Excerpt from A Discourse in Behalf of the American Home Missionary Society: Preached in the Cities of New York and Brooklyn, May, 1857 Rocky Mountains crossed, and the same human de luge, spreadmg itself along the shores of the pacific, and American emigration can now as easily fill our whole national domain, from ocean to ocean, as, in their season, it could people Vermont or Western New York. The Anglo American emigrant holds North America in his grasp And is this the end 3 Have we at last reached the final results of European, and especially of English and American emigration? If with a popula tion of twenty three milhous we seize With such Vigor on the unpeopled lands of the earth, what should We not achieve With a population of two hundred millions, extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific? Are we not dealing, then, with a world phenomenon rather than with one which belongs alone to North America? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.