 | 1908 - 460 pages
...eternal snow? What can we ever hope to do wilfli the western coast, a coast of 3,000 miles, rock bound, cheerless, uninviting and not a harbor on it; what use have we for such a country? Mr. President, I will never vote one cent from the public treasury to place the Pacific Coast one inch... | |
 | Benjamin Perley Poore - 1886 - 562 pages
...covered to their very base with eternal 214 snow ? What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of three thousand miles, rock-bound, cheerless,...uninviting, and not a harbor on it ? What use have we for this country ?" Franklin Pierce, who had served two terms in the House of Representatives, was then... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1889 - 390 pages
...covered to their very base with eternal snow? What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, — a coast of three thousand miles, rock-bound, cheerless,...uninviting, and not a harbor on it? What use have we for this country?" In crossing the continent by the route we have chosen, one passes through a country... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1889 - 396 pages
...covered to their very base with eternal snow? What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, — a coast of three thousand miles, rock-bound, cheerless,...uninviting, and not a harbor on it ? What use have we for this country ? " In crossing the continent by the route we have chosen, one passes through a country... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1889 - 82 pages
...their very base with eternal snow? What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of 3.000 miles, rockbound, cheerless, uninviting, and not a...harbor on it? What use have we for such a country? Mr President, I will never vote one cent from the publictreasury to place the Pacific coast one inch... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1889 - 84 pages
...their very base with eternal snow? What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of 3.000 miles, rockbound, cheerless, uninviting, and not a...harbor on it? What use have we for such a country? Mr President, I will never vote one cent from the public treasury to place the Pacific coast one inch... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1891 - 744 pages
...their very base with eternal snow? What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of 3,000 miles, rockbound, cheerless, uninviting, and not a...harbor on it? What use have we for such a country? Mr President, I will never vote one cent from the public treasury to place the Pacific coast one inch... | |
 | 1899 - 1588 pages
...acquired by conquest. Beginning with 1803 and ending in 1867 our total expenditure was $69,700,000, and how is it to-day? The course of empire is still...bracing of their wavering faith in this Republic? Out of the whirl and rush of these tremulous forces which have not yet done their march across the... | |
 | C. Dean (of Chicago.) - 1892 - 588 pages
...very base with eternal snow ? What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of 2,000 miles, rockbound, cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it ? What use have we for that country?" This was the erring judgment of the greatest statesman of the age, the highest of the... | |
 | 1893 - 640 pages
...their very base with eternal snow? What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of 3,000 miles, rockbound, cheerless, uninviting and not a harbor on it? What use have we for this country? J < 0 3) J I I 5 THE PACIFIC EDUCATIONAL JOURNAL. Official Organ of the Department of... | |
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... deserts, of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts, or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable and covered to their very base with eternal snow? 
