Beyond the West: containing an account of two years' travel in the other half of our great continent far beyond the old West, on the plains, in the Rocky mountains, and picturesque parks of Colorado. Also, characteristic features of New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho ... Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and ... California, the end of the West ... the great continental railroad, together with the ... most wonderful natural scenery in the world .../ by George W. Pine.

BEYOND THE WEST.
heights of honor, and virtuous acts always felt his
fostering hand. He seemed to have been designed
to fill up a great vacancy in the round of usefulness
high Heaven bestows. A great man, indeed, who
has the eternal principles of true manliness in his
very being, who can say I am a man in all the noble
thoughts which that word conveys-nothing that is
human is foreign to me. I represent philanthrophy
and morality not in a stolen coat.
Genius and unflinching resolves, when concentrated upon one object, seldom fail to accomplish
magnificent results. You see the grateful nation for
whom he had labored bearing his remains to the
land he first discovered, and on the transfer of that
island to the French in 1795 we again see them
bearing his remains to Cuba and depositing them in
the great Cathedral at Havana, in the wall on the
right side of the grand altar, with all the national
display due to departed greatness, amid the city's
roaring cannon and surge of men. You will remem
ber that he was sent home degraded, in ignominious chains, from this very port from which his remains were taken. But posterity, ever just to true
greatness, thus verifies the great principle that a
life filled with commendable merit never fails to be
rewarded by the commendation and applause of posterity; or as the acorn drops to earth unseen, let
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