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world, that the seed of our kind of government should 

 have been sown away off in the wilderness, three thou- 

 sand miles from the old kingly governments, where it 

 could take root in a nateral way, and grow up regular, 

 till it got to be strong. If the old kings of Europe 

 had known that there was a young giant over the 

 ocean, sleepin' off here in the forests, and knowd that 

 his joints were knittin', and his bones and muscles 

 growin' in strength, and that he would one day rise 

 up, and snatch the richest jewels from some of their 

 crowns, they'd have taken some considerable pains to 

 strangle him in his cradle. But they didn't know it, 

 and the young giant himself didn't know the strength 

 he was gatherin', and he grew on, till 'twas thought 

 he could be harnessed into servitude. Then he reared 

 himself like a giant, as he was, and defied the world. 



" Now, Squire, the people that settled this country 

 were of the kind to push ahead and keep movin'. 

 They did such great and wonderful things in con- 

 vertin' the wilderness into green fields, that they took 

 up the notion that there warn't anything that they 

 couldn't do. They learned their children to march 

 on. March on, has been the word for more than two 

 hundred years, and it will be the word for two hun - 



