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vigor to the arterial tides of life pulsating from the great heart of the 

 Republic to its extremities ? Agriculture with its varied productions 

 and diffusive interests must solve the problem. Aye, practically, 

 scientific agriculture will still be found adequate to supply the wants of 

 all; still binding the extremities to the center, and that center to free- 

 dom, as anatomical ligaments unite the bones in healthful articulation. 

 Like as the belt of wampum passing from tribe to tribe of the aborigi- 

 nes was the precursor and herald of the pipe of peace, so shall the 

 sheaf of wheat remain, from ocean to ocean, and from the lakes to the 

 gulf, the symbol of amity, and the token of brotherhood. 



What a magnificent spectacle is looming up to view in the nearing 

 future! Countless millions of freemen, with one common interest — 

 one common language — one common country, and one common ban- 

 ner — all basking in the full fruition of industrial products, and still 

 wafted onward by the tide of successful experiment and progressive 

 improvement ! Then shall the temple of liberty stand out in matchless 

 symmetry, from base to architrave, and fiom entablement to dome; all 

 over, glorious, and Hashing forth light in long lines of brightness; not 

 from the emblazonry of war and slaughter, but from records and in- 

 scriptions of high attainment in the varied arts of peace — of triumphs 

 of science, and achievements of mind. 



Indulgent hearers! Allow me, in fancy, to carry you forward a 

 century, and then transport you to the dome of that temple. Is it not 

 a matchless observatory? How the eye drinks in the prospect of 

 nature and humanity before it ! What a diversity of objects meets 

 our enraptured gaze ! The earth teems with flocks and herds, and 

 with the multitudinous throngs of human life I It is reeling under the 

 rich burden of its own productions in every stage of maturity ! The 

 rivers, lakes and seaboards are plowed by steamers, and whitened by 

 canvass. Through the valleys, across the plains, over the hills and 

 around the mountains, the country seema everywhere divided, and yet 

 united by the network of highways, canals, railroads and telegraph 

 lines. It is the grand panorama of nature and art in happy, prosperous 

 America ! 



But hark! There is a sound upon the breeze. Faintly it first 

 reaches us, from the east, hke the distant evening chime. Now it is 

 echoed back from the mountains in the west. Again it is caught up 



