The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-11-11
WESTERN DEMOCRAT.
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From, The n. o. Medical g. Surgical Journal
FACTS WORTH NOTING.

FACTS WORTH NOTING.
The late Mr. Gallatin, Treasurer of the
United States, reckons the entire imp"rta-
ton nf blacks into the territorial limits OF
the Republic. at 30O.0O0-now not less than
four millions NJ. Humboldt. in the work
above mentioned, (PersouaI Narrative,)
adds up the Importation If blacks into the
British West Indies from 1860 l7s6, which
reaches. in Jog wears, the enormous aggre-
gate of , I30,0lO. This aggregate includes
1924, period of IS years later, nor those
imported at All earlier date, reaching back
for the West Indies to l5U3-a period OF
III wears anterior to NJ. Humboldt's point
of departure-a period of more than hun
dred years before the first white immigrants
reached the spores of this Republic.
81. Humboldt says: 1.-The whole Archi-
peIago of the West Indies which now com
prises scarcely 2,4OO.OOO negroes and ma-
lattos free and slaves, received from 1870 to
1925, nearly 5000, 900 of Africans" VII.
272. Add TO this all the importations, of
which no exact records exist, from 1903 to
I67O--a period of III years, and then add
the enormous importation since 1925, down
to the present day, Aug. 6, 1856. to which
add hle natural increase as proved by the
statistical history of handful of slaves
imported 1T a comparatively late period
into the sluye-holding States of this Re
public, not exceeding 100000, yet soon
multiplying to 4,0OO,0OO. These 100000
ought to have been extinguished wholly ere
row according to the ratio of decline OBJ
served in other slavcholding lan1s-con-
slider these things, ye weeping philanthropy
lists of the North, and of realms beyond the
ocean, and Of the islands of the distant seas
weep for the many millions imported
during $50 years from Africa, whom the
vital statistician can nowhere find but in
the oblivious grave, in Wondering bones.
Why should the heart of the great world
sob itself into commissions oyer the sieve
holding States of the Republic, the oasis
Of the AFRICAN desert, where alone the ne
gro has hnme, if not freedom, where hc
prospcrs most, las the greatest amount OF
the physical comforts, increases fastest,
lives tho longest, and enjoys the best health,
slaves nevertheless. The ncgros of Africa
now more than ever eat one another. They
are everywhere crushed out beyond the
limits of the slavcholding States.
a French naval officer, who, with his
suite, was Hospitality entertained by the
the Negro King of Dahpmcy, during the
Presidency of Napoleon, now Emperor OF
the French, relates that the King feeds his
large army of female and male soldiers with
the flesh of his captives, whom he can
now no longer sell to tho whites. The
French officer, shocked at seeing human
beings thus butchercj, frequently plead
with the King to abandon this practice
but was always answered by his Majesty
and Cabinet with hearty laughter for his in
effHble absurdity.
1.-The chief ornament of the royal resi-
dencc, containing $4,000 inhabitants, i.
human skulls, of which, when a number
was wanted to pave a court ar decorate &
ceiling, it was not an unusual process tC
have some scores of persons massaered fnl
the purpose" (National Cyclop. V. go
London, IS46.l The female part of the
army is nearly as large az the standing
army of the United States usually is il
times of peace.