The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-08-08
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These, the. three sources of national
power, and the rules which govern their
increase, are what the Census was insti-
4uted to ascertain. It is a little singu-
Jar thatin the comprehensive and COM
pendious volume, issued by the United
States Government last year, there is
emo Statement showing the comparative
rapidity with which each is advancing,
in each of the several States.
From the figures therein contained,
however, it is not difficult to frame such
a statement. We observe a correspond
ent of the National Lntelligcn1cer has
undertaken the task. In a long table
of figures takez from the Census report,
he arrives at the following results, which
although they are as precise and certain
as any other sum in arithmetic, a large
part of the people of the Union stead
lastly deny, or purposely ignore.
A traveller who should set out at the
Texan frontier, or anywhere else on the
southwestern side of the national do
main, and journey towards the north and
east, would meet on his road the follow
ing facts, one after another, in as regu-
lar succession as the steps to a ladder:
l.. Farms regularly diminish in size,
and increase in number, as we proceed
from south, north and east.
2. The proportion of improved land
steadily increases, and that of %uuimpro-
we'd steadily diminishes, irrespective of
the density of population, as we pro-
coed from south to north and east.
8. The cash value of farms, both in
the aggregate and in the prices per acre,
regularly increases, as we proceed from
south to north and cast.
Theproduc:ion of corn and wheat
regularly and steadily increases, with
out an exception, as we proceed from
south to north and east.
5. The productive industry of the
pie, both in the aggregate and as indi-
viduals, regularly increases, as we pro-
coed from south to north and east.
6. The density of population regular
ly increases, as We proceed from south
to north and east.
7. The rate of increase of population
: regularly increases, as we proceed from
south to north and east.
8. TIE number of manufactures reg
-ularly increases, as we proceed from
south to north aud east.
6. The amount of shipping regularly
increases as We proceed from south to
north and east.
10. The amount of capital regularly
increases as We proceed from south to
north and east.
II. The number Of canals and post
roads regularly increases as we proceed
from south to north and east.
IL. The number of telegraph stations
regularly increases as we proceed from
south to north and east.
Is. The number of persons who can
not read and write steadily diminishes,
and that of schools and scholars regu-
larly increases as we proceed from south
TO north and east.
IA. The number of churches and of
those who worship therein steadily in
creases as we proceed from south to
north and east.
These are the facts shown by the un-
.erring figures of the census. They do
not depend upon the comparative age,
nor upon the fertility of the states, for
whether we proceed from the older to
the newer, or from the newer to the old
er-from the fertile to the sterile, or
the sterile to the fertile, the result is
just the same.
This constant order of succession void
geem to indicate some fixed law or con-
stantly operating But what that
law or cause may be, the census does
not state. Neither does the Intelligent
cc7. Neither do we. But we think it
g written plainly enough, and that too,
+" in black and white" all over the face
Of this broad continent.-ADany Jour-
nal