230 PRESENT AND FUTURE OF AMERICA. 



THE UNITED STATES' PLACE IN AMERICA. 



The population of all America may be from 55,000,000 

 to 60,000,000 ; that of the United States is now up- 

 wards of 23,000,000. The States are central, local, and 

 self-governed. 



The United States' area is - 2,081,759,000 acres. 



The area of the whole of North America is 4,736,000,000 " 



" " " South America " 4,160,000,000 " 



Population of the British Possessions, - 2.900,000 



" United States, 23,267,500 



" South America, 33,000,000 



The United States will have to do with both North 

 and South. They cannot mark their boundaries and 

 say Thus far we go, and no farther ; such resolve could 

 not be adhered to. The Canadas, or British America, are 

 under a foreign government controlling French and Irish, 

 two races equally hostile to England. It is against the 

 nature of things that that government can long exist. 

 The South, it may be said, has only governments that 

 would suit the sixteenth century, or the Nipon Islands 

 in the Japanese Sea ; and simply because that state of 

 things cannot last, the United States cannot stand still. 

 Progress must be the order of the day, unless designing 

 knavish demagogues divide and subdivide this Union 

 into miserable paltry governments, when, in such events, 

 the debris of these glorious States will become the con- 

 tempt and prey of vagabonds and pirates. Disunionists 

 and abolitionists are the poisonous reptiles that lie hid in 

 the grass ; both must be exterminated, must be rooted 



