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Whites in United States in 1880 (in round numbers), . 42,000,000 



Whites in United States in 1985 (in round numbers), . 336,000,000 



Northern Whites in 18S0, 30,000,000 



Northern Wliites in 1985, 240,000,000 



Southern Whites in 1880 12,000,000 



Southern Whites in 1985, 96,000,000 



Blacks in Southern States in 1880 6,000,000 



Blacks in ,Southern States in 1980 192,000,000 



This is figtiring with a vengeance. We may well tremble 

 for the future of our country if these figures are even approx- 

 imately correct. Their menace, Professor Gilliam thinks, is 

 intensified by the second factor in his arguments, namely the 

 impossibility of fusion of whites and blacks. 



Mr. Albion W. Turgee attempted to reach the same con- 

 clusions in a book entitled ' ' An Appeal to Caesar. ' ' His 

 book is a strange medley of figures, hypotheses, and circus- 

 bill English. It is wholly unnecessar5' for us to quote from 

 these writers or give any resume of their arguments. It will 

 not be amiss, however, to quote at some length from Mr. 

 Henry Gannett' s refutation which appeared in an article in 

 the Poputar Science Monthly for June 1885, entitled " Are we 

 to become Africanized ?" He gives here their arguments and 

 refutes them by their own figures. In refutation of Professor 

 Gilliam he writes : — 



"An analysis of the author's curious method of deducing 

 these results will, however, dispel this frightful vision of the 

 future. The increase of white population between 1870 and 

 1880 was slightly less than ten millions. The number of 

 immigrants during this period was a little in excess of two 

 million eight hundred thousand. Subtracting the latter from 

 the former, there is left a number which is 23 per cent, of the 

 population in 1870, not 20 percent., as Prof. Gilliam has it. 

 But what does this 20 or 23 per cent, (it matters not which) 

 represent ? Certainly not the increase of native whites, as he 

 interprets it. The census gives directly the numbers of native 

 whites in 1870 and in 1880, and the proportional gain of this 

 class during the decade was not less than 31 per cent. These 

 are the figures he should have used in making his calculations. 



