The record-union., 1891-03-26
THE CoLoRED RACE.
Census Statistics Relating to the In
crease In the South.

Census Statistics Relating to the In
crease In the South.
WASHINGTON, March 25.-The Census
Bureau has in preparation bulletin Civ
ing the population of the South Atlantic
and Southern Central States, Missouri
and Kansas by races. The total popula-
ton embraced in this count is given as
%, ,S75, ,259, of which 16,S6S, ,205 are white,
6,996, 1855 are colored and 10,SSS Chinese,
Japanese and Indians.
In the States included were found in
1890 0fifteen-sixteenths of the entire col
ored population of the United States, so
for the purpose of ascertaining the per-
centage OF increase in the colored popula..
ton In what is known as the ''black belt''
during the decade in 1880, led to popular
belief that the negroes were increasing at
q much larger rate than the whites.
The facts now ascertained sustain the
theory that the high rate of increase
shown in 1880 was apparent, not real, and
was due to an imperfect enumeration in
the Southern States in 1870. During the
past decade the race has not held it's own
against the whites. In but three decades
that is, from 1900 to 1S30-during part
of which time the slave trade was
in progress-has the colored race in
creased more rapidly than the whites.
Since 1880 the whites have steadily in
creased at more rapid rate than the col
ored people. This increase is not effected
by immigration, for which, with the eX-
ception of Kansas and Missouri, these
States received comparatively few immi-
grants.
In 1890 there were nearly six colored
inhabitants TO ten white, but this proper
ton has been reduced to tritie more
than four at the present date, or by nearly
one-third its amount.
The deficiencies of the ninth census,
says Porter, are apparent. Several tables
are given which show the movements of
the colored element of population during
the last half century. There has been no
extended movement of this element since
the time of the civil war. Indeed, with
the exception of the District of Columbia,
the border States appear to have lost
rather than gained, and during the last
decade there becomes perceptible south
ward movement of the colored element
from the border States into those border
ing on the gulf, particularly into Missis-
sippi and Arkansas. In these two States
this has resulted in the production of a
more rapid increase of the cOlOred ele-
ment than of the white.
ADDRESS TO NEGEoES IN THE NORTH.
WASHINGTON, March 25.-The Inter
state Civil and Political Rights Associa-
tion of the United States, an organization
of colored men, has issued an address to
the negro voters of the North, in which,
after referring to the defeat of the cleo
tions bill in the Senate, they say import
ant elections are to be held this autumn in
Northern States where the negro vote is
the balance of power, and each negro in
the North is urged to refuse to vote for
any candidate unless he is known to be a
firm friend of the negro, free ballot and
fair count.
The negroes are urged to organize for
allow the Anglo-SaXon to fight his polit-
ical battles alone, whenever he is one OF
those men who have said that the ne
groes are an inferior class to the Anglo
Saxon race,n