ernment, so complicated, over such a vast extent of territory, with so many varied interests, and yet moving so harmoniously? I went within the walls of the Capitol at Washington, and there, under the star-spangled banners that wave amid its domes, I found the representatives of eight Territories and of thirty States or nations -nations, in many senses, they may be called - that have within them all the germ and sinew to raise a greater people than many of the proud, now tottering, principalities of Europe; all speaking or learning one and the same language, all acting with one heart and all burning with the same enthusiasm - the love and glory of the Great Republic - even while parties do exist and bitter domestic quarrels now and then arise.
I take my map and I mark from whence the representatives come. What a breadth of latitude and longitude, and that too in the fairest portion of North America! What a variety of climate, and then, what a variety of production! What a stretch of sea coast on two oceans, with harbors enough for all the commerce of the world! What an immense national domain, unsurveyed, of extinguished and unextinguished Indian tribes, within the States and Territories and without, estimated in the aggregate to be worth the immense sum of $1,500,590.70, [?] of which lands 76o,ooo,ooo acres are without the bounds of the States and Territories and are yet to make new States. and to be admitted into the Union! The revenue now, from the sales of public lands, is over $6,ooo,ooo. The national debt may be considered more than extinguished; and yet within seventy-five years, starting with a population of about 3,000,000, they have fought the war of independence again struggled, not ingloriously, with the greatest naval power in the world, with fresh laurels won on sea and land - and now. the Union has a population of over 23,000,000 souls.
One cannot feel the grandeur of this Republic unless he surveys it in detail. For example, two senators may soon