The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-02-26

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PLAIn FACTS FOR THE PLANrRRs.-We find
in the census returns Of the several States, an
immense amount of interesting and valuable in
formation, which ought to be treasured up for
future USE The Richmond Times, for instance,
contains an abstract of the census returns of
Virginia, from which we make the following
extract:
1850. 1910. Increase
Whites s99,l34 74O.s5S 1926
Slaves 475,972 44s,9s9 26,964
Fres Colored,- sa,757 1891 1876
From this table, it appears, the increase of
white population in Virginia is 1896; while
the increase of sla- es is only 2s,9S4 This fact
should not be forgotten by our legislators. It
shows that Virginia has within the last ten years
been paid for over one hundred thousand slaves
sent South. These have been mostly young
women and boys, or desperate and ungoyerna-
BILE negro men. As the old negroes are gen.
orally left, it follows that unless there il some
check put to the transportation of this species
of property, the increase will 60 on diminishing
until by the census of 1860 it will be found that
the slave population Of Virg MIA will be less than
at present Should the retrograde movement
continue in the same ratio az at present. viz at
10000 per annum, it will require but few
years to reduce the slave population to a point
where emancipation will be inevitable.
In Maryland, the facts are still more startling.
The total population Of the State is a. follows
4l2,803 whites; 89,l78 slaves; and 73,l68
free negroes. The total increase in the State
since l84O, is lO7,573. The free negro popu-
lation is now 1888, in 1910, it was 81 ,937,
showing an increase ofil,22l. The total slave
population in 1910. was 88.718it is now only
89,l78! Being an actual decrease of Sal in the
ten years These are figures which cannot lie.
They are from official documents, and show
the startling fact that the slave population of
Maryland is already on The decrease-that she
has nearly as many free negroes as she has
slaves, and that we of the South, are actually
paying them to manumit their negroes. Mary
land has not sent less than 10000 negroes South
in the last ten years, and nearly half of these
have been sent since the repeal of the laws in
Georgia and other States prohibiting the intro
duction of negroes by traders.
Is it not time for the pla nters and slavehod-
ers of the more Southern States to reflect upon
the result! Their destiny, and that of slavery
itself, will be inevitable unless something is
done to check the progress Of things in Vir-
GINA and Maryland. At present we are actually
paying the people Of those States to become
Jul CuCuucS. Al VI CcuIuty ulcy
will become free States, with population con-
sisting of one-Lird free negroes. What secu-
rity then will there be for slave property in
North Carolina, South Carolina, or even Gcor.
gia? We say not word about the character
Of slaves brought into the State under the ex-
isting law, or the ultimate effect which their in
PRODUCTION will have upon the morals of our
present slave population; or in increasing the
quantity and reducing the price Of cotton.
These are questions which every man must
settle for himself We regard it simply as a
question Of great public and State policy
as one which is likely to effect complete
and disastrous revolution in the business and
prosperity of the Southern people. South
Carolina is this day most striking example of
the impolicy of encouraging this negro immi-
grafton. She has opened her arms wide to re-
ceive slaves from Virginia and Maryland for
years, and yet she is but very little richer now
than when she commenced. Georgia ia already
beginning to feel the effects of the same policy,
and unless her Legislators exercise proper dis
erection and foresight, the evil will progress until
she in turn will become border State and her
slaves are rendered worthless.
UNCLE Bills FIRST LovE.-My Uncle
Bill and my Aunt Airy reside on Long Is
land, not far from the far-famed resort, Rock
away, One evening last week, as Aunt
Airy was boiling some chesnuts for us Yor-
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