Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-01-05

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lies Art and science are more unknown
than among the baiborous tribes whom
they displaced They have litleor no com.
mercc, aud their religion is a compound OF
superstition, intolerance aud cruelty which
iustifes the shooting of hereto, aud the
murder of the minister, of other faiths than
their own The Amazon has more than
sixty thousand miles Of uaygable waters,
drains the largest and richest region ia the
globe has oa its banks more good laud than
Europe owns, and yet furnishes no freight
for ships, no ships for freight Only now
and then foreign built steamer dsturbs
the lazy alligators that sleep on its bosom
or wakens the monkeys aud parrots that chat
ter in It's neighborng forests. The seaport
at the mouth Of the largest river, draining
the richest country of the globe, is scarce
known to the geographer, and known not at
all 30 the merchant and commercial adycn.
turer If the Spanish regions OF South
America, with all the descendants of the
Iberiau ancestors who dwell there, were
blottcd from the map aud from the earth to.
day, the world would not feel the shock it
would not disturb and derange its interests
so much as the loss of the Deutchsland OF
the explosion Of dynamite on the wharf at
Bremen. Aud what has been so barren Of all
that is good and useful in civilization aud
Christianity in The past, gives not the faint
est promise of future prosperity The
scious Of the Spanish race in South Amer
lea show no capacity of future healthiul or
noble growth. Canton or Yokohama are
worth more, a hundred fold To the material
interest, Of the world, and thousand times
more TO the promise and hop, of its moral
and spiritual life. than Para, Santiago or
Mexico.
Nor has the sovereignty Of the Spanish
race in Cuba been any the more advantageous
than on the neighborus continent The ma.
tive race, mixed with other blood has been
contending with the invader for two ccntu
ries, and they are still harassiug each other
with mutual barbaritie, The curse of 20.
| litical, religious and domestic tyranny rests
upon the gem of the Antilles. It's planta.
ions are moislened continually with the
blood of men. Foreign influence still up
holds The feeble hands OF Spanish military
domination In all ITS history 1t has never
had any hold ON the hearts of its people
and holds its place only by the law of force
It retains the old sci1ile institutions which
nave med ont or been tampled out else
| Whri'' L. politics are the sword and the
rHeu cannon lts education Is the cate
'hl'ih' ll' reIlsloh Is tine dlSnrnsatioh OF
the atican' It's commerce Is q vanishing
quantity ana ITS manifest destiny Is an ap
propnat' b"ale to history So barren ana sd
oarD9rols'
what contrast to the Spanish colonies
oil America Is the history OF the Puritan col
ony oil New England, and the Anglo Saxon
settlements oil the Atlantic coast! More
than century alter columbus planted the
| spanish cross IN the New World the Anglo
saxon sailed INTO one OF ITS northern har-
oora' lie brought with HIM no Matader
or auto-de-ie bull fight or inquisition.
lie brought the teachings and warnings OF
experience and vigorous aspirations forcivil
ana rehgious liberty Tor social and domes-
nc parity Tie brought the sword and the
axe the musket and the plough and all
ms instruments oil war and peace were to
be used on the side OF freedom, in the inter
est' oil cVllizalion' Christianity aud liberty
lie thre" ms breYiary and mass-book after
the priest lie butt a church and elected
ms own minister and sad to him, You
iced us win the Word oil God, and we will
Iced you with corn aud meal lie re-cnacted
sunday and made 1t a holy day. lie placed
the open blble ON the pulpit and IN every
mousse lie erected school-hVuse IN every
dlstii't' put bibIe INTO every desk, aud
Trained tue scholar OF the school IN It's wise
ana glorious lessons The church, the sun
day the school and the Bible, were full OF
The blossoms and fruits OF strong, manly,
heroic hie' lheir twisted and interlaced
roots joined IN the massive trunk that
pranched wide into every climate Of the
world
lhe Anglo Saxon stock and nurture gave
men great strength and tough, vigorous life
Inc schoolhaster was wiser than the blood
houi'u' lhe governor elected each year was
more sympathetic and true than the king
Inc people were equal to their own demands
lhey buiit great cities huge manufactures
ana all the means and apparatus OF a strong,
industrial CIVILIZATION They organized ideas
into institutions, chrystalized thoughts into
machinery laws, systems of instruction,
grand enterprises oil Christian beneiicenee
aud power They wrote books, and printed
them' They took highest rank IN the litera-
ture' ART science and culture oil the world
they translated sentiment into fact and
transformed the emotion and aspiration OF
liberty into an organic system of govern
ment strong as any of the old empires, yet
individual And thss, two ci,iliyotiors
growing for two centuries .i1. hy sido RON.
resent tho two ideo, which renew their co,,
troyersv in the successive bi.t,ri.l n.rio1s
for sunremocv On tbe ana sid. ,os,,o,isn,
an ,be otber side lih.rty n,sno,i.,, ,,;n,
the authoritv Of its ancient traditions. rreo.
dom with IL, reverence for tbe word and or.
Jinance, Of God d.snoti.,, with i,si,f,u;
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