The Future Wealth of America; Being a Glance at the Resources of the United States and the Commercial and Agricultural Advantages of Cultivating Tea, (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1852. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... the time of building the great wall, China might have an equally dense population. To proceed further, and to see when the amount of 700,000,000 of inhabitants is to be realized. Table A will show the progressive increase of the people of the United States, up to the year 2,000, or 150 years hence. I have made the calculations at the rate of 35 per cent., nearly what it has been from '40 to '50, for the next ten years, to 1860; for the following ten, to 1870, at 30 per cent.; and from that period, at the rate of 25 per cent., for whites. For slaves, at 23 per cent. only from 1850; and for free colored at 15 per cent. These rates are very moderate compared with past years. And it may be supposed that 25 per cent. is not in keeping with the past ratio of increase, but "that increase cannot be maintained. The same amount of immigrants may flow into America, but they cannot swell up the per centage to the same degree upon a large population as they could on a small one. For instance--500,000 on 10,000,000 would be 5 per cent., on 30,000,000 it would be only 1f per cent., and so on. To prove further that 25 per cent. is not much below the future increase, after another 20 years, it is only necessary to point out the following. The white population in 1830 was only 10,526,246. From 1820 to '30, the immigration was 140,000; and in 1840 the whites were 14,189,108; the immigration that ten years was 601,000. Showing that, deducting immigration and their increase, would leave the settled population's increase to be 281 per cent., the increase of both to be 34T7, per cent., as per census. Therefore, considering that the increase on large populations never keeps pace with that on smaller populations, the calculation of 25 per cent. is not under what the increase may be in...