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one port which Is as Aourishing ii Chicago,
and none which has risen 30 rapidly or Is

one pofI "hlc1 Is n8 nour13htnE Is Chicago,
and none which has risen 70 rapidly or Is
likely to advance go far.
Murseilles IL the third city In France, rank
ing next to Paris md Lyons. Accordiuy to |
the most recent accounts Its population is
even now, but about thirty thousand more
than that Of Chicago, if even that; though
Marseilles existed Elk hundred ye:srs before
the Christian cru, und was free commercial
city In the gear 1926. The tonnagenf French
vessels now engaged in its foreign trade, ap-
but 1so, Geo tons, While that Of Chicago as we
have already stated, amounts to 1900. So
too OF Genoa, the proud, the great port Of Italy.
ihls city, old and beautifully picturesque
1nohgh 1t be, has not as many tnhabit4nts as
Chicago, and no. such commercial activity.
The operations Of q single hour in the latter,
would, in Genoa, appear like an resurrection.
AND SO we might proceed to cOutrast every
Other city on the shores Of the Mediterranean,
ail old and fourishing, perhaps, in the Euro
busy, growing, !lourishing aud commanding
city OF Chicago. No Spanish, French. Italian
OF austrian ports present any such picture Of
progress and prosperity The contrast shows
the difference between 1 free or q subjected
people.
The prosperity Of It's Inhabitants has pro-
ceeded step by step with that Ct the city, and
no where can be found more Of the Comforts
and elegances OF life, no where greater libe-
rality Of bestowment for any good and patri-
pliC purpose.
The great movement with which Chicago
has lately connected herself, under the pres
sure upon her Of the productions of the West,
RAPIDLY increasing beyond all calculation, IS
TINT Of ship canal, by which vessels nlay
pass from the Mississippi into Lake Nichi.
gan, and from Lake Erie into the Hudson.
The subject has been most ably and earnestly
pressed upon Congress, our own New York
Chamber Of Commerce and State Legislature,
| and will be the particular subject for con=id-
Grafton at great convention to be held In
Chicago the End Of June. To that body we
shall look for careful, accurate and scientific
report on the subject.
But it is sufficient for US at this time to look
ut Chicago as she Is, with interminAbe lines
Of railway, which reach to the Gulf Of Mexico
and the Atlantic with uniform gua@e, radi
ntipE in al directions over our fertil.. West
| crn plains and prnirics, and which, after cut
ting through rocks sparkling with gold and
silver. are to terminate only on the shores Of
the Pacific. It is sufficient to consider that
she is the mistress and ut the head of nayiSa-
| tion Of the largest inland seas on this con1i-
nent, and that her sails whiten and her screws
Toss into foam the purcst and most beautiful
Of waters. With a vast domestic and increas-
Ing colonial trade, likely to be facilitated By
the enlargement OF the present canals Of
Canada, or the construction of new ones by
natural routes such as the earliest missionaries
discovered, there seems to be no limitation to
her extension Or prosperity. Chicago, here
fore, mag be set up as q standard american
city, for the admiration Of the world. Her
rlse and progress are subjects worthy the study
| Of those persons abroad who would uiscredit
! republican institutions, because they have
been endangered By traitors. There will be
1.'any more such cities as Chicago, before this
| Government las fulfilled its great mission.
| There is no other spot On the Globe
where snch pheuoulena can occur, or
WhcIe thero is any more the lamp
| Not in Great Britain, not in France, not in
italy, not III Germany, there may he on the
| Russian Pacific coast nowhere with this pos
sitle eSception) but in this country, is there
| any place to build up such cities In none Of
| these countries could tho site Tor any such
cities us Chicago be found; yet We contcm-
Louis, Butiato, Cleveland, all Of Western
| origin, and with which our wilderness will
one day be studded.
The increase of t,ur cities In number and
| population is precisely in accordance with the
spirit Of uur institutions, and will tend to
ready IN the present contest, the first prompt
contributions If men aud luonsy to sustain
the Government suddenly aid tr.litosously
assailed, the continued and persistent support
Of it under all its difficulties. the u,uniileent
subscriptions to the National funds, and the
| 4hSplEilHS {tsUlft NHetner IN T1EtOry
or repulse, that the Union must aud
| shall be preserved. AS has been re-
| marked by great modern historian,
| the 1ise Of cities is the growth Of republican,
| ism; and what Is left Of representation and
| freedom in Europe is to be sonsht in those
| commercial ton rs which, like the uause, have
survived all dynasties and still assert their
| rights. In the language Of another, i. il GER
tain whenever breach has occurred between
the governments Of Europe aud the people,
originating among the Intelligent cl uses, in
cities il has i1yariahly ended ii, th. sri,1n,; il
Of the latter: They nnqucs,ionAb!y develop
| and strengthen the democratic principle tor
various obvious reasons. And III this
view Of the subject, if we had no other,
| We feel IN intense pleasure iu noticin. the
| progress and prosperity of an American citY
| like Chicsg,, which il monument Of Atneri-
| can enterprise, conceived and executed in =
| sriiit that cannot die. y people capable of
erecting such cities, may be considered rs
| giving the most conclusive evidence in the
world, that they are able to preserve their na-
tionality against all assaults, foreign and do
Meetic, and until the rebellion is crushed, and
the Union restored, they will never lay down
their arms; never, never, never!