The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-01-31
Written for the JOurnal.l 80.
CHANCES AT THE FUTURE OF
THE UNITED STATES,

Our country forms subject OF vast mag
nitude for our study and investigation, and
hardly less in magnitude than in importance.
It's natural advantages and resources are on
a scale of great signifance and grandeur,
well calculated to inspire us with the wisdom
and bene6cence of the great Creator. When
one looks over our extensive plains and val
leys and considers their fertility, he thinks
our country is mainly an agricultural one;
but further investigation will show it not
excessively So Admitting to be true, as
some of the best writer's of the day claim,
that the agricultural resources Of tie United
States are equal to the needs of one half the
present population of the globe, it does not
follow that it is in excess of our other re-
sources. Look at our mines of coal not yet
even explored; then our iron is measured to
US in mountains; our copper and lead fully
in proportion; salt, petroleum, gypsum, and
the profusion of minerals in less demand;
then the gold and silver who can compute
it? Then our forests calling for their thou
of mechanics of all kinds required; then the
legions to man our factories; then our COM
mercial wants and the wants of our foreign
and inland carrying.trade with her shi ps and
cars and telegraphs, and the ten thousand
smaller details that follow in their train.
When men and money shall be employed
sufficient to fully develope the vast resources,
together with the colossal Improvements
they will demand, the farmer need not feel
uneasy about market for his products.
Our Pacific Railroad is well under way;
the Ship Canal from Hudsons River to the
Lakes, with depth and breath to swim ship
Of a thousand tons, is only question of time;
and when its ships arrive at Superior City
they will demand the gates of the Rocky
Mountains to open and let then pass into
Puget's Sound to anchor. And you, ye
grand old peaks that lift your colossal forms
high up into the clouds and defy the blasts
of eternal snow, know ye not that the en-
gines of the inevitable Yankee are thunder
ing at your base, and ere long you must top
pie and fall? Will it not be said of you as
to the wicked rich men of old: "Your gold
and silver is cankered; and the rust of them
shall be witness against you, and shall eat
your flesh Rs it we're fire. Ye have heaped
treasures together for the last days.
Ocean ships and steamers must also pass
up the Rio Grande and down the Colorado,
across the isthmus of Tehauntepec, st. Juan,
and Panama; while corresponding lines of
Rail Road rivalry will make the valleys
ring. Reader, call this not bombast or
bragadocia; it will all be realized and much
more if Right and Justice be Incorporated
Into our constitutions and laws and into the
hearts Of the people. But if the opposite |
prevail our sun must go down at noon. In |
view of what the present imperfect glances |
show of what our country can be, ought to |
be, and should be in the future, do not astute |
minds standing up and battling against the |
rights Of man make them look more like |
agents from the Internal regions than men !
born in the light of the nineteenth century? |
Does mind know age, color, sex or condition? |
Is it not the power, force and vigor of the
American mind that has distinguishedus as |
people more than all else? Does the ocean |
refuse one drop of waterf and can our coun-
try afford 10 lose one iota of mind? If we |
can put one atom'of light into the soul and |
love into the heart of the humblest of our |
people shall we not in Heavens name do |
itT o, how narrow contracted, selfish, |
mean, low, detestsble snd wicked does it |
look, to see editors, speakers and Congress-
men deny TO any the smallest as well as the |
greatest privileges God has given to mani
When the school boy knows that the pill |
lars Of free government are virtue and iu-
telligence, shall We be So. mad as to shut |
our eyes 10 them. "But in what does your |
virtue consist" In that kind of orthodoxy |
enunciated by John Wesley and Jonathan
Edwards. "And of what your intelligencep"
In the New England school house. Three
hundred thousand superior men in Ohio but |
few weeks since voted to deprive five
thousand inferior men Of the privilege the
former consider the greatest political privi-
lege they erjoy, and beat them. What |
victory! Sing its. paens ye courageous
host; and glory in your triumph. ''But
that is dead ISSUE Never. While |
Bunker Hill, New Orleans and Gettysburg |
are remembered. Dead issuei As much |
the light and heat of the sun dead issue.
January, 1868. s,se WI. G.