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million, wc have half a million of naturalized citizens ; from 

 Scotland, with a population of 3 million, 100 thousand ; from 

 Switzerland, the free republic of Europe, with a population of 

 21 million, we have 54 thousand ; from Norway, with a popula- 

 tion of a million and a half, we have 43 thousand ; from the 

 Netherlands, with a population of 3 million, 28 thousand ; from 

 Germany — free, enlightened Germany, whose king proclaimed 

 " her march the march of civilization " — we have a million and 

 a half of naturalized citizens out of a population of 37 million, 

 while from France, with a population of 38 million, we have but 

 one hundred thousand, or about the same number that we have 

 from Scotland with one-twelth of the population. Besides, it 

 will be remembered that Great Britain has large colonies all 

 over the world, making a large drain upon her surplus popula- 

 tion. 



With this exhibit of favored industry under an empire, the 

 inquiry presses home at once, in what production have we in the 

 .republic of America any superiority over a despotism ? Why 

 should we prefer the one form of government rather than the 

 other ? The answer is an obvious one. The republic excels in 

 the production of men. For while the population of France, not 

 depleted by emigration, as we have seen, increased from 1820 to 

 1800 only 7 million from 31 million, the population of the United 

 States increased from 9 million in 1820 to 31 million in 13G0 ; 

 and although greatly swelled by emigration, yet the increase 

 from that source during that period was only 5 million, while 

 the actual increase was 22 million. Or, to state facts in other 

 words, the percentage of increase in France was, for the whole 

 period of forty years, about 22 per cent., or one-half of one per 

 cent, per annum, while the increase in the United States was for 

 the same period 244 per cent., or six per cent, per annum, being 

 twelve times greater increase in the United States than in 

 France ; and this too effected by less than one-fourth by immi- 

 gration, leaving the actual increase, without immigration, nine 

 times greater in this country than in France. Here we see the 

 work of a republic. 



