[Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) by James Gillespie Blaine]@TWC D-Link bookTwenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) CHAPTER X 18/58
The configuration of the country and the natural channels of communication have bound her closely to all sections.
Her northern border touching the great lakes, connected her by sail and steam, before the era of the railway, with the magnificent domain which lies upon the shores of those inland seas. Her western rivers, whose junction marks the site of a great city, form part of the most extensive system of interior water-communications on the globe, affording a commercial highway twenty thousand miles in length through seventeen States not included in the original Union.
Patriotic tradition increased Pennsylvania's attachment to the National Government.
It was on her soil that the Declaration of Independence was proclaimed.
It was in her Legislative halls that the Constitution was formed and the "more perfect Union" of the States ordained.
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