The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-06-20
Negroes Die Out North.

The Census Statistics OF Rhode is.
land, as set forth lin the Providence
Journal, shows the following facts:
"The results Of registration in the
State, since 1850, show that there are
more deaths than births among Tile Color
ed population. From the lst day Of
June, 1853, to the 3lst day Of Dccem-
Der, 1864, inclusive, the Registration
Reports of Rhode Island show 921
births, and 1.025 deaths among the col
orcd population of the State. A table
in the sixth report, for the year 1858,
shows that, during five years and seven
months ending December 81, 1858, the
percentage of death among the colored
population, from consumption and 9th
err diseases Of the respiratory organs,
which depend to q great extent upon
climate, was nearly double the percen-
tagc from the same diseases among the
white population.
These reports also show that the pro-
portion of the deaths to the living, in
Rhode Island, is more than twice as
great among the colored population as
among the white population.
Without pursuing the subject fur
ther, and without giving many reasons
which might be stated, the conclusions
are to my mind, certain, as follows:
That the colorcd population of New
England is not clf-sustaining rs to
numbers; that the climate and other in
nuences are such that it would steadily
decrease, and unless renewed by immi-
grafton would, in comparatively brief
period, become extinct.
Finally, if this be true, it is not phi
lanthropy, but positive inhumanity to
the race and to individuals, to encour-
age their emigration from the Southern
to New England"
There arc other reasons than these
that might be given, we think, and
among them the social slavery of whites
over blacks in New England, the caste
that follows, and the consequent miser-
able lives negroes lead i'll cellars, gar
rets, holes and corners. But the real
difficulty is, that the negro without the
protecting andinterested support ofthe
superior white race, does not, will not,
md probably cannot raise his own chill
lren. Besides, the ~displeasure Of God
S inflicted upon an inferior race that
lmalgamates with others.
The ercuse of "climate' for the de-
,truction Of the negro ace in New Eng
and, will not worl-bccause, in the
now, more especially in the
Northern parts of the Southern States,
he negro is dying out, just as in Mas
,achusetts, and Rhode Island. The
'eal difficulty is, q law Of God;--which
two races, living together on
ernos Of Equality. We who are cxter.
the Red man, universally &C
knowledge this as to the Indians,-and
must sooner or later, acknowledge
t as to the negro. Either the white
ace, or the black race, will have to be
,xterminated in the South.
Rowan HINTON HELPER, President
Iincoln's Ex-Consul in South America,
an Office given him for his famous
Book in 1860, which did more to abol-
sh slavery, South, than any Act of
congress, or than all the Abolition So
together,) is now out, in q
'corching Book against any, and all eff
orts, to minglc the whites and Blacks
ogether in the South, even q co work
rs and neighbors. The association,
lis logic, reasons, is rs criminal as sla-
cry itself. The facts, the citations,
he proofs, Helper gives, are Of the
most effective order,-and his Book,
vc see on u hasty perusal, isoae, which
will soon be read by everybody, North
nd South, and which will have as much
fleet on public opinion, as his famous
'ook in lS6O.-N y. Express.