. The biography and public services of Hon James G. Blaine : giving a full account of twenty years in the national capital . should growin strength, wisdom and wealth. Its sixty thousand inhabit-ants are favored far beyond the average lot of man. They areblest with a fertile soil and with a health-giving climate,which belongs to the charmed latitude of the fortieth parallel,the middle of the wheat and corn belt of the continent. Be-yond this they enjoy the happy and ennobling influences ofscenery as grand and as beautiful as that which lures touriststhousands of miles beyond the sea. I have, m
. The biography and public services of Hon James G. Blaine : giving a full account of twenty years in the national capital . should growin strength, wisdom and wealth. Its sixty thousand inhabit-ants are favored far beyond the average lot of man. They areblest with a fertile soil and with a health-giving climate,which belongs to the charmed latitude of the fortieth parallel,the middle of the wheat and corn belt of the continent. Be-yond this they enjoy the happy and ennobling influences ofscenery as grand and as beautiful as that which lures touriststhousands of miles beyond the sea. I have, myself, visitedmany of the celebrated spots in Europe and in America, andI have nowhere witnessed a more attractive sight than wasfamiliar to my eyes, in boyhood, from the old Indian Hill Farm,where I was born, and where my great-grandfather, the elderNeal Gillespie, settled before the outbreak of the Revolution. The majestic sweep of the Monongahela through the footof the Alleghanies, with a chain of mountains, but twentymiles distant, in full view, gave an impression of beauty andsublimity which can never be 23 I talk thus familiarly of localities and of childhood in-cidents because your assemblage, though composed of thousandswill, in effect, be a family reunion, where the only thing inorder will be tradition and recollections, and personal as I have been, for twenty-eight years, with a greatand noble people in another section of the Union, I have neverlost any of my attachments for my native county and mynative State. The two feelings no more conflict than does amans love for his wife and his love for his mother. WhereverI may be in life, or whatever my fortune, the County of Wash-ington, as it anciently was, taking in all the State south andwest of the Monongahela, will be sacred in my memory. Ishall always recall with pride that my ancestry and kindredwere, and are, not inconspicuously connected with its history,and that on either side of the b
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