A Sportsman 195 



Times have changed since the time of George the 

 Fourth and Lord North, when representatives of 

 rotten burroughs and kingly idiocy could declare 

 war against the wish of the people, when foreign 

 mercenaries could be hired to conquer freedom. And 

 the greatest rebellion of history was overcome. 



Patrick Henry said in the Virginia Assembly: 

 "Three millions of people armed in the holy cause 

 of Liberty are invulnerable to any foe the enemy can 

 send against us." 



Yet, in the Civil War a vast number larger were 

 engaged for independence from the Union. Yet the 

 liberty they fought for was not obtained, but occurred 

 in the freedom of millions of slaves. Happily, dis- 

 sension was averted, and now will go forward clearly, 

 absolutely, and distinctly the Americanizing of the 

 world. 



Mention has heretofore been made of the Union 

 Pacific Railroad, which was proceeding with great 

 rapidity, and more so than any railroad ever before 

 built, accomplishing in one day during its building 

 across the plains the laying of ten miles of rails, and 

 the completion of the railroad in its connection with 

 the Central Pacific Railroad from California was 

 made at Promontory, beyond Ogden, in 1869. 



I have no doubt but Jay Gould acquired over 

 twenty-five millions of dollars first and last from the 

 Union Pacific Railroad, largely increasing his for- 

 tune at the expense of the road, and from his actions 

 the road was mainly thrown into the hands of a public 

 receiver. He was not interested in the first building 

 of the road, but its condition afterwards presented a 

 grand object for his peculiar manipulations, which 



