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&mdash;From Moderator.

 

 

Human talent, industry, wisdom, and skill, under the favoring blessing of Heaven, must now go forth to sow and to gather in the harvest of the earth. We are teaching lessons of political economy which the world has never heard before. It is a noble dispensation for our country. Other nations may see us, but not with the vines or olives of Italy or France, nor with the oranges and grapes of Spain or Portugal, nor even the rich and glowing verdure and teeming harvests of England and the lowland of Scotland. The magnificence of their time-honored architecture we have not attained. And yet there are intelligence, prosperity, dignity, independence, and self-respect marking the laboring classes of our population, which lifts us far above all envy of the grandeur and glory of European display. They see that we have a people, flourishing and prosperous beyond comparison

It is the province of America to build, not palaces, but men; to exalt, not titled stations, but general humanity; to elevate, not the few, but the many; and to make herself known, not so much in individuals as in herself, spreading to the highest possible level (but striving to keep it level still), universal education, prosperity, and honor. The great element of this whole plan of effort and instruction, is the moral relative dignity of labor; an element which we are to exalt, in public estimation, in the 