Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1873-07-16
Warren, Ohio. July 1e, 1878.

from perils without we have through
the blood and smoke and carnage o.
civil war established the fact that M
internal dissentions can destroy oui
structure. Its foundations are deer
and broad, permanent and immova
bic. Although as a nation we have
yet to complete our first century, We
have nevertheless a magnificent his
tory.
America has her statesmen, her phi
losophers, her warriors, even as had
ancient Greece and Rome. Americs
, has her battle fields, compared with
which Marathon and Thermopylea and
historic struggles of yore fade into in
| significance. The conflicts of the revo-
luton, seen through the vista of time
are treasured in the memory of every
American the ssnguinsry battles OF
= our memorable civil war, are living
realities to the present generation
whilst the achievements of our heroes
on Ethe field, and our statemen in the
cabinet are inscribed on the page of his
tory and engraven on the tablets of our
hearts. We honor, we respect, we
cherish as precious thing, the memory
of our revolutionary sires, who, wrest-
ling our fair land from England's op-
preston, planted here the tree of liberty
and watered it with their blood.
But not less entitled to the homage of
a grateful people are the heroes who
preserved the nation which our fathers
founded. Living or dead, in high social
position, or pursuing the humber walks
OF life, enshrined beneath the costly
marbls, or resting in tbs unknown grave,
! they are heroes, worthy descendants of
/ Of In cfr az q n
honors and esteems them. She cares
for the living; she establishes Decora-
ton Day for the dead, a perpetual re-
minder of the patriotic deeds of that
mighty host "whom no man can num-
ber" who fell fighting for their country
and the rights Of man.
1t is well to see a nation weep at the
grave of her heroic dead. It is we'll
that the hearts of millions should be
stirred with the holiest emotions. Thus
shall the glory of the country be insured
whilst vslor is priced and heroism hon
ored among men. Thus shall the graves
speak eloouently of the sacrifices made
in behalf of the nation by the silent de-
tenders, enshrined beneath these
mounds.
We live in an age of progress. We
witness with qualification, the march of
improvement throughout the country
in agriculture, in manufactures, in sci
ence, in arts. No longer dependant on
the results of foreign industry, for our
manufactured fabrics and other articles
of domestic consumption, we turn to
our own manufactures for the same,
whilst the development of the iron and
coal interest is simply enormous, as we
of the Mahoning Valley can appre-
ciate. The hum ofindustry is heard on
every side; the smoke clouds of the
factories darken the air the puff of the
iron horse bearing heavily laden trains |
over the land, is customary sound.
The elements have been subjected to |
mans will. Steam cars draw us swiftly |
along; steamboats, plough our nayiga- |
BILE waters; steam engines extinguish |
our confiagrations steam mills grind |
our wheat and our corn; steam looms |
manufacture our cloth, and steam-driy- |
en- sewing machines make our garments; |
whilst doctors immerse us in steaming /
hot baths, and declare their ability to 4
steam us out of ali the ills that flesh is
heir to.
The balloon is being built in Boston,
which will next month carry the daring 1
aerenaut across the stormy Atlantic on
an aerial voyage Of three thousand miles
lit is said!
The lightning has been chained dis
ing paper furnishes US with detailed ac-
counts of occurrences which happen the |
day before a thousand miles away.
If Captain Jack, the Modoc Chieftain
is captured by the troops amidst the
lava beds of Southern Oregon, it is
known in Washington City within
twelve hours thereafter, and q cabinet
meeting is called the same day to decide
what shall be done with The Modoe
Elephant.
The Yankee has sought ont many new
inventions; especially in the way of Ia
bor saving machinery. This may be
because he is naturally lazy animal, or
1t may be because he is an inventive
genius, or it may be because he can get
Uncle Sam to issue a patent on his in
ventions and thus make money easily,
or it may be for all three reasons COM
bined. From these improvements per-
haps none more than the farmer has de-
rived benefit. he no longer swings the
scythe or cradle from "dewy morn till
dusky eve ~ but his horses with a pat
ent mower or reaper, and patent rake
and fork deprive harvest time of half
its terorrs, whilst the sturdy cheese
maker, with the factories staring upon
him from every cross road, may, with
the brave Othello wiring his hands and
cry Farewell My occupations gone"
With patent threshing machine to sep
arzte the grain from the straw !; with a
patent corn shelter to strip the kernel Of
corn from the cob; with sulky plow
whereon TO ride as he turns the furrow
Or dog churn to make his butter, we
might suppose that the American farm
or. of all men, would appreciate the in
yentive genius OF the yankee mind. and
be the happiest as he is the most inde-
pegdent of mortalS. And so he would
be, were he not driven into a frenzy, ,
worried out of his life and harrassed to
death by swindling vendors of WORTH
Ises patent washing machines, by impu-
dent Life Insurance agents, and the new
Mingled Colorado potato bug.
Institutions of learning are multiply
ing on every hand, from the imposing
college, with its faculty of learned and !
titled professors to the country school
house where some faithful mortal, con- !
divides her time between !
teaching the young idea how to shoot, I
and showing her faith in the old maxim
'He that spareth the rod, spoileth the (
child" .-r !
From a nation of three million, one
fifth of whom were slaves, we have !
grown 10 population of $1,000, 900 !
freeman, all. Aside from the natural I
Increase by birth, we receive year by !
a COGcldLl 6CCCooAOn O1 lnO hCNCL I s
,easing tide of Immigration, which spreads /
itself out over the vast and fertile prair-
es of the Great West, until they are re- /
i5emed from savage wildness and made {
% blossom as the rose.
In. former times our railways were I
1nly built through thickly settled por-I l
ions OF. the country, depending for sup {
port upon tie local traffic; now we see
he iron track spanning r continent, l
winding through valley, over plains and 8
lcross mountains, pushing out in every {
direction into the wilderness; no longer I
seeking an already located population, i
1ut inviting population in the track of S
Is own progress. The railroad has thus S
tseif become the vanguard of civiliZa- I
ion, the pioneer corps of the great army I
If western emigration.
This nation approaches its centennial c
lay. Three years more and it will have c
ived century. Threescore years and {
en- are the supposed limits of mans c
ife. What is the lifetime of a nation | S
History tells not. AID yet from history 7
We may CLEAN IN answer. History tells
Is Of the rise and fall of nations-how
hey rose and why they fell. I
Rome was a republic Greece was a !
epublic. Yet to-day republican Roma {
md Greece are not. They have moul- e
led into dust they have a record in /
history, but nothing more. The teach
ng ofhisIory is this: that the lifetime c
# a nation is measured not by its forti- i
led cities, its wealth. its arLlieS, its ma q