The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1871-03-18
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Satu day, Mar .18, 1871,
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SAAO - AOAH.
It is by change, by a succession
Of events, more or less noteworthy,
that We become sensible of the
lapse Of time. Sameness, in bust 4
ness engagements, continuity Of
like employment, tend strongly to
obliterate in 10 . consciousness OF
passing hours. days, months, years,
and to leave US unimptessed by the
rapidly vanishing moments. "
While there 10 much of monoto-
ny in the life of ana6ditor--much Of
a treadmill dullness In the general
routine Of his duties-still 10 this
high pressure age, with all the &C.
tivities Of our nature kept in . con-
slant strain, in perpetual tension,
with all our mental energies, sup
piled with . regular accession Of
new ideas, with intellectual fuel,
preserved ct white heat and the
moro daring adventures, even cit
ting on the extreme end Of the lev.
er Of the safety valve, and with the
more important news Of the trans
piring events of the whole world,
laid daily before him on the wings
Of lightning, the journalist, if duly
impressed with the Importance Of
his avocation, and fully alive to the
exigencies of his mission, must of
necessity be keenly observant of
oil passing events--and he must
thus be preserved from that stag
mating torpidness of which he
might otherwise be victim.
Since our FIRST conn ection with
the "Palladium"--now nearly thir
ty-seven years--there have indeed
been many 'strange mutations. I"
both local and general.
At the time Of our advent to
Richmond, its population number
ed but little over twelve hundred,
now our census, including the i'm
mediate environs, figures up
Twelve Thousand. Then we had
no Railroads in the State, and but
very few in the U. S. At this wri
ting there are in Indiana alone
over 1000 miles Of railways. Now
we can communicate with absent
friends, no matter how many thou
sand miles distant from US, in as
many minutes, 90 in 1884 it requir-
ed days and weeks. Electricity
and Heat, correlated and converti
BILE forms Of force, have been rem
dered tributary to our our most ca.
PRECIOUS wants. Under the influ-
ence of advanced science and i'm
proved arts, by the inspiration ol
civilization, regenerated by all The
manifold and legitimate agencies
of substantial progress, all forms
Of human energies arc made more
and more nearly to subs erve tn,
advancement of the happiness O
the race. t#-
The decade just closed has pre-
scented us with the solution Of So
cial and political problems--which
in almost any other age, woult
have required centuries. We al
Jude particularly to the late Rebel
lion, which involved . conflict o
civilization forces, with those 0
Barbarian. With the incidenta
results Of that war, precipitated up
on the country a. an inevitabl
consequence Of . persistent an
continued violation Of the Creator
perfect moral Laws, we have yet I
deal. Hence, we hold that tn
mission of the Republican part
has but just commercials Fart
Of real progress-and of just con
ceptions of human rights. h..
Believing a. We always have b.
lieved, that the "doctrine of equ'
natural rights is no illogical delu
sion," but q vital truth, "that n
human being can arbitrarily don
mate over another without griey
GUS damage to his oson nature" an
that mo slavery can be abolishe
without a double emancipation
in fact that the master will benel
even more than the freed man, {
freed woman" it was impossib
for us to be other than an acti,
member Of the political party, Z
the broad folds of whose bann
are inscribed in letters of livir
light--"Equality of rights to I
human beings" regardless of ''rae
sex, or previous condition Of serv
tude. "-.aparty in a word that ha
more than any other party that G
err existed, supplied elements I
study, in the science Of sciences
"a science the business Of viii
is to observe men, the experimer
of which are made by peoples, o
upon another. on battle fields-t
general propositions of which 9