At this time there was but little difference in numbers between the population of the Southern States and that of the Northern States. By the census of 1790 the Southern had a population of 1,851,804; the Northern a population of 1,882,615. Notwithstanding this essential equality of population in the two sections, the North furnished vastly more men than the South. Of continental troops, the Southern States furnished 59,336; the Northern, 172,465: making about three men furnished to the continental army by the Northern States to one from the Southern. Of militia whose services are authenticated by the War Office, the Southern States furnished 12,709; the Northern, 46,048: making nearly four men contributed to the militia by the Northern States to one from the Southern. Of militia whose services are not authenticated by the War Office, but are set down in the return as "conjectural" only, we have 74,630 furnished by the Southern States, and 30,950 by the Northern: making, under this head, five men contributed by the Southern to two from the Northern. The chief services of the Southern States, for which the venerable Senator now claims so much, it will be observed with a smile, were _conjectural_ only. Looking, however, at the sum-total of continental troops, authenticated militia, and "conjectural" militia, we have 146,675 from the Southern States, while 249,463 were from the Northern: making upwards of 100,000 men contributed to the war by the Northern more than by the Southern. The disparity swells, when we compare South Carolina and Massachusetts directly. Of continental troops and authenticated militia and "conjectural" militia, South Carolina furnished 32,267, while Massachusetts furnished 92,562: making nearly three for every one furnished by South Carolina. Look, however, at the continental troops and the authenticated militia from the two States, and here you will find only 6,417 furnished by South Carolina, while 83,062 were furnished by Massachusetts,--_being thirteen times more than by South Carolina, and much more than by all the Southern States together_. Here are facts and figures of which the Senator ought not to be ignorant. So obvious was this at the time, that we find John Adams recording in his Autobiography, that "almost the whole army was derived from New England."[99] General Knox, in a letter to Colonel Joseph Ward, of Massachusetts, under date of July 28, 1780, with regard to the reestablishment of the army, has a few words in point. After complaining of the general inertness, as sufficient "to induce a ready belief that the mass of America have taken _a monstrous deal of opium_," he says:-- "It is true, the Eastern States and New York have done something in this instance, but no others. Propagate this truth."[100] [99] Works, Vol. III. p. 48; see also p. 87. [100] Jackson's History of Newton, p. 517.