North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-09-03
From the Richmond Enquirer. ]

is known to revealethe fact that the 1'dt"rdS IN
crease of the free blacks in the Cln'eo STATES uu
ring theslast ten years. has been eltI1er noln9 az
oil or a very small per centage. The census OF
$3.50 shows that their number in all the States IN
croased hut IL lO2 during the last decade, that Is
IN eo,, from 17O7 9O in 1910, to l94, $50 IN !oou'
or 3 ner cent That many as l4,OOo ot TINS I'LL
ter number have been emancipated during .l'.t Pc
Rod in all the Southern States docs not idfilI ol
1onbt. indeed it is quite certain that a Et larger
Lo +bon +b;s have been set free i'll those States
on1 ,robablv rs many more escaped from them IN
- e. States It is plain, therefore, that there has
b, no natural increase among these people but
~ +bo contrary considerable falling Oft IN MUM
bo,s Other facts Upon this subject have recently
come TO hoht from other sources than the census
During the last thirty years, the number OF whites
in the New England States has increased % per
cont while the increase of blacks from all causes
hos benn only 6l-2 per cent. During the last two
years the number of blacks III New ork State has
fallen off 1888 During the last ten years, their
number in New York State and New England to-
pether has fallen off 4O2 =,
Compare these facts with the increase Of the 9th
or classes of our population The number of whites
in the non-slaveholdng States in 1910 was 1885,
e15 In 1850 it was ID 34S, 446 showing an IN
crease from all sources Of 8, 79l,53l. 1t we de-
duct from this number two millions as the increase
by emigration, the natural increase OF WHITES IN
those States since 1910 has been but 20 per cent.
only one million for emigration, making the most
favorable possible suppositon for Northern whites
this increase has been but so per cent. The in
crease of whites in the Southern States, the 9th
er hand has been 81 per cent that Is to say they
numbered in 1910 A, 632 6 49, and in 1850 $685.
756, having increased 1,6T4,1l6 If the n"t"To|
increase of population Affords therefore, any evil
dence of the comfort and prosperous cond.tioh o,
a people, there is higher degree of comfort and
social WE'LL being among Southern than Northern
whites in the proportion of 3 to 80 or 20, as one
or t,Co millions are estimated for emigration The
number of slaves in all the States in 1910 p
1915; in 1850 it was 3,2lO,231, having IN
cred 722,656 or 20 per cent. The whole OF tins
was natural increase and if we add to the number
10000 for slaves that have been emancpated III, or
have escaped from the slave States, who of course
must form portion of the estimate in ascertaling
the natural increase of this population we find that
increase to have been 80 per Ct upon its number
in 1910. The increase of northern whites we have
seen to have been between 20 and 50 per cent; a
fact which shows the general condition OF that pop
ulation all classes being considered, to be not so
good as or worse than that of Southern slaves.
To arrange these different populations of our
country therefore, in order of their relative comfort
and weI-being, as indicated by the census, they
stand Ist Southern Whites I'd, Southern Slaves;
Sd, Northern Whites; and 4th, and last Of all,
Free Blacks.
cation which we believe to be true an index
of the actual relative condition of these classes of
our population as can be found there can be no !
avoiding the fact that it speaks volumes of rebuke /
upou the fanaticism which would reduce our black i
population, in the slave States, to the wretched cor
dtion of the liberated blacks of the free States.
The great fact in regard to these classes is, that
while one of them is decaying rapidly did the !
aborgines of the country, in the presence of civil
izaton, the other is enjoying asocia wcll-beng and
increasing with rapidty, equal if not superior to
that of the Northern white population. There is
room for speculation to the of this di-
versity of condition between these classes of blacks
The black is unfit for civilization in any other
condition than slavery and all schemes Of philan-
thropy looking to his improvement when emanci-
pated are idle.
1t will not do to say that the free 1,agroS con-
dition is the result Of his degraded position in So
ciety and of the prejudces of the white population
against him. 1t is only where he is found in soci-
ETY. of whites performing those subordinate offices
to which he is adapted that he is at all respectabe
it Is only while supported by the frame work of
white society that his condition is ut all tolerable
When separated from this and surrounded only by $
his own caste, when living apart from the white t
man in community of his own species, he sinks {;
Immediately into vice, want and abect misery {
There is not i'll the whole Union an exception to be
found to this fact and if the case of Liberia seems
to be an exception, it is only by reason of the
unsparing exertions and proflse iberality of the i
American Colonization Society towards that COM t
munity. In respect to that colony there can be 10
doubt that it will prove itself as it has proved it. '
self all excellent asylum for the free blacks of the
United States, and that both North and South will o
contribute largely to its support and its success
but those who think that enancipating the slave u
and colonizng him there any where else will ell
evate his moral nature improve his social condition II
and augment his happiness will find themselves ut Il
terly disappointed. ip
We all know the condition of free blacks in tlc h
South. 1t Is no better at the North among their t,
nelghbors and protectors-the abotionists Every p
day brings us evidences of the fact Those II
Northern States which have recently framed new W
constitutions regarding them as insupportable nu 5;
isances to society, have excluded any further aces
sons OF blacks into their borders. Northern pa t,
pers are every day filled with instances of their ~
wretched deprayity and restitution The Wew OF
ORR journal Of Commerce has the following no. il
tice OF colony of these people in Long Island:
IL Is llnmater1al for our present purpose to As
certain the causes Of the greater prevalence of vice
and immortality among the free coored race at the fo
N Worth, than among the slaves at the South-or 81
than among the slaves Of the North while slavery Il
existed here. The fact is indsputablc And it is Ii
equally ndspuable that the condition of the great
mass OF the free coored people of the North is get
ing worse. Any Intelligent observer who has civ III
en- heed to the subject knows that as q class the IN
free colored population is more degraded. more Us
vicious and immoral, than it thirty Or forty ii
years ago. We have in our minds eve several Us