. Gems of the campaign of 1880. GENERAL GARFIELD. the trade that fills our thoroughfares and supplies ourcommunities with the necessaries of life, and are allmoved by the grand mainspring—labor. Permit meto illustrate its magic powers. Eighty-four years agoa company of* forty-two surveyors landed at the mouthof Conneaut Creek, a little stream that marks theboundary between Pennsylvania and Ohio. Theylanded on the Fourth day of July, 1796, and begun theirwork by celebrating our National are many now living who were boys in theirteens when this company of surveyors began their
. Gems of the campaign of 1880. GENERAL GARFIELD. the trade that fills our thoroughfares and supplies ourcommunities with the necessaries of life, and are allmoved by the grand mainspring—labor. Permit meto illustrate its magic powers. Eighty-four years agoa company of* forty-two surveyors landed at the mouthof Conneaut Creek, a little stream that marks theboundary between Pennsylvania and Ohio. Theylanded on the Fourth day of July, 1796, and begun theirwork by celebrating our National are many now living who were boys in theirteens when this company of surveyors began theirwork. At that time from the Pennsylvania line toDetroit hardly a smoke ascended from a white manscabin. The Western Reserve was an unbroken wil-derness. Three millions of acres had just been pur-chased from the State of Connecticut for forty centsan acre. To-day the Western Reserve furnishes hap-py and comfortable homes to more than three-fourthsof a million of intelligent people. Except a Frenchsettlement, the State of India
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