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if 1haiI nwosigmpFree Negroes—The rate of increase amongthem*Tie average decennial increase of white persons in j Fa the United States has been 35,67 per cent., nearly one , Fi:t iird part of which lias arisen from the immigration of j hisforeigners into the country. This will make the natural increaee of the white population average £5 per cent, inevery ten years since 1790.Very different are tbe statistics of the increase of thefree colored population. Lp to 1840 there was a verylarge increase of free ncgroes arising from the manumission of slaves by kind hearted masters at tho South.; Since 1840 manumission has almost entirely, ceased exoept 13 * ! in a few of the border states. We must therefore look to j ae( the decade between 1840 and 1850 to ascertain the oat * * rate of increase among the free colored population. In j the free States, the increase has amounted during this time to only 12,94 per rent.; and 10,11 percent, in the slave holding States—averaging 11,23 per cent. in the United States. There is no means of ascertaining accurately the accession to the tree colored population from the ranks of the slave*. The estimated loss to the slave States for the decade between 1840 and 1850 1Jby manumission and escapes exceeds the increase of the ! Mrfree colored in the slave holding States by nearly three I hoii thousand, and their increase in the free States 2.675, !* 1 latent! wht*vcenm,init.,hialeft pai I n coi ma rt-c an; theto-lt;; and reduces the increase of free negroes in tho United j! S ate* to less than 5 per cent. jL The above statistics are taken from Do Bow’s Re- i oblt;he o-is-si-onat-elf.ieh)UBief, ill-heheICOVe noill-•r-he! view, and may therefore bo regarded reliable.Here then is developed the astounding fact that ! ^while the white race increases naturally at the rate of j j 25 per cent. in every 1U years, the free colored popu- j i lation increases only at the rate of 5 per cent, during tho j Quisame time.When white laborers become more abundant, and j the pressure is increased by competition, there can be i no doubt but that the increase of the free colored pop- ! ulation will continue to decrease until the number of births will be less than the number of deaths amongthem, and that free negroes will disappear from the j United States | FrThis is a very singular state of things, but is very j Bu easily explained. It is well known that free negroes :are generally mongrel, and that mongrel races are not j gej as prolific as pure blooded people. But the chief cause ii |I of their decline is the vicious habits in which they in-; dulge, their extreme destitution, and lamentable igno- j ranee. It is generally conceded by the Northern press I J that the free blacks art the most depraved, corrupt and | abandoned class in all their cities. And there is no 1 ! fact better established than that vice ia inconsistentT ’i Line:18-with increase of population, J! This then is the end of Abolition—the total cxtor- iofslave. Ft am 1800 to 1810 the increase of slaves in tho ,j mination of tho colored race. Well may these odious |ER ; fanatics he called the fiends of politics. They jindulge in fiendish hate to the humane master, they en- J j deavor todsvtlopo fiendish passions in the breasts of the j slave towards their best and only friends, and the boon they tender them in exchange is—annihilation as a peo- i pie. Contrast with this picture the condition of the \\Uuited States was 35,79 per cent. During the hast ;forty years the decennial increase has been 33,42 per ; th«cent. The deecfipancy in the two periods is explained ; Os by the existence cf the slave trade up to 180S. For j co the last forty years the increase has been by births j alone; and shows an excess of 8 per cent, over their| masters. As far, therefore, as the physical condition of a race may be gathered from an increase of population, and there is no surer test, tbe slaves are better off than j m their masters. i ruereioniconillyid-va-*mccthisci-10-ch-odVeesCOlv
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Columbus Tri Weekly Times and Sentinel
Columbus, Georgia, US
Sat, Aug 27, 1853
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