Excerpt from The American Advance: A Study in Territorial Expansion
One of the great tragedies of human history is the story of the glory and of the fall of the Empire of Spain. Coeval with its decline has been the growth and upbuilding of the great Republic of the West; and over much of the vast territory which once owned the sway of Charles and of Philip now floats the flag of the United States. The Republic, indeed, may he said to have been erected upon the ruins of the Empire; for, from the Mississippi and the Gulf, to the Pacific, or in the American islands of the Indies, West and East, there is not a foot of soil - save in the vast region of the great Northwest - over which has not floated, above mountain and plain alike, the red and gold banner of Spain. The causes which have led to the ruin of a once powerful empire are for the historian to discuss; the pages which follow are offered as material, perhaps, for his use in the study of some phases of the great tragedy.
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