Nebraska advertiser., 1861-03-21

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amount n one million dollars, now it has
a million Of inhabitants, aud counts its
wealth BY the hupdEed4 Of millions Of
dollars.
Two hundred years ago, jamestown
uas the m1st foarishing city in our land,
the capital Of the Old Dominion, and the
centre Of wealth and luxury, but the peO-
pie have long ago forsaken il, and with
the people the wealth disappeared also,
and It is now a place Of worthless ruins
As a country or district increases in
wealth and in the comforts of life, in
proportion as it increases in population F.:
let US examine the Census returns and
see what Pars of our country is increasing
the most in population, and, Of course, in
wealth
The frozen region called New England
has AZ persons to the square mile Mas
sachuseits, Rhode Island and Connecti-
cut l3s to the square nile; Massachu-
sets alone has 164 to the square mile;
NeH York has "a Pennsylvania has So
New Jersey has 81; Ohio and the other
free States have larger population than
their Southern sisters Of the same age.
The Northern slave States have (in-
GLIDING slayes) D ID to the square mile
while the seven cottOnor seceeding States
have 9 % persons to the square mile.
Florida and Texas have each ? ID per-
sons to the square mile. or a family Of 5
persons to each two sections of land. Yet
l believe they complain more of being
crowded than Massachusetts, does with
her IS families on the same space of
ground,
1 am one of those persons who believe
that a freeman is of more value to socie-
ty and the nation than a slave.
The eight northerly'slave States in
creased IN the last ten years 1,271,5 sol
free persons and III $50 slaves, or more
than Z free persons to one slave. The
seven cotton States increased 694,154
free persons, and $4,000 slaves.
Delaware, Maryland and Tennessee
have less slaves now than they had 10
years ago. In the same time Delaware
has increased to the square mile IA
Maryland II; Missouri 8; Kentucky
and Arkansas each A; Virginia, North
Carolina and Tennessee each 8. Cotton
dom has increased: Mississippi 6; Ala
bama 3 ID; Georgia and Louisiana each
3; South Carolina and Texas each 2. and
Florida /. Florida is the Oldest settled
place in the Union, and is a great country,
'sthe land of flowers" and all that sort of
thing; yet she never has had population
enough TO entille her to a representation
in Congress, neither at the time of adj
mission, nor at any subsequent apporlion-
ment.
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New York has increased 754, 100.
Pennsylvania has increased 604.232.
Iowa has increased 4S9,7SS.
Wisconsin has increased 45S,094.
Ohio has increased 397, 5SS.
Indiana has increased 362 1856.
Michigan has increased $50, 737.
California has increased 292, 173.
Massachusetts has increased 236, $50.
Missouri has increased SIG, 40.
Arkansas has increased BOOSTS.
Texas has increased 48S,263.
Mississippi has increased $50, 1872.
Missouri has more free persons than
any other slave State {; but Delaware and
Maryland have more to the square mile.
Thus we see that the free States In
in population more rapidly thant the
slave States. The border slave States
more rapidly han the cotton States, and
Florida, the extreme southern State,
of all. !
The question naturally arises, what are
he causes? l answer, slavery IS the '
great cause. The mere nominal slave
States, Delaware, Maryland and Missouri, !
ire advancing at a rapid rate. While the {
ridden States of South Carolina t
md Florida are nearly at a stand still. !
has 2.703.116 free persons, t
md 2,340,7I slaves. TIE northern slave E
have 5,674,O3O free persons, and t
$685. 57 slaves. n
1 saw an article, a few days ago, in the {
st. Joe. Gazsfte claiming that the slave 4
states produced more gram according to s.
population than the free States. Any e
who has lived near the Ohio, Mis- !
issippi or Illinois rivers must know that
immense quantities Of -four, corn, bacon, =
and other articles are every year
down those rivers and sold to the
and sugar planters. w. A. P.
M~ARRIED-On March I9. at the residence Of the
rides father, by Rev H BGrch. Mr CORNEIIUs HOB- Z
ITzELL and Miss AMANDA CO2Bs, all Of Nemaha
-Ounty.
On the 10th instant BY Rev. 81 Collins, Nr.
P WARE and Mss CATHARINE BRoWN,
9th Of this county.
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