56 Progress of Population and Wealth 



CHAPTER VII. 



THE AGGREGATE INCREASE OF THE POPULATION IN FIFTY YEARS, AND 

 OF THE DIFFERENT RACES WHICH COMPOSE IT. 



Haying exhibited in succession the six enumerations which have 

 been taken of the population of the United States, and noticed the 

 more striking and important facts to be inferred from each, it will 

 now be our purpose to examine them in the aggregate, together 

 with such general results as may be deduced from them. 



We therefore propose to take a comparative view of the progress 

 of population during the half century that has elapsed since the 

 first census was taken, in the several States and Territories, in the 

 larger geographical divisions, and in the different races and classes ; 



To investigate the subject of the proportion between the sexes, 

 and inquire into the causes of the diversities among different 

 classes, and of the variations in the same class ; 



To compare the sexes and the different races as to longevity, 

 and the maladies of deafness and blindness ; 



To inquire into the natural increase, in the United States gene- 

 rally, in the old and the new States, and of the different races ; 

 the past and future increase, and the future progress of population ; 



To inquire into the future progress of domestic slavery, and some 

 of its remote effects ; 



To notice the distribution of political power so far as it depends 

 upon numbers ; of that of the population into town and country, 

 also among the different classes of industry ; 



And lastly, we shall estimate the annual income of the several 

 States, and of the Union, from all sources, and compare the increase 

 of wealth with that of the population. 



By the following table we may compare 



