. Great debates in American history, from the debates in the British parliament on the Colonial stamp act (1764-1765) to the debates in Congress at the close of the Taft administration (1912-1913) . e Pacific will then be as densely populated andas thickly settled with villages and towns as the coast of theAtlantic is now. In another generation we shall have reachedeighty millions of people, and, if we can preserve peace, whoshall set bounds to our prosperity, or our success? With onefoot planted on the Atlantic and the other on the Pacific, weshall occupy a position between the two old contin
. Great debates in American history, from the debates in the British parliament on the Colonial stamp act (1764-1765) to the debates in Congress at the close of the Taft administration (1912-1913) . e Pacific will then be as densely populated andas thickly settled with villages and towns as the coast of theAtlantic is now. In another generation we shall have reachedeighty millions of people, and, if we can preserve peace, whoshall set bounds to our prosperity, or our success? With onefoot planted on the Atlantic and the other on the Pacific, weshall occupy a position between the two old continents of theworld—a position eminently calculated to secure to us the com-merce and the influence of both. If we abide by the counsels of THE OREGON BOUNDARY 321 common sense—if we succeed in preserving our constitutionalliberty, we shall then exhibit a spectacle such as the world neversaw. I know that this one great mission is encompassed withdifficulties; but such is the inherent energy of our politicalsystem and such its expansive capability that it may be made togovern the widest space. If by war we become great, we cannotbe free; if we wiU be both great and free, our policy is J^v
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