The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-12-28

OF Mr.. Johns, and leave your readers to
judge for themselves as to which is the
most likely to be reliable.
now present additional data which
may not be minteresting to your read
.ers:
Total white male population
of the rebel states in $780,. 2,S43, 497
Total white male population
of these states in 1860 be-
tween the ages Of Is and so 1850, $40
Per cent of white males of fighting
age in these states, 47.S5.
Total white male population
of the loyal states in 1860. .1O,967, s91
Total white male population
of the loyal states between
the ages of Is and so. .... .5,62S,67O
Per cent of white males of the fight
ing age. 51.32.
Here is a difference of 347 per cent
of the total white male population fit
for war in favor Of the loyal states
4 LID SASSSo VI NOtA SSs utAC W L1lC lOA
eign element in those states, as zone OF
two illustrations will show:
First, compare Louisiana with $4,000
foreign population, of whom 40, 46a
were males, with Mississippi, which
had Il foreign population Of $685., OF
whom 5,912 were males. In the case
of Louisiana, with Il total white popula-
ton Of .57 ,629, that state had a fight,
ing white population of 10000, Or
1883 per cent of that number; while
Mississippi, with 353,9O1 white popula-
ton, had white fighting population OF
SS,2SG, or 21.95 per cent. Evidently
this difference in the percentage OF
fighting men was due to the grenc eX-
cess Of the foreign element in Louisi-
ana. Again, compare Massachusetts
with New Hampshire. Massachusetts
had a total white population of 1,221,
464, of whom 259,5O3. or 21.24 per cent
were foreign; her fighting strength was
321 ia, or 1920 per cent of the white
population. New Hampshire had a to-
tai white population of 325,579, of
whom 2O,933. or CAB per cent, were for
eign; her white fighting population was
SO,SO4, or 24.S1 per cent. Here, again,
the fighting white element of Massa-
chusetts is largely in excess Of that of
New Hampshire, due, undoubtedly, to
the excess Of the foreign element in
Massachusetts.
This condition, which probably holds
good In regard to the whole country,
will account for the fact that there were
more foreign-born soldiers In proper.
ton to the foreign population in the
Northern armies than native-born sol.
diers in proportion to the white native
population Of the loyal states.
Now, to prove this statement. In
1860 the total white male population OF
the loyal states was 1O,967 ,S01 Of whom
2,1O1 ,047, or 1914 per cent, were of for.
eign birth. OF the former number
5,62S,6 were of the fighting age (from
Is to SOY. The same per cent Of fighting
men to the total white males in the
loyal states that existed in the rebel
states would have given the loyal states
only 5,24S.13G white males of fighting
age, or 3S0,534 less than the actual
number (5,62s67W, as shown by the
census. This 3SO,534, in excess Of the
calculated number at the same ratio as
obtained in the South, was undoubtedly
on account Of the foreign element.
Now, as the foreign-born population
in the loyal states was 1914 per cent OF
the total whibe population, and as the
total white fighting population in those
states was 5,24S,136, 1914 per cent o,
that number would be 1,OO4,493 Oh
fighting age, which. added to the $50,
a34, gives 1,3S5,O27 as the probable
fighting strength of the forelgn-borr
citizens in the loyal states.
The total number of the soldiers Of
( the Union army, exclusive Of those en-
listed in the rebel states and the col
ored troops, being in round numbers
2,4500O0, the foreign-born soldiers
would in round numbers be about 600,
ZOO, exclusive of the enllstments of i'm
migrants between 1861 and 1865, which
DIN all probability, would add at leas
80, 900 to the foreign soldiers-makin.
4 the total Of the foreign-born in tn,
army 10000. or about 2e.5O per cent o.
the aggregate white enlistments in tn,
loyal states
t InSregard to the flippant assertion o.
/ Mr.. Johns that we "still remain essen
] tally an Anglo Saxon nation" trust
In the interest Of the Pension Bureau
OF which I understand he is an EN-
ploye, that be knows more about thu
pension office business than he does Of
the nationnlities that have made up the
American people. II Mr.. Johns could
lind time, TO read Huxley, Lathman
Nieolas. d Robertson. or some othe,
a9,-.Ss sf4-