William HSeward : an autobiography from 1801 to 1834With a memoir of his life, and selections from his letters ... . confronted me. The scenehad even at that time lost some of the awe with Avhich it had impressedthe spectator fifty years before, by the removal of the native groveswhich then surrounded it, and the substitution for them of utilitarianstructures. We remained four days exploring the Falls and theirsurroundings; and then, crossing the battle-fields of Lundys Lane andChippewa, we recrossed the river at Fort Erie, and entered the longbut straggling street of Buffalo. Here it was our
William HSeward : an autobiography from 1801 to 1834With a memoir of his life, and selections from his letters ... . confronted me. The scenehad even at that time lost some of the awe with Avhich it had impressedthe spectator fifty years before, by the removal of the native groveswhich then surrounded it, and the substitution for them of utilitarianstructures. We remained four days exploring the Falls and theirsurroundings; and then, crossing the battle-fields of Lundys Lane andChippewa, we recrossed the river at Fort Erie, and entered the longbut straggling street of Buffalo. Here it was our good fortune to meet Judge Wilkeson, a very in-telligent, vigorous, and enthusiastic pioneer of that place. He showedus the plans of the harbor which had been adopted by the canal com-missioners, and my mind, for the first time, swelled with a large thoughby no means complete conception of the grandeur and beneficence ofthe system of internal improvements in which my native State wasthen so deeply engaged, but without support or sympathy from theFederal Government, although Washington had pointed out its value. /tl-*-^^ ^^zc^ 1824.] ORIGIN OF PARTIES. 5T and importance as early as when visiting Fort Stanwix in 1783. I tooknotice then, for the first time, of the facts that the Atlantic slope isonly a narrow belt, although then containing four-fifths of the popula-tion, wealth, and enterprise, of the Union ; that the vast material re-sources of the country are in the region lying westward of the AlleghanyMountains ; that the trade and commerce of the country must soon beconducted across that range ; that a competition in the construction ofsuch channels was then on the point of beginning between the variouscities of the seaboard, each seeking by the nearest and most feasibleroute to bring that trade to its own wharves ; that ultimately the Westwould take away and hold forever the governing power of the country;and that that city in the East would become the most, prosperous andpo
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