Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-05-28
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, TUESDAY, MAY %. 1914

anc charity That spared not time or money have
exeiledtVeFy effort to improve The morals, and better
the cond't'on OF their free black population. Bot
where are The great resuls Let the census and the
reports OF the prisons answer Worse-incumparaby
worse than the condition Of the slaves and demonsra,
ing that me Tree tack, in the midst Of his friends in
the North sinking lower every day in the scale Of
want ana CRIME and misery. The regular physicians
report and REVIEW published in 1870 says the facts,
then, show an Increasing dispropo,tonale number oc
coored prisoners in the Eastern peniteni.afy." In
contrasting me condition, for the year, Of
the Penenl'anes Of all lie slavehc!ding States
a. compared with all the siavehoding States in
winch returns are made, | find the numbar of free
blacks MY ionr 10 ons, compared with the slaves,
IN p'oPof''9h 10 population, who ncarcefa,+d in
thss' prisons There panpers nmone the slaves,
what IN The nons!ayehodng States great the
Der OF co!ncJ p.uDc!s
From tie Belgian statistics, complied Icy MIR. Quote
let, the distinguished Secretary Of the ROYAL Academy
of Brussels It appears that in Belgium The number OF
deaf aud dumb was ont Of every ls0 prisons in
Great britain ono out of every $50 in Italy, one
oni OF every l,539 ard in Europe, one ont of every
i,4'4. vi tic blind. one ont of every 0U3 in Bel
gum one Out oi every 500 IN Prussia out Of
every ,60o IN France and out of every Cos in
saxony and No further returns az TO the blind are
given.-l 6'ig"@ 4aauei'e 1896, pages 2l3 2I5 27.l
but The liable slo"s an average in Europe Of one ont Of
every Lid Of deaf and dumb and Of about one on; Of
every LOCO OF blind whereas our census shows Of the
deal and dumb whites OF the Union. ere out Of every
1873 and of tc blacks in lie non-slavcIolding States
out OF ever, Csc also Of the blind one out o. every
2o2l Of the whites of the Union aud one OF every
1o oil the bacs III The non savchoLing States. Thus
we have not omy shown the condition of the blacks ci
the non-siayehoEng States he far worse than that If
The slaves Of tn South, but also far worse than the
dillon OF The purple OF Europe, deporabe as that NAV
be 1t has brcc heretofore shown that the free blacks
IN The non.sauholdng States were becoming in an
augmented proportion, debased in norsIs as thew
increased III nunJcrs and the proposition is true
IN other rcspcch. Thus. by The census of 1890 the
"umher oi deal a"d dumb Of the free blacks Of the
fcldrg S;3,cs, out Of every 90G and
Of blind, Of every S93 whereas we have seen
by the Census If 1910 tie number of free blacks, deaf
and tune, IN Tie non-sisychoidng States, out
Of ever: Co.'S and o! blind, one out Of every SO. In
the last ten years, thcn, The alarming fact i. proved that
The prop9rtore number Of free black deaf and dumb
and also OF blind has increased a5om y per- cert No
statement as to the insane idiots is given n the cen
sus Of 1889.
Let Us examine the future increase OF free blacks
in the States adpiang the savehoding STATES if Texas
is not reannczct to le Union. BY the census of $780,
the number Of fce blacks in tie States (adding New
York lad ol.ins Ike laY, holding States was b. 953-
In the States tadiins New iork adj acent the slave
holding Staes. te number Of free hacs, By tie
of lsi0, was las 1917; being aggregate increase Of
neatly eleven 10 IN New York. New jersey, pcrnsy-
va;a, Chic adiasa ami Illinois. Nov, by the census
AID table above g,fen the aggregate number G.! free
blacks who DAT aud dumb, blind idiot, or insane
paupcrs, or in prisons in the noasaycho!ins States was
263i2 or one in every six Of tie whole number Nov,
ii the free black population should Increase IN The same
ratio, in the aggregate, in New York. New jersey Penn
syvania. Ohio, lnd,na and Illinois, from 1910 10 1890
it did from 1880 10 1910, the aggregate free black
population in these States would be- lo9O, 160O
000 in 1862 500 000 in 1853, 400 900; and the aggre
gate number in thc. six States Of free blacks accord
ing 10 the present p9oportlon who would thon be deaf
and dumb blind IDIOT or insane, paupcrs or IN prison.
would DO. in $780, 900 6G6; in loG5, 333; aud IN
1888, &c $780, being, have seen, one-sixth OF the
whole number Now, ii the annual cost Of supporting
these free blacks in these asylums and ether houses in
GLIDING the interest the sums expended in their
lion, and for annual repairs, and the money di.bursed
for the arrest. trial conviction and transportation Of the
criminals amounted to fifty dollars for each the annual
tax on The people Of these SIX States, of these
free .cks. would be- III 1890 1889, 200 in 1868,
sc G66 eco; and IN 1853. S3,333300
Does, then humanity require that we should render
the blacks more debascd and miserable by this process
of abon H. with greater temptations 10 crime, with
more real ,rilt, and less oil actual comforts As tho
free bl,css troicn more AID more upon the cities
Of the North and compete there nth the white la
boxer III. condition OF the biacas beeogcs and
more neri.os every dag un; VIC have already seen the
masses &C Cincinnati AID Philadelphia rise TO expel the
negro race beyond their limits. Immediate abolition,
Wills, il deprived the South of the to purchase
would I'll these States with iuundat!cn oil free black
pop.lation that would be absolutely ntolerab!c. In.
maciac abolition, them has but few Advocates but if
cmancination were not Immediate but only gradual,
whilst slavery existed 10 any grca: extent III the slave
holding States bordering upon The States Of the North
and West this expulsion, By gradual abolition Of the
free blacks into the States Immediately north of them,
would he very considerable, and rapidly augmenng
every YER. If this process of gradual abolition only
Gouhnd the number OF free blacks, to be thrown upon
the States # the North aud West, then reference 10
the tables before presented proves that The number Of
free blacks il NV York, Pcnns, sania. New Jersey,
Ohio Indiana and Illinois would be- in 1880, 5000, 900;
in 1868 $50 $780, and in 1853, G,cCG; and that the
ANNA, expenses TO the people OF these six Stats,
account Of the free blacks would be, in 1880, 2G $685.,
1905 in 1865 Sl3 353 ,20d aac, in 1913, SG,6G6, GOO
II vas in view no doubt, Of these facts. that Mr. Da-
Wis or Sey lork dccaf ed upon the floor OF Congress,
an the loh December lSl3 that "lhe abolition of sa
vn,v in the lern States must be followed By dcluge
,f 5aek popuetica the Nor filing our Jails and poor
Lms,s aud bringing destruction upn the tailoring port on
~ mr. nccrlc" Dr. Duncan, also Of Cincnnar, Ohio,
in his speech in Congress- On hs 9Th January lSl4, de-
cl,,cd the result of abolition would be to nuadate the
Nth with free blacks described BY HIM as "paupers,
bcrrs thieves, a.sassns and desperadoes ALL or nearly
Il. peanles aud desub', without ski, MEANS Industry
or nerseysraucc 10 obtain livelihood each possessing
aud cler.iag revenge for Supposed or real wrongs
No nan .fesi e, person, family or property, w"eld
h., saCs by day or night. Ii nov feqafes TIE whole
oer.,;cs OF the law, and the Who'll vgIlance OF the
oolce of all our principal cites, to restrain ana keep
- snbordinaton the levy Struggling flee negroes which
now mites. them" If such b. the case nov, VIVA.
vii be the result whcn, by abolition, gradual or I'M
mediate the number Of these free negroes shall be
douhed and ouadsuped, md d-cupled, IN the more
Nor,hcrn OF The Slavehoa!ng States before slavery
had receded from their limits, and nearly The Whole OF
r,hich free black population would ne thrown on the
adi non-siavehoding States Much, II not all oil
his great evil, will be prevented by The Remuneration
If Texas SAGE the purchase 81 Louisiana and Flo
r;da end the settlement ct Alabama and Mississippi
hra have been carried into this region ms the census
demonstrates, lron ihe States of Delaware Mary
lind. Virginia, and Kentucky half million OF si1ves
including their descendants that otherwise woad now
Ia within he limits Of those tour States Slch has
heon The result rs have diminished, in two OF these
S,tss nearest to the North the number of their slaves
far below what they al the census ut l1JU, and
70 have reduced them at the census ot 1910, IN Della
ys-e TO the small number of 260o. Nov, II We
6onbe the rate OF dnlnu,Icn as We certainly VIII by
The remuneration of Texas slavery will disappear IRON
Delaware in ten years, and from Maryl,nd in twenty
and have greatly diminished in Virginia and Kentucky
A. then, hy regime xation, slavery advances II
Texas mus; recede t, the same extent from Tie more
Nar.ba.n ne the S2vchG.dng ates; aud conseGcehN
IT, the Evil the Northern States, froni the expulsion
MO them OF free blacks by abolition, gradual or lni
mediate, would thereby be greatly m,tgoted, u no
I'm n,-t tof Columbia.