The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-02-12


and resources Of the State, agricultural,
mineral, manufacturing and industrial,
which enables her to make not only al
oreditable but handsome display in the
assembly and exhibition of the American
States and the nations of the world, at
the great international and centennial
celebration. Neither old nor young, nor
yet gray with years, like those who toll
ed and strived in the revolution, nor yet
youthful like the gold and silver States,
but mature and of middle age she may
appear as a stately and handsome mat
ron, rich in her endowments, and com
manding the respect and admiration of
every member of the national family.
Hardly surpassed in the extent of
territory by some of the old nationali-
ties Of Europe, and greater in extent
than many, she has a rich and produc-
tive soil without desert or mountain
or any waste places. Every grain or
fruit natural to her latitude grows luxu-
riantly in her soil A great variety Of
useful and ornamental woods are found
in her forests. Coal and Iron, which
are the treasures of her hills, are unsur-
passed, and whatever in the world is
born of the union of the two may be
found in her hundreds of furnaces and
forges between the River and the Lake.
Within her borders iron is wrought in
to all the forms known to commerce. A
variety of earths adapted to the uses of
the potter are abundant and are wrought
into a thousand useful and ornamental
forms. A great number of quarries
yield rich and valuable qualities of
building stone, which are among the
most interesting curiosities of geology,
and their products of great commercial
value. Great manufacturing establish
1 ments exists all over the State, which
turn out in perfection every kind and
variety of implement and useful article,
from the reaping and moving machine
to the friction match and the clothes
pin; our iron and steel manufactures
and machine shops, every necessary
thing from the locomotive and the shir
7 anchor to the shingle nail and the car
pet tack. At our ship yards are bull
stately vessels and elegant steamers
Nothing in fact is wanting in the ele.
ments, productions, industries and re.
sources of the State to prevent her peo-
pie from obtaining its proper standing
and honorable recognition at the exhi
t betion, if only they shall be inspired by
the great historical occasion and an hon
orable State pride.
There are some historical considera
t tions which should inspire every citizeI
of Ohio to promote this national enter
t prise. The territory embraced within
> the boundaries of the State was forest
when the national Independence was
achieved. 1t was naturally the frs
State marked on the map exhibited il
l Europe by Franklin and Adams in 1888
which astonished the diplomats by dis
: closing the future possibilities of the
nation, when fourteen new States should
be carved out of the continent in add
/ tion to the original thirteen.
/ Being the first State created West Of
/, the Alleghenies and north of the Ohio
, River, she has sort of pre-eminenct
and recognition as the Mother of the
States of the Northwest, to whom hel
many thousand sons and daughters now
, scattered in all the States, still lool
with affection and pride. These will be
as proud of the good appearance of the
mother as of their adopted State.
The display which Ohio can make ii
proper efforts are put forth) at the Cen
tennial can not fail to creditably adver
tise her people, her domain, her miner
al wealth and wonderful resources, hel
progress and skill in manufactures, anC
her educational advantages so as to re
{ suit in still further development of hel
!, native wealth and resources, and there
! by greatly enhancing the individual ant
3 social happiness and prosperity of hel
inhabitants.
1t remains, then, for the people o
Ohio to determine whether their Statt
shall take its place in the front ranks t.
r which she is entitled, or whether she
will lag behind and be outstripped by
States representing less important
interests.
In view of these considerations we
feel called upon to urge upon you the
necessity of prompt action in furnishing
our States proportion of material ait
for prosecuting the work of preparation
r and especially do we earnestly reques
+ and cordially invite the representative
of the various resources of the STATE
agricultural, mechanical, manufactur
ing and commercial as well as the art
. and sciences, to come forward and do
q their full part in the ceremonies that are
to commemorate the one hundredtl
birth day of the nation, and at the same
time show herself to be second to nont