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WHITE BEAR LAKE.
THE SEAT OF EMPIRE. BY
CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN, "CARLETON."
"I now believe that the ultimate last seat of government on this great continent will be found somewhere within a circle or radius not very far from the spot on which I stand, at the head of navigation on the Mississippi River."
W. H. Seward, Speech at St. Paul, 1860.
BOSTON: FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO. 1870.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
University Press: Welch, Bigelow, & Co., Cambridge.
TO
JOHN GREGORY SMITH,
GOVERNOR OF VERMONT DURING THE REBELLION,
WHOM I FIRST SAW TENDERLY CARING FOR THE SICK AND WOUNDED IN THE HOSPITALS OF FREDERICKSBURG, AND THROUGH WHOSE ENERGY AND PERSEVERANCE ONE OF THE GREATEST ENTERPRISES OF THE PRESENT CENTURY HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY INAUGURATED,
IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.