Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-08-13
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The Cens"s--Tho Slave Population O,
the Somth


The Census--Thc Slave Population of
the South.
BY the census of 1880. the aggregate
numher of slaves in the United States was
3,2o4,3l3. OF this number 24G. Csc were of
mixed blood, multtoes &c. The uumner
of unmixrd negro blood was. therefore
2, 4s7,455. The free black and mulatto
population was 434 .595. in the following
proportions: blacks, 275, 400; mulattoes
l59.095.
The entire white population by the same
census was 1852 ,O59. The aggregate
was as follows:-Whiie g, ,553, O6s. slaves
3,204,3 ,3l3; free blacks and colored, 434. 1875.
Total %, ,I9l, SIG. The number Of whites
by the same censns was divided as follows
between the slaveholding and non-slave-
holding states: non sIaveholding states,
l3,33O,65O; slave-holding States, G,222,-
AIS, Total, 1858, ,O6s.
The white population increased between
1910 and 1850, from l4,l95. .G95 to 1859
O6S-a positive increase of 5,3O9.3T3, or
u uo{G9 Of Of 85j2 per Gen! on the ag
crease in Tic non-siavc holding States was
larger than il was in the slaveholdiag
States for that census. The nOn-slave-
holding increase for white population ex-
clusivcly was 39.42; in the slavsholding
States 1926. difference of about 81 per
cent. for ten years. Considering the i'm
mensc influx of immigration into the
Northern States, the smalIness of this
excess was noted Gs remarkable. At
the same rate of increase, the two sections
will show Ivy the census of 1860: white
inhabitants of the uon-slaveholding States,
1920, ,T44; white inhabitants of slave
holding States S.393, 3,593-aggregate white
population 2G,623,337 Under the new
census, therefore. the proportion of the
white population in the TWO sections to-
ward each other will very nearly show,
| non -slavcholding, 50 per cent: slnvehold-
ing, 81 per cent. The non-slaveholding
| States will have largely more than two
thirds of the whole whitcpopulation ofthe
! Union.
| The number of slaves which go to make
! up the aggregate of Southern population,
amounted, as we have stated above, in
| 1850, to 3,2O4,3l3. The gross Southern
| population was, therefore, 9,526,T3I, aud
under the rule of the Federal apportlon-
ment, counting three-fifths of the Slaves,
/ these Federal numbers were 6,245, 600, in
a whole representative population of 2l,-
5T5, ,656 of whites. There is variation in
these figures, for the free blacks counted
in the ratio, but 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
decidedly with the North. The whites in
1 both sections increase at the average rate
! of about thirty-seven and half per cent.
| in every ten years. The slave population
Increased from 1890 to 1870, from 2.0O9,-
O43 to 3.4S7, ,455-4TS,5l2 or about %. so
] @ =
or ;:bouC IS 80 per cent. At the same rate
of increase. the census of 1850 will show
am addition to the number of slaves in the
United Suites of 922. .742. andan aggregate
slave population of 4.I2T.055, thrce-fftbs
of which is 2,4T6,253.
Upon these estimates the aggregate
population returned by the census OF this
year, not counting free blacks and mu-
lattoas, will he as follows: -slAvchOld-
ing States, ls, 1929, ,744; slaveholding States,
-, whites. S,293 ,593; slaves, 4, T,O55.
Total, 3O,75U,392. The representative
population will be 29,O99,57O of which
the non-slaveholiing States will have
| 1929, ,T44, and the slave States lO,T69.
s26. The proportions of political power,
therefore, in the popular branch of Con-
gress, between the North and the South,
will be nearly SO to 81.
If this increase in the slave population
should continue in the same ratio, the
number within the United States in 1870
will be $3.50, ,ooG, and, discarding fractions,
will be rs follows, at successive enumera-
tions: 1880, 1000, 900; 1890, 9,l0o.00J:
1900, ll,8Oo,OOoi 1910, l5,ooo,oooi and
having nearly quadrupled itself in fifty
wears, and in the life-time of those who
are now born it may reach to fifty millions.
These arc startling figures, but they
present probabilities and prospects which
present topics of the most serious refiec-
ton upon the current political topics of
the times. We present them for the use of
readers and speakers who may not hnye
before them the long tables out of which