Commanding both sides of the Pacific, and the available coal-supplies on each, we command the ocean that, according to the old prediction, is to bear the bulk of the world's commerce in the Twentieth Century.
Reid discusses America's control over Pacific resources and its implications for global commerce.
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Is that the feast to be set before the laboring men of this country?
You see, General, this is alarming, and you must acknowledge that we are not safe.
Congress is supreme, and, for all the purposes of this department, has all the powers of the people of the United States, except such as have been expressly or by implication reserved in the prohibitions of the Constitution.
The danger commences with the first extra-continental State.