The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-01-29

VesugatlOn, Ia WQlCn many instances nave Dcen
overlooked, and all the estimates rendered low,
shows that coored persons have, invested in bust
ness carried on By Themselves
IN New oIk CITY S7oo0oo
In .ne CITY OF brookiyn .s'.'.''.... 'aaoo
In the city of Williamsburg ................. 1900
Total. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $685. 100
And thas, apart from business, colored persons
hold real estate, deducting membranes
In the city OF New YORK.. S733o0o
In the city of Brooklyn. ............... 276,0oO
In the city of Williamsburg 15l,ooo
Total. 81 l6o 900
And these sums are distributed among q large
number of individuals, engaged in business or hold
property.
Twenty years ago, the same class held in those
Real estate. Observation-Disclosures. $35o0o0
Iotal. ,...,......s s.....s.. 1ool,VVo
That is to say, while this population has increas-
ed twenty-five per cent, its wealth has increased
one hundred per cent.
As to the condition of the masses Of our popula-
tion in these cities, we adduce the respectable
thority of the N1c York Tribune for the statement,
that colored beggars are extremely scarce in New
York, except such rs come from s'the South, ask
ing money wherewith to buy their own muscles,
blood and bones"
the Almshouse Of New York, for the year 1850, it
appears that there was expended by them during
that year
For the poor generally ...............Sio 6 652 90
For the celored poor, to wit
The Coltred Home .....,............... S.665 %
Color.d Orphan AsJlum ...............,.. 26o7 ID
TOTAL. StO2Ii II
The Coored Home and Orphan Asylum,
tain all the colored poor dependent on pubic sup
port, with a very few exceptions From the
above it seems that one iftieth Of the amount
expended, has been for the colored poor. In
New J ork city, the colered population to the white,
fairly estimated, is rs to p; hence the colorod
population of that city are y per cent less burden
than IL the white population. to the poor fund.
And this happy state Of things has arisen, in part,
from the fac. that the former class have mutual
benefit societies. with a cash capital OF $50, 900,
from which they take care Of their sick and bury
their dead
1t is further proof, of the improved condition of
the colored population, in the city of New York,
that the proportion Of deaths among them de-
creased, gradually, from l IL - in 1871 to | in
II in 1885, which latter has been about the proper.
ton since the last date and statiss agree that che
mortality Of people is always far measurer Of
their comforts.
The sending Of children to school is fair test of
the INTEL gepce of people. During the year 1850,
there were 1888 colored children in attendance ia
common schools, in New York city, which is nearly
the same proportion as there were white children
attending the class OF schools.
In reviewing these facts, 1t must ba borne in
mind, that but one quarter of a century has
elapsed, since q large portion OF the colored popu.
IatIOu OF new l ORR DaS Deen ltee1 from slavery.
and that during the earlier portion Of this time,
the very possession Of newly gotten freedom vi in
1t an enjoyment so full and perfect that the getting
OF money became secondary consideration, TO say
nothing Of the dependant and thriitess habits
which slavery had engendered Nor should il be
forgotten, that during the fourth ola century,
we have borne the brunt Of compet 5ion with
food Of emigrants from the old world; for nearly
all such emgrants were immediate ana direct COM
pettors in our callings, having on their side the
odds Of compiexional sympathy and political in.
iuence from the moment Of their landing upon our
shores.
May we not be permitted, fellowcitzens to ex.
press some degree Of pride in the fact, that have
not merely survived but also surmounted all these
difficulties, with peace, comfort, and growing pros
perty; ana may we not also be suffered soleHnly
TO protest against the false witness borne against
us by the chief magistrate Of the State, when with
these facts at his command, he has pronounced our
condition deplorabe in the extreme, and incapable
Of any improvement In the matter of tolls, or
canal loans, his Excellency doubtless consulted the
records before announcing their condition to the
Legislature Then, surely, whore the we'll being,
the rights, and the good name" Of fifty thousand
Of the citizens Of the state were involved, it was
but just that he should have been well informed be-
fore publishing such broad and decided views in
regard to them, for if this class of su cent in
portaEce to merit any notice in his annual message,
it was also of sufficient Importance to have been
spoken OF within the limits of the truth, carefully
ascertaned.
The only fact, in regard to our condition, which
his DActutuCy Win Iuc dutuoIlLJ VI
statistics is that we have dwinded from 80, OF in
ls40, to ~ 937 in 1850; and in the expressed fear
that the African, like the Indian race cannot per-
manenty co-exist on the same soil with the whites,
and that separation is necessary to prevent their
ultimate extinction" the Governor recommends
to the Legislature "a liberal appropriation" for
the purpose OF removing the people of color to Ii
IBERIA. IL is not little remarkable that his Excel
iency, latonng under a fear lest we should
become extinct, has recommended the very
means by which that extinction NAV be
most speedily composed The removal from
his home, from the graves Of his forefathers
is cause which has SO dreadfuly thnned the
ranks Of the red man, in his sad and reluctant
march towards the setting Of the sun. And, If we
may rely on the assertion Of the Governor that
10000 colored Americans, in all, have been sent
from the United States to Liberia this fact, taken
Liberia 6,53S colofed American residents, 10 1851
after twenty years experience Of that drofu
elm ate il follows that the 30 900 coored people Of
New York would be reduced to 100 within the
next twenty years, should they emigrate to the
African coast.
Again, the census of 1850 shows thai Mont
gcmery county, state Of New York, has dSindled
from % ISIS in $40, TO 81 ,9IY in lSj0-a loss Of
more than eleven per cent. We cannet perceive
the arthmetic nor the logic, which prevented his
ExeelleHcy from very urgently recommending TO
me Legislature an appropriation for the removal
Of the inhabitants OF Montgomery to whatever
parts OF the werd any portion OF their foretathers
may nave come from, in order 70 prevent an ex-
uhcuon that seems twice RS imminent as that Of
the colorod citizens.
- ~ ~4c I. 80 st..tt -. -: ss.s.ss -s.G
a:ioI 81 the state o, New Yolk has not diminished