St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1861-03-21
Developments of the Census.

The number added to the popula-
ton of the Free States in the last ten
years, by foreign immigration is over
1000, 1000 while that added to the
Slave States, by immigration from all
quarters, is only some 100000. OF
the Industrious laborcrs from other
lands-allowing that the increase III
the Slave States comes from foreign
additions-ivc nave settled in the
Free North where one has settled in
the Slave South. But the proportion
is probably much larger being at least
one 10 ten.
New England has lost about 200,-
600, while the six Northwestern States
have gained 100000 over and above
the natural increase There is where
| the free laboring men from foreign
countries are making the earth yield,
some 20, some 60, some 100 fold. Six
slavchoIding States-Nirginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Tennessee, kcntucky-havc lost &c.
600 while the four States of Missis-
sippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas
have gained u little more than that
emitting Maryland, which, by the OK
| tent Of her manufactures, has gained
little more than her natural increase,
and Missouri, which has gained $780,
O00-largely foreign, and imbued with
free principles-and the loss in the
Atlantic States Of the South almost
exactly balances the gain in the Gulf
States. There has really been no
such thing as immigration into the
j Southern States in the last ten years.
\ paltry 5000 year has been added
to its natural increase by outsiders
hardly enough to deserve notice.
The table of slave population tells
another story. Slaves never migrate
Of their own will--cxccpt towards the
North and Freedom. All their south
crn movements are compulsory. In
Delaware and Maryland there has
been an actual decrease of $500.
Slavery is slowly and surely dying
ont in those States. But 800, 900 have
/ been transported from the seven bor-
| der and Atlantic States to the six
southwestern and Gulf States. From
Virginia alone, $4,000 slaves have
been transportcd-w whittier? Is there
/ an Interstate slave trade? Virginia
has lost IS, 900 slaves, Mississippi has
gained $4,000. North and South Car
DINA have lost $1,000, Texas has
gained 10000. Kentucky and Ten
ncsscc have lost $4,000, Arkansas has
gained that number. If we reckon
their value at $500 per head, Virginia
has received, as the price Of slaves
transported farther south, $4,000, 900
in the last ten years $1,000, 900, per
ycar-morc by 100000 than the
whole amount of wages paid in the
manufactures of that State. If mig
ger breeding" yields clear income
Of $1,000, 600 a year, and the wages
paid to manufacturing operatives
amount only to s., 400, 900, should not
Congress recognize and protect the
former branch of home industry" as
well as the latter?
Missouri tells a hopeful story.
While the free white population shows
a gain Of some 100000 over its natu-
raj increase, there has only been an
addition, by immigration, of 5000
slaves. That must soon take its rank,
also, among the Free States. Mean
time, the Confederate States of
America !" are shown to be in the con-
dition of the family that sustained and
supported itself during the year on a
single sixpence, by alternately buying
and selling to one another the con-
tents of the whisky barrel. South
Carolina and Georgia have been re-
ceiving their share of the sixpence by
selling their negroes to the other mem
bers Of the family. BY and by, their
turn will come to give up the sixpence.
Will they want to receive back their
negroes, to square the account ?
Chicago Tribune.