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Europe, as many Negroes as the single state of 

 Virginia. The Spanish Americans display in 

 the union of New Spain and Guatimala the sole 

 example in the torrid zone of a nation of eight 

 nii'lions of inhabitants governed according to 

 European institutions and laws, cultivating at 

 the stune time sugar, cacao, wheat, and grapes, 

 and having scarcely a slave torn from the land 

 of Africa. 



The population of the New Continent yet 

 surpasses but little that of France or Germany. 

 It doubles in the United States in twenty-three 

 or twenty-five years ; and at Mexico, even under 

 the government of the mother country, it doubles 

 in forty or forty-five years. Without indulging 

 too flattering hopes of the future, it may be ad- 

 mitted, that in less than a century and a half the 

 population of America will equal that of Europe. 

 This noble rivalship in civilization, and the arts 

 of industry and commerce, far from impover- 

 ishing the ancient continent, which has been so 

 often prognosticated, at the expense of the new, 

 will augment the wants of the consumer, the 

 mass of productive labour, and the activity of 

 exchange. No doubt after the great revolutions, 

 which human societies undergo, the public for- 

 tune, which is the common patrimony of civili- 

 zation, is found differently divided among the 

 nations of the two worlds: but by degrees the 

 equilibrium is restored; and it is a fatal, I 'had 



