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226 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
the present number of inhabitants, but by that number
swelled and increased by the natural population of
the present inhabitants, by multitudes of emigrants
daily arriving from other countries, and by the natural
population of those successive emigrants, so that every
person's share of the debt will be constantly diminish,
ing by others coming to pay a proportion of it.
These are advantages which none but young countries enjoy. The number of inhabitants in every
country in Europe remains nearly the same from one
century to another. No country will produce more
people than it can subsist; and every country, if free
and cultivated, will produce as many as it can maintain. Hence we may form some idea of the future
population of these States. Extensive wildernesses,
now scarcely known or explored, remain yet to be cultivated, and vast lakes and rivers, whose waters have
for ages rolled in silence and obscurity to the ocean,
are yet to hear the din of industry, become subservient to commerce, and boast delightful villas, gilded
spires, and spacious cities rising on their banks.
Thus much for the number of persons to pay the
debt. The next point is their ability. They who
inquire how many millions of acres are contained only
in the settled part of North America, and how much
each acre is worth, will acquire very enlarged, and
yet very inadequate ideas of the value of this country.
But those who will carry their inquiries further, and
learn that we heretofore paid an annual tax to Britain
of three millions sterling in the way of trade, and still
grew rich; that our commerce was then confined to
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 1 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000257 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 226 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. the present number of inhabitants, but by that number swelled and increased by the natural population of the present inhabitants, by multitudes of emigrants daily arriving from other countries, and by the natural population of those successive emigrants, so that every person's share of the debt will be constantly diminish, ing by others coming to pay a proportion of it. These are advantages which none but young countries enjoy. The number of inhabitants in every country in Europe remains nearly the same from one century to another. No country will produce more people than it can subsist; and every country, if free and cultivated, will produce as many as it can maintain. Hence we may form some idea of the future population of these States. Extensive wildernesses, now scarcely known or explored, remain yet to be cultivated, and vast lakes and rivers, whose waters have for ages rolled in silence and obscurity to the ocean, are yet to hear the din of industry, become subservient to commerce, and boast delightful villas, gilded spires, and spacious cities rising on their banks. Thus much for the number of persons to pay the debt. The next point is their ability. They who inquire how many millions of acres are contained only in the settled part of North America, and how much each acre is worth, will acquire very enlarged, and yet very inadequate ideas of the value of this country. But those who will carry their inquiries further, and learn that we heretofore paid an annual tax to Britain of three millions sterling in the way of trade, and still grew rich; that our commerce was then confined to |
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