APPENDIX No. I. Of the capacity of our country ;-its past, present, and probable future population ;-the duties and responsibility of the people of the United States ;-a reverie or dream ;-the effects of moral and intellectual cultivation and Christian morality exemplified. In the preceding chapters, the importance of establishing correct principles, and of preserving and perpetuating our form and institutions of government, has been mentioned. With a view to impress this idea more fully, and to present to the minds of the American people a view of the high destinies that await our country, and the influence which our government and institutions are to have upon the well-being and happiness of the human race, I propose to make a brief examination of the capacity of our country, and of its past, present, and probable future population. Such an examination, it is believed, will lead to a more full and just appreciation of the station we hold, and which we are destined to hold hereafter, in the human family; and of our consequent responsibility, not only to ourselves and to our country, but to the world and to our God. The United States and their territories have been estimated to contain an area of two millions and a half of square miles; and it is believed that this estimate is not too large. The State of Massachusetts contains a population of about eighty persons to a square mile. If the whole territory of the United States was as densely peopled as Massachusetts now is, it would contain a population of two hundred millions. If the population was twice as dense as that of Massachusetts, or increased to a density one hundred per cent. greater than that of Massachusetts, it would amount to four hundred millions. That would give a population of one hundred and sixty to a square mile. If it was increased to two hundred to a square mile, which would give a population one hundred and fifty per cent. more dense than that of Massachusetts, it would amount, in the whole United States and their territories, to five hundred millions of people. Massachusetts is far from being fully peopled; and it is believed that her territory is abundantly capable of sustaining a population of two hundred to a square mile. A large portion of the territory of the United States is capable of supporting a nuch more dense population than Massachusetts is; and it is believed that the whole of the United States and their territories, is capable of sustaining an average population of two hundred to a square mile, and of furnishing them with all the necessaries and comforts of life. And this, as has been before stated, would give a population of five hundred millions of persons to the United States and their territories. By comparing this estimate with the actual popu |