“Out of her discovery grew the European reformation in religion; out of our Revolutionary War grew the revolutionary period of Europe.  And out of our rapid development among great States and happy peoples, has come an immigration more wonderful than that which invaded Europe from Asia in the latter centuries of the Roman Empire.  When we raised our flag on the Atlantic, Europe sent her contributions; it appeared on the Pacific, and all orientalism felt the signal.  They are coming in two endless fleets, eastward and westward, and the highway is swung between the ocean for them to tread upon.  We have lightened Ireland of half her weight, and Germany is coming by the village load every day.  England, herself, is sending the best of her working men now (1869), and in such numbers as to dismay her Jack Bunsbys.  What is to be the limit of this mighty immigration?”

Speaking of our influence and standing in the Pacific, the same writer, p. 608, says:—­

“In the Pacific Ocean these four powers [England, France, Holland, and Russia] are squarely met by the United States, which, without possessions or the wish for them, has paramount influence in Japan, the favor of China, the friendly countenance of Russia, and good feeling with all the great English colonies planted there.  The United States is the only power on the Pacific which has not been guilty of intrigue, of double-dealing, of envy and of bitterness, and it has taken the front rank in influence without awakening the dislike of any of its competitors, possibly excepting those English who are never magnanimous.”

And Hon. Wm. H. Seward, on his return from a late trip around the world, said, “Americans are now the fashion all over the world.”

With one more extract we close the testimony on this point.  In the N.Y. Independent of July 7, 1870, Hon. Schuyler Colfax, then Vice-President of the United States, glancing briefly at the past history of this country, said:—­

“Wonderful, indeed, has been that history.  Springing into life from under the heel of tyranny, its progress has been onward, with the firm step of a conqueror.  From the rugged clime of New England, from the banks of the Chesapeake, from the Savannahs of Carolina and Georgia, the descendants of the Puritans, the Cavalier, and the Huguenot, swept over the towering Alleghanies, but a century ago the barrier between civilization on the one side and almost unbroken barbarism on the other; and banners of the Republic waved from flagstaff and highland, through the broad valleys of the Ohio, the Mississippi, and the Missouri.  Nor stopped its progress there.  Thence onward poured the tide of American civilization and, progress, over the vast regions of the Western plains; and from the snowy crests of the Sierras you look down on American States fronting the calm Pacific, an empire of themselves in resources and wealth, but loyal in our darkest hours to