Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1861-02-16

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states according TO the census taken last
wear. have been published. At that time
ihe aggregate population of the U. States
amounted to 3l,64l, ,9I7, an increase Of g.,
44o 92f as compared with 1850. This
amount was divided into free men, ~, ,642,-
624, and slaves, 3,909,353, the former show.
inr. during the last decade, an incrense of
as and the letter Of % per cent. as res.
meets the different sections Of the Union,
The figures stood thus: I
Free states. s...,...........t..S.. .isse2iqa
Save states .,.,,, .,.., '....lalss,ss99s lS, s9s
The Grst show total gain s, $40, 65l in.
habitants since 1850; the second 1890, $40, |
including 705, ,O40 slaves the third have
advanced three hundred aud thirty per cent;
but from these is to bc deducted Kansas,
(now state with population Of l43,-
646 less the number near Pixies Peak
The District of Columbia contains 1921, |
which is gain Of more than City per cent.
over 1850. a 81 n3gre
The State which has made the least
growth in population is Vermont, showing a
gain of only 1907. New York shows the
largest aggregate gain, having added 754,-
100 during the decade but in respect to ra-
ito OF increase California stands highest,
ha4ing more than quadrupled her popula.
tion. Iowa has two hundred and ffty per
cent. more than in 1850 T; Texas, one hun
dred aud eighty; Wisconsin, one hundred
aud fifty Illinois, near one hundred Michi'
can. full ninety. The others are all below
! fifty per cent. Of increase, except Min
nesota and Oregon, which are. omitted as
not having been States in 1850. The for
mer has now lT2. 1876 Inhabitants, snd the
latter, So, ,566. No wonder Senator Lane
is eager to secede with such powerful
community at his back. -.s = ss-
In the Northeastern States the growth
of population is confined nearly altogether
TO Inc coast, tho lower courses Of the prin-
eipal rivers the four East and West railroad
lines, with the iron q nd coalregions of Penn
syvania and Maryland Our mines, our
manufactures and our commerce, including
railroad transportation. have absorbed all
the increase and viii probably do SO for
wears to come, as the introduction of machine
~ into agriculture increases the relative
amount of production to the numbers of
persons engaged It is different in that
, part of the country to the west and south
) Of Maryland, where the vast majority are
immediately dependent upon the soil.
OF the slave states Deleware and Mary
, land show decrease in the aggre5ae Of
: their slave population, of which the former
: has only ,S05 against 2, 290 in 1850, while
c the latter has So, ,3S2, against 80, 36S, a loss
!. of nearly five thousand. Missouri has in.
, creased her slave population thirty.two per
a cent but in the meantime her white popu-
has nearly doubled.
x The numbers of persons who have migrat'
o ed from free to slave states and rios rersa,
}, are not yet published; but the table will be
d an interesting one, in view of the secession
t, movement. In 1850, q proportion of the
>. former was more than two 10 one of the
latter and Judging from the ratio Of fincreasC
'r in the two great section we believe that the
h census of 1860 will show an increased nun
d Der of Southern born citizens at the North
e after making due allowance for the increase
by immigration from other countries.
But in view of,the fatal movement made
q by the secessionisis, we anticipate very larg'
le accessions from the Southern states to ou
population during the present decade
IN War or peace, Union or separation, victory
e. or defeat the result will be only more or les
r. disastrous to the Southern states. Conf
ia denro has been in measure destroyed
r capital cannot be made to flow in that di
~ recton trade is opening new channels, ant
~ ~ worse than all, before 1890 the world may b
., independent of the cotton states for singl
al bale of that hitherto omnipotent fibre
" War on the other hand, and even demonstr
of tons in that direction, bring heavy taxes
,r- taxation drives off capital and labor, Son
,r, Carolina has already lost hundreds of he
he most valuable citizens, and to make matter
worse, she has driven off hundres of Others
The present secession movement must hav
se cost her millions of dollars, and if persevel
ed ed in much longer will utterly destroy he
lly Charleston will probably never recover frot
ss the effects of that suicidal stroke which sht
m. has aimed at her own prosperity. 8 rgaa
-, Not more certainly does water run dow
10 10 bill than will capital and population see
=. those elimes where peace, security and libert
OIL are to be enjoyed, with competent rewar
ps toindustry. The prosperity enjoyed by til
fT- Northeastern states will attract thousand
of poor people from The South, where b'
fore only hundreds have sought them. Th
:" limit of the cotton growing region has bee
're reached at the Southwest, aud beyouDd
ise negro slaves cannot be employed with al
OF vantage nor, we bcleive, will the bard
IN, miners Of New Mexico, Utah or Arizou
is be disposed TO admit the African element {
re, population among them.
we The seeding states must therefore los
,ot largely, while they have no prospect Of an
futher growth, with the possible exceptio
OF Texas. The border states are likely
ors increase in population at the Others expense
ith and If they should adopt a line of polio
as looking toward emancipation, some of the
,ot may double their numbers Of industrio'
40 white settlers daring the next ten year
;oS Our limits prevent Us from indulging in fu
w ther speculation regarding the future ; bl
Hp we have no doubt that the country is on Il
eve Of important changes, not from yiolenC
he or aggresions upon southern rights by u
nIv free North, but the opening Of the eyes
80 the Southern people themselves to the
- herent faults of their system of labor. -
rn- JonN Brown, Jr. is on tour through Can
lat da, for the purpose of forming colonies Of &C
TX, ored people to emigrate to Hayti.
~. The slaVehnldin0 Oharakaess .heve1 gecede