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Population of the United States and Territories from 1790 to 1870.

CENSUS STATISTICS.

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1830

1840

1850

1860

1870

Slaves Slaves in 1790 in 1860

Alabama

Mobile.

Arkansas.

California

Florida

Georgia

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

238,141 251,202 262,042 59,096 64,273 72,674 82,548 162,101 252,433 12,282 4,875 24,520

127,901 309.527 590,756 14,255 30,388 97.574 92,597 379,994| 560,285 275,102 297,675 309,978 370,792 460,147) 72,749 537,418) 2,759 76,748 78,085 91.532 112,216 125,015 8,887 1.798 34,730 54,477 87.445 140,425 187,756 340,983 516.823 691,392 906,185 1,057,286|1,200,609|29,264/462,232 55,102 157,445 476,183 851,470 1,711,951|2,539,638| 147,178 343,031 685,866

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107,206

362,872

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982,405 1,155,684 1,321,061 11,830 225.490

517.762 708,002 732,731 583,169 628,279 626,463 583,034 687,049

333,010

780.806 103,036 87,188

994.514 1,231,066|1,457,351 397.654

749,113 1,184,296

6,077 172,173 606,526 791,305

435,511

834,170

436.696

682,044 1,182,012 1,715,000

114,965

28.841 123,000

6,857 42.41

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284,574 317,976 326,073 318,3001 373.306 489,555 672,035

Maine

Maryland.
Massachusetts.

Michigan
Minnesota..

Mississippi.

Nebraska.
Nevada..

New Hampshire.

New Jersey.

New York...

Pennsylvania.
Rhode Island.
South Carolina..
Tennessee.

Texas...

Vermont

Virginia

West Virginia.
Wisconsin.

Boonesboro..
Iberville.
York
St. Marys..
Plymouth..
Detroit.

Fort Snelling.
Natchez

St. Genevieve.

Delaware Co.
Providence
Port Royal..
Fort Loudon.
Matagorda..
Brattleboro
Jamestown

Pr. du Chien.

158 905,794 11,423]

141,899 183,762 214,360] 184,139 211,949 245,555 340,120 586,756 959,049 1,372,111 1,918,608 2,428,921 3,097,394 3,880,735 4,364,411 21,324| 393,751 478,103 555.500) 638,829 737,987 753 119 869,039 992,622 1,069,614 100,572 331,081 937,903 1,51 167 1,980,329 2,339.511 2,662,214) 13,294 52,465 90,922

45,365 230,760| 581,295

69,110 69,122 77.031
434,373 602,361 810,001 1,047,507 1,348,233 1,724,033 2,311,786 2,906,115 3,515,993
249,073 245,501 415,115
35,791 105,602 261,727

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Population of the United States and Territories from 1790 to 1870.-(Continued.)

TERRITORIES.

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3,929,827
5.305.937
NOTE.-Returns of the colored population of
7.239,814
the United States received at the Census Office
9.638,131 show a total in all the States and Territories of
17,069,453
12,866,020 4,857,000, being an increase of 9.35-100 per cent.
23,191,876
since 1860. The State of Georgia has the largest
31.747,514 colored population; Virginia, Alabama, Missis-
304,192
38,538,180 sippi, South Carolina, North Carolina and Lou-
38,842,372
isiana follow next in order.

As shown in the last census (1870), the seven leading States rank, according to population, as follows: (1) New York; (2) Pennsylvania;
is, they were not included in the original "thirteen." In 1789, the four St
(3) Ohio; (4) Illinois; (5) Missouri; (6) Indiana; (7) Massachusetts. Thus four out of the seven most populous States are "new States;" that
the head of the list were: (1) Virginia; (2) Pensylvania; (3)
North Carolina; (4) Massachusetts. At present, Virginia (if the State had not been divided) would have ranked in the seventh place, or next
after Indiana. In absolute increase of inhabitants, Pennsylvania heads the list of the old States in the last decade: and the total population
of said State is about equal to that of the thirteen States of Connecticut, Arkansas, West Virginia, Minnesota, Kansas, Vermont, New
Hampshire, Rhode Island, Florida, Delaware, Nebraska, Oregon and Nevada. The aggregate population of the six New England States of
Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont and Rhode Island falls considerably short of that of Pennsylvania. The States
west of the Mississippi. including the Pacific States, have about one-sixth of the whole population of the United States.

The ratio of increase in population from 1790 to 1800 was 35.02 per cent.; from 1800 to 1810, 36.45 per cent,; from 1810 to 1820, 33.13 per cent.;
from 1820 to 1830, 33.49 per cent.; from 1830 to 1840, 32.67 per cent.; from 1840 to 1850, 38.57 per cent.; from 1850 to 1860, 37.75 per cent.; from
1860 to 1870, 22.34 per cent. Supposing the increase during this decade (since 1870) to be 30 per cent. there would be in 1875 nearly 45,000,000
inhabitants, We have reason to suppose it to be at least 35 per cent. This, in 1880, would give 52,437,192

PART THIRD.

THE PEOPLE AND THE GOVERNMENT.

1. All government is professedly for the good of the people; but in point of fact, nearly every government that has ever been instituted has been in the interest of an individual, a family, or a class. American statesmen, in forming our government, admitted the superior rights of no man or class of men. It was carefully organized to exclude all claims or pretenses of that kind, with a single exception, at first, which afterward disappeared in the tempest of a civil war. The executive, the various members of the government, and the law makers depend on the people for their elevation. At first they possessed only the dignity, privileges, and rights of the people at large, and, their term of office expired, they return to the same level, honored, indeed, if they have been faithful servants; if not, carrying to their dishonored graves the reproaches and contempt of their fellow-citizens, but retaining, in neither case, a vestige of the power and exaltation over others that clothed them when in office, the contrary of which so often makes an unworthy man respectable in a different form of government.

2. That the masses of the people would be able to exercise a true sovereignty without abusing it was always doubted until the trial was made in this country. A very respectable class of statesmen in the early days of the Republic, sympathized in

this doubt, and it even crept into the Constitution in the form of electors who were to choose the President; intimating a distrust of the wisdom and sound discretion of the voters in the choice of the Chief Magistrate. The liberty allowed to the Legislatures of the States to determine the manner in which electors should be chosen, while it recognized State authority on one side, on the other implied a hesitation to trust so important a matter directly to the people; and for a long time they were only indirectly consulted as to the choice of a President.

3. It was not, however, caused by a desire to keep power from them, but rather to avoid the unhappy effect of popular heat and rashness, so often observed in popular governments before attempted. This distrustful party first took control of the government, retained it during three presidential terms, and for many years afterwards formed an influential minority whose criticisms were of importance in establishing a traditional policy for the government. This party-the Federalists, headed by Washington and Hamilton-sought to found a strong and stable government that should be able to fully protect the country from foreign interference and domestic discord. Their control over the administration was somewhat abruptly closed by acts considered arbitrary, interfering with full freedom of speech and of the press-the "Sedition Laws" as they were called. Jefferson and the Republican party demanded the largest popular freedom, and had the conduct of the government for twenty-four years, impressing on its habits and policy the respect for the opinions of the people at large that has ever since characterized it. The people gradually gained control of presidential elections and practically set the electors aside, making and enforcing their own choice in general elections.

4. The exercise of popular sovereignty has gradually been enlarged, no qualification but that of age and nativity being now generally required, and the government may fairly be considered to represent the views of a majority of the people, and not only of the native, but also of the foreign born; since the

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