ADDRESSES OF MAJOR LACEY 327 



The West is no longer there. There is the center of 

 our land. There will soon be the center of population 

 and power. 



From the Euphrates, the Tigris, and the Nile to the 

 Tiber, from the Tiber to the Seine and the Thames, from 

 the Seine and the Thames to the Hudson, the Potomac, 

 and the Mississippi, the star of empire has taken its way, 

 ever to the west ; and now it is shining brightly upon the 

 states which have been formed out of the territory of 

 Louisiana. 



