St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1861-04-04
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Exeter saws Of him; = = -. = -.

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"Now he weighs time;
Even to the utmost grain"
We have timo enough. What we want
Is to call the will into action. Let us in
vest our willvwith an iron despotism over
our faculties. In these enterprises let Jus
yield complete obedience to its decreos.-
Let US determine that one hour or one
half hour of to-day shall be devoted to
culture; and that when to-morrow's sun
goes down it shall find US one step further
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The motive and the reward, how grand
and universal! Would you not have your
State attractive to the hundreds Of thou
sands who are yet needed to fill its wide
and vacant expanse? Would you not pro-
mote and invigorato its growth Would
you not present an example that shall
stimulate those who come to more earnest
and perfect efforts? Shall Holland, hard
ly larger than one of our counties drive
out the sea from her land, and by persis-
tent industry acquire opulence and power
and shall we lie almost supine with the
amplcst stores of nature undcveloped
around us? Why my poorest friend
should not your home be comfortable, nay
elegant? Why should not you have a
horse and carriage in which to take your
wife and children to ride? We hear much
said about Glands for the landlcss and
homes for the homeless" But am in
favor of more than that. I am in favor of
every man having a neat and pleasant res
ideDce, with neat grounds around it and
luxuriant harvest fields, and fine horse
and carriage to take his family out in when
he chooses; but these latter things 1 want
him to get himself He can do it if he
tries.
The fault, dear Brutus is not in our Stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Culture, why it will make brave man
out of a craven-hearted coward Take two
men who by nature are equally towards
One is ignorant; the other, intelligent, is
familiar with the memorable instances
where courage has scaled the ragged walls
of peril and won it's fame. He remembers
how eagerly the truly great in all ages have
confronted danger in noble cause. He
knows that the enlightened world con-
dennis cowardice as mean. He knows
the undying scorn that follows it forever.
He will be twenty times more likely to
stand at his post than the ignorant man.
His MUD is so imbucd with the influence
of grand examples, that he is more afraid
to be coward than of death. He would
rather lie literally cut up into shoe strings
than ignobly desert his post of duty.
It is a well-established fact that the most
effective battalions in war are those who
have been the best educated. It is your
cultivated men, too, your Fremonts and
Kanes, who have the spirit and nerve to
eHploro with many risks the remote and
inhospitable regions of the earth. Culture
will give us new spirit, new energy, new
life. 1t will give us newer and more
fervcnt hope, a newer and brighter desti-
ny. 1t will give US larger and more pro-
ductivo fields, larger and fuller warehou-
ses. 1t will give us af1ucnce, indepen-
dence and happiness at home and charac-
ter abroad. Let us then sacrifice more
for culture. Every day we are making up
the materials for our annals. Ind uhe,'
history comes to speak Of our State lei
her not assign us an inferior place; bu1
let as make 1t her 0uty tn record that zoe
rivalled the sister States Of this era IN the
excellence that human nature could
attain.