Yet I found some things not very unlike it to show what manner of men they were that laid the foundations of this commonwealth on the Pacific, what high hopes sustained them, and what radiant future they confidently anticipated.
Whitelaw Reid
The Public Record
Whitelaw Reid was an American politician, diplomat and newspaper editor, as well as the author of Ohio in the War, a popular work of history.
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We ask no more in the contest for that Eastern trade which has always heretofore been thought to carry with it the commercial supremacy of the globe.
America asks only a fair field, even as against her oldest and most formidable rivals.
Nature, and our position as the nearest neighbors to eastern Asia, separated from her only by the great highways of the ocean, have placed in our hands all the advantages that we need....
Favored by vicinity, by soil and climate on our own territory, with a people inferior to none in enterprise and vigor, without any serious rivals anywhere, all this Pacific coast is ours or is our tributary....
Lift your eyes and expand your conceptions to take in the magnitude of her destiny.
An empire in area, presenting advantages and attractions to the people of the Eastern States and Europe far beyond those presented by any other State or Territory--who shall set limits to her progress, or paint in fitting colors the…
The world has never witnessed anything equal or similar to our career hitherto....
Our State is a marvel to ourselves, and a miracle to the rest of the world.
The world's trade is destined soon to be changed....
New York will then become what London now is--the great central point of exchange, the heart of trade, the force of whose contraction and expansion will be felt throughout every artery of the commercial world; and San Francisco will then…
It will make an end forever of Spain in this hemisphere.