CHAPTER XXV. 



City of Washington. Obstacles to its rapid growth. No permanent 

 court or centre of fashion. Mileage and constructive mileage. -Nick 

 names of the several States. Mr Calhoun. President Taylor. His 

 feeling towards England. Agricultural bureau at Washington. 

 Patent Office reports. Intended sphere of the agricultural bureau. 

 - Difficulty of obtaining correct agricultural statistics. Alleged 

 wheat-exporting power of the United States. Wheat produced by the 

 free and slave States in proportion to their inhabitants. Can New 

 York export any home-grown wheat ? Surplus wheat of the whole 

 Union. Exaggerations in the estimated produce of wheat in the 

 States. Quantity actually exported from the United States. This 

 quantity likely to diminish. Influence which the United States is 

 likely to exercise over the internal and social economy of European 

 states, and especially of Great Britain. Great prospects and elements 

 of greatness in the United States. Influx of restless energy and 

 talent.- Importance of peace to the United States. Influence of new 

 blood on their progress. Mutual influence of their institutions and 

 ours. Changes in America since the Revolution. Extension of the 

 influence of the people. All religious sects equal in the eye of the 

 law. System of free-school education. Active energy of the United 

 States. Gradual assimilation of their institutions and ours. Much 

 depends on the behaviour of the democratic party in America. 

 Effect of a dissolution of the Union. Chances of such a dissolution. 

 Dangers from the side of the Pacific. Influence of California and 

 Oregon on the future tariff. Annexation of Canada and Cuba. 

 Obstacles in the way of such Annexation in the United States. Con 

 sequences of such Annexation to the Canadas : to the Romanists and 

 Conservatives. Natural bias of talent and ambition in the provinces. 

 What Washington offers to the ambitious of the provinces. Advan 

 tages of uniting more closely our home and colonial possessions. 

 Wide field then for ambition. Importance of this to the mother 

 country. Why few rich or noble go to the colonies. What a great 

 and patriotic statesman might accomplish. 



