I have seen it illustrated and exemplified in my acquaintance with the Western country. Let me speak of my own State. and I speak of it with the utmost pride. and I think I may speak of it as an illustration of what I have said before. that the people who have been educated in the public schools. who have seen the advantages of the system. love it as they love no other institution in the land. and they place it a little even above the church of their fathers. In 1859 the great wave of emigration departed from the settled States across the add regions of the West and lodged at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. thousands of men went out there. staid a few days. and returned. but many remained. and more came. In 1861 the Government of the United States gave to those people a Territorial organization with exactly the boundaries that the State of Colorado has today. InSeptember. 1861. in the midst of war. in the midst of tumult. in the midst of excitement. the people of that Territory organized their first government.
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