Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1863-06-12

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-. .. THEN AND NOW.
Harbor and River Convsnsiou.--Natio
al Canal Convention. E" '" NV
.,. Is45---ls6S.
[Some of our readers may imagine from
the title that the following article is rather
dry reading. We assure them that it is not.
1t is from the pen Of the most genial and
gifted writer in the West, b. F. TAYLoa, Of
the Chicago Journal, and he intermingles the
prose of facts and figures with the more
charming creations Of the poets fancy, in a
style peculiarly his own, and in manner
that must be acceptable to ell intelligent rea.
ders. The article is particularly interesting
as showing the growth and progress of the
Great Northwest during the past few years.
-Eas.]
Had the Florentine when he knelt in the
dust of humiliation, degraded nothing but
himself; had he not brought down with him
a grand truth, men and history would have
cared little for Gallileos abasement. But
when he rose, his rallying manhood breathed
again, those words Of his, e pur 81 muope''
it does move for all that were whisper
immortal; as true to-day and here, as on
that day of June 1888; they come again to
resurrection once more, as, on the eve of one
Convention, we look across the little breadth
ncc ciyfan,, 0unthnw nd &h, al
words return with the freshness Of first
utterance: through clear and calm, through
dismay and storm, :" the West moves on"
The two Conventions, each suited to its
time, joined hands across those years the
one grand development of the other, more
magnificent in design, farther reaching in
execution, and with results as splendid and
as wide as the continent War demands
them in the Federal name; Peace pleads
for them in her own. Men have come among
us again, as delegates to this Convention,
who participated in the deliberations of that
body, to which Chicago opened the doors Of
its hearts and its homes, on the fifth of July
1847. They remember, as we'll as we do,
what noble spirits mingled in those councils;
the cOncOrdant voice of nineteen States
South Carolina, Florida and Georgia moved
in harmony with the men of New England
and the West; Kentucky and New York
stood side by side; Alexander H, Stephens
the Vice-President of rebels, walked these
streets. They recall the eloquent uttcrance
and invincible arguments, that have gone or
conquering through all these years; the noble
words of the Hon. Edward Bates, now At
torney General of the United States, the
presiding officer of that Convention, startling
US all with their force and truth, have not
perished; the testimony of the dead states
men, given in at that Convention, is yet .
thing Of record. We have under our hand 4,
we write, the letter of the man of Marshfield
the sterling and sturdy arguments Of Thomai
H. Benton,in favor of the measures then pro
posed; nay, with prophetic power urging
the very work under consideration to-day
the true witness borne by John G. Spencer
and Silas Wright, and him Of LindenwalG
and him of Ashland. "the gallant Harry
of long. gone time--the concord Of the dead
statesmen, for ah, "there were giants il
those days"-all, speech and record. rich II
arguments that it has taken sixteen years ane
the shock Of battle to strengthen; argumentl
for the work of to-day which a. we look q
them, on the stained and yellow pages wher'
they rest, pur into our heart the words tina
Morton addressed to the bones of Warren
when removed from Bunker where he Eel
and slept, to another but not q nobler tomb
" Illustrious relics what tidings from tn
gravcp 9
We welcome to Chicago and the North
west, those members of the Harbor and Riv
er Convention, who are now delegates to it
greater and better. It is the old welcom'
but it is to new world. They left tow
of fifteen thousand sitting on the hem of ,
luxuriant wilderness by the sea they return
to find city of an hundred and thirty -f,v,
thousand, throbbing like mighty heart Will
intenscst life. They left this land an unin
scribed medallion; they come. to find j
bearing the image and superscription Of n
enlightened energy. wonderful commerc
and an agriculture that can make answer L
the prayer of the world, "give IA, this day
our daily bread" Sixteen years packe,
with facts, many and magnificent enough d
adorn and enrich broad century, lie bet
ween the ''now "and the "then." We tax
up . lean Chicago Directory for the year ~
it is only On almanac or two rolled into one
but it Ia most eloquent document. Then
tneTe were kWp RNoilC Scu00l OuuWn8S
Chicago, and thirteen hundred pupils nov
there are nineteen Of the former, costing =
more than quarter Of . million, and twslv
thousand Of the latter and, to kssR the gran,
machinery in motion during the year '69, in
volved an expenditure Of $112,OO0.
Fourteen years before the meeting Of tn
Convention Of ~, seven thousand Potswat
tonnes assembled in the same place, In
convention of their own, and went westway'
to make way for the coming men. Tourteel
years before that Council on Harbora an
Rivers, the voters Of Chicago cosld have M
Ike the disciples Of old, in an /" upper cham
ber," for there were twenty eight Of them
and the dignity Of census was not attains
until July LIST. 81, when il rewarded the a
ort with four figures, viz 4,470.
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