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States produced by immigration is 12,432,150. If immigration had been cut off in 1790 onr population would have been in 1850 what it was in 1820. It has, in fact, placed the United States thirty years forward in that essential element of prosperity. Hitherto, owing to the ignorance in Europe of the extraordinary re sources of the South and the system of slave labor, this vast stream of immigration has