North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-06-21

e,,,....r,vE INCREASE OF FREE WHITE AND
FREE CoLoRED POPULATION. The late census furn-
ishes US with fact, shat we should iIEe % see ex
ed abo,ionisis who have much at heart the wei
their eolored brethren Thsanomaous feature
is presented. which, as physiological enigma, calls
for some solution ;there is striking disparity IN the
increase of the free coored population in the United
States, compared with either the tree white or the
slave population. The aggregate white population
of the United States has increased in the last ten
years S9 per cent 1.-THE slave population has dvanc-
ed % per cents while the free coored population has
increased only 81 per cent. How can this vast as
proportion be accounted for 1t is not from excess
sye emigraon-for the special friends OF the race
the abolitionists, make it labor of love 10 oenou.
the colonization scheme, and neutallzeis eno's ~
encourage emigration; it is but trining e II
free blacks that be tempted TO emoarA ~ IL
ria. 1t is not in consequence OF 'ne Pina-,s ~ III
the white race for if we look at those parts OF the
United States where this hybrid class are Ia
vorsd, will find that there the Increase mas oee
smallest We mean the New England ota'es anu
in those States this singular TACT appears
thai The black race increased to greater extent when
slavery existed there than it ever has since
| This is an interesting phenomenon, and scrutiny
of the tables of the furnishes some singular
details. Notwithstanding the migratory habits oil
the people of the New England States, they have
increased in population IS per cent IN the iast lnl
years. With constant influx OF coiored persons
into New England from the South, runaways and
Others the increase of that description OF population
in 80 years is only 81 per cent.
In all the other non-saveholding States, there has
been a slow increase of the colored population. lr
the middle and western free States, comprising New
York, New Jersey, Pennsy !vaDla, Ohio, Indiana
Illinois, Michigan, Iowa and Wisconsin, the increase
of the white population for the past ten years has
been 373 per while the coored population In the
same States and for the same period has Increased
less than eight per cent. How is this! 1t IS true
there has been large addition to the whites from
European immigration, but there has been per cent
age nearly equal, should suppose, added to the
coored population, by Immigration from the slave
holding States including ugitiues from slavery This
small increase of free regroes refutes the Statement
that has been so confidently made by disunionis;s
that since the adoption of the compromise measures
there has been an immense influx of fugitive Slaves
in the Northern States. The figures give positive
contradiction to any such assumption In New ORR
there has been actual decrease in this class OF pop
uation, in the last ten years of 1888 or per cent
the whole coIored population of that State: and ii
Indiana for the period the decrease has beer
2O69 or about 80 per In all the above mention
ed States, the accession to the population by fugitive
Slaves could not have exceeded five thousand.
The same phenomenon in regard to free coloret
people is seen in the slaveholding as In the non
slaveholding States. In the fifteen slaveholdin!
States and the District of Columbia, the number o
! free people of color was