The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-04-25

SNVS%SVA'N an 0XpoTIulOuI. Lie
work before the first President and his as
sociates was full of difficulty. Statesmen OF
the highest order of intellect, some, indeed,
in the Cabinet of Washington, lacked latin
even in republicanism; others trembled for
the success of the new plan. After three
months Of labor in meeting the questions
that came up, Madison, still Il member OF
Congress, wrote: I'VE are in a wilderness
without even a footstep to guide us.
Washington, q republican. from the deep
sincerity of his nature, gave to the plan the
full weight of his influence. and was tower
of strength. AS difficulties were overcome
doubts we're dispelled. The government in
a few years proved adequate to meet every
emergency. 1t was firmly established. The
third President, in his inaugural, pro-
nOuncCd it the strongest government on
earth" and the only one where every man.
at the call of the law, would fly to the
standard of the law, and would meet lnva-
sions of the public order as his own per-
Sonal concern"
Thus was the work of the revolution at
length accomplished by the embodiment Of
the ideas OF local self-government, and Of
national union in the Constitution as the
organic law, and the establishment of re-
publican government that met the wants Of
the new nation. The result was hailed with
JOY by men of liberal views all over the
world. The feeling of this school was ex-
pressed by Sir james Macintosh as he
wrote America has emerged from her
struggle into tranquility and freedom, into
affiuence and credit; and the authors of her
Constitution have constructed great per-
manent experimental answer to the soph-
isms and declarations of the detractors Of
liberty"
The results of a retrospect Of a centurys
growth in those fields which sug gest Il COM
parison between our own and the contem-
pOraneOus development Of other nations
are such as to awaken Il feeling of just pride
in every American citizen. And the refec-
tiOns naturally deduced from these results
as to the characteristic features OF our peO
pie contradict those which are drawn from
a superficial review of the social and pol I'll
cal abuses of the day, and are most reassur-
ing as to the hopeful future of this republic.
The entire policy and force of England
was directed to the suppression anu de-
structiOn of the commerce and internal i'm
provement of it's American colonies. Prior
to the year 1870, eight or ten keel-boats OF
about twenty-five tons each performed all
the carrying trade between Cincinnati and
Pitts burg. Hamilton, when Secretary of
State, in his report under the head OF coal,
notes: There are several mines in Nir-
ginia now worked. There is something"
he says, also, IN the texture Of cotton
which adapts it in peculiar degree to the
application of machines" What are coal
and cotton to this nation. to the world, to-
day? Within seven months of this year
nearly 100000 yards of our cotton cloths
competed with the British manufactures;
100000 yards went to Mexico; 5,0OO,OO) to
Central America; 100000 to the West In
dies; II 1000, 900 to South American States
100000 to China; and 100000 TO other
Asiatic countries, and, besides, we have
supplied our own 60,O00,OC0 of population.
This is the century's statement for manu-
featured cotton cloth alone.
Even Jefferson, the writer OF the imm Or