And I make this statement on the authority of David A. Wels. that in 1860 we were exporting to foreign countries more American manufactures than in any other year of our history. In a table printed on page 10 of the report of the special commissioner of the revenue for 1869. it appears that in 1850 there came to this country 179.000 emigrants. 58.000 more than during the preceding year. As an exhibit of the activity and industry of ourpeeple. fortyeight hundred and nineteen patents were issued at the Patent Office in 1860. eleven hundred more than the average number for the three years preceding. in that year we built eighteen hundred and fortysix miles of railroad. a slight increase above the preceding year. The people of the United States consumed 332.000 tons of sugar in 1857. and in 1860 they consumed the enormous amount of 464.000 tons. more than in any other year of our previous history.
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