Gentlemen. the frontiers will call on you for aid but a few years more. Civilization and savagery are in their last desperate grapple. Another decade and the lines will have closed up. the reservations will be surrounded byfarms. the north and south Pacific railroads will be constructed. the last Territory will be a State. and we will have no frontier that is not washed by the ocean or does not face on a foreign country. 1 ask my friends on this side who love the traditions of the great democratic party. which has been peculiarly the party of American ideasa party which carried our flag from Lundys Lane to Now Orleans. and from Florida to Mexico. which bought one empire and conquered another. and added star after star to our flag. and State after State to our Union. until it reached the shores of the western sea. which shaped our land policy and our immigration laws. and always represented the progress and development of our country. the patriotic pride of its people. and always conquered its opponents in that siguI ask if you will change our oldpolicies or withdraw your old sympathies from the border people who are founding now Commonwealths on the land your policy gave the Republic. Will you desert us in the very crisis of our last stuiggle with savagery. or will you continue to give as your great leaders always gave us. such geuorous sympathy andready aidas will make our victor:r speedy. sure. and glorious. (Great applause on the floor and in the galleries.] [Here the hammer fell.]
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