TABLE II-SHOWING THE NUMBER OF WHITE FEMALES IN THE UNITED STATES, ON THE 1ST OF JUNE, 1830

FEMALES.

FEMALES.

TABLE IV-SHOWING THE NUMBER OF SLAVES IN THE UNITED STATES, ON THE 18T OF JUNE, 1830.

MALES.

353,498 312,567 185,585 118,800 41,545 748 1,012,823 317,662 308,770 185,786 111,887 41,436 676

2,293

803

836

399

193

51 1

2,283

7,985

2,560 2,449

1,561

768 177 1

7,516

996,220

TABLE V-SHOWING THE AGGREGATE NUMBER OF WHITES, FREE COLORED PERSONS, AND SLAVES,
OF EACH SEX, IN THE SEVERAL STATES, ON THE 1st OF JUNE, 1830.

WHITES.

FREE COLORED.

SLAVES.

STATES AND TER-
RITORIES.

GRAND

Males.

Females.

Total.

Males. Females. Total. Males. Females. Total.

TOTAL.

persons on board the public ships. + This number comprehends 210 omitted in the marshal's return of the details. This number comprehends the omissions in New York and Louisiana, and 5,318

* This number comprehends 5,602 omitted in the marshal's return of the details.

The increase shown by this census, that is for a period of nine years and ten months, is as follows, viz:

If we add the increase for the two months required to make up the complete term of 10 years, which is very nearly equal to the half of i per cent, the last decennial increase will thus compare with the preceding, viz :

This comparative view shows that the rate of increase was somewhat greater in the last ten years than in the ten preceding, instead of being less, as would appear by the enumeration actually taken. The gain from a greater and more uninterrupted immigration, from 1820 to 1830, is more than equal to the additional increase here shown.

The increase of the three classes had been so nearly equal, that their relative proportions are nearly the same as in 1820. Thus:

Showing a small gain of the white population on the colored, and of the free colored on the slaves.

The males and females, in the three classes, were in the following proportions, viz:

do.

In the white population the males exceed the females, as 100 to 96.56. Free colored do. the females exceed the males, as 107.64 to 100. Slave the males exceed the females, as 100 to 98.37. The proportion between the sexes continued nearly the same as under the preceding census, with both descriptions of the free population; but with the slaves, the proportion of females was greater than under the preceding census by more than 3 per cent. This relative change in their numbers might have been caused by a greater mortality among the males; by an extraordinary number of runaways to foreign countries, who are chiefly males; or lastly, by a greater proportion of males of those who had been emancipated. As there seems to be no reason to suppose that more males than females were emancipated, the two first causes must be relied on to explain the difference in question; and neither of them is inconsistent with well-known facts. The instances of escape to Canada have greatly increased within the last twenty years; and of the slaves who are transported to the south, there is a greater proportion of males, and their lives are probably abridged by change of climate and habits.