Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-05-29
Negro Ascendancy.

Surely the wish is father to the
thought which has taken possession Of
some persons minds, that there Is a
prospect OF negro ascendancy in this
country. There is malice in such per-
sons hearts. They hate the southern
people, and have convinced themselves
that a hundred years hence the de-
scendants Of the "rebellious " whites
Of the present generation will be out
numbered and governed by the de-
scendants Of the despised blacks Of to-
day.
Where are the Indians? Why did
they not multiply and replenish this
costinentg How is it that they went
down before the comparatively few
whites who came to this country from
abroad? They could not withstand the
law Of the survival Of the fittest. No
more can the negro. The ridiculous
stories which the enemies Of the south
ern whites are constantly originating
and circulating are the baseless fabric
Of distorted vision.
slime upon line and precept upon
precept" must be resorted 10 in order
to keep these malicious enemies Of the
South from frightening settlers away
from this fair region. We have more
than once exposed the true character Of
the sensational predictions on this sub
ject which every once in a while appear
in our northern exchanges and we in
tend to continue the good work. The
offender whom We are now about to
take to task is the Rev. DR.. II. X. AL
LEN, of the Northern Presbyterian
Church, who few days ago in the
Northern General Assembly Of that
Church, in session in Cincinnati, spoke
as follows:
"Twenty years ago, at the close OF
the war, there were in the southern
States 3,947 900 colorcd people, and
now there are more than 100000.
Then there were in Mississippi 900, 200
negroes. now 100000. In Georgia
there were $4,000 negroes, now there
are 725, 600; South Carolina, 400, 900,
now moro than 100000. Five hun
bred colored babies are born in the
United States every day. The colored
population doubles every twenty years;
the white population only once in thirty
five years. At the present rate OF in
crease in 1885 there will be 96,000,000 |
white people in the United States and
192, 600, 900 colored people"
What nonsense. In the first place
the figures Of DR.. ALLEN are all wrong.
Next, if they were true, the final out
come would be the same. For the SUI
perior race will Of course prevail over
the inferior. AS long as there is a
superabundance Of uncultivated lands
in the South. and negroes can get
houses to live in for nothing, wood for
nothing, and the use Of land for next to
nothing, they may and probably will
increase as rapidly as the whites. But
let population once press upon
subsistence and they will decrease
year by year. According to the GEN.
sus Of 1880 and that Of 1870 |
the negroes increased about per
cent. more rapidly than the whites from
1870 to 1880 but even that small ap-
papnt difference in favor Of the negro
was due TO the fact that the census OF
1870 was taken by carpet-baggers,
seslswags, and ignorant negroes. This
census was long ago shown and proved
to be totally inaccurate and unreliable.
The increase Of the white and colored
population taken together from 1890 to
1900, from 1900 to 1910, 1910 to 1920,
1920 TO 1880, 1880 to 1910, 1910 to
1850. and 1850 to 1860, was never
above 363 per cent, and never below
32i; but from 1850 to 1870 was ac-
eording to that census only 22i per
cent.
But here are official figures which, il
is to be eharitably assumed, the Rev.
DIR. ALLEN never saw. The white
population Of the United States in
creased from 3, liz, 006 in 1890 to 49,
402.970 in 1880, or to more than l0i
times their number in 1890. The ne
gro population increased from ISL, $50
in 1900 to 6,5s0,793 in 1880, or to
only "a times their number in 100.
Those figures tell the true story.
1t will be said that millions Of white
immigrants came from Europe to the
United States between 1870 and 1880.
True, but more millions will come du-
ring the next ninety years--so many
that the negro will be showed under.
In word, 1t is just as certain as
anything in the future can be that every |
State in this Union will, before DIR. !
ALIENS year Of 1885, have much |
larger white than black population. |
All statistics quoted to show the con-
irary are worthless.
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