The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-09-08

the ascendancy, as the report ma
tive and foreign born) of the three
States named will serve to show:
Native. Foreign.
Virginia ....l,3ll 400 1894
North Carolina ,06S,3 3.U29
Georoio. .172. g82 ,l27
These disparities are mainly due
to the old institution of negro slave
nv, which had no attractions for the
European seeking the blessings of
liberty, excepting an occasional
straggler, like John Mitchell, ambi-
tious of large plantation, "well
stocked with good fat niggers. y
Slavery being removed and law and
order being at last restored in the
Southern States the next ten years
will doubtless show large accessions
in all of them from most Of the States
of Europe, and particularly from the
agricultural classes of Germany.
We next find that in a division of
the population of the Union by
the primary colors- white, black
and yellow-they stand as follows in
the census reports the $50, 600 In
dams under the care of the Interior
Department, not enumerated in the
census
White population Of the Union. 33.586,5S9
Colored or black population. .-.-- a ,sSO,OOO
Indian population 3I9,O0O
Chinese or Monaghan. ,2o4
In round numbers the black pop
ulation of the country is only half
a million short of the foreign born
element-a fact which will give the
average political engineer a pretty
clear idea of the Importance of the
colored vote and the meaning of the
new Democratic departure.
We have shown heretofore, from
the tables of the population of 1870
of each of the different cities Of the
Union, that the increase of the pop
ulation of the eastern and central
States is pretty much limited to the
increase in their cities, and that the
States and Territories of the north
west, southwest and far west are
those only Excepting Pennsylvania
which can boast of general increase
apart from their cities and large
towns. These facts indicate that
from the rural districts of the east
ern and central States the natural
increase of the population has been
by removals to cities
and to the west, and all these move
ments may be charged to the revo-
lutionizing effects of railways upon
the old order of things.
These census reports show us
another thing of no small Importance
and that is the change which has
come, or will come, with the next
appointment of the House of Repre-
sentatives in the dominating section
of the Union. Down to the late re-
bellion South Carolina, with the
Southern sIave-holding oligarchy at
her back, controlling the ruling par
ty of the county and the national
government at Washington-exec-
utivo, Legislative and judicial
Since the rebellion Massachusetts,
with the eastern and central States
at her back, has taken the place of
South Carolina. But henceforward
the Mississippi basin and Fremont's
great basin of Nevada, Utah, &C.,
and the Pacific slope, will hold the
political balance of power, and shape
more and more the financial policy
Of the government, including banks,
and external taxations.
Such are some of the reflections
and conclusions suggested from the
statistics of the United States census
Of 1870. But with the statistics ef
the agricultural, manufacturing and /
centre of the county we
shall know much more touching the
particular tendencies and destiny of
this or that State or section of the
Union, and the drift of the checks
and balances of political power.