TABLE OF CONTENTS

I-III. America in the Pacific and the Far East.

Callahan

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By J. M.

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IV-V. State Activities in Relation to Labor in the United States.

By W. F. Willoughby

VI-VII. History of Suffrage in Virginia. By J. A. C. Chandler.

VIII-IX. The Maryland Constitution of 1864. By W. S. Myers.

X. Life of Commissary James Blair, Founder of William

and Mary College. By D. E. Motley. .

XI-XII. Governor Hicks of Maryland and the Civil War. By

G. L. P. Radcliffe..

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AMERICAN RELATIONS

IN THE

PACIFIC AND THE FAR EAST

1784-1900

"The story of America in the Pacific grandly deserves a volume. . . For over a century we have had an army of pioneers who scarcely dreamed of the magnitude of the movement they were leading."- Wm. E. Griffis.

"No one can behold the silent and persevering efforts of our countrymen in the Pacific without a feeling of pride and exultation."-R. J. Cleveland, 1843.

"To every lover of his country, as well as to those more immediately concerned in commerce, it must be a pleasing reflection, that a communication is thus happily opened between us and the eastern extremity of the globe.”—Samuel Shaw, 1785.

"On the whole, it must be a satisfactory consideration to every American, that his country can carry on its commerce with China under advantages, if not in many respects superior, yet in all cases equal, to those possessed by other people."-Ibid., 1787.

"The future history of the world must be achieved in the East."-W. H. Trescot, 1849.

"Who does not see then, that every year hereafter, European commerce, European politics, European thought and European activity, although actually gaining force, and European connections although actually becoming more intimate, will, nevertheless, 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."-Senator Seward, 1852.

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'Expansion seems to be recognized, not by the difficulties of resistance, but by the moderation which results from our own internal constitution. . . . Commerce has brought the ancient continents near to us, and created necessities for new positions—perhaps connections or colonies there-and, with the trade and friendship of the elder nations, their conflicts and collisions are brought to our doors and to our hearts. . . . Even prudence will soon be required to decide whether distant regions, either east or west, shall come under our protection, or be left to aggrandize a rapidly spreading and hostile domain of despotism."— W. H. Seward, 1852.