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288 ...judging from the rapidity with which everything that pays is carried out in America, that in a few years this enormous district, twice as large as France, will be occupied, & by a class of men such as the Union does not now possess. They will be very numerous & very wealthy - quite the wealthiest class in the Union; and, even if there is to be no unclear for the South, which it is impossible to believe, They will compensate, speaking from the wealth-of-nation point of view, for its loss. I have seen some of the pioneers of the class, & prophesying of those who are to follow by the very way in which the influences of the Plains have shaped those who have already come, I would say that the class will be characterized by hardihood, generosity, & manliness. They will occupy with their flocks & herds a great part of Texas on the South, & of Nebraska on the North, with the whole of Arizona, Colorado, & New Mexico. The region will like Australia, & the districts of the La Plata export enormous quantities of wool, tallow, & hides. But they will have a rightly advantage over those two great stock keeping regions, that they will not be themselves the only consumers of their beef & mutton, but will have customers for as much as they can produce in the inhabitants of a rich populous continent, of which they will be the centre. In this way is some new source of wealth, & always on the grandest scale ever being developed in the United States.