. Ethnic elements and national problems in the novels of Charles Sealsfield. culture and civilization, and before the laws,which grow too strong fcr them. But their doings have not been worthless. Agains-their will, they have been forced by want and need to clear forests, make pathsthrough the pathless wilderness, and till trie earth for better successors. Withsuch wild, desperate characters, originated the paradisian hills and valleys ofKentucky, the excellent farms of Ohio, and the magnificent meadows of Tennessee. They have gone many thousands of miles - their works have remained. The;have
. Ethnic elements and national problems in the novels of Charles Sealsfield. culture and civilization, and before the laws,which grow too strong fcr them. But their doings have not been worthless. Agains-their will, they have been forced by want and need to clear forests, make pathsthrough the pathless wilderness, and till trie earth for better successors. Withsuch wild, desperate characters, originated the paradisian hills and valleys ofKentucky, the excellent farms of Ohio, and the magnificent meadows of Tennessee. They have gone many thousands of miles - their works have remained. The;have become the foundation of the happiness of millions of free, civilised, andreligious citizens, who pray to the God of their fathers in thousands and thousandsof temples, in places where formerly only the wild Indian hunted. We love to seethe culture of cur land break through unto the borders of the second ocean; welove well to glide fcr thousands of miles down the gigantic stream, in our mag-nificent floating palaces, and en sassant, it may be said, collect a rich harvest. 128 of dollars from the extremity of our union. Tie must net consider those men whohelp ua in achieving these wonders, altogether worthless, and avoid any collisionwith them - the less, as there is many a respectable character among them. Themouth which breathes the mephitic vapors of the Mississippi and Red River swamps,is not fit to chew raisins> that hand which felled out gigantic trees, and drainsour bogs, cannot be covered with kid gloves. Our land is the land 01 contrast -the land in which the life of man shows itself before our eyes as it was threethousand years ago, and as it is now. In our Eastern States, the highest cul-ture exists - in some parts, even higher than the European, with many of the vicesof their debauched civilization. In the farthest vest may be seen that commencement of civilization as it was brought over the Blach Sea by Saturn and Jupiter,who were in recompense adored as gods; an
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