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Title: Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, Farragut : an account of the gift, the erection and the dedication of the bronze statues given by Charles H. Hackley to the city of Muskegon, Michigan : unveiled in Hackley Square, Memorial Day, 1900
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Hackley, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1837-1905
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 Farragut, David Glasgow, 1801-1870 Muskegon (Mich.) -- History
Publisher: Muskegon, Mich. : Chronical Presses
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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America in the course of asingle life. It was true of the Colonies, and if the angel could now unroll thecurtain, what \-isions would meet the enraptured eye of him, who shouldsee the fair daughter who has excelled the mother, in wealth and power,population and national greatness ! So too, the eminent Frenchman, De Tocque\ille, who wrote the cel-ebrated criticism of our institutions almost seventy years ago, in closingthat remarkable work, after stating the obstacles in the growth of othernations, pictured Russia and the United States as the great nations of thefuture, proceeding with ease and celerity along the path to which no ^^,
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STAITE OF I)A\ ID (.. FAKKAGrT C. H. XlEHAlS, SCILIIOK 4t limit can be perceived. Their starting point, said he, is differentand their courses are not the same, yet each of them seems markedout b\ the will of Heaven to swa> the destines of half the globe. The building of the Trans-Siberian railroad, which will bind theRussian Empire together, the menace of its one hundred and thirty mil-lions, in a domain over twice as large as that of our country, swayed bythe will of a single indi\idual, the mo\-ement toward the East, and theunsurpassed growth, the rising power in the world of the United States,which God has been preparing for great duties and responsibilities, makethese words of De Tocqueville a striking and memorable prophecy. The story is told of one of Englands most illustrious statesmen,that every morning he would enter the family gallery of paintings andstand in an attitude of reverent worship before the portraits of four ofhis ancestors. The attendants sometimes heard him

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