Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-03-12
SUNDAY. .......... MARCH 10. 1883.
AS 10 the Nerroes.


In this country increase In numbers much
more rapidly than the whites; and we have
often expressed the opinion as 10 that alleged
fact that there was "nothing in it,; Tor as
surely as that the white race Is superior 10
the black race will the former possess the
earth 10 the exclusion OF the latter whenever
the necessities OF the Caucasian shall de-
msnd the use OF sl the lsud for himself.
The institution OF slavery was foredoomed
70 perish. IL bad the seeds OF dissolution
within itself. IL substituted the negro Tor
the Caucasian In the struggle for existence,
and empowered the former TO drive ont the
Istter. In other words, II enabled the owners
OF slaves TO acquire gradually all the land,
and as white freemen could not without
degradation work by the side OF negro
slaves, the lsndless whites were driven TO
the new States and Territories. The con.
tinued existence OF the institution Of slavery
would have Airicanized the South, Just as
The success OF the Republican policy OF using
the Federal army 10 compel the southern
whites to submit to negro rule would now
Africsnize the South.
Some Of the northern Abolitlonists OF ante
bellum times saw this weak place in the in.
stitution OF slavery, and based their refusal
10 allow slavery to exist in the organized
Territories upon the ground that to confne
slavery within fixed bounds wss 10 destroy
It. Some Of the more malicious enemies OF
tue institution said they would build dire
all around it and compel it to sting itself 10
death.
Whilst under the guardianship OF kind
masters the negroes, as we have seen, in
creased rapidly. Their rapid increase COM
PEELED their owners 10 buy more lands.
Being much more able TO purchase land
than the whites who possessed no slaves.
the slaye-owners were gradually Afri-
csnizing the SOuth-oi course without
intending to do IL. We read 10 the Bible
that a like cause produced a like eff
feet IN Egypt thousands Of years sgo.
"The children OF Israel were fruitful, and
increased abundantly, and multiplied. and
wsxed exceeding mighty and the land was
filed with them" A new king said: "Be-
hold the children OF Israel are more and
mightier than We" "But the more they
afflicted them the more they multiplied and
grew" Finally the king ordered that all the
males should be killed II some way OF
getting rid Of slavery in this country bad
not been devised II is possible that remedy
rs desperate as that resOrted TO in Egypt
might have been invoked.
We shall be told that the census reports do
not show that in this country the negroes
Increased more rapidly In a condition OF
slavery than they have increased since they
were made free. Bat the census Of 1870 was
totally untrustwortby. The census cannot
set aside law OF nature.
The Petersburg Index-Appeal recently
gave official figures which will astonish per-
sons who have not studied the negro pro-
bem. We quote some Of them. Our Peters.
burg contemporary credits them to the re-
port OF the Auditor OF Virginia for 1887.
The figures are for 1886:
"The total returns that separate the white
and colored births aud deaths show the fol-
lowing facts for six cities out OF fourteen
and for over fifty counties out OF one hun.
dred:
White births. .....''.,-''."'''''"'iV,S
White deaths. s.ho
Excess OF white births. ..................0.O4 9
z=zzE
Colored births. i'oSS
Colored deaths. ..........'.....'.''.''''' $40
Excess OF colored births. ...............S $3.50
"To every 100 colored births IL will be
noted there are go deaths. while 10 every 100
white births there are only Al deaths. In
short, while the white births exceed the col
ored by 1884 the colored deaths In the same
communities and localities, embracing every
section OF the Commonwealth, exceed the
white by 29s-the net gain OF the white over
the colored 10 one year for the population
reported upon being 1902"
This 10 10 Virginia. where the negroes are
as vet we'll provided for. For them matters
will necessarily grow worse and worse as
time passes. Tue emigration Of northern
and other whites to this State will result in
q condition Of things much more uniavora-
bic to the negroes than the present. This
unfavorable condition Of things will become
worse very rapidly II the Federal Govern
ment shall undertake TO guarantee " to the
southern States that sort OF "republican
government" which consists in allowing
the negroes TO rule q State because they con.
stItute a majority OF Its citizens. We quote
again:
"But 10 20 into details will be interesting
and Instructive:
ain Petersburg 1S5 whites were born and
ZIG died; but 202 colored were born and
800 died. The white births in Norfolk city
were 306, with 329 deaths; the c0lored
births there we're 43s, with $50 deaths.
Portsmouth bad lS2 white births, with 1873
deaths; and l2S colored births, with 135
deaths. winchester had 20 white births and
"a coloted ones, 10 SO white deaths and 80
coiored ones.
"Iu the Counties -Aceomock gave birth
10 553 whites and 165 died, ana 10 303 col
ored, with Eli deaths. Ia Amelia 70 whites
and 50 colored were born, and Is whites and
" colored died. There were born IN Apo
mattox 1863 whites and las colored, As whites
and 81 colored dying. Bath gave birth TO
lis whites aud 81 coiored, while "A whites
and 10 colored died. Charles City bore 43
whites and buried %; bore 1903 coIored and
buried 90. In Dinwiddie los whites aud
1877 colored were born; AZ whites
and l03 colored died. Frederick gave
birth 10 200 whites aud coiored (;
107 whites and eolored died. In Greene
were 1888 white births, and 90 deaths; 70 co.
losed births, and IS deaths; S3s whites were
born and 0S died In Henry, with 302 births
aud l5s deaths for the colored In Mecklen-
burg Isl whites were born and rs died; $40
colored were born and 1874 died. The births
Ia Norfolk county were 2s3 whites and 3G5
colored; the deaths, % whites and 2l3 CO.
lored. Prince Edward hal i02 white births,
with Il deaths; 3l2 colorcd births, with 1871
dtstbs. The white births In Warren were
2is. With 81 deaths; the coIored births Ga,
with SO deaths. Ia Wytbe 382 whites were
born, with IS deaths; 81 eolored, with 30
desths. York brought forth 81 whites aud
20 colored, aud buried % whites aud 46 co,
lofed.n
These are instructive figures. They ought
to put an end TO all foolish predictions As 10
bow many millions OF negroes there will be
IN this country Ifty years hence. "Tbe
stare In their courses fight against sisers."
The negroes will prove 70 be helpless In the