Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-12-20


ALEXANDRIA. Va, December II, 1888. }
To the Editor Of the Dispatch:
The kind notice aud counsel offered in the
Dispatch u lhc 7th instant drought recently
10 my knOwledge by friend J highly hp-
preciate. am glad tok know that the suolect
OF my essay on Negro Colonization has
attracted some notice at the hand, OF tue
public press Of the country, and especially
OF this state, for the subjects sake. WIKI
your kind Indulgence permit ne to TcciprO-
cate the counsel YOU sofreely and generously
rendered me Tor the revision OF ugures all
round.
You assert, and perhaps truly. that there
are more than 1900, 600 Of negroes IN this
country, ana that they increase at the rate OF
p per cent. per anuum, or by 100000 per
var" and tbat ga feet OF a hundred ve'-
vol. carving 500 persons each would
dcoon m twenty. four trtps per year only
/ 2O0. 900, or less than natural increase" by
$4,000. This is y0ur hcory Mr. Editor,
not mine.
in making nv estimates | relied upon the
Truifcd states census reports for my figures,
for pa>t and present plumbers and increase OF
ihe negro population. The census tables
from 1S,Ot0 1850 DO fully warrant the con-
clpsion that the annual increase Is quite -
Der cent. pcr anuum. but where you assert,
ahat this percentage gives l.15O,OOO per-
beg 10 dissent emphsiically. as that "
be equal TO - per cent, not y, and atthat
rate ~ increase the negro population would
double itself IN about every four years.
While | am prepared 10 give that race iuH
credit for urusual iecundity. that would be
an impossiuIhly.
There L. good reason 10 doubt tic premises
10 arR hqgpl-
that is, the accuracy OF the census
itself For instance, let us take tie
negro population rs given by the GEN.
sus from 1860 10 1870, and we una
the increase - not over | per cent. per year.
Now. Jet us lo1k st the matter in another
light. The total cOlOred population IN 1880
IL set down st $3.50 1913. Subtract the males
from the females which are about equal
and we baye 3,290.396 females, little and
bic, Old and young, healthy and unhealthy,
married and unmarried, barren and prolific;
and not over one Urn OF this number can be
set down as adults in a cob Iition fayorlng
an increase OF population, which is 1OO,OO0
only. The increase in The very nature OF
things could not exceed that number per
annum, aud by every reasonable conclusion
not over one hail that number-that IS 10
say, $780, )0-as the annual increase from
present NUMBERS and conUllOuSs
And IN c0onec Ion with my plan all such
increase OF children mp TO the 9TH and sixth
wear, OF age go with their mothers and count
for nothing i'm deportation, and tins time OF
SIX wears covers one third Of the eighteen
wear. allowed for their removal, while the
adult numbers would he diminishing at the
rate oi a bali milton o year and their increase
pro rata decreasing, sud after the ninth wear
| we should hsVe it, as IL were, running down
hill all the time tin the close.
II the Job WAS let on tract | should Ike TO
| take il on The terms | have stated, aud II l
made little or no money by il | should have
the Qualification OF knowing | nad done my
country slsstlng and substantial benefit.
A Sir. Jones. IL will be seen al the close OF
| the pamphlet. SAYS persons csn be sent from
Boston TO Brazil Tor Sl4 each, at which rate
to remove 100000 would cost only $685.
| OeO, 000-w which, however makes no other
provision and would be = total failure If al
tempted, while billion Of money makes the
scheme feasible aud sltainable.
Truly yours. &c.,
SAMUEL SIMPSON.
P.S. Ito nv letter OF this date Two and
a hall per cent. on 100000 is 1.7jO 900
per decade and only 10000 per year. You
omitted, II seems, to cut of right-hsnd cl-
| pher: hence the incOngruity, and wrong
predicate aud erroneous conclusion.
Truly youTa &C..
SAMUEL SIMPSON.
December II, 1888.
We have heretofore corrected the error oil
1850, 900 for 175 600. our correspondent
scheme Is totally Improbable, even II we
take his figures. Ii the annual increase Is
only $4,000, it would require $50 vessel:
carrying LOCO each to deport that number
Of negroes. But this number must be dou'
bled in order TO deport the children up to
six years old say 700 vessels carrying l,0OC
each, or smaller number of vessels aud 3
larger number OF trips.
The cost must include one years subsist'
ence-ssy $50. Now multiply 100000 BY
80 ana and the COS, OF deportation. But Nc
will no, further discuss the proposition.