Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1853-10-19
NEGRO POPULATION.

9e NEGRO POPULATION.
Georgia paper CLEANS from the census returns
some curious facts respecting the relative of
the white and free negro population in this country
The average decennial increase of white persons in
the United States has been 1851 per cent, nearly
one third part Of which has arisen from the immi-
grafton of foreigners into the country This will
make the natural increase Of the white population
average 25 per cent. in every ten years since $780,
Very different the statistics of the increase of
the free colored population. Up to 1910 there was
very large increase of free negroes, arising from
the manumission of slaves by kind-hearted masters
at the south. Since 1910 manumission has almost
entirely ceased except in few of the border States
We must therefore look to the decade between 1910
and 1850 to ascertain the rate of increase among the
free coored population. In the free States, the in
crease has amounted during this time to 1894 per
cent? and lOl1 per cent in the slaveholding States
averaging 1928 per cent in the United States.
There is no means of ascertaining accurately the
cession to the free colored population from the ranks
of the slaves The estimated loss to the slave States
for the decade between 1910 and 1850 by manumis-
ored in the slavehodng States by nearly three thou
reduces the increase of free negroes in the United
States to less than per cent.
Here is developed the astonishing fact that while
the white race increases naturally at the rate Of
tscentyre per cent in every ten years, the free col
ored population increases only at the rate of per
cent. during the same time.
Upon these facts, the paper from which we quote
remarks as follows:
'sWhen white laborers become more abundant, and
the pressure is increased by competition, there can
be doubt but that the increase of the free coored
population will continue to decrease until the num-
Der of births will be less than the number of deaths
among them, and that free negroes will disappear
from the United States.
This is very singular state of things, but is very
easily explained 1t is we'll known that free negroes
are generally mongrel, and that mongrel races are
not prolific as pure blooded people. But the chief
of their decline is the vicious habits in which
they indulge, their extreme destitution, and lamen
table ignorance. 1t is generally conceded by the
Northern press that the free blacks the most de-
praved corrupt and abandoned class in all their cities.
And there is no fact better established than that vice
is inconsistent with increase of population.
This then is the end of Abolition--the total exter
mnation of the colored race. Well may these obi
Gus fanatics be called the fiends of politics. They
indulge in iendish hate to the human master, they
endeavor to develope ndish passions in the breasts
of the slave towards their best and only friends and
the boon they tender them in exchange is-annihila
ton people. Contrast with this picture the
dtion of the slave. From 1900 to 1910 the increase
of slaves in the United States 3579 per cent.
During the last forty years the decennial increase
has been 3342 per cent The discrepancy in the two
periods is explained by the existence of the slave
trade up to 1908. For the last forty years the in
| crease has been by births alone; and shows ex-
cess of per cent their masters As far there
fore, the physical condition of may be gath
cred from increase of population and there is no
test the slaves ebetter off than their masters.
News FROM WASHINGTON. We copy the following
from the Star:
Threatened fict6et.eeen the Creek Indians and
the United States Marshal arkansas. 1t that
under the laws of Congress- it becomes the duty OF
the Marshal of the Western District of Arkansas to
arrest persons who have introduced spirituous iqu-
ors into the Indian country. This officer having re-
Gently so arrested Indians who had been punished
under the Indian law for the offence in the same
Tie Indian authorities are very indignant and there
is fear of armed collision to grow out of the affair
The Secretary of the Interior is said to have directed
the Marshal to make more arrests of Indians fOl
| this offence who may have been held amenable un.
der the Indian law, until he the Secretary shall
have received further information to enable him to
give him further instructions on the subject
Aeting Mielshipmen. Among those recently ap
pointed by the Secretary of the Navy and have been
found qualified on their preliminary examination) te
enter into the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md.
! are Clarence Hunter California; Joseph w. Alexan
der, 7th district Of North Carolina; Frederick v
McNeir, 9Th district of Pennsylvania; VIM. McCand
less, 10Th district of Pennsylvania Jason B. Orton
9th district of Ohio; Francis W. Bond, 1st district
North Carolina and Henry j. Wiseman, Sd distric
| of Pennsylvania.