Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-04-06
By Ralph Smith

WASHINGTON, d. c., April 1.-The
native white race of America has been
woefully outclassed by the negro in the
population race during the past centu-
nv, according to figures compiled by the
United States census bureau, and recent
ly made public by Director North. Inn
migration only has saved the white race
The negro population from 1880 to 1900
increased 1,067 per cent. During the CEN
fury marked from 1900 to 1900 the native
white population increased only 6S6 per
cent.
Thanks to immigration, however, the
increase in white population-native born
and aliens-for the century was 2,0n per
cent, whereas the negro race, depending
solely upon native born members. in
creased, as indicated, just 1.O67.
1t is pointed out by Director North,
that, in 1870. the negroes formed 1913 per
cent of the entire population of Amer
lea. whereas today thanks again to inn
migration, they form only 11.6 per cent
of the whole. In 1880. for every 100 white
persons, the southern states had So
slaves Six years later, 1880 the pro-
portion of blacks to whites had declined
to 40 per cent, and in 1900 there had been
a still further decrease to 4S per cent
a decline of one negro per hundred
whites
In the Southern States
The proportion of blacks to whites in
the southern states ranges from twenty
five per hundred in Maryland to 40 per
hundred in South Carolina. The slaves
in 1870 are estimated to have been worth
S1O5 600 900, of which the south had $685.
1000; New England, (where it was
not profitable to keep them S65,OO worth
and the middle states, the rest.
How greatly immigration has helped to
keep the proportion OF negroes in de-
clining scale may be inferred from the
fact that had the ratio of 1790 been main
tanned to 1900 there would have been but
81 100000 whites and about 100000 ne
groes in America today. The figures
for 1900, however, were 66,sos,OOO whites
and S,SS3 900 negroes.
Director North concludes that while
there is only is children in the white
family the white people of conoial stock
have an average of is children per fam
lily. This, he thinks. indicates that the
descendants of recent immigrants are
not nearly so prolific as their fathers,
nor as prolific as the old stock Ameri-
cans. such as Is found in the southern
states, in some parts of which, he says,
1000 children are shown to LOO adults.
The Number of Slaves
The number Of slaves in the United
States in 1880 was approximately 100000.
Slaves were owned in each state and ter
ritory of the Union, except Vermont,
Massachusetts and the district of Maine.
About one-fourteenth of all the slaves
were owned outside of the southern
states. As a slave state, Virginia rank
ed first, reporting nearly 100000.
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changes which occurred from 1870 to 1850
in the proportion of shlaves in various
parts of the south. The proportion of all
slaves reported in the added area steadily
increased as the proportion reported by
the original area decreased, so that in
1860 the number of slaves in each Of the
two sections of the country tended to
become equal.
The number of slave holding families
in the United States in 1870 was approx
mately $4,000. In 1850, more than half a
century later, the number had increased
to $4,000.
Director North declares that it has been
possible to determine the number of slave
holding families in Virginia, and other
gacts connected Herewith, for the nrst
time. The average number of slaves per
slave holding family was &c in 1870, and
go in 1850.
Only three persons In northern states
owned over 20 slaves each in 1870 They
were Elijah Mason, of Lebanon, Conn.,,
%; Robert Livingston, of Livingstontown.
N. Y, "A; Margaret Hutton, Of Wash
ington, Pa, "a
The total number of persons directly
or indirectly interested. because of family
relationship, in slave holding was $4,000
in 1890. and 100000 in 1850. or 16.5 and %
per cent, respectively, of the total free
population.
Affords Amusement
Members of congress. especially the reg
ular Democrats, are much amused at the
continued and continuous explaining the
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