Are we not more prosperous than we were between 1873 and 1878? Is not the South a section of our country from which we now.gather large revenues. and was she not a tax upon us in the autumn and early winter of 1865 ? Are not immigrants flowing in upon us in unparalleled numbers. and are not those immigrants drawn from classes of people who have heretofore come to us rarely and in but email numbers? Do not these immigrants bring with them capital. skill in agriculture and varied branches of industry? Do they not come to increase our taxbearing powerto share our taxes and all our other burdens? Are we so craven. have we eo lost confidence in the energy and integrity of the American people. as to believe that fifty millions in the height of abounding prosperity can not do what thirtyseven millions did when emerging from a desolating war or living through a panic that suspended the trade of the world?
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