He had a power of larning about things that happened to folks long ago called Creeks and Rewmans that pinted that way, he said.

But he held that when we had fought our way quit of England, we was in for a bigger and bloodier fight among ourselves.

I mind his very words.

'Dan'l,' he says, 'this is the biggest and best slice of the world which we Americans has struck, and for fifty years or more, maybe, we'll be that busy finding out what we've got that we'll have no time to quarrel.

But there's going to come a day, if Ameriky s to be a great nation, when she'll have to sit down and think and make up her mind about one or two things.