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Show SaaBH I 'I n k ., Tlir tULUIIIIl Itll'L'I.VTlON. aVAH I Tun preaent colonel pulatlon of the BWs 'I UnllFilr)taleal)itllmatidatT,o),rl. HBVj (J In 1810 the ilava trade ceoied. Thera ) wt' at thai time 700,000 colored BBBb I ' 'i women In the country, and Iromthrea SHj , apruug, occordlng to (len. Walker In 'flH thu July bruul, the whole of tha VH mgroia ot today, lining hie article flBK i I onthaceuiuallgurrtof laat yiar, (leu, IB i Walker ahowa that tha colored man la E ""t holding hit ground numerically, SBWjw aa compared with the rata of lucrfa,. B, ', both of the whltea a d of Iha whole 'SHv 4 lpulatlon. SH f In 1810 thu mgroeaeoinpiliid 10 wr B cent of tha whole Hiulatlou, lu 18li) H I Id per ceut, In 18'XI Uurcnit, InlbSJ H , j It per Ceut aud 111 1M0 II per ceut. Up to I'M the average rate of Increase per decade had boon 34 per cent., fromlSM lo IMO 22 percent., and from ISIO to 130J IS per rant. In connection with thl elecrraalng rata of loereaae, II la noted that tha colored op!a manlfrat a tendency to concentrate concen-trate In the (1 ilf Htatea and In parta of Georgia, Arkaoaat and Houth Carolina. Caro-lina. From Ihla It appiare Uiat the negro la not likely to Increase In Iha land. Italaoappean thai hell drifting drift-ing Into tboae portion of the country for which halt lt a lapted. to New Orleam, In the cenauayear Mi W the death rata waa 15.57 r I wool the white lohaUlanta and. 11 for the black. In llaltlmore the cor-naiandlm( cor-naiandlm( rate wa for white 2.01, furhlecViM.-N, aud In HI. loul the diath rata wai 19.111 for white and 5.1.78 for blacka. The birth rata among negror la very hlh, and were It not for Ihla, Ilia tall, there would ba no Inert aia In number from year to year. Tha rillaburg t'omm'rcfcjl rVatctta contend, that ahould Ihla dicrrebe maintained at It ha Ivan tending within with-in tha tail thirty yiar, It woul I point to tha Inevitable aitlnctlon of Iha race without any convulilon or eitia. ordinary cauae. It would ha accomplished accom-plished by Ihoatoady procraaof nature. While II enema Ilka a violent conclu-alon conclu-alon to reaton that our colored people will become eitlnct by natural cauare, allll II la evident that they are falling behind In the rare of population, be-cauao be-cauao they cannot conijute with tba whltea In recruiting from Immigration aourcea. Viewing the negro from any aland-point aland-point hi future In the United Hlatee la not rtry rumlalng to hla race and forebodea uo numerical danger to the country. |
