Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1877 — The Lone Star State. [ARTICLE]

The Lone Star State.

Texas, which had 818,579 inhabitants by the census of 1870, now claims to have 1,750,000, and that the census of 1880 will show at least 2,500,000. This increase is on a scale of magnitude unprecedented in the history of the country. Illinois has hitherto borne the palm, advancing in twenty years (1850 to 187 C) from a population of 851,470 to 2,539,891, but Texas proposes to do as much as that in half the time; and, even if the Texas claim be somewhat magnified just now, it is certain that a great tide of emigration is moving thitherward from not only the Southern but the Eastern and Western States, our own Blinois colonies being no inconsiderable portion of the nql.