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Ach country, it follows that each country would realize from
three-quarters to seven-eighths of a penny advantage on every letter
added to the present ocean mails. In addition to all this, there is just
as much reason to expect Ocean Postage to increase, as to expect land
postage to increase. And as it is proved that, on land, the reduction of
price will increase the consumption, so as to produce an equal income,
there can be no doubt that, in a little while, if the sea postage is
reduced to the cheap standard, the letters and papers sent will increase
sufficiently to yield an equal income. And if so, the consequent
increase of inland postage and the profits on the same will be clear
gain. Add to the immense number of Europe-born people now living in the
United States, the children of such, who will retain for two or three
generations, their relationship to kindred remaining in the Old World:
Add to the half million of European emigrants, who by ordinary
calculation would be expected every year, the numbers whom passing
events will drive to seek an asylum from European revolutions under the
peaceful and permanent government of the American Union: Add to the
increase of transatlantic intercourse arising from the increase of
commerce, the growth also of advancing civilization and intelligence:
Add to the interest which emigration of neighbors and the growth of the
country gives to European residents in a correspondence with America,
the eager desire which the new times now begun must create to