The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-12-05

battles OF Bull Run. of Pittsburg Landing
of Seven Pines and Fair Oaks, Antietan
Fredericksburg, Viclsburg. Gettysburg
and Sherman's triumphant march to th
sea, when that invincible soldier wire;
the telegram 90 Neutrality-suspicious.
oars, aud fairly won.- Nor need W
speak of the surrender of Lee after til
, fall OF Petersburg on the one day and tina
of Richmond on the next. Now Johnsoi
surrenders and all organized resis;anc
ceases.
Bat what have been the salatary fruit
of s1ch a vast expenditure OF blood an,
treasure? First, the material development
OF the South. Staggering under load q
poverty and disoouragementw which nigh
have appalled, any other people, with th'
addition of social problems which nC
other country has solved with any degre
OF satisfaction, the Southern people ar
beginning to feel the atmosphere of fire,
labor. The white man has gone TO work
While white labor produced only ten pc
cent. of the cotton crop in 1850, in 1886 i
produced fiffy-five per cent Southern
railways which had made but meagr,
comparison with those ofthe North anC
West in 1860 now begin 10 assume some
thing of the network appearance of the
latter they also are beginning to concen-
trate into systems To reduce rates anC
expensive service, and TO develop new
territory. Southern manufactures now
begin to affect Northern markets cotton
mills in the South begin TO reap the ad
vantages of their immediate contiguity to
the raw material. Pennsylvania iron
masters were startled a. their product
was unders old in the Philadelphia mark.
cts by Southern iron, and the great min.
eral fields OF Ten nesee and Alabama, and
Mississippi, over which Sherman's and
Hoods men had so lately marched, and
had been fighting upon, were brought into
notice and development. Wonderful as
the general progress of the United States
has been during the last three decades,
the share of the New South under free
labor has been one of the most remariSa-
bic phases.
Again our nation makes for itself a
place among the nations of the earth.
While she exhibited her ability to main
tain her national unity, yet at the same
time the sovereignty of each individual
State prevents the general Government
from developing into centralized tyrran-
ny. There is only one single nation in
Central North America-Only one power
recognized in this domain-the territory
now occupied by the United States.
Thank God constitutional democracy has
certainly shown its ability to conserve the
unity of lis empire.
Who were the heroes who put their
lives in jeopardy TO preserve this our her
iilge? In the halls of Liberty's Temple
there stands Major George Il. Mcclellan.
As an organizer of vast bodies of men the
modern Xerxes, and in noble impulses a.
generous - Cesar. As the venerable Scott
lay down his command at his feet one is
reminded of gray-haired NestOr as:he de-
liyers his sword to the youthful Achilles.
Now stands forth Abraham Lincoln; in
physical proportion standing like Saul,
head and shoulders above all his contem-
poiaries; a paragon of wit-as full ofper-
s)nal magnetism as "A galvanic battery,
with heart tender as woman's and
with courage firm rs granite; he fails al
the hand ola malicious assassin. Like
another Moses he led his people through
the wilderness only to die in sight OF the
promised land. And last but not least
that incompatible champion-an Ulysses
in the subjugation of his enemies and
magnanimous beyond all precedent tow
ards them when surrendering! Now that
soft-eyed peace holds in her white hand
the golden horn of plenty, may that glad
millennium soon dawn when the last yes-
tige of sectionalism shall be eliminated,
when there shall be no North, no South,
no East, no West. May the glad morn
soon smile upon us when there shall be
no differences as to economic questions,
when the golden palm of the East shall
grasp the silver hand of the West and
the great Northwest, when the lofty pine
of the North shall stoop low enough 10
catch the sweet fragrance of the blushing
Southern rose, and when with one united
orchestra shall be heard as the sound OF
many waters the iubilant voices of sew
enty-millions rolling forth the grand
diapason-"rhe Union nov and Forever,
one and Inseparable."
B. We should offer thanks unto God
for our national resources.
Agriculture has been the chief and most
characteristic work Of the American peo-
pie, that in which they have achieved the
greatest results in proportion to the
resources at command, that in which heI
economic superiority has been most
strikingly apparent. In its magnitude,
resources and possibilities this country is
unparalleled. Several nations of Europe
could be dropped into it, and become lost
To view. Great streams of immigration
have been pouring in for fifty years, and
yet vast spaces are yet unoccupied by
human inhabitants. The extent of ter
ritory in the Republic amazes us. More
people than the earth now contains may
yet be domiciled within its lines. But
the extent ofterritory is less remarkable
than the resources of the country. Not
withstanding we feed nearly seventy
millions of people, our granaries are full
to repletion. Our product of grain is
rapidly swelling to proportions sufficient
to meet the demands of the world. And
vet our efforts at cultivation are only
tentative. The possibilities before us are
l.. ill
nished facilities for making this country
the richest on the globe all the raw ele-
ments of wealth are here in sea, sky and
soil.
Our mineral resources are marvellous.
Pennsylvania alone produces more than
half the coal raised in the United States,
and about one-eighth of the total yield of
the world. She IS not only the keystone
of the Arch but she is the King of Black
Diamonds. We'll may her own poet
sing
Fair Pennsylvania! than thy mid
land wales lying twixt hills of green and
bound afar by biilowy mountains rolling
in the blue. No lovelier landscape meets
the travellers eye. There Labor sows and
reaps its sure reward, and Peace and
Plenty walk amid the glow and perfume
of full garners.r
In 1855 the amount of coal produced in
the several States and territories mot
including the local and colliery consump-
tom was far beyond ninety-five million
tons and valued at the mines at more