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Table III. Summarif of Table.i I. and II. 



Table IV. Elements of Table II. combmed ir/th thouc of Eastern V 



The two right-hand columns of these tables 

 afford lessons which ouirht to e.xeite serious re- 

 flections on our domestic policy. To stay the 

 current of Western emigration is a hopeless 

 prospect, but many may be restrained from 

 casting themselves on the cun-ent by timely 

 warning. Let any person open a map of the 

 United States, and scan the surface embraced 

 by all the tabttlar views here presented, and 

 then, with an Atlas of the Woi-ld before him, 

 find, if he can, a single other space on Earth, all 

 things considered, superior. I have not, for ob- 

 vious reasons, included lower New-York and 

 the more populous maritime countiesW New- 

 T.4BLE V. Tabular View of the Progressive Population of the %i:hole Slates and Territories 



Jersey ; but may observe that no other princi- 

 ple ill stati-stics is more sure in application than 

 that great cities contribute to make great coun- 

 ties around them. That districts in their vicin- 

 ity should not only remain, as to population, sta- 

 tionary', but some of them have a diminishing 

 ratio, while were rising such cities as New- 

 York, Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore, 

 must arise from some sinister cause. Let us 

 pause a moment, and examine the general pro- 

 gress of the entire population of the United 

 States, during the Thirty Years' Period, from 

 1810 to 1840. 



iew of 

 ?s, ifliie 



Maine 



New-Hampshire . 



Vermont 



Massachusetts 



Rhode Island 



Connecy«it — -. 



New-Yo^ 



New-Jerst!y 



Pennsylvania 



Delaware 



Maryland 



Vir,i<inia 



North-Carohna . . . 

 South-Carolina.. . 



Georgia 



Alabama 



Missi8si])pi 



Louisiana 



Tennessee 



•228,705 

 214,360 

 •217.713 

 47-2.040 



77,031 

 262.042 

 959,949 

 249,555 

 810.091 



72,674 

 380,546 

 974,642 

 555,500 

 415,115 

 252,433 



20,845 



40,352 



261,727 

 Kentucky ! 406,511 



Population, 

 1810. 



Ohio. 



Michigan 



Indiana 



Illinois 



Missouri 



Columbia 



Amount. . . 



230,760 

 4,762 

 24,520 

 12,^282 

 20,845 

 24.023 



-.239,814 



Population, 

 1840. 



501,793 

 284,574 

 291,948 

 737,699 

 106.830 

 309,878 



2,428,921 

 373,303 



1,724,033 



78,085 



470,019 



1,239,797 

 753,419 

 594,398 

 691,392 

 590.756 

 375,651 

 35-2,411 

 829,210 

 779,828 



1,519,467 

 212,267 

 685,866 

 476,183 

 383.702 

 43,712 



16.837,-285 



Area in 

 sqr. miles. 



33,000 



9,280 



10.212 



7,800 



1,360 



4,674 



46,000 



6.900 



43,950 



•2,068 



10,800 



64.000 



43.800 



30,000 



58,200 



50.000 



45,3.')0 



48,220 



40,000 



39,000 



39,000 



54.000 



36,2.50 



59,000 



60,300 



100 



Population to the Ratio of increase 



sqr. mile, 1840. 



15--2 



30 



28 



94 



80 



66 



52-7 



54 



41-4 



37-7 



43 



19-3 



17-2 



19-8 



12 



11-8 

 8-2 

 7-5 



20 



20 



40 



40 



19 



in 30 years. 



2-19 



1-33 



1-34 



1-56 



1-40 



1-18 



2-53 



1-49 



2-12 



1-07 4--.0 



1-23 



1-23 



1-35 



1-37 



0-34 



2-74 



9-30 



4-60 



3-13 



1-90 



6-58 

 44-6 

 27-9 

 38-9 

 18-4 



1-81 



8-27,264 I 



20i 



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The figures in Table V. speak, in strong lan- 

 guage, the peculiar diffusion of population — the 

 immense void to fill up in the already organized 

 States — and the highly important fact that wliile, 

 in 1840. several of the central States nearly 

 doubled the mean popi;lation of the Union, as 

 many of the old Atlantic States fell .short of the 

 mean of the whole. 



Ib such estimates, we may premise that posi- 

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live accuracy cannot be attained, and ought not 

 to be expected. It is, however, of very minor 

 consequence that minute details do not present 

 mathematical precision, while the general re- 

 sults cannot be disputed. If no change takes 

 place in the current of emigration, the centre of 

 political power must correspond with the cen- 

 tre of force, and leave at long distance the At- 

 lantic coast. 



