of the United States, and Ter ritories of North America. 4ft 
States and Territories. 
Increase per 
cent, from 
1790 to 1800. 
Increase per 
cent, from 
1800 to 1810. 
Increase per 
cent , from 
1810 to 1820 
” Maryland, 
10.7 
7.5 
7.0 
<& 
Virginia, 
17.7 
10,7 
9.3 
North Carolina, 
21.4 
16.2 
15.0 
South Carolina, 
38.7 i 
20.1 
18.1 
C x 
u 
Georgia, 
97.1 
55.2 
35.1 
& 
Louisiana, 


635.9 
1 
Tennessee, 

11. 8 
61.6 
CO 
Kentucky, 
199.9 
83.9 
38.8 
u 
r Alabama, 
__ 

67.1 
> 
o 
Missisippi, , 
— 
35.6 
87.0 
o 
Illinois, 
— 
— 
349,5 
1 -{ 
Missouri, 
— 
— 
— 
M 
o 
Michigan, 
— 
— 
86.8 
’l-l 
Arkansas, 
— 
— 
— 
<D 
^ Columbia, 
— 
303.8 
37.5 
On reviewing the rates of increase exhibited in this Table, 
we cannot fail being struck by their singular diversity. In 
some the increment is feeble and unimportant, while in others it 
assumes a form remarkable for its magnitude. Their inequali- 
ty also clearly proves, that the causes which have contributed to 
produce them, have not resulted from the operation of regular 
laws; and that they must have unquestionably arisen from 
those accidental causes, which a country influenced by immi- 
gration must be necessarily subject to. If we contrast, for ex- 
ample, the increments which the states of Vermont, New York, 
and Kentucky respectively received, in the periods from 1790 
to 1800, and from 1810 to 1820, we shall perceive a striking 
inequality. Vermont, which, in the first of the periods alluded 
to, received an increment of 80.8 per cent., in the last received 
only 8.2. New York also, which, from 1790 to 1800, increased 
its population 72.3 per cent., in the period from 1810 to 1820 
increased only at the rate of 32.7 ; and Kentucky, which, in the 
decade after the first census, augmented its population nearly 
200 per cent., in the last ten years advanced only 38.8 per cent. 
In the State of Ohio also, the changes have been no less re- 
markable. In the first period it received an increment of 27.1 
per cent . ; but, during the next ten years, this was augmented 
to 408.7, and in the ten years comprised between 1810 and 
1820, it declined to 151.9 per cent. These unequal increments 
are indeed so numerous, that in the whole of the states and ter- 
