orical pedigree. On this assumed fact they build two arguments:
first, that being homogeneous, they are united to a degree to which the
Northerners can never attain; secondly, that the English people, and
especially the English gentry, are closely allied to them in blood, and
should naturally sympathize with them in their voluntary opposition to
the constituted Government.

I propose to show that not only are these assertions unfounded, but that
the reverse is the truth; and this I feel authorized in doing for
several reasons.

In the first place, if there be no advantage in placing ourselves right
in our own eyes, our cause can be advanced in the eyes of foreign
observers, by the publication of the truth. Were the facts as
represented, an Englishman would be justified, to a certain degree, in
sympathizing with a large number of the descendants of Englishmen,
engaged in a revolt against a superior number of foreigners. His intense
nationality, which has so long given his nation an undue influence,
leads him to take this view, and his belief in English invincibility
causes him to prejudge the case, and to deem the subjugation of his
Southern relatives an impossibility.

Secondly, class prejudices are aroused everywhere in Europe by the idea
that a nation of gentlemen is contending for every right against a
vulgar crowd; the idea of what in reality constitutes an American
democracy being still exceedingly nebulous to the European mind.

Thirdly, we have borne too long the imputation thus cast on us, for our
own good in the management of our own affairs. Already expression has
been given to threats of ultimate division of the North into separate
nationalities, on the ground that we have no common interests and no
common origin. It seems well, therefore, to investigate the data at
hand, and to see if the South be so united or the North so divided as
alleged.

A few tables, prepared from the official Census returns, will serve to
place the question in a clear light, and they will be easily confirmed
or rejected.

I assume in the following table that the inhabitants of the United
States were citizens by birth, and by deducting at the end of each
decade the number of immigrants, we have what may fairly be claimed as
the percentage of natural increase. I have added the slight excess over
the percentage to the column of native born, believing this advantage at
least belongs to them:

WHITE POPULATION OF THE UNITED STA