The Seat of Empire

WHITE BEAR LAKE.

THE SEAT OF EMPIRE. BY
CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN, CARLETON.
I now believe that the ultimate last seat of government on this great continent will be found somewhere within a circle or radius not very far from the spot on which I stand, at the head of navigation on the Mississippi River.
W. H. Seward, Speech at St. Paul, 1860 .
BOSTON: FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO. 1870.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
University Press: Welch, Bigelow, & Co., Cambridge.

JOHN GREGORY SMITH,