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This ragged land conceals the germ of kindly usefulness. It awaits but a word from man to pass into a state of civilization. There are immense lakes or rather seas, destined to create a coastiug trade ;and the sixty rivers, although obstacles at the outs t, will become later great highways, binding together the various centres of population. And at last the great Mississippi, the father of waters, will draw all these navigable streams in his course of a thousand leagues and bear them along in triumph with their fleets to the Gull of Mexico. And they will advance ever and ever westward, (for civilization follows the course of the sun,) and wherever they go they will find the same climate as in England ;the same winter and the same summer. They may believe if they will, that they have brought the seasons of Europe with them, sewn in the folds of their cloaks. They will be able to carry to their new home the productions of the old country; their wheat and hemp; their gardens and orchard-. They will be able to carry with them the companions of their early life, -the ox, the horse, the dog, the sheep, c. Men and flocks will land in families, and after a voyage of fifteen hundred leagues, they will seem to Live passed to the other shore of their own country. II. But a day will come when this colony, scarcely a century old, born of labor and multiplied by labor, will wish to rise and rank as a nation, and manage its own household. Then it will have to struggle desperately with the mother-country, the first maritime power, and perhaps also the first military power of Europe. But North America will have confidence in her destiny. An inward voice will say to her :D owhat you fear to do !A fter the strife with nature, comes the strife with England. This will only be changing the battlefield, and America will win the day. She will force England to sign the certificate o
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