of flie United States * Territories of North America. 8l 
equality ; that is, that in proportion to the respective population 
of these States, commerce prevails in the same degree. So, also, 
if we feel desirous of contrasting the degrees in which agricul- 
ture, commerce and manufactures prevail in South Carolina, we 
Shall find they are to each other as follows, viz. 
Agriculture, 3295 1 ( 124 
Commerce, 53 v or nearly as k 2 
Manufactures, 1 32 3 ( 5 
We further perceive, that ten of the representative numbers 
of the agricultural column are greater than 81 46, the number 
deduced from a comparison of the total agricultural population, 
to the whole population of the country ; and also that 8 of the 
numbers in the commercial column, and 10 in that devoted to 
manufactures, respectively exceed the numbers 75 and 363, 
being those which exhibit the relation of the aggregate of each 
of these occupations, to the whole population. In like manner, 
we find, that the agriculture of New Hampshire, the commerce 
of Missouri, and the manufactures of Vermont, approach, in the 
nearest degree, to the numbers here alluded to. By a farther 
inspection of the table, it likewise appears, that agriculture ex- 
ceeds commerce in a maximum degree, in Indiana, and in a mi- 
nimum degree, in the territory of Michigan ; that it also exceeds 
manufactures in the greatest degree in Missisippi ; but that in 
the district of Columbia, the representative number for agricul- 
ture will be found much inferior to that of manufactures. 
The decided superiority of agriculture, in all the States, above 
their commerce and manufactures, gives room for many strik- 
ing reflections, respecting the almost unbounded capabilities of 
the country ; — of the influence which a plentiful supply of the 
means of subsistence must necessarily have, — in accelerating the 
population,— -in improving their political condition, and giving 
a high tone to their moral character ; and, in conjunction with 
that active spirit, which will most probably stimulate their com- 
merce and manufactures for a long succession of ages, must 
open to the inhabitants of the great northern division of the new 
world, treasures of a nobler kind than those afforded by the 
mines of Peru. 
Plymouth, ) 
February 81, 1883. f 
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