WESTWARD EMPIRE;
OR,
The Great Drama of Human Progress.
BY
E.L. MAGOON,
AUTHOR OF "PROVERBS FOR THE PEOPLE," "REPUBLICAN CHRISTIANITY,"
"ORATORS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION," "LIVING ORATORS IN AMERICA," ETC., ETC.
"Westward the course of empire takes its way,
The four first acts already past;
A fifth shall close the drama with the day,
Time's noblest offspring is the last."
George Berkeley.
NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS,
329 TO 335 PEARL STREET.
1856.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by
HARPER AND BROTHERS,
In the Clerk's Office for the Southern District of New York.
TO CITIZENS
WHO TRUST IN PROVIDENCE,
MEN WHO ARE TRUE TO HUMANITY,
AND PATRIOTS
ALWAYS HOPEFUL OF THE REPUBLIC,
THIS WORK
IS FRATERNALLY INSCRIBED.