The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1876-01-07
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0fnursc all the lepcrs, magazines,
periodicals, ETC., Of this country, from
o,e end os the same to the other, will
nave something TO say about the Cen
tary which has just cl,scd, aud the
new one upon which we, as Nation,
have just entered. Que hundred year.
nso Ia, Saturday our youhg Republic
virtually sprape into life. ut fret weak.
timid, and even doubtful Of It's ability
20 pass through the fret stages of IN
fancy. Bil with stout hearts aud an
unfiliering trust in Hin who gave u
life, we went on ''conqueriag unit, con.
quer," growing in strength and hope
year by year, until the present hour,
and from q. few Colonies inhabited by
less than 5000, 900 of frcemen VIC have
grown ~ "a single Ceuiury TO hir;y-te,
en- magnificent States and Territories.
inhabited by 1900, GOO souls. The
clu t'rs Of rude hnmlrts, built by our
forcfathcfs. hare grown into cities OF
wonderful proportions, whose archi
tcc,unl beauty anC grandeur c,mpare-
favorably with those of the Old World
which have been thousand years IN
building. Our hardy pioneers sub
dued the painless forests and turned
our plains into vast fields Of grain
with which TO feed the millions at
home and supply the untold millions
in other lands with bread. As
WIS said by an able cotcmporary,
The war OF the revolution freed Us
from a tyrants yoke. The war of 1912
caused the world to respect us us a
Republic. and we thus maintained our
dignity. The war with Mexico was
ono Of conquest, and the recent civil
war has taught us to respect one an
other in the different sections Of our
common country" Notwithstanding
oil Of the foregoing enumerated strug-
giles and trials, We have never ceased
to prosper. How could it have been
otherwise 2 With soil and climate
embracing those of every country on
the globe. from the fright regions of the
Pole to the Tropics, and producing
any and everything fitted to the wants
Of man o. d animals in wondrous abun-
dance with Lakes and Rivers. such
a. history gives no account OF else
where beneath the circuit of the sun;
nature thus endowed US, and We nsk,
therefore again, how could it have been
otherwise We have manifested to
the world ut large that VIC are the
most aggressive and energetic race of
peop'e on the globe, by doing in a sin
gle Century what other raocs and REQ
ole have not done in FIVE hundred
years. Not only have we made the
wilderness and the prairics blossom
like the rosc-but we have made them
one vast garden and farm bounded
aud confined only by the oceans them
rn''.~A----Riyers have been hridaed-
er-courses produced. From Maine to
Florida and from Ocean to OCEAN our
cities and towns dot the landscape.
Where. less than forty years ago there
were only rude roads blazed through
forests and over mountains, we now
have railways to lear the people id
the commerce of the world. Less than
fifty years ago it was n two north,
journey from New York TO New Orleans
through dangers which man feared t.
face, and Of even doubtful completion.
What wondrous-yea, what marvel |
Gus progress To-day one can enter
palace car at New York and without
leaving pleasant couch be landed in
New Orleans in less than 90 hours.
When we contemplate what has been
done, not only as respects all the work,
We have feebly enumerated. Dut 9th.
crs Of little less note. Ii does indeed
"daze the imagination to speculate up
on what progress We will make during
the coming Century" Canada, Next
co, Cuba--these may be added to our
country and humanized and civilized
With population of one hundred and
fifty millions and equal progress us 10
the past--5ut the Imagination shrinks :
from itself at the bare suggestion, AMI
we leave the future to work out H.
,wn progress and return to the pas
and the living present. Not only Ia,
The race OF people in this country
hovn itself to be aggressive and pro
,ressive, but one whose inventive gen
us may be said To be of little less pow
y than that of Inspiration itself Tn.
Patent Office will show g.
he world who they we're that gave to a
civilization the most useful invention, :
& this or any other age or race o; men
-inventions which have lightened In. n
or and increased the execution there. \
f-disseminaied knowledge and trans \
lifted it with lightning rapiliiy over Il
he earth and under the SET. IL is Il
eedless 10 say more now. We are II
nited people. Heart and hand those Vi
the North and South viii e, On re- m
ewing their VOWS at the coming Cen. ia