New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-15
TIE NEGRO STATES.

More than twelve years ago Nr. Henry q.
Carey, the abest and most original Of Americas
writers on Political Economy, pointed ont thu
fact that the movement of the Black rare in
this country was toward the extreme South. and
predicted that at no very distant period the
negroes would be accumulated in such numbers
in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama.
Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, that tbosa
States would be abandoned by the Whites. and
that black Senators would ultimately sit in the
Congress Of the United States. Let us gee how
far his representations are sustained BY tia
census returns
According to the census Of 1870 the total
number Of slaves in the United States was
PAST 1855. OF these there were in
South Carolina. 81 038 Mississippi. 1876 21f
Georgia go, ga Louisara..... 1881
rlOrlid.. ..... <o,Lii -
Alabama. .253 $50 Total .......l. 25O,8ss
From which it appears that in 1910, these six
States contained Onehalf Of the whole slave popu.
lation of the country, and 1886 over. Texas
was not then in the Union, and we have no pre-
else account of her slave population, which. how
ever at that time, amounted to only q few
thousands.
BY the census of 1885, the total number of
slaves was ascertained to be 3,200,36i. OF
these, there were in
South Carolina. .3S 9S4 Mississippi. ..3O9,Gs
Georgia. .3Si 622 Louisiana ......... 2H,S09
Florida.. 393l0ITexas ............ 58,I6I
Alabama .32Si4i -
Total. ,IOi,bO3
From this table, it appears that the slaves in
the seven seeding States exceeded in 1850 one
half of the total slave population Of the country
BY the sum Of l6l ,426; while ten years before,
the excess was only 1926, and few thousands
in Texas.
Now LET US lock at the results Of TIE census Of
1860 BY that enumeration, the total number Of
slaves wa, 3,999, 2s3. Their distribution in tho
seven seeding States was as follows;
South Carolina 4O7 1856 Mississippi .......479 $50
Georgia ......f 67 400 Louisiana $40 16S
Florida OocVOi lexis 's''''s'ss' .iot'oo
AiAO' Total '',. $3.50, cor
Here We sec q rapid increase in the relative
slave population of these States, The excess
over one half the total slave population had risen
from l6l, 426 in 1850, to 36O,966 in 1860 The
absolute slave increase was $50, OOO During the
same period, the total free population Of these
States had risen from 2,00S,792 in 1850, to
26l5 s1 in 1868 gain of 6O9, 555, or only
20, sS5 more than tho slave population. But, -
this free population was not all white, but in-
cluded the free negroes, who, in 1850, amounted
to $3.50, We have the significant fact that the
black population is increasing faster than ths
white in the seeding States, aud that the pres
cnt numerical superiority Of the whites amounts
to less than 230, 600
From these statistics il is easy 10 form an
opinion upon the future Of the Southern Coufst.
eracy. If these States should succeed in achiey.
ing their independence, they would be at tho
mercy of the first considerable power with whom
they should go to war, for oil that would be
necessary 10 wheln them in utter ruin would ba
to array the blacks against the whites. If they
should avoid external wars, receiving no whits
immigration and having no outlet for the bscks,
the disparity between the races would continue
ally augment, until OF length tife remaining
whites would voluntarily emigrate, or be driyeo
out by servile nsurrection.