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ping which now annually enters our ports;" and that " to 

 bring to our shores every article of agricultural produce 

 in the abundance we now enjoy, would probably give 

 constant occupation to the mercantile navy of the whole 

 world." 



The sum of the whole matter is this : American agricul- 

 ture must look at home for its great market. It must look 

 to consumers upon its own soil and at its own doors for its 

 only sufficient and its all-sufficient demand. The natural 

 and rapid increase of population among ourselves, and from 

 the native stock, will do something for it. The thronging 

 multitudes of emigrants, who are landed daily on our 

 shores, will do something for it. If we cannot carry over 

 our corn to the hungry millions of Europe, we can bring 

 the hungry millions of Europe over to take for themselves 

 from our granaries. This is the necessary course of things; 

 and it is to be recognized and provided for, — not resisted, 

 not complained of, but regulated and accepted cheerfully, 

 as our part and lot in the dispensation of Providence. Our 

 colonial fathers and mothers were pilgrims and exiles ; and 

 though we may look for no second May-flower, and no 

 second Plymouth Rock, there are honest and heroic hearts 

 beating beneath many a tattered frock or weather-beaten 

 jacket from the Emerald Isle or the German Empire, which 

 demand and deserve our sympathy and succor; and it 

 would be a dishonor to the memory of our fathers, if we, 

 their civilized descendants, should be found holding out a 

 less hospitable reception to the homeless exile of the pre- 

 sent day, than they received even from the poor untutored 

 Indian, whom they were destined so sadly to displace and 

 exterminate, when he cried to them, " Welcome, English- 

 men ! " 



But something more than the increase of population, 

 whether by multiplication at home or by immigration from 

 abroad, is necessary for the relief and just remuneration of 



