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whole number of inhabitants living in the United 

 States at the time they achieved their independence 

 from Great Britain. The course of Prussia toward the 

 German States, in consolidating them into an empire, 

 and creating an emperor by dethroning kings who 

 were the legitimate rulers of their people, and in ap- 

 pointing over these people distasteful governors, has 

 caused thousands of wealthy Germans to seek our 

 shores, and will cause many thousands more to come. 

 When a people lose their country they do not often 

 care for their homes, and the Germans feel that they 

 are no longer Germans, but Prussians, who would 

 prefer rather to be Americans. The Chinese, after 

 being walled in for two thousand years, have at last 

 found a place to emigrate to, and, unless prevented, 

 millions of them will eventually come to the United 

 States. The sympathy ever manifested by our people 

 for Ireland's starving millions will reinvigorate emi- 

 gration from that unhappy country to our shores. The 

 result of all this will be to settle up the West and 

 double our population, large as it is. Young men who 

 have polled their first vote will live to see the day when 

 the United States will contain 100,000,000 of people. 

 What must be apparent to every one, and what ought 

 to be impressed on the minds of men, both old and 

 young, is the fact that there will soon be no unsettled 

 West. Several lines of emigration have already pene- 

 trated across the continent, and settlements are rapidly 

 spreading from the right and left of them until they 

 intersect each other, and when the West is settled, what 

 then ? Then, indeed, will the young men have cause 

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