Comments on population changes between the Missouri state censuses of 1844 and 1848. Pasted on the page is a newspaper clipping showing population statistics for Missouri counties from the 1848 Missouri state census. “But there are two causes that tend naturally to check its [Missouri’s] growth & advancement as a state. One is the character of the pop. [population]—mostly from slave states & from Germany. The former have no habits of industry, the latter have industry but no notion of schools or free institutions. The other cause is slavery which weighs like an incubus upon the prosperity & improvement of the state. Both these evils, it is hoped, will be gradually removed.”, 1849 Jan 30

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The collection contains a typescript copy of a diary of Rev. Charles Peabody, May 21– September 11, 1846; a diary of Rev. Peabody, October 12, 1846–July 25, 1849, while he traveled in the West (mostly in St. Louis, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio) as an agent of the American Tract Society; and four travel diaries of Rev. Peabody, 1858-1859, recording his travels mostly in Europe. The collection also contains correspondence to Rev. Peabody, 1888-1889; many of these letters are from his Dartmouth College classmates.