Inhabitants. Dollars. New Hampshire, 82,200 52,708 Massachusetts, 350,000 224,427 Rhode Island, 50,400 32,318 Connecticut, 206,000 132,091 New York, 200,000 128,243 New Jersey, 130,000 83,358 Pennsylvania, 320,000 205,189 Delaware, 35,000 22,443 Maryland, 220,700 141,517 Virginia, 400,000 256,487 North Carolina, 170,000 109,006 South Carolina, 150,000 96,183 Georgia, 25,000 16,030 --------- --------- 2,339,300 1,500,000
Still, however, Congress refused to give the enumeration the sanction of a place on their journals, because it was not formed on such evidence as a strict attention to accuracy and truth required. They used it from necessity, because they could get no better rule, and they entered on their journals only the apportionment of money. The members, however, as before, took copies of the enumeration, which was the groundwork of the apportionment, sent them to their States, and thus this second enumeration got into the public papers, and was by the English ascribed to Congress as their declaration of their present numbers. To get at the real numbers which this enumeration supposes, we must add twenty thousand to the number on which South Carolina was quoted; we must consider that seven hundred thousand slaves are counted but as four hundred and twenty thousand persons, and add, on that account, two hundred and eighty thousand. This will give us a total of two millions six hundred and thirty-nine thousand three hundred inhabitants of every condition in the thirteen States, being two hundred and twenty-one thousand three hundred more than the enumeration of 1775, instead of seven hundred and ninety-eight thousand five hundred and nine less, which the English papers asserted to be the diminution of numbers in the United States, according to the confession of Congress themselves.
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