Spanish civilization crushed the Indian. English civilization scorned and neglected him. French civilization embraced and cherished him.

Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full.

When America was first made known to Europe, the part assumed by France on the borders of that new world was peculiar, and is little recognized. While the Spaniard roamed sea and land, burning for achievement, red-hot with bigotry and avarice, and while England, with soberer steps and a less dazzling result, followed in the path of discovery and gold-hunting, it was from France that those barbarous shores first learned to serve the ends of peaceful commercial industry.

Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell.

Spanish civilization crushed the Indian. English civilization scorned and neglected him. French civilization embraced and cherished him.

America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.

America was still a land of wonder. The ancient spell still hung unbroken over the wild, vast world of mystery beyond the sea,-a land of romance, adventure, and gold.