These men, therefore, being judges--men of large and cultivated minds, and whose powers of discernment all will acknowledge to be sufficiently clear--it is certain that the particular manner in which the United States have arisen, answers most strikingly to the development of the symbol under consideration.
We now extend the inquiry a step further: Have the United States "come up" in a manner to fulfill the prophecy?
Has their progress been sufficiently great and sufficiently rapid to corresponds to that visible and perceptible growth which John saw in the two-horned beast?
Every person whose reading is ordinarily extensive, has something of an idea of what the United States are to-day; he likewise has an idea, so far as words can convey it to his mind, of what they were at the commencement of their history.

The only object, then, in presenting statistics and testimony on this point, is to show that our rapid growth has struck mankind with the wonder of a constant miracle.
Said Emile de Girardin, in _La Liberte_ (1868):-- "The population of America, not thinned by any conscription, multiplies with prodigious rapidity, and the day may before [long be] seen, when they will number sixty or eighty millions of souls.
This _parvenu_ [one recently risen to notice] is aware of his importance and destiny.

Hear him proudly exclaim, 'America for Americans!' See him promising his alliance to Russia; and we see that power which well knows what force is, grasp the hand of this giant of yesterday.
"In view of his _unparalleled progress and combination_, what are the little toys with which we vex ourselves in Europe?
What is this needle gun we are anxious to get from Prussia, that we may beat her next year with it?
Had we not better take from America the principle of liberty she embodies, out of which have come her citizen pride, her gigantic industry, and her formidable loyalty to the destinies of her republican land ?" The _Dublin_ (Ireland) _Nation_, already quoted, says:-- "In the east, there is arising a colossal centaur called the Russian Empire.

With a civilized head and front, it has the sinews of a huge barbaric body.

There one man's brain moves 70,000,000.
There all the traditions of the people are of aggression and conquest in the west.