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.
Reid highlights the aspirations and hopes of the founders of California, emphasizing their vision for the future.
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It will make an end forever of Spain in this hemisphere.
No matter what we wish, the old continental isolation is gone forever.
But why should a sensible man deal with such folly?
That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.