Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-04-24

/ broad that only one or two points can here be
even touched upon. Several states are notably
| emigrant ones. Foremost of these is Vermont.
| OF every seven living persons born there, three
have emigrated 10 other states. Their course is
usually almost due west, or a little inclining
southwark. The entire body of emigrants is
about $780, 600; of these, $4,000 halted in New
York, $4,000 pushed on to Michigan, 19, 900 still
further to Illinois, 10000 to Wisconsin, y 600 to
Iowa, 5000 to Ohio, 1000 to California. There
was also very considerable Interrogation be-
tween Vermont and the adjacent New England
| states. To Massachusetts she sent D 600, and
received 5000; TO New Hampshire, $4,000, and
received IA 900. The southwark emigration was
very small; less than 5000 went to Pennsylvania,
and only 1872 reached any of the eleven southern
states, and third of these went no further than
Virginia.
South Carolina is also a great emigrant state
OF the whites born there, one-third went to
other states These emgrants numbered
100000 Of these 81 900 went to Georgia, $1,000
to Alabama, $4,000 to Mississippi, II, 600 TO
Texas. The present census, believe, Is the
first one which endeavors TO show the move
ments of the colored population. OF the former
slaves born in South Carolina about 100000,
fifth of the whole, were taken to other states, in
about the same ratio as the whites. Thus making
no account of those who were sold, and suppos,
ing that upon an average the family of an emil
grant planter consisted of six persons, each took
| with it four slaves.
A very striking fact TO be gathered from
these tables is the extreme rarity of Interim
| grafton between New England and the southern
STATES There is a vague impression both at the
| north and south, that Yankee "carpet-baggers'
| are pouring like swarm of locusts into the
| south to deyour the fat of the land and every
| green thing. The tables, if | have rightly
analysed them, show that IN all the eleven south
ern states, there are but 5295 white persons born
| in New England, and of these nearly half are in
| Virginia. The emigration from the south to
| New England is equally scanty. There are in.
deed in the six states 1916 persons born in the
south; but of these probably very great ma.
| iority are the children of northerners, born in
the south, who returned at the breaking out of
| the war.
The relative rank Of the states in order of
population, has undergone a few changes within
/ tLO last 4NGN IOih slduuS uISl, us sue
has done since 1920, when she passed Virginia.
| Pennsylvania keeps her place as second, which
she has held since 1880. Ohio is still third,
though closely pressed by Illinois, which will
doubtless take precedence of her in 1880. Mis-
souri,, from the eighth rank, has risen to the
| fifth. Indiana stands sixth, Massachusetts
| seventh, as at the previous census. Virginia
now ranks as tenth; but, had the state not
been divided, she would have stood seventh.
Nevada is the thirty-seventh and lowest, her
population exceeding by only few hundreds
that of the city of Worcester. cannot think it
other than wrong that Nevada should have been
created state, giving such uneXampled politi-
cal power TO her few people. In the senate of
the United States one inhabitant of Nevada has
more power than one hundred citizens of New
York. In the choice of president, should it 90
to the house of representatives, the ratio is the
same; and even should the choice be made by
the electoral college, one vote given in Nevada
counts for as much as seventy-five in New York.
The influence of the war upon the population
of the country may be closely estimated from
the tables, so far relates to the late conedera-
cy. In the Union, where emigration forms so
large a disturbing element, it is more difficult
but in the south, where the increase is almost
wholly natural, close approximation may be
made. ! will take by way of example Alabama
and Georgia, confirming myself solely to the
whites. In these two states the increase from
1860 to 1870 was AZ 900; had the former ratio
been maintained it would have been about 2O5.-
600; an actual loss of 16S 600. This of course
includes not only those who actually lost
their lives, but those who would otherwise
have been born. These states contain about
one-tiith of the white population of the late
contederacy, and therefore the loss of the whole
would be about $4,000. There is no assigna-
BILE cause but the war for this. The Union loss
was probably somewhat greater. Thus the loss
of human life actual and prospective, occa-
stoned by the war was probably not less than
million and threequarters. Butfor the war, our
population would now considerably exceed forty
millions.
There is an interesting table, occupying
twelve pages, giving very minute statistics of
the population of the fifty cities having more
than $4,000 inhabitants. There are eight cities
with more than 100000, six having between
100000 and 100000, eleven with $4,000 to 1OO,-
900. The entire population of all these is about
100000. So that nearly one in six of our in
habitants reside in cities. Worcester stands as |
No 80 on the list, her population exceeding
that of Lowell by Just II. The population of |
Worcester is Al Jos, of whom 29,159 are natives
born in thirty-six states and territories, and |
1896 foreigners, born in forty-six countries.
l give few of the birth-places of both classes,
selecting the highest and the lowest, in order to |
present some idea of the sources of your popu- |
lation:
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