The Daily Dispatch: March 25, 1865., [Electronic resource]

In 1790, the population of the United States, including whites and free negroes, was 3,231,930. The whole population in 1850, of whites and free colored persons, was 19,987,573. From an interesting treatise, published by a foreigner in Washington, the remarkable fact appears to be demonstrated, that, excluding immigration, the population of the United States, in 1850, would have been 7,555,423, instead of 19,987,573--a difference in population of 12,432,150. Extraordinary as this may appear, the author seems to have proved it by figures and facts which cannot readily be answered, and which show to our minds that the United States is no longer, and was not even as long ago as 1850, an American country.

Another writer, of opposite political views, testifies to the wonderful increase of the foreign element in the Northern States since 1850. For a single year, 1853, the aggregate immigration of the United States, by land and sea, was not short of half a million of souls. At that rate, there arrived in this country every year a sufficient number of persons to make a State embracing as large a white population as Maryland or Alabama, and, within a fraction, enough to make one having as large a white population as North Carolina or Georgia! Every two years, there would be enough to balance the white population of Virginia. Every six months, there would be almost enough to offset South Carolina or Louisiana. Every five weeks, a sufficient number to act as a counterpoise to the entire white population of Florida. Or, at the same rate, making no allowance for the increase of immigration, though, in point of fact, it has progressively and rapidly increased every year, the foreign immigration in thirteen years (1866) would be (we have no doubt it is at this moment) equal to the entire white population of the slave States!

Six out of seven of these immigrants settled in the free States. Facts like these show that the North is not only a foreign country by virtue of the separation of the South, but that it is European as well as foreign.