. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . t was returned as taxes and for payment of thehomestead. A generation later and the pine forests of New York were nolonger burned, but among them were built innumerable mills which speedilytransformed them into lumber which, floated down the Genesee, found an outletIn the Erie Canal, and a market in New York. The great canal of 1826 be^tween Albany and Buffalo brought the Northwest to the market of the AtlanticSeaboard, and raised the value of land, of labor, and of all productions through-out the northern States. By this time to
. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . t was returned as taxes and for payment of thehomestead. A generation later and the pine forests of New York were nolonger burned, but among them were built innumerable mills which speedilytransformed them into lumber which, floated down the Genesee, found an outletIn the Erie Canal, and a market in New York. The great canal of 1826 be^tween Albany and Buffalo brought the Northwest to the market of the AtlanticSeaboard, and raised the value of land, of labor, and of all productions through-out the northern States. By this time too the children of the Old Dominion had passed over themountains and had located plantations in Kentucky and in Missouri, and theterritory south of the river Ohio had become a region of prosperous communities. no SUFFRAGE QUALIFICATION. About the time of the building of the Erie Canal, property qualificationshad disappeared from nearly all the American commonwealths. It was in 1829,in the Convention of Virginia, called to frame a new Constitution for the people. THE STATUE OF LIBERTY IN NEW YORK HARBOR.{Presented to the United States by Barthotdi.) of that commonwealth, that one of the last debates in America discussed theretention of the property qualification. It was said in that Convention, byPresident Monroe, My object is to confine the elective franchise to an interestin land : to some interest of moderate value in the territory of the Common- THE STORY OF AMERICA. i wealth. What is our country ? Is it anything more than our territory ; and whyare we attached to it ? Is it not the effect of our residence in it, either as theland of our nativity or the country of our choice, our adopted country ; and ofour attachment to its institutions ? And what excites and is the best evidence ofsuch attachment ? Some hold in the territory, which is some interest in thesoil, something that we own, not as passengers or voyagers who have no property in the State and nothing to bind them to
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