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more strongly

in each decennial census, until in 1850, the pop-

ulation of the Slave States, swollen

foreign Territories,

by

the annexation of three

Louisiana, Florida, and Texas, was only

any such an-

9,612,769, while that of the Free States, without

nexations, reached 13,434,922, showing a difference of 3,822,153 in favor of

Freedom.

remarkable,

if

we

But

this difference

becomes

still

more

confine our inquiries to the white population,

was only 6,184,477 in the Slave States, was 13,23S,670 in the Free States, showing a difference of more than 7,054,193, in favor of Freedom, and showing that the white population of the Free States had not only doubled, but commenced to triple that of the Slave States, although which

while

at this period

it

The comparative sparseness occupying a smaller territory. of the two populations furnishes another illustration. In the Slave States the average

number of

inhabitants to a square

mile was 11.28, while in the Free States

it was 21.93, or almost two to one in favor of Freedom. These results are general but if we take any particular Slave State, and compare it with a Free State, we shall find the same constant evidence for Freedom. Take Virginia, with a territory of 61,352 miles, and New- York, with a territory of 47,000,

NewNew-York New- York for 400

or over 14,000 square miles less than her sister State.

York has one

sea-port, Virginia

some three or four

has one noble river, Virginia has several



miles runs along the frozen line of Canada

a climate of constant

felicity.



But Freedom



Virginia basks in is

better than

cli-

mate, rivers, or sea-port

In 1790 the population of Virginia was 748,308, and in 1850 was 1,421,661. In 1790, the population of New- York was 340,120, and in 1850 it was 3,097,394 that of Virginia had not doubled in sixty years, while that of New-York had multiplied more than nine-fold. similar comparison may be made between Kentucky, with 37,680 square miles, admitted into the Union as long ago as 1790, and Ohio, with 39,964 square miles, admitted into the Union in 1802. In 1850, the Slave State had a population of only 982,405, while Ohio had a population of 1,980,329, showing a difference of nearly a million in favor of Freedom. it



A

As

in population, so also in the value of property, real

personal,

do the Free States excel the Slave

States.

and According