Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-08-09
GROWTH OF THE UNITED STATES.

year completes cycle of seventy years since -
then l76l) an infant under seven years Of age-was
placed on the theatre Of De Hasss work. and on that
part comprising Western Pennsylvania and North
western Virginia. Raised to manhood on that
frontier, many of the actors knew personally, and
might say al, whose names are identified with its
early history, have had imprinted, deeply stamp
ed on my memory From early age to middle life
was resident in the Great West from 178l to
lsl5-thirty-four years.
Long, however, after the infancy of the country
and writer had passed, and all the most fearful and
repusive features Of frontier society had passed,
and had been replaced by the everyday increasing
attributes of civilization, custom retained the term
g westerns" and applied it to regions now eastern.
If out from the Atlantic on lat 40o the distance
thence to the western border Of Missouri does not carry
halfway the Pacific coast though passing over upwards Of
100 miles, By this process is revealed the striking fact
that the Western country has to be sought for far remote
from the now classic Ohio. Where Let rs see.
friend Of mine has only few days past returned
from extensive tour reaching the capital Of the Ter
rory Of Minnesota, @ Paul. situated on the right west
ern bank Msspprver, nine miles below Smelling
Ny frienc with expressions Of admiration Of the now Great
Wes placed in my hands Annals Of the Minnesota His
orica Society for the years "A. d. ls5O5 st. Paul. D.
A. Robertson. printer. 1884," PIP. 1874.
page "a Of the Annals the geographical position Of this
new provincial capital is sivenst 44o So 49,, Longitude
from London 93o 54" VIZ very sixteen degrees,
Or in me an hour west Of Washington. Noroute between
these extremes could be formed under 200 miles Yet at
St. Paul already exists enlightened historical society,
preparing and issuing annual transactions repete with
MATERIAL and that material evicing public in high state
Of mental improvements and adding evidence Of advancing
civilization which admits denial Bat let us pause in our
p etoN
There are now lying before three works on The Great
Wen which taken together and contrasted with the AnnaIs
Of Minnesota are most admirably adapted to display the
remss in the history Of that immense region, and region
Of continuous habtabe surface, II include from to
ocean, the most extensive on the earth:
First, Chronces Of Border Warfare" BY Alexander 8.
Withers; Clrksburg Virginia, vol syo. 39 page. 1884,
Second in order Of me and rst ia extent of historical
interest," is Hildreths Ohio Valley and the Early Settle
ment Of the Northwest Territory" l vol. 525 pages.
Third, in order Of time, Early Settlement and Indian
Wars Of Western Virginia." by Willis de Hass, vol svo.
4l6 pages.
In the three volumes we have before Us the extremes Of
revolution uneqsaed in the annals Of mankind ln every
one Of the three have thrilling incidents omitted in the
oahers and taken together have depicted in colos not
TO be eaced during @ the horrors Of savage warfare the
DANGERS Deaths and hardshps attending the early settlements
of the West.
Tun from these tragic pages, and open the Annals Of the
Minnesota Historical Society, and the gloom passes away,
and Elysian fields open.
may be noted that the organized States and Territories
on the eastern region the United States embrace an aggre
gate so million two hundred thousand square miles
may be adopted without much departure
from reality Assuming the entire domain at three millions
Of square miles, leaves yet for the already organised sections
and the spaces unoganzed of the great Western or Pacific
region comprising million eight hundred thousand
square miles The actual population Of the whole Of the
United States territory may be assumed at OoO Or
twenty to the square mile the Eastern Atlantic region
similar dsrbuivs population the whos domain, from
ocean, would give aggregate Of sixty MrIIoss
number which, strict mathematical analysis on recorded
data afforded BY actual progressive numbers win be reached
by 1884, thyhfee years from the present time, as may
be BY the annexed tabular statement 10 the National
In.elgencer No s,e44, s45,) may be found centennial
table, calculated BY extending from l790to 1901
founded e Of 1890, and constructed annual
increment Of three per cent per The population in
$780, by the census, amounted 23 260 734 BY my table
the population given at 80 1876, ,oO4 difference l22 1906
in favor Of the Adopting my tabular numbers
at every fifth year to 1885, the population will stand thus