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The e in front of the

stockade, group after group There was a strange scene on the far-flung,

unknown, fateful borderlands of the country Senator McDuffie but now had

not valued at five dollars for the whole All these now, half-way

across, and with the ice and snointer cutting off pursuit for a

year, had the great nehich did not reach publication in the press of

New York and Baltimore until Septeress until Deceh

this was news that went to the very foundation of this republic; which,

indeed, was to prove the means of the perpetuity of this republic

The drunken hunters in their ragged wools, their stained skins, the

earb--come this far they knew not why, since

men will not admit of Destiny in nations--also knew not that they were

joying over the death of slavery and the life of the Union They did not

know that now, in a flash, all the old arguments and citations over

slavery and secession were ancient and of no avail The wagoners of the

Sanga, did not know that they

were dancing on thehirievous ordeal, brother

against brother Yet all those things were settled then, beyond that

range of the Rockies which senators had said they would not spend a

dollar to reh"

Even then the Rockies fell Even then the great trains of the covered