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Extension Of Territory

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Parent Issue
Day
21
Month
November
Year
1846
Copyright
Public Domain
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The New York Sun has the lollowing siatistics, showing most clearly rhat this is hterally ;' a great nation." Most of our readers doubtIcas have had ome notion of this ; bui ecarcely any of them, we guess, hav rcalized how faal we were growing great by injustice and vioIcnce : 1 The comparativo iza of Mexico and the U. States, in 1836 was as follows : SlUAf.E AORKS. United States tcrritories, 1.40d, 000.000 Medican teritories, 1,081,6üU,üü0 We have nuw to deduct from Mexico and add to the U. S. - Upper California, 210,863.760 New Mexico, ] 37,47-2.000 Texas, 12:,9()4,0Ü0 502,236,169 Left to Mexico, 579,303.840 In 635, the possession of tho various puwers on thia continent were as follows : Rnssian, 4S0.O0i.000 British, I,79,0C0,00O United States, l,4Üá,O0O.O0U Mexicnn. 1.031 fr00,0'0 Central American, Jlü:6 10,000 Total (7,626,000 miles) 4,880,640,000 Deducting from Mexico and adding to the U. States 502,236,160 acres, and deducting from the United States and adding to the Britinh Pos sesiona 32.000,000 acres which tho U. S. claim ed but ceded to Grcat Britain by the Oregon treaty, the posscssious of the various powers on the North Atnorican continent mow stand as follows : 1846. Miles. Acres. Russian, 750.000 480.000,000 British. 2.b5T00O 1,024.000.00(1 Uniiei Statea, SJ,93i.744 I,87rt,236.1ü0 Moxican, 905,356 57.).303.84d Central Ámerics. 18.5,000 119,040,0(10 7,626,000 4,860,ri40,0l)0 By the conquest of New Mexico and Santa Fe there hns been added to this Union a population. estimated nt G00,0ü0souls.. mostly Indinns. We estimatc California at 180,000, and New Mexico nt 20J.000." {L The following shows the Liberty vote in the States nnmed below, compared with las', year. It increased in(Lƒ The Whigs have elected twentythree out of ihe thirty-four mcmbers of Congress from New York. The equal suffrage to colored people is lost : by how great a major ity we know not. CC?S' The new Constitution of New York has been adopted. It is supposed the majority wil] be as large as 75,000. # The Whig majority on Governor in Massachusetts is nbout 7,000.