Rapid Progress of the Blacks.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 1444, 2 September 1885, Page 2

Rapid Progress of the Blacks.

A Cincinnati message" to the New York Sun says : — In the Presbyterian General Assembly the Eev. Br R. H. Allen, Secretary of the Freeman's Aid Society said : " Twenty years ago, at the close of the. war, there were m the Southern States 3,947,000 colored people and now there are more than 7,000,000. Then there were, m Mississippi 220,000 negroes ; now 650,000; Then there were m South Carolina 400,000 ; now more than 600,000. Five hundred babies are born m the United States every day. The colored population of the UniUd States doubles every twenty years ; the white population only once m thirty-five years. Eight years will hot have passr <I before the negroes will be "m numercial majority m. some of the Southern State.". At the present rate of increase, m 1985 tliere will be 90,000,000 white people m t) c United States, -and I^2iPJ(X),OOO colored people. The day- is* not far distart when it will be a physical impossibility to continue the present disfranchisement of the colored man of the Southern Stater. 'In s . South Carolina he had bought and pakl for 270,000 acres of land which he cultivates. In the South he pays taxt g o«::91,000,QQQ«lols. of property. He is editing, printing, and publishing 106 newspapers, and yet of the 7,000,00 ft oolorod people of this country more than 6,000,000 cannot read or write." ..._ J _j.