A.DDRESS. 



There are at least four grand natural divisions of the United 

 States. They are known as the Eastern, Southern, Western 

 and Pacific sections. They are by nature distinguished each 

 from the others, by the differences in the character and wealth 

 of their important agricultural productions. These differences, 

 which are recognized by all, arise from the influences of 

 climate, soil, topography and geographical situation. 



But the differences in the agricultural productions of the 

 several sections have not been more marked tlian the differences 

 in the great characteristics of their several populations. The 

 Eastern and Southern sections were settled by people of the 

 same I'ace and nation, yet within a brief period there were 

 developed in each of the two great communities, distinct, 

 national types of character. The original settlements of tlie 

 Western and Pacific sections were made principally l)y people 

 from the Eastern section, who, with their descendants, have 

 since exerted a powerful influence in the moulding of the 

 characters of their several populations. 



Yet within the short period which has elapsed since their 

 first settlements, there have been developed in the people of 

 these sections great and distinct peculiarities of character, those 

 of each dissimilar from those of the other, and those of both 

 widely differing from the characteristics of the communities of 

 either of the older sections. 



