Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1893 — We're Headed Right Again. [ARTICLE]

We're Headed Right Again.

“As the member of an infant empire, as a philanthropist by character and, if I may be allowed the expression, as a citizen of the great republic of humanity at large, * '* * I cannot avoid reflecting with pleasure on the probable influence that commerce may have on human manners and society in general. I consider how mankind may be connected like one great family In fraternal ties. I indulge a fond, perhaps an enthusiastic, idea, that as the world is evidently much less barbarous than it has been its melioration must still be progressive; that nations are becoming more humanized in their policy, and in fine that the period is not very remote when the benefits of a liberal and free commerce will pretty generally succeed to the devastations and horrors of war. ” George Washington. August 15, 1786. The third European cholera epidemic (1865) lasted ten years.