The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-22

ganised in manner to find its greatest salts
factions in peace. We are told of the six
thousand men which now compose all the
electives of the United States. don't think
that we are yet sufficiently advanced towards
the polar star of the future to be con-
tented with that number: but we have on
the old continent other examples, more
In relation with our social state.
which we are able, / do not say to copy,
but rather to initiate with originality. In the
best part of Europe the soldier is less severed
than with us from the life of the family It
is IN cultivating the soil, it is in dwelling by
the hearth, that he learns the better to love
and defend them Pro aTis CT tocis. But
why look elsewhere than at home? Have we
forgotten the first wars of our republic, and
those wholesale drafts to save the country,
and those armies of peasants without train
ing, even without shoes and without bread,
who went away, covering the frontier with n
rocky girdle, to conceal from the foreigner
the shames within--the scaffold and the satur-
nplia--and to repel the old armies of Europe
coalesced against us?
H. u--INTERTsTs.
/ have now a word to say of interests
Earthly interests are great things. They are
full OF idsas and of virtues: and, after all
since God has placed us on earth--it Is not for
The purpose of dreaming of Heaven either
but for the purpose of deserving tit is by
the conquest of the earth that man marches to
the conquest of Heaven. The sacred Bool,
tells us that God in His wisdom has made man
to establish this world in Justice aud truth
| These are words which we cannot too well
mediate or apply Gentlemen and ladies'
the justice of man to the earth is agriculture
industry. and commerce. Agriculture holds
the first place. This earth. wrapped in
lethargic slumber, is wakened by the vigorous
a'm OF the laborer; she drinks the sweat of the
man. she is intoxicated with that bitter and
holy liquor, and taking a disgust for her
native barbarism She bends herself
active and Joyous to the culture which
transforms and fertilizes her. Behold
the earth, established in justice and
truth, become the nurse of multitudes, open
ing her large breasts to the men Of all ma
tons, and pouring upon them in great floods
that physical life without which the moral
life itself would speedily be drained. The
peasant has purchased these riches, which,
with just pride, he hands over to the work
man of our manufactures, saying to him,
Brother, finish my work, and commence
thine pursue the great labor prescribed to
humanity by God and the industrial work
man takes the fruit of agriculture. He calls
from everywhere the concealed or rebellious
forces of nature. He conquers that which is
rebellious, he elicits that which is concealed,
and he creates in his turn those other mar
vels which are the last work of man and of
matter in the sphere of the useful
as the arts are their last work in the
sphere of the beautiful. And when the
peasant and the mechanic have done their
work, then commerce opens her broad wings.
spreads her sails to the breeze, her engines
boil and roar. her vessels furrow the seas her
chariots of fire traverse the earth: the arteries
of the peoples open themselves on every
hand, in order that the blood of the same
l -, L. e IL
and the same material products, may flow
throughout all humanity; and the word of st.
Paul is accomplished, as it was before Chris
tianity the supreme inspirer of those great
things, that the Gentiles should be fellow
heirs of the same body and partallers of His
! promise. And now, gentlemen and ladies,
what is there without Christianity. in the
| commencement and at the end of all these
| things, if not peace Peace, as prin-
ciple and result: always and everywhere
Unhappy, thrice unhappy the clarion is
sound for the armies. All the laborers
of the fields, all the ships are turned appa-
rently from their true destiny; for the sails
of the ships of commerce fill themselves
sadly, and, far on the high seas as on the
earth, in place of the joyous noise of labor,
one no longer hears but the flightful shocks
of destruction. Let us drive away these
odious pictures, and rest ourselves an instant
in view of the two spectacles of the hour in
which we speak. You are Christian; so am
| |; and l am priest and monk; but neither
in my Christianity, nor in this glorious garb
of the monastic life, nor in those relations of
the cloister and the temple, have wished, or
have been able to discharge my mind of
interest in the things of earth. SO, gentle
men and ladies, it is with true passion that, in
your name, salute these new tIiumphs of ge-
MUS and of human toll. turn myself towards
the East, whence comes every morning the
sun, whence came to us the light of the
Word, and at that point which formerly sepa.
rated Europe from Asia | see now no longer
a barrier, but sublime point of union. II
is the administration of the prophet of the
Word: but ii is the work of France. 1t is my
France which has done that; it is she which
has conceived this project, and which has
maintained it against the warnings which are
addressed to genius as to virtue; it is she
which has invented those prodigious machines
and which has made the rocks to skip like
lambs in the Psalm; and which has made tC
run and shine under the sun Of the desert the
waters of that canal which joins two worlds.
look now to the West This time it il
the water which divides. 1t is the grea
Atlantic Ocean between America and us
But do you see from the decks of the glorious
leviathan, from the roadstead Of Brest (for il
is again Franco, do you see that immens
cable falling with the noise OF thunder, will
the Tapidity of lightning; 1t bmies itself il
the depth, driving away in its passage tn
monsters Of the abysms, and, Drawing TIA
], tempests it stretches itself from Europe t.
, America to carry, not the messages of wal
but those of peace, and t1 realize the unio
of the three nations which form th
aristocracy of the world, and which are able
/ the day that they shall wish it, to make peac