The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1862-11-20

have got Democrats and Republicans by
the ears, quarreling over minor things
and the spoils Of otficc, we will adroitIy
secure the substance and leave them the
empty shadow to appropriate between
them.
MARK my wor for it, we will create a
division in the North, we will kill of
Republ canism with Democracy, and then
swallow up democracy at our leisure!- -
Both stand in the way Of our purpose,
and both must fall. " MARYLAND.
Statistics OF slaves.
On this subject the New York Tri
/ Dunes article on the last census, to which
We have heretofore referred, says:
The number of slaves in the States OF
the Union tolesating Slavery is set down
at 1888, 76O-more than 500, 900 greater
than TIE entire population of all New
England They are embraced, Of course,
in those States which, since the census
was taken, have seeded f,om the Union,
aud in the "Bordcr States of Delaware,
Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri
Kansas, however, contained two slaves,
New Jersey eighteen, the Territory of
Nebraska fifteen, Utah twenty nine, and
the District Of Columbia 3,ls5, which
last have now been emaucipated by act of
Congress Ia 1870, the number of slaves
was G97, ,s97; in 1860, 500. .04l; in 1910,
l,l9l 1854; in 1920, ! 5as o3s; in 1890,
2,OG9, ,OI3; in 1910, 2,4S7 ,455, and in
1880, 3,2O4, BIB. The smallest rate of
increase was during the last decade, when
it was 23 SO per cent The largest
(33 40 per cent? was between 1900 and
1910, wh'u we acquired the slaves Of
Lou siana.
The census clearly shows the fact that
the colorel race is le prolific, or rather,
shorter lived, in this country than tic
white. The rate per cent Of increase
among tie whites from 1870 to 1860, is
shown 10 have been $50 30; among the
total colorrd people, 1856 *, and among
the slaves, 1876 -. But the rate of in.
crease ann ~ the free colorcd population
for the samc period has been 12O GI per
cent. Increase is least amorg the slaves.
The difference between the increase Of
the free coorcd population and that of
the whites is not great enough to warrant
the conclusion that our climate is better
adapted TO the one race than the other.
A race prescribed, they but suffer, in
more frequent deaths, the penalties of
their political and soc;a! outawry.-
The mortality among the peesantry of
Ireland is only similar exhibition of the
result of oppression. But why do slaves
die off SO much more rapidly than whites
or free colored people? NotorlousIy tho
climate of cur extreme Southern STATES
is better adapted to the negro than the
white race. The excessive mortality
we take i. for granted the births are
more numerous than among the whites
.amoug the slaves there shows that they
are worked to death by thousands.
In 1890, slavery existed in Vermont,
New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Conncc
ticut, New York, New Jeryey, and Penn
sylvania From AL these States, except
New j Jersey, where Is slaves still! remain,
i. has entirely disappeared. A few re-
mained in all of them up to lsi0. In
1910, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan,
contained slaves; in lS20, the two form
er held more than ! 100 slaves, and, tho
unlawful, it did not entircly y disappear
from their borders till after the census Of
1910. There were Ii slaves in the ter
ritory Of Iowa in 1910 There were six
slaves owned in Ohio in 1880, and three
in 1910 The only States which show
no record of slavery in the census reports,
from 1890 down, are Maine, Nassachu
sets, California, and Oregon. Thirty
years ago, there were moro than :, 200
slaves in New jersey, and ten years be-
fore, the Empire State owned more tLan
10000 There is now no real slavery
north of Mason-and Dixon's line.
In but two professcdly Slave States has
slavery decreased during the last decade.
In 1850, Delaware contained 2,290 slave os;
in 1860, l,19S, being decrease of2l IS
per cent. In 1850 Maryland contaiucd
90, ,36s slaves, and in 1860, e7,1S9-a
decrease of little more than 3 per cent.
In the three other Border Slave States
Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri
slavery increased during the decade, 3 sS,
6.s7, and 3l47 per cent respectively;
and that, notwithstand ding these are the
great supply regions of the more South
Mr.. Kennedy, in speaking of his ta-
bles of fugitive saves, says: THAT the
complaint of insecurity to slave property
by the escape of this class Of persons in,
to the Free States, and their recovery i'm
peded, whereby its value has kIen lessen
ed, is the result of misapprchensicn, is
evident, not only from the small number
who have been lost to their owners, but
from the fact that up to the present time
the number of escapes has been gradu-
ally diminishing to such an extent that
the whole annual loss to the Southern
States from this cause bears less proper
tion to the amount of capital involved
than the daily va. iations which in ordi-
nary times occur in the huctua:ions Of
| State or Government securities in the
city Of New York alone" Mr.. Kennedy
is good enough to conclude, what the
census indeed proves, that escapes occur
"independent of proximity to free pop
ulation, being in nature of things Incl
dent to the relation of master and slave.
There is one string taken out Of the harp
of the Secessionists by an old line Wing
The fact is, only one Gftieth of one pei
cent Of all the slaves escaped from their
masters between June !, 1859, and June
|, 1sG0-a pretty reason, to be sure, 10,
dissolution of the Union.
1t is a melancholy fact that the 1ndl
ans in the territory west Of Arkansas holC
ntO ,prS1rc of frinap do