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Title: The Old Northwest; the beginnings of our colonial system
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Hinsdale, Burke Aaron, 1837-1900. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Silver, Burdett and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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nated him for the sixth time, said for more than half acentury the people of the district had held and expressedbold and independent opinions on all public questions, yetthey had never asked their representative to be the mere echoof the party voice. They supported and defended their rep-resentative in maintaining an independent position in theNational Legislature, and whenever he acted with honest andintelligent courage in the interests of truth, they generouslysustained him even when he differed from them in minormatters of opinion and policy. The old charge of isms and extravagance cannot be wholly denied ; but, on thewhole, the plain people, while throwing much of the NewEngland ballast overboard, and crowding their canvas, haveheld the rudder so true as to avoid dangerous extremes. Thehistorian finds small occasion to defend them on the groundthat somev/hat of folly and fanaticism always attend a peo-ples emancipation. The Oberlin Jubilee, 290, 291. Garfield : Works, II., 30, 31.
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XX. NORTHWESTERN PROGRESS. Charles Sumner once gathered, in a celebrated article,some of the happier prophecies concerning America. Hemight have made a similar collection of the less happy ones,that would have been quite as instructive and more curious.Had he done so, he might have come upon some of the fol-lowing about the Great West. Few of Dr. Franklins contemporaries had his grasp of theWestern question. But even Franklins prescience was notequal to his subject. He saw that east of the Mississippiand south of the Lake and the St, Lawrence there was roomenough for a hundred millions of people; but this musttake some centuries to fulfil. When the question of fixinga permanent seat of government was under discussion inCongress, in 1789, much was said of the centre of population.Mr. Goodhue, of Massachusetts, said he believed this centrewould not vary considerably for ages yet to come, becausehe supposed it would constantly increase more toward theEastern and manufacturing States than

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