Hillsdale Whig standard. (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1846-1851, 1851-06-17
The Growth of the United States.
From the N. Y. Evening Post.

From the N. y. Evening Post.
In another portion Of this paper will be
found the most complete statement OF the
general result Of the last census which has
vet appeared. II is taken from the Wash
! ington Republic, and is presumed by that
journal 10 give the exact Congressional ap
poiniment, though the vouchers of some OF
the returns had not been received at the
/ Census Bureau. In this table, there is
much matter for study and reflection, nor
can all its import be learned IN day, or
, communicated in a newspaper par graph. -
/ Its appearance in our paper 10 day, however,
seems TO furnish an appropriate occasion for
! elancing at some Of its most significant lea
lures.
We have here the result Of seven decenial
attempts to enume,ate the population Of the
United States OF America. When the first
census was taken, sixty-one years ago, the
entire population of the republic was 1929.
328.
Since then, and within shorter period
than was designated by the Psalmist as the
ordinary life OF man, its numbers have swo-
len to 90, ,267, 500, o, more every ten years,
Stree that time, than ;he whole population
of the Uuited States was in 1890. The ratio
OF incr ement for the last sixty years has been
increase wear by year, and this ratio has
been SO uniform that we are Justified 10 con-
GLIDING with sufficient degree of certainty
that ten years hence the population OF oul
country will be between thiry-one and thlr-
~ two millions; 10 1870, between fofty-one
and loriy-two millioGs; in 1880, between fit'
ty.five and ffty-six millions; in 1890, be-
tween seventy. three and seventy iour mill
ions and in 1900, between one hundred anc
two and one hundred and three millions.
In the first Congress elected after the one
which meets in December, there will be
233 members, each member being the rep
resenta,ive of 90 ,702 cilzens. Ia the Con
crosses which have been sitting Tor the pas
ten wears the ratio of representation ws'
70, $50, and the number of representative:
232. New York will lose two representa-
tives.
Twenty members oil the House OF Repre-
sentatives will be representatives Of property
only. They constitute the seventh install
ment Of the constitutional bonus granted by
the convention Of 1898 for the perpetualiof
! OF Slavery 10 the Unteu oIdtoe' ~ "'-'
oonulation amounts to 3,l79.255, having
increased 10 ten years just 692.363. I'M
population casts a vote in Congress, througf
their proprietors, equal 10 that cast oy 1
GOO, ,469 free citizens, or to the Congtesiona
votes oc the States Of Name, New fiamp
shire. Vermont, Rhode Island Connecticu'
Iowa, and California. Tho twenty vote
thus conferred upon the free population O
the Southern S;ales by slavery, and twen'.
votes more than are enjoyed by any equa
4 numoer Of free ciuzens 10 the Don-siaVeno'
ding States. In this way the free men
Georgia send two men, the Tree men oil u
r giuia send three, aud the free men oi Ala
, bama and South Carolina, send each wv
delegates more TO the House OF Kep'esenta
lives than the same number OF citizens u
y, New York or Pennsylvania are entitled to-
4 Ia the States, proper waving ine irac"oi
r. al representatives, there VII be al ueleg'e
A from the slaveholding States anu In no'
/. the nou- -slsyeholding States. Deouc''u
> from the former those who represent prop
euy merely, and giving TO both sec'iol
!, precisely equal representation 10 OoogreS
. the slaveholdIng States would nave ou' 0
;. representatives, or eight votes more 'ha
hafthe vote OF the free States.
!, The total free population OF ihe non-slav'
10 holding States is l3,533,32S, that OF u
4 Slave States ,393757, or less than nan 'h'
;. of the free States; yet the represen'a',,q2"
n the latter is only quarter less IN 'iie nous
of Representatives, and only iouf less 'nd
o ,ual in the Senate.
Slavery has diminished during the pa
fen wears in delaware and the District oil u
Inmbia; i, has increased in all the other s'a'
{, States. la ls40, Delaware had $500, 81
a has now but 2,269. In the District, the
u y were ,694 in 1910. there are now but 800
g The number of slaves in Maryland has sto'
c nearly stationary. In ls4O she had s9'9o
!. Sou,h Carolina had then 327,O3o; she d
d now 3S4,925. Virginia had 44S'9ol; 81 5.
u has now 473,O26. Alabama had 2oo'oS
D she now has 1884. Georgia had 2oo'9o
'. she has now 362, 966.