History of Washington, the evergreen state, from early dawn to daylight; With portraits and biographies . ^Look at the countless sails which are Avhitening the boisterousseas of the stormy cape. Remember the multitudes who bravethe pestilential miasmas of the Isthmus to reach the Eldorado of their hopes. Have the coasts of China and the Indian Seasno cargoes for our Atlantic ports I Has the great country acrosswhich the Pacific Railroad would be a social, political, and Chris-tian bond of union no resouices to be developed, no products toexport < Look at it in a military point of view. Witl
History of Washington, the evergreen state, from early dawn to daylight; With portraits and biographies . ^Look at the countless sails which are Avhitening the boisterousseas of the stormy cape. Remember the multitudes who bravethe pestilential miasmas of the Isthmus to reach the Eldorado of their hopes. Have the coasts of China and the Indian Seasno cargoes for our Atlantic ports I Has the great country acrosswhich the Pacific Railroad would be a social, political, and Chris-tian bond of union no resouices to be developed, no products toexport < Look at it in a military point of view. Witli such afacility we could, in case of need, concentrate an organizedmilitia, that strongest safeguard of a free republic, upon theshores of either ocean. A few days notice would place thebone and sinew of the West beside the hardy fisherman of ourAtlantic seaboard. We should then be almost entirely securefrom invasion from without or dissension from witliin our terri-tory. Such a work would do more to weaken sectional preju-dices than the legislation of a century. Once more, I repeat,It will be
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