The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-11-30


DAY, NOVMlBRR 80. lSl
wait The time vhsn he slroitasse Ne IsaAsrs ana ~
power Of their NesAsra fssnds vsad tprn ne taSIss
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cpls Alas We hstis knew what was n saers fsr us
and turned away Win inossdulity, aad, ane WI
ont . e ne cloud. no bigger han .sss hss sSss
was 70 swell isto fearful storm and break with fury
ran AxnuoAs rsors u.voEs mn wan
Before the war than eight millions Of our people
were bringing out their powers and dispositions IN Va
remaining ven mSns s Who der. depended on ths@
every day. the world carried forward by their work.
ing hand The nation was becoming rich 70 an enor-
NOUS extent and In the years from 1850 70 1850 the cash
value q terms SeSss o cultivation had risen Ia aro@
in ten years. The amount Of capital invested in
farm implements and machinery in 1850
years. than 90 per cent while in the same time
our population increased only At the rate OF per
thought a. well a. labor TO bear upon the production OF
mpisnents in 1850 amounted % si eco an increase
Western States an increase Of s26 500 per cent
THE FREE STATES AND TIE fRIunrss or rnEiR SKILL
learning to put mind into material impsmenss and our
brass wood leather and STONE we're made servants q
thought nor %menss %sonsnc.i force stood ready
wal, and ploughs, reapers. mowers lathes, en-
gines seemed 70 rush like living creatures 70 arms
army, made our bridges and roads, produced swords
muskets and cannon Of unprecedented excellence aud
s
tell In the trumphs Of our flag upon the sea- 30 God
gave US not the spirit Of fear but Of power and mind
great work Of defending the life Of the nation Those
arts had mot made braggars OF people, after the
manner OF who despsed echancs and boosted
Of being masters and owners Of men Ent our giant
sevors stood by US in time Of need while their mincns
deserted them TO rush to freedom The American mind
in mechanism did great deal 70 give the victory,
and Franklin Fulton Ericsson and their peers but
Of the intellect Of the nation and It's great
Our people were perhaps as busy In 1850 % SINCE and
Of
what hey were about But since their labor has taken
different turn and breashsd different spirit They
and awake % every opportunity Of lettering their for.
tunes under the wsghiy thought Of the equal oppor
tunity that 30 powerful In rousng the faculties and
bringing all the energies into play.
THE Six YEARS SCHOOLING
could not but tell upon tho American mind, and make
US IN some respects new people II has acted very
much upon MS in the higher plans y has brought
affections 70 bear upon our patriotism, and We never
knew now mucn We COOl0 love our C0unUy I'LL u W86
endangered; and mot ono sheep alone but the whole
flock seemed DO being among the deep valleys
or dark mountans Our affections have not only chung
70 the country and nag with . true patriotism but
through thousand ties Of sympathy and love for our
ASSOCIATION with our defenders The lens OF love
try reflected from the thousands and millions Of her
champions Cannot tho action Of great armies upon
the national mind in this one respect affect the
whole nation both land and population IN the light OF
their intense and personal afhnitiss Every valley.
Of how kindred and family, and the living and the
dead bind all anew TO our m0therand Our affections
With na s and e Ss s
and title deeds OF own children 80 we have all
and We Know i more sSd better By fsr rom ia. sis
years schooling than from our whole lifetime before
TIE POWER or QUIZ ARNEA t.ts -
Think Of the power Of ARMIES, alike BY their suffer-
ipgs and vsores their absence and return their lives
and deaths, 70 bring M nature and s history and pros
the aggregate, which, reduced 70 the three years
standard. numbered 2,l2o,o41 Mako all duo allow
millions Of mustered into SERVICE and OF those
carrying many fond hearts With them TO the war; We
dreamed or
UNIVERSAL LIBERTY,
and Of humanity that saw Gods image In every man,
and parties 70 system that treated some four
s S sna
lamened the great gulf between them and our popular
leaders We believed in the supreme worth Of the SOUL
y and
Calhoun, Pierce and Buchanan, who taught that things
redemption All this changed entvely and mainly by
the act Of the enemy Our ideal thinking now 10 In the
line With our %ansss destiny and ~ the D , o.
constitution Of the United Slater Liberty s not an alb
stracton but institution NOT an idea, but fact; not
saacs poets awgivers and apostles need expur
CATION II the North South, and read the great
views Of tho ago in the clear light Of to-day. Tho
oh Ola n n0tc thu uriucple
clear and in that principle tho nation finds rest and
takes not from mon, but from God, from the eternal
word that calls NJ to believe In Christ and In that mcrCy
that Offers TO oil the glorious liberty Of tho children Of
God
ABRAHAM uuooLs
national idea cmbodics the American mind We have
had no Washington, Hamilton or Madison to guide US
from the beginning or even 70 tell US what was likely
to happen We had 70 make our own way ofton In the
DARK and our most ausp,cous man was learner like
70 take his primer Of patriotism and 60 Gods school
70 learn what TO do and say He learned his lesson and
s.id II 70 the people and then died struck Sy foul
doubling patriot, Into the iriumphans martyr
the nation shall Be srs: and the American mind itself
shall b imperial and shall need chief 70 mperii
ss snS Sa
national mind-preschers merchants, historians, jour-
nasss posss writer's and philosophers; but Amsri
God and the mission Of Providence with ali DESIRE no
matter what President Secretary Of State popu-
lar preacher, or noted editor may say. The American
all confidence sGod hath mot given N the spirit OF
fear but OF love and Of power and Of sound mind
Our most chershed but leads 70 lean de-
vouty upon God and slain Prsudens calls us 70 wor
ship but Him, but our Father IN Heaven at his tomb
Our city paid his memory a. trbute whom the people
wept his CONN, and poet and historian when no
delivered his ode tho downfall Of slavery, said the
word the event. and that word the voice Of
the American mind and was true 10 the FORE
holdings Of British torysm and the croaknRs Of Papal
observance Il cheered with the conviction that
national life ID now opening into the higher illumination
OF literature and primal ideas are now lighting on
TO daily work; that old inductve prudence 10
alyng itself with deductive wisdom, and who have
been learning TO 90 from facts TO principles have now
learned 20 from principles facts that popular
opinion, that before great but somewhat nebulous
has settled and clarified ITSELF hardened into globe
famed into . star Dr. Osgood here spoke at great
length The change Of the opinions Of the people within
tho last SIX years and the light that had been thrown
them during that period and spoke In eloquent terms Of