The United States is the only power on the Pacific which has not been guilty of intrigue, of double-dealing, of envy and of bitterness, and it has taken the _front rank_ in influence without awakening the dislike of any of its competitors, possibly excepting those English who are never magnanimous." And Hon.Wm.

H.Seward, on his return from a late trip around the world, said, "Americans are now the fashion all over the world." With one more extract we close the testimony on this point.

In the N.Y.
_Independent_ of July 7, 1870, Hon.

Schuyler Colfax, then Vice-President of the United States, glancing briefly at the past history of this country, said:-- "Wonderful, indeed, has been that history.

Springing into life from under the heel of tyranny, its progress has been onward, with the firm step of a conqueror.