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We have no disposition to detract from the merits of any of the other ploneers'of civil ization in the Western world. Nearly all the great nations of Europe made vari ous attempts to plaht the germ of empire upon American soil. In addition to the re presentatives at Jamestown and Plymouth of the Anglo-Saxon race, there were the Swedes, French, Spaniards, and those Dutch of New Amsterdam who, in the veracious and charm