Statistics

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 9, 1857

STATISTICS.—"The number of seamen of all nations is estimated at nearly two millions. The commercial marine throughout the world was stated in the year 1855 to embrace about 15,000,000 tons. Of this amount Great Britain had 5,000,000, the United States 5,200,000, and other nations of the earth—in Asia and Europe—had the residue."

From this it appears that the United States has 200,000 more tons of marine than Great Britain, and 400,000 more than all the rest of the world, England excepted.

Again: "From 1850 to 1853, the United States increased the amount of her commercial transactions (that is, her exports and imports,) from $315,000,000, to $584,000,000. In the former year she ranked as third; in the latter, as the second commercial power on the globe; France, which in 1850 had precedence of the Union, falling far behind her in 1854."

In these items alone we have an index of our nation's greatness and its rapid rise. It would be singular indeed if prophecy had taken no note of it.