“With us, ready at hand, are the means of rapidly transforming this into a densely populated, thriving State. No clime is fairer than ours. It is no idle boast we make that our soil is not surpassed by any other on the habitable globe. We can safely compare health statistics with any other portion of the world. Our cotton is in important respects better, our grain as good as that anywhere else produced … Nature seems to delight in granting us bountiful yields of the best of vegetables, fruits, grapes, flowers, and all that is useful and all that is beautiful, almost for the asking… And yet those abroad know nothing of all this.”  Read More  

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