Philadelphia was not connected with Pittsburg.

Baltimore's projected line to the Ohio had only reached Cumberland, among the eastern foot-hills of the Alleghanies.

The entire Union had but five thousand miles of railway.

There was scarcely a spot on the globe, outside of the United Kingdom, where we could not have fought England with greater advantage than on the north-west coast of America at that time.
The war-cry of the Presidential campaign of 1844 was, therefore, in any event, absurd; and it proved to be mischievous.

It is not improbable, that, if the Oregon question had been allowed to rest for the time under the provisions of the treaty of 1827, the whole country would ultimately have fallen into our hands, and the American flag might to-day be waving over British Columbia.