Washington crossed the Allegheny and held the ground.

Jefferson crossed the Mississippi, and sent Louis and Clark to the Pacific; and crossing the great western ocean now is but the logic of going beyond the great western rivers, prairies and mountains then.

We walk in the ways of the fathers when we go conquering and to conquer along the Eastward shores of Asia.
One of the expanding and teeming questions before the world now, and the authority and ability to determine it, is in the hands of the Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the United States, is whether Manila shall become an American city, with all the broad and sweeping significance attaching thereto.

Manila was not dressed for company when I saw her, for she had just emerged from a siege in which the people had suffered much inconvenience and privation.

The water supply was cut off, and the streets were not cleaned.