The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-04-20

west ana the SOUTHWEST OOutHoct tuo rcP'
resentation of these sections in 1900 and
1860.
The Old North, viz: New Eng.
land, New York, New Jersey,
and Pennsylvania. ..... 81 SO
The Old South, viz; Delaware,
Maryland, Virginia, the Caro-.
linas and Georgia. ..... 800. AZ IS
The Northwest, viz Ohio, Indi.
ana, Illinois, Michigan, Wis
consin, Iowa, Missouri, and
Minnesota. .................. Is
The Southwest, viz: Kentucky,
Tennessee, Alabama, Florida,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkan-
sas, and Texas. .............. 50
The changes which this simple table pre-
sents are remarkable. The old South,
which in 1900 had 40 per cent. of the entire
representation, has now but 16 per cent. ;
and but one half the vote of the Northwest,
which had then not solitary vote in Con-
gress. If we 60 further, we find that the
entire mass of slaveholding States has but
one vote more than the Northwest, which
then had none! The Northwest has grown
twice as rapidly as the Southwest. The
old North has increased moderately; the
South has diminished.
A still more extraordinary result is pro-
duced when we compare the Atlantic States
with the Mississippi valley. They stand as
follows:
Atlantic States. Mississippi Valley.
IN loUU. Iva
In 1860. ...llS liz
At this rate of growth, in another ten
years, the Mississippi Valley will outvote
all other sections of the Union; and since
the Northwest grows double as fast as the
Southwest, it will be safe to say that in
another generation the north half of the
Mississippi Valley, from the Alleghanies to
the Rocky Mountains, and from the Red
River of the North to the mouth of the
Ohio, will haze the majority Of votes an the
House of Representatives. That region will
then have thirteen States, viz: Ohio, Indi-
ana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa,
Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska,
Dakota, the new mining State Of Colona,
another to be carved out of Nebraska, and
probably another from Dakota.
The growth of the Pacific states will not
prevent the result. The slope of the Pacific
is narrow, and has very few agricultural
advantages. The mines are not superior to
those of the Park, south of Mountain City,
in the new mining territory. Indeed, the
/ last will probably be the most populous
mining state of the Union and as the
mountain mines are developed-and the
miners must be fed-the factories, towns and
cities, on the Missouri, Mississippi and Ohio
will increase, and command the various and
immense trade which will result from
the existence and civilization of twenty
millions of people in the upper valley. We
need not, however, speculate on the future
The laws which produce such events are
fixed, and the growth of that great fertile
and prosperous region will 60 on with in
creased rapidity, as certainly as the floods OF
the Mississippi are borne to the Gulf. Let
US turn to the planting states-whose staple
products are cotton, sugar and tobacco, cul-
tivated by slaves. The plantation states are
necessarily sparse in their population for
the same reason, they afford no resources
for factories, and no encouragement for cities.
Hence, the growth of population in those
states is comparatively slow, and their polit.
ical weight relatively declining. Take New
York and Virginia in comparison. In New
York million of people inhabit large cities,
and half million more smaller towns. In
Virginia, not fifteenth part of that popu-
lation live in towns. Yet Virginia has the
splendid harbor of Norfolk, and the fine
townsites OF Richmond, Petersburg, Lynch
burg and Wheeling. New York is full of
iron factories and cotton mills yet Virginia
leaves her iron in the mountains, and cotton
untouched. New Orleans, which was sup
posed to have the site for the largest town
in America, fades before Cincinnati and St..
Louis.
Turning back to our proportions, we find
that in 1900, the free States had seven more
Representatives, but. in 1860, no less than 80
more than the slave States. In the Presi
Dental election of 1864, the free States will
cast 196 votes to the slave States 1O4.
Should Pennsylvania and New Jersey then
vote with the South, they will still be in q
minority. We need not allude to politics
further than to say that, after 1860, there
will be little room for balance of power.
Whatever is the clear, defined opinion of the
free Stairs will become the dominant policy
Of the Union. But if any one is apprehensive
of such result, let him remember that
party in power is far more conservative than
one out. To render radicalism powerless let
it be put in power.
The review which we now conclude
and which we have COW made with no small
care, upon basis furnished by very emil
nent statistician of Ohio, leads us to one re-
suit in which all true Americans-nay, all
Christians feel the glowing ardor of
natrintisno and tho ovultinr throh IF cor
scious progress. Coming into existence
only seventy years since, our Government,
elastic in its nature, and giving full scope
to the freedom of the human mind, has
grasped State after State, territory after ter.
ritory-millions upon millions. and spanning
the continent from ocean to ocean, incloses
nation greater than Great Britain the only
great Republic which has ever existed and
the only nation where Christianity ever ex-
listed, and the only nation where Christiani,