Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-10-22
County Thursda October

yvFpos AufA III tn6 AINiny fF6S6nt.
sday. October %. 1885,
name q means OF free passport in
every sea voyage or extended pere- |
grination. Tie reputation OF her
ststesmen Is borne upon the winds of !
every continent, their principles are
seeping into the hearts of monarchies,
they are now being sown around the
thrones of despotisms. And to use
the language of foreigners Gas written
by Rev. Sidney Smith) America "is
looked upon as the ark Of human hap
piness and the most splendid picture
of justice and wisdom that the world
has yet seen."
At home we are quiet as 1t could be
expected of active talents and rest
less passions. The broad bosom of
our society is as the bosom of the
grand ocean; at one time it is covered
with summer waves, at another 1t is
flooded with angry tides; on one day
It lies in beautiful, but golden re-
pose; on another storms that would
upturn mountains lash deeply the
elements Of its being. But the peace
of that ocean has yet ever healed the
wounds of its madness. Under the
olive of peace we are passing the dark
lines of the American desert and are
fast Fastening to the verge of the
western wave. Within these broad
limits every avocation, craft and pro-
fession that the genius Of Americans
can conceive are pursued with skill,
with industry, with honor. All the
wants and desires that humanity could
imagine may be gratified; all the lux
uries that mind or appetite ever feast
ed upon may be served from the eie-
ments that compose our coil and our
government. With these advantages
our nation should be great, our peo-
pie should be happy. They are indeed
aiming and advancing to more de-
lightful state. Their active talents
and bold enterprise are working anew
the materials of past intellect; they
are advancing in discovery and in the
luxuriant fields of invention and con-
ception. The brightest page in the
history of the present is the great inn
provement in letters and science.
Practical science is and has been car
ried to as high state of perfection in
this as in any other land. At home
we reap daily the rich harvests and
splendid efforts made In its advancing
state. And our hearts swell with
pride and exultation when we learn
the enviable reputation which our
countrymen possess abroad for their
profundity in this branch of useful
knowledge; when We learn that they
are constructing rail cars for the Rus
sias, erecting steamboats, on the Seine,
bearing away the palm in the statuary
art in Italy, equaling the most splen-
did specimens of painting at West
munster, teaching the arts of war to
the wandering Beduoin and drawing
maps and charts of the newly dis
covered continents and seas of the
South Pole. They are advancing
i farther. They are ranging the wide
universe OF mind and matter and sub
| iecting the whole to their plastic
hand. They are enlarging and i'm
proving the beautiful but sublime
fields of physics and philosophy, cre-
ating anew their principles, establish
ing better theories in science and
making more correct classifications in
morals and metaphysics.
j In the universal diffusion of knowl-
edge our people excel any other
nay, all the nations united. 1t is said
that !, 400 printing presses are In con-
slant operation within our national
limits, whilst but 1000 or 1,1O0 make
up the aggregate of presses in the eres1
of the world. And there are more IN
the city of New York alone than in al
the immense population of Asia
What commentary on the energy oi
American minds, on the mental tor
! por and darkness that pervade those
of the Asiatics. What contrast be-
tween the institutions Of freedom ant
those of the land of despotism.
Il Grecian statesmen, either to be In
dependent of all foreign means or tt
rely more confidently on the knowl
. edge to be gained, travelled into othel
states and, returning, more CORRECTLY
and generally taught their people thu
|. perfection OF foreign letters, govern
ments and institutions. To our coun
trymen, either from Like reasons, o.
: from magnificence, or from q zealou
!. pursuit of knowledge, do not confin'
themselves to their own national linn
,, its, but have ranged and are ranginl
!. the round globe and living air for ma
terials for composition and menta
action. Leslie domesticated himsel
in England and Ireland for the SAX
of delineations of their aristocracy an
commonalty; for the purpose of OBJ
I servation upon the wealth, the mag
nificence, the moral and political bear
), ing, the former in contrast with tn
woes, the misery, the moral, physics
and intellectual condition of the lat
:. ter. Dwight and others intereste
and instructed their rcountrymen wit
delineations of the scenery and state
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