He would no longer, as in 1839, have been compelled to say that "specie is a foreign product," but would have given to us inestimable advice as to the proper use to be made of the vast sums taken out from our own soil.
He would have been also brought to face the ethnologic problem of a continent inhabited by a single race, not Anglo-Saxon, nor Teutonic, nor yet Latin, but a composite race in which all these will be merged and blended; a new American race which, springing from a broader surface, shall rise to higher summits of intellectual power and, with a greater variety of natural qualities, achieve excellence in more numerous ways.
This vision was denied to Mr.Gallatin.He died at the threshold of the new era--of the golden age.

A half century has not passed since his death, and the United States has taken from her soil a value of over three thousand millions of dollars, in gold and silver (gold two thousand millions, silver one thousand millions), more than two thirds of the total amount estimated by Mr.Gallatin as the store of Europe in 1839; and has also added to her population, by immigration alone, ten millions of people, of whom but a small proportion are of the Anglo-Saxon race.
FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 19: _Life of Albert Gallatin_, p.

546.] [Footnote 20: The frigate Chesapeake was captured by the British man-of-war Leopard in June, 1807.] [Footnote 21: A translation of this work, _Economie Politique_, was published under Jefferson's supervision in 1818.].