They are coming in two endless fleets, eastward and westward, and the highway is swung between the ocean for them to tread upon.

We have lightened Ireland of half her weight, and Germany is coming by the village load every day.

England, herself, is sending the best of her working men now (1869), and in such numbers as to dismay her Jack Bunsbys.

What is to be the limit of this mighty immigration ?" Speaking of our influence and standing in the Pacific, the same writer, p.

608, says:-- "In the Pacific Ocean these four powers [England, France, Holland, and Russia] are squarely met by the United States, which, without possessions or the wish for them, has paramount influence in Japan, the favor of China, the friendly countenance of Russia, and good feeling with all the great English colonies planted there.