The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-12-16
THE NATION.

STATE OF THE COT UNTRy.

Ofthe United States
STATE OF THE COUNTRY.
To the Senate and House Of Repre-
sentdtires:
| la submitting my seventh annual
message 10 Congress, in this Cen,en-
uial year of our national existence AS
free and independent people, it af-
fords me great pleasure to recur to
the advancement tat has been made
from the time Of the Colonies, one
hundred years ago. We were then
4 people numbering only 3 100000;
now, we number more than 40, ,O00,-
600. Then, industries were con6ned
almost exclusively to the tillage Of
the soil; now, manufactures absorb
much OF the l,bor of the country
Our liberties remain unimpared. The
bJndsmen have been freed from sla-
very. We have become possessed
pf the respect, il not the friepd,hip,
of all civilized n,,ions. Our progress
have been great in all the arts, in sci
ence, agriculture, commerce. nsviga-
ton, mining, mechanics. law, medi
cine, etc; and, IN general education.
the progress is likewise encouraging.
Our thirteen Stats have become
thir,y.eight, - including Colorado,
| which has taken the intIatory steps
to become Sta'e, and eigh Terri
tories, including the Indian Territory
aud Alaska, and excluding Colorado,
making territory extending from
the Atlantic TO the Pacific. On the
south, we have extended 10 he G alf
Of Mexico; and, on the west, from the
| Mississippi to the Petite.
One hundred ser, ago, the co.,
ton gin, the steamship, u. rair 'aj.
the TELEGRAPH. h. re.per, sewing, and
| modern printing mtch,ues, ani .pm.
erous other Inventions OF scarcely less
value TO our business aud happiness,
were entirely unknown.
Ia 1876. manufactures scarcely ex
,sted even in name in all this vast
er'i,ory; in 1870, m re than 1000,
600 of persons were employed IN
manufacturers, producing more than
t2,l0O,000 900 of pr duce in amount
annually,-hearlv equal 10 our II .t,,n
al debt. From nealy tn. VIII dc .
the ,pula,ion of ! 30 being engay yed
in the one occupation of agriculture,
in 1870 SO numero ss and diver I'd
had become the occupations of our
I.SS III q .lAn M
Of more than 45,O0D. 900 were s. en-.
gagged. The ex,raorlinary effect p o.
duced in our country by a resort t.
such occupations has built a IN .rket
for the products of fertile lands dis
,ant from the sesboard and the mar.
kets of the world. The American
system of working various ami extern
sive manufactures, next 10 the plow
aud the pasture, and adding connec-
ting railroads and steamboats,, has
produced in our distant countrv re.
suits not eaualed by the intelligenl
paris OF other nations. The ingenui.
" and skill Of American mechanics
have been demonssvx ed at home and
abroad, ia a manner mos, Aa,tering
| to their pride. But for the cxtrapr-
dinary genius and ability of our me-
chanics, manufacturers. AMI transp ,r-
tiers, throughout the country, woIid
have been impossible of attainment.
The progress of the miner has also
been great. Oh coal our pro lucton
was Sun IL; now, many millions of tons
are mined annually. So wi h iron,
which formed scarcely an appreei.ble
part of our products half century
ago, we now produce more than the
world consumed at tha beginning of
our national exlstance. Lead. zinc,
and copper, from being articles of i'm
ports, we may expec, to be large ex-
porters Of in the near future. The
development Of gold aud silver mines
throughout the States and Territories
has not only been remarkable, but
has had = large influence upon the
business of all commercial nations.
Our merchants in the last hundred
years have had success, and have
established a reputation for enter
prise, sagacity, progress, and in,egri-
ty, unsurpassed by people of older
nationalities. This 90 ID name is not
confined to their homes, but goes out
upon every sea and into every port
where commerce enters. With equal
pride we can point to our progress in
all the learned professions. As We
are now about to enter upon our sec
ond Centennial, commencing our
manhood as nation, it is well 10 look
back upon the past, aud study what
will be best to preserve and advance
our future greatness. F,om the fall
of Adam for his transgres, to the
present day, no nation has ever been
free from threatened danger to its
prosperity and happiness. We should
look to the dangers threatening us,
and remedy them so far as lies in our
power.
EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS.
We are Republic whereof one
man is as good as another before the
law. Under such form of govern
ment, it is Of the greatest Importance
that all should be possessed of edu-
cation and intelligence enough to cast
vote with q right understanding OF
its meaning. A large association Of
ignorant men cannot, for any consid-
erable period, oppose a successful re-
sistsnce to tyranny and oppression
from the educated few, but will inev-
itably sink into acquiescence to the
will Of intelligence, whether directed
by the demagegue or by priestcraft.
Hence, the education of the masses
becomes of the first necessity for the
preservation OF osr institutions. They
are worth preserving, because they