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When the times, circumstances, dangers and privations are taken into the account, it is rather astonishing they made the venture. But they made it, and you are receiving a part of the blessing. They were men of genuine heroism and dauntless courage— no pliant tools ready to surrender at the first opposition, no commodity in the market to be bought with a price. They were men fully grown ready to bear with adversity, battle with misfortune, struggle for the right, contend with the strong and uphold the weak. But, oh what great changes a few years will produce. Since their day nations have been overthrown. The war of 1812 has been fought, when our soldiers a second time demonstrated their superiority over the soldiery of the English. The ware with Mexico has been fought at which we acquired the territories and rich gold mines of California and New Mexico. The electric telegraph and telephone have been brought into practical utility, and the phonograph knocking at the door. In medicine and surgery, the discoveries

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