Whitelaw Reid: “Rightly used, it enables the United States to convert the Pacific Ocean almost into an American lake.”

I asked the old man what he wanted to learn to read for.

The people have generally more education and refinement than in other parts of the State; their public improvements are better, and their country is every way more attractive.

Above all, if there is a trace of politics in their work, or of seeking for political effect at home, they will fail, and deserve to fail.

No matter what we wish, the old continental isolation is gone forever.