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the exception of Russia, it is greater than that possessed 

 by any existing government. In the Western States 

 rapid progress will be made a trade unparalleled with 

 China and Australia, &c., will spring up while the East 

 will traffic with Europe, Africa, &c. Therefore let the 

 United States remember she has but a handful of people, 

 and not sufficient means profitably to employ even them. 

 Let her remember that her cities take up nearly, if not 

 fully three millions of the twenty-three millions of her 

 population ; that she has barely twenty millions of a 

 productive population I mean by productive, those who 

 raise commodities for consumption and for export, and 

 manufacturers who enhance the value of such commodi 

 ties. 



It has been shown that there is an area of 89^ acres 

 to each individual, and if some 2,500,000 citizens be 

 deducted from the 23,267,500, there would be but 

 20,767,500 ; and say of that number there be one in 

 every six an able-bodied agricultural laborer, it leaves 

 only some 3,462.000* to till an area of 2,081,759,000 

 acres, or one man to till and house his produce to every 

 600 acres. If this be the state of things, can it be said 

 that the United States are preparing for the great events 

 before them 1 Can one man cultivate 600 acres of land, 

 and make it productive ? Yet however absurd this ques 

 tion is, there are men who say we have too many immi 

 grants, even while the whole area of the United States 

 is, I may say, lying one uninterrupted wilderness before 

 their eyes. 



* There may be a greate^number by the census, for all I know 

 but the census does not allow for casualties. 



