Excerpt from The Mississippi River: Speech of Hon. Newton C. Blanchard, of Louisiana, in the House of Representatives, Thursday, May 22, 1890The Mlsrissippl lliver' Mr. Chairman. Is too great a national feature of our muntry to be handled by any State or aggregation of States. No other power than that of the Notional Government is potential enough totake it in hand and make it perform its twofold function of affording a national highway for the commerce of the Republic and of discharging ita dood-waters safely into the Gulf of Mexico If this river drained any one of the great nations of Enmpeit would long since have had dikes or levees (mm along its hanks of sumcient height and strength to restrain its ¿oods.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.