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Progress of Population and Wealth 



Western States. 



Atlantic and Western States — Slaveholder and Non-slaveholding States. 



II will be seen by the preceding tables that the four divisions 

 differ considerably in numbers, but far more in density of popula- 

 lation ; that the Atlantic non-slaveholding division has the greatest 

 number and density, and the Western non-slaveholding division has 

 the least. If, however, the vast Territories of Wisconsin and Iowa, 

 which are comparatively unsettled, be deducted, this fourth division 

 would rank second in density of numbers ; its four States containing, 

 in 1840, nearly 15 persons to the square mile. 



It will also be seen that the slaveholding States have increased 

 more slowly than the States without slaves, though they are less 

 densely peopled, which fact is owing principally to the difference 

 of their accessions from immigration. In the thirty years from 1810 

 to 1840, 



The increase of the States without slaves has been as 100 to 258.8 

 That of tfte slaveholding States has been as . . 100 to 210.7 



The disparity of increase between the Atlantic and Western 

 States, has been far greater ? for, whilst the former have not doubled 

 in thirty years, the latter have, in the same time, augmented nearly 

 sixfold. Thus, 



