The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-08-24
Some Views of the Census,
From the New Orleans Pcayune.

Some Views of the Census.
From the New Orleans Picayune.
By the census of 1850, the aggregate
number Of slaves in the United States was
3,204,3l3. Of this number, 246,656 were
of mixed blood, mulattoes, &c. The num-
ber of unmixed negro blood was therefore
2,487 ,455. The free black and mulatto
population was 434 ,495. in the following
proportions: blacks, 275,400; mulattoes,
l59,O95.
The entire white population by the same
census was l9,553,068.
The aggregate was as follows:
Whites. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. .l9, $50, ,O63
Free blacks and colored ... 434, 495
23,l9l,S7l
The number of free whites by the same
census was divided as follows between the
slaveholding and non>slaveholding States:
Non-saveholding States. ..... ..13, $50 $50
Slaveholding States. es................. 6, 232, ,4lS
19,563,C6s
The white population increased between
1910 and 1850 from 4,l95 ,695 to l9,553,>
OOO-o POoitlNC IuCICdSC VI C,OOJ $50 10, VI dLl
average of 37:75 per cent. on the aggregate
OF both sections. The ratio of increase in
the non-slaveholding States was larger than
it was in the slaveholding States for that
census. The non-slaveholding increase for
white population exclusively was 39:42; in
the slaveholding States, 3426-a difference
of about 81 per cent. for ten years. Cons
sidering the immense influx of immigration
into the Northern States, the smallness of
this excess was noted as remarkable.
At the same rate of increase the two
sections will show by the census of 1860:
White inhabitants Of non-slavehOld.
ing States. es......................l is, ,329, 744
White inhabitants of slavehOldng
States. .....................S s, 293. SOB
Aggregate white population. .26, ,623, ,247
Under the new census, therefore, the pro>
portion of the white population in the two
sections, towards each other, will very nearly
show: non-slaveholding, 69 per cent; slave.
holding, 81 per cent. The non .slaveholding
States will have largely more than two.
thirds OF the whole white population of the
Union.
The number of slaves which 90 to make
up the aggregate of Southern population,
amounted, as we have stated above, in 1850,
to 3,2O4, to 3l3. The gross Southern pop
ulation was therefore 9,526,73l, and under
the rule of the Federal apportionment,
counting three-ffths of the slaves, these
Federal numbers were 8,245 900, in whole
representative population of 2l ,575 ,656 of
whites. There is a variation in these fig
ures, for the free blacks counted in the ratio,
bat we do not consider them here.
Taking the estimated increase of slaves
into the calculation, the numerical power
of the South will be enlarged, but the rate
Of increase will be still found to be very de-
cidedly with the North. The whites in
both sections increased at the average rate
of about thirty-seven and half per cent.
in every ten years. The slave population
increased from 1880 to $40, from 2,OO9, ,O43
to 2,487 ,455-478,5l2, or about 1880 per
cent; and from 1910 to 1850, ZIG, 1856, or
about $3.50 per cent. At the same rate of
increase the census of 1860 will show an
addition to number of slaves in the United
States of 922,742, and an aggregate slave
population of 4,l27O55, three -fiflhs of
which is 2,476,253.
Upon these estimates the aggregate pop
ulation returned by the census of this year,
not counting free blacks and mulattoes, will
be as follows:
-Slaveholding States, .18,329,774
Slaveholdng States
Whites. es................S,293 293,59
Slaves. .............. a, III, ,055-l2, ,420, 643
Total. 80, 750,4l7
The representative population ill be
29,099, $40, of which the non-slaveholdng
States will have l8,329,744 and the slave
States l0,769,026. The proportions of
political power, therefore, in the popular
branch of Congress, between the North
and the South, will be nearly as 63 to 81
1t this increase of the slave population
should continue in the same ratio, the nuns
Der within the United States 10 1870 will
be 100000, and discarding fractions, will
be as follows at successive enumerations
1880. 100000; 1890 100000; 1900,
ll,S0O,OO0; 1910, 100000 and having
nearly quadrupled itself in fifty years, and
in the lifetime of those who are now born il
may reach to fifty millions.
These are startling figures, but thew pres
sent probabilities and prospects, which pre,
sent topics of the most serious reflection
upon the current political topics of the
times. We present them for the use of
readers and speakers who NAV not have
before them the long tables out of which
they have been prepared.
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