The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-22

abundant that IL was the cheapest thing they
could procure for fuel; and hundreds and thou
sands of bus shells were consumed, cheaper than
the stone-coal that they could get by digging in
Look at the produce of our land especially
timber. We have thirty species of oak alone,
and among them the i've oak, so celebrated
for building vessels
Now shall we speak of our manufactures 7
Why, we are Just in our infancy, ana YET IN many
regards we rival the Old World; and 1t Is said
that in Philadelphia you have manufactures
that can scarcely be found anywhere. We have
a bright and glorious domain.
Europe has fifty nine principalitles: not many
of them are large enough to furnish truck.
patch for Philadelphia. Now, in this blessed
and glorious domain, it has pleased God to give
us lie and being. What the future of America
is God only knows. We have enough, and more
than enough, of everything.
Why, you have coal and iron enough In Penn
sylvania to drive all the steam power OF the
world, and furnish the iron for the world Tor
thousands of years to come, and then we might
cross the Alleghenies, and spread out over the
Western prairies.
Nearly all that district of country is full of
coal. A man can dig enough in% his cellar to
furnish himself. Pennsylvania oil wells will
furnish enough oil to supply all the lamps in
the world. And when this gives out we are
there is one single mole-hll there, they call it
mountain-PIlot Knob-of solid iron. Spread
out at its base three hundred and twenty acres,
and making fair calculation, there are sixty
I'VE mllilOn lOnS OF TOH. ~ 10 OhiJ
mountain. Then you sweep away into the Terri
tories, where there are silver ana gold mines
innumerable.
all that gold TO be earnered up for nothing? all
those precious metals not for future use
In the design on the part of the Divine Being,
in many respects, there is analogy between this
country and the land of Israel. The more you
think of it, the more the analogy will grow.
They were brought from the oppressor's hand,
and taken to a soil prepared for them.
So were our fathers brought by the hand of
Providence from the land of oppression, from
across the ocean, to place provided for them.
They were twelve, and yet thirteen. We were
twelve, and yet thirteen! How strange the
analogy they were democratic in their GOV
tioD, and SO are We They have a written Con-
stitutiOn, so have we. We need not unfold the
analogy. You see the coincidence in this
you; but time advances SO rapidly that we must
hasten to a close tonight. Look at our magni.
fcent domain-the fertility OF its soil.
Why, we have soil enough in the valley of
the Mississippi to raise provender for all the
world. There is no limit in this regard. Our
soil is so luXuriant that we can raise corn
enough to feed all the population of the globe,
cotton enough to clothe them, and sugar
enough to sWeeten all the aliment that they
need. l believe that this country contains IN
itself sufficient, that If mildew and pestilence
were to rest upon the balance of the entire
world, the valley OF the Mississippi could pro-
= III,
Tor all the earth. And yet this continent was
Kept back by the Divine Being for thousands of
years 1t was held, as it were, under the shadow
of His will.
What the plans and purposes of Jehovah
were in reference TO the aborlgnes, 1t is not our
purpose TO inquire tonight; but at length in the
economy OF His Providence the hand on the 6ial
piate OF time pointed 10 her when the exclusion
" AUerica was to pass by, when civilized,
'nllgntened, evapgelized race were TO be led
nt9 @ IT by the hand of Divine Providence.
nh' So. .s yao tuuu wnen Columbus, clad
n scarlet, bearing in his right hand tt .he royal
banner OF Spain, sat in the pro OF his boat, and
,s it neared the shore, in the mighty joy of his
heart, he leaped out from the boat upon the
and, and kneeling down he kissed the ground,
and consecrated it 10 God planting the royal
banner of Spain! He took possession of the
new found land in the name OF Ferdinand and
Isabella.
Our Government, in the main, has been moving
onward, and rapidly, too, in the right direction.
II is true in the history OF our Government, as is
likely ever to be the case in all human govern
ments there is much that we could wish had
been otherwise, but yet, on the whole, we have
very little to complain Of. 1t is said that there
are spots, and sometimes great spots, to be seen
even on ihe disk of the sun. So there is much
in America that we could wish otherwise, but
yet, on the whole, the United States has been
moving forward in the right direction, and in
the proper channel.
Having felt, as our fathers. felt, the hand of
came to Americas wilderness to escape every
oppression, they wisely laid in the very CoDst-
tuition of our land a complete divorce between
the Church and State and God OF infinite mercy
grant that it may be eternal but yet, while they
lald this foundation for a thorough divorce be-
tween the Church and State, they intermingled
what ought to have been joined with all the
institutions OF our country. Some years ago, in
a Sunday School procession out in Ohio, there
was a banner borne by q little boy, on
which was painted a book, and out OF that
book was seen beautiful tree, its roots
going down, entwining itself among the
leaves. Brethren, that book was the Bible,
and that tree was liberty, and there Is no true
liberty that is not based upon the Bible. The
Bible is the foundation of all good laws, and if
America would only continue as she began, to
take the Bible in the one hand, and lay that as
the foundation, and then take civilization as the
trowel, and mercy in the other and go as she
has done to all the quarters of the world, this
Government of ours will stand forever q leader
f1ag-that flag, the Stars and Stripes, that was
first unfolded by Americas Washington, when
he took charge of the army at Cambridge, on
the list of January, l776, shall fly, fly as the
symbol OF our great Christians nationality until
the end of time
We want a change. We want selection of
right-hearted, sound-thnking Christian men, In
order 10 obey the injunction of the Bible,
which says:-''They shall choose out of the
men of the land able men, men of truth, fear
! ing God and hating covetousness; and they
| shall place them as rulers over the land.'
And now, INTO the hands of the young men
and women of America, is the destiny of this
| glorious republic to be committed.
One generation passeth away, and another
| generation cometh. We would say 10 YOU
| fathers, in reference to your children, rain
| them up IN the truth and admonition of the
| Lord. First, because the better the man the
peter the citizen. The more loyal TO his God
the more loyal 10 his country. Right beneath
we. tne Ofoss place the banner of your country
Torr bh' HIss' Then the country. Mothers nurse