XXVI. 



Manifest Destiny.— Young America on the Move. 



*' Well," said I, " Tucker, you are making up a 

 pretty extensive government. This bringing a whole 

 continent under a common rule, will be trying a haz- 

 ardous experiment. Will there be no danger of your 

 great Eepublic falling to pieces, from its own weight, 

 and will it not be troubled by the discordant elements 

 that you would bring together ?" 



" Squire," he replied, " it would take a wiser, and 

 more larned man than me, to argy them pints, so as 

 to make 'em j^lain to a doubtin' mind. I've a notion 

 they are pints that can't be made very clear by any- 

 body, larned or simple, till the experiment, as you 

 call it, has been tried. I've thought, and studied 

 about the things you speak of, a good deal, and have 

 made up my own mind in regard to them, though, 



