Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-24

4 tary edlct 80 tar as related 70 the United
States, but King George, in whose heart still
burned the sting and humiliation of Eng
lands defeat in the revolutionary struggle,
was only too anxious to revenge his country
| on the people of the new Republic. Thus
| the war of 1872 was brought about, and after
about three years of defeat and victory on
both sides, wherein England was taught a
lesson as sweet morsel for the snuff-box of
her crown, that she wss no longer master of
the seas, and King George having been
stung almost to madness by the venom of
his own low, mean and selfish nature, had
retired from the throne, and George ".
crowned the Ministry changed, peace was
once more restored to our people, and treaty
arranged, which in itself amounted to moth.
| ing-simply this; that the two countries
having been at war agree to be at peace. No
new feature in the governmental poles of
nations was declared, and no amends were
made for English aggressions upon the Amer
lean commerce, only that 1t is supposed a
promise was given by the new King that a
repetition of similar outrages should never
signed on the oath day of December,
! 1914, and on the morning OF the
| Sth of January, 1915, Packenham was
defeated near New Orleans by Andrew
jackson, on which occasion Packenham was
killed and almost all his entire army annihi-
lated Jsckson's loss was s killed and Is
wounded-the British loss on this memorable
occasion was 700 killed, !, 400 wounded, and
800 taken prisoners. This was, perhaps. the
greatest disparity of losses ever known be-
tween two heavily entrenched armies. In
some parts of our country the Stb of January
| is kept as day of celebrity /; but, in fact, the
battle and victory then obtained was of no
moment or Importance. g. It was victory
| gained after peace h9d been declared, and
had the telegraph beee in operation then as
now the battle would nevsr have been fought.
OUR COUNTRY IN PEACE.
| Our country Immediately after this, having
chastised the Barbary sea-robbers into sub
mission, under the gallant Commodore Deca-
tur. is once more at peace with the world,
and the American flag honored and respected
on every sea, and an era of prosperity begins
with cur people, numbering at that period,
1916, about S, Goo 600 souls. Our country was
in debt something near 800. 000, 000 but un-
| der the able administration of james Monroe,
man of great talent, accomplishments and
experience, with the aid of an able Cabinet,
| the initlatory steps were soon devised which
in few years honorably paid every dollar of
the national Indebtedness without distressing
the people.
| THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY.
It was about this period that the great
| American Colonization Society was started
| the object of which was to colonize free per-
sons of African descent in Liberia, on the
western coast of Africa. The great work this
noble Society performed for the poor down
trodden black man is too well known to re-
ouire any detail. In September of 1916 a
| lasting and memorable treaty was arranged
! between the United States and the various
Indian tribes of what was formerly the North
J opj f,,r4har hactififiao ~,
that section averted for long period.
PROGRESS OF THE ARTS, SCIENCES AND IN.
VENTIoN.
| Hand in hand with the work of settlement
and subduipg Of the vast forests of the great
| West, the arts and sciences took root anew,
and fiourished. AS well, also, did invention
progress, to which we owe, in great
measure our present high standing in the
! eyes OF one another as well as in those of the
entire European world, Too much credit
| cannot be bestowed upon the inventive talent
Of the American genius. To it we owe a
debt of gratitude, which we, as people, can
never over pay. When we contemplate the
| great strides that have been made in the way
| of labor-saying machinery, chief among which
! we might mention the looms, cotton gins,
reapers, mowers, thrashers, and the nuner-
Gus cultivators and the thousand and
one wonderful mechanical inventions which
are the best and first fruits of the American
/ inventor, we feel ourselves well fortified in
| saying that as a product growing out of our
/ Institutions under the protecting influence Of
| our form Of government, the work of the in
/ ventor stands foremost and uppermost in our
! esteem. What field for thought is here
presented. Commencing at the period when
/ the struggle for liberty had subsided, and the
heroic band of patriots had been greatly
I II H. +,,f
i the brave army with bleeding feet and totter-
1 ing limbs, fatigued, carrying the scars of
many battle field, wendell their way to the
near and dear ones at home, unsnbdued
1 forests lay before them, and the most rapid
/ transit was the slow and Flooding gait of the
horse and coach over miserable roads, when
| to-day the distance OF three thousand miles is
trayersed in as many days as it then took
to travel one hundred miles. And this
method Of transportation is not ex-
ceptional but general, and that too
/ at remarkably low rates If fare, in sn easy
and comfortable manner, and these railroads
are so conducted as to be direct and harnro-
nicus network of connection, bringing the
most desirable market for the products of the
! soil and shop almost to every mans door.
| Add to this our present method Of carrying
thought by the telegraph, through which any
event on the most remote part Of the globe
reaches the great cities OF the American con-
tinent in few minutes time, and through
the medium of the public press is laid before
a million readers i'll few hours thereafter,
and this, too, at insignificant cost. When
we fully comprehend all things as they to-day
exist, and draw line of comparison with
the affairs of mankind one hundred years ago,
we may but partially appreciate the grand
work that the ambitious genius of the in
ventor has accomplished for man. The
farmer and the mechanic have acted
well their part in this great drama
Of American progression. Where but few
years ago stood forest and unsubdued
marshes, and prairies a thousand miles or
more 10 extent, now lies a plain divided and
subdivided into an unbroken line of farms,
interspersed here and there with Furnishing
villages and towns, and magnificent cities,
with populations varying from ten Thousand
to million prosperous and mighty people,
with refined and cultivated minds and tastes.
Educational pursuits is the watchword of our
people; and this is simply glorious, for in
the mental culture of the people reposes the
safety of their liberties and cherished insti-
tutioDs.
THE ARTS AND SCIENCES
Have also advanced in the same ratio as that
of ali other useful industries of the people
chemistry having accomplished simply a
mans benefit and comfort. The science of
medicine has subdued all diseases to which
man and beast are most liable, and brought
them under the control of the skillful ply
sician Astronomy has become set
tied and positive science. and our
astronomers have traced and mapped out
for the benefit of man the entire plan
etary worlds with unerring and posi-
tive certainty. Our greatest lexicogra-
pliers have compiled and issued the
best and largest vocabulary Of words
ever issued by man. Our sculptors and paint
ers-and not excluding the workers in the
Photographic art--have made their mark,
and stand second to none in the Old World.
Printing, the greatest of all the arts, aided
by our free institutions has almost reached
perfection. Wonderful, indeed, has been the
progress in this line Stand the Hoe ten
cylinder press, in full operation, print
ing 10000 large-sizsd newspapers per
hour, alongside the old Ramage half-page
press, and the comparison is as a grain of