Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-02-18

woys remain the metropolis Of The Union
but IL can never become like Paris Il
| France.
Western churches, Sunday schools and
day schools thrive like saplings. An East
ern man hearing habitually of Western
churches as feeble, seldom hears of any as
being strong. Aud yet many like young
lions, shake their locks for very strength
In ST. Louis. Oh single Sunday, we saw
two church debts killed, each at stroke-
a Methodist church paying SIS, 900 and a
Presby terisp, $50, 900. Perhaps no other
city in the Uuion, concealed $45, 900 of
church debt on that day The largest
Sunday school in America, Judged by
stteDdandance, not the rolllsl,) is west
Of the Mssissippi-founded by Brigadier
General Fix, Who equally well commands
an army, administers a department, OF
conducts chldsen's netting. In Chicago,
a mission-scbool, originating 10 rdilroad
car, is now larger than any 10 New York.
Aud the largest dep0stary of Sunday
school books is neither in Philadelphia nor
New York, but in Cbcag o. Of two mill.
ions Of population in Illinois, half million
are in day schools---a lager proportion of
school going children than 10 Connecticut
or Massachusetts,. But not TO color our
picture too highly, we eagerly say that a
thousand Western churches, and score OF
Western colleges, a'e piteously pleading to
be helped into strength, and the sooner
their plea is needed, the better for the
W hole counry. OF all our struggling the
ological seminarits, the one be most i'm
portant to be speedily eq'pped, is the
Congregational Seminary ut Chicago
Nursery of churches, shall itself 60 unnurs
ed2 Looking now like log cabin, who
volunteers to build it 10 marble d.
With sorrow We confess hat he Legisla
,ure Of Illinois is u body Of 6ner-looking
men than The Legislature of New York -
better heads for - photograph And if
Washington should be captured by rebels,
the Missouri Constitutional Convention
would be no bad exchange for Congress
for then we would get the PrJhibitory
Amendment without further delay -
Throughout the West, patriotism burns
like fame-as if it caught extra fge
from the sunset. We may be pardoned
for mentioning that a good woman now
living in Abraham Lincolu's home, at
Springfield planted handful Of morning
glory seeds al the foot ofa pillar by the
rear stoop, and was surprised to God the
mass of growing vines flowing into three
distinct stripes of color-red, white and
blue not from any design in planting, bat
from a mere accident of growth a
patriotic frehk Of nature, made as if TO give
beautiful proof of the Indigenous loyalty
of the Wes,-tbe very soil of the Presi
dents garden testifyiDg what flag ought TO
wave over the land. Resting our feet at
the grave OF Elijah Lovejoy, martyr Of
liberty, and looking forth from that histc.
ric dust moldering in one OF tue hundred
hill tops of Alton, we gszed on majestic
landscape wherein the Mississippi and Miss.
our Join their farcoming floods Those
mighty rivers flow in the selfsame channels
now astshen that grave was newly made,
hu. the thoughts Of a mighty people flow
in how changed course since th !
Tw enty seven years ago, Illinois and Miss
ouri clasped guilty hands for that a'sassina-
tion bat now it is no prophetic secret
that Illinois, before WashiHgton's next
birthday, will blot her Black Laws Sfrom
the statue book, and Missouri has already
filled the world with the shout OF her
freedom ! t-
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 an empty half. Shall not q multitude
of cities crowd it full? Seeds of century
plants are in its soil. Nations follow the
sun, or ceasingto follow, die. The Great
Republic is on its march across the cont
nent. Freedom, lover of mountains, sits
in the Sierra Nevadaa, uttering the cry OF
the ages, Westward Ho Whereunto
God adds His own command, Cast up, east
up the highway.