The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1862-11-13
Growth of our Country in Population.

The total population OF the United
States, June l, 1860, was 3l,749,2Sl,
Of which there were 294 ,43l Indians,
l,oSS whites, 404 free colored, and y
800 slaves in the unorganized Indian
Territory west Of Arkansas the refined.
The total population of whites, free col
ored, and slaves in the States and Terri
tories was 81 ,445,OS9. At the first GEN.
sus, 1890, the population was 3,929,S27;
at the second, 5,3O3, ,925; at.sthc third,
1,239, ,Sl4; at the fourth, 9,63S, ,l31; at
the fifth, 1856, ,O2O; at the sixth, IT,
O69, ,453; and at the seventh, %, l9l,
SIG. The rate of increase for each de-
cade has varied from not quite 33 per
cent. from 1880 to 1910, to nearly 36l
per cent. from 1900 to 1910. The pr s.
cnt census shows an increase of 35 SO
per cent. over the population in 1850,
being a small fraction less than the rate
Of increase during the next preceding
decade. The lowest rate of increase oc-
Cured between 1880 and 1910 The
highest rate OF increase was during the
decade between 1900 and lSl0-a fact
sufficiently explained by Jefferson's pur-
chase of the immense territory of Louis
lana of Napoleon, and by the immigra-
ton caused by the latter's wars in Eu
rope. During the last decade we did not
acquire any inhabited territory, and it is
likely the rate of increase for that period
might be shown to be fully equal, cnteris
pnribus, to that of any previous decade.
The period of ls40 to 1850 was distin.
guished by the acquisition of the terri
tory wrcSt from Mexico, Texas includ-
ed, and yet the rate Of increase during
that decade is only just pcrceptibly
| higher than that of its successor.
1t is curious to note how the largest
population las shifted from State to
State, and how in the race of increase
some of the Western States have out
stripped some of the Eastern. Thus,
from 1870 to 1910 Virginia had greater
( population, and consequently greater
representation in Congress, than any
other State. She has gradually dropped
down, comparatively, and now ranks be-
low New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and
Illinois, Pennsylvania commenced as
the second State, and still occupies that
position. In 1910, however, she occu.
pied the third position, New York hay
ing bounded up from the fifth to the
second, and in 1920 she was still in the
third rank, Virginia having dropped to
the second In 1880 she took the posi-
ton made vacant by Virginia, and has
ever since steadily maintained it. North
Carolina has rapidly fallen from the
third place in 1890, to the twelfth in
1860. The relative cours, of Massa-
chusctts has been zig gag enough. Com.
meucing as the fourth, she is now the
seventh State in point Of population,
having occupied meanwhile the fifth,
seventh, eighth, AID sixth positions.
! But what splendid time. 1llin,oi. has
made In 1920 the twenty fourth State,
she is now the fourth Well nigh
barren wilderness during the whole time
in which Virginia stood at the head of
the column, she now takes her place at
the right of tho " Mother of States,'
with quarter Of million more iuhabit'
ants, aud three more Representatives in
Congress. Ohio moved forward with
nearly equal rapidity from 1900 to 1910,
when she displaced the Old Dominion.
Wisconsin and Iowa, during their short
existence as States, have grown wonder
fully, and are already ahead of New Jer-
scy and of all the New England States
except Massachusetts.
No Slave State, except Missouri, has
exhibited steady increase Of population
and the most populous and wealthy dis
trict there has repeatedly sent to Congress
a Representative who, until lately, neve
faltercd in his advocacy of radical free
soil sentiments. The best and largest
portion of the State has been practically
free for years. There may be something
in this to explain the fact that from thu
Odd rank in 1920, Missouri reached th'
Sth rank, next to Massachusetts,, in 1860
Tennessee steadily grew in power til
1910. when she gained the 5th rank, ant
maintained it till 1850, but now drop
down to the 10Th place. Kentucky wen
up from the l4th rank to the 9th posi-
ton, but fell back to the 9th between
1910 and 1860 Georgia constantly ad
vanced from the 18th place, in 1870, tt
to the 9th in 1880, and then dropped tt
the llth. Maryland continually retro
graded from the 9th position, in 1870
to the 10Th in 1860. Alabama went VI
awhile, and then came down again
Florida has been giving away all tn
time. North Carolina has fallen from tn
Sd to the 18th position. Anomalou
Texas has had ten years Of increase. Pes
tilent South Caroline, the 7th in 1870
took the 9th rank in 1900, maintained
it till 1910, and then struggled back t.
the 18th, while Ohio, Indiana. and Hi
nois were majestically pressing towar'
the front.
1t should be borne in mand that wha
we have here said of the advance or fall
ing back of the different States in poEu
= lation, only has reference to their cours
! relatively to each other, and not absc
! lutely. No State in the Union has alb
e solutely decreased in population. As 20
I fly along in the lightning express train
l. the rate of mile minute, the everlast
/. ing hills aud the firm forests to the rigt
8 or left seem to be fast moving in the OK
n posite direction. Nay, should you owe
If take even Flora Temple, making "tf
" fastest time on record,' she would ap
i. pear to be going rapidly, tail irst, towa'
h the starting pole and not the hon
&c stretch.
k, As compared with its own position,
h single State in the Union has lost
n population during any decade since OF
,e nationality was achieved. Vermont h
os remained more nearly stationary than al