236 PRESENT AND Ft'TlTRK OF AMERICA. 



In 184G the exports went, up to $-7,700,000 



1847 68,700,000 



18-18 37,473,000 



1849 39,155,000 



1850 only 26,000,900 



So it is seen these exports are returning to the old 

 standard ; and, with a decline in every article, can 

 Americans stand and look on in apathetic indifference, 

 and, like a Hindoo or Mussulman, when calamities press, 

 instead of exertions, envelope themselves in the fumes of 

 tobacco ? 



Mr. Walker, late Secretary of the Treasury, had bet- 

 ter hopes for his country some years ago ; and he esti- 

 mated the exports according to what he supposed from 

 antecedents, for the past years, more than treble of that 

 which they are, viz. : 



1846, value of exports were $101,718,0-1:2 



1847, 150,574,844 



1848, 132,934,121 estimated $222,898,350 



1849, " " " 132,666,995 " 329,959,983 



1850, " " " 134,900,265 " 488,445,056 



These are grave subjects for Americans to consider 

 deeply, and to turn their undivided attention to mend, 

 instead of those horrible politics. I have been in these 

 States for nearly eight months, and actually I have heard 

 nothing but politics. No other nation on earth, not even 

 England, with all her morbid intolerance in religious 

 matters, has suffered an equal drain on her mental exer- 

 tions on this head, as the people of the United States. 

 There are few nations that have :>;i equal number 



