The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent. (Port Gibson, Claiborne Co., Miss.) 1848-18??, 1850-08-30

cess Of free negroes found there over and above
that mean rate per cent of the natural in
crease, is made up wholly Of fugitive saves
from the slave States. an aware that the
mean have adopted is not strictly accurate,
but the North cannot complain of the inac-
curscy, as that inaccuracy consists entirely in
undertaking the South's losses, for (ih the
absence OF all other dataJ / was constrained
to follow the census, and could make no de-
ductions therefore, from the natural increase
of the free negroes OF New England, of those
large accessions which are annually made to
it from the migrations of fugitive slaves from
the South; and for the same reasons no de-
ductions were made from the natural increase
of free negroes in the slave States, Of the still
larger accessions made to them from the hea-
w annual emancipation of slaves. All these
accessions from both sections consequently are
cast into the account, and impart to the mean
thereof, far higher rate per cent. for the ma
tural increase than the real facts would have
shown, and per consequence, exhibits the ex-
cess of free negroes in the middle and free
States over and above the natural increase,
far below what it really is.
In the way of general facts touching the
growth OF the population of the United States,
| think these poStulata may be safely assumed
/. That the natural increase of the South.
ern slaves exceedes that Of any other condition
of men on this continent.
2. That the general census cannot show
the fact, because it adds to the mtura in
crease of the white race here, the vast annual
accession from foreign emigration; and on the
other hand, it allows nothing at all for these
vast annual deductions from slave-numbers,
which are made through private emancipation,
and escape and enfranchsement at the North;
and hence, the causes gives the white race the
precedence in natural increase.
8. This being so. and such the cause, that
the white population Of the United States
about doubles itself in every period of two-and-
a-half decennial cycles, or twenty-five years.
A. That the slave population Of the United
States more than doubles itself in every
period of three decennial cycles, or thirty
wears from the natural increase alone.
5. That the free negroes of the Southern
States double in about every periodof three.and-
a.half decennal cycles, or thirty five years from
the natural increase alone.
6. That the free negroes in the Northern
and Western States double in about every
period of four decenntal cycles, or forty years
from tne natural Increase ALONE.
T. That the free negroes Of the Southern
States are the most stable and least migratory
Of any class of the population of the United
States, if we except their migrations to other
Stare States.
8. That considerably more of the free ne
groes migrate from the free States TO the slave
States, than from the slave States to the free
States.
9. That forty-nine fiftieths of all native ne.
proes of the slave States who are found in the
free States, are or were fugitive slaves when they
left the slave States.
With these preiminaries, | will now present
table which have prepared from the Census.
book Of the United States, showing,
1st. The aggregate numbers of the free ne
groes in the six New England States from 1910
to 1910, ,inclusive.) with their aggregate rate
per cent. of increase, as also its rate per cent
per. annum.
3D. The aggregate numbers Of the free me-
groes in the six original slave States between tht
same periods, with their rate per cent of increase
in the aggregate and per anum.
3d. The seperate as well as the aggregate
numbers of the free negroes in the seven mid
land free States, as well as the aggregate rate
per cent. of increase for thirty years, the rates
per cent. per annum for the whole and for eacf
State.
have thus put it in the power of all to verify
or to falsify Gas the case may be) my data anc
deductions, from the details OF the Census rolls
and the rea@hings to be drawn from them.
earnestly invite all such to look into this table
and scrutinize it and ponder on it. There j!
scarcely man in a thousand who prizes into, o.
realizes the progressive and intolerable wrongs
and injuries which the South suffers yearly
monthly-daily-f these furtive and feloni
GUS aggressions upon her property.rights, bu
those who do, have made an aggregate Of losses
far heavier than mine.
TABLE.