Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-08-25

TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1868
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a. Look Rt Facts and Figures.
aJ s, 1t isfertunate for human beings, so
- liable to err whenever statistics can be
.s brought to bear upon subjects in debate.
Figures may be very ,lnll and prosy but
they do not "le"---lhere is no falscy in
.al,elffoytng up4-And sums total speak
.5,g slOngly,te men ofeyery calling aud carry
conviction to every rejecting mind
We propose to present few figures and
,.,, ,isyts. 9esgipg upon the negro question. 1t
- Is well 10 inqhire at a time like this when
We are asked to sacrifice all the interests
of the white race for the black whether
.gs the ex ps1eife of the past offers us any en-
i-l1 couragemmtin in the prosecution OF an enter
..-.- prise 50 philanthropic (?) Whether the
black ,nan enlaneipated can profit for him
" self and for community. in ratio hot
su only equivalent 10 the injury inflicted
70 upoa the white man, but in a ratio to JUS
tify the9Egasnlye considered in and of itself
- alone. -. .r--sn..,.. ..-.
|&-Iye sGdt on statistics from the
bnltei OlutSS NcuSuS anu u'hel ohiSi"l "o'-
uments anl the argument is that the vi
tai statistics of a people give the surest in
deY of theu happiness and prosperity.
BY vital statistics" we mean the facts as
... to the ratio Of increase of population, theper
centage OF deaths, the numbers Of insane,
IDIOTS, dealt and dumb, blind, &c That
Such statistics are reliable needs no proof {;
lsal,the whole vast structure of life insurance
rests on them; that they surely indicate
prosperity AMI happiness, and favorable
conditions adapted to the wants of those
q. concerned. OF misery. suffering and con'e
quently moral degradation, is admitted by
every scientific writer and by all authority.
- What then are the facts in regard to the
rate of Increase and the mortality of the
free blacks of the North compared with
W the whites,sand not only with these but
with the adpes Of the South? We shall
ynssca. iaD' s-"
sH sIn 1--WE years (ls50-55) the colored
~ i,apillatis,n Of Boston increased from ., ,OS5
2,2t6 only l3l, and this includes OF
course eseontrabands," although the name
:. was not yet invented, and all migrants
during tie same time the white popula-
stion gave an increase Of 23,960
+ Taking Massachusetts we find the col
ored population was 5,4G3 in 1890 ; in
1920, $500 in 1850, 1904 an increase
sain seventy years of 5,564, or at the rate oil
about serenity foe per gear Now in the
same time the whole population of the
States hail increased from 37S,7l7 to 1894,
5'l4; or IN other words, while in fifty years
the White population nearly tripisd, it re-
" 1uired ninety years for the black popula.
tion to dou5fe e0f again, the ratio of the
colored to the total population of Msssa-
chusetts was in lS40 as l.ls /; in 1850
09f-q aeiine Of nsarly hGB!
IA Now look at the slaves. In sixty years
ending with 1850 they increased from
697, ,s97 to 3, ,204,3l3-averaging 4l,77t
per year, and doubling nearly four and
three.fourths time in that period Oftime
And this in spite oil the forced labor, the tor
tnres, the expressions, and the ills of tht
Uncle Toms Cabin school of literature
Nor does any considerable amount of the
q incwass come from importation since the
slave trade was abolished in 1908.
Comparing the free colored and th'
slaves during the seventy years from 1881
to 1850 we find that while the iorme
made an increase of 20 81 per centum dur
- ing the first half and of l2.47 per eentun
during the last half the latter made an in
crease respectively of 23.Sl and 2S.S;
sE "a - v 81
per centum
In regard to mortality our statistics ar
exceedingly imperfect as sufficient atten
.hs4Ion has not been given TO keeping them
We possess enough, however, to sho'
that they are all on side thus. tn
average deaths Of whites in the city of Ne'
Ysrk was given in 1886 at to SO {
blacks at l to 2l,3 per annum; tn
...savarags. excess of deaths of blacks owe