The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-08-03
COLONIZATION OF THE Me-
GRO RACE. NO. !.
HE ONLY RATIONAL Hops FOR THE


HE ONLY Rational. non, yn,
Social and Irdu.triaI Renpva-
''"" 81 North Carolina. aud Of he South.
"'h he Found In the Gradual Depor,n-
Hon and Settlement Of tn. Af,o.am.r
'a"'' Upon Some Portion Of the Public
roman, Outside the Iimits Of the Uni
'e" states, Where They shall be Free to
""vern Themselves, Under the National
| rot ctora'e.
Editor CAUCASIAN
Before proceeding to argue the
above proposition, a statistical re-
view Of TIE subject will help yer,
much 10 elucidatc it. have before
me all the Census Tables from the
foundation of the government,
showing the growth and distribu-
ton OF the negro population for the
past one hundred years, beginning
with the first Census i'm 1890 and
closing with the last In 1890. The
aggregate number of negroes in the
entire country, was 757 ,2lO in 1890,
and in 1890 it was 7,47O,O4O, which
Is an Increase OF almost exactly one
thousand per cent. in a single cent
ury. III taken by decades the ratio
OF increase has been as follows:
l70O-lS9O-32.3% lS4O-1S5O-26.G%
loOO-lSlO-I.j% loj0-IS6O-22.I%
lolO-lo2O-28.6% lS6O-lS7O- 9.9%
lS20-iS3O 3l.3% 1S7O-lSSO-3 4.S%
1880 lSlO-23.4% lSSO-lS9O-l3.5%
And the average ratio Of all the
ten decades, when taken together,
Is 1919. In looking at this table of
percentages, one Is struck with the
abnormal growth OF this negro pop
ulation, during the decennial peri
od of loOO-lSlU, in which it was as
much as $780,. But this is clearly
explained by the fact, that by u
limitation in the Constitution OF
the United States. the African
Slave Trade expired in 1908; and
hence for the last eight years of
that abhorrent traffic, one should
not be surprised at the Industrious
activity of the New England Shaver,
and the Southern olave-dealer, in
plying their mutual vocation. And
in looking at this table, one is no
less struck with the greatly reduced
ratio of growth, during the period
of lS6O-lS7O coveringOur civil war i'm
which it amounted to no more than
I, to Il i,f nj
counted for when it is remembered
that the negro was himself a great
sufferer in That bloody scutfle-that
his freedom was by no means a
bloodles5 purchase, even so far as
he was coucerned--but that he also
. figured largely in the casualties OF
battle, as was well atteSted at Fort
Pillow, at The Crater, at Olustee
and at Battery Wagner, where it
was fully demonstrated that he too
was made of pene .rable stuff.
But the most astonishing ratio
in this whole table Of percentages
is that for the period OF 1880 1890
in which it is only 1857. This
percentage is so low as to ne false
: upon it's very face. For there is nc
: reason that can be given, why the
, ratio of growth, for This particular
, period, should have been less than
, One-half of the average ratio for the
r nine decennial .perlods preceding
which was 27.4%, and which there
, fore should have given us $685. 3(
9 as the correct negro population IL
;. 1890, instead of 7 40 ,O4O, as we fine
it in the Census of that year. This
amazing difference of 9l9,S9O be
tween the true and false aggregate
must have been the work of tn,
grossest carelessness, or of deliber
ate design. If of the one, it reflects
= the highest discredit upon Mr.. Rob
, ert u. Porter, superintendent o
# that census, and if of the other, i
IS must have been done with the pur
r. pose of depriving the Southern
p States, in the Electoral College an,
y in the House of Representatives, O
a considerable share of the repre-
sentation that is based upon thei
y negro population. In either view
70 of the matter, so great reduction
q is contradicted by all the laws Q
u Vital Stat istics. For their is IL
|. evidence that the fecundity of tn
D. African had become suddenly i'm
Us paired at thatparticular time, Will
G. there is every evidence that he an
sue were just as sportive and pre-
life as ever before. No desOlatin
war was then raging to check tn
e. natural increase. And no epidem
re ie plague, such as the Black Deaf
g. that decimated Europe in fOrme
is ages, was then sweeping over th1
u country. Nor can the loss. of neal
- lv million in the negro pOpuls
$ ton of 1890, be accounted for b.
ID the ravages Of Ku-KluX-klan, Q
ne of the kindred organizations tina
tie have sprung out OF it. 1t IS yer
to true that this destroyer was active
" Iy at work during this period, all
y that many a negro, in consequence
failed, in 1890, to answer to the rOl
m call of the enumeratOr. But tn
homicidal mania, so prevalent nov
was not as rabid then, and sue
blood-curdling massacres thOs
ne which we have lately witnessed
ut Lake City, at Texarcana, at Pa
e metto, and at Wilmington, wei
so much less frequent then tina
now, that neither this one caus
~ nor all other causes combined, ca
Ms account for so frightful shrin]
il. age.
m From this analysis of these Gel
lar sns Tables, l feel,that l would
ESQ Isl, fully warranted in rejecting 1,4'l
W. O4O as the total negro population
Y. 1890, and in substituting o,3S9,9'
as the true aggregate. This OF cour