Maryville Republican. [volume] (Maryville, Tenn.) 1867-187?, 1867-11-02
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A GOOD COUNTRY TO BE BORN IN.

The following extract is from an
> address delivered before the Agricul
| tural Society at Fayetteville, VT, by
/ Hon. Henry Clark:
The art Of printing with the use OF
stereotype plates, cylinder and bower
presses, lithographing, mezzotirt, anil
other forms of engraving, has been
brought on this continent to its high
est perfection. 1t is truly marvellous
! with what dispatch, cheapness and
beauty of execution printing Is now
done. The New York dailies, as tho
. Times, Herald and Tribune, are prinl
ted at the rate Of 10000 ,por hour,
and sold TO dealers at the small price
of 81 90 per hundred, while IN En,N
Ind the London Times is worth s5A-
90. In lithographing such progress
has been mede that Asnerjcan lieno-
rlals 11 tonSl or s,.ssriI9r i5 to the I ,naon
~-,s. :. ,Ang snorf aass.s 's - =, :. w.:
tint. are retaiIed sat.a small pr &C.
The total number Of periodicals and
papers published in the United States
is 4,051, with a circulation Of o4S,.
651, 54S copies. From official sources
we learn that the useful inventions for
which patents have been issued the
past year gre 4,4lS; that the schools
and colleges of the country number
about $4,000, employing at least l5O,-
600 teachers, while the number ofper-
sons and children taught is stated in
round numbers at 100000, while il
possible, to place education, the pal
ladium of our free institutions, upon
a permanent basis. Congress has re
Gently appropriated to the different
States 50,000,000 acres of land with
which to erect in each, colleges for
the promotion of agriculture and me
chanical arts. Indeed in the number
and efficiency of its agencies for the
general diffusion acknowledge, a high
cultivation and developement of mind,
the advancement and perfection OF
| literature, and science, and the moral
ana social elevation ofman, our coun-
try has no rival. In such a nation
titled orders would be valueless. Its
titles in order to rank and prefcrment
are not of blood and lineage, but ablll-
ty, genius and virtue, and these come
often from the plain walks of life
In the mighty struggle through which
tho nation has just passed, the two
sSsf.-S -r.l.j4s, -s- l----l La. fI,..
people, filling their high and awfully
responsible positions nobly and glori-
ously. Abraham Lincoln, the martyr
hero, and Ulysses s. Grant, tho great
est living general both came from the
plain ranks of the people. Under the
inspiration Of our institutions the
bright-eycd boy fthc cottage, is more
likely to make the Newton, Franklin,
or Washington Of his age than the
child ofopulence, writing his name
higher on the pyramid Of the worlds
progress. Six years ago, President
Lincoln, on the 4th day of July, in
his message to Congress in extraordi-
nary session, uttered the following
sublime truths. In referring to the
character Of the men who had volun
teered, and were ready to die for the
Union, he said stI'here are many
single regiments whose members, one
and another, possess full practical
knowledge of all the arts, sciences,
professions, and whatever else, whcth
er useful or elegant, that is known in
the whole world; and there is scarcely
one from which there could not be Sc
lected a President, Cabinet, or Con
gress, and perhaps court, abundantly
competent to administer the Govern
ment itself" To be born in such
land and under institutions that thus
elevate its people, is far richer inher-
itance than the living of fthe wealthiest
lord in England. .f..