Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-07-06


RAN, laboring under the difficulties INCL
dent to colonies, struggling with the VICE
of feeble and inefficient charter, ann a.
eitated by the broils OF facl'oa we nave
vitressed the wonder excited among The
children Of the wilderness, BY the Color
dress. arms and manners OF the .trah-
sers and the alternate application OF
force and address, in snbduIns tbeir
fierce and inconstart spirits. A com
pany transported all at once, as It were,
from the wcrld composed OF discordaIt
ard hetero. eneous parts, establishes IT,
,elfis the wilderness, the soverels' 'ty OF
which it has to dispute with the %oti'
aud innumerable tribes OF warise lam.
lies. Every moment it is in danger OF
perishing by famine. or the sHord."-
Yet this early colony is like the mustard
seed Of the scriptures il has spread and
will 90 on spreading, until its branches
shall cover NorthAmerica, and hundred
million Of souls shall flourish in its shade
There was time when this colony
did not exceed one hundred persons
Let US consider what an immense growth
hath sprung out Of this humble BEGINNING
mot that every subsequent addition has
gown directly out OF this Sera, not
that every inhsbitant that now lives IN
this continent is the descendant OF the
settlers at James Town because we eve
much to emigration but, that to this
germ. is indirecil, owing the removal OF
every native OF Europe, who was finally
tempted BY the success OF the fist and
succeeding settlers to come 10 our 'hores.
In tro hundred gears what miracles
have been wrough' upon this land The
Indian population has disappeared on
the sea board ; and east Of the ssi'sip-
p, it is rapidly melusg away. And IN
place of it, what swarms Of white people
Rave sprea ed what multitutes OF towns
faa their place upon the map! what
crowds Of enclosures, and farm bcuses,
and sgricul;urahs S. meet The eye in e
very quarter How many thousands o.
miles of roads pierce the country in eve
~ direction How pors!atien thrives,
anu duNduScs hOHh Sio W Sio "iSh Si-
ants strides
In 1890, a census was taken of the u
nited States, hen we we're rated at about
s,e29.S26 in 1900, at 5,S0S,666 /; in
1910, at 7.es9.s03.
Population has passed west, and seven
new states since the establishment OF nur
independence have been added to the
constellation OF American republics, VIZ.
Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi and
Louisiana, south OF the ohio river and
to the north 0t it, Ohio and Indiana--
and 10 the eastern portion of the confe-
deracy, Vermont. A law has passed to
admit Illinois into the number OF states ;
which will raise them to 81 states.
Looking at what has been done within
the last 200 years, 10 what may We not
look forward II in 200 years one hun
dred persons have coptriv,d 20 grow to
such number, to make so many DAD,
build 50 many towns, accumulate such an
astonishing fund Of wealth, what will not
be done by near 5000, 600 of peopIe7
H. 1890 it has been computed hat our
census. will embrace near 100000 Of
souls. DER increase from 1870 TO 1900.
was at the rate Of SIS PEI cent; from 1900
to 1910, al Sc per cent. laxIng the a.
verage, the United States double their
population IN about % years. Making
DOW a lair deduction for the dlmiEution
of ratio which may max the tuture pc
RODS, estimating lrsm 1880 to 1850 at
IS, to 1910 at so per cent. and to 1850
at 81, then what follows? That
In 1880 We may have l5,sO0.O0o
1910 E,s9O,oOO
1850 2i,95s.GOO
And in so years from the present peri.
cd, about 50 millions OF peoHe-In that
period, Maine. Michigan. aud another
state in the North " estern Territory;
the Alabama State, and Florida State, to
the South-bcsides Missouri State, and
it is impossible to calculate how many 9th.
ers to the West Of the Mississippi. will
grow into the American Republic. Towns
will spring up with an inconceivable velc.
eity-and roads will penet ale the track.
les forests OF the West. The revolutions
Of htty years stretch beyond the reach of
OF mortal eye-but it requires no prophet
to predict their magnitude. see it sta
ted in the " Enquirer" that perhaps the
Ontario is about to occupy the Mouth of
Columbia r!ver-In 90 years more we
may see an excellent mail road from the
Mississippi to the Columbia-and, ny
infant son may, if he lives 10 see his 5Oth
year, behold the distance from the Attain
tic to the Pacific appropriated by turn
pike road.-Nothing can take place more
astonishing than what has taken place
the rex; so years can scarcely present