The morning times., 1895-09-29


lucky, Tennessee, and Missouri are prin-
cipally to Kansas, Iowa. Illinois, Indiana,
and Ohio. Those of Virginia, North Caro-
lima, South Carolina, and Georgia, who
went out of the Southern group, went
principally to New York, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, and the district OF Co =
lumbia.
Missouri gained most from outside groups;
211,194 in native whites; and Vir-
ginia lost most, 231, ,435 to other groups.
As has already been stated in regard to
native colored in exchange with other
groups, Virginia lost most, 1860, and
Texas shows the largest gain, s,515.
Texas shows the largest internal gain in
whites, $50, and Arkansas in col
ored, 100, ,s42. Tennessee shows largest
internal loss in whites, 207, "a, and North
Carolina in colored, s5,226. Balancing
the loss and gain, it was found that the
South sustained loss OF 1OO,7O2, native
white, and $50, 405 native colored people.
This is proportionately small loss.
THE GREATEST CHANGES.
Another of the tables prepared from the
census records shows the movements, in
ternal and external by percentages among
among the six groups into which the
country is divided.
BY internal movements, the greatest
changes among the white people have
taken place in the central West group,
1871 per cent. of that population having
moved from one State to another. Among
the colored the greatest internal move
n
states-12.9 per cent.
In external movement, those moved from
one distinct crop TO another, the Middle
Atlantic States have lost the greatest num-
Der of whites, lis per cent, while New
England has lost the largest per cent oi
coIored, also 14.S.
The Pacific group has lost less white
people, 5.5 per cent, and the Southern group
the smallest relative per cent of colored,
3.S per cent.
The losses by externai movement in col
ored stands thus:
New England, 14s per cent; Middle At
lnatic group, 60 per cent; Central West,
9.s per cent; West, ~ per cent; Pacific,
5.3 per cent; Southern, 3.s per cent.
The District is peculiarly attractive to
the colored race. BY the latest reports OF
the 81 ,s65 born in the District, only g.
169 have left it, and its gain from other
localities has been 43,1s5. of these "a
OO3 came from Virginia, Is, ,015 from Mary
land and T. 16T from other States.
IN SHEPHERDS DAYS.
When ex-Gov. Shepherd began to execute
his plans for the betterment of Washington
streets he drew largely from virginia's and
Maryland's quota of colored people. When
the streets were laid cut and properly
graded, these negroes. instead of returning
home, managed to drift into other kinds of
work and made Washington their home.
One cause of the continued influx from
Virginia is the desire of Washington people
for .'Ole Virginy". servants. The latter
became so delighted with Washington city
life that they, Ike their predecessors, never
care to go back to the land OF their birth.
They inform their home people, who in
turn become--dissatsfied with country life
and flock like bees to this city, where they
expect to find all the good things of life
awaiting them and work done by magic.
One ingenious little girl wrote home to
her parents in Virginia that she never wuz
gwine back home no mo-, kase in de coun-
try you has ter go er mile ter de spring fer
er bucket er water, and in de city yo' gifts
it outen hole in de WALL
Washington offers excellent educational
advantages to the race. Besides the public
schools there are several good colleges es-
tablished for their benefit. Many District
colored people have found their way into
the Government departments and into pri-
vate offices But there are others who have
anew tir,a in s,,pnrnar and N winter ba va
tobe supported by the missions and churches
RATHER THANLEAvE
These would undergo all kinds of priva-
ton rather than leave their beloved Wash
ington, which In one sense of the word be-
longs to them. So said dusky orator one
Emancipation Day nine years ago.
He declared that when Mr.. Lincoln set
the darkies free he gave them Washing
ton to be theirs, and he thanked his stars
that every morn when the sun arose, doz-
ems of little black babies opened their
eyes on the world meath the shadow of
Washington Monument and riveted stronger
the claim.
While the negro has had manyshardships
to undergo his lot has not been the
hardest in the world, even during the
per1OU OF S1dNeIy- l. HIS ldSJ idct IS Ncif
fled by the affection an old negro always
feels for the family to which he belonged.
The place of his former bondage is not
hateful to him, and the question arises
in our mind whether, as he came to us un-
lettered, uncultured, it was not best that
he should have undergone a short period
of servitude until his faculties were pol
ished by contact with civilization.
If he had come among us like the Chinese
in time we might have closed our doors
to him; IL this bad been at first his domain
we might have crowded him to narrow
strip of land in the West, where treaty
rights would have been null and void; then
we would have begun our process of ex-
termination as we have with tue Indian.
But he came into the hearts of our fam
flies, endeared himself to us by ex-
amples of faithfulness and affection;
worked I'm our fields, played with little
children around our doorstep, helped nurse
our dear ones in illness, and mourned with
us when they passed away. We could
not feel that he was an alien, and when the
time came for him to be set free, it would
have seemed as atrOcious as ueachery to
our own race not TO have lent him help