I am old enough to recollect the time when those splendid lands in Illinois and Iowa. which could be obtained on military land warrants at 70 cents an acre. were supposed to be good for nothing except grazing. No one ever dreamed that the time would come when the lands in the Genesee Valley in New York would depreciate in value by onehalf or more. At that time the tide of immigration from the East to the West had not set in to any great extent. The railroads came. and when I speak of the railroadsand I do it with pride--I think of that great Democratic statesman. Stephen A.
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