Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-09
messase of the GoverpOr of Ohio

Our Guberr atorial Messages have come to
be some thing like the exhibit of assets of
merchant in falling circumstances, who is
Supplying for new credit, or like the reputed
wealth of al Eastern belle, on the Western
market The State is rich in lands, the
richness of which goes into wheat and corn,
to be transported 1000 miles IN market, pay
ting 10 go betweens twice or many times that
which he farmer receives; to be brought
back il goods, made ofmaterials which have
tcen carried the same distance. But this is
commerce, and our chief glory. Strange
that we regard it so differently when both
erds Of the transaction are brought within
our horizon. Then we call the commercial
men hgcksteIs; quite a reproachful name !
a-6 ne legislate to suppress them.
Wien love "a very respectable god in his
time, whose rame we use, to avoid taking
aay other in vain) looks down, and traces
tie cour5e of the product of agricultural
toll il Ohio, from one to four thousand miles;
not like the rolling stone, gathering no moss,
hut accumulating double and quadruple its
cost in charges, and tken returning to the
producer in things manufactured from ma
terisls brought the same distance, accumu-
lstirg charges az they go, what must he
think of a race Of beings whose greatest
labor ard ambition seem to be to carry things
to snd fro without any apparent purpose
compared with whose labor that of Sysiphus
was meTciful, for he only rolled the stone
one way, and it came back itself.
OF all the living things that inhabit the
earth, it is probable that from his standpoint,
which Of course is SO lofty that it reduces us
all to cIawlers--he would look upon the lives
and pursuits of mankind-in which we in-
ciude woman kind-as the most senseless-
incomprehensible and unhappy 1t is likely
that it would trouble him to give rational
excuse for creating such race.
But this is heather view. We are the
smartest people on earth; the only people
capable OF self-gOvernment therefore Of
se!f-preservation. Ours is the most perfect
Government on earth. Divine wisdom is
supposed to have had a hand in it, it is so
perfect Whether it is the divine part that
is 70 be conceded out of it, does not appear;
but men ought 10 be cautious how they
NEEDLE with sacred things, lest they follow
Korah Dathan and Abiram. We are the
smartest people on earth. But we manage
to exis! by drawing literally on posterity in
the shape Of public debt like an uncloan
sow devouriDg its own progeny, and by
sknning the richness of a soil which was the
accumulation of thousands Of years. mo
attention paid to Hebrew chronology; that
went out with the Mosaic dispensation.
We skim the SOIL pay the cream to go-be-
tWeena, called commerce; borrow of poster
ity to furnish facilities for the commerce
sad TO foot up the balance in our extrava-
aance; labor takes the skinned milk of the
soil for its living and portion; the product
iyeneas of the land is steadily decreasing
and the center of agricultural production
regularly progressing West. We are only
iocusts of larger growth, devouring th'
land as we progress.
We are the smartest people on the face o
the earth. Let that be borne in mind
Providence has a smile for us when it frownI
on the people of other lands. 1t is owing t.
oar 'fusttutiOns which are the best in the
world, when they work well. Proyidenc'
likes "free Institutions" But we are living
by exhsusting the soil of richness which re
Quired ages TO accumulate, and by saddlinl
our debis on posterity. Our progress is glo
rious. Every body knows that It aston
ishes - cd word. Bat the ratio ot gu