It had taken them over a century and a half to spread from the Atlantic to the Alleghanies.

In the next three quarters of a century they spread from the Alleghanies to the Pacific.

In doing this they not only dispossessed the Indian tribes, but they also won the land from its European owners.

Britain had to yield the territory between the Ohio and the Great Lakes.

By a purchase, of which we frankly announced that the alternative would be war, we acquired from France the vast, ill-defined region known as Louisiana.