Selections: Statistics Of Population

Certain stalistics quoted in the Gazette of Monday, from the National Intelligencer, demand eomathing more than a passing notice. It must have startled the readers of that paper to be told that the population of England had increased fastcr during the last forty years, than the population of the Atlaniic States. The truth is, we shall never ajrive at any important conclusions in relation to pro - gress, and causes modífying progress, in the different seclions of this Union, until we learn to take in moral, as well as geographical distinctions.'The writer in the Intelligencer 6hows,' saya the Gazette, 'that while the population of the Atlantic Strip increased on an average of 16 per cent. from 1830 to 1840, that of the Valley increased at the rate of 80 per cent. It is known, he says, that the increase of population m the U. States is exceedingly rapid; but it is not generally known in what part of them the increase is made. In 1800 the population of the Atlantic States was 4,920,274; m 1840, 3,627,899; being an increase in 40 years of 75 per cent. ín 1301 the population of England was 8,331,535; in 1841, 14,995,518; being an increase in 40 years of 80 per cent. The Atlantic Strip, therefore, has not increased as fast as Ensrlanc ."What is the conclusicn that might be drawn from this statement? It is, that zifter our boastings of the glorious efiècts of free institutions, they do very little after all for the prosperity of a nation - for here in a new country, rich in resources, the increase of population has fallen behind that of an old country, of small extent, and oppressed by an aristocracyiIt so happens that tlie frnmer of these statistics is a citizen of a Slave State; and probably it never entered hU head that no statistics of population ia this country conld be fair, which were not so arranged as to show the powerful influence of slavery. It is only when England and the Atlantic Slave States are compared, that the advantage is on the side of England! But, we shall not put the reader offwith general statements. We have prepared a few tables, which will show where population is ncreasing, and where it ü stagnant; and will demónstrate too, how much more important it i?,in this kind of calculation, to regard moral causes than geographical differences.In our classification, the Jltlantic Free Slates embrace New England, New York and Pennsylvania. The lllantic Slave States. Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolino, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, District of Columbia. The Mississippi Free Slate$, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wiskonsan, Imva. The Mississippi Slave Slaies, Kentucky, Missouii, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama. ATLANTIC FREE STATES.The writer in the Intelligencer, by grouping free and elave States logether on the Atlantic board, made the increase for forty years, only 75 per cent. - less than that of England in Lhe same time. We jee that in the free States, the ratio of increase is 156js per cent! ATLANTIC SLAVE STATES.9 per cent. Jess than irrEngJand, 85 per cent. !ess Ihan in the Free States. MISSISSIPPI F REE STATES.MISSISSIPPI SLA VE STATES.Such is the comparieon for forty years. ft is more instructive tíian a ecorce of argumen's. Let U8 now try n comparison for a shorter date. ATLANTIC FREE STATES.ATLANTIC SLAVE STATES.MISSISS1PPI FREE STATES.The rate of increnac of population in the Western slave states, is oniy a Jittle more than one half of what it ia in the Western free States; in the Atlantic Slave States, not quite óne-third of the ratio in the Atlantic free states. By examining the census it wül be found, that it is only in the first periods of a slave state that the increase is rapid - aflerwarda, the rate is speedily reduced. While m a free state, the rate of rapid increase keeps up much longer, and viftien itfalls, neverfalls so low as in a slave state. Final ly, to make the conclusión complete and irresistible againsi slavery, we must remember that the slave stalcs possess a much greater extent of terrilory, and to say the least in fertility of soil and other natural advantages, are equal to the free. Is it in a spirit of vain-glory or sectional prido that we present these facts? Far from it. But we would constantly hold up to the view of the people of the fiee states what they are in danger of forgetting - the inestimable Messing o" free institutions - and we would cali the attention of our brethren of the South lo the fact which their politicians are striving to conceal from them - the bksting effects of slavery upon