The daily union., 1854-07-28

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in strength and in vgo kindred waters ueet and blend
and together leaving the savage the iniraeabe
oresrs and lis inmates 10 be eheered BY sounds OF busy
nations Of toiling old Ocean al last Gin
cinnati ST. Louis and New Orleans fair sisters creation
Of the Of the Ohio the Missouri and the Mississippi
The Venus Of ANTHOLOGY the creation OF The waters
Of the great deep
The of the great western valley has been calculated
as ioLowS
Ohio valley 200 600 square miles.
Mississippi proper lsoooo n'
Missouri 5o00Oe !"
Lower Mississippi 900
Total l,2l6o9v
I.s outline is Gloo miles and this portion OF the
Union included. embraces western New York PENN
sylvhns and Virginia: Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama
Mississippi Louisiana Arsansas and Missouri Illinois,
Indiana, and Ohio Michigan, Iowa, and Wisconsin,
whose total population may be estimated at loooeooo
i200000o From 1890 10 1910 the population OF the
valley doubled In hall century AS population has IN
creased average duplication every IL ycas
The average density the square mile Is bu' 10
IL If densey popnlons Britain there is space
enough in our interior empire for 3ooooo0o0 OF people
Mr. Calhoun, in his great report the Memphis conven
ton fIs45 kindled with the magnificent theme which
presented before hima population pressing upon the
limits of the Rocky mountains--a tonnage augmented
ihirtyfold in thirty years. trade alrehdy equalng the
whole foreign exports and imports of the United States to-
geIherhree hundred millions Of dollarsand this but in
the beginning
Looking beyond to not very disant future when this
immense valley, containing within its limits one million
hundred Thousand square miles lying in lis hole
in the temperate and occupying position mid
way between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans une-
quaed in fertility and the diversity Of s productions
serseced in every direction by the mighty stream IN
Guiding its tributaries by which It is drained and which
supply continuous navigation OF upwards OF ten thou
sand inilea with coast including both banks OF twice
that length shall oe crowded with population, aud It's
fnly developed naon Itself Is Taxed IN The
attempt TO realize the magnitude OF rs commerce.
After these tedious details let US rise 10 calcutta
tion which become of exciting interest What may
reasonably calculate the increase Of the population
of the United States in the next hundred Years II its in
crease be great in the last sixtg years, shah
have 4s7 o0e0oo; if gret between 1850 and 1850
deducing foreigners thai have come IN and formed part
Of the population il would be 2520ooo0o r II
greater the increase of Delaware we has increased
the least of all OF the States il would be as1e1O0 Al
mean OF this ratio and that OF the Union in sixy years
shall have in 1900 s5 5eoo900 and In 1850 l2Soeoooe
This calculation viii donbt be nearer the truth than any
other.
probable distribution Of the population of the United
States 1850 would be the Atlantic States 5o0o0eoe
the Mississippi valley 350ooeo0 the Pacific coast 10000
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But these are idle dresmings Those who have prophe
sed proved such Indifferent prophets that
cannot but be considered dangerous ground Who
shall dare compute what from the Of eter
nifty shall rolling in year and year and year again
in hole century which is before us w hal wars, Ssa
pestences what famine What social political cenru
sons, what breaking np snd building UP OF dynastes
lsf territories gained what territories Iusi VIII the
liberties Of people suaist then and their vital energies
be preserved In hundred Years nations have risen to
giorv or have rishe1 and been lost In hundred yens
the whole tie earth been changed Swe+png
over s great continent and over the negheorlng Isles
from he Northern 20 the southern under the
flag OF the rret republic viii These hundred millions OF
humaa beings their liberties doing to-day,
corrupted and broken ny into factions viii they pre-
sent 10 the world second Rome In ins whose decline
and fall il viii tie the melancholy part another Gibbon
70 indite? God protect and watch people
keep for liberties and national honor aid and
nsain amazing progress and LEI hundred yers
produce the great results indicated for them by the
past and the object of the prayers Of the wise
and good fathers OF the republic.
Let pass rapid review of the evidences Of the
industrial progress OF the United States which dis
plny yed in lis commerce agriculture and manufactures
In the Eve years which preceded the adoption Of the fed
era constitution the exports and imports of The country
did moi exceed together titype millions OF dollars
ailybeing about one-szth rs much the commerce Of
Great Britain, and onethird much that Of France
Ia he last the same commerce has reached Saooooo
00oa ten-sod increasebeing considerably than a
Of France and threefhs Of that of Great Britain Eight
years ago the OF Great Britain not
srger the present time and her trade with
all the world the Of the last century did
/ ceed her present trade with as.
What shall be The future commercial empire is
| more than the mind Of conceive 1t has
been gaining annually or per cent on that Of Great
Britan and this ratio in twelve fifteen years
countries will share equally Of the empire Of the
But there every reason 10 expect larger ratio Of
increase when the great fields Of the West entirely
opened developed when the South shall BE- stimulated
her powers Of productions when the shores Of The
Pacie shall be populous those Of the Atlantic and
the commercial empire OF the Indies be opened TO by
great overland railroad and fleets Of amsipswhen all
af mineral manufacturing resources slaii
brought into nll developmen-then shall open 70
commerce which tte world has never pafaeied In any
single nation and which viii be considerable that
of all the combined powers of the world Great and be-
ngnant the results Of upon the families OF
4 men Let us take the limits Of the ocean,
/ the sormest slet OF Che deep struggling against .
thousand billows and what do we hndg The sailor and
the trndar have been there and the return Of the white
I wings ia hacd by anxious mHltitudes who hring out
their richest TO be harter for the verIest res
of civilization From the intercourse which arises
stimulated in their bosoms They begin to think
with the objects which thought their views
and ideas naturally expanded TO wider compass and
ey nsensbly moulded in the type OF those who have
excited their highest admiration and wonder Mysterious,
he.ehcen and wise the WAYS OF Providence when
the Interests o called into reqsiton 10 work
out the GREAT problem Of their existence.
4 The tonnage Of rle United States Is 100000
large that Of Great Britain FIVE six years ago, if in
deed upon close calculation the two countries do not
already vie with each other At all eventa the ratio OF
Of tonnage wce great that OF Britain
Nearly 100000 tons have been built by in the last Eve
which four times much in the five yesrs
ceding 1890 The North controls this tonnage and is
calculated by M netie realizes fifty millions year out
of the carrying trade which she permitted 70 conduct
for the South The marine OF the Union is 100000
tons, being four times as great as in 1850
II The home interstate trade Of the country under the
influence OF perfect freedom, and without the restraint Of
the laws be estimated at 81 00e 100000. The
commerce which floats western waters is estimnied
S400Ooo00o and the comnerce Of the Great Lakes y,
S3O0,000,00e.
During the war Of Napoleon the carrying trade Of The
world in hands and produced amount Of pros
perIiy in the conntry which uneEaInpied. In the
event Of another general in Europe possible
for TO be kept out Of the Fray extension Of our com
meroe would result which hgurcs might refuse 20
press
The manufacturing progress Of the United States Z