The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-07-04
BURLINGTON, Iowa, July, 1873.

BURLINGTON, Iowa, July, 1873.
Editor GloJe.
Ipromised to report to you as soon as
arrived in my western home. Here | am
again upon the further bank of the Missss-
ippi, my thoughts carrying me back across
these fifteen hundred miles of separating
distance to my other home among the hills.
What Il stretch of country, it is, to be sure
How wide Gods acres are, and how great
after all is the material prosperity ofman.
Who can estimate the growth of this great
land of ours, or the future value of this
broad domain? How will it appear when
GabriePs triumph shall sound and Mchael's
hosts be marshalled in the skies-when
| Peters keys shall jingle from his belt while
all the universe awaits the unlocking of the
ponderous gates of heaven? How do. we
not know that Peter has not lost those keys
to Paradise? And if the keys are lost who
in all that company can battle down the
doors? If all depends on Peters faithful
keeping of the keys it seems to me that of
all the hosts of heaven he has the worst
responsibility. And unless he keeps the
faith with Jealous care we may not see the
shiny sidewalks of the celestial city.
But how will these broad acres then APP
pear! How will it be when Gabries horn
shall send its summons Der the plains and
Michaels voice echo from the sultry regions
of the Adirondacks to the frigid waters of
the Rio Grande? Will the land be strong
and mighty with the garnered wealth of
years? Shall stoned urn or animated bust
ornament the fcnce-posts from Maine to
California? Shall these western hay-sta ks
become Egyptian pyramids? Shall all the
arts of Greece be born again and flourish with
new vigor on our more fertile soil Shall
literature and letters be the heritage ofevery
man and woman in the land? will this be
agreat republic then, with the peoples will
supreme? Or shall corruption finally bring
us to despair as it caused to fade away the
grandeur of the Roman Empire? Shall
Goths and Vandals carry on their petty
conquests and institute reign of terror
from the Gulf of Mexico to Puget Sound
and self-consttuted monarch sway a fee
Bile scepter from tottering throne?
Such were my speculations as Erode
along and doubtless they were vain, but
they were entertaining. No one can rush
through these little towns and cities just
springing into life without wandering what
will eventually become of them. How
long will they continue to grow and what
power will eventually suspend their
growth They cannot multiply them
selves forever and forever All things
must have an end, and forever is a long
time. Human life on this continent is,
radically speaking, only in its beginning
Emigration is greater every year and our
home population is steadily multiplying it.
self When will it all have an end, and
what will end it? 1t may be earthquakes,
famine or pestilencc. 1t may result from
Ii may be by a thunderbot from heaven
Some great convulsion alone can wipe us
out of existence, and who can ever guess
what it shall be?
Only IA month ago $4,000 emigrants filed
through the gates of Castle Garden in a
single day. Westward the course of en-
pire takes its way, and the majority of
them followed in its course. Upon the
broad praries of Iowa and Nebraska many
of them have already founded their own
humble empires. Most of them were
poor-a few of them We're not. But from
almost every cline beneath the sun they
have brought the individuality of their own
peculiar people. They came from selfish
motives chiefly, and with their prcjudices