The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-01-19
THE EORElGN VOTE HOSTILE TO
SLAVERY.

dence,tiiat the presses and politicians in tn,
South which most bitterly denOunce and in
weigh against the American movement, are
the same presses and politicians that mani
fest the greatest horror and dread of the
factious and mischievous doctrines of the
abolitionists. They curse and denounce the
aggressive spirit OF the Free States-they
weary the public ear with their unavailing
regrets at the preponderance and the over.
shadOwing power these have already attain
ed in the Union, and at the same time and
in the same breath, denounce and abuse all
who have Joined or give cOuntenance to the
movement which alone can check that sfell
spirit of aggression" alone can arrest
that growing power and preponderance in
the North which, as they allege, is making
the Slave States mere deps nencies of the
Free States, and which is the ifc-blood and
strength of the latter in their encroachments
and warfare upon the rights and institutions
of their Southern brethren. 1t seems TO us
that the course of these presses and politi-
clans is not only inconsistent, but suicidal,
and evinces either u want Of honesty or de-
ficiency OF common sense objectionable in
men who set themselves up to be the special
eOnseryators and champions Of the rights and
interests of the section in which they live
They hate the fanatics of the Free States
they abhor and dread their schemes and de-
signs, but they hug to their bosoms and give
nourishment and substance to the very elc-
ment which Of all others most strengthens
fight on under The confident hope, that its
rapidly growing power must, sooner or later,
result in the overthrow and extinguishment
of the institution of slavery.
III this connection we annex IN interesting
article, taken from an abolition paper, and
commend its figures and deductions to the
attention and consideration of those patriotic
presses and politicians South, who have moth.
ing but vituperation and abuse for their ma
tive brother, and love and laudation for the
alien:
INTERESTING CoMPARIsoys.-The Salem
Gazette points out some curious numerical
condolences disclosed by the last census re-
turns. as follows:
Whole population of the U. States,
by census 1850, 23,l9l,S76
White population, l9553,O6S
Free colored population, 434,495
Whole number Of slaves, 3,204,3l3
Whole number of emigrants from
foreign countries, arriving in the
u. States from 1920 to 1850, 3,204S48
The extraordinary similarity Of the two
last numbers will ares. the attention of the
man.
Whole number of foreign born per-
sons in the U. States, by the CEN
sus of 1850 2,240.535
OF these there are in Free States l,9l6,734
Do do Slave States, 2I5,3lO
Do do Dist. of Co.
lumbia and Territories, 1904
Whole number of Slaves, according
to the Federal ratio of cnumera-
ton, q. G. three fiIths,) 1922.5S6
The similarity between this last number
and the whole number of foreign born in the
Free States, will also arrest attention.
The Slave States have, by virtue of
their Slave population, Represen.
tatives in Congress, 90
The Free States have, by virtue of
their foreign born population,
Representatives in Congress, 90
The precise equality of these numbers will
arrest very particular attention.
If the foreign born portion of the
white population in the Slave
States is thrown out of the ac-
count, it appears that the slave
population in those States, in tho
aggregate, has gained on the
white population, since 1890, 202,574
The free colored population has in.
creased since 1890, 205,S3O
The proportion of whites, slaves, and free
colored persons in the United States at the
different decennia periods, have been as fol.
1890 1900 1910 1920 1890 1910 1850
Whites, S0.73 s1l3 50 81 81 81 Sl.90 s317 S43l
slaves 1916 1853 16.45 1896 1862 14.57 1882
Free colored, l,5l 2O4 2.57 2.47 2.4S 226 Is7
If the "ioreign born" be deducted from
the white population of 1850, the proper
nohs LOT ''ia' Pc''ou WIZ oeconie Us ioiio nes
1ooo,
Slaves, 1895
Free colored, 2.O8
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