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and war, in prosperity and adversity. Maryland has always 

 stood by us, as friends, whom we esteem, admire, and love. 

 The Kentuckians are bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh 

 — ■we are one people. And do what they will to prevent it, 

 at home, the young Virginians who travel will visit us; and 

 having seen us, they will tarry here. The young men of 

 Virginia, having seen us, our Canals and River, our Lake and 

 our Roads, all covered with moving, active, and enterprising 

 people, — having seen all our people, in their towns, or on their 

 farms — all employed, all engaged in active industry of some 

 sort, naturally forsake dull, old Virginia, now " tired" out, and 

 settle down here. The political power is departing from the 

 East to the West— even now, a majority of the nation live in 

 the Valley of the Mississippi. What then, will be the relative 

 strength of the East and the West twenty-three years hence? 

 And what will it be one hundred years hence, when the old 

 Northwestern Territory alone, will contain thirty millions of 

 people? 



GENERAL CHARACTER OP THE PEOPLE. 



The act of congress of 1787, justly considered as the Mag- 

 na Charta of Ohio, and all of the states northwest of the Ohio 

 river, ordained that there never should be here, slavery, or in- 

 voluntary servitude. That act widely promulgated, all over 

 the world, arrested the special attention of all the genuine 

 lovers of liberty and haters of slavery, in all lands. Hence 

 we have had flowing towards us, a flood of immigrants who 

 love liberty. Made up of such ingredients, it is easy to con- 

 ceive, that with the addition of the young, the enterprising, 

 athletic, bold, daring and ambitious, of all states and all coun- 

 tries, the whole mass would be such as never was found any 

 where else in the world. The result of their labors, thus far, is 

 seen, in this volume and we challenge all history to produce its 

 parallel. In vain do we look into the tomes of history, or listen 

 to the tales of gray tradition, in order to find any other state, 

 now, or ever in existence, that, in fifty years, increased from. 



