The Nevada Democrat., 1860-02-22
COMMERCE..

| It Is commerce which has unpacked the globe
which before was sealed up trunk. She need
ed geography. aud men have run the surveyors
lines over the continent Il was commerce that
bid the north come up ard soeth keep not back.
She sent exploring fleets to Polar seas, and
taught men to be heroic under every extreme
of temperature; she taught men TO delve in
mines, to search the bottoms of streams aud
study the grim unlifted faces of broken strata.
Commerce sits in nUdern times as Adam sat in
Eden, gathering round about her every mate
rial thing God has made on earth, aud giving
names and value to them all. She needed the
winds, aud man took them captive she need
ed something better than the Winds aud fire
brought forth steam; she needed mighty en-
ginery, and Vulcan built shops throughout the
world. Herschel himself, is the child of Mer-
enry, for 1t was commerce that demanded of
the astronomer that he should find out the ways
OF heaven, in order that men might tind their
way better on earth. Science was the crying
baby hid among the bulrushes, Commerce was
the Pharoah's daughter that found II and
"taught il in all the ways Of the Egyptians"
The iron man, machinery, IL the worlds eman-
cipator this is the coming man OF which we
hear SO much. Commerce, too, has made the
world whispering gallery, so that the Atlantic
and the Pacific may speak to each other, and
men dwelling in opposite hemispheres may com
mune almost as ifthey dwelt 10 the same room :.
In the physical globe 1t is electricity that works
in light and breeds in heat, bears all things and
gives them life commerce is the electricity of
universal human society; ships are so many
hands reaching out aud gathering the harvest
of the world.
In the great realm of bargain-making all is
not external achievement. There are achieve
ments which call for intellectual power that
may well :ax the noblest mind achievements
which call for powers as eminent as any de-
manded by craftsmanship or philosophy. FL
nance is no mean science, and he who is master
OF that department, as o branch of political
economy, takes rank with the profoundest
thinkers Of the day. One cannot contemplate
the ramifcations of credit-nerves over the
world without admiration. A word spoken in
New York unlocks the bank of lndia the key
is ten thousand miles long the signature of
the Rothschilds controls the Golfers Of the globe.
Towns and cities are more the bankers than |
those that dwell therein the and the ships
which 1t cradled are his, for the golden wares of
commerce form the latitudes and longitudes of
the globe, and commerce Is the battery. While |
scholars are seeking TO find universal Ian
guase, behold a universal language has long
been spoken there is not tribe on the globe
that does not understand the language of the |
dollar bills of credit aad exchange never need
Interpretation {; the symbols ofcommerce, metal
aud its representatives give to the globe
common language and as when Peter spoke
on the day OF Penticost, all men interpreted his
words in their own language, SO when the bank
speaks. every man hears it in the tongue of
which he wes born. Banks are the golden
tonged polyglots of the word.-Beechsr.