The history of the Louisiana purchase . y down-stream among the rafts andbroadhorns, exciting some interest amongthe river-men, because in their movements196 what a Century Has Brought Forth they were in a measure independent of oar,sail, or current—a mysteriously moving wheel,connected somehow^ with a furnace whichsmoked away from a tall funnel, being theprincipal agent of progress. Their cargoesdelivered, the queer craft, to the great won-der of all, made their way back up-stream tothe Ohio, whence they had descended. Theapplication of the power of steam to locomo-tion thus proved successful
The history of the Louisiana purchase . y down-stream among the rafts andbroadhorns, exciting some interest amongthe river-men, because in their movements196 what a Century Has Brought Forth they were in a measure independent of oar,sail, or current—a mysteriously moving wheel,connected somehow^ with a furnace whichsmoked away from a tall funnel, being theprincipal agent of progress. Their cargoesdelivered, the queer craft, to the great won-der of all, made their way back up-stream tothe Ohio, whence they had descended. Theapplication of the power of steam to locomo-tion thus proved successful, a demonstrationthe consequences of which it is scarcely pos-sible to exaggerate. As regards the NewWest, the civilizationwhich has come to passupon the area of theLouisiana Purchase, itis quite within boundsto say that it may lookupon the locomotive asits creator. Deferrino- for themoment further consid-eration of this instru-mentality, another con-trivance must be mentioned—the notion of aYankees brain wrought out in wood and197. Cc/^Uy^-Tz^y History of The Louisiana Purchase iron, the results of wliicli are even more re-markable than those of the Whitneys cotton-gin, invented in 1793,produced a revolution economically, andmuch more; it changed mens v^ays of look-ing at life, and set up new standards of rightand wrong. Through the cotton-gin, sla-very, which had been a dying institution atthe South as well as the North, became atonce a 2:)rofitable form of labor at the cotton became king, to preserve slaverybecame at the South the first duty of the pa-triot. At the North, meantime, the moralsense of men became greatly roused againstit, until to hold men in bondage was lookedupon as the chief of sins. The irreconcil-able conflict, therefore, came about the courseand crisis of which has so affected the historyof America. Our story can not be told with-out a reference to this. It was in the Louisiana Purchase that theconflict between North and Sout
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