Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-09-22

increased only As per cent. in the
ten years. The truth is, free Sambo
IN the United States, with all his
freedom and political equality. has
no reality of either. His color
stamps him for ever in unjust popu-
lar prejudice, which is stronger than
law, with the caste OF laborcr; and
not laborer alone, but degraded
laborer, whose mother, and brother,
and cousin, are slaves, and who
ought to be one himself; and, If the
truth must be told, all this makes
Samho rather a good-for-no,hing
fellow. He ncglects his family. is
unthrifty, gets behindhand, aud be-
fore long finds himself quite a, the
loot Of the social ladder. Mean
while Pat has been coming in from
Ireland, and has stepped over him
and, in astonishmenl al finding some
body underneath himself he becomes
the worst tyrant that the poor black
has to endure. The inveterate dis
like of an lrishman TO a Negro is as
well known as it is remarkable.
But, while the free black Of the
North, in spite Of his theoretically
better condition, has barely held his
own in some Of the States, his
southern cousin has been increasing
his family at great rate. Whether
1t be that, with plenty to eat, and,
in the absence OF care, his shackles
81, lightly on him, or whether it be
that he stiles his sorrows in domestic
pleasures, we do not stop 10 inquire.
1t appears that, from some cause,
the natural increase Of the slaves la,
been as great, and greater even,
than that of the whites so that
without foreign immigration, the
relative numbers Of the two races
aud the relative weight of the tive
sections of the Union, would not
have been materially chaLged IN the
sixty wears. We do not take intr
account the tuAug difference ~ tho
proportion made dtecty 10y the ac-
QUESTION OF territory, as the tota
number OF slaves and ireemen wa,
small IN each case at the time of the
annexation, and the effect upon th,
general result was more than balan.
ced by the abolition of slavery IN
in the North Annexation ha,
undoubtedly strengthened the III.
siltutlon, 10y giving 1t new States Il
govern ami new fields TO cultivate
bat not essentially by an actual ad
dlion to the number Of slaves
Neither do we take into special &C
count the larger percentage of the
slave increase from 1900 to 1910
created by the prospective abolition
OF the Slave trade In l-0S; because
the proportion Of slaves to whites o
naive descent, in 1910, was almos
exactly the same as IN 1850. IL
1900 the proportion was as To 4
81; in 1910 as to AS and il
1850 as ! to 1.16, deductlng il
each case the number of Immigrant
aud descendants of immigrants sine,
1890 from the total white population
This great increase Of a population
held unlus,ly in state Of Dor dag,
with freedom and activity all arounC
them. Is a remarkable feature in his
tory, and suggests the possibility a
some future day OF au attempt at {
forclble reclaimer of their rights
when they shall decidedly outnum
Der their masters. IL such a struggl,
should ever come it would be shor
lived and deadly, and would termin
ate only in the anuIhilation of TN
weaHcr black.
Before 1894 1t seemed that thi
species Of labor was about to die Oh
IN the natural course of events. II
three Of the Northern States il hat
persisted in five more i, lived onl
upon suiirance and in the SoulI
public sentiment would have abol
isued it if feasible way had bcei
proposed. Whitney then invented
the cotton-gin and the export o
cotton, in 1894 less than FIVE hun
dred thousand pounds, trcblcd il
1894, increased to six millions il
1895, reached eighteen millions il
800, two hundred and eighty mil
hons in 1880, and nine hundred ant
twenty millions in 1850. Al
rican bondage become profilable.-
The planters of Alabama, Mississippi
Georgia, aud the Carolinas bear III
sin before the world ; but Liverpool
Lowell, Manchester, aud New Yor
furnished the money which prolong
aud extends the system.
In spite Of these influences so ia
vorable 10 slavery, the foreign i'm
migration is gradually aft citing III
balance of power in the Federation
In 1900 the total population of III
Slave States was 4S per cent. {
that of the Union, and their repre-
senlatIon was As per cent. of ia
House. In 1880 they had but 4
per cent. Of the population, an
al per cent. OF the representation
and in 1850 but Al per cent. OF tn
former, and 80 per cent. of the lat
ter. 1t requires no prophet to fore
see that the same disturbing cause
will continue as long as the peasant
and artisans OF Europe can comman
cheap homes, high wages and an in
proved social position in the Ne'
World as easily as they now do
H. oan,,,s a.ahlao ne IN fnlIox