Thirteen States have become thirtyeight. three million have 151.5 r become fifty million. wealth and comfort and education and art have flourished in still larger proportion. Every twenty years there is added to the valuation of this country a wealth enough to buy the whole German Empire. with its buildings and its ships and its invested property. This has been the magnet that has drawn immigration hither. The human stream. hemmed in by banks invisible but impassable. does not turn toward Mexico. which can feed and clothe a world. or South America. which can feed and clothe a hundred worlds. but seeks only that belt of States where it finds this law in operation. The marvels of comfort and happiness it has wrought for us scarcely surpass what it has done for other countries. The immigrant sends back the message to those he has left behind. There is scarcely a nation in Europe west of Russia which has not felt the force of our example and whose institutions are not more or less slowly approximating to our own. Every now State as it takes its place in the great family binds this declaration as a frontlet upon its forehead.
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