Just then the upper Mississippi Valley was opened to settleiment. Wisconsin had been admitted to the Union in 1848. There was organized in New York City a society that flooded all Germany %vith literature appealing to the refugees of the revolution of 1848 to come to America. to go up into Wisconsin. and to establish a free democratic State. That foundation stock that settled in Wisconsin and Minnesota and Illinois and Iowa. along the Lakes and the upper waters of the Mississippi. were in part made up of the emigrants from Europe who came at the time of that exodus. so that. Mr. President. mingling their blood with the pioneer stock that came from New England. there was built up in that section of our country the most progressive. advanced. and thoroughly democratic and liberlylovin:. people that I thinkanl you will pardon my provincialisiiyou can find in tile United States.
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