The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1854-08-30
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United States and Europe.

The thirty-one States, nine Territories
and district of Columbia, which compose the
United States, contain an area of 3,3O6,S65
square miles that is equal to nine-tenths o.
the area Of the whole continent of Europe
There is nine-tenths the quantity of good
and productive farming land within the do
main Of the United States, as in all Europe
Yet while the population of Europe is
over $200,0O0,000, the population of the
United States is t25.O00, 900; only 2L-
100000 of whom are whites The United
States, then, can support and subsst pop
ulation of the nearly as large as that of
Europe at the present time; and will doubt
less yet contain suchra population. 1t will
be long ere the elements of growth in this
country are exhausted. The Imagination
can scarce conceive the vast achievements
of the American people when the whole
country is settled and all its resources devel-
oped. ...
Already, with but 25,oO0,OOO people, we
have in operation 10000 miles of railroads;
about as much as all Europe. They have
been built at a cost of $S6OO,OOO 900; and
one of them is the longest railroad in the
world. The European railroads have cost
more, and are perhaps more thoroughly con-
sructed. We have also over 5000 miles of
canals; more, we believe, than all Europe.
The length Of ten of our principal rivers is
10000 miles; and the surface of the Ave
great American lakes, is over 10000 square
miles. Such lakes and rivers, are not found
in Europe. Considerable portions of the
territory of Europe lie in higher northern
lattitudes than any portion of the United
Suites, and is consequently less productive,
and less capable Of sustaining dense popu-
lation. H- -r...
The tonnage of the vessels employed in
our inland, coasting and foreign commerce.,
is greater than that Of England; and greater
than that of all Europe combined, exclusive
of England. We have nearly $4,000 miles
of sea coast, exclusive of the shores of
tide water rivers. The registered tonnage
of the United States is 4,4O6,OlO tons. The
amount Of products of American industry.
when compared with the population is truly
The value of the agricultural
products of the United States for the year
1853, was over two thousand million dol
lars; and value of the products of all other
labor for the same year was over fifteen
hundred million dollars. The product of
the mines is very urge; that of gold alone
is nearly one hundred million dollars annu-
ally. ta. aa l.'~ .... ]
If such is the product, such the wealth,
he commerce, and the public improvements
If the United States when the population is
$4,000, 900 who eau compute the wealth and
bower ofthe nation when its population shall
equal that Of Europel While, with our pre-
sent people, enough agricultural products
ire produced for home consumption, and
surplus worth nearly a hundred and fifty
million dollars for sale abroad, Europe with
line times the population, produce less than
S demanded for its own supply.
The surface of American coal fields, al
'eady been discovered, exceeds $4,000
'quare miles; and the lead, iron, copper and
'ther mines are apparently inexhaustable.-l
Over $4,000 railroads are already chartered,
Ind railroad making will doubtless continue
until the whole wide domain Of the repub-
ic, from the frozen north to the tropics, and
rom the Atlantic to the Pacific, is .spanned
md chequered, and bound together by iron
'als, and enlivened by the tramp of the iron
lorse. Thearepubiic has future before it
If vast promise, and Of bright and boundless
ropes. It's moral will equal it's material
'ower; and within century all Europe
combined will not snrpass il in wealth and
commerce, or, perhaps, In population. HH'A
In Europe not more than one in twenty Of
he people can read and write. In the Uni
ed States there is only one in twenty-five
who cannot read and write. There are five
line, as many newspapers published in the
United States as 10 all Europe. We have
1000 schools, 5000 academies, and 234
colleges. We have $500 churches,
Although law and order prevail, there is
lot now, throughout the entire Union, one
nan imprisoned for a political offence
German, Italian, Spanish and French pris-
ms are filled with political offenders. The.
European governments are III debt beyo
" possible means Of payment in all time to
,ome,H Our government owes but a trifing
'um, not yet due, and offers It's creditors a |
arge premium for the privilege Of paying
hem now. H aa .
Why is-it that Young America is thus ex-
selling Old Europea Europe is still cursed
With the "divines right Of some fifty-four
'amilies to rule all the millions OF its peo-
,le. In the United States is established the
ruly divine right Of the people tolrule them
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