, 1865-02-08

| is entirely redeemed. Indiana stands atono
among the fee States. We hope soon t. bo
! able 10 chronicle the Wipiug out Of her b1act
laws also.
The Great West.
from the New York Indcpendent1-
A trip Of four thousand miles through tho
heart OF the West awakens d kindling thousht
| Of the greatness Of the Republic. Tue West
| is the Empire: fact unacknowlcdged at the
| East, because the East knows not the West.
But an impartial traveller soon perceiycs that
the East Is not the country. New Fork and
| New England arc but the thumb aad fore
| finger; tho West is tie rest Of the hand
4 Western visit In summer is best for see-
| ing tho country; In winter best for seeing
the people. And are they not the heartissf,
| friendliest, most lospitablc of the human
rnec? What a "ssotch welcome" may b,
we know not !; but if better than q Western
welcome, it Is better than plain man de-
serves. Jostle Westerner in the street, nui
| at once you arc acquaintances meet
him tho next day, and you arc old
| friends. A shake Of the hand In the
Vest has more grip in It than between New
West is the chief crown Of the parent. The
universal New England element westward Il
not only the best part Of tho West, but tho
best part Of New England for only the cour-
agcous, the energetic, and the conqueFing
Huft uaA LIZ WILL W 4Q1t 1La3kGA4 A14uCA LUZ
Western prairics. Thus the early Pilgrims to
New Eng1and have their trucs5 SONS in tho
later Pilgrims from. New England. A Yam
kec, therefore,. does not come to bis fullest
stature in Yankeellnd the grown Yankee ia
the Weste1ner. At the east he is ge1anium
1anfum in garden, where 1e grows rank,
exuberant and generous. New countries
greaten mems souls.
Does the West seek hera1dic sign? Let It
choose shock Of corn. o bounteous land Of
small houses ana big bar9sr So fertile is the
tralia, "Only tickle the earth with hoe and
she laughs with harvest ~ Though beaten
down from the full hight By SHOWS, corn
stalks arc yet standing in January so high
and rising In the stirrnps, cannot topch the
tops! The p1ai1ies+common.p1 place, sad and
eublimc-arc the garden Of the world! May
they ever make farmers rich and cattle fat.
Trade, the mnker Of cities, has amphibious
opportunities In the West. The Mississippi
and its tributaries yield forty-eight thousand
mi1es Of waters angcred By steamboat wheels
"a channel Of navigation long enough to
twice gird the globel Already the great
hikes are partners with the Atlantic in di-
rect trade with Europe. The railroads are
wearing out their tracks with hard work,
and paying State debts with their profits.
Chicsgo counts 250 trains coming and going
daily nt her depota, and says to q New York
er, Sir. you have not half so many" And
New Yorker must sny to this Wondcrous
eif|essl' enSes "'zaaf 0' 'n' west 'aa "'ta't' Oh
The daiIy prcss Of New York scatters Its
leaves very thlnly through the West. Mr.
Greeley's IRet1ly tribune goes everywhere,
but the metropolitan dailics set westward only
until, like fide-streak, they meet the conn-
tcr-current Of Tie Cincinnati press. chiefly the
Commercial and the Gazette; which, IN turn,
cover the country as the waters Of tie sea,
till they meet the wide spread Chicago
Southwest with the St. Louis RepuNtcan and
the Missouri Democrat. All these journals are
ablc md inhucntial-groWi1g rich faster than
their brethren In New York. Tbs great inau-
cncc which the New York press undoubtedly
west; IN influence not directly upon the peo-
pie, but upon the journals. But even this In
fluencc is diminishing, not increasing. New
York perhaps will always remain the metrop-
oils Of the Union but 1t can never become
like Paris to France.
Western churches, Sunday y-schoo1s, and day
schools thrive like sapliDgs. An eastern man
hearing habitun1ly Of western churches as
"feeebfe," seldom hears OF any being strong.
And yet many, like many lions, shake their
locks Tor vesy strcntgh; In st: Logts' on. on
killed, each at 4 stroke-a Methodist church
paying sl5, 900, and Presbyterian $4,000.
Perhaps no other city in the Union cancelled
$45, COO Of ehurch-debt on that day. The
largest Sunday school In America Judged By
attendance, not the 1oll,list) is west OF the
equally well commands an army, administers
department, or conducts children'S
meeting. In Chicago. mission-school,
originating in railroad car, is now largef
pository Of Sunday school books Is neither in
Philadelphia nor New York but Chicago. or
two millions Of population In illinois, half q
million are in day schools, alarger proportion
ofschool- going children Than Connecticut or
1assaehusctts- But not to color our picture
Western churches, and o score. Of western
colleges, arc pfteously pleading to be helped
INTO strength, and the sooner their plea is
needed, the better for the whole country.
the one most important 70 b speedily
Chicago. Nursery Of churches, shall itself 80
unnnTsed. Looking now like q log cabin,
Who volunteers to build it in marble?
With sorrow We confess that the Legfsla-
ture Of Illinois Is body Of finer looking men
than the Legislature Of New York-bctter
heads for Photograph. Aud II Washington
should be. captured By rebels, the Missouri
Constitutional Convention would be no bad
get the prohibitoT Amendment without fur
thcr delay. Throughout the West, patriot
ism burns like a danle-as if 1t caught extra
fire from the sunset We may be pardoned
for mentioning that good woman now living
In Abraham Iinco}n's home at Springfield
planted n handful Of morninsslo seeds ut
fhe foot Of pillar by the rear stoop, md
was su rprised to find the mass Of growing
vines Towering into three distinct stripes Of
color-Eed, white and blue not from any de-
sign In planting, but from mere accident Of
growth; patriotic freak Of nature, made
as If to give beautiful proof Of the indigo
nous loyalty Of the West--the very soil Of
the Presidents garden tcstifyfng what aag
eufht tG TaTs ogsf o sh thS a9d Beating o1F
liberty, and looking forth from that historic
SSt Hundred idiIf hili.tops of ~ Alton, We gased
on majestic landscape wherein the
Mississippi and the Missouri join their far
coming Hoods. Those mighty rivers flow In
the sclfsame channels now as when that
grave was new made, but the thoughts Of d
mighty people now in how changed course
since tlenl Twcnty-seven years ago. nlf-
nois and Missouri clasped guilty hands for
TINT assassination but now it Ia no pro-
phetic secret that Illinois, before Washing
TOMS next birth day, will blot her Black
Laws from the statute book, and Missouri
has already filled the world with the shout Of
her freedom
And what of the West beyond the West?
The Mississippi IS the center, not the edge, Of
the country. The map Of the Union has au
empty half Shall not multitude Of cities
crowd 1t full? Seeds Of century plants arc In
its soil. Nations follow The sun, or, ccasing
to follow, die. The Great Republic Is on its
march across the continent. Freedom. lover
tering the cry Of the aees, "Westward Ho!"
Whcfeuuto God adds His own command,
nCast up, cast up the highway"