decade, and, thereby, the world is enabled, upon reliable figures, to
estimate the increase or decrease of the Colored race. The subjoined
table exhibits the increase of the Colored people for nine decades.

Colored gain
Year. Colored. per cent.
----- --------- ------------
1st census. 1790 757,208
2d " 1800 1,002,037 32.3 1st decade.
3d " 1810 1,377,808 37.5 2d "
4th " 1820 1,771,656 28.6 3d "
5th " 1830 2,328,642 31.5 4th "
6th " 1840 2,873,648 23.4 5th "
7th " 1850 3,638,808 26.6 6th "
8th " 1860 4,441,830 22.1 7th "
9th " 1870 4,880,009 9.9[122] 8th "
10th " 1880 6,580,793 34.8 9th "

So here is a remarkable fact, that from 757,208 in 1790 the Negro race
has grown to be 6,580,793 in 1880! The theory that the race was dying
out under the influences of civilization at a greater ratio than under
the annihilating influences of slavery was at war with common-sense
and the efficient laws of Christian society. Emancipation has taken
the mother from field-work to house-work. The slave hut has been
supplanted by a pleasant house; the mud floor is done away with; and
now, with carpets on the floor, pictures on the wall, a better quality
of food properly prepared, the influence of books and papers, and the
blessings of a preached Gospel, the Negro mother is more prolific, and
the mortality of her children reduced to a minimum. The Negro is not
dying out. On the contrary he has shown the greatest recuperative
powers, and against the white population of the United States as it
stands to-day--if it were not fed by European immigrants,--within the
next hundred years the Negroes would outnumber the whites 12,000,000!
Or at an increase of 33-1/3 per cent. the Negro population in 1980
would be 117,000,000! providing the ratio of increase continues the
same between the races.

And in addition to the fact that the Negro, like the Irishman, is
prolific, is able to reproduce his species, it should be recorded that
the Negro intellect is growing and expanding at a wonderful rate. The
children of ten and twelve years of age are more apt to-day than those
of the same age ten years ago. And the children of th