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68 large Industrial armies (as I have previously intimated might be done by millionaires and heavy capitalists) send them under the supervision of wise and skillful leaders, to guide and direct them with a certain military exactness, in breaking up the wild lands and opening up grand agricultural domains on our extensive Western shores? Would'nt this be better than letting them starve to death, or have them driven to desperate deeds to obtain bread?

If there may be destructive armies, and military heroes for carrying devastation and death over the nations, why not constructive armies and Industrial heroes, going forth with the implements of peace, to open up magnificent fields of industry and to cause the wilderness and the waste places of the earth to bud and blossom as the rose?

"The remedy I propose" said the Rev. W. H. Channing, in a lecture several years ago, "for the increasing pauperism of the United States, and of New York, in particular, is the location of the poor on the lands of the far w£st, which would not only afford permanent relief to our unhappy brethren, but would restore that self-respect and honorable principle, inseparable from citizenship."

Jefferson, in his last letter, said, "The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God."