122 Progress of Population and Wealth 



to decline as it has done, which is not probable, and should the 

 Western States continue to increase in the same accelerated ratio, 

 which also seems improbable, and unwarranted by the history of 

 other States similarly circumstanced, these two great divisions of 

 the Union will, in 1850, be nearly equal in population and political 

 power. 



