"The "Stars and Stripes" now float over a vast continent, extending from the Atlantic to the Great Ocean, and from the Gulf to the Frozen Seas of the North. The Great Republic may now be considered as embracing four nearly equal quarters, of about nine hundred thousand square miles each:—the first being the original territory east of the Mississippi River; the second, the Louisiana Purchase; the third, Texas and the Mexican Provinces; and the fourth covering Oregon and Alaska."
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"Our Territorial Growth Has Marked Our Duty and Destiny", in Henry B. Carrington (ed.) Patriotic Reader; or, Human Liberty Developed (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1888), p. 575
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William Augustus Mowry
William Augustus Mowry (August 13, 1829 – January 24, 1917) was an American educator, historian and author. For many years, he was engaged in educational work in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. He served as president of Martha's Vineyard Summer Institute from 1887 till its closure in 1906. In 1884 and 1885, he was editor of the Journal of Education and from 1886 to 1891 of Education.
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