, 1869-07-09

tnrn Of the arch feud to bis native State, was
| enough to make ones hair stand on end, and to
| annarentlv establish, upon sure foundation,
| the now disputed doctrine OF "total depFapity."
The sneaker drew q lively analogy between the
| esrIv lives of Nero, Robespiere and Arnold, and
claimed that the early career of Arnc4d, bis
record .at Ticouderago, Quebec and Saratoga
his glory and his heroic deeds belonged to Amer
lea. and a record of which Washington was,
and every American should, be proud; bis ca
-eer after be became Military Governor of Phil,
adelphia and opened negotiations to betray bis
country, belongs to Britain, and she is justly en-
titled to all the glory she can reap therefrom."
After depicting the formation of the Govern
meut, the speaker drew picture of the poverty
of the Colonies, and the rude implements of bus
bandry and facilities for manufacture, which
constituted their "stock of trade" to recuperate
and pay the national debt of $40, 900, 600, con-
tracted during the war, and contrasted the rude
| fabrications and productions OF that day with
the present. at then took three thousand girls
and matrons as long to make the same quantity
of yarn and cloth, as is now made by four hands
iu the same time with mule>spinnerS and
power Iooms' number of other improve.
ments of the day were referred to, aud their ben
efits on agriculture, the arts and sciences COM
meuted upon. In relation 10 the Improvements
in transportation, the speaker said "There was
| not then single mile of railroad. All the land
travel had to be done by the slow and laborious
use of clumsy wagons, drawn on bad roads, by
poor quality of horses and cattle. There was
not steamboat upon all our waters. All
| freigatng upon those streams was done in harg-
| es and fat boats that loated down with the cur
| rent and we're propelled up by physical force
need nottell you they had no telegraph 10 trans.
nit the current news with the rapidity of thought,
nor had they many newspapers, and what few
they had commanded such exorbitant rates of
= al.k k,,N ID IN Fnl
them In fact take it, although history is silent
upon that point, that the surest and perhaps the
most rapid vehicle of news that our forefathers
possessed, were the ladies OF that day, who, in
visiting sroEnd, circulated freely all the news OF
each neigh borhood and suppose they followed
the rules which govern tue ladies OF the present
day and carefully excluded all scandal prac.
tice it we're we'll if the newspapers would imi>
tate Now we have, upon every river, sea, and
| ocean, magnificent steamers to carry our produce
to all the markets of the world. The Eastern
States are suhdiyided into ianumerable lines OF
railroad, bringing a market almost to every
door. And but recently, that wonder and glory
of the nineieenta century, the Pacific Railroad,
| has brought those States 10 close connexion with
us. The completion OF this road makes our
railroads foot up in round numbers about Al, 600
miles; thus binding every section together by
bands more lasting than any mere paper treaty
communication with our brethren of the East
and South, and will give them portion Of our
population who have amassed fortunes here and
desire to spend them in the lap of luxury, and
we will receive in return thousands of earnest
workers, who come here to assist as 10 develop
ing our vast resources, and the mutual exchange
of population thus constantly effected will make
US from Maine to California, homogeneous
people. In connexion with and preceding the
| i6c Raj We has q tell
Meeting with others, extending TO all parts Of
the civilized world. So that Tomorrow you can
| send dispatch tn the Russian Empire in three
hours, by way of New York, London, Paris aud
Bremen, to ConstantnOple, which, 10 the days OF
steam, would require about ninety days by post,
and would have taken in '76, about one year.
| All these Improvements, with the rapid strides
made 10 education, the intelligence and indus>
try of the men, the beauty and high culture of
the women, must secure to US the palm to be
awarded the greatest nation on the face of the
earth. The extrayagance of the times, however,
Of our Government and study their simple re.
publican style of living, and while it is not nec-
essary that We impose upon ourselves their endurr
auce of hardship, it would be well if we would,
to great extent, initiate their frugal examples.
Let US educate the people up to higher stand
ard Of morality let US instil into the minds of
the rising generation more pure and holy pat.
|
es let our public servants know that we require
Of them some more substantial indications Of
their love of country than mere pleas of devotion
while they are sucking the lfes blood out Of
the main artery of the nation-its treasury. Let
us resolve that the dangerous doctrine of impeS
rialism, now boldly and and openly advocated in
the Eastern States, shall never prevail on this
continent.
ave have recently passed through great war
| ~ a
tain, by force of arms the pernicous doctrine
that State has right to secede. 10 that sauS
culinary struggle more than half a million of
our fathers, sons and brothers, 10 both sections,
were either killed or MANNED for life. The North
has lost nearly quarter of million in killed,
died from wounds, and other causes. The teie
graph tells us that the patriotic men and women
Of The East are gathering around our nations
dead TO srew their graves with flowers. Thank
God, the absence of the scourge of war upon this
coast has deprived US of that privilege. But If
we cannot suew their graves with flowers, can
| We not tender to their memories an offering that
will be as grateful in the sight OF Heaven as
| though we strewed the sod, beneath whose cold
covering they repose, With hoNersE These how~
ers are beautiful but their beauty fades with
the torrid breeze Of single night-to morrow's 5
sun will fnd them blasted, withered, Ike the fond
hopes of youth. They are too peris liable TO
| be embematic Of our reverence for our noble
dead. Let us not forget that we owe to them a
higher duty than SIMPLY to strew their graves
with flowers; let US ever remember that we will
best manifest our love to our lost dead by caring
for their widows and orphans, and that we
owe to posterity the transmission of the precious
boon of Constitutional liberty, for which these
noble men sacrificed their lives, aud that we can
best perpetuate and honor their memory by
transmitting, uuimpaired, to their posterity the
heritage of liberty and Union for which they
died. Then here to-day, on this ground hal.
lowed by our demonstrations, let US renew our
devotion TO that Union which is the bulwark of
American liberty. Let Us vow that all these
noble men shall not have died 10 vain. That
we will hurl every man, high or low; from place
aud power that shall interpose an obstacle to
the full enjoyment of the fruits of victory for
which those men so nobly fought and died, the
complete restoration of the American Union,
and the tansmition of that Union to their aud
our posterty, so that when we Of this genera.
tion gathered to our fathers, our children
will bless US, as we now bless and revere those
who transmitted that Union to us. Then, rest
from your labors, ye noble dead your heroic
/ deeds will live until the great Creator of the