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Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
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ettesaw the man of wealth measured according to his intelligent pushing atthe wheel of progress, and found intellectual activity and achievement theprevailing fashion. New York, for instance, had within eight years raisedand applied to the support of common schools over nine millions of dollars,together with large sums bestowed upon colleges, and for the advancementof science and literature ; and her Erie Canal—the greatest work of internalimprovement the world had then known—was nearly completed. La-fayette was astonished at the changes time had wrought in forty years.* Albany as I have known it, and Albany as it is now—a comparativestandard between royal guardianship and the self-government of the peo-ple : may this difference be more and more illustrated at home, and under-stood abroad, was the toast he offered at the banquet given in his honor bythe citizens of the capital of the Empire State. Albany as he had known it Vol. XVIII.—No. 6.-31 45« OUR COUNTRY FIFTY YFARS AGO
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M > « O .•» ►vt >< s z ^ o « to H 3 ^< * OUR COUNTRY FIFTY VEARS AGO 459 during the Revolution was only a snug little city perched on a hill. I (ewas last there in 1784, with the commissioners who were about to executea treaty with the Mohawks and Senecas, at Fort Schuyler. Albany as he-found it two score years later is best shown through the picturesquesketches by the celebrated Milbert, published in Paris in 1826—a series ofviews that are rare, and little known in this country at the present time.And when Lafayette had gone through the eastern, middle, southernand western states, traversing the land from Maine to Louisiana, fromthe Atlantic to the Mississippi, and was once more in New York, he re-marked with emphasis, in a speech made on the 4th of July, 1825 : Atevery step of my visit through the twenty-four United States, I have hadto admire wonders of creation and improvement ! Looking backward through the vista of half a century, we find it diffi-c

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