Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-07-03

fore the march of civilization, they have been
1rosnaIlv disappearlng from all pursuits ana oe'
eeIsssing in numbers, as the record shows
These are All facts, and We have hardly space
IN GLANCE at the causes which, however, are very
fully considered in the last Census Report pre-
pared by one in entire sympathy with the Anti
slavery party. For to-day, we must content our
selves with the following extracts;
arbs+ an nufsyorable m raj condition has ex.
- an5 continues among the free colored, he
tbs canse what II may, notwithstanding The great
nnmber Of people included in that population no
one can Tor moment doubt VINO Will eOhsluer,
.bot With them an element exists which IS 10
me extept postiye and that is the fact OF there
bsinS more than half as IN my mulattoes as blacks
tanning as they do thirty-siX and one fourth per
cent OF the whole colOred population, and they
are materially descendants OF the colonel race,
as il q well known, that no appreeiable amount
of This admixture is the result Of marriage be-
tWsen white aud black, or the progeny OF white
mothers-a fact showing that whatever deterlo-
ration may be the consequence OF this aHoyags Is
incurred by the colOred race. Where such pro-
portion Of the mixed race exists, Il may feasohs
bly, be inferred that the barriers TO license are not
more lnsuperable among those OF the same color.
That corruption Of morals proceeds with greater
admxture Of races, aud that the product oil vice
stimulates the propensity TO immortality, 10 as evil
dent 10 observation as II IS natural 10 cireum'
stances. These developments OF the census, to
good degree explain the slow progress OF the Tree
cOlored population in the Northern states, ana
indicate with unsrring Certainty the srauual e1-
tinctOn of that people the more rapidly as, wheth'
er free or slave, they become diHaSeu among Tue
dominant race.
"a but tWu censuses have been taken which
Discriminate between b ackS and mulAttoes II Is
not vet so easy 70 determine how far the admix,
ture of the races affects tier vital power out
the DEVELOPMENTS al,eady made would indicate
that the minghng OF the races Is more uh!aNola-
bic 70 yitalit, than a condition OF slavery which
practically ignore marriage 10 the exclusion OF
the admiXture Of races, has proyed-for among
the slaye9 the natural inc rease has been as hlgh
as three per cent. per anuum, aud ever more imam
two per cent while the proportion OF mulastoes
at the pres snt period reaches but lc4l per cent;
in the slave population. Among tie Tree cOlored
in the SoatLern States the admXturc Of races ap-
pears to have progressed az a somewhat less ratio
Than al the North by the longer period OF their
freedom i'm the midst OF the domlnan. and more
numerous race. and the SuppOstiOn Of more mt
lat.ues than blacks living escaped or been mau'
united from slavery.
TEc extinction of slavery, IN widening the held
for white labor and enterprise, will tend to re-
lure the rate OF increase of the colOred race,
while lis diffusion will lead 20 a more rapid ad'
mixture the tendency OF which, Judging nom the
pas, viii he to impair it physically without i'm
proving It morally.
With the lie hts before US, tseens quite rational
u conclude that We need not look forward to
ccutur.c, 10 develop the fact that the white race
is no more favorable u the progress OF tle AM
can race in is midst than 1t has been 10 the per
pctnity OF the lud,8n on It's borders aud that as
aas Lccu the case m AL other corntres on TINS
continent. where the blacks we're once Numerous
.he colurel population IA America, wherever
either free or slave % must in number AID coudl'
ton 10 greatly subordinate to the white race Is
doomed TO comparatively rapid absorption OF eN'
tnctUn. How this result IS to be aVeTted, par
TALLY at east, we leave TO the determination OF
Others. feeling our duty accomplished IN develop.
inc the tact, . : The bgures oi the census reveal
lhcm respecting the past