and surest guarantee for the per-
petuity of our liberties; for their arms are
the citadel OF q nations power. their hearts
the bulwarks OF liberty. Let the public
domains tsleEIs De set apart IS the patfimony
of labor. By pseyentings its absorption into1
large estates By capital. and its consequent
cultivation by tenants and slaves, instead
of independent freehoIders. ss
- - -