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priating three million dollars to pay exempt
ions. 1t is stated that the Board will again
pass it over bis veto.
tFOr the Free Press.l
What is to become of him !,

} been declared everlasting
, Abating passion and hyperbole; is the pros
pect of simple existence either as a slave or
r freeman, for long period in the United States
encouraging to the descendent Of Africa? Ii
1870 two ships came to this continent-the on
anchored in Plymouth Bay, the other nea
jamestown, Va, the one bore the white i'm
migrant, the other the black mantle one. III,
AnglO-Saxon Pilgrim, and the other the African
slave.
In 1920, two centuries after. the white popu.
lation of this country was 1861 ,9S7, the col.
Orcd 235,524 free and I,53s,O3s slaves
Total. l771, ,552
In 1850 the record stood thus. Whites, 26.-
97S,s43; colOrei, 4s7,97O free, 1888, 76O
slaves. Total. 4,44l,73
Immense numbers have been added to the
white population by European immigration
Large numbers also previous to 1905 we're ad-
ded to the blacks by importation from Africa
Many Of the early white settlers died soon after
landing. The blacks are highly prolific people
and naturally increase more rapidly than some
of the white races. and yet the census reveals
a q" growing disparity" between the numbers
of the whites and blacks in this country.
From 1880 to 1850 the whites gained IS per
cent, the blacks less than % per cent, and for
for the last seventy years the total increase Of
the colored population is but 4s5 per cent. while
that Of the whites is 757 per cent
For the last decade, the increase of the free
colorei population Is less that II per cent, and
Of the slaves, less than 2l per cent From 1870
to 1900 the figures stood thus increase of free
colorel people s2.2s per cent. Slaves, 27.e7
per cent. Whites. S5.6s per cent
Temporary causes have affected these results
during the different periods. yet the census tes-
tihes beyond question that the disparity between
the relative increase Of the whites and people Of
color in this country is large and - growing"
An estimate Of the probable future population
Of the United States as given in the Compendium
of the Eighth Census, based upon well estab-
lished laws of increase gives the following fg-
ures for the year 1900 colOred population
9,49l,459 White, 90, 0,s64.34s. Aggregate
whites and blacks 100. .555, ,sO2 Per centage of
colOred. 9.45. Truly, at this rate. before the
lapse of another hundred years where shall we
ook for the man Of color VIII the 22d census
mention him
Let It be noticed that this rate Of diminution
of the relative increase Of the colored population
Of this country is the result Of ordinary causes
in a time Of peace and Of une1ampled national
prosperity What then, We may well ask, must
it be in a time Of war, and Of such war as
now exists in the land VIII the record Of 1850
be as favorable for the colored population as the
estimate Of the census table indicates-ll.6s per
cent,
Moreover the locality OF this part Of our pop
ulation is worthy Of thought. Ono century ago
the head Of the column was in Massachusetts
Ne,vpor; K l. was the great slave mart, and it
Is said 1.-The first slave ship fitted out in the Eng
Tsh Colonies, sailed from Boston in 1916. -
a. s Compendium 1860, P. 81
The Census Of 1850 reports slavery ertiHci
north Of Delaware, and that d" in all the States
north Of North Carolina, the proportion Of total
colored has been decreasing, whilst in those
south it has been generally increasing, except in
Louisiana where it has declined from So to 80
per cent In Kentucky and Missouri there has
been slight decline. In the Northwest, with
the exception of Ohio, there has been decline. -
The colored population has been steadily re-
ceding southward, until now the main body lies
upon the borders Of the tropics. Laws more
rigorous than custom, more imperative than
legislative enactments, have diminished this class
of people in the North, while there has been an
increase in the South. What then is to become
Of this man of color
The red man has gradually receded and faded
out. until now his blood is absorbed in other
veins or his children linger in scattered remnants
upon the remote outskirts of the land. Is such
to be the doom Of the black man
Westward the Indian has gone; souhl0ard the
Negro is going So says the Census-and hg-
ures do not lie.
Emancipation does not brighten the prospect
SAYS the Eighth Compendium: IF large num-
bers of slaves shall be hereafter emancipated. so
many will be transferred from faster to slow
er rate Of increase. g.
This unfortunate man. then, whose helpless
orphans and widows are mobbed in the streets OF a
great city; whose harmless brethren In their hon
est pursuits are seized by fendsh whites, ,brutsly
beaten and murdered. and their Ifeless bodies
hung upon the street posts,is not so incapable Of
diving as some in their impotence affirm. He can
be "got nd Of
Recession southwark, mixture with other
races, death-may ere long do the sorry work
Hsartless politicians and romantic reformers may
At last look for him in vain. Northern legisla-
tors will not long have occasion to prohibit his
immigration. The mingling Of other blood in his
veins will blanch his cheeks, straighten his hair,
enfeeble his constitution and prepare him for an
early grave Amslgsmation is fattering lure
To extinction. Thousands Of colored people will
perish in the present struggles Of our country by
the sword which they WELD for the white man
Thousands more will fall beneath the vices to
which they are sacrificed Alas! for the Amer
lean Negro. if his destiny in this country be
what these facts indicate Whose heart Is not
touched with pity by the sights of the hour and
the glimpes of the future for this son OF the
tropics, And who does not rejoice that door
of hope is opened for him on the continent OF his
ancestors by the hand of American philanthropy!
friend writes US: The Vermont cavalry
has been transferred from the lst to the I'd
BRIGADE of this division (Gen. Kilpatrick's) to
| IL l;aaaa tion Of the hoys Co. 4. has been