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Excerpt from Obsequies of Abraham Lincoln, in the City of New York
At that time, the Border States upon the Ohio river were but scantily populated; the axe of the settler was still slowly Opening clearings in the forest, and the occasional log hut Of the pioneer gave the first token of the advancing steps of civilization. The Shores of that river, since dotted with thriving villages, were then, for the most part, still fringed by the forest, as in the primitive state of nature. The canoe of the savage had, till then, almost monopolized its waters, as the wants of commerce had not yet called to their aid its facil ities of navigation.
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