Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-07-26
Comparatiye increase OF free White, and fret
COIOred Population.

hardly so were there real DANGER
Comparatiye increase Of free White, ana Tree
COIOred Population.
| The late census furnishes us with afact that W e
should like to see explained by that class of pseudo
nhilantbropists called abolitlonsts, who have SO
much at heart Tire welfare of their colored brethren
This anomalies feature is presented, which, as
nbvsolopcsi enigma calls for some solution; there
s striking disparity in the increase of the free CO.
lored noouIation of the United States; as compar-
ad wit1 either the free whites slave population
The aggregate white population of the United
States has increased in the last ten years 394 per
cent; the Slave population has advanced 28p per CT;
while the free colored population has increased only
| 81 per cent How can this vast dlsproporuon De
accounted for? 1t is not from excessive emgra-
ton for the special friends of the race the abo-
tionists, make it a labor of love to denounce the
colonization scheme, and neutralize its efforts to
encourage emigration; it is but trlting fraction OF
free blacks that be tempted to embark Tor LII
/ IBERIA. 1t is not III consequence OF the 'oppreSs-
ion'' of the white race, for II we look at those
parts of the United States where this hybrid class
are mostly favored, we will find that there the IN
crease has been smallest. We mean the New
England States and moreover in those States
this singular fact appears, that the black
race increased to greater extent when slavery
existed there than it ever has since
This is an interesting phenomenon, and scruti-
nv of the tables of the furnishes some SIN
oular details. Notwithstanding the migratory ha-
bits of the people of the New England States they
have increased in population So per cent. in the
last thirty wears With a constant influx of color
ed persons into New England from the South
/ runaways amp others, the increase of that de
scrption of population in 80 years is only 81 pei
| cent.
In all other non -slaveholding States there ha!
been a slow increase of the cololed population
In the middle and western free States, comprising
New York, New Jersy, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indi
ana, Illinois, Michigan, Iowa and Wisconsin, the
increase of the white population for the past tel
wears has been 279 per cent, while the colorec
population in the same States and for the same pc
Rod has increased less than eight per cent. How
is this 1t is true there has been large addition
to the whites from European immigration, bu
there has been a per centage nearly equal VI
should suppose, added to the colored population
BY immigration from the slave holding States, nclu
ding fugitives from slavery. This small increas
of free negroes refues the statement that has beer
so confidently made by disunonists, that since tn
4 adoption of the compromise measures, there ha
been an immense influx of fugitive slaves in tn
L Northern States. The figures give positive con
Itradction to any such assumption, in New orr
there has been an actual decrease in this class o
population, in the last ten years of 1888 or pc
i cent of the whole colored population of that Stat
: and in Indiana for the period the decreas
, has been 2O68 or about 80 per cent. In all tn
a above mentioned States, the accession to the pop
I uation by Fugitive slaves could not have exceeds
II FIVE thousand.
The same phenomenon IN regard to free colore
people is seen in the slaveholding as in the non
u slaveholding States. In the fifteen Slaveholdin
States and the District of Columbia, the number
free people of color was:
In 1850 234, 300
In 1910 215,210
u Increase IN ten years 1873
y Or less than 8 per cent
. The number of slaves in the same State and Dis
i trict was:
In 1850 3,176,47
In 1910 9,486 ,O84
Increase in ten years SCI 1886
Or 90 per cent. Taking the aggregate colore
population of the Slaveholding States and Dstrc:
bond and free, the increase of 26 per cent. and
fraction.
, The white population in the same State and Dis
trict, was:
! In 1850 62O7,466
In 1910 4632O42
Increase in ten years 1,575,493
The increase of free colored population in tn
nation at large, during the past ten years. average
81 per cent Of the slave population, % per cent
The entire white population in the United State
including 10000 for California, and 112, 824 fo
the four territories, was
; In 1850 IS, 668, 1856
In 1910 4,089, 1870
Increase in ten years 5,579,628
Or 394 per cent.
The whole population, of all colors, allowing as
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