Show fewer colored people in new Enela cd the colored race does not increase leidl in new england rhode island is tho only one of the new england states the colored people were in 1390 over 2 per cent 0 the population even there the colored population has according to the census fallen off from per cent of the population in 1850 to per cent in 1890 in connecticut in abo same period the percentage declined from to in maine the colored population in asso was less than a quarter of 1 per cent a decline for the decade but a slight scarce perceptible gain as compared v ith 1850 the same is true of new Hamps birt and vermont where colored make up only per cent and pei cent respectively of the population in massachusetts they were in per cent of the population agaibi in in massachusetts as in all other new england states ho their percentage declined daring jbf preceding decade the census enumerators found colored people it massachusetts in 1890 1823 in maine in new hampshire 1004 in ver mont in rhode island and 12 in connecticut there is no indica tion of the forcing of the color line in new england politics in these figures but there is on the other hand the sug of a physically decadent race 01 at least one that is not holding its own ic its social isolation philadelphia telo graph |