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COLUMBIAN
? EDITION. ?
PART FIRST.
ILLUSTRATED.
CuttltoburgSK telegram.
Deooted to praatioal Information, gome ftevee, Pure politios, and tbe Qecelopment of VQest Virginia's Resources
VOL.SXXXII.~NO. 16.
CLARKSBURG, W. YA., MARCH 3, 1893.
WHOLE NO. 1570
elapsed since Christopher
Columbus,standing upon the
fore-castle of his little > hip,
the Santa Maria, so " rising
from the billows of "old
ocean" the majestic shore
of the New World. Four
hundred years is but a span
in history; yet four hu?dred
years from the time of her
discovery, America invites
the nations of the earth to
come and witness upon her
own soil the greatest expo
sition of recorded time.
The honor of delivering
opening oration at the dedi
cation was bestowed upon
IIekky Wattkrsqn the emin
ent journalist and lecturer of
Louisville. The speech will
be accorded a place among
the master-pieces of Ameri
can oratoryand was in part as
follows:
"We are met this day to
honor the memory of Chris
topher Columbus, to cele
brate the 400th annual re
turn of the year of his trail
homogeneous and truly American.
The young manhood of H coun
try may take thin lesson from those
of us who lived through times that
did, indeed, try men's souls? when,
pressed down from day to day by
awful responsibilities ami suspense,
each night brought a terror with
every thought of the morrow, aiul
when, look where we would, there
were light and hope nowhere?that
God reigns and wills, and this fair
land is, and has always been, in his
own keeping.
The curse of slavery is gone. It
was a joint heritage of woe, to be
wiped out and expiated in blood and
flame. The mirage of the Confed
eracy has vanished/ It was essen
tlgfield or the frontier Puritan and
Cavalier wore not convertible terms,
having in the beginning a common
origin, and so diffused ami diluted
on American soil as no longer to
possess a local habitation, or a na
tivity, except in the national unit.
The men who planted the signals
of American civilization upon that
sacreil rock by Plymouth Bay were
Englishmen, and so wero the men
who struck the coast, a little lower
down, calling their haven of rest
aftcrthe great republican commoner
ami-founding by Hampton Roads a
race of heroes and statesmen the
mention of whose names bring a
thrill to every heart The South
claims Lincoln, the immortal for its
meniun. Christian ami .low?the
American, loving no country except
his own, but loving all mnukiiul as
his brother, bids you enter aiul fear
not; bids you partake with us of
these fruits of 400 years of Ameri
can civilization and developement,
and behold these trophies of 100
years of American independence
and freedom.
At this moment in every part of
the American Union the children
are taking up the wondrous tale of
the discovery, and from Boston to
Galveston, from the little log school
house in the wilderness to the tower
ing academy in the city and the
town, may he witnessed the uapre
cedented spectacle of a powerful
WWW
'IENCK, imluR
trial develop.
Epcnt mid tlir
advanc ement of
thohiinuin raeo
have since the
earliest ageH de
peudcd in 11 ,? h
upon physical
i'ii n<1 i t ions.
Whore nature
solved thi> prob
lem of e x i n t ?
once must satis
factory jmj bo
accorue<1 tho
place where, if not. the cradle
of the human race, at leant tho
?radle nf civilization was tirst
?oeked. "So when the ciirtaiu
roes lip on aiiUipi'ty.?say in
In- 'J:'.rd >Tuliiry I!. (? we
!w?vo disclosed lo view the
.cnerableligures of two civil)
'.ations: that in the Nile Val
ley and that in Olmldica."
As it was in the antique
MP sii it is to-day, and
Clarksburg, a city renting upon
it soil holding in it* embrace
Hie richest gifts of nature, sur
rounded by those picturesque
hills whose fertile soil pro
duces abundant crops and
whose carbon foundations will
solve the problem of fuel for
ages, otlers unparalleled in
ducements to persons desiring
to locate manufactories.
We desire to repeat, with
emphasis, what we said in a
former number of the Tki.k
uram. Clarksburg's claims are
not extravagant not merely
imaginative. They urc based
upon incontrovertible facts.
The prosperity of her people,
her rich coal lieds and her
1 fanning areaF exist an living
twenty centuries can l>e compared
with tnose four centurieB, either in
importance or in interest, as no pre
vious ceremonial can be compared
with this in its wide significance and
reach; because, since
the advent of the
Son of God, no event
has had so great an
influence upon- hu
man aifairs as the
discovery o f the
Weste'nHemisphere.
Each of the centuries
that have interven
ed marks many revo
lutions. The merest
catalogue would
crowd n thousand
pages. The story of
the least of the na
tions would fill a vol
ume. In what I have to say upon
this occasion, therefore, I shall con
fine myself to our own. We are a
race of inventors and workers, not
of poets and artists. We have led
the world's movement, not its
thought. Our deeds are to be found
not upon freBCoed walls,
or m ample libraries, but
in the machine shops,
where the Bpindles sing
and the looms tlwnder;
on the open plain where
the steam plow, the reap
er and the mower con
tend with one another
in friendly war against
obduracies of nature ; in
the magic of electricity
as it penetrates the dark
est cavern with its irre
sistible power and light
Let us consider ourselves
and our conditions, as
far as we are able, with
a candor untinged by
cynicism, and a confi
dence having no air of
assurance.
We have in our own
time seen the republic
survive an irrepressible
conflict, sown in the
blood and marrow of the
social order. We have
seen the Federal Union,
not too strongly put to
gether in the first place,
come out of a great war
of sections stroncer than
when it went into it, its faith renew
ed, its credit rehabilitated
and its flag saluted with
love and homage by 60,000,
000 of God - fearing
men and women,
thoroughly reconciled,
letter and the spirit of the sublime
declaration. The fetters that bound
her to the earth are burst asunder.
The rags that degraded her beauty
are cant aside. Like the enchanted
princess in the legend, clad in spot
less raiment, and wearing a crown
of living light, she steps in the per
fection of her maturity upon the
scene of this, the latest and proudest
of her victories, to bid a welcome to
fVtHJMItf "S
the world!
There is no geography in Ameri
can manhood. There are no sections
to American fraternity. It needs
but six weeks to change a Vermon
ter into a Texan, and there never
has been a timu when upon the bat
one typ
,wnr. for
_ ..or will it! The time is
comitygp in almost here, when
banging above many a mantle-hoard
in fair New England?glorifying
tnuny a cottage in the Sunny South
?shall be seen bound together, in
everlasting love and honor, two
cross-swords earried to battle re
spectively by the grandfather who
wore the blue and the grandfather
who wore the pray.
All nations and all creeds be wel
come here; from the Bosporus and
the Black Sea, The Viennese woods
and tlio Dunubian plainn ;from Hol
land dike to Alpine craig; from
Belpraile and Calcutta, and round
to China seas and the butty niartH of
Japan, the itiles of tho Pacific and
the far-away capes of Africa?Ar
nation captured l>y an army 01 imii
putians, of embryo men and women,
of topling boys and girls, and tiny
elves scarce bin enough to lisp the
numbers of the national anthem,
scarce strong enough to lift the min
iature flags that make of arid street
and autumn wood an emblematic
garden, to gladen, the sight and to
glorify the red, white and blue. See
Oar yoniig barbarians all at play,
for better than these we have noth
ing to exhibit. They, indeed, are
our crown jowels; the truest, though
the inevitable, offsprings of our
civilization and developement; the
representatives of n manhood vital
ized and invigorated by toil and
care of a womanhood elevated and
inspired by liberty and education.
God bless the children and their
mothers! God bless our country's
"flag!"
witnesses In point of population,
wealth, location, public building*,
beautiful private residences, natural
and supplied conveniences u n d
picturesque surroundings, where is
there an interior town that, can stand
beside Clarksburg as a respeetablo
rival? Her fires are fed from the
?trongeHt gatt well in
t h t> world; her
. strectH and homt'H are
lighted l>y artificial go*
and electricity ; the me
chanical arrangement*
' of her nyhtem of water
water work# could not
l>e well improved upon.
In that, onward inarch
of induHtrial develop
ment that Iuih come to
this fortunate MM-tiou
of the State, ('larks! urg
haH always <iccu])ied a
forward position. Kail
road? enter Olorkubnrg
from four direction*, west from Cin
cinnati, east from Washington and
north from Pittsburg, while the "W.
Va. & P. K. K. is rapidly pushing
its lineB soutli to connect with the
great 0. & O. trunk lines.
West Virginia lias often
been called Tub 8 w i t z i: r -
i.an'I) of America, ami Tub
Little Mountain State, on
account of her picturesque
mountain*, beautiful liilln,
dashing rivers and pure
sweet air.?Kitty'* Jland Hook
oj the U. S.
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The Clarksburg Tki.koram
is keeping its subscribers in
anxjous suspense a waiting
the appearance of its World's
Kair edition. The Tei.eoram
is a very pretty paper in its
every day clothes, and w?
don't wonder at its readers
longing to see it in its beauti
ful Columbian attire.?Wes
ton Demacrat.
V
The climate of West Vir
ginia is the most equable of
all the States in the nation,
there being no prolonged
seasons of extremes of heat
or cold, but a happv medium.
V
Cheap lands, cheap homes
and cheap living are the at
tractions for locating inWest
Virginia. You will make a
mistake in seeking further
for the means of existence
and shelter.
V
Wohk has been re^nmed
on the site for the
new, Clarksburg
union depot.