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, 4, vat Cd tie bosom Of Huron Erie, or wenA 'a


"a, among me snuosties of the beautiful river


rbp councii fire is broken up--whatfew have snrviy


,d ,he bloody contest with their daring invaders,


have turned their face to the distant west, and with


a srh bid farewell to the rich vaes and hunting
grounds, where the bones of their fathers reposc-


4 new race now occupy their possessions, and the


wilderness is made to blossom as the rose. The


forest is thnned by the blows of the backwoodsman
villages and cultivated fields arise every side
1.-The land teens with population-thc rivers which
felt no weight before but the canoe of the warrior
fastening to battle, now covered with frcishts,


conveying the rich products of the west to market
canals and roads constructed for commercial
and friendly intercourse-halis of legislation and


Justice are erected for the government of this thriv-
ing people, and Colleges. Seminaries and Common


Schools are founded to dispense the treasure Of
cient and modern knowledge to their sous.


Such is the wonderful change that has passed un-
der the eve Of this sole delegate of the North
western Ter itorv in 1899. The territory which


he then represented is now cut up in the states OF
Ohio, Indiana and linois, and the Territory OF
Michigan-and leaving tract of country to the
northwest sufficient to form several more states
AT that time this district contained about fifty thou
sand inhabitants. The population at present is over
million and is represented in Congress by Eight
cen Representatives. six Senators and one Delegate
An advance similar to this in population, and i'm
provement, will perhaps never be witnessed again