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	1790.	1800.	Increase
N. Hampshire	141,885	183,858	41,973
R. Island	68,825	69,122	300
Massachusetts, including	475,327	574,564	99,237
Maine,
Connecticut	237,946	251,002	13,056
Vermont	85,539	154,465	68,926
N. York,
allotment	340,120	484,065	143,946
wanting,
New Jersey	184,139	211,149	27,010
Pennsylvania	434,373	602,395	167,992
Delaware	59,094	64,273	5,179
Maryland
part of an			10,024
allotment	319,728	309,704	diminution.
wanting,
Virginia	747,610	878,950	131,340
N. Carolina	393,751	478,103	84,352
S. Carolina	249,073	345,591	96,518
Georgia,	82,548	162,686	80,138
Kentucky	73,677	220,955	147,278

VIEWS Derived From The

NEW CENSUS.

[Continued.]

The following statement shows the relative numbers of the respective states in the Census of 1790, and that of 1800, with the increase of each State.

TABLE IV

Though Maryland appears above to have decreased 10,024 inhabitants; yet the fact is otherwise; for allowance must be made for the subtraction of 8,145 inhabitants, which form the population of the southern District of Columbia, and for the deficient return, which added to the former will undoubtedly give a small increase of numbers to that district in 1790, embraced by Maryland.

By the above table it appears that in 1790 the states, according to their respective numbers, stood thus:

1. Virginia,

9. New-Jersey,

2. Massachusetts,

10. New-Hampshire,

3. Pennsylvania,

11. Vermont,

4. North-Carolina, 12. Georgia,

5. New-York,

13. Kentucky,

6. Maryland,

14. Rhode-Island,

7. South-Carolina, 15. Delaware,

8. Connecticut,

It further appears that, according to the census of 1800, they now in point of numbers stand thus:

1. Virginia,

9. Kentucky,

2. Pennsylvania,

10. New-Jersey,

3. Massachusetts,

11. New-Hampshire,

4. New-York,

12. Georgia,

5. N. Carolina,

13. Vermont,

6. S. Carolina,

14. Rhode-Island,

7. Maryland,

15. Delaware.

8. Connecticut,

The following Table shows the advanced population of each State, according to the census of 1800, beyond that of 1790.

Table V.

6.14

From this statement it follows that the respective states have proportionably increased in the degrees above stated in the following order, viz.

1. Kentucky,

2. Georgia.

3. Vermont,

4. New-York,

5 & 6. Pennsylvania and S. Carolina, which have increased in the same proportion.

7. New-Hampshire,

8. & 9. Massachusetts & North. Carolina, which have increased in the same proportion,

10. Virginia,

11. New-Jersey,

12. Delaware,

13. Connecticut,

15. Rhode-Island,

14. Maryland.

New-Hampshire, Rhode Island no assignable increase, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, diminution of 3 per cent. Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky,

30 per cent. 21 5 8 1 4 3 8 8 18 21 38 58 200

It is greatly to be regretted that the late Congress, which passed the act fixing the mode of taking the census, did not, as requested by several learned societies, direct a designation of the various descriptions of citizens. Such designation would have correctly illustrated the existing state of society, would have exhibited with precision the channels in which industry flowed, would have shown what were filled and what were unoccupied; and would have been essential service to the federal and state governments by facilitating the acquisition of just ideas of the operation of any particular tax proposed.

It would have been interesting to the historian, at some future day, to have traced the relative growth of agriculture, trade and manufactures; and the moralist might not have been unproductively engaged in estimating the degrees of virtue and prosperity which accompanied their several states.

But this measure, though sanctioned by the House of Representatives, was rejected by the senate; and we can only now regret that it was rejected, and recommend its adoption at some future day.

The above view enables us to throw but an imperfect light upon the relative growth of the agricultural and commercial interests. As such it is offered.

The reader will observe that the advanced population of all the states, according to the above table, is represented by the figures 6.14.

If we consider the states of Massachusetts, Rhode-Island, New-York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and South-Carolina as commercial, the amount of their advanced population, as appears above, is 1.39

While that of New-Hampshire, Connecticut, Vermont, New-Jersey, Delaware, Virginia, North-Carolina, Georgia and Kentucky, considering them as agricultural states, is 4.75

Difference 3.36

From which it follows that the agricultural states have gained numbers in the above proportion over the commercial states; which is in the proportion of 3 to 1.

ibid.