It Will Be Seen By The Foregoing Tables That The Population Of The
West Is Nearly Equal To That Of The North, And That Therefore
Western Power Is Almost As Great As Northern.
It is almost as
great already, and as population in the West increases faster than
it does in the North, the two will soon be equalized.
They are
already sufficiently on a par to enable them to fight on equal
terms, and they will be prepared for fighting - political fighting,
if no other - as soon as they have established their supremacy over
a common enemy.
While I am on the subject of population I should explain - though
the point is not one which concerns the present argument - that the
numbers given, as they regard the South, include both the whites
and the blacks, the free men and the slaves. The political power
of the South is of course in the hands of the white race only, and
the total white population should therefore be taken as the number
indicating the Southern power. The political power of the South,
however, as contrasted with that of the North, has, since the
commencement of the Union, been much increased by the slave
population. The slaves have been taken into account in determining
the number of representatives which should be sent to Congress by
each State. That number depends on the population but it was
decided in 1787 that in counting up the number of representatives
to which each State should be held to be entitled, five slaves
should represent three white men.
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