A practical race of intrepid navigators will swarm the coast, ready for any enterprise. … Commerce will find new arms, the country new defenders, the national flag new hands to bear it aloft.


speech in favor of ratifying treaty with Russia to acquire Alaska, U.S. Senate, 1867


A practical race of intrepid navigators will swarm the coast, ready for any enterprise. … Commerce will find new arms, the country new defenders,...

A practical race of intrepid navigators will swarm the coast, ready for any enterprise. … Commerce will find new arms, the country new defenders,...

A practical race of intrepid navigators will swarm the coast, ready for any enterprise. … Commerce will find new arms, the country new defenders,...

A practical race of intrepid navigators will swarm the coast, ready for any enterprise. … Commerce will find new arms, the country new defenders,...