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Raechel Oostenbrug at Jun 01, 2020 08:52 PM

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"How little I dreamed in the long ago that the lonely path of the scout and the pony
expess rider would lead me to the place to which you have assigned me to-day. And here, near the banks of the mighty Missouri, which flows onward to the sea, my thoughts revert to the early days of my manhood, when I looked across this rushing tide toward the East, to the Atlantic, where then I supposed that all men were rich and all women happy. My friends, that day has come and gone, and I stand among you a witness that nowhere in the broad universe are men richer in manly integrity and women happier in their domestic kingdom than in our own Nebraska. (Great applause.)

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"How little I dreamed in the long ago that the lonely path of the scout and the pony
expess rider would lead me to the place to which you have assigned me to-day. And here,