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raise their voices in favor of the Virginia route, and 

 demand the money to open it. When that is done, they 

 will not want Canada, and we shall have peace. Thus 

 you see, my friend, I am aiming high and striking far. 

 But with a few heads such as yours to help, we would hit 

 the mark as sure as a gun". Not only in his correspond- 

 ence, but also in the press as well as in his speeches he 

 continued to advocate direct trade between the South 

 and Europe through the establishment of a Norfolk to 

 Flushing line of steamers, which would turn the tide of 

 immigration toward the Southern States. 



On the 18th of September, 1872, Maury spoke to the 

 Farmers' Club of Norfolk, Massachusetts, near Boston. 

 On this occasion, he made a very tactful speech with 

 happy references to his old friend John Quincy Adams, 

 and used only the portions of his previous speeches in 

 favor of meteorological and agricultural observations, 

 that were best adapted to a Northern audience. From 

 here he traveled to St. Louis by way of New York, 

 Niagara Falls (Buffalo), Detroit, and Chicago. On 

 October 9, before the St. Louis Agricultural and Me- 

 chanical Association at its annual fair, he spoke as in the 

 year previously on the plan of international cooperation, 

 using the same arguments but adding that at the recent 

 International Congress of Statisticians at St. Petersburg, 

 Russia his scheme had been cheered ''by the huzzas of 

 Russians, hochs of Germans, vivas of Latin races, and 

 the hurrahs of the English", and that a special commit- 

 tee had been appointed to further the movement. 



Maury was so exhausted, however, by the time he 

 reached St. Louis and was so ill that he could hardly 

 read his address in an audible tone. As a matter of 

 fact, in the summer preceding this lecture tour he had 



