The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1865-02-23

lack Of inventors, indicates most clearly
/ its low stage of civilization, its utter
4 poverty of invention, its slow progress in
! the arts, its rude labor, its relative de-
ficiency in the vital elements Of nation $
strength and prosperity.
! Perhaps nothing is more gratifying in
( our Patent Office Report than the evil
/ dence it affords that the war. IN its I'M
mense proportions, severe as Las been It's
tax upon our resources and absorbing In
itsiniiuence,has not retarded our growth
!. i'm the peaceful arts, diminished our ma
terial prosperity, or checked our inven-
tive genius but in the words of the Re
port, has stimulated our inventive power
in every branch Of industry" 1t was t,
have been expected, it is true, that the
war would have multiplied inventions in
the field of military and naval science
vet we must confess to our establishment
as others will, to learn from the Report
that while III one year there were taken
out two hundred and forty patents in the
implements Of war, in the single depart
ment of agriculture four hundred and
ninety patents were issued 1t is owing
to this increase of our productive capaci-
ty, effected by the increase of labor-sav.
ing machines more than to foreign inIni-
grafton, that the drain upon our popu-
lation has been SO little felt during
the war. 1t is estimated that the use of
reaping machines alone will effect the
saving of the labor of 40, 600 men. In
the stirring language Of the report, to
which some perhaps may take exception
as wanting i'll official dignity, and not ac-
cording to red tape, but which to our
taste has the true ring, and will ring upon
the ear Europe as with the sound of a
trumpet: Thus to each call from our
great leader, the people have been able
to respond:
1--WE are coming, Father Abraham,
Six hundred thousand more"
We have no doubt that the foreign pub
LEGATION of this 'model document of the
Commissioner of Patents, SO comprehen-
siye in principle, lucid in detail, and
pregnant in suggession-showing so
clearly the rapid development and Jay
haustable resources of the loyal seen -
of the country; and suggesting in con
trast the relative inferiority of that sec
ton, upon which has so long rested the
incubus of slavery, in the vital elements
which constitute State, will do much to
dispel the prejudice fostered so industri-
ously by Confederate agents, in regard to
our impoverished condition and rapid
strides to ruin; will do much also to en-
Tighten the foreign mind as to the true
issues of the war. Its manifest teaching
is the triumph of civilization over semi
barbarism-the triumph of humanity, in
which the people Of all lands are inter
ested that, in the event of this triumph,
the emigration of the Old w orld will no
longer be confined, as heretofore, to the
cold and sterile North, but will spread
over the fertile valleys and broad savan-
nahs of the South, causing them to re-
ioice in the hum aud smile in the fruits
of peaceful industry and that the des
TIMES of the Republic point unmistaka
bly, to united country, to the suprema-
CIV Of the National Government, to 4 com
plete and rounded nationality, to ho
mogeneous institutions, and to universal
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