The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1819-07-06

cnty gears ago, Sir, VIZ. in the year a. ID.
l749, what is now the Commonwealth OF
Massachusetts,, contained only 100000
souls less by 2s,7o5 souls, Than the Dis
trict Of Maine contained 9 years ago. Il
tits year. l749, no state, IN what IS now
called the United States, contained over 100,
600 souls, excep. PennsylvaGia and Della
ware united. La the census of that perioi
these two states are taken IN the aggrcgatel
and con aimed 25O. 900 souls. Massactu-
sets Bay was, then, the most populous oi
any one state Tor Colony unless at tn-,
time Delaware contained only 80 600 souls,
witch would leave jus 100000 70 Pennsyl-
vania, making her equally populous with
Massachusetts at that time then, Mass { hu-
sets and Fcnnsy lyanis were not only the
largest states Cor colonies but were abso
lulely, and without comparison, considered
large sfateS.
In the year I775, at the comm cncement
Of the war Of the revolution, Massachu
setts could not have exceeded. if it equal
led, the present hohulaflon Of Maine alone.
In the year 1910, when the last enumer-
alton Of the inhabitants OF the Y States
was taken, Maine contained 22s 705 souls,
which exceeded the population OF New
Hampshire. Vermont, and several other
States of The Union, and fell short only 1000
souls, Of the state of Ohio, which is rapidly
becoming one Of The most populous Of the
STATES.
In the year 1900 Ohio contained IS 265
inhabitants, her constitution or fame Of
government, as separate and independent
state, was made in November 1902 Can
any man believe. that had this state remain
eda territory, she would have increased in
population and wealth, IS she has done,
since her erection into all Independent
state.
In the year 1910 the District of Maine
tell short OF Connecticut only 33 2S7 souls !;
1t is now undoubtedly more fabulous, than
Connecticut. From the year 1900, TO
the year 1910 that state gained only io,94O
souls ; whereas Maine, IN the same period,
gained 77,oo4 souls, and admitting, that
her gain shall have been in the same ratio
from 1910 10 1870, her population, when
ibis latter period shall arrive, j. c. next year,
will exceed 344 600 souls. Should she
continue increasing at this rate lin case of
separation verify believe she wild in
the year 1910 she will be considerably more
numerous, than Old Massachusetts now is
In 1910 the District Of Maine had nine
persons 70 each square mile of territory,
upon an average. hen the great state of
New York, highly and justly extoled by
the opposition TO Separation, as great and
powerful state, had but ] S per sons to each 50
mile. The great d ir fluential state of V,r-
ginia had, at that time, 8 persons TO 50.
mile only more per sons than Me 10 50.
mile. n. Carolina, another great state, had
] 5 persons TO each 50. mile. Georgia had
no more than fUe fersons TO each square
mile, four persons less, than Maine 10
square mile Kentucky, but ten persons
TO square mile, Ohio but sir tiersons, and
ennessee, but seUen ferSons 10 square
mile Most of these states are among the
old thirteen United States, and were all
made independent July 4th l776-.he re-
maindsr were, long time before the last
census, separate, and independent states
altbo' much less dense in population, than
Maine 7vas Ten gears ago.
Never was it questioned, or doubted, or
even dreamed, no, not by the opposition
themselves to our il dc pendsnce, that those
states acre nor, each Of fhsm, sufficiently
f21aui0ns 10 become independent sovereign
ties, and when they were made so, not one
OF them was nearly SO populous as the Dis
trict OF NJ aine was ten years ago.
Iappeal, then, to the sound heads and CT
would hope) hon est hearts of some hall do
zen leaders Of the opposition, whether we,
the people Of Maine, are not, even in their
opinion, sufficiently flotiulous to be erected in
an independent government ask thtm,
as honest men, if, when, twenty years sgo,
they hetltioned the legislature for this pety
turtose, they did not, then think her hoh-
ntous enough 10 be formed into separate
State? Then, we had but Isl ,7l9 inhabi
tants; now we have, most unqucs,ionably,
double that number. The remaining INCUR
les wiz be considered in future paper.
AN OLD MAN.
Parsonsheld, June so, 1919.