Those corporations were created ostensibly for the purpose of constructing railroads across the uninhabited prairies of the great West. to establish highways along which emigration might pour its currents. and to open up and develop the resources of the country. The grants of lands were made ostensibly to aid those corporations in that work. But the corporations after receiving the grants. instead of promptly prosecuting the work before them and opening up the country to the uses of civilized life. lay by and waited until the pioneers had gone on in advance. braving the perils of the frontier. and had built towns and cities and established great communitieswaited until civilization had unfurled her banners everywhere. subdued the wilderness and filled the air with the music of young and prosperous industries. and then went creeping along the ways beaten by the feet of the multitudes who had gone on in advance and taken possession of the country.
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