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The Daily Dispatch: December 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], Lincoln's Message. (search)
o of increase, at no one of these seven periods, is either two per cent. Below or two per cent above the average; thus showing how inflexible, and, consequently, how reliable, the law of increase in our case is. Assuming that it will continue, it gives the following results: 187042,323,341 188056,167,216 189076,677,872 1900163,208,415 1910137,905,526 1920186,984,335 1930251,680,914 These figures show that our country may be as populous as Europe now is at some point between 1920 and 1930--say about 1925--our territory at seventy-three and a third persons to the square mile, being of capacity to contain 217,286,000. And we will reach this too if we do not ourselves relinquish the chance by the rolly and evils of disunion, or by long and exhausting war springing from the only great element of national discord among us. While it cannot be foreseen exactly how much one huge example of secession breeding lesser ones indefinitely, would retard population civilization,