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brunt of savage hostility, to hunt and to cultivate, and, by their 
resolute and ferocious habits, to repress the inroads of the exas- 
perated Indians, and to act the part of successful pioneers, in 
clearing the way for the great mass of the American population. 
It is in this manner that the country gradually assumes the as- 
pect of civilization, and that the dwellings of men are seen to 
take place of the haunts of wild beasts/’ The migratory habits of 
such men, so far, therefore, from proving any check to the increase 
of the population, actually prepare the elements for a more ef- 
fectual advancement of it. The labours and difficulties of the 
few, become the means of promoting the happiness and welfare 
of the many. And in the states and territories which have been 
latterly peopled, a few years must produce a race of inhabitants 
attached to the country in which they have taken up their abode, 
from the exercise of those sympathies and attachments which so 
soon spring up, and find root in the human breast ; but above 
all, by the strong conviction which they will most probably en- 
tertain, that their present condition is better than that which 
they have left. 
It may also be remarked, that the principles of population 
will be called into more active exercise, in the early stages of a 
newly settled state, than in its late growth. This will appear ma- 
nifest, when we consider, that, in the first settlement of a state, 
the most fertile tracts of country will be first occupied, and 
which, by affording the means of subsistence in greater abun- 
dance than when the less productive parts become settled, must 
necessarily give a greater impulse to the population, in its former 
stages, than in its latter. It is also probable, that, by even sup- 
posing the agricultural population to predominate for a consi- 
derable period in the newly settled states, considerable diversi- 
ties will arise among the increments of the inhabitants of diffe- 
rent districts of the same territory, from the operations of the 
same cause. It is time, however, to hasten to the contemplation 
of a subject which makes a loud appeal to humanity,— the 
Slaves. 
( To he continued.) 
