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ness, and you plant it with fertile farms — furnished with 

 rare wigwam encampments, and you strew it over with 

 splendid palaces and great cities. Energy, discernment, 

 constructive talent and administrative skill, must all be 

 united to accomplish such results, so rapidly, so safely, so 

 securely. I thank you for inviting me to come among you, 

 that I might see all this, and might enjoy the gratification 

 which the sight of progress of such a kind imparts. It 

 will be to me a source of future satisfaction, if I shall be 

 able, on reflection, to believe that my visit to your country 

 has in any way contributed to the further or more safe ad- 

 vancement among you of that pursuit, which is the surest 

 support of nations — whether in the Old World or in the 

 New. 



