The currency being in much worse shape in the West than in the Northeast, gold and silver naturally moved towards the latter place; and this result of their own shortcomings was again held up as a grievance of the westerners against the Bank.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt
But Benton and the other westerners were perfectly willing to offend England, if by so doing they could help America to obtain Oregon, and were too rash and headstrong to count the cost of their actions.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt
But to Europeans the Japanese vegetables seem very tasteless, and the chief of them all is very much disliked by westerners.
"Peeps at Many Lands: Japan"
John Finnemore