Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-01-10
Deportation of the Negroes.
803 QUEEs STREET, ALEXANDRIA, VA, }
January s. 1880. I
To The Editor Of the Dispatch :

VahtaA ~ AN~N'
To the Editor OF the Dispatch;
You did me the favor to insert my former
letter. WIN you kindly indulge me by giving
place 10 a few additional remarks on the
same subject
To remove az far as possible the difficulties
10 the execution OF the plan OF negro colonl.
cation, afl qusdroons and mullttoes snou'd
be permitted 70 remain here, where they
would DatnraIly mate among themselves, ana
In the course oftime the law Of nature would
dispose OF them as erectually AZ II deported.
IL Is bard 10 say what this class nov number
as AZ integral part OF the colored people
perhaps so eighth; and all the blacks over
the age OF sixty Eve should be left TO spend
their DAYS here. These two items would De
equal 10 one fourth Of the entire popuiatou
10 be colOpized.
The alarming increment, should II 90 on
unchecked, will end in a calamity. The CEN
sus figures show this increase ls equai 10
observation-disclosures, or q little over Z per cent
per annum, as the differences OF yearly IN
crease between the two races, numbers pelng
eQual-a difference not so great as 10 celeT
the miod or kill the hope OF successful DE-
portation. A single ship, such IS | propose
SHOULD be built and equipped, would oe more
than adequate 10 remove this excess ana weep
The races numerically parallel, and thus hold
the colored population In check; and ny such
a paliistiye-if p0tbing more could be done
the white race all along "the black DeltD
need have no fesr OF being %"counted out"
by excess OF numbers in any State. THIS
would prevent the danger OF race revolution
and OF serious disturbance Of vested rights
sud interests in the South that would not
otherwise be safe. II nothing more could be
done. this OF itself would be worth dong.
While / can see no such insurmountaDie dli-
6eulty in making a clean sweep OF the wb0ie
Of them; and II proper means be adopted
the colored people NAV be induced TO become
a. anxious 20 colombo a. we are that they
should withdraw from among us.
They should not forget what their great
friend, Abraham Lincoln, told some OF their
people on one occasion, that "tbey were not
wanted here. and that liberty meant simply
the right TO enjoy the fruits OF their laDor'D
And, finally, in assuming in my previous
letter that the total increase could not exceed
$780, 900 in a decade, that eumen was used
as an Illustration for an obvious purpose.
While In point Of fact the census OF 1850
proves that II was only hall that number
that is TO say, $4,000 in ten years and 1880
per year--the increase OF the white populs-
ton for the same period was $50, 1875. and.
in round numbers, 9Sl, 073 per year through.
out the United States. II the cOlOrcd people
were equally distributed over all the states
their presence here would perhaps do no
serious harm. but would he felt IS an incon.
venience. Their right Of suffrage would
neither conduce to any good nor work sgreat
amount Of harm TO the country. But this Is
far from being the condition Of things, and
from natural and climatic causes never can
be, and hence the necessity Of colonization on
foreign soil.
II the country Is not willing to grapple
with this great question II may have cause TO
rue It's apathy when too late for remedy. !
will not, however, enter into further detail.
Nv thanks and obligations are due and are
hereby rendered TO the editor OF the DIS.
patch. Truly, SAMUEL SIMPSON.
The census Of 1870 is totally unreliable
However, it does not matter. As a distin-
guished southern physician has said, to say
that negroes naturally increase more rapidly
than whites is to say no more than can be
said OF cats. But all the same the cats never
take a country. No more will the negroes.
We haven't a semblance OF a fear on that
point.