National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1877-03-18

who. enrspt with the sight presented
yesterday morning TO a waking world, lie,
their eyes rove over the douny surface
and svells Of the far reaching landscape
confessed in silence that IL presented q
scene OF winter beauty which was more
attractive because IL was in all probability
the last that ve shall see Of cd Boreas for
nine months 10 come.
Three months ago. when the sun passed
the winter solstice. . deep mantle OF snow lay
gently upon the tsce Of nature, making the
landscape look quite like fairy land. But
amid these scenes OF winter beauty o cloud
hung over the nation and threatened to
break al any moment and deluge the land
with the sorrows and terrors Of desperate
fratricidal strife What q change has come
between the solstice Of winter and the idss
Of March, We look for the ominous sable
cloud; Il Il gone. Not . threatening trace
remains A proiounder peace never before
rested upon our nation everywhere. There
are no more sectional lines, no more bitter
prejudices and hates, no more North,
South, East or West but one common
country, with people living in harmony
and tranquility and hopes of the future,
determined to have peace and reconciliation
in spite Of political opposition and mlchina.
tioss.
The frst elements In human or national
prosperity are goodwill and harmony
among the people and business thrift.
There is no climate in the world so con-
duciye to these things as that Of America.
In lands where there Is constant sunshine
and ever blooming flowers there Is no, the
energy, the industry and the hardy,
sturdy nature which is found in our
northern zone. II is pleasant TO pic
ture some. tropical cline where there
are lustrous woodlands and grassy fields,
and summer isles Of beauty lying in dark
purple spheres OF sea, where man leads
life Of Incidence and luxurious ease. But
how 90 we End mental, physical and me-
ticnal greatness in these chimes! The sui
Try eastern calm saps the spring of national
life, and mems spirits rust in idleness,
while our keen. eager and nipping air, our
ice bound seas and rivers and frozen land
give variety to the associations Of life, and
mske nations great and men giants. A
writer, speaking o: the influence Of climates
on ysrious rscts and nations, says:
The Latin rssSs and the dweIIers in Messopo-
lama have eeen Invariably cruel, selhsh and bar
hsre- But alocK the northern belt Of the world
tsuIsryd By the genial Gulf stream, . mighty
r1es has r0erlshed and nurtured science, poetry
AID an Prom the stormy cords that circle Nor
uegia1 coasts came the old vikings who ruled
ths seas nd laughed At danger and death. In
the nSuntain nuts Of Scotland were bern the
Usn vhO eare,l not for kings, and who, with a
80. ,I,iSs ~, o. seaud. crushed re-
hardy B-iions Who Erst with their stone spsars
AID arrOus drove back the invading Romano de-
tsbSPsd into The perfect flower Of intellect and
SraalSd IN the storm and the darkness, and yet
''Thsrs Ones the tmbstIisd hrmers stood.
Ani Hre,l the shot heard rouni the Norli."
All 30 With everything which has made the
>a1on raee great and glorious.
Therefore, the bracing winds and snow
Of yestsriay, although they encroached
upon our springtime. are welcome as some
o. the elements which make the vigor and
energy OF the Anglo Saxon people felt all
over the world These bitter winds and
SHOWS viii soon give way, and the harsh
AID rugged outlines Of winter disappear be.
fore the genisl influences Of the vernal
equinox, which is now upon Us, and spring,
laden with fruits and flowers, with the
bright promises Of hope, with the moan of
doves and irmemorial elms, and murmur-
ing Of iinunerable bees, will once more
gladden. the earth and make all nature
smile.