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Our Country in 1856

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 4, 1857

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 10, No. 5.

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Our Country in 1856

The Secretary of the Treasury has recently prepared a table, showing the population of the different States and Territories, and the value of the real and personal estate, prepared in part from enumerations and valuations, and in part from estimates, from which it appears that the population is 26,964,312, and the value of property $11,317,611,072. The American minister to England, at a dinner on the Fourth of July, said that "the American republic at the time of its birth was a puny creature, sickly, feeble, diminutive. It then contained 2,500,000 souls. The population is now 27,000,000. The territory was then a margin of the Atlantic. It is now an immense continent. Our wealth was then comparative poverty, while our resources are now actually exhaustless."