There but two ranks are distinguishable--serfs and soldiers.

There the map of the future includes Constantinople and Vienna as outposts of St.Petersburg.
"In the west, an opposing and still more wonderful American Empire is emerging.

We islanders have no conception of the extraordinary events which amid the silence of the earth are daily adding to the power and pride of this gigantic nation.

Within three years, territories more extensive than these three kingdoms [Great Britain, Ireland, and Scotland] France and Italy put together, have been quietly, and in almost 'matter of course' fashion, annexed to the Union.
"Within seventy years, seventeen new sovereignties, the smallest of them larger than Great Britain, have peaceably united themselves to the Federation.

No standing army was raised, no national debt sunk, no great exertion was made, but there they are.