The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1866-12-01
Dssti iy Of the Negro.

A cai Gus Of Mississippi, taken tli!
year., shows that the total population o
that State is now $4,000 less than |
WAS in 1860. A census now taking il
Alabama shows n proportionatc dc
crease in all the counties in that State
where the work has been completed
In other Southern States, the work O
cnumcrating the population is in pro,
grpss, under State authority, and it is
believed that the results will show ;
similar ~depopula.ion throughout The
South.
The most important fact which is re
vcaled BY the census IN Mississippi and
Alabama is the great and rapid de-
crease Of the black population in six
years has been, in the State Of Mis-
sissippi, 5000. The decrease of the
black population in Mississippi has
been, in the same time, $4,000. In
those portions Of Alabama where the
census is completed, the relative de-
crease Of blacks and whites is shown to
have been about the same. The black
population has decreased in six years
at the rate Of ID per cent, while, in
the same period, under all the destruc.
tive agencies of civil war, the decrease
Of white population has been in the
neiglhorhood Of 3 per cent. If the
ratio shall be the same throughout the
South, it will appear that the black
population in that section has been re-
duced from 4,OO0,0 900 in 1860 to $780,
eco in 1866.
These facts foretell with u certainty
that is more reliable than mere pro
phecy what is the inevitable destiny of
the negro race in this country. But
thevteach more than this.
The decrose Of white population in
the South is owing entirely to the dcs-
tructive influences of war. In a consi-
derablc degree, the decrease of the
black population is attributable to the
same causes but what is remarkable is
the fact that while war reduced by only
3 per cent, the white population by
which it was wagcd, that and other
agencies reduced by l3 per cent the
black population, who did not actively
participate in the war.
During the ten years preceding the
war, the white population Of the free
States increased at al average rate Of
over 80 per cent, while in the same
period the white populationin the slave
L.t,tn, ~, nr,tLt,I nt ~, n,,n rn lpin fI
less than 40 per cent. The slave popu-
lation during the. period increas-
ed at the rate of % per cent, while the
free negro population increased at the
rate Of only II per cent During the
next ten years, it is reasonable to as
sumo, the white population in the form
er slave States will increase, in the same
proportion as the white population in
the other free States, while the increase
in the negro population, if any, must
be reduced to the standard of that in
crease in a State Of frcedOm-a stand
ard which each successive cnsus Of
the United States has placed at Il lower
point. 1t will thus be seen that the
proportion OF the negro race to the
Caucasian race in the United States
must continue to diminish until the
former, III all human probability. shall
have totally disappeared.
II anvthing were necessary 10 con-
firm the tenor of the above, which we
cut from a Western paper, it could be
found in the history of the Abor;gincs
Of this country. Within q century the
Indians numbered about ten millions
Of souls. BY the last census report
from the lnian Bureau Of the Interior
Department, the total numher oflndians
now in the country, is estimated at less
than three hundred thousand. This re-
duction, or rather distraction Of araca,
is attributable to the philanthropic and
humanitarian theories now 50 much in
vogue, and which New England pro-
poses to apply to the doomed negroes
Of the South.