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perance. Therefore, it would not be surprising if the 

 negro population do actually gain on the whites, and in- 

 stead of being one to nine of the white population 150 

 years hence, they may be more seriously numerous, 

 especially if they increase at the rate of 27 to 30* per 

 cent, in every 10 years. It is, therefore, for the whites 

 seriously to consider whether it would be for the interest 

 of their race, and of the whole Continent of America, to 

 overrun it with a negro population, which bids so fair, in 

 the long run, to be so numerous. 



However, the loss of some 3,179,589 souls of the 

 laboring population, at this period, would be a most 

 destructive blow to both Northern and Southern United 

 States. The Irish, the Germans, and the negroes, are 

 the life and soul of America ; probably the Germans are 

 not so much so in proportion to the other two races, as 

 they are more given to store keeping, &c., which are un- 

 productive occupations, and only multiply more drones 

 in the hive of the laboring bees, and impose more heavy 

 burdens on them. Take away the negroes, and all the 

 agricultural, and all public works, would fall heavily on 

 the Irish, and Irish descendants almost exclusively. And 

 as the population of Ireland is reduced two fifths from 

 what, under anything like favorable circumstances, it 

 should be ; and immigration from that quarter is now 

 from the stock, and not from the excess of its population : 

 in a short time it must be checked. 



The Spaniards expelled the Moors, and dealt a heavy 

 blow to their nation's progress. The loss of a body of 



* At an increase of 28 per cent, in 160 years, the slaves would be 

 128,126,680, more than 1 to 5 of white?. 



