The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1862-12-12

seven wears At that time we shall probably
have 100. 900 900 people to share the burden
instead of 81 GOO 900 as nov aud not only
SO, but tho incroase OF our population NAV
DO expected to continue for long time
sfor the period as rapidly as before, because
our territories will not have become full
do not state this inconsdorately. At
the same ratio Of increase which We have
maintained on an average from our first ma.
tonal consus in 1890 until that of 1860. we
should iu 1900, have population of 1903,
2O5 4l6, and why may We not continue that
ratio tar beyond that period ? Our abuu-
dant room, our broad national homestead
is an ample resource. Wero our territory
as limited as arc tho British Isles. certainly
our population could not expand as stated.
Instead of receiving tho foreign born as
now. wo should DO compelled TO send part
of tho native born nway but such is not
our condition. We havo 2.963 900 square
miles. Europe has $500 900. with q pop.
ulation averaging 73 l.3 person to the
square mile.
Why may not our country, at some time,
average as many: Is it loss fertile Has
it more waste surface By mountains, riv.
ers, lakes deserts and other causes Is 1t
inferior to Europe in any natural advan.
tageI If, then. We are at some timo TO be
as popu'ous as Europe. how soon As to
WHOM this may be. VIC may judge from tho
past and the preseut. As to whether it will
ever be depends much on whether We main
tain tho Union. Several Of our States arc
above tho average of European population
Of 73A to the square milo. Massachusetts
has l57 Rhode Island, 1873 New York ahd
Now Jersey, ooch, 80 also two other great
States-Ponnsyivan!a and 0hio--are mot
far below, the former having 60 and the
latter SO. Tho States already above the
European average, except New York, have
Increased in as rapid ratio since passing
that point as over before, while no ono OF
'hom is equal to some other parts of our
country in natural capacity for sustaining o
dense population. ...
Taking tho nation 10 the aggregate, wo
find lis population and ratio of increase for
the several decimal periods to be as follows /:
1890. 3 929 827 1900, 5,305, ,937. Ratio OF
increase, 35 50 100 per cent. 1910, 7239,-
Sl+ Ratio 3G45 100. 1920. 9G5S.l3l. Ra-
ito SO, 100 1880. 1886 ego Ratio 49,.
100. 1910. II. 0S9. 453. Ratio 32,67 100.
1850, 2+!93.S76 Ratio 35 81 100 1860,
81 433, 700 Ratio 35,5S le0. This shows
an average decimal increase of 81 60 100
cent, in population through tho seventy
years from our first to our last census taken.
II is seen that tho ratio of increase at no
ono of these seven periods is eithor two per
cent below or two per cent above tho av.
crage; thus showing how inflexblc, and
consequently how reliable, tho law, of in.
crease in our case is. Assuming that i, will
continue it gives tho following results
1870. AZ 323. 372; 1850. 56 9G6 ZIG; 1890,
I 76 677s72 1900, lO3. 2Os AIS; 1910, 1888.
9ls 526 /; 1920, lS6.9e4, 1886; 1880, 25l
$50 Ola
Those figures show :bat our country mny
be as populous as Europe, at some point
between 1920 and l930--say about 1925,
our territory, at 73t to the square mile,
being of tho capacity TO contain 2l7, 1885,
600; and we will reach this, too, if We do
not ourselves rolinqush the chances by tho
folly and evils of disunon. or by long, OK.
hausling war, springing from the only great
element ofdiscord among us. While it can
not be foreseen exactly how much one huge
example of secession, breeding lesser ones in
definitely. would retard the population, civil.
zation and property, no ono can doubt that
tho extent of it would bo very groat and in.
furious.
Tho proposed emancipation would shorten
this war /; perpetuate peace; insure this 10.
crease in population. and propertionably
tho increase in tho wealth of the csnntry
With this wo should pay all that emancpa
ton would cost, WITHOUT our other debt
easier than wo should pay our othor debit
without It. If we had allowed our old ma.
tional debts to run at G per cent per annum
simple interest, from tho end of our royo.
Iutionary struggle till to-day without paying
anything on either principal or interest
each man of US would owo less on that debt
now than each man owed upon it then, and
this because our increase of men through
tho whole period has boon greater than SIX
per cent, and has run faster than tho intcr.
est upon the dobt. Thus time alone re.
lieses debtor nation, so long as its popu,
lation increases fastor than unpaid interest
accumulates on its debt. This fact would
be no excuse for delaying the payment Of
what is justly due but It shows tho grea
Importance of time in this connection, the
great advantage OF a policy by which w
shall not have TO pay until VIC number 100,
900, 600, what by different policy we woulC
have to pay now, when the Dumber is 81
100000. In word it shows that dollar
will be much harder to pay for tho war, thar
dollar for emancipation on the proposed
plan aud then the lstter will cost no blood
mo precious life. Il viii! be o saving o
| both.
As to tho second article, think It woulC
be impracticable to return to bondage thu
class of persons therein contemplated
Some of them doubtless, in tho property
sense, belong to loyal owners, AID hence
provision Is made in this article for com
pensating such.
The third article relates to the future o.
the freed people. 1t docs not eblge, bu
merely authorizes Congress to aid in coloni
zing such as may consent. This ought moi
to DO regarded as objectionable on the one
hand or on the other, inasmuch as it comes
to nought unless by mutual consent Of the
people to be deported and the American vo
ters through their representatives in Con
gress. i cannot make it better known thar
il already is that strongly favor COLOMBIA.
ton, and yet l wish to say that there is an
objection against tho colored persons re-
manning in the country which is largely i'm
aginary, if not sometimes malicious IL il
insisted that their presence would injurt
and displaos whito labor and white laborers
II there ever could be proper time fol
mere arguments, that time surely 10 no
|, now.
In times like the present, men should ut
ter nothing for which they would not will
ingly be responsible, through time and eter
nifty, ls il true, then. that oolored peopl
nan disnlaca any moTa While labor nv hain,