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Alaska And Its Problems.
The impulse for expansion upon which Buchanan floated his political raft into the presidency was not a party affair.

It was felt by men of all party creeds, and it seemed for a moment to be the dominant national ideal.

Slaveholders and other men who had special interests sought to make use of it, but the fundamental feeling did not rest on their support.

American democracy, now confident of its growing strength, believed that the happiness of the people and the success of the institutions of the United States would prove a loadstone which would bring under the flag all peoples of the New World, while those of the Old World would strike off their shackles and remold their governments on the American pattern.