The morning times., 1895-09-29

tain traders brought in little Dutch
vessel to jamestown, Va, twenty beings OF
African descent, and made them the
unconscious beginners of n system of human
traffic in this country, they neither fore
saw, nor cared TO foresee, the strife which
an advancing civilization would rouse after
it had discovered a retarding factor in
its upward path.
Nor did the early colonists reallze-if they
had they must have paused-that soon there
would spring up, es if by geometrical pro-
gression, thousands of little black bodies
| to care for: thousands of bodies with souls
| TO be taken into account in solving the
problem of W hat their destiny must eventu-
| ally be.
Perhaps, il the colonists had thought out
| these things that little Dutch vessel might
| have ploughed the ocean waves back to the
! scorching deserts of Africa and left Ham s
| children to frolic with the ostrich in the
home from which European treachery la .
| withdrawn them.
But they did not think, or If they did, the
| thought bore no fruit, for the negro Is
with us, and no promises of Utopian life In
! far-away lands can lure him in large
numbers from the home of his adoption
| Here he has been brought, in every case
against his will, and here he intends to
stay.
within the borders OF the United States
! he shows some disposition to rove but ne
| is not nearly so migrative as the whitem man.
| This is clearly shown in table or statlstlcs
| prepared from the records of the eleventh
census, by Mr.. A. E. Schumann, CHER or the
| division Of final results. Theses tables ana
| accompanying statements, which exhibit
| a wonderful condensation of boundleSs re-
| search have not yet been published, but
| are soon to appear In magazine, ana VIII
be of great Importance i'll showing the
| tendency of the colored people In Their
movements from State TO State. Statistics
| of the same kind, in regard to white people
| are given for purposes of comparison Both
races are enumera ted according toresidence
and birth by States.
HOW IT IS FOUND.
Taking the number counted as being born
| In a given State and deducting therefrom
| those that reside in other States, one ob-
tains the number which have moved from
| their States OF birth, and the locality to
which they migrated. For this computation
States and Territories, except Alaska ana
Indian Territory, are divided into SIX
groups, of which thirteen States form the
Southern and most important group, since
| Il is there that the negro thrives IN the
! largest ma jority, and it is from there that
almost the entire colored population OF the
| United States emanated-
1t was there that he lived, the dependent,
| careless, yet ofttimes happy, life of slave;
hoeing corn, picking cotton, basking In
| the sunlight by the old cabin door, lying
in the fields, dreaming of heaven where
the streets are paved with, watermeions
| and henhouses minus lock and key.
At twilight, picking from dilapidated
banjo that wealth of melody, which few
Padarewskis have ever been able to tear
out by the roots from a Knabe grand; or
singing harmoniously, If not in classical
| fashion, THE Cabin Home" The Mock
| ing Bird" and sacred songs, too, as ma
lures true children hope to hear them sung
by the, uncultivated perfect voices OF Gods
| angels'in the sweet bye and bye.
II was there that he broke home ties and
| started out, sadly sometimes, to bend his
| unframed mind to meet the eXiGencics of a
dread tomorrow That he has done re
rnarkably well has already been proved,
the pflncipai- interest IN sir. scnuthanh' S
statistics is 10 find out what part of the
country he likes best as residence, and
the reasons for his preference.
The last census reports enumerate u
! 5lO,6S0 native colored persons in the Unit
ed States, all of which are of African de
| scent, except 40, $40, which were counted
as colored, being chiefly Indians and a
| few Chinese and japanese born in the Unit
ed States.
WHERE THEY WE'RE BORN.
Such races are not given separately by
States of birth in the census work, but as
they constitute only onehalf of per
cent of the total, the result relative
to natives of African descent is not S&
terially affected. Seven million, four hun
| dred and forty weight thousand, four hun
dred and seventy-four of the 7,51O,6s0 were
born in forty-njn States and Territories
Cincluding the Distri let of Columbia) and g.
2O6 in Alaska, Indian Territory, at sea or
abroad, Of native parents.
Ninety per cent of the aggregate native
| colored population were born in thirteen
Southern States and about 81 per cent
still reside there. Maryland, West Viz
| ginia and Delaware, lying north of the Po-
| tomac, were not included in the Southern
group Thirteen million one hundred and
ninety thousand five hundred and twelve
white people were born in the Southern
group; 1853, ,ss9 moved internal, that is,
among States in the group, and 1,O31, ,166
| went to States of other groups; Sly ,324
| colored were enumerated as born in the
Southern group; 71O,012 moved internal,
and 252, ,27O forsook Dixie for other lands,
while 3, 755, ,042 remained at home.
The causes for this are widely speculative.
Some think that the negro is more of a
stay-at-home than the white man. Then
| there comes a contradiction from some
quarter, which tries to prove that when
| he comes in contact with the world, as do
| those who live near large cities, his rolling
stone tendencies begin to develop.
| Another theory is that In the South he
| finds less aggressive competition in his
own peculiar line of work-agriculture.
| And then the farmers, who are praying for
some one to help them garner in their har-
vests, declare that the negro is tired Of
| farming and wants to get away from farm
lands.
| This does not prove, however, that he
| likes agriculturesless, but ease more, for
as his knowledge of luxury becomes more
extensive, he Is as anxious as any one to
doff the shackles OF mapual labor. Then
there are others who think that he stays
principally in the South because SO much
of him is hidden away in remote districts
that he would not know how to get out
| into the world If he desired to.
Whatever may be the cause, a comparison
of figures viii show that where 7.S per
| cent of whites moved away from the South