Manifest Destiny Quote--Thomas Hart Benton

I'm giving a lecture today that I haven't given in awhile. I was reviewing it and came across this quote from the speech "The Destiny of the Race" by expansionist US Senator Thomas Hart Benton:

"The van of the Caucasian race now top the Rocky Mountains, and spread dowwn to the shores of the Pacific. In a few years a great population will grow up there, luminous with the accumulated lights of European and American civilization. Their presence in such a position cannot be without its influence upon eastern Asia. The sun of civilization must shine across the sea: socially and commercially, the van of the Caucasians, adn the rear of the Mongolians must intermix. They must talk together, and trade together, and marry together. Commerce is a great civilizer--social intercourse is great--and marriage greater. The White and Yellow races can marry together...Moral and intellectual superiority will do the rest: the White race will take the ascendant."

And nothing but good came forever after....

Also I think Benton had an early version of the Asian girl fantasy.