Daily Republican., 1881-01-13
The ColOrea Aaco MOL DyAng Ou'.

the Co,Orea saace NOL DJlnS Ous.
An erroneous belief is prevalent that
since the abolition Of slavery the COL
orea race is dying out. Never was
there such a mistaken idea The Ne"
York sua has besn paying particular
attention TO this subject, and has COM
niled 8 table Of figures based upon the
increase OF population from 1870 toI
1880. which shows that in every State
in the Unior, with the single exception
of Delaware, tie colOrei people have
increased in q greater ratio than the
whites. Sooa plausibility was given
to the dying ou. thoOry by the fact tla'
in Southern cities the weekly reports
Of the health off ;ers usually showed y
larger proportion Of deaths among the
colored than among the white populs
tion, aud q smaller birth rata, and
there are no statistics given to contra
dict this in the larger cities, but If The
colyred race is a loser in the city, It
gaias more than suti lent in The rurG.
districts to make up tie loss. AmoHgsi
tie statistics that have bean gathered,
we find thai in Alabama the peroentagr
Of increase Of iAe o)lored over tue White
population is $40; in South Carolina,
ll.5O; in North Carolina, 1910; Dis
trio. OF Columbia, 2.32 Baltimore city
aad county, $50; New Jersey, s "a !;
Philadelphia, 1850; thirteen COUNTIES
Of New York, J.T2 Connecticut, 1923;
Rhode Island, $50; Massachusetts,
Is 90 Vermont, 90; N9| Hampshire,
1876; Illinois, go. Delaware shows
decrease o. J rs per cent. of tho col
ored race compared with the white
rsce, ard is tbs only State iu the Union
that shows a decrease SO far as the Sun
has pursued its investigations. Tie
only reason for the decrease in Della,
ware may be tha. the Colored people in
our state bsing deprived of educational
facilities have slipped Over into Mary.
land, Pennsylvslia AMI New Jers, y
where they have equal facilities ard
privileges for obtaining an education
that the whites have. Doubtless in
these days Of exodu5es s0d other move
ments, which though not so noticeable
at any ona time, effect larger aggregate
results, the ircrsG5o in some parts is
due to immigration trom other parts.
This is probably true Of all tue cities,
there being a continual iIhux Of cOlorcd
ne, pie trolu the agricultural districts,
and IT, ts perhaps the o7ercrowdirg due
to this act that causes SO large a col
ored death rate in the large cities. But
there is no "a claiming away the fact
that there is a lar gain OF the coIoTed
oYar the white race.
This teaches us the gro, LESION th@'
the co!ored race is c;.abitsGs> hFre and
intends to stey, and it prove. 'l"'
under the NEST u1favorable Giro, TN
stances it can maintain itself and IL
very far from dying out. For veal or
for woe the col)rod people ere destined
for centuries TO coma to be our fellow
citizens. Now what is test to be done
under the circumstance ? Though
Delaware OF all the places mentioned
is the Only one that has shown any de-
crease il tho percentage Of Increased
population during the last decade, it
cannot be accepted as any reason that
the race will ever die out in oar state
while it Is increasing in greater ratio
in the States surrounding US. They
are with US and they cannot b. shaken
off. By keeping them in ignorance, by
limiting their capacities for self i'm,
proVemant, by shutting them out from
all avenues to dig1ity and honor, the
bett:r instincts and capacities of the
race might b. blIute4, and it might
become a standing menace to our civili-
zation, hot bed Of disease, supersti.
ton, immortality and crime. On the
other hand, By opsring wide every
gate to improvement, hy educating it,
giving it opportunities for entering the
professions aud tra}es, giving it 20 the
full al the rights and imposing upon
il all the du,e5 Of citizenship, it will
becoms to the country source Of
wealth, strength and prosperity. With
this large increasing quota Of colorsd
population on hand, We watch with
intere1t to see what the Democratic
Legislature Of Delaware will do abou.
the matter.
1t Ia better that they should he sdu-
ca.el than ignorant and helpless. He
who denies them q single right, who
closes 70 tneE auy legitimate avenues
of progress, Or 9ho cruabes one of it.,
nobier asr'rat on5, j3 an enemy rot e
the co!orsd map aIc4e but to the wbitt
-Rce &a ~eN, D,laware cannot gf0rd
20 b5 uDj03t - TIE o5.oryd r4co Will,