. Retrospections of an active life. borders, did not contain,in 1820, a population greater than 800,000 inhabitants, and only in excess of South Carolina at that period. To-day it numbersover 8,000,000, whilst South Carolina scarcely exceeds 700,000; andif we extend comparison, in order to illustrate the progress of relativecivilization, one is expanding and flourishing, and the other languish-ing and decaying—one is creative, inventive, fertile in resource, andnot bounded in its purpose by the clog of traditions—whilst the otheris sullen and insensible to merit in anything not of its
. Retrospections of an active life. borders, did not contain,in 1820, a population greater than 800,000 inhabitants, and only in excess of South Carolina at that period. To-day it numbersover 8,000,000, whilst South Carolina scarcely exceeds 700,000; andif we extend comparison, in order to illustrate the progress of relativecivilization, one is expanding and flourishing, and the other languish-ing and decaying—one is creative, inventive, fertile in resource, andnot bounded in its purpose by the clog of traditions—whilst the otheris sullen and insensible to merit in anything not of itself, living uponvisions, nourished by egotism, and contemplating the ruin of our nobleinstitutions, as the grand end of its aspirations, and the consummationof its hopes, when all mankind are to recognize cotton as the superiormonarch of the world, and become the willing vassals of its power. Instead of thirty-four bushels of grain assumed in the precedingestimate as equal in measure to five bales of cotton, the average should. Lord Palmerston POLITICAL SITUATION IN FRANCE IN 1865 259 be increased to forty bushels, therefore the tonnage employed in trans-porting from Chicago, in 1861, its receipts of grain would amount to1,400,000 tons, equivalent to 7,000,000 bales of cotton. James , March 1st, 1863. The American in Paris referred to in the first paragraphof Mr. Kobb s letter was Mr. Charles Stewart, the only son ofCommodore Charles Stewart and the uncle of Charles StewartParnell, the Irish patriot, his sister, Miss Stewart, havingmarried Parnells father. THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN FRANCE IN 1865 At the time of my accession to the legation in Paris, LouisNapoleon, a nephew of the Emperor Napoleon I., was in thefifty-seventh year of his age. At the fall of his uncle, in 1815,and in his seventh year, he accompanied his family into anexile destined to endure more than thirty years and until thedownfall of Louis Philippe, in 1848, when he was permitted toreturn to
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