has probably ever been afforded in a country containing more than twenty millions of people. The decennial increase in 1850, by multiplication and the accession of Texas, New Mexico, and California, was The distribution of the different classes under this census, compared with that of 1840, was as follows: The whites amounted to The free colored.. The slaves. In 1840. In 1850. 84.32 per cent. The result of the census of 1850, as to the population of each State and Territory, distributed according to age and sex, white or colored, bond or free, may be seen in the four following tables : WHITE POPULATION IN 1850, CLASSED ACCORDING TO AGE AND SEX. |