The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-01-05


appreciated. The emigrant is necessarily
endowed with the attributes of courage and
especially when he must come TO
so distant and so new country as ours was
in the early part of the century: Stand.
his hoine in the old country
he is about to break those ties which hold
him strongest upon earth, the ties OF aHec-
tion of family and kindred, the ties which
bind one to his place of nativity and to the
country of his birth. Ard it requires
strong will to overcome these feelings; then
there is
THE UNCERTAINTY OF THE ENTERPRISE
upon which he is about to enter. In 9
far distant lsn6, among strangers,
what shall become of me and the little
family take with me? That is the thought
of the emigrant as he is about to start. Such
man must be stronger than the most OF
znen. And stepping out from kindred and
home he makes this his country, and he adds
these qualities to- our population, and
mingles bis blood with the blood of the peo-
pie of this country. That blood which has
been coming from Europe all the while, has
been strong and energetic, and has given
strength snd greatness to American charac-
ter. This population which las
been Increasing In our country,
as population never before in
creased in any country in the world, swept
over the country from the colonial liue, over
mountain and plain and mountain again,
until finally it has reached and occupied
and made glorious the Pacific coast APP
pIause1 And now, American judgment
governs the entire stretch of country from
ocean TO ocean, and from the lakes
to the guilt. [Renewed Applause
And as this population has gone on, step by
sep. as resistless as the great waves of the
sea- il has carried with il American senti-
4
ago, while in California, visited little
town, situated on the mountain side,
and fsr removed from the settlements, TO
see an old college friend and clsssmste,
where the corrupting Influences of wealth
and luxury had never gone. Away in that
distant neighborhood / found American
sentiment strong as L had LETT
it in the city OF Indianapolis Applause.
| Everywhere that this population has gone
from the earliest times to the last settle
ment that has been made it has carried not
only the flag of the country but
AMERICAN IDEAS AND AMERICAN sENTI-
MENT.
And with this population has gone a love
and devotion to education; and that love
and devotion to the cause of education
has developed itself in most of the states
into our system of tree schools. l will not
say that the free schools of our country,
now at the end of this century, surpsss the
schools OF other countries. i will not say
| they surpass the schools of Prussia and
| Germany. Perhaps none of them do. But
1 say this with great confidence, that the
found dstions are now laid, here in our state oi
Indiana, which will, In my judgment, before
| another quarter OF century shall have
passed away, surpass the free schools OF any
country in the world, [Applsuse.l These
schools belong to the people. They are their
| irh rit
serve, and IL is their duty 20 regard any
man as their Toe who will endanger our sys-
tem of free schools by bringing them
into unnecessary controversy. [Applaus.l
With this growth of population has
come wealth in like proportion. Since
noticed in the papers tnat L was expected
| to address you, 1t has been impossible
| for nae to turn to the census of our country
| aud compare the wealth of a hundred years
ago with the wealth of to-day. think,
however, without examining the subject
that am safe ID saying that the
wealth of the country has increased al
least in equal proportion with
our population; and If we commenced with
3,00e 900 OF people aud now have 40, 900, 600
in like manner our wealth has increased. In
some respects We have succeeded wonder
fully. / will not say that our system Oi
railroads surpasses that of any other
country, but when we consider that
they have been constructed in a compare
tIvely new county, a country which was
making Its own wealth and gathering it's
own power, and as compared with those
countries whose wealth was the accumula.
| ton OF a thousand years,
WE MAY CLAIM VERY MUCH FOR OURSELVES
And so the telegraph line is now
found in every neighborhood, and every
where our thoughts travel upon the wings
of the lightning. Perhaps you have moi
stopped to contemplate whai our fathers ac-
complished. The settlements one hundred
years ago were along the ocean shore, ex.
| tending not 50 far as Pittsburg. The
dense and mi shty forests had to be
| overcome and the country conquered
and subjugated to the arts of agriculture
and the skill of the miner. How well the
work has been done our exports abroad and
| ou: c0nsumptions at home give the answer
Farms everywhere, mines IN almost every
part of the country attest the achievement
of American energy over the difficulties
| which a very rugged nature presented.
These hundred years have not passed over
| US without trouble. First, there were seven
years OF hard war; bu', under the leader
ship OF the immortal Washington, we came
out triumphant and glorious at the end oil
the seven years, and then laid the
tions to maintain, support and
Gefend which the allegiance of every citizen
is pied ged. GApplsuse.1 Since tha, we have
encouI ltered TWO foreign wars, and out OF
these W'e have come with additional glory.
And in recent times we have undergone
that st which Is the hardest for
any p,sople, country or nation to
endure, T. he test of civil war, and we have
come out of that struggle with our institu-
tions main tanned and the integrity of our
country pr sserved. lApplause.]
WE AVE COME our OF THAT WAR
with debt, 18th troubles which we must en-
counter, but not with difficulties
which we will I not overcome. The burdens
which the wan has entailed upon us are as
nothing If we se true to the institutions OF
our country, to- our honor and to the indus
try, enterprise, and greatness which
characterized our tathers. There
was at the clio se of the war the work
OF reconciliation and oh, how earnestly
every good man ! n the country did desire
that work to be a ccomplshed, that the war
bos. ~ ha mi