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Population Of The United States

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Parent Issue
Day
21
Month
July
Year
1841
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Tíie Washington City Madisonian publishes the following statement of the populalion of the different States and Territories in tho Union, agreeably to the census of 1840. The aggregate, it will bo seen, exceeds.l 7,000,000. States. Slave population. Population. Ma me, O 501,793 Mass. 0 737,699 R. fsl: 5 108,830 N. Y. 3 2,428,921 Penn. 31 1,724,022 Md. 86,719 429,232 S.C. 237,158 594,368 Tenn. 188,664 829,200 D. C. 4.694 43,712 Geo. 253,508 671,197 La. 115,202 351,176 Ohio, 0 1,519,467 III. 184 474,405 Ark. 18,969 95,642 Wis. 8 30,752 IV II. 5 284,574 Conn. 11 310,015 Vt. 0 291,648 N. J. 658 373,306 Del. 2,613 78,085 Va. 447,207 1,239,797 Miss. 195,765 375,651 Florida, 20,000 54,:07 N.C. 246,186 753,110 Ala. 188.664 1568,645 Ken. 166,000 777,397 Ind. 0 '083,314 Mo. 53,540 381,102 Mich. 1 211,705 lowa, 18 43,068 2,320,393 17.10D.672'Returns from niño counties wanting, 7 ofwhich coritained in 1830,55,681. tltcturns from five counties not included. Four of the five counties contains, according to the Marshal's returns, 85,601. Returns from Carter counly wantiug. The araount of population in 7 counties ia Georgia in 1830, and that of four counties of Alabama, mentioned in thia note, are included in the sum."The whole worid is agitating the slavery question; England, France, Denmark, the Northern States of our Union. Danger is pressing us on every eide. Abol:- tion emissaries come f rom abroad, to add to the excttement at home. Abolition societies are increasing ropidly. Religión is brought to bear upon the subject. New York and Maine have nullified the provisión of the Constitution for tho protectionof Southern properly. All the elements of ao tion, physical, mora) and political, are corrnned against Southern insiitutions, and yet ihe South is preparing to make he lasi urrender of its rights and interests, bebre the ultímate fatal blow is struck at il kistende. Let Souihern men beware- ïev are on the brink of a precipice."