The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-03-24
:. The Future OF our Country
An Eloquent Lecture on the subject hy Bishop
Simpson-What We are Destined to Become
as Nation.
From the Detroit Tribune

Et0GUPnl
SImpson-What We are Destined TO Become
as Nation.
From the Detroit Tribune
last evening, before an audience which
we'll nigh filled the Opera House to it:
utmost capacity, bishop Simpson deliver
ed one Of the finest and most eloquent
lectures that has been given here during
the season, on" The Future of our Coun-
try for the benefit of the Simpson NJ
E. Church. What shall be the future OF
our country? is, he said, a question
thought of by all patriotic minds, and it
is not confined to our land, for recent
events have given it wider scope and
we hear inquiries from all nations as to
what is the destiny of the United States
The lecturer spoke of the great desire OF
the human mind to take look into 1utu
rity and find out what destiny awaits US
as individuals, and of the still greater de-
sire to look to the destiny of our nation
The question arises: Have we any means
of knowing what our future shall be.
There is in the minds Of many, con-
viction that God must give us glorlons
future. Our Fourth of Jnly speeches
and debates show that every man and
boy is imbued with highest patriotic i'm
pulses, and an ardent wish for high and
glorious detiny for our country. This
sentiment is found in no other nation so
strong as inthis. 9ss = %
Bishop Simpson spoke of immigration
t. his country, and of the vast amount
OF unoccupied lands in Europe and Asia,
the black forests Of Germany along the
banks of the Danube, and in Asia Minor
yet no one thinks Of emigrating there.
But there is constant migration to this
country from the countries of Europe
and ven China. God has given us the
best location on the earth for the build
ing up of great nation. 1t is in a belt
OF the earth most favorable for It's growth
and FOR the attainment of great power
No great nation he said, has ever existed
south Of the Equator, or south OF 20 de-
grees If latitude, nor north Of 50 degrees
ami he cited many powerful nations of
ancient times assproof Of this assertion.
The United States lies between these
two limits, forminga belt of%thTty de
grecs in width and is belt of power
within this there. lisa vast earnounts of
territory, and if we consider the great
power attained byancient Egypt Phoene-
Cha and Greece whose territory was en-
braced in less than 100smiles square, and
the nations of modern Europe, we may
form some idea of The great power which
we may become as nation upon our
broad territory. If we.suppose the pop
ulation Of the world to be 1000, 100000
people, We have sufficient territory topro
vide every family. Of FIVE persons with
4, - Thx,
rer alluded to the early westward emigra-
tion from the table lands Of Asia Minor,
which continued for centuries to Europe
and the Baltic sea, and the elc~ating
character which this migratory move
mpnt had upon developing inventive
talent. and spreading literature, arts,
sciences and religion throughout the
world, and eventually extending to
America. @%A>f
God give to this race "a free land I'M
tr MINGLED by the Institutions of past ages.
Other countries of the Old World have
been coonized, but their old institutions
have still remained and triumphed. The
Indians of this country are giving way
to the spread Of the white race, and leave
their speech and thought behind in
names of rivers and lakes The resour-
ces of this country are immense. And
first, as regards agriculture, though less
than one third is thus occupied and not
third Of that properly titled, the value
OF all the products of the Northern States,
as shown by recent statistics, is $1,000
100000. The value of our personal
and real property is $3O,oo0,OOO,
600 We may z become man
ufacturing nation. We have wool, cot
ton, iron and coal Coal beds are found
In nearly every state and territory, and
those in Pennsylvania will swallow up
all OF the coal beds of England We
have iron enough for the manufacturing
interests of the world We have inven-
tive genius, fol. the Yankee is always
inventing something new, and our pat
tent Office in Washington shows that we
have more inventive ttlent than any other
race,in the world, and we are every where
known as an inventive nation. The lee
turer suggested that our great rivers will
furnish power for the carrying on Of i'm
meme manufacturing establishments In
commerce we may also accumulate wealth
and may draw to our nation the commerce
of the world He claimed that this coun
4ry was admirably situa9ed, geographic
ally, for commerce. and the day may come
when bills of credit vii go out from oul
country to the whole world. Mining is
another source of wealth,and he pictured
the vast wealth of mines locked up in the
mountains of the Sierra Neyadas and il
the territories of the West, from which
we have taken out 200,0o0,000, and
yet we have hardly scratched the ground
Biship Simpson gavea brief account O
an overland trip from the Pacific coast to
the States, and Of his brief visit witt
Brigham Young in Salt Lake City, who
boosted that Utah possessed the richest
mines of gold and silver of any TERRITORY