History of Tennessee, its people and its institutions . Brown, Brown, Trousdale, and Campbell. [95 turn with me to the West—the mighty West—where the setting sun clipsher broad disk in the western ocean. Look down through the misty dis-tance to the shores of the Pacific, withall its bays and harbors and your eyes as far as the Russianpossessions, in latitude 54 degrees and 40minutes. What a new world lies beforeyou! How many magnificent Statesto be the future homes of the sons and daughters of freedom ! When did mental vision ever rest onsuch a scene? Moses, when standingon the top
History of Tennessee, its people and its institutions . Brown, Brown, Trousdale, and Campbell. [95 turn with me to the West—the mighty West—where the setting sun clipsher broad disk in the western ocean. Look down through the misty dis-tance to the shores of the Pacific, withall its bays and harbors and your eyes as far as the Russianpossessions, in latitude 54 degrees and 40minutes. What a new world lies beforeyou! How many magnificent Statesto be the future homes of the sons and daughters of freedom ! When did mental vision ever rest onsuch a scene? Moses, when standingon the top of Mount Pisgah, looking over on the promised land, gazed not ? Ephraim H. Foster. on a scene half so lovely. O let us this day vow that whatever else we may do, by whatever name we maybe called, we will never surrender one square acre of this goodly heritageto the dictation of any king or potentate on earth. Swear it! Swearit, ni}^ countrymen, and let heaven record the vow forever.^ Theallusion, of course, was to Texas, in the South, threatene
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