Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1858-06-05
lFrom the Southern t'Iezas) Inteliigencer.
0Dening the African Slave. Trade IN
crease Of Slaves,

Our fast running young men, who are SO
anxious to evince their southern intensity,
by clamoring for the impossible experiment.
Of re-opening the AfricanFslave trade, as a
means Of ensuring great Increase Of south
ern population aid consequent productions
would do well to consult statistics occasion
ally.
by the census Of 1910, according TO De
Bows Review, the whole slave population
of the U. S. was 1,19l ,364 This inoreas-
ed, according to the census of 1850, to B.
204, 313, or nearly two hundred per cent
in forty years. 10 this should be added
the manumitted slaves, and their descen-
dants through forty years, which would
give total of two hundred and thirty per
cent. But we will deduct the free blacks,
and calculate the basis Of two hundred per
cent. through forty more years. La round
numbers in 1890, the slave population Will
be 300, 900, and in 1880, it will swell to
$4,000, 600 So that the child may now
be living, who viii see, go, coo, 900 slaves
from the present stock The slave popula-
ton, at present, exceeds the whole popula-
ton Of the United States, at the Declara-
ton of Independence We may even cal
cuiate upon greater increase. With own
ers, the spirit of manumission has decreas-
ed, and with all classes, including abolition
lists, the repugnance to free blacks increases,
in corresponding ratio. There viii, there
fore, be less manumission. And it is a well
known fact, that slaves are now treated
much more humanely than formerly, ard
hence the more rapid increase.
But to the advocates Of opening the Af-
rican slave trade and Introducing new set
of barbarians among our civilized, christian
lied negroes, who form contented, patri-
archal institution. We would propou,id tie
question, shall we not have labor enough
from natural increase, if we only wait pa
tienty?
No one is more ready 10 acknowledge
that before the eighty years expire, the
Angles will ovefsrlead this entire continent
And, allowing the ~. ooo. 900 whites 70 in
crease in the same refio, eighty years will
give us 1870 900 Coo Of whites, allowing
nothing for the arm eycd" races But in
annexing whites, we staii annex cores
ponding number Of negroes; so we may as
well conclude, that tie population will
stand as 40, coo, ooo slaves to 200, 600, GOO
whites
80 .qar Knov- NJ .sll.;n ! friends. who feas
lhe greater ratio # Whit4 because Of the
Immigration Of foreigner. We lave cnly toI
say, that es.sigratio,i as well AZ ilninigra-
tion goes on; and henc@ the increase Of
blacks will centinae par passu.
Our southern ire eating editors, whose
Intensity carries them far bsyond their gram
mars and arithmetcs- wlbse zeal causes !
Them to compose in Sanbds English, gld |
to calculate BY Dinah's arithmetic should |
calculate their problems a lille ahead. And
if they will RECKON ukon theponaroand ratio
from 1856 to 1850, through the period Of
1000 years, which is . very short time in
Abe history Of nations, they viii find that
our descendants, doubling eyery twenty |
years. viii be, for all purpose Of arthme-
tic, equal to all the grains of and upon the
earth and drops Of water III the ocean,
The solution is just ibis: 45Do0 900, ii !
twenty years. gives 50 0Up GOD forty years !
100 Gee, o0o, sixty years 20 100000, !
eigAsy gears 400, 600. 900, d9 hundred !
years 100000, o9o--all,l il sFe vius go on |
one thousand years, tie worll could rot
cont.s;r .tlie figures