Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1822-04-09
From the Ohio Olive Branch.

MIR. HRALL-I he last censoe en-
hiblts TO the mind CT the rejecting man,
some curious results. The reflections
excited by viewing the tabular statement,
are too numerous to comprise in one es-
say; and will now therefore send you
tew--some particularly interesting to
the state Of Ohio.
We lind IN this state an excess of white
males more than females of24, 642; there
being 3o0,607 white males and 275,965
white females. How mast this inequaA.
" be removed? By importation only.
Let the unmarried men turn their eyes
to the eastward, and their footsteps must
follow.
There are l7,245 more males than fe-
males of sixteen years old and upwards,
IN Ohio. These are or soon will be
marriageable. Where must they seek
wives
In Connecticut there are Of 10 years
Old and upwards 1875 more females
than males. These, unless imported in
10 some OF the other states, will probably
remain single there, aud an equal num-
UGt VI ttIatCS WITHOUT u ?tO III ttlGSC
states.
In Massachusetts the excess of fe
males of l6 years old and upwards, over
males of the same age, is l3,So9. In
Rhode-l Stand the excess OF females OF
that age is 3,lS3. In Vermont, 1901.
Ii New-Uampshire, 6,456. Ii the other
older states there is nearly an equality, or
an excess Of males. In all the states
which had new lands to settle within the
last ten years the Latter is the case. In
the whole United States however, The
white males Of l6 years and upwards ca
coed the number OF females by 55,4l9.
Under l6 the number exceeds that Of ie-
males by 1895, making the entire eX
cess Of males llS,244. This is an eX
cess, believe, That exists in 10 other ma
lion. That more males arc born than
females, ] believe has been satisfactorily
ascertancd before this. II has been con-
sidcred wise provision that IL should be
so; as The Eialcs were from their pnr-
suits, subject 10 SO many more casualties
DIAN females, that there would otherwise
be great excess of the latter. In Eu
rope, owing to their long destructive
wars on land and water, the excess of fe-
males is said to be very great. A lew
years since, in France, it was said to be
ten to one, and Bonaparte made special
exemptions from the CONSUMPTION, in ia
vor oil those males who would marry
To find here an excess OF males under
sixteen was to have been expected; but
ORG would have supposed that our late
war and our extensive commerce would
have taken Off By their thousand name
less accidents, so many males over that
age, that there would have been al least
ain equal number, il not an excess Of tc-
males, What is still more remarkable
is, that between the ages OF Is and 26 The
number oftenales exceeds that OF males
by 25,345. Now this is the class from
which few males could have been taken
for our late war, as six years since, most
of them We're too young to enter the ar
my. But in The next class, between the
ages of % and IS, the males exceed the
females by 89,476. And this is the class
from which the greatest number OF males
must have been taken for war and COM
merce during the last ten years, Yet
there is still. left that excess, who must
live single, or encroach upon the other
class next below; but as there is an
abundance there, these bachelors OF
ripened age need not despair.
Of the class of IS yeras and upwards,
the males exceed the females by 32,2S6.
Ofthis number many must be Bachelors
well stricken in years, and without hope.
This excess Of males OF that age, would
indicate thata much greater proportion OF
that sex arrived to old age, than OF the 9th
err. This too is probably the case; as the
hazards partariton, and their peculiar
diseases, from which the male sex is ex-
empt, may in countries where the Attic
ton of war does not often occur, produce
this effect.
These inequalities in the numbers Of
the sexes, however, are generally annatu-
raj, and must be owing to some politi-
cal or social cause. They have great
influence too, upon the morals and So
.cial happiness OF society, which is more
or less pernicious. When there is a
great excess Of males in any community,
they will naturally become licentious;
women vii. lose that sanitary Influence,