If we compare the two last censuses of liberty with the two last years of slavery, we shall discover that the total production of sugar has increased in the colonies in which emancipation was effected in 1834.

So far as London itself is concerned, the last two censuses show a cessation of the flow, but the enormous growth of Middlesex outside the metropolitan boundaries indicates a continuance of the centripetal tendency.

Sir A. Alison, in different chapters of the second part of his "History of Europe," gives returns of subsequent censuses, from the last of which (c. lvi., s. 34, note), it appears that in 1851 the population amounted to 27,511,862.

They possess its powers and are not chosen for it and do not employ its name except in the censuses.

[Footnote 44: The United States Censuses of 1850 and 1860.

[Footnote 9: United States Censuses, 1790-1860.]

[Footnote 41: Censuses of the United States; and Clark, Present Condition of Colored People.]

[Footnote 25: See Censuses of the United States.

The tendencies of the black population according to the censuses of the United States and especially that of 1910, however, show that the chances for the control of these State governments by Negroes no longer exist except in South Carolina and Mississippi.

(Philadelphia, 1838.) United States Censuses.

(Philadelphia, 1838.) United States Censuses of 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, and 1860.

Since the great planters occasionally owned several scattered plantations it may be that the censuses reported some of the slaves under the names of the overseers rather than under those of the owners; but that such instances were probably few is indicated by the fact that the holdings of Chewning and Nelson above noted were each listed by the census takers in several parcels, with the names of owners and overseers both given.

The Georgia Piedmont, for which the returns of the early censuses have been lost, probably had a somewhat smaller proportion of slaves by reason of its closer proximity to the Indian frontier.

There was, on account of the numbers of warriors that had perished, a dangerous scarcity of population, as was proved both from the censuses (which he attended to, among other things, as if he were censor) and from actual observation, consequently he offered prizes for large families of children.

From 1782 to 1802 there were three censuses taken showing the following totals: