, 1863-06-23

whole majestic Union Of these temporarily
1ar11ng American States, soon, I trust, to BE-
eestosy SGs my oya feloT Hex e9untry%en the manifest
afy, Of which this Chicago Of yours ani ~
ours Is the brilliant centre, stands ont n1ain
Us Lno sun IN Heaven. It Is unmfstaf,blv
marked by the fnger Of God on our vide
sprean nnas and waters, that it Il to
Of this New World alone, but that yonerabie.
moes covered fatherland-that old tather
World Of ours across the ocean--as the
pious Grec1an daughter nou1iahed her aged
sfre-to carry abundant food, aud with 1t
the means Of higher civilization and refine
ment, and that too In the truest Christian
spirit, to that oyercrowded but under-fed
European Christendom to which ne owe our
common origin. Let us then come fully up
to the measure Of this worldwide idea. Let
us, BY chenpeniug the transit OF food to our
seaboard, prepare vigorously to carry out the
God himself to Increase the happiness Of
And now, my esteemed friends, let Us make
= slight descent; let US talk little about
hogs, and the glorious West as gigantic hog
pen. must really beg You not to laugh, for
/ am profoundly serious, and DO earnestly
Interesting, and important animal. For how,
let me beg to ask, could you possibly without
Ills benevolent and efficient aid and Co opera
ton, bring down the whole Of these five
hundred millions Of bushels Of grain
to the eeas How could such mountain
mass Of cereals, and especially Of Indian corn,
ever be sold or disposed Of. But thanks to
the ingenuity Of man aud the necessity Of, the
case, The process has been found The cropis
condensed and reduced In bulk by feeding 1t
into an animal form more portable. The hog
eats the corn, and Europe eats the hog Corn
thus becomes incarnate; for what Is q hog but
fifteen or twenty bushels Of corn On four Leg:
Of which this subject Is full, that striking
revolution has taken place just within
the last two troubled years, in the destiny Of
the American hog. By new process Of cur
ing or preparation, brought In, as am told,
from England, the animal. has suddenly be-
come extensively marketable in Europe. -
Heretofore the quadrnped has passed after
death into brine, obedient, perhaps, to the
traditions Of New England, where pork bar.
rel In every family Is sacred institution But
Europe did not relish, and would not cat the
hog in brine-so that great hog reformation
Is Eow in vigorous progress through these IN
terror States. in packing the animal, not n
in a Light, cheap wooden box. In
that sbape, Europe has recently consented
largely to cat him. Lot us, then,
ascertain precisely and atatistica1ly Just how
far the tickling the palate Of tho Old World
has already advanced. In the year 1852, the
nominated Scut meats' ~ IN the of1icial tables)
were only nine millions Of pounds. In round
numbers they rose to twenty millions in 1860,
to seventy millions in 1861, to one hundred
and thirty millions in 1869, and during the
present year, 1868, will probably very nearly
InTertipg the calculation, and bringing the
sscut meats' back to "hog'' again, this tx-
port is equivalent to an army Of one million
and q half Of these interesting animals, march
ing across the ocean. After this, will you,
can ron dare to laugh at the hog.
Atany rate, you will consent to be more
serious when you perceive the fiscal effects Of
sucha swInish exodus on our National Treasu-
II. These three hundred millions ofpoundsare
worth In Europe thirty millions Of dollars,
sending back imports, paying in duties nine
millions Of dollars in gold:
Noris this qniteal. Wehaye little more Of
stthewhole hog'' In fiscal point ofYiew. The
skill Of our artiticers in pork exprcssea out
the very quintessence Of the creature into
lard, humble element which has suddenly
risen from Its ancient culinary office ofmaking
cakes and grca<ing kitchen utensils, to the
more exalted duty Of illuminating houses and
oiliug the millions Of wheels Of our 1ocomo~
tiyes and other labor saving machines, Not
only has 1t smoothed our way to this very Con-
yentton, in this great hog manufacturing city,
but it Is exetting It's world wide influence ID
relieving the whales within the Arctic and
Antartic circles from the indeftigable pur-
suit Of that same rock bound, but vigorous
New England.
/: But to descend, or rather to ascend again
into fgures-the foreign export Of Lard has
SO kept pace with the hog in box, that New
York during the present year will send out
nearly one hundred and fifty millions Of
pounds-worth abroad at least fifteen millions
0f 1r11 nj
Imports yielding the further amount Of four
and half millions Of gold to the national
treasury. Do you not see my friends, how
gallantly and patriotlcaliy tn Ar. Chsse's
great financial struggle, the hog has come
to the rescue1 Respect him then, I beg, as
esteemed associate In the great business Of re-
moving, in TACT of ssrooting ont" every impede
ment to our internal commerce.
But again-thfs most necessary and va1ua-
whelming supplies Of Indian corn aud other
grains into animal forms, holds true to a large
extent with the countless heads Of horned
cattle so richly fed On our Western prairies,
only to b. hurried off to the great heefeating
cities aud communities on the Atlantic. The OK
DOW Oh the dinner table in our great metropo-
liz YVES feeding but forty yeight hours before
on the Mississippi, asd thus equally with the
hog plays his patriotic part In swelling the
mighty stream Of our domestic and foreign
commerce.
might proceed yet further, and bnt for my
dread Of the dispieas11re of our temperance
friends, might trace our Indian corn onward
and upward into It's sp1rltualized condition,
fQrnfshiug whisky and alcohol By millions on
millions ofgollons, not only to our own thirsty
be ret1rned to us as genuine Cog1ac another
striking proof o, the value of our corn, in AMI
mating and insptritiug our foreign commerce;
but VIM aetain you no longer. [Cries Of" 70
on, 20 on.'1
Ny object In these remarks has only been
to yfndieate the fiscal truth stated in the reso-
luton now before you. In SO doing, I hare
.mals1y sought to exhibit the imperative and
solemn obligation ofour National Government,
promptly to exert all its poner to
cheapen to the utmost, the transit Of this great
mass Of agricultural wealth 70 the ocean.
The necessity for thus tnT1gornting our fiscal
resources is so plain and so.transcendtnt, as
to override al the grejadlces and all the doubts
OF that pestilent school OF political thinkers,
who formerly e1etted 60 Pernicious m an
influence In or oauonnl councils.
Ihe only senslpie qaeslou4 now Is,
can G. OF cannoL laa nalio4 anota snnS n 10 oene
r,.t tS ,ta rest etra,Ja ~ nationa1 anu u
49, - S. ~ ,s1 ~, oa.,aa"." -. ~
tha aTnasinan ,,eo11a o15 esnons,1iu a. "
a,,t H. ~ present a, ~ ht1d ds
niinn 1nnat necessar;{v md narmnnsntiv H.
laid heavily nnnn them. snre1y a Dnternnl
government, In imposing such bnrthen
would DO wisely In Strengthening the ability
+}o Cnvarnvnavt xrf1 ,,rcho h1., f,o .oifoifn1 nv