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chants control of the markets The diplo- macy may succeed temporarily in this. but the march of events will ultimately give the United States the mastery. Her population Is pushing, with rigorous, rapid. and nm ceaslng march, along line of twelve hun dred miles in extent westward, towards the shores of the Pacific. The occupation of the vast territory known as the Oregon Is al- ready gong forward, and twenty years will not have elapsed before a powerful State will have sprung up on the Shores of the Pacific. The great tract of the Oregon is drained by the Columbia river and the San Francisco. winch debouch upon the ocean at point six days, by steam, distant from the Sandwich lslands--a group the independence of which Is g9arantied-Whose population Is 100000, mostly American; the surface 5000 square miles; of soil the most fruitful, and a cl- mate unsurpassed in salubrlty. The islands are situated in the middle of the Pacific, on the great highway from Oregon to China The great whale fishery of these regions are conducted mostly by Americans, numbering two hundred vessels, whose annual product Is about S5,000,000. This fleet in the sum- mef months cruise between the islands and the coast of Japan for sperm whale, and car " on large trade in furs, &c., which are now sold in China, and the proceeds, in tea, sent home to the United States. The whole of this vast trade, and that of China, via the Sandwich Islands, will be commanded by the State of Oregon. Those persons are now living who will see railroad connecting N. York with the Pacific, and a steam commit nicatlon from Oregon to China. For the last three centuries the civilized world has been rolling westward, and Americans of the pres. ent age will complete the circle and open

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