It is most surprising that so little is known of the great islands and the long line of coast from Puget’s Sound to Sitka, ample as its resources must be even for recruiting the transient commerce of the Pacific, independent of its immense…

The stewardship in each single establishment is entirely despotic; though nominally depending upon the principal factory at Kadiak, these stewards do just what they please, without the possibility of their being called to account.” If such…

These suggestions, in the nature of a reform bill, foreshadow a condition of self-government in harmony with republican institutions.

We now stand in the Present, and look forward to the great Future.

It is evident that these Russian settlements, distributed through an immense region and far from any civilized neighborhood, have little in common with those of European nations elsewhere, unless we except the Danish on the west coast of…

The Democratic party, in the most authoritative and solemn manner, accepts this judgment.

He records that fish was the staple dish at the tables of functionaries as well as of the poor, and that the chief functionary himself was rarely able to have meat for dinner.

Here is that confusion of tongues which yields only to the presence of civilization; and it becomes more remarkable, as the idiom is often confined to so small a circle.

Lofty mountains, volcanic forms, large rivers, numerous islands, and an extensive sea-coast constitute the great Book of Nature for all to read.

Better still, there is something in their nature which does not altogether reject the improvements of civilization.

Unlike our Indians, they are willing to learn.

They are Esquimaux, and I describe them in order to present an idea of this people.

The men are tall, with copper skins, small black eyes, flat faces, and teeth of dazzling whiteness.

What a small corner Europe occupies on the round earth!

I say that some fine morning these dominions may separate from England, rise and erect themselves into an independent republic.

And you will then see how beautiful the earth will be! what culture! what new arts and new sciences! what safety for commerce!

Such a person in public affairs was an epoch for his country and for the human race.

Had his spirit prevailed, the bloody drama of the French Revolution would not have occurred, or it would at least have been postponed: I think it could not have occurred.

Such a nature was essentially prophetic, for he discerned the natural laws by which the future is governed.

Surely I am not wrong, when I suggest that the proposed requirement is impracticable as well as mischievous; and at the proper time I shall move to strike it out.

Les colonies sont comme des fruits qui ne tiennent à l’arbre que jusqu’à leur maturité: devenues suffisantes à elles-mêmes, elles firent ce que fit depuis Carthage,--ce que fera un jour l’Amérique.

A convertible currency is nothing more nor less than the servant of coin.

In the famous chapter, “How the laws contribute to form the manners, customs, and character of a nation,” we have a much-admired picture of “a free nation” “inhabiting an island,” where, without naming England, it is easy to recognize her…

If this nation sent out colonies, it would do so more to extend its commerce than its dominion.

As a citizen of the world, I see with joy the approach of an event which, more than all the books of the philosophers, will dissipate the phantom of commercial jealousy.