Tlhe gates of Iowa never opened in more of fortune to the State than when they opened to admit this young pioneer from Virginia. The record to be written now. the record which will grow constantly larger as time will pass. Is that while a great State has bestowed its greatest honors upon this poor young immigrant since that time. he has in return bestowed still greater honors upon it in the theater of the wider field of the whole world. For in faithful and mighty measure he has added to the respect. the admiration. and the love which the world has come to have for the Commonwealth now so great. then just rising into its promise of challenging greatness. I first saw Mr.
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