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George F. Hoar: “We are penetrating foreign markets, and have built up a domestic commerce, the like of which has never been seen before…”

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We are penetrating foreign markets, and have built up a domestic commerce, the like of which has never been seen before, and whose extent surpasses the power of human imagination to conceive and almost of mathematics to calculate.
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George F. Hoar
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

He describes the unprecedented growth of both foreign and domestic commerce in the United States.

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