| English 45,000 | | Irish 144,000 | | German 176,800 | | Men of unknown nationality 74,900 | | Negroes (about) 140,000 | | National Americans 1,523,000 | | | | National Americans include all emigrants who in consequence of | | having been five years in the States are entitled to become | | citizens. | | | | [4] Mr. Ticknor preceded Mr. Longfellow at Harvard University as | | Professor of Modern Languages. As an author he is well known by | | his History of Spanish Literature, and the biography of his friend | | Mr. Prescott, the historian. | | | | [5] Then Professor of Anatomy in Harvard College, and Curator of | | the Peabody Museum of Archæology and Ethnology. | | | | [6] Laura Bridgman was born in 1829 so, at the time that I saw her, | | she was forty years old. | | | | [7] In one of the many brilliant speeches made by this orator, the | | following graceful allusion to the mother-country may be mentioned | | here. “Great Britain,” he said, “had dotted over the whole surface | | of the globe with her possessions and military posts, whose | | morning drum-beat, following the sun and keeping company with the | | hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken | | strain of martial music.” | | | | [8] The geographical conditions of the Atlantic seaboard are so | | favourable for the development of naval power, that it is evident | | that the United States have every possible natural advantage | | placed at their disposal to enable them to become a great maritime | | nation. | | | | There is, however, a difficulty for them to surmount. Serviceable | | American-born men do not readily volunteer to join their ships | | of war, and, consequently, the crews are largely composed of | | foreigners, chiefly of English and German origin. The reasons | | for this disinclination on the part of the Americans to accept |