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dred yeais more. This country is young and healthy, 

 with a sound constitution, and hain't got any chronic 

 disease about it, and it can't do anything else but 

 march on. It hain't got its growth yet, by a long 

 shot. It ain't done fillin' up with people, nor spreadin' 

 out sideways either. It will keep on extendin' and 

 extendin, till God only knows where its outside line 

 will finally be. Our people are an ambitious people, 

 proud of their government and their liberty. They've 

 got a way of makin' the people of other countries free, 

 whether they choose to be free or not. If they don't 

 like it, 'tis said to be because they ain't used to it, and 

 don't know what's for their good. I've a notion that 

 the time will come, when all America will be one 

 great brotherhood of States, livin' under a common 

 government, and the same institutions." 



