They Develop Their
Resources, And Open Out The Currents Of Trade, With An Energy Equal
To Our Own.
They are always at work - improving, utilizing, and
creating.
Austria, as I take it, is succumbing to monetary
difficulties, not because she has been extravagant, but because she
has been slow at progress; because it has been the work of her
rulers to repress rather than encourage the energies of her people;
because she does not improve, utilize, and create. England has
mastered her monetary difficulties because the genius of her
government and her people has been exactly opposite to the genius of
Austria. And the States of America will master their money
difficulties, because they are born of England, and are not born of
Austria. What! Shall our eldest child become bankrupt in its first
trade difficulty; be utterly ruined by its first little commercial
embarrassment! The child bears much too strong a resemblance to its
parent for me to think so.
CHAPTER XIII.
THE POST-OFFICE.
Any Englishman or Frenchman residing in the American States cannot
fail to be struck with the inferiority of the post-office
arrangements in that country to those by which they are accommodated
in their own country. I have not been a resident in the country,
and as a traveler might probably have passed the subject without
special remark, were it not that the service of the post-office has
been my own profession for many years. I could therefore hardly
fail to observe things which to another man would have been of no
material moment.
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