. A history of the people of the United States, from the revolution to the civil war . ions and nine hundredthousand in the Southern States, while more than two millionsand a quarter dwelt beyond the Alleghany Mountains. Inevery one of the Atlantic States from Maine to Georgia theratio of the increase of population had fallen save in Con-necticut and South Carolina, and even in them the increasewas but a fraction of one per cent. In Delaware the censustakers could find but seventy-five more people in 1820 thanwere in the State in 1810. Virginia was no longer first inrank. New York was now the
. A history of the people of the United States, from the revolution to the civil war . ions and nine hundredthousand in the Southern States, while more than two millionsand a quarter dwelt beyond the Alleghany Mountains. Inevery one of the Atlantic States from Maine to Georgia theratio of the increase of population had fallen save in Con-necticut and South Carolina, and even in them the increasewas but a fraction of one per cent. In Delaware the censustakers could find but seventy-five more people in 1820 thanwere in the State in 1810. Virginia was no longer first inrank. New York was now the most populous State in theUnion, and had added four hundred and thirteen thousandhuman beings to her inhabitants. No other State had ap-proached this. Ohio came next in increase with an additionof three hundred and fifty-one thousand, which raised her fromthirteenth to fifth place. Massachusetts, which ten years be-fore was fifth, had become seventh. Kentucky was sixth withone hundred and fifty-eight thousand more people than in1810. Tennessee had one hundred and sixty-one thousand. 1821. POPULATION IN 1821. 523 more; but both these States had contributed largely to swellthe population in Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri. In passing westward the people followed the three greathighways of emigration as heretofore. The northern streamhas now traversed all Ohio, has joined Cleveland with Detroit,and has populated the entire southern shore of Lake middle stream, pushing down the valley of the Ohio, haspeopled all the southern half of Ohio, and much of thesouthern part of Indiana and Illinois has crossed the Missis-sippi and moved up the Missouri almost to the westernboundary of the United States. The third stream—which,unable to cross the country of the Creeks and Cherokees inGeorgia, had for thirty years past been moving down theCumberland and the Tennessee, and had just reached northernMississippi in 1810—has gone down the Mobile river and itsbranches, leaving a wide
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