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ventioQS, rapidly placed the lauds in order fur culture ; hewed 

 timber down for houses, and barns and fences. Before this ad- 

 Fauc€d guard of the Kepubllc, all the obstacles have nearly dis- 

 appeared. The red man will soon be with the raamraotbj-, and 

 the few wolves that remain clear out at onc€ and forever, when 

 they hear the shrill, frightful gcream of the locomotive steam 

 whistles. And already have the republicans made some 20,000 

 milea of railroads, so that no vermin in our broad land but heare 

 with consternation its terrible unearthly voic^, and prepares te> 

 quit with all celerity, and breed no more. The Institute wa*i 

 organized, too, to promote manufactures ; and beliold here some 

 of the results, in the glittering instruments of labor, and thei? 

 wonderful products of every description. The human race uevec 

 before had such noble ones, not only dignifying hard labor by 

 giving to it a most beautiful arm in appearance, but of the best 

 form and make ever known. Such scythes as those in youd«*i' 

 case would have been selected as imperial swords by the old 

 emperors. 



Such cloths of cotton as we now make, never, sfinc^tho deluge, 

 have been made, for evenness of thread and excellence of w<^v- 

 ing, not fc)r any price whatever; such cotton cloths as we now 

 buy by the thousand acres, if you will, for six cents a yard, a 

 cloth worth more than the old, ten for one. Well, fellow- 

 citizens ! to speak these great truths about American progress is. 

 ea!=y to one wlio feels deeply as we do its grandeiu'. We had oac<> 

 a father, as he said, and now a rival^as we all know. It is a haril 

 fought game that is still playing between John Bull and us, arid 

 a much harder one was fought and won by our fathers over hirn. 

 After all, I like him; competition is the life of business. He 

 works like a bull-dog for perseverance, but he is too short in the 

 legs to keep up with us ; and he sees that alre^idy, and his great 

 sheet, the Times, Is now telling bim much about it. 



You are all young, compared with myself, and are in fuJi 

 rigor. Go on — yon will never be beaten in the cause to which 

 you devote yourselves. God has given yon a mighty inheritance | 

 go on and fill up the destiny! You and John Bull must sKake 

 Lands. He says his people beat their drums all around a great 



