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liiit there is a still better ami more coiicrusive ansAver.. 

 When people are misgoverned and dissatisfied Avith their 

 irovernment. thev emiirraie. Ireland has heen pourinc; 

 her population into this c<uintry for many years, nnti 

 from a population of less than six million, avo have natu- 

 ralized citizens of Irish birth, 1011 thousand ; fFom Eng- 

 land, which boasts of beino- the freest and best o-overned 

 countr}- in Europe, with a population of 20 million, "we 

 have half a million of naturalized citizens ; from Scot- 

 land, with a population of 3 million, 100 thousand : from 

 Switzerland, the free Republic of Euroi:>e. with a popu- 

 lation of 2^ million, we have 54 thousand ; from Norway, 

 with a population 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 

 (Termany — 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 Erance, with a population of 38 million, we 

 have but one hundred thousand, or about the same num- 

 ber that we have from Scotland with one-twelth of the 

 population. Beside, it will be remembered that Great 

 Britain has laro-e colonies all over the world — makinc; a 

 large drain upon her surplus population. 



AVith this exhibit of favored industry under an em- 

 pire, the inquiry presses home at once, in what produc- 

 tion have we in the republic of America any superiority 

 over a despotism ? Why should we prefer the one foim 

 of government rather than the other ? The answer is an 

 an obvious one. T/ic republic excels in the produciion of 

 men. For while the population of France, not depleted 

 hv emiaTation. as we have seen, increased from 1820 to 



