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Much, with reference to the new states 

 in America, must depend upon the direc- 

 tion in which the population increases. In 

 most of the states of Europe no such ques- 

 tion can, of course, arise ; but it is not so 

 in South America, and in what may be 

 called the Spanish part of the northern 

 continent; for there the ultimate solution 

 of almost all problems of government and 

 internal policy depends upon it. An in- 

 crease of the Indian population great- 

 ly disproportionate to that of the other 

 classes, would perhaps lead to results very 

 different from those which, from present 

 appearances, may be anticipated. A consi- 

 derable augmentation, also, of some other 

 classes, without a proportionate augmenta- 

 tion of that which holds the ascendancy, 

 might lead to consequences inconsistent 

 with good government, or with public 

 tranquillity. 



