America is no longer an obscure and inaccessible country. Our ships are in every sea, our commerce is in every port, our language is heard all around the globe, steam and lightning have revolutionized the whole domain of human thought, changed all geographical relations, make a day of the present seem equal to a thousand years of the past, and the continent that Columbus only conjectured four centuries ago is now the center of the world.


Our Composite Nationality (1869)


America is no longer an obscure and inaccessible country. Our ships are in every sea, our commerce is in every port, our language is heard all around ...

America is no longer an obscure and inaccessible country. Our ships are in every sea, our commerce is in every port, our language is heard all around ...

America is no longer an obscure and inaccessible country. Our ships are in every sea, our commerce is in every port, our language is heard all around ...

America is no longer an obscure and inaccessible country. Our ships are in every sea, our commerce is in every port, our language is heard all around ...