Smyrna times., 1890-07-30


brid children, the mulattO, the acto-
room and the quadroon, will have
wiped out the white population, or re-
duced it to such an insignificant min
Ority that it will have no weight and
no power, socially politically.
"This may seem like a wild and
chimerical assertion, but in judgeing of
of the developments of the future, we
must shape our conclusions by the re-
suits of the past, and the past of the
cOlOred race in our Southern States, in
the West Indies, in Mexico, Central
America, and in the South American
States has been one of astonishing pro-
gression, numerically speaking, pro-
gression out of all proportion to the in
crease among the whites.
RAPID NUMERICAL INCREASE.
''By the census of 1880 we find that
in the ten years prior to that date the
cOlOred people Of all shades and de-
grees of blood in the United States in
creased at the rate of SO per cent,
while the ratio of increase among the
whites was only 157 per cent. In the
seventy years since the last cargo of
black slaves was landed in this coun-
try the race has increased 442 per cent.
Altogether there were imported into
the United States from all sources,
about $4,000 negroes. From this
stock, according to the census of 1880,
they have increased to 6,580,793 souls,
and the present census will undOubt-
edly show that there are at least s.
100000 colored people in the country.
In the fifteen years succeeding eman-
cipatiOn there was an increase by
births of !, 98O,793, or 40 per cent.
"In report issued in 1888, the State
Board of Agriculture of South Caro-
lima attributes this enormous increase
among the cOlOred people all over the
country to the intermixture of the
black and white race. The vital force
of the mulattoes in the Southern States
is much greater than that ofthe whites,
for from 1853 to 1859 there were in the
State of South Carolina %, ,278 births of
colored children. The white births
were 1876 to the 100, and the colored
29.9 to the 1000, with much greater
longevity and a greater freedom from
disease in their favor.
In 1880 the military population of
South Carolina was 70,6l6, the colored,
9S,285. OF the colored population in
the country, one-third has large in
fusion of white blood, One-third less
admixture, and among many of the
remaining third there is also indubita-
BILE evidence of white parentage.
THE South is the home of the black
man, and both he and his hybrids
thrive and multiply where the white
race exists only in an emasculated and
enervated condition. If straight line
is drawn from the Northern border oi
Delaware to the Northeastern corner
of Kansas, and one from that point
Southeast to the Gulf of Mexico, nine.
teen-tweentieths of the colored race
will be found East and South of these
lines. The black man does not thrive
as well in the colder Northern and
Western States, for there are only
seven States which have over 10000
cOlored population.
"The actual occupancy of the soil
and the prOvidential adaptation of the
race to its physical surroundings sug.
gests that the territory embraced in
the seven lower Atlantic and Gull
States will be the permanent future
home of the colOred race, and that il
will grade as it is doing in the South
ern cities very rapidly into uniform
mulatto in these cities, and a still
higher white grade in the Northern
cities. That this is so in Charleston
Louisville and Philadelphia is appar
ent to the most casual observer.
I'm the preparatory report of tn,
eighth census it was stated that the
close of the century would show {
great prepondderence of the mixed
race, since in 1850 one-ninth Of the col
ored race was returned as mulattoes
while in 1860 they had increas ed t,
one eighth. The present census will
show that more than three-fourths o
the cOlored race have an admixture o
white blood in their veins.
NEW AND FUTURE CHARACTERsTTICs
''Iu the quarter of a century tina
has claped since the emancipation o
the slaves they have, under advers
circumstances and with very little en-
Couragement from the whites, mad
giant strikes intellectually, and addeC
no inconsiderable sum to their materia
worth as a race. And all this time th,
blood that flows in their veins ha
been steadily admixing with that o
the white man. AS a consequence
there is springing up all over the coun
try new race Of colored people, phys
ically robust and with fair intellectual
gifts. Ifyou go through any Southern
city, or walk through the black bel
Of our own city of Philadelphia, Of
Sunday, or holiday, you will be as
tOnished at the number of beautiful
well dressed women and men that yOt
will meet. These are the pioneers o
that race which will some day domin
ate in the Southern States. and If th
history Of races of similar characte
which have fiourished in the past ca
! be our guide, they will be people q
superior mental ability, having exqui'