. The gate of the Pacific . frncent BtooId PRIM EVAL FOREST . PREPARING FOR THE IRON ROAD THE GATE OF THE PACIFIC. COMMANDER BEDFORD PIM, , , ASSOC. INST. LOVELL REEVE & CO., 5, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1863. There are cases in which our public duty is so clear and imperious, that no desire ofpraise, no motive of personal respect, no wish to gratify our friends, nor any other con-sideration, however powerful, can enable us to dispense with it.—Fox. TO THE EIGHT HONOURABLE SIR JOHN SOMERSET PAKINGTON, BART., , , &c. &c, WHO HAS WON FOE HIMSELF THE WARM ESTEEM
. The gate of the Pacific . frncent BtooId PRIM EVAL FOREST . PREPARING FOR THE IRON ROAD THE GATE OF THE PACIFIC. COMMANDER BEDFORD PIM, , , ASSOC. INST. LOVELL REEVE & CO., 5, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1863. There are cases in which our public duty is so clear and imperious, that no desire ofpraise, no motive of personal respect, no wish to gratify our friends, nor any other con-sideration, however powerful, can enable us to dispense with it.—Fox. TO THE EIGHT HONOURABLE SIR JOHN SOMERSET PAKINGTON, BART., , , &c. &c, WHO HAS WON FOE HIMSELF THE WARM ESTEEM AND EEGABD OF THE EOTAL NAVY BY HIS ITNIFOEM COITETESY TOWAEDS ITS OFFICEES, AND HEAETFELT DEVOTION TO ALL THAT CONCEENS ITS WELFAEE AND PEOG-EESS, &fjt0 OTotfc ts Bg permission Beoicateo WITH FEELINGS OF SINCEEE ADMIEATION AND EESPECTBY THE AUTHOB. PREFACE. Deeply impressed with the political and commercialnecessity of opening a great Highway to the Pacific,free to all nations, and independent of the Americanmonopoly at Panama, I found myself in the unenviabledilemma of either quietly looking on and seeing thedearest interests of my country perma
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