l hereditary
antipathies, and wipe away old scores in the dawn of a golden future.
Then will our brethren of the South not be slow to respond to the
proffered peace and good will and brotherly kindness, and again we
shall become a prosperous, united, and happy people.

And what a future lies before our country! What a wealth of uncultivated
fields lies waiting for the plough of the adventurous emigrant! What
unmeasured wilds wait but for the touch of enlightened and educated
labor, to blossom like the rose, to become the site of great cities and
smiling villages, the resting place of the wanderer from all quarters of
the globe, the residence of a great people, the component parts of a
mighty nation whose parallel earth has not seen since the days of the
creation! It needs but ordinary human foresight to see that here is to
be the fountain head, the permanent abiding place, of four great
interests, with which we shall rule the world: manufactures, grain,
cotton, and wine. The Great West is to feed all Europe with her harvests
of yellow grain; the South, with her cotton interest, is to clothe, not
Europe only, but the world; the Pacific States will be the 'vineland' of
America, furnishing the wherewithal to 'gladden the heart of man,' while
the manufactures of New England and the Middle States shall furnish the
implements of labor to the brethren all over the continent, and turn the
raw material both of the South and of their own sheep-feeding hills into
garments for the toiling millions of America. Here, then, we shall
produce, as no other country can, the great staples of life; and when we
add to them those considerable minor interests which we share more
equally with the rest of the world, namely, wool-growing and _mining_,
as well of the precious ores as of coal and the baser metals, how
stupendous seem our resources, how tremendous the influence we are to
wield among the great human family! And is it a necessity of social life
that these great interests should jar? that political and commercial
antagonisms should spring up between these cumulators of the world's
great stock of wealth, for no better reason than that their hands are
engaged upon a different work, or, rather, upon different branches of
the same great work of production? Nay, verily! So long as we are bound
together by a common tie of country, living and working under the same
laws and institutions, such antagonisms can only exist in the trains of
design