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away to Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario, and old Cham- 

 plain, and show him the four or five thousand boats, 

 constantly movin' upon their waters. Point out to 

 him the tracks of the railroads, crossin' each other all 

 over the face of the country, like lines upon a checker- 

 board, and show him the iron horse dashin' away 

 with his long train of cars, thirty and may be forty 

 miles an hour, and let him hear his mighty scream. 

 Tell him to look upon the great rivers, and see the 

 gigantic steamboats movin' away, like a whole street 

 of a city, fifteen or twenty miles an hour, agin' wind 

 and tide. Tell him that every dollar of them hundreds 

 of millions, has been paid, and that mor'n forty mill- 

 ions have been divided among the States. Tell him 

 that the thirteen States, that he left behind him, have 

 come to be thirty-one. That some of them are away 

 down on the Gulf of Mexico, and one of 'em on the 

 other side of the Eocky Mountains. I reckon, when 

 he comes to understand all this, he'd be considerably 

 astonished, and would wonder how it could all have 

 happened. 



It's a curious thing, Squire, to look back and see 

 how amazingly this country has gone ahead, and to 



follow its trail, as it moved, like a giant, onward. 



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