A Thousand-Mile Walb 
than the islands, but no portion of this coast, 
nor of the flat border which sweeps from Mary- 
land to Texas, is quite free from malaria. All 
the inhabitants of this region, whether black or 
white, are liable to be prostrated by the ever- 
present fever and ague, to say nothing of the 
plagues of cholera and yellow fever that come 
and go suddenly like storms, prostrating the 
population and cutting gaps in it like hurri- 
canes in woods. 
The world, we are told, was made especially 
for man — a presumption not supported by all 
the facts. A numerous class of men are pain- 
fully astonished whenever they find anything, 
living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they 
cannot eat or render in some way what they 
call useful to themselves. They have precise 
dogmatic insight of the intentions of the Crea- 
tor, and it is hardly possible to be guilty of ir- 
reverence in speaking of their God any more 
than of heathen idols. He is regarded as a civ- 
ilized, law-abiding gentleman in favor either 
of a republican form of government or of a 
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