The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-04-13
Our" Manifest Destiny"

Our Manifest Destiny"
Our manifest destiny is not to be
simply great agricultural nation,
but to build up the richest and
most beneficent varied industry and
commerce in the world.
We have exhaustless coal beds,
convertible into exhaustless power;
and IRON, lead, copper and the pre-
cious metals, exhaustless also. We
have broad land of varied wealth,
cotton and wool and food. With
these gifts of a beneficent Creator,
we must build up diversity of oc-
equations, giving complete scope to
all powers of body and brain, open
ing employ to all and helping to a
higher civilization.
We must train our skill, and de-
velop our artistic taste, or we fall
behind in the great and peaceful
strife of national industries. TO
be dull laggards in this noble emu
lation would be sore disaster, keep
ing us down to poverty of life, few
employments, bankruptcy and de-
pendence. Let the settled policy
of our Government be to protect
our industry, and thus develop our
great resources and the genius of
our people, and we shall show such
results in character and wealth and
finest skill as the world has never
seen. Without such policy we
shall grope on in darkness and con-
fusion, the giants trampling the
plgmies under foot, and all strik-
ing at random to each others harm.
Under the old conditions in the
South, agriculture-and that al
most wholly of one kind, in the
cotton field-was the leading and
exclusive occupation. The fact was
blight on the life of the people,
and the fortunate hour has come
When it is being cured.
In New England there was wide
range of industries, with what re-
suit let another tell. At the Fair
of the New England Agricultural
Society, in Brattleboro, VT, IN
1866, Hon. John A. Andrews,
Governor of Massachusetts,, elo-
quently said:
81 desire to attract the observa-
ton of this body of intelligent agri-
culturists to the su bject of the d.
versification of industry, in it's re-
lation to the prosperity of the Amer
lean farmer. | can do little more
than remind you that while popu-
lation has grown beyond prece-
dent, wealth has advanced beyond
population; that in proportion as
our industry has become diversified,
our capacity to purchase and en-
Joy the fruits of the earth has been
much more than correspondingly
enlarged; and that the union of the /
people in common purpose to de-
velop all their powers, by whatever
means, whether intellectual or me-
chanical, is the secret of their own
growth, and the amelioratiOn of the
estate of man.
Better fed, with more fullness
and variety; better clad. in more
garments, and those more pleasing
to the sense Of beauty; better shell
tered, by houses more commodious,
and in styles of more tasteful archi-
lecture, and more enduring quality;
with more books and newspapers,
and larger pu bic libraries; enjoy
ing incompatible more avenues and
better means for travelling, and for
transportation of goods; with ample
crops and better prices than ever
before--this very commonwealth
does, in its own current history, af-
ford the proof of the advantages of
our American aim at the largest
conquest over all the domains of
industry"
In that American aim we can
all unite, from Maine to the Gulf,
to the Golden Gate on the Pacific
coast, and the distant forests
"where rolls the Oregon.