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The United States Bank of Pennsylvania was a State institution. No. one ever lost a cent by the Bank of the United States. But when that institution went out of existence, a State institution was incorporated in Pennsylvania, which assumed the name above   thereby, as. we conceive, practising a fraud on the public. But that was a private incorporation, and liable as all banks, and individuals are, to the casualties of trade, for which neither the National nor State governments are blameable.

Our object is to establish the position, that funds invested upon the faith of the stability of the American government, could not be more safely invested, and of all the investments, none could be safer than in real estate well chosen   for in case of revolutions, real estate is always respected.

Viewing our whole political fabric comparatively, with the balance of the world, there is nothing, and never has been any thing like it. Every State moves within its orbit   enjoying the benefit of its own laws, and its own wisdom   untrammelled by the acts of any other State. Each can develop its own energies, and give life to the enterprise of its citizens, in the way it deems best. Ours is a great national co-partnership, the only credentials to an entrance into which, is a republican form of government. From thirteen States it has increased to thirty. The usual objection to such an extent of territory being under one government   that the same laws cannot suit every climate, and do equal justice over so wide a surface    does not hold here, because every climate, and every region, has its own laws, and however they may differ, it in no way interferes with the harmony of the whole system. T.

growth of the valley of the mississippi.

The following is the progression of population decennially:

In 1790 - 200,000 souls

1800 - 560,000

1810 - 1,370,000

1820 - 2,580,000

1830 - 4,190,000

1840 - 6,370,000

1850 - 12,000,000

Carrying on the said progression, it would be about