That could be said. for example. in the case of Illinois itself. If those who represented the more populous States in that day took the same attitude the city club of Chicago does now. surely statehood would not have come to Illinois when it did. Illinois at the time of admission had 53.211 people. Some historians suggest the census takers at that moment were unusually active and to swell the figures to the greatest possible extent counted in those immigrants who were merely passing through Illinois for the West. Virginia then had 1.065.361 citizens. Pennsylvania 1.049.458. and New York 1.372.812.
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