The weekly Butte record., 1866-04-28

| timberless. The best mode of repenishing our
wasted timber lAuds shoald be discovered and
put into execution. There can be no doubt
think, as to the possibility of making prairies
of the West wave with fields If properly sown
and cultivated.
| The rearing and improvement of domestic
animals Is a noble employment. and advanta-
geous-I might say indispensable-to national
prosperity, and should ever be an object of
public recognition. 1t viii be sufficient to
state, 10 order TO see the value of this branch
of the farming interest of the country, that
there was. in 1860, in the United States, $3.50
600 in round numbers of horses, or, including
mules, over 100000 of neat cattle, over
25,500,000; of sheep, over 22000,00O; of
swine, over 33,50O.000, amounting, in value,
to the enormous sum of over 81 100000 600,
or more than one third Of the present national
debt
The grain growing interest is enormous,
amounting, in 1860, to graDd total of l,221-
468, ,127 bushels of wheat, rye, corr, oats and
barley. These items alone would, in all prob
ability, be sufficient, if, reduced to dollars, to
pay another third Of the national debt, and
this. too. ia everrecurring streams, to be re.
peated as often as the earth shall repeat its
annual circuit around its central sun.
luust, W Ut suCCtSSluI IOr all
time, be 10 the hands of free and intelligent
labor. There must be no mudsllls, because
agriculture will not thrive in the mud and
yet the mud contains within itself all the ee.
ments of fertility. Drain it, cultivate it. and
bring forth its latent powers, and the reward
will be fruits, flowers. and golden grain to
gladden. the heart and supply the wants of the
laborer. And this illustration may be not in
applicable to the laboring classes whom slav-
cry, with naughty pride, denominated as "the
mudsis of society,"" Cultivate these classes,
and train them in the way TO intelligence, use
fulness pnd honor, and the choicest fruits of
the human intellect and the most gifted minds
may crown the labors Of the nation. From
these classes may spring Presidents, statesmen,
poets, orators and loyal heroes to perpetuate
the blessings and the glores OF this nation in
peace, "for peace bath her victories no less re-
nowned than war" and defend the emblem of
our national freedom against all enemies from
within or from without. .
And l embrace this occasion to saw. Mr.. |
Speaker, that when all citizens shall have an |
equal opportunity to become intelligent and |
understand the real issues that have drenched |
this nation in blood. and labor shall be duly |
respected, there will be no more traitors within |
the length ard breadth of this then glorious
ana happy county,
Ever since the rebellion began no man has |
felt more desirous than myself to see every
vestige of slavery swept lr"m the land The |
war was the result OF injustice To all unlor,u-
nate and downtrndden people. l have be-
lieved, and stil believe, that our only safety |
for the future is to plant ourselves on tie en-
during rock of equal and exact jusiice-by
that mean equal protection and civil rights
Lott fhn ht,h tkA L., h..
the poor. Every line of distinction is purely |
arbitrary and despotic in principle and in tend
ency. and wholly Inconsistent with the funda-
mental principles of democratic republican
government. To me it seems that whatever
may be denied the States recently in rebellion,
they should not be denied the means of inteIli
gence. Give them that with bounteous
band, and surround them with flood of light
to hight their pathway to allegiance and good
government. now yield the floor to the gen
tlemen from Iowa Mr.. GrinnelD.