The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-05-29

industries, tne Ngpt Oh entefpIlset tu0 ivy
Of prosperity blend In sweetest harmony
along every valley and are echoed from
every mountain peak. Civil service, no
longer an unmeaning phrase, has become
the pride and boast Of the nation. Men
keenest eye, and OF broadest brain, OF truest
wisdom, deepest philosophy and widest
sympathies are the nations leaders to the
highest Pisgahs. Capital and labor walk
the earth! hand In hand, q mutual benedtc'
ton. Mormonism, communism, nihilism,
have been disintegrated, and like the
possessed swine Of the GadareneG, oil which
they are the successors, gone to their native
deeps. Peace waves her glad sceptre Ger
all the land. Joy greets the rising sun
with a hymn OF praise and welcomes the
evening shades with song OF thanksgiv-
ing. Prosperity has filled to overaOwing
the horn OF plenty. Piety has cemeuted
the hearts Of the people to each other and
TO God. The union has made the nation
inyincible and invulnerable. Towering
above the nations, like 40 eagle above its
native hills, we look down upon lettering
thrones and crumbling dynssties, con-
scious that We are safe from internal con-
vulsion ,r Of outward assault Manhood Is
honored in its weakest subject and wears
Its brightest crown, while from near and
from far is heard the eulogy OF the Psalmist,
"Happy is the people that Is in such q case;
yea happy Is the people whose God Ia the
Lord. sHof y 't q. SARGE!
II. I have but time to mention the ele-
ments that constitute the manhood re-
quired by the times. i
l. Intelligence" Education" says
Burke, sis the cheap defence OF nations.
Ignorance, we know TO be the mother OF
superstition. ignorance is to the soul what
the cage is to the eagle, the rock to the
Diamond. 1t dwarfs, degades, imprisons
and conceals. Not until you have tiung
back the iron bars and permitted the noble
bird to feel and try lis pinions can you
witness It's majestic flight. Not until you
have pressed the diamond TO the Yhirling
wheel, until the last incrustation is re-
moved will it fash back its dazzling light.
And SO the soul must have broken Tor 1t the
letters OF Ignorance; 1t must try and train
its powers ere it can battle with the tenn.
pests OF evil and OF error and find its home
above the clouds. Is must be freed from
its gross enxrappipg ere j can blaze with
snpernal light Culture, then, my friends,
ID lnulbpenslOI6 ~ mhuuUou. Wlthout ~
we can never either know or be ourselves.
We can never enter upon our richest in:
heritance, or do our noblest work To all
men ignorance is degradation, to the
American freeman It is crime. nL
9. The Second Element Of this Manhood
Is Patriotism.-This regarded simply as
love OF country Is an almost universal pas
sion It burns In the bosom OF the savage
and il fires the heart OF the statesman. The,
poet rises to rhapsody in its praise and the
orator stirs the multitude as a
storm.swept sea by his appeals
to its claims. The eye OF child
hood CLEANS and its bosom heaves as 1t
listens TO the story Of his country's glory,
and the heart Of age, like that OF Ell, breaks
at the mention Of its disaster. What is
man without 1t? Scott has sung: