He expends enormous amounts of money. He digs roads. levels the forest builds bridges. places ferryboats. digs wells. spends large sums in the purchase of stock. employs carriers. and with his men. his coaches. and his wagons he helps to develop the western part of our country. and becomes a most important agent in its civilization and progress. He undertakes to do what the Government and the people of the United States want to have done. to open up the wilds to civilization. and having expended his money. having gone on and opened the country. and aided and encouraged emigration to a large extent. and having made the mail to be carried to settlements that have been created by the expenditure of his money. we turn around upon him when onehalf of the time of his contract is expired. and he has reached a point at which he may earn some money. and say. by virtue of this illdefined assertion of fraud. without any proof. that we will forfeit his contract. turn him out to bankiruptcy. and thus do him a gross wrong. because we have the power to do it. If we had the power it would be the grossest wrong upon these citizens of the United States who have entered into contracts with their Government to exercise it. But it does not exist.
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