No pentup Utica contracts our powers. But the whole boundless continent is ours. We. sir. and the passing geneation have witnessed the remarkable fulfillment of the prophetic ken of Washington and his costatesmen in the incessant nmarch of immigration beyond the Ohio. the filling up of waste territories. the formation of new States. adding morerapidly than we can hardly realize. not asteroids. but grand stars to the galaxy of oifr glorious Union. We have grasped the continent with iron and copper and silver and golden bands. binding indissolubly the Union from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Thus has been followed the neverforgotten. neverneglected policy of our country. Only asking for loyalty and the constitutional numerical strength. we have favored the growth. encouraged the immigration. fostered embryotic conditions. and admitted States until has been made of this. geographically as well as politically. a nation of material wealth and prosperity unsurpassed in modern. unrivaled in ancient history. But. sir. in the anxious searching of the restless immigration for a profitable rest. the golden halo of the Pacific Coast outblazed the silver sheen of the midway Eurekas. like Colorado and New Mexico. and our peopling has been comparatively slow. but nevertheless sure and steady. so that today. and for years. New Mexico offers her application fbr membership in the grand sisterhood of States. with a people of energetic industry. unquestioned loyalty. and far beyond the requisite number for statehood.
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