The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-08-04

lchu peOpits tuie Atuerivhu uatiOhs Dub
60 years more than acentury ago, a poor
scanty population Of 8 ,0Oo, 900 souls, con
fined TO few sen coast provinces within |
hearing Of the Atlantic surf, starting out |
as republic, shaky, moneyless, inexpe-
renced, and almost faithless. To day,
55 millions Of people, rich, strong, pro-
gressive and prosperous, spread from the
Atlantic to the Pacific. and from the
Great Lakes to the Gulf They have
made vast and trackless wildernesses re-
ioice and blossom like
INN RorE GARDENS OF THE GODS.
They have made the usual abysmal soli.
|tude Of untold ages niasickl with the
many voiced Industries Of civilization,
and that civilization, with all its faults,
the frcest and highest and best tho world
has ever known. They have built, as if
by omnIpotent enchanters spells, cities
and railroads and canals. They have
bridged the mightiest rivers and tun-
neled the tallest mountains on the globe.
They have spanned hemisphere with
their iron highways, and girdled the sol
id earth with their electric cables.
They travel by steam and talk by light
ming. Their ingenuity and invention
never end. Their credit is unlimited,
their energy is tireless and dauntless,
and their enterlris halts at nothing
They have shown creation that In the
bright vocabulary Of American national
youth, there is no such word as fail.
One OF their cities, Dutch island set
tlemen; of century or so ago, now has
half as many inhabitants as their whole
republic had when they declared them
selves free and independent, and could
raise more money in "a hours for 0
North, Central, and South American
railway scheme than the whole Cont.
mental Congress ever dreamed OF during
the seven years war of the Revolution,
An Indian frontier fort, in an unknown
wilderness of fifty years ago, has q pop
ulation OF over 100000, is the mos
beautiful city; and engineers the mos
gigantic wheat corner IN Christendom.
Emigrants are pouring in by thous
auds, daily, from every land beneath th'
sun. A railroad, few mines, cata
racts water power and little vigorou
adyertising aud work, suffice to build
city OF half a hundred thousand inhabi
: tants anywhere in a few months time
The whole continent is being checkerec
with vast railroad lines and sown broad
cast with magical cities, while privat
citizens handle revenues that dwarf tn
riches of Emperors and Kings.
Where is all this gigantic growth an'
development to end? Will not
THE CLOSE OF OUR CENTURY
see all Of North America ftom Behring'
Straight to the Isthmus of Panama, un
der one glorious free government and II
colored flag? Will not the mystical fig
ures "a. d. 1900, find us all, Canadi
ans, United Statians, MexicanE, Guats
tialians and Nicaraguars, brethren an
friends and fellow citizens. marching be
!, meath the starry banner of the free an,
the brave, to the grand common destin
OF illimitable wealth and power a1d re
nown? Then shall Columbia's prou
pet eagle (Which is being 80 numerousl
and diversihedly squeezed until h
! squawks to day., perched upon the loft
a est pinnacle crag Of the royal one ribbe
Rocky Mountains. spread bis CLOUD
4 bathed wings from the multi6oral rair
bows and frostwrought splendors Of th
Aurora BoreaIc realms to where the bil
I lowed sunshine OF the Honduran gu
: chants its ceaseless anthems to shares I
everlasting green and gold, and trump'
forth in univefse-r e-reverberating tones b
aCock- k-a-doodle- Yankee -doodle-doo' (
exnltation and defiance to all the worl
and tue rest of mankind. Earth's tw
1 greatest oceans, 5000 miles apart, sha
roll mp in laundering oratio their ech
= OF the high and glad refrain; the might
! est CULTS and grandest lakes in all crel
i tion shall join the chant; river after n
\ er, huge rolling floods, shall conspire
swell the giant pean; Superior's wave
!. old Mississippi's torrent, Niagra's misl
thunders shall roar it far and wide; u
hurricane crashing through ten thousar
II mountain gorges, from the Alleghaui
/, to the CordilIas, from the Adirondacks
!. the Sierras, shall chime il; the rsgir
I, blizzards, hurrying six inch hailston'
a on sky bounded Nebraska plains, sha
! whistle and rattle il; the catamount wi
Il shriek it, and the praire wolf shall ho'
4 il, the little owlet boot it, and the gri
u ely bear growl it; and the burden of
all shall be: America for Americana
4 One country, one flag, zwei lager. fro