in tlie United States in Fifty Years. 



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CHAPTER XIV. 



THE INCREASE OF THE ATLANTIC AND WESTERN, SLAVEHOLDING AND 

 NON-SLAVEHOLDING STATES, COMPARED. 



The several States and Territories have been differently divided, 

 according to circumstances. Sometimes they are classed, as we 

 have seen, under five divisions, as they severally agree in climate, 

 products, and in the prevailing habits and pursuits of their people. 

 Sometimes, again, they are divided into Atlantic and Western 

 States ; and lastly, according to the fact of their permitting slavery 

 or not. By combining the last twofold divisions, they admit of a 

 fourfold division, as the Atlantic slaveholding and non-slaveholding 

 States, and the Western slaveholding and non-slaveholding States. 

 These four divisions will now be compared as to their present 

 numbers, density of population, and rate of increase. 



The following tables show the population, area, number of persons 

 to the square mile, and increase at each enumeration since 1810, 

 of the four divisions, composed of the Atlantic and Western States, 

 slaveholding and non-slaveholding : 



Atlantic States. 



