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would be required to bring up the product of Ocean Postage to its present
amount. And the healthy spring which such a reform would give to commerce,
and to every source of national prosperity, and its consequent indirect
aid to the public revenues, would justify any government, on mere
pecuniary considerations alone, in assuming a heavy expenditure, not only
for five years, but permanently, to secure so great an object. I address
to my own country, as the nation whom it more appropriately belongs to
take so great a step towards universal brotherhood, the fervid appeal
which my friend Burritt has made to England:

"The irresistible genius and propagation of the English race are
fast _Anglicizing_ the world, and thus centering it around the
heart of civilization and commerce. Under the sceptre of England
alone, there live, it is said, one hundred and forty million of
human beings, embracing all races of men, dwelling between every
two degrees of latitude and longitude around the globe. And there
is the Anglo-American hemisphere of the English race, doubling its
population every twenty-five years, and propelling its propagation
through the Western World. And there is the English language,
colonized, not only by Christian missions, but by commerce, in
every port, on every shore, accessible to an English keel. The
heathen of China or Eastern Inde, whilst buying sandal wood for
incense to their deities from English or American merchantmen, or
trafficing for poisonous drugs; the sable savages that come out of
the depth of Africa, to barter on the seaboard their glittering
sand, their ivory, ostrich feathers or apes, for articles of
English manufacture; the Red Indians of North and South America,
as they come from their hunting grounds in the deep wilderness, to
sell their spoils to English or American fur companies; the
swarthy inhabitants of the ocean islands, as they run to the beach
to greet the American whale ship or the English East Indiaman,
bringing yams and curious ware to sell to the pale-faced
foreigners; all these carry back to their kind and kindred rude
lessons in the English language--the meaning of home and household
words of the strong, old Saxon tongue, each of which links its
possessor to the magnetic chain of English civilization.

"What then, should England do, to bring all nations of men withi