in the United States in Fifty Years. 



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Table showing the Population in the slaveholding States, and how it was distributed 

 among the three classes on the 1st of June, 1840. 



It appears from the preceding table, that the whites, in the slave- 

 holding States, have in the last ten years gained on both classes of 

 the coloured population ; but that in Mississippi, as well as South 

 Carolina and Louisiana, the number of slaves exceeds that of the 

 white population. 



