In the thirteen intervening years between that date and the outbreak of the Southern Rebellion we had grown enormously in wealth, our Pacific possessions had shown an extraordinary production of precious metals, our population had increased more than ten millions.
Blaine notes the significant growth in wealth and population in the United States prior to the Civil War.
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