Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-07-08

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look into the room where, uinety-one years
ago, American Independence was born; then
with reyerent step walking amid the tangled
briars and little mounds about that single
chimney, which tells where jamestown was,
and where Smith and his adventurous follow
ers laid the foundation of the Old Dominion,
and then going on till the cotton fields meet
his view, their bolls bursting with snowy
balls. and. the sugar cane, with its garnered
sweets, is seen; these memories Of the past,
these marks OF present prosperity and indi-
cations Of future national wealth and power
are all his own, to feel, to share aud to exult
in. He can say, "This is my own, my ma.
tive, or adopted, land" Or, il he pass down
our Western coast from the home Of the seal,
the walrus and the EsQuimaux, to that sunny
land Of southern California, where grows the
vine, the olive, the orange and the ig; or
through the center Of our territory down the
t~ortuous Missouri, or the beautiful Ohio,
then along the turbid, stream Of the Father
OF Waters to the Gulf, he is all the time
amid the members Of the household Of a
common mother; in all his wanderings he
each night rests beneath the roof tree OF his
home, and each day moves under the protec-
ton Of his country's laws, his country's dag.
And unlike other empires Of vast extent, our
country is not composed Of colonial depend.
encies upon a central Government, separated
BY thousands Of miles from the sovereign
authority, and composed Of nations among
whom there is no bond Of union and no feel
ing Of sympathy. Here in our mountain
home, 80 far from what may be considered
the heart Of the nation, our blood Is not more
cold, nor does it flow more sluggishly in our
veins than does that Of those who have not
-onl...l - f.. frNr, tyhara tho paftNnfa life
began. To-day, then, in fancy standing upon
the Hottest pinnacle Of the Rocky Mountains
and looking toward the rising sun as with
vision cleared, you see the vast expanse Of
land beneath and before you, and then fol.
lowing the star Of empire in its western
course, you gaze upon the vast plain, broken
BY rugged mountain ridges, where lie hid
the silver and the gold, think Of the glory OF
q country whose domain is so vast!
A second. source Of our country's glory is
found in the
VARIETY AND vAsTNEss OF It's ~soCkc
God, in his preparation OF our land
for the future occupancy OF man, seems
to have strewn il with lavish hand with what
ever could contribute TO the happiness, pro-
mote the comfort or enhance the glory Of n
nation. Embracing as il does almost every
variety OF soil and climate, its natural pro-
ductions would be expected to comprise al
most everything Of value, which the fruitful
earth returns to him who plants, and prunes,
and gathers, and it is 30 and in connection
with and in addition to the produce Of our
fields, how boundless other resources and
means OF power and glory!
In the far north is the nations lum-
ber-yard, where centuries ago the pine
and the fir tree cones were scattered and
acorns planted, which now, made into
ships, bear the star-spangled banner upon
| every sea and transport the produce OF
| American soil and American skill to every
| land; or from which are constructed the
abodes Of comfort, wealth and taste. In
that bleak New England, which some think
never would have been settled, had the Pill
| grim Fathers landed a little further down the
coast, in which case the glory Of Nam
tucket and Cape Cod would have been
lost to the world-there are our country's
| factories. The Yankee saw what was
needed, and what was going to be needed,
| and he made il, and then he made the thing
that made it. Thence comes, l suppose, nine
ten,hs of the goods and articles Of American
manufacture, used anywhere within our land,
use without needing, which cannot be made
4 10 COme lEOUu 1auhee iuBSuoN.b PeSIShSS ehH
industry. Thence CONT pins and pistols,
watches and wagons, clocks and cotton goods,
matches and muskets, shovels and sewing
machines.
In the early part Of the war, / saw
a button, taken from the coat Of a Vir.
GINA soldier. 1t had upon the upper face
the arms Of the Old Dominion, the knigh,
was there with sword drawn, and foot upon
the neck Of his PROSTATE foe, and the motto,
=. Sic semper t~yrdnniS," all in proper order,
| ran round the brass; but turning It over, ]
read, Waterbury, Conn. In Pennsylvania, and
| running far west aud south beneath US, is thr
| Nations coal field, and there too are our mines
| Of iron, aud our wells Of petroleum exhaust.
less are they, enough to warm and tighten Us
all, and drive our machinery, and give Us
rails 10 bind the extremities Of our country
together and supply our foundries, and arm
our iron clads, and cast our twenty inch can
non for nl time TO come. Still further
south are our rice fields, and our sugar plan.
,atious, large enough for all our wants and
more, and III the great Basin Of the Missis
sippi. we can grow corn enough TO feed the
world, 10 give every man, woman and child Il
kettle Of mush and a hoe cake every day.
And then following the trail Of the pioneer
across the Rocky mountains, here laid ava,
for ages, slumbering in silence and in dark.
ness, seen but BY the eye Of God, discovered
and brought out and sent abroad, just when
most needed, on our couutry's silver and gold
deposits, rich and extensive beyond magma.
tons po wer to picture, or fancy's penciloi
bright colors to paint, n means Of National
greatness and glory, inestimable il right,
used. God grant that it bring not enervating
luxury and ~ruinous sloth. And in this elm,
upon this Western coast, favored in natural
gifts, in my judgment, over every other upon
which the sun shines, how varied our pro.
auctions! Not only do we fill the CONNER
\ cial veins Of the world with a steady stream
Of new blood, drawn fresh from the arteries
OF old mother earth, and thus give new life
and health to trade Of every kind, and en-.
able finance, business, and commerce TO keep
up with the advancement Of the age; but al
ready is California -four quoted in New York,
md California wine has made its way to
Germany and France! So vast is the
scale on which things grow out here, that,
when we tell a Yankee Iumberman OF a tree
from which 5000 cords OF wood can be cut,
making a solid pile, cord length and height,
stretching nearly eight miles in distance land
il our Nevada woodmen should be allowed To
cut and pile it, there is no telling where ii
wouldn't reach) he turns away and says your
stories are rs big as your trees! Ii we tell
our German friend from Pennsylvania Of a
cabbage, down in Los Angeles, growing right
along all the time, from which with only the
trouble Of driving a cart under, he can cut a
barrel Of sour krout every year, he uses an
expletive which I don't understand and can't
translate; and more credulous than his down
east fellow citizen, signs for such 4 land /;
though perhaps he asks II no springs have
yet been discoyeredin California which yield
Lager beer!
My countrymen, as we think Of the vast,
varied, endless resources Of this country
Of ours, well may we glory that to US
it has come, that we should be heirs Of so
glorious an inheritance. We read in boyish
days Of Aladdin's lamp, and longed for such
an one, whose fortunate possessor had but to
rub il and a genius came and carried out his
masters commands, however ~fanciful or SEEM
ingly impossible Of execution they were.
We Americans have under our control genii
far more potent. We rub our lamp, exert
ourselves a little, energy and enterprise, and
industry and perseverance rise up around US.
We say: Tellm men acrosst the ocean that here
they may find a home, that unfettered by
close distinctions and hampered by no preju.
dice Of race, or creed, or calling, they may
gain free learning, enter any avenue to
wealth or honor, be respected or despised for
what they are, not fer what their fathers
were, be free men; and the toiling millions
from the far East bid adieu to the homes OF