The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-12-10


23,O74, 3Ol, aud the Increase to 6.OO4.s4s. The
relative increase, after this allowance, is found
to be 35I7 per cent The aggregate number
of whites in 1850, was l9,6l9366, exhibiting
gain upon the number of the same class in
1910, of 5,423,37I and relative increase of
$500 per cent But excluding the 10000
free population supposed to have been acquired
by the addition of territory since 1910, the
gain is 5,270,37l and the increase per cent Is
37l4.
! The number of slaves, by the present census,
Is 8, 1898, which shows an increase of I'LL
0S5, equal to 2S.5S per cent. II we deduct
10000 for the probable slave population of
Texas in 1910, the result of the comparison
will bs slightly different The absolute increase
will be 692,085, and the rate, per cent 81 SO.
The number of free colored in 1850, was
428,637 in 1910, 386245. TIE increase of
this class has been 1882, or 10 95 per cent
From 1880 to 1910, the increase of the whole
population was at the rate OF act per cent
At the same rate Of advancement the absolute
gain for the ten years last past would have
been 5,57S, $685. or 426 81 less than II has BEEN
without including the increase consequent upon
additions Of territory
The aggregate increase Of population, from
all sources, shows relative advance greater
than that of any other decimal term, except that
from the second To the third census during
which time the country received an accession of
inhabitants, by the purchase of Louisiana, con.
slderably greater than per cent. of the whole
number. Rejecting from the census of 1910
AS per cent, for the population of Louisiana,
and from the census of 1850, Fer cent, for
that of Texas, California, &c, the result is in
favor of the last ten years by about one four
teenth of per cent; the gain from 1900 to
$40 being 35 05 per cent; and from 1910 to
1850, 1912 per cent. But, without going be-
hnd The sum of the returns, it appears that the
increase from the second to the third census was
thlrty-two hundreths of l per cent greater than
the increase from the sixth to the seventh
The relative progress of the several races
and classes of the population is shown in the
following tabular statement:-
Increase per cent Of each Class of Inhabitants in
the United States for Siriy Years.
1880 1900 1910 1920 1880 1910
to 10 10 TO TO to
Glasses, 1900 1910 1920 1880 1910 1850
Whites 25 GO sc Is "a 80 "a SO "a 70 80 20
Free Colored 1928 200 81 IS 81 IS 20 SO 1895
Slaves 81 SO 80 40 % 81 80 rs 90 81 % SO
Total Color'd 80 % 81 So 80 80 81 81 90 40 DC l6
Total popu'n 500 &c so SO 35 80 90 80 e. SO 10
The census had been taken previously to 1880
on the hrst of August the enumeration began that
year on the first of June, two months earlier, SO
that the interval between the fourth and fifth CEN
suses was two months less than ten years, which
time allowed for would bring the total increase up
to the rate of "a 36 per cent.
The table given below shows the increase from
1880 to 1850, without reference to intervening pc
RODS:
absolute Inc. per
increase cent. in
in Si1ty Sirfy
No. of 1890 1850 Years Years
whites 3,l72,464 l9,63s,Ol9 l6,457,555 52797
Free cold 59,466 428,637 1863, III 6l744
Slaves G97,e97 3,lS4,262 2,4S6,365 $50 I3
Total free
Slaves 757,363 36l2,s99 1855, 536 377OO
TT pop. 3,929,S2 23,246,30l 19,3l6,444 49I So
Sixty years since, the proportion between the
whites and blacks, bond and free, was 4 to L.
In 1850 it was 8 26 to |, and the ratio in favor
of the former race is increasing. Had the
blacks increased as fast as the whites during
these sixty years, their number, on the first of
June, would have been 1857 ,239 so that, in
comparison with the whites they have lost, in
this period, l,035,34O.
This disparity is much more than accounted
for by European emigration to the United
States. DR.. Chickering in an essay upon emf
grafton, published at Boston in lS48, distn
guished for great elaborateness of research, es-
Inmates the gain of the white population, from
this source, at 3,922,l52. No reliable record
was kept of the number of emigrants into the
United States until $780, when, by the law of
March, 1878, the collectors were required to
make quarterly returns of foreign passengers
arriving in their districts. For the first ten
years, the returns under the law affords mater-
ais for only an approximation to true state of
the facts involved in this inquiry.
DR.. Chckering assumes. as a result of his in
vestigations, that, of the 643l ,0SS inhabitants
of the Uuited States, in 1920, ,43O 900 were
foreigners, arrived subsequent TO 1890, or the
descendants of such. According 10 DIR. Sey-
lert an earlier writer upon statistics, the mum.
| Der of foreign passengers, from 1890 to 1910,
was, as nearly as could be ascertained, 10000
and from the estimates of DR.. Seybert,
other evidence, Hon. George Tucker author of
a valuable work on the census of 1910, sup
poses the number, from 1910 to 1920, to have
been $4,000. These estimates make, for the
thirty years preceding 1920, $4,000.
| If we reckon the increase of these emigrants
at the average rate Of the whole body of white
population during these three decades they and
their descendants in 1920, would amount to
about 100000. From 1920 to 1880, there ar
rived, according to the returns of the custom
houses, 1896 foreign passengers, and from
/ 1880 to 1910, 579370, making for the twenty
| years, 7l5,356. During this period, large
number of emigrants from England, Scotland
and Ireland came into the United States through
Canada. Dr. Chickerng estimates the number
Of such, from 1920 TO 1880, at 67993; and
from 1880 to 1870, at 1919 l30-for the twenty
years together, 267, 1913. During the same time,
a considerable number are supposed to have
landed at New York with the purpose of pursu-
ing their route to Canada but il is probable that
the number Of these was balanced by the omis-
sions in the official returns Without reference
to the natural increase, then, the accession to
our population, from foreign sources, from $50
TO 1910, was 982,479 persons.
! From 1910 to 1850, the arrivals of foreign
passengers, in the ports Of the United States,
have been as follows:
| l540-4I S3,504 lS47 234, 756
\ 1912 l0l,l07 lS4S 226. 524
/ lS43 75,l59 lS49 269, $40
] 1874 1867 1851 I73.OlI