The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-02-03

degre of excellence to which such art shall
have attained, and with which 1t will begin
b succeeding century.
Fourth Foreign nations might be invited
to participate in the celebration in such way
as should seem most fitting.
Fifth 1t is to be hoped and presumed that
by 1915 no portion OF the continent Of America
will be in colonial dependence upon any for
eign power. No better opportunity, perhaps,
than that could be selected for holding an
American congress for settling many grave
intern ational questions which Europe seems
too distracted by conflicting interests and jeal-
ousies ever to decide.
Sixtb-Competent persons should be invited
to prepare series of histories By which to
measure the progress and product OF civiliza-
ton in the United States for the expiring Gen.
fury.
L. Prominent In this category, would be
"History of the obligations Of the world to
America"
2. A statistical history of our postal service,
from the days Of Postmaster Franklin.
81 like history of telegraphy in all its
varieties in the United states.
4. A like history of the progress OF art in
dustry and invention, including the disclosures
of the patent Office.
s. Alike history of emigration to the United
States and Its distribution.
6. A like history of the agriculture and incl
dentally of the rate of increase of land under
culture, and Of the disappearance of growing
timber.
Z. A like history of mining and of the
progress made in the development of mineral
wealth.
s. A statistical history of military and naval
inventions, discoveries and achievements.
o. A statistical history of manufactures of
all kinds.
10. A statistical history of education and
educational institutions, and incidentally of the
honorary and financial remuneration of in
structors.
IL like history of the religious and &c.
clesastical institutes and the compensation OF
the clergy.
IL. A like history of the natural sciences,
their progress, and the progressive means pro-
vided for their culture.
Is. A like history of the progress of wealth
and the financial vicissitudes of the country.
IA. A like history of fine arts.
15. A like history of literature and typogra-
ply.
l6. A like history OF the Press.
II. A like history of the public charities, and
incidentally q classification of the poor and in
firm who depend upon them.
49, A like history of the organization and
growth of the different States, in so far as they
are not treated of under any of the preceding
categories.
10. OF the municipal, state and federal sys-
TENS of political representation, and the
changes which they may have respectively I'M
dergone.
TO- An account of what is memorable in the
celebrations of the various anniversaries oil
American independence from the commence
ment. am.4
81. Of political economy, and incidentally OF
labor, free and servile, and wages.
%. OF law, as a profession, and of our eys
TENS ofjudicial procedure as means of secu-
rity for life and property.
| %. Of medicine as a profession, and its
effects upon longevity.
"a. OF commerce and navigation, domestic
| and foreign, ocean and river, and incidentally
of marine and naval architecture.
rs. OF changes and amelioratious in the
social condition and nourishment of the people
of the United States.
&c. Of the aborigines and the changes they
have undergone.
q. OF the climate aud meteorological revo-
buttons and changes of the country on our
continent. .
Seventh--A national museum, to be per-
petually associated, both by name and purpose,
with this anniversary. The edfce might be
dedicated OF its corner stone laid on that &C.
casion, and when ready, be made the repository
of such works of art commemorative of the
event as proved worthy of its hospitality, and
specimens of every thing printed in the United
States during the years l776 and 1876, and of
all memorials of that day in each of the in.
tervening years that needed and deserved such
shelter. This should be the nucleus of q
national repository in modest imitation of the
museums OF the Vatican and the Louvre, and
of the British museum in London.
Not oil of these plans are practicable,
and some OF them would require for their
perfection more than the five years which
we have at our disposal; but all of them
are worthy of consideration and we trust
that their publication may, at least, set the
keenest and most practical minds of
America to work in evolving some scheme
which will combine joyous commemo-
ration with a permanent memorial Of
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