The New PacificBancroft Company, 1900 - 733 pages |
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Page 1 - poet shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way; The first four acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is its last. —Berkeley.
Page 16 - Henceforth European commerce, European politics, European thought, and European activity, although actually gaining force; and European connections, although actually becoming more intimate, will nevertheless relatively sink in importance; while the Pacific ocean, its shores, its islands and the vast region beyond will become the chief theatre of events in the world's great hereafter.
Page 134 - The United States will occupy and hold the city, bay, and harbor of 'Manila, pending the conclusion of a treaty of peace which shall determine the control, disposition, and government of the Philippines. (4)
Page 67 - cannot be extinguished by present methods. The only hope of relief and repose from a condition which can no longer be endured is the enforced pacification of Cuba. In the name of humanity, in the name of civilization, in behalf of endangered American interests which give us the right and the duty to speak and to act, the war in Cuba must stop.
Page 198 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe; our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cisatlantic affairs.
Page 587 - any other form, of any part of the territory of which they are composed. The best way to secure this object would, in the opinion of her majesty's government, be that the powers chiefly interested in the trade of the Pacific should join in making a formal declaration similar to that
Page 199 - You have no authority to throw the rights and liberties and property of this people into hotchpot with the wild men on the Missouri, nor with the mixed, though more respectable, race of Anglo-Hispano-Gallo-Americans who bask on the sands at the mouth of the Mississippi.
Page 195 - affections will become alienated; they will gradually begin to view us as strangers, they will form other commercial connections, and our interests will become extinct. And I do say that under existing circumstances, even supposing that this extent of territory was a desirable acquisition, $15,000,000 was a most enormous sum to give.
Page 335 - It is true I cannot prevent the introduction of the flowing poison. Gain-seeking and corrupt men will for profit and sensuality defeat my wishes; but nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people.