The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1873-03-06

pecis; Chicago just building; the large towns
thai are springing Up in the interior were
hardly more than bamiets or villages; Pitts
burg and Cincinnati no: 2 sixth part OF what
thew have become; and il has been my lot IN
NV lifetime, TO see cities OF half million IN
habitants, or thereunto nearly, growing up
with a prosperity that prophecies fu-
ture greatness quite incommensura.e with
anv experience we have had in times
past. Allow me TO congratulate you, gen.
tlemen, first for what your father
and mother did for you; next tor what has
been done for you by your poverty, that
has made YOU work, and next Tor the places
in which the lines have fallen 10 you, IN
der so fair a heaven and upon SO bcunseous
coil, in ATTITUDES and longitudes that give
you the best advantages of nature. ALLOW
me to congratulate you upon that thrift,
upon that enterprise, upon that active capi-
ts.already concentrated upon this spot, SO
favored Of nature from the beginning and
so allow me TO cor0atu!a.e you also upon
being disbnrdened OF many of those hind
RANGES which in former years stood in the
way of your permanent progress. Allow
me above all to congratulate you that
there is in this land no North, no South,
no East no West, but one naticn unti-
vided-T cheers whose politics are one,
| whose political economy is one, whose
great spirit of morality and philanthrophy
| ia one, however checkered in detail BY diff
ferent names. Allow me to congratulate
you, that we may say to the pas: Let the
dead bury their dead" Cheers The old
issues, the old infammations are silayed; the
old issues are gone, and now our lie lies in
the future; and when we cast the horoscope
of the future for this nation, who can tell
what bonndless prosperity is vet to be? Fig.
| ure. are not invented that shall express the
statistic; illustrations lie behind the reality
| which You or your children shall see when
| this continent shall have poured forth all liz
| treasures.
| Now, gentlemen, not to detain you by a
-pe ch for promised you none; | promised
| [ world not speak, and this is merely q
study for a speech, allow me to say that
| from the commercial men of st. Louis we
have a right to expet for this grea, city of the
mid continent that enterprise, that public
| spirit, that love of morality and Of true man
lines which we have been accustomed 10 de
| rive from the commercial classes in all on
grea, and prosperous cities. The world is
| debtor 10 the merchant; and a mer-
chant prince is prince indeed,
wearing 10. coronet upon bis
head. but an honor 10 his breast and in his
business which one might well covet more
than any fictitious or political honor. 10
| the merchant we look for the founding a
right institutions, for the conservation OF
| law, for the establishment of intelligence
and Of morality, for the development OF
nature, for the prosperity Of the State.
United with workingmen, united with pro-
| fessional men, the merchant is the heaven,
the stimulating infnence-is the pioneer.
the engineer, and the constructor of the wei.
fare Of the nation.
i thank you for your kind courtesy in re.
ceivins NE this morning. | speak to you
now as brothers, and am glad at last ,hst
can go into every State in the Union, speak
my mind freely, and say, Il am fellow
citizen and belong 10 the State" for there i.
not State IN the United States that does no
own every other Safe, and is not itself own
| ed by every other ore. Cheers.