Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-12-29

Thus, If YOU have room and subsistence
enough. as yoa may, by dividing, make
zen! !polypuseso ont Zone. you may, Of ONE.
make ten nations, kdually populoub ana
powerful; or, Mthsfts increase ration tenA
1ol4in numbers ard strength. ~ III
NesThns mueh$for DR.. FrnnkfiM s0Hisyi
words need no comment from us-Mea
speak FIR themselves.
-Equaiiy y=eonciusixeupon ntfis'point; aiso;;=t
are EngIsh statistics, T'Ip the ten years
Kingdom Sent out 2, SOC, 200 emigrants--
aSgreatenS att cam tiEm Vas poured from one
country since the modern history of Eu-
rope began But Notwithstanding this
immense idraih, the population of Great
-Bsitaia- eeastsntly and. steadily -iasreas-
lngi Tnarriages areI more, freqpent;' and
births are more numerous: While iii pro-
portion to,ahs sinorease of pepula ion Ethe
number of; deaths 10 deere AsiueS q sBuDhad
this vast emigration remained in itRe mo-
therlcountry, theirlincrease being limited
by the means Of subsistence as far as they
were concerned, the reverse would have
proved true, and the population of Great
Britain would not, thereby, have been ma
terially augmented. Il Says. NJ Weston:
!" Emigration has not diminished the. num-
berot ,Irishmen in Ireland, while it has
been spreading 1.-THE race throughout the
world, y The Portuguese and, SpaniaFds
have ceased, to eolsnize and have ceased
to mpltiply,.ylIn Germany, ), on the opber
hand, - population advances, while emil
grants, swarm, eastward to ,Russia.i west
ward to America, and even TO the antip-
odes.n, -, s,iIf,!d., ID ,jsrg .b..ota1 !.
!, MoreoyerI in our own country are strik-
ing con6rmations ofithe truth of these
doctrinesI Iri II is well known that the old
states contribute, mainly, to the population
of thenew; yet their. own population is
not iniconsequence. lessened, but the op-
Posite; for t,isjconstantly and steadily in
creasiDg. No one can for a moment i'm
agine, that, had our territorial boundaries
been confined TO the original thiyteet states
! that our population would now have been
SO great = Nevertheless b 9tha old States,
in diminishing the basis for the population
of the new have not, themselves, suffered
thereby, butih have been benefited by a va
7riety sof incidental circumstanees5y ysuch,
for instance, ias stheoontiguity of a,friendly
peoples; demanding ilaborers of all kinds,
and consequently mulating their pro-
lduction.sid =. iquDg ODD |il: s.iI hIuov 5d =
But in addition taaAhe above array Of
authority and facts, all tending to show
thst emigration, when it does not exceed
| the possible rate of natural increase, does
not diminish, but rather increases popula.
btionj and therefore that the diffusion of a
ppeople- over new territoryt-other things
equal-4-necessarily aincreases their mum
bers;9 in. addition, we say, to all this, let
us look for a momentiat the logic Of fstle
matter. 1T is simply this: If the spread
ing or. diffusion of population does not in
ilcreaseJ 1t in the aggregate then three
fourths of the globe should produce as
many human beings as the whole; one
half as many as three fourths; one-f fourth
as many as one-half; and so on down rin
tinitessimally; or. to aulogical absurdity
4ln., the Language of Mr.. Weston, .'Tha
emiyration doesoasot diminish population
lis clear enough. and that it sometimes in
crsases population is equally clear.p'at-
t. tNow az slave population, consisting a.
1T does of human beings, cannot form an
iexception tothis Fundamental law. {lhei
increase or decrease, in numbers, is gov
erned by, the same general rule which con
trolls the race generality the excep
tition, perhaps, that in our own county tn,
territorial extensionof slavery, stimulate
those engaged in the old states, in the de
Illightfully pure practice of slave .6reedin,
to almost $uperhuman exertions, to suppl
the market thus opened to them In illus
4 tration, I'VE quote the following from Nj
Weston: i'FThe 293, 497 slaves found Their
him Virginia in 1890, amounted, will
their descendants they quntupledin sixt,
years to IT ! ,467,i35 in 1850, of whicl
472, ,526 were then living in Virginia, aht
the balance, 994, 609, were living else
scAere;"j that is, they had been sold int,
foreign markets, to populate with ours
the new states. ! Nevertheless the numbe
, of slaves in Virginia has not been dimin
ished, but on the other hand they are con
hstantly increasing. AS wall be seen by tn
following. from the Richmond (Va!) Ex
laminery of May 90, 1857; zGI' ht2l.....l
"The mistaken idea seems to prevail, t.
a'great extent, that the slave population o
Virginia is annually aiminished BY tn
sales of our slaves into more southern
states THIS Is "A VERY GREAr
MISTAKE TIE SLAVE POPULA
TION,' so FAR FROM DIMINISH
ING, Is STEAD1LY INCREASING
And again, the above quotation from
one of the leading papers Of the state j
fully sustained by the late Professor Dew
Eof William and Mary's College, in hi
, elaborate Review 1-of The Debates in th
Virginia Legislature in 1882. He says
, u'"'S1x THOUSAND slaves are yearly ex
,, ported from Virginia to other states.
falf equivaient being left in the place. I
the slave, this emigration becomes an dd
! Odntage to the. State, and DOES NO
CHECK the, black populatioh1so much a.
+, lat first View, we might imagine; becaus
il furnishes every induceinent to the mas
ter to attend 20 the negro, to ENCOUR
AGE BREEDING, and to cause III
J greatest number possible to be raised.'''
/ | = hAs Will be seen from the quotation
e fgiven, our, view Of this subject IS well lir
7 derstood by slSveholders, and slave Sell
/ =. -. Il 80