Perhaps that will do away altogether with the necessity for an Army. for what his God cannot accomplish I am sure his aid will be sufficient for. Sir. his argument in regard to the area of ourcountry which is to be defended is not a new one. When we take into consideration the mining settlements in the far West which have attracted immigrants to those localities. when we remember that there are dense populations now in comparison with what existed in 1860. we find that we have not a more extended area to protect than we had in 1860. The Secretary of War. in his report made to Congress on December 3. 1860. pointed to the fact that at that time there were Indian dillulties in every portion of that vast area of territory to which allusion has so frequently been made. Sir. my colleague is in error in supposing that our frontier is more extensive than that of England.
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