Sumner was not alone in his pronouncements. Ignatius Donnelly of Minnesota predicted that “the British dominion will be inevitably pressed out of western British America.” William Mungen of Ohio declared that “by accepting this treaty we cage the British lion on the Pacific coast,” and then went on to predict the decline of the British Empire, the appropriation of its Asiatic possessions by Russia and of its American possessions by the United States, and the coming of a day when “the two great Powers on earth will be Russia and the United States.”10
