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of luxurious living, though -with proper economy in the public 
expenditures, we might have been many dollars better off to 
each individual, stilKwe are by no means poor. Though our in- 
voluntary taxes are $14.80 to each person per capita , and in Eng¬ 
land but about $8.00, still we live months while that sleepy na¬ 
tion lives but days. Though older in luxurious riotings, we are 
younger in nerve and muscle, and can turn a penny into two- 
pence-ha’-penny, while John Bull is striking up his dicker for a 
round of beefsteak. We have nothing to fear, but everything to 
encourage us to go ahead—brush away all obstacles as we would 
cobwebs that stretch across our path, remembering that individual 
greatness is but a segregated portion of national greatness, and 
that national greatness consists in the means of being powerful 
and great. 
Note. — It would be strange, indeed, if in the voluminous statistics 
called to my aid in the foregoing tabulated and mathematical statements, 
some errors do not occur. I have studiously endeavored, however, to avoid 
errors, and am satisfied that in the main the general mathematical statements 
are substantially correct.—S. D. C. 
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