ose who believed that there were men now here, who
might yet live to see a continuous railroad extending from the
mouth of the Columbia to the Atlantic. The country would soon be
filled with a dense population, and would eventually control the
China trade, and affect the whole commerce of the Pacific. He
trusted in God there would be a beginning of this end. He trusted
that this government would say to the despotisms of Europe--Stay on
your own side of the water, and do not attempt to intermeddle with
the balance of power on this continent. He believed it to be the
design of God that our free institutions, or institutions like
ours, should eventually cover this whole continent--a consummation
which could not but affect every part of the world, and the
prospect of which ought to fill with joy the heart of every
philanthropic man!"

But it won't till you've paid your debts, O Darragh!

Mr Baker, (_Whig_,) another _insolvent_ from Illinois, is very rich and
rapacious--

"He (Mr B.) went for the whole of Oregon; for every grain of sand
that sparkled in her moonlight, and every pebble on its wave-worn
strand. It was ours--all ours; ours by treaty, ours by
discovery.... There was such a thing as destiny for this American
race--a destiny that would yet appear upon the great chart of
human history. It was already fulfilling, and that was a reason why
we could now refuse to Great Britain that which we had offered her
in 1818 and 1824. Reasons existed now in our condition, which did
not exist then. Who at that time could have divined that our
boundary was to be extended to the Rio del Norte, if not to
Zacatecas, to Potosi, to California? No, we had a destiny, and Mr
B. felt it." ... "Cuba was the tongue which God had placed in the
Gulf of Mexico to dictate commercial law to all who sought the
Carribbean Sea. And England was not to be allowed to take Cuba or
hold Oregon, _because we, the people of the United States, had
spread, were spreading, and intend to spread, and should spread,
and go on to spread_!" ... "Mr Speaker, if from this claim an echo
shall come back, it may not come from Oregon, but it will come from
the Canadas. Sir, it will be 'the last echo of a host o'erthrown.'
The British power will be swept from this continent for ever, and
though she may