He has just seen the only signs he recognizes of a nation that knows its rights and dare maintain them--a nation that has come to stay, with an empire of its own in the China Sea, and a Navy which, from what he has seen, he believes will be able to defend it against the world.
Reid describes how the recognition of American strength influences foreign perceptions.
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Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.
You see, General, this is alarming, and you must acknowledge that we are not safe.
But proofs were not wanting of the spirit in which, to the very last, the conflict against the Government had been waged.
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