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settled in gloom over the Union army, McPherson spoke 

 to Grant as to the ability to get the army across the Ten- 

 nessee that night. Grant promptly replied that he would 

 resume the battle on the morrow and with Buell's fresh 

 forces he expected to win a victory. By the choice of 

 Grant the second day's battle was fought at Shiloh and it 

 was one of the turning points in our Civil War. 



A crazy and obstinate King George Third drove our 

 fathers into revolution. We do not know how much we 

 owe to the obstinacy and incompetency of mankind. 

 George Third had a statue in America appropriately cast 

 in the heaviest and dullest of lead. What an excellent 

 material for the head of the testy old tyrant ! The gun- 

 ers of 1776 melted that statue down into 42,000 bullets 

 and fired them at the red coats of the king's soldiers. 



Of all the seemingly unimportant things connected 

 with our early history, the fact that the provinces were 

 settled separately and independently has proved of the 

 greatest benefit. Each province was the germ of a state, 

 and the separate organizations of the several states is 

 the real foundation of our national union. ''An indis- 

 soluble Union of indestructible states" has been the re- 

 sult of the happy providence by which our ancestors were 

 separated into distinct provinces. 



In 1893 at Chicago we had that wonderful exhibition 

 that gave evidence to the world of the mighty progress 

 that our people had made in the four centuries that had 

 passed since Columbus sailed on his journey of discovery. 

 The two things that interested me the most of all were 

 two sheets of paper in the La Rabida Convent. One was 

 the original bull — dim with age — by which the Pope 

 Alexander VI attempted to divide the new world between 

 the Spanish and the Portuguese. The other was the 

 statement in Columbus's own handwriting in which he 

 gave Isabella a faithful account of the expenditure of the 



