The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-06-30
Dosportes, Williams & Co., Props
J. W. D. and Negroe Deoadenoe.

Aho 'ciy lutcFoStiHS Cu"Hunlcu"
tion of. w. d., published on Tues
day last, abounds in suggestions with
many of which wo agree, but cannot
be- considered, in any sense, as estaS-
fishing his original proposition, that
in SoaH Carolina tho Negroe MAORI
ty would disappear in ten years from
1865, oras refuting the considerations
by which wo combatted that pro-
positions. 1t, is quite possible that
the Ncgroe race may decrease in gen
.eral, and yet not .decrase in South
Carolina. j. w. D. says nothing to
that point. IIe docs not deny that
white immigration to the State is
small, that white emigration is great,
aud that negroo immigration from the
more Northern tier of States is proba,
bic. Indeed, his argument that tho
negroes "will slide down to the coast"
rather proves thai they will also slide
down from Virginia, Kentucky, North
Caroline and Tennessee.
We are also obliged to dissent from
j. w.. DIS argument that the number
Of deaths among the whites being one
in 76, and among tho blacks, one in
Sc, proves that the rate Of increase is
greater among the whites than among
the blacks. lst. The statistics of tho
sth census, from which he gets his fig.
ures, do not distinguish between the
native population nnd the tremendous
Immigration Of millions of young and
healthy Europeans that arrived in
this country during the decade, and to
whom tho deaths of their aged and in.
f'm connections in Europe and Of the
children of their families in Europe
should be credited, in discussion of
the death rate of tho raccs. We
greatly doubt if the number of deaths
in the same number of native whites
was less than among tho blacks.
2pdly, Suppose it granted that would
prove nothing until wo knew tho
comparative number of births. It
may be, that though more blacks die
in proportion to given number, moro
children may also be born among the
nssort chat zoe haoe no reliable static
ties, by which to prove anything on
the subject. 1t is, however, our im-
preston, that no laboring class upon
the face ofthe earth has ever increas-
ed so fast as the blacks in the South
1t is our impression, that moro chill
,dren arc born among them and if
SO, tho fact that more in given num-
der die than among the whites, will
mot prevent their increasing us race
much faster. IF, for instance, it
,shoold be So. tbat four blacks are
borp to three whites, the blacks could
afford o"~ more death in every four,
and yet'kcep up nm equality Of num-
bers. ,"'I'
~, ". p, 80 states tho rate Of iii
crease mong.the whites to 10 27 per
eent,as against % per cent among
the blacks during tho decade 1850
60. This is true, but it includes i'm
migrants. Tho native white increase
was but % per cent, for we figured it
out carefully, and by no means % por
cent in Tho particular State O: South
Carolina, to which wo confined all our
remarks. Thore were, in 1860, one
hundred and forty thousand natives of
South Carolina residing in other
Statos. We must devise some mean
Of stopping this immense emigration
from our State and of koeping onr
young men at home.
Lastly, we arc perfdious enough
actually to hold some of the views OF
D.. w. d. os to tho tendency of emunci.
patton to exterminate tho negroe
iaee, but with moderation, as is ou,
won't. Tho very presence Of the
whites, in superior numbers, make us
hope that this tendency to decadence
may be resisted by the race. and that
whom thoy relapse, the whitos, who
need them us laborers, will still keep
them up and carry them along, I'LL
they can travel for themselves. All
precedents here fail. Never till
now, havo tho Negroe race had such a
chance, aud we do entertain hopes
that they will increase and improve,
"necr tho influence and guidance
everywhere, except in South Carolina,
Of white, race of exhaustless enerey