The waves of population and civilization are rolling to the westward, and we now propose to acquire countries occupied by the red men of the South and West by a fair exchange, and, at the expense of the United States, to end them to a land where their existence may be prolonged and perhaps made perpetual. . . . Our children by thousands yearly leave the land of their birth to seek new homes in distant regions. Does Humanity weep at these painful separations from everything; animate and inanimate, with which the young heart has become entwined? Far from it. It is rather a source of joy that our country affords scope where our young population may range unconstrained in body or in mind, developing the power and faculties of man in their highest perfection. These remove hundreds and almost thousands of miles...