All the Western States and Territories (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from All the Western States and Territories The changed condition of a part of our country, united to the increased expense of book publishing, has prevented the issue of successive editions of the larger and more expensive work, but, instead, there will be given much of the original material of that in separate books, embodying in them more or less of the grand historical events of the past few years, in which history has been piled upon history to monumental hights, and by which this whole people have been lifted into clearer skies, and to happier visions. A companion book to "The Loyal West" will soon be found in "The Loyal East, " while "Our Whole Country, " in its completeness, is suggested by their union with a third upon that unhappy section, the valor and endurance of which, though in error, have been extraordinary. Words are the physiognomy of ideas, more than this, they have voices, and are ill-looking, or good-looking, sound harshly, or sound sweetly, according "to the spirit of which they are of." Words, too, grow into our affections, as the ideas they express become endeared to us. Not one in the English language ever so suddenly grew beautiful, in form and in sound, as the word Loyal to us Americans. Originally used to signify fealty to government, when government was intrusted to one man, a single sovereign, it now means faithfulness to government, when an entire people are sovereigns, and is as much stronger in its meaning, more majestic in its impression, as the millions are more powerful and more majestic than the one. At any rate, the "plain people" so believe - the "plain people" whose countenances are daily brightening with increasing intelligence, and growing more and more joyous with expanding hopes. An old man with whom the "red" fires of patriotism so burned under the "white" locks of age as to compel him to become one of the boys in "blue" - a member of the famous Iowa Gray-beard Regiment - on hearing the proposed title of this work, exclaimed, with fervor, "Yes! the West Is Loyal!" This was definite, but the word West is not. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.