The Ever Glades are now suitable only for the haunt of noxious vermin or the resort of pestilent reptiles . The statesman whose exertions shall cause the millions of acres they contain , now worse than worthless , to teem with the products of agricultural industry ; that man who thus add to the resources of his country ... will merit a high place in public favor , not only with his own generation , but with posterity . He will have created a State !