It was a favourite assertion of the English friends of
the South, during the American Civil War, that emancipation 'would be fatal to the Blacks. Naturally thriftless, they would, when deprived of the guidance of their masters, begin to die out. Tho argument was not worth much, as it is better for any race to die out than to live in slavery, but the Census of the United States shows that it was untrue. In the ten years ending January 1st, 1881, the Negroes have not only increased faster than in a state of slavery, bat faster than the rest of the population, the total, with every assistance from immigration, laving increased 30 per cent., while the Negroes by themselves have increased' -'.; per cent. '['hey do not move either north or west in any perceptible numbers, but remain in the pleasant climate of the South, where, in Carolina, three-fifths of the people are coloured, in Louisiana and Mississippi more than half, and in five more States, including Virginia, from one-fourth to one-half. In Kansas, where the Negroes were said to believe they would find a kind of paradise, only 41 per cent. of the population is coloured ; while into Utah they have immigrated so little, that they form only one-eighth of 1 per cent. of the population. Polygamy obviously dues not attract them at all.
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