. Life and reminiscences from birth to manhood of Wm. G. Johnston . the beam the other way. Of the remainingStates, the population of two, and in some instancesthree, would have to be combined to equal the mark setup by the Iron City in Anno Domini 1900. The popu-lation of the then seventeen States was a little short of4,000,000; while now it is estimated at 76,000,000; ornineteen times greater. Pittsburgh in 1790, as nearly ascan be ascertained, had five hundred inhabitants: com-pared with the number now, what a stride has beentaken; a multiplier of twelve hundred being not Tub
. Life and reminiscences from birth to manhood of Wm. G. Johnston . the beam the other way. Of the remainingStates, the population of two, and in some instancesthree, would have to be combined to equal the mark setup by the Iron City in Anno Domini 1900. The popu-lation of the then seventeen States was a little short of4,000,000; while now it is estimated at 76,000,000; ornineteen times greater. Pittsburgh in 1790, as nearly ascan be ascertained, had five hundred inhabitants: com-pared with the number now, what a stride has beentaken; a multiplier of twelve hundred being not Tubal Cain to be proud of being Pittsburghspatron saint! The population of the United States in the year of mybirth, 1828, was less than 12,000,000. The vote cast atthe presidential election of that year was 1,156, were then but twenty-four States, and all except-ing Missouri and Louisiana were east of the vast territory beyond acquired from France, outof which was carved the two States just mentioned, POPULATIONS IN 1300 POPULATIONS IN 1800. 5a279,O0O ,000 38,5I7,97S GROWTH of CK CENTURA UNITED STATES GREAT BRITAIN GERMANY ^a39_,88) and IRLIANP ^3,I60.,00C )O0 FRANCE RUSSIA £7,350,000 aS0OO,00 0 Natural and Unnatural Expansion. 65 extended to the Rocky Mountains and was then and longafter inhabited by roving tribes of Indians and a fewwhites engaged in trapping and trading. There wereyet to be obtained, first the Oregon country, finally ac-quired by treaty with Great Britain in 1845 ; and second,Texas, the largest State in the Union, annexed in thesame year; and third, what in 1848 was obtained byrobbery—the strong against the weak—and by a douceurof $15,000,000 to Mexico to make the transaction havesome appearance of being honorable; though the pur-pose, to extend the area of slavery, was never thing, however, was accomplished : our boundarywas extended to the far-off Pacific,—a natural boundary,one of great security, ma
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