The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-07-06

laid aside, some in the learned pro-
fessions, others in all branches of
the mechanic arts, and others still in
the quiet pursuits of rural life. thus
illustrating the great strength and
adaptability of the body polite.
Promise is given us of abundant
harvest our relations with other
powers of the earth tranquil.
Nevada, the youngest daughter of
the Republic, although not possess
ing a kindly, yielding soil, refresh
ed by grateful showers, yet amidst
her towering mountains, cleft by
veins of precious ores, her barren
hillsides and grass-carpeted valleys,
her people are happy and contented
with the tiattering promise of her
mineral resources. We have scarce
started upon the career which is to
dignity US as a State of this Union.
In point of territory the third, in
population the least, and possessing
mineral the greatest and
most attractive of any, we hail the
future with feelings of satisfaction
and delight. Hitherto the attention
of capital has been directed, almost
exclusively, to that wonderful vein,
which has given to the commercial
world an hundred and forty millions
of gold and silver and which, by the
industries which it has created, has
brought into existence communities
of thousands of people enjoying
prosperity in the accumulation of
wealth unparalleled in the the his
tory of mining, and the discovery
and development of which alone
placed upon the Flag another star
and brought into being another sov-
ereigntv.
Now, by the brawny arm of the
hardy pioneer and prospector, the
handiwork of the machinist, the
secrets Of the chemist, the test of the
crucible and the furnace, it has been
shown that all over IL State, from
the Owyhee to the Colorado, and
from the Sierras to Utah, there lie
deep down in the earth unexplored
chambers of untold wealth. 1t is
the business of the hour to bring
this to the surface and send it forth
through the channels of commerceto
enrich our people and to bring beauty
and comfort to u mountain and
valley homes. At no distant day,
by the aid of the iron highways
constructed and projected, this re-
suit will be accomplished and our
far off mining towns, about whose
prosperity once clustered the fondest
hopes of the oft-disappointed miner,
will take their place again upon the
map of our advancing State.
If We look to the continent of
Europe, a different sight meets the
eye, and no such hopeful signs APP
pear in the political heavens to en-
courage the lover of order and of
enlightened liberty. We observe the
most powerful governments just
e emerging from the most remarkable
c ,ntest of which we have any &c
count, and nothing as vet to create
the hope that it will result in the
growth of free principles. The
Tree, although wItered by the blood
of thousands Of the dead followers
of the Assembly and the Commune
and by the tears of thousands of
their living victims, yet bears foliage
of an ashen hue, and has not Vet
budded and bloomed as upon our
own genial soil. Along the public
highways and in her fair fields are
the wreck. ruin and desolation of the
struggle to maintain decrepit dynas-
ties, and that other principle I'M
knownto American politics-the bal
ance of power. Thousands of help
less orphans and weeping widows,
the bones of whose fathers and hus-
bands are yet bleaching in the sun
shine, fit monuments to misguided
ambition, CRY to the charitable for
assistance. We see the collections
of art, the admiration Of the cult
waited and refined of the civilized
world in a moment of frenzy and
hate consigned to the flames. For
ests reared by the hands of taste,
which in beauty and imposing gran
deur could vie with the most charm
ing scenes in nature, hewn down and
destroyed; paintings executed with
the skill of Angelo and the "softness
and sweetness of Titian's pencil,
consigned to the rude custody of the
mob; monumental piles, which
reared their lofty heads as monitors
of a past age, and as evidences of
the glory of arms, levelled amid the
frenzy of domestic war, and the civ
iIization ap5 homes Of ilStarraI