Nevada County picayune., 1891-04-09
WHERE ARE THE NEGROESp

South Atlantic and South Central
States. including all the former Slave
States and Kansas, is given in a bull
letin of the census of 1890 as ! ,000.-
600 white and 1000, 900 negroes.
The figures as telegraphcd show that
the negro population has very great
ly decreased in proportion to the
white throughout the whole of the
territory. This disposes of the
race question to a very great ex-
tent, but it raises at once the qucs-
ton of what has become Of the CEN
sus negroes of 1880:
As this question must be answer
ed, the Porter theory is that the cen
sus of 1870 was census of Republi-
can omissions, when, as matter of
fact, the census OF 1880 was Of Re-
publican commission. 1t is not that
the Republicans omitted real negroes
from the census of 1870, but that
they stuffed statistical negroes by
the hundred thousand into the CEN
sus of 1880 for bloody shirt puT-
poses.
1t is now impossible, therefore, TO
reconcile the conflict in the censuses
of 1870, 1880 aud 1890 One of
them is clearly wrong and outrage
ously wrong. If, in comparing the
census of 1880 with that of 1890. we
assume the correctness of the latter,
that of 1880 is clearly fraudulent.
Mr.. Porter avoids this denomination
by comparing his negro census with
that of 1870, on which he wishes to
load the odium of everything that IS
incompatible with it in the census of
1890. But it is easy to show that
the fault hes between 1880 and 1890.
Take the case of Arkansas. for in
stance, the negro population of
which by the census of 1880 was
2l0,994 while by the census of 1890
it Is 21l,I17, the white population
OF the State being stated at 2l,53l
in 1880, and SIG, ,5l7 in 1890. How
is the question to be answered when
it is of what has become of the sta
tistical Arkansas negroes of 1880!
1t is we'll known that negroes have
been imported into the st. Francis
bottoms, and other allevial lands of
the State, in such way as to excite
the indignant protest of those who
are opposed to bonanza farming on
on the cooly plan. While this is true
of Arkansas it is more notoriously
true of Mississippi, into which non
resident landlords haue imported ne
grees by the carload to work bonan-
"a farms in the Iazoo Delta, to the
scandal of the State and the great
detriment of its system of agricul-
ture. Yet Mississippi, credited with
GAP 900 negroes in 1880, shows with
only 743 900 in 1890. And IN South
Carolina the increase is only from
! GOA 900 in 1880 to G92 900 in 1890.
| In Louisiana it is from iS4 900 to
jG2 900. Yet such statistical in
crease US is shown in these States in
the decade is used to account for the
disappearance of statistical negroes
from the rest of the territory where
slavery once existed.
1t is impossible to account for it.
There has been no heavy movement
of the negroes in any direction eX-
cept where they were moved as cool
les, either by nonresident landlords
or by railroad companies. Whatever
movement there has been has been
made to the alluvial lands of Mississ-
ippi, Louisiana, South Carolina, and
to some extent Of Arkansas.
The only reasonable explanation is
that the census of 1880 was deiber.
ately stuffed with non-existent ne
groes to keep up the sectional fight
and to turn white immigration from
the South. - st. Louis Republic.