Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-10-15
NEGRO POPULATION.

Georgia paper CLEANS from the census returns
some curious facts respecting the relative increase Of
the white and free negro population in this country.
The average decennia 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 20 per cent in every ten years since 179O
Very different are the statistics of the increase of
the free colored population. Up to 1S4O 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 colored population In the free States the in
crease has amounted during this tme.t to 2.94 per
cent and IL per cent. in the slaveholding States
averaging 1923 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-
sion and escapes exceeds the increase of the free col
ored in the slavehodng States by nearly three thou
sand and their increase in the free States 675 and
reduces the increase of free negroes in the United
States to less than B per cent.
Here is developed the astonishing fact that while
the white race increases naturally at the rate of
Twenty-Five per cent in every ten years, the free col
ored population increases only at the rate of Ue per
cent. during the same time.
Upon these facts the paper from which we quote
remarks as follows:
''When white laborers become more abundant and
the pressure is increased by competition, there
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 mongre, and that mongrel races are
not prolific pure blooded people But the chief
cause of their decline is the vicious habits in which
table ignorance. 1t is generally conceded by the
Northern press that the free blacks the most de-
PRAYED corrupt and abandoned class in all their cities
And there is fact better established than that Yce
is inconsistent with increase of population.
This then is the end of Abolition--the total exter
mnation of the colOred Veil may these obi
Gus fanatics be called the fends of politics. They
indulge in fiendish hate to the human MASTER they
endeavor to develope ndsh passions in the breasts
Of the slave towards their best and only friends and
the boon they tender them in exchange s-annihila-
ton people. Contrast with this picture the con-
dton of the slave. From 1900 to 1910 the increase
of slaves in the United States was 1919 per cent.
During the last forty years the decennal increase
has been AZ per cent The discrepancy in the two
trade up to 1908. For the last forty years the in
crease has been by births alone; and shows an ex-
cess of per cent. their masters AS far there
FORE as the physical condition of may be gath
cred from increase of population, and there is
test the slaves better off than their masters