America, When It Became Known To Europeans,

Spanish Civilization Crushed The Indian. English Civilization Scorned And Neglected Him. French Civilization Embraced And Cherished Him.

France Built Its Best Colony On A Principle Of Exclusion, And Failed; England Reversed The System, And Succeeded.

The Spanish Voyager, As His Caravel Ploughed The Adjacent Seas, Might Give Full Scope To His Imagination, And Dream That Beyond The Long, Low Margin Of Forest Which Bounded His Horizon Lay Hid A Rich Harvest For Some Future Conqueror; Perhaps A Second Mexico With Its Royal Palace And Sacred Pyramids, Or Another Cuzco With Its Temple Of The Sun, Encircled With A Frieze Of Gold. Haunted By Such Visions, The Ocean Chivalry Of Spain Could Not Long Stand Idle.

We Were Now Arrived At The Close Of Our Solitary Journeyings Along The St. Joseph's Trail.

Art, Industry, And Commerce, So Long Crushed And Overborne, Were Stirring Into Renewed Life, And A Crowd Of Adventurous Men, Nurtured In War And Incapable Of Repose, Must Seek Employment For Their Restless Energies In Fields Of Peaceful Enterprise.