V1U CONTENTS. 



CHAP. X. — A continuance of this increase not probable, .... 



Emigration of coloured persons, 



Whole gain by immigration, 



CHAP. XI. — The past natural increase or population, 

 Increase of the whites, deducting immigrants, 

 Increase, &c, by comparing the females with children under 10, 

 Influence of immigration on this proportion, .... 

 The children under 10, and females of the same, compared, 

 The same, compared with those of the preceding census, 

 The same, compared with females between 16 and 45, 

 Average of the different estimates of natural increase, 

 The natural increase of the coloured population, 

 Uniformity in the increase of slaves in States, 

 Causes of the apparent diminution from 1830 to 1840, 

 Extraordinary mortality in the Southwestern States, 

 The slower rate of natural increase in some of the States, . 

 Difficulty of estimating the increase of the free coloured, 

 Why it is much less than that of the slaves, 

 The increase of the white and coloured population compared. . 



CHAP. XII. — The future increase of the population, . 



The rates of increase a diminishing series, .... 

 European emigration will proportionally diminish, 

 Opposite opinions on the future rate of increase examined, 

 In every State the rate of natural increase is steadily diminishing, 

 Table showing the ratio between white females and children, . 

 Table showing the proportion in each great division of the States, 

 The proportion of children diminishing at each census, 

 Estimate of the future increase at the same rate of diminution, 



The probable result a century hence, 



Table calculated on different rates of decennial increase, 

 Estimate of the population on June 1st, 1843, 



CHAP. XIII. — The future progress of Slavery, 



The progress of slavery not likely soon to change, 

 The effects of the efforts of the abolitionists, 

 The decline in the value of labour must in time terminate slavery 

 When this point of depression will reach the different States, 

 Table of the density of population in the slaveholding States, . 

 Inquiry what degree of density makes slave labour unprofitable, 

 Points of diversity between those States and England, . 

 Difference between the cost of slave labour when reared, &c, 

 Agriculture hastens the depression of slave labour, . 

 Argument drawn from the experience of New Jersey, 

 When the slave States are likely to reach the requisite density, . 

 The States in which slavery is likely to be first abolished, . 

 Circumstances which may delay the termination of slavery, 

 Circumstances which may accelerate it, 



The policy which these views dictate to the slaveholding States, 

 The increase of the whites, &c, in the slaveholding States, 

 CHAP. XIV. — Atlantic and Western, Slaveholding and Non-Slaveholdlng S 

 Table of the Atlantic States, numbers, and rates of increase, 



