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quickest, cheapest transit in her every section for intercommu- 

 nication with the produce of her farms and manufactures. 



We must, in short, re-people our acres if we continue to 

 maintain our noble prestige and political pre-eminence. Unless 

 we do this, by the growth of our Western sister States, quad- 

 ruple and quintuple in territory, we must in the end, even with 

 our noble race of men, pale away to insignificance. 



In short we must afford any and every facility to our people, 

 and do away with every obstacle that stands in our path. We 

 can in this way, and in this way only, sustain the most dense, 

 active, industrious and therefore virtuous population in the 

 whole sisterhood of States. 



