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niary contract. Our triumph should be by fjrowth and organic expansion 

 in obedience to " pre-established harmony," recognizing- always the will 

 of those who are to become our fellow citizens. All this must be easy 

 if we are only true to ourselves. Our motto may be that of Goethe, 

 " Without haste, without rest." Let the Eepublic be assured in tran- 

 quil liberty with all equal before the law, and it will conquer by its 

 sublime example. More happy than Austria, who acquired lossessions 

 by marriage, we shall accpiire them by the attraction of llepublican 

 institutions; 



Bella geriint alii; tu, felix Austria, nnbe; 



Nam quae Mars aliis, dat tibi regna Venus. 



The famous epigram will be just as applicable to us, inasmuch as our 

 acquisitions will l)e under the sanctjon of wedlock to the E.epul)iic. 

 There may be wedlock of a people as well as of a Prince. Meanwhile, 

 our first care should 1)6 to improve and elevate the Republic, whose 

 sway will be so com])rehensive. Plant it with schools; cover it with 

 churches; fill it with libraries; nuike it abundant with comfort so that 

 poverty shall disappear; keep it constant in the assertion of Human 

 Rights. And here we nmy fitly recall those words of anticpiity, which 

 Cicero quoted from the Greek, and which Webster in our day quoled 

 from Cicero, "You have a Sparta; adorn it." 



SOURCES OF INFORMATION UPON RUSSIAN AMERICA. 



I am now brought to consid<'r the character of tliese possessions and 

 their ])robable value. Here I am obliged to confess a dearth of authentic 

 information easily accessible. There are few ann^ng us who read K'us- 

 sian, so that works in this language are locked up from the world. 

 One of these, in two large and sliowy volumes, is now before me, enti- 

 tled "A Historical Survey of the Formation of the Russian-American 

 Com])any, and its Progress to the Present Time," by P. Tcslmieiiew, 

 St. Petersburgh. The first volume appeared in ISOO, and the second 

 in ISOo. Here, among other things, is a tempting engraving of Sitka, 

 wrapped in mists, with the sea before and the snow cap])ed mountains 

 darkened with forest behind. Judging from the table of contents, 

 which has been translated for me by a Russian, the book ought to be 

 instructive. There is also another Russian w^ork of an official character, 

 which appeared in 18G1 at St. Petersburgh in the "Morskoi Sbornich," 

 or "Naval Review," and is entitled, " Materials for the History of the 

 Russian Colonies on the Coasts of the Pacific." The Report of Captain- 

 Lieutenant Golowin made to the Grand Duke Constantine in 18(!1, with 

 which we have become acipiainted through a scientific German journal, 

 ai)peared originally in the same review. These are recent productions. 

 After the early voyages of Behring, first ordered by Peter the (ireat 

 and supervised by the Imperial Academy at St. Petersburgh, the spirit 

 of geographical research seems to have subsided at St. Petersburgh. 

 Other enterprises absorbed the attention. And yet I would not do 

 injustice to the voyages of Billings, recounted by Saner, or of Lisiansky, 

 Krusenstern, and Langsdorf, or of Kotzebue, all undt3r the aus^yices of 

 Russia, the last of which may compare with any as a contribution to 

 science. I may add Liitke also; but Kotzebue was a worthy successor 

 to Behring and Cook. 



Beside these official contributions, most of which are by no means 

 fresh, there are materials derived from casual navigatois, who, scudding 

 these seas, rested in the harbours there as the water fowl on its flight; 

 from whalemen, who were there merely as Nimrods of the ocean ; or 



