...immense diffusion and importance of it, and with the goodness of that Providence, which has dealt her favors to us with so profuse a hand. Would to God we may have the wisdom to improve them." If we in our generation have so great a vision as the Father of Our Country...

...the Republic, George Washington stated in a letter to the Marquis de Chastelleux: "Prompted by those actual observations I could not help taking a more...to God we may have wisdom enough to improve them." Even the explorers LaSalle and Joliet, standing on the banks of the Des Plaines River, conceived the...

...immense diffusion and importance of it, and with the goodness of that Providence, which has dealt her favors to us with so profuse a hand. Would to God we may have wisdom enough to improve them." Washington's engineering eye had drawn on the tablets of his mind in 1784 a waterways map of the western...

...immense diffusion and importance of it, and with the goodness of that Providence, which has dealt her favors to us with so profuse a hand. "Would to God we may have wisdom enough to improve them." Mr. BEITEB. The next witness. I see our colleague, Mr. Hancock, <>f Syracuse, is here. Mr. HANCOCK....

...will rise in estimation, consequently greater will the revenue be to the Union." Again he declared, "I shall not rest contented until I have explored the western country and have traversed those lines which have given bounds to a new empire." Washington did not do this as...

...immense diffusion and importance of it, and with the goodness of that Providence, which has dealt her favors to us with so profuse a hand. Would to God we may have the wisdom to improve them." (2) Thomas Jefferson, sixth annual message, December 2, 1806 (speaking...

...the immense extent and importance of it, and of the goodness of that Providence which has dealt its favors to us with so profuse a hand. Would to God...enough to improve them. I shall not rest contented till I have explored the Western Country and traversed these lines, or a great part of them which have...

...immense extent and importance of it, and with the goodness of that Providence, which has dealt its favors to us with so profuse a hand. Would to God we had wisdom enough to improve them." Payne, The Canal Builders, (MacMillan: 1970), at p. 140. President...

...immense extent and importance of it, and with the goodness of that Providence, which has dealt its favors to us with so profuse a hand. Would to God we had wisdom enough to improve them." Payne, The Canal Builders, (MacMillan: 1970), at p. 140. President...

...by the immense extent and importance of it, and with the goodness of providence, which has dealt its favors to us with so profuse a hand. Would to God we may have the wisdom enough to improve them." Before the turn of the century some improvement was made. Elkanah...