Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-12-27
The Cren, Nation of The World.

Our country is of such vast extent, and
consequently Of such various climate thatwe
should be compared, not with this or that
European country, but with all Europe. 1t
is not between the United States and Eng
land or France that comparisons should be
instituted, but America and Europe, the New
World and the Old. The land that yet owns
the sway Of the stars and stripes is capable OF
supporting, in ease and affluence, at least ten
times the number of people that now live IN
1t. 1t could contain as many Inhabitants as
now dwell in the British Islands, in France,
in Spain, in Italy, and in Germany, and yet
not be full +; and it would give to them all as
various climate as that which the leading
European races now enjoy, from the land of
snow and the birch and the fir to the land of
sunshine and the orange and the palm. 1t
could provide them all with pursuits as differ
ent and as profitable as those which they now
follow, and under which they prosper
Whether they excel by sea or on land, here
they could be perfectly at home, with ample
room to multiply and increase.
If we descend to particulars, we find that
there is enough to do here to command the
minds and the labors of countless millions.
We have coal enough to feed the furnaces and
the fires Of the world; and we have scarcely
broken through that Goals first crust. We
have oil enough to light creation, and to keep
it in good working Order-a new interest, as
yet in the nursery, having been called into
being within year or two. The cry for cot
ton is great and, peace once restored, we
shall be able to meet that cry with full sup
plies, and show that neither India nor any
other land can become our successful rival.
Men wish for food, and what soil exceeds
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diversity: Ships are called for to do the
earth's commerce, and we not only have the
raw materials from which ships are made,
but the skill and the unwearying work that
renders those materials available. This is
an age Of manufacturing competition, and we
have not been found unequal to the business
Of competing with lands that had become
famous as seats OF manufactures before the
first house was built in the first American
town.
Considering all these things-considering,
too, that under our free system all men are
educated, and that the spirit of monopoly no.
where steps in to prevent intellect and intel
ligence from having their Just intiuence-we
are warranted in asserting that our resources
are bOundleSs for what are resources but the
results of the application Of enterprising and
enlightened labor to the means Of given
land? Were our territory small and monot-
onous-wcre we a Holland or even an Eng
land-we might be excused for being some
what alarmed because of the greatness Of our
obligations. But when we contemplate the
yastness and variety Of our territory, and the
not less vast variety of that territory's pro-
auctions, and the talent and ambition by
which all things are brought under human
dominion and governance, we have every
reason for the loftiest hopes, and none what
ever for fears. America is yet in the bloom
of her earliest youth. She has not even felt
her first vigor. There is no imaginable bur-
den to which she is not equal, and which she
will not honorably sustain, let her enemies
say what they please Of her powers and of
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