What shall we do with it is the question whlch for more than a Indred yeass has stood at the door of the Nation and knocked. and here it stands today. A great army of adventurous spirits from the older States. reenforced by those who iled from the hardships and oppressions of the Old World. swept over the mountains and into the valley as soon as tile Louisiana Purchase was consummated. Another army of immigrants forced its way up the river from the sea. all bent upon the conquest of the wilderness. the found ing of a civilization which now promises to eclipse all rivals in the long drama of history. The struggle for the political control of the river from its source to the sea had ended. the right to its free navigation was secure to our people. but the obstructions which nature put across this common highway began to prove even more troublesome than had the vexatious don in the days of the Spanish occupation. In 1809 Nicholas * Roosevelt. of New York. made a journey on a flatboat from Pittsburgh to New Orleans.
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