The Russellville Democrat., 1880-07-01
ADDRESS or PRESIDENT ADAM C
Delivered before the Press. Convention at
 vile, June 2, 1880.
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 We meet to-day.to celebrate the eighth anniverss organization, and we but feel the weight of respe that rests upon us. Providence has regarded u and fortune gently smiled since we met one year a \ lines have fallen to us in pleasant places and yet
 scan the past recorded deeds appear in the path of that we would gladly have removed-so remission we would correct and footprints of fate would bl i The past year has been of unusual prosperity out the whole country, and especially so within Q limits. No time since the evil with the States prospects for the future appeared more hopeful anc have reason to regret many disadvantages under VI
 labor, and stumbling blocks in the highway of State State debt and high taxes and many inefficient laws the way of advance. But there has been progre sso direction Ot prosperity since last assembled in council; and, perhaps class of men can just more credit for what has been gained than the memle press Ii others have accomplished moro, none have earnestly or tofed harder for voiirs gentlena press, IS no light task momentary calling As v vigilance is the price of liberty is it the price of gresson in the physical moral and intellectual world
 The diversified and yet constant labor of the io may therefore, claim the burden of thoughts for u The varieties of life its spices, it is sad but its d contain both it's spices and solid realities This of diversity we exemplifed i'll all the strange un of nature, and copied in the living charts of and Indeed, wonderful the diversified varieties O that fahom the secret mystery, and tell how spring from common center and minge in an O oneness at last The varied tints of rainbow colors beress billions of ocean sandgrans, all differing in shape--the forest leaves different a and each !,
 
 sity, as well as superiority, in view when he said
 God made but such man,
 And broke the die in moulding Sheridan But have this endless chain of diversity, and yet conformity to some unfathomable law of nature con the generation, and, suppose, the origin of the M This secret mystery the science of existence has nev unfolded. But prominent among the lessons thus is the fact that the pursuits of life but copy nature do we'll as what are IS also faithfully observe quite multiple it IS complex in its nature and not justified in pursuing straight and beaten path \, casting look of survey upon the surrounding lam. Indeed, the strictest and closest research Is invited pleasure wealth. religion and all the graces invite to tho fields of research and there Is something in nature or Deity that impels According to the first his our race, given in the Mosaic account the young of Adam was divided in pursuits. Abel pruned the and watched his focks; Cain tiler of the soil. lation and trade came ater sea-divng for the gems and digging for metals later still But constant advai development of forces the rationale of whichwe may explain has been the constant order. Progress is step by step, adding little unto little, but constant onward march. If the prehistoric mound-builder or tian mummy could wake from the silence of four tn dreamess years, with what astonshment he would loo telegraph wire when told that the electric flash cou on it ten times around the earth in moment. Wit wonder he would look upon the railroad carskipping the valleys and bounding through the plains, and homes of the roaring deep walking tue waters like tn life, and the improved culture of the waving fields, thousand invented labor-savings Surely this is all advance The old woman, yet in the embryonic stage, fl near Darwns colony of sprimeva apes, pinning fig together with thorns for garments would be perfectly founded to wake up and look upon a sewing m And a telephone; what could she think of that? Tn best invention, imagine, to printing press Int sable city commerce. and the best of uxures to lazy mile apart when the wintry storms out and in the day.
 But the best of all inventions the machinery that thoughts into books, and charts, and papersthe pri most powerful of all engineries For if u mghtier than the sword, then the printer is greate he artisan who shapes the tools of war the type better than the lemnan forge, where Mars the fiery diversity characterzes printing and al other mechanic IS equally so with the man of the quill, All the Z pursuits and callings of life within the puryew journalist The farmer the fisher the miner the dive mechanic, inventor literature and science re md politics. all claim mention by the man of letters m editor is to be everybodys manthe servant of the And while this Is so he is ought to be- exter noulder of public sentiment. Not that in free coan ditor should attempt dictate but learning the will o # the people, 1t s his high province to help put the ng touch and shape public will, and be thus benefaC is country and his race.
 There geographical lines to eircumscribe the elds within the journalistic range It ia to scs ealms of nature and go beyond fancys wing, and imaginary plains. But it IS quite often the th crbed by local boundaries Weshould avoid either ex md seek the happy medium. The midway ground is
 all character of contests right while radical extren ither side are wrong. Happy for country apl nate to-day nearer than in other years that long.st intermediate space where sectional parties lay dow implements of fiery strife, and write to advance consttu berty and prosperity. It is true that just ent low upon contest of State and National politics. in pe will of necessity differ in opinion, and while am all those patriotic emotions that characterized the i've fathers there is nevertheless better prospect ealing sectional animosities than has previously e;