Address at the Laying of the Corner-Stone of the Douglas Monument at Chicago, September 6, 1866 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Address at the Laying of the Corner-Stone of the Douglas Monument at Chicago, September 6, 1866

Actors to-day, with all its surrounding circum stances and accompanying recollections, has no parallel in this or any other age. We are as sembled within the confines of a city numbering over two'hundred thousand inhabitants, distant one thousand miles from the ocean, where thirty-four years ago nothing was seen but an unbroken ex panse of prairie on the one side, and the outspread waters of Lake Michigan on the other, both extend ing far beyond the compass of the sight; nothing heard but the voice of the great inland sea from the sands on which its waves were breaking, or the more unwelcomed voices of the savage tribes who roamed over these majestic plains. Where, within half the span of an ordinary life, there was one vast solitude, all is full Of activity, and progress, and the treasures of a polished civilization. Industry and the arts display their stores with a bounteousness.

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