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TABLE A. POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES. 



Whites are estimated to increase up to 1860, at the rate of 35 

 per cent. ; up to 1870, 30 per cent. ; from 1870, 25 per cent. ; 

 Slaves, from 1850, 23 per cent. Free Colored, from 1850, 15 per 

 cent. 



Had the Slave been calculated at 28 per cent., which is near 

 their average rate of increase, it would make them, in the year 

 2000, 128,126,630, more than 1 to every 5 whites. 



TABLE B. AREA AND POPULATION. 



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Total Free States, 454,340 290,777,600 



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