5 trivances, without which, these immense triumphs over* nature could never have been accomplished. The Commercial power of the United States fully corresponds with these enormous resources. Great Britain has a more extended foreign commerce, because it imports nearly all the raw materials from foreign countries, and re-exports them as manufactured articles. Not so with the United States. This country contains within its own territory nearly all the raw materials in greatest abundance, and exports of these only the surplus, and imports only coffee, tea, sugar, and articles of luxury—and but few articles which it needs for its industry. The Commerce of United States may be seen from the above Tables, to which arc added some which relate to the city of New York alone, and which even now are on the increase. But who can estimate with reference to the above Tables of production the magnitude of the Internal Commerce between the several States ? Who can say how much less this country would import, and how much more it would export, if, in European fashion, the people would economise only a few years ? Already has Europe been obliged to send here in 1861, the first year of the war, more than 40 millions of dollars to cover the balance of trade in our favor 1 And it may, perhaps, become as important for the great money marts of Europe, as for its manufacturing interests, that the Union should be restored as soon as possible to its normal condition. The United States is truly the land—the very paradise of labor. Here is no place for idlers, be they rich or be they poor! Labor here makes all men equal; here the European noble and peasant work side by side ! In no country on the face of the earth is labor more prized and honored, or better paid than here ! Even capital, which in Europe controls labor, here becomes subordinate to and serves labor. It is the free and intelligent labor of the country that creates the Administration or the Government, that is, the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial powers of the country. Whatever may bo said against the doings and intrigues of the politicians, yet it is the highest honor of the system of government of the United States that Free Labor—that is to say, the equal right of all men to the pursuit of happiness—has been
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