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clannish predilections of immigrants from these two nations
especially from Germany, but the comparison of Maryland's
area of 6,080,000 acres, with its population of not quite 700,-
000 inhabitants must greatly encourage a general immigra-
tion to this State especially when brought in a parallel with
its excellent, climatic and geographical advantages and its in-
exhaustible resources of agricultural, industrial and commer-
cial prosperity.

The census of 1860, exhibits the following statistics as to
population.

Counties.	White Nativ's	For- eigners.	Free Colored.	Slaves.	Aggre- gate.
Allegany.... ........ Anne Arundel..... Baltimore City.... Baltimore County, i Calvert .............. Caroline............. Carroll. ...... ....... Cecil. ............ ..., Charles.......... Dorchester.......... Frederick........... Harford ............. Howard ............. Kent..,..............! Montgomery ........ Prince George's. .. Queen Anne....... St. Mary's..........1 Somerset............! Talbot. .............. Washington ....... Worcester ..........	21,172 109,960 132,023 37,359 3,952 7,577 21,392 18,651 5,738 11,630 36,844 16,469 8,218 7,096 11,920 9,251 8,305 6,7^5 15,262 7,970 27,456 13,419	6,043 744 52,497 9,363 45 27 1,133 1,343 56 24 1,547 1,502 863 251 429 399 110 73 70 136 849 23	467 4,864 25,680 4,231 1,841 2,786 1,225 2,918 1,065 4,684 4,957 3,644 1,395 3,411 1,552 1,198 3,372 1,866 4,557 2,964 1,677 3,571	666 7,332 3,182 2,218 739 4,609 783 950 9,653 4,123 3,223 1,800 2,862 2,509 3,421 12,479 4,174 6,594 5,089 3,725 1,435 3,648	28,348 23,900 213,382 53,171 6,577 14,999 24,533 23,862 16,515 20,461 46,591 23,415 13,338 13,267 19,322 23,327 15,961 15,258 24,992 14,795 31,417 20,661
Total.".............	438.389	77.529	83,942	87,189	687,049

•From these figures we derive an aggegate of 171,131 ne-
groes, which when compared with the aggegate of viz : 165,-
091 manifests a disproportionally small increase leading to
the (inference of a gradual diminution of this class of in-
habitants even before the late war, and internal causes pro-
ceeding and surrounding the process of emancipation accom-
plished the reduction in the numbers of Africans which is
now beyond question, because the change in the system of la-
bor and the consequent freedom of change in the location
have produced in the former slave a desire to migrate, which