Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-01-26

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g our common ~, IL bu1led II 10y :
Southern State. Hsavsn erant that lhs
skife may sesn beevss, an{thae thaH Hnian,
the idol of American s6sction. b r. sstab-
1ished Soroves.
But whils " heye just peide = Psansyl
vanians. W should b caotious aot 70 en-
courage sscts q divisions II thia. ~ Stats
ofour adoption. Here have We planted our
stakes, and here should ws unite, 10 play
our part In the future advancement and
glory Of Iowa. Thsugh another Land helds
the ashas Of our kindfed dsad, hare win oof
children dwell, and thsis hopss and foe-
tunes Win b sntWined With the future d.
| tiny Of lows. h
1th said the meaning Of TIE Indian word
Iowa, is pleasant land. Whethsr this fic-
ton, romAncs OF Indian legend, ths descrip-
ton is still but the naked truth. Here, in
dsed, u ths land q bsauty--a wi1D- Spfsal.
ing ocean Of rolling psairie-teeming with
fertility, and ready for the hand of the hns-
bandman. Here, indeed, is Canaan with its
Jordan rolling at our feet-a land Of milk
and honey. Il is narrated that . hand Of
Indians, migrating from the north, crossed
and reached the western bank q our noble
river, when, several ascending the bluffs,
stretched forth their hands and exclaimed,
sIowa"-here is the land And hsss they
made their home. Bot they have gone, with
| the wild deer and the buffalo, towards the
setting sun, and left this broad. lovely do
main to another race Of people.
Bordered as this State is, by two naviga-
bic and majestic rivers, crossed, - it will
shortly be, BY . number Of railways, one Of
them the great highway to the shores Of the
Pacific, almost inexhaustible In the fertility
Of its soil, blessed with = healthy and brac-
| ing climate, and settled by . strong and
hardy people, it must soon move b tho front
rank in all that constitutes true greatness.
The productive capacity Of her lands is tru.
~ wonderful--with but small portion un.
der active cultivation, her annual products
are crowding the avenues to eastern mar.
kets. Her extensive deposits Of Coz and
lead, developing year by year, odd to her
wealth and open new fields Of labor.
Her system Of education exhibits that
high appreciation of mental culture which
should ever distinguish nation 70 whom
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box. Her colleges and seats Of learning 70
feet honor upon all who have been instru-
mental in founding them. May they ever
continue q perpetual spring, sending forth
streams that shall gladden. the heart with
the choicest blessings Of life.
Shc too, with her enlistments to this
time, has sent her more than seventy thou
sand soldiers, beneath the Stars and Stripes,
to vindicate the integrity Of the Union, and
right nobly have they shown their prowess
in every encounter with the foe. In the
camp, on the march, In the thicksst of the
battle, and ON the bloody fsld, when the
| fight was over, they have borne themselves
every inch soldier. Their kindred and
friends, left behind in the Prairie State,
have reason to exult over the laurels won
| by Iowa soldiery.
In thus glancing ct Pennsylvania and
Iowa o-night, the first lesson impressed is,
that We are in reality celebrating the CON.
quests Of labor, that betever we laud and
magnify, Of eminence, in either is the fruit
| Of labor.
1t is an organic law Of our very existence
that man must work, his mental and phys.
icsl condition require it. Without it the
body sickens, the mind becomes enervated,
and he relapses into the weakness Of infan-
cy. This law is written BY God in the great
book Of animated nature, and it's pages are
always open and full Of teaching to him,
who is willing to learn. The ant and the
bee, in their patient industry, teach lessons
Of admonition worthy our emulation. Man
was designed by his Maker to be thinker
and worker. Privations and necessities
| first called him to action; pride, ambition,
power, and the hope Of happiness led him
onward in his march, until he gathered
around him all the elements Of comfort and
luxury. These are the reward Of efforts to
attain them, and come as rain upon the
earth to him who strives in the pursuit We
are taught to toll by the great ocean that
hcaves and tosses its mighty waves to the
clouds, by the mountain that pours forth its
volcanic free, BY the dashing, tumbling cat
eract, by the budding blossom and the RI.
pening fruit. Tho command that gave the
ground thorns and thistles, and man its cul-
tivator, in the sweat Of his face, il . bless
| ing, because without it he would be irsiRni-
| fcant and miserable. It u . beautiful pro.
vision of Providence that our chosen pleas
ures here are consecrated by the efforts that
yield them. The fountains Of human en-
joyment are opened only BY the hand Of in
dustry, and when opened, they stream forth
| to gladden. the heart and make earth nee.
ond Eden.
What honest vocation can be named
that does not contribute in . greater or
less degree to the enjoyment Of mans It
may be humble indeed; it may b the rill
1 that ffickles from the mountain side, but
| it diffuses fertility through the valley and
mingles its drops at last with the ocean.
Les US then cherish . just and exalted
idea Of tine value and dignity of labor, and
l strive 70 make this opinion known and
| felt in our works and il the earnest Of
our actions. To It wo owe The most splen-
spectacle, the sun beholds in his course .
land Of cultivated and and fertile hslds--
an ocean white With canvass, The annual
sight Of golden harvests, carrying plenty
alike to the palace and the cottage, tho
fortzesses that guard our COASTS, the ships
that have horne our 6ag to evGy elimo,
and carried The thundsr of Cur eannon
triumphant over the WaHofs. TO Il " owe
the railways and canals, the busy hum q
the loon and the spindle, the ringing Of
the anvil and the hsmmer, elegant speci-
/ mems q architectural beauty opQoninG cur