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 splendor of her future?...
Reid describes California as an expansive empire with unmatched potential for progress.
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Let those who invoke the Supreme Law of the land learn and bow to it.
With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship, and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.
It will make an end forever of Spain in this hemisphere.
Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.