The comparative population of the United States, from 1790 to 1850, may be seen by the annexed table: The following table shows the population west of the Mississippi river: The population of the Valley of the Mississippi, comprising Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana, is 9,090,688; of whom the free population is 7,614,031, and 1,476,657 are slaves. The ratio of representation, as determined by the recent census, and a late act of Congress, will be about 93,716, and the relative representation of the States in Congress for the next ten years will be as follows: |