Fort Leavenworth Is In Fact

When America Was First Made Known To Europe, The Part Assumed By France On The Borders Of That New World Was Peculiar, And Is Little Recognized. While The Spaniard Roamed Sea And Land, Burning For Achievement, Red-hot With Bigotry And Avarice, And While England, With Soberer Steps And A Less Dazzling Result, Followed In The Path Of Discovery And Gold-hunting, It Was From France That Those Barbarous Shores First Learned To Serve The Ends Of Peaceful Commercial Industry.

Here Society Is Reduced To Its Original Elements, The Whole Fabric Of Art And Conventionality Is Struck Rudely To Pieces, And Men Find Themselves Suddenly Brought Back To The Wants And Resources Of Their Original Natures.

The Most Momentous And Far-reaching Question Ever Brought To Issue On This Continent Was: Shall France Remain Here, Or Shall She Not?

Art, Industry, And Commerce, So Long Crushed And Overborne, Were Stirring Into Renewed Life, And A Crowd Of Adventurous Men, Nurtured In War And Incapable Of Repose, Must Seek Employment For Their Restless Energies In Fields Of Peaceful Enterprise.

In One Point The Plan Was Fatally Defective, Since It Involved The Deadly Enmity Of A Race Whose Character And Whose Power Were As Yet But Ill Understood,--the Fiercest, Boldest, Most Politic, And Most Ambitious Savages To Whom The American Forest Has Ever Given Birth.