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VOTING POPULATION.

POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES, COMPILED FROM CENSUS REPORTS OF 1880-continued.

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Coloured.

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1880.

Total.

Native.

Foreign born.

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29.20 per cent, that of the coloured 34.67 per cent, so that notwithstanding the enormous white "immigration," the "natural increase "of the coloured population greatly exceeded the white increase, including immigration. It has been calculated that the "natural increase of whites is at the rate of 2 per cent, while the "natural increase " of the coloured is 3 per cent. From this it would appear that before many years elapse the coloured citizens will overwhelmingly outnumber the white, and, probably, ultimately absorb the white, in certain southern states-Alabama, Lou

isiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and possibly other states. There is no knowing what complications may arise in the future-a not very remote future-through this excess of threesevenths of coloured over white "natural increase." The mixture of black and white blood will take place to a certain extent, but only to a certain extent. What is to become of the superabundant coloured people in course of time? The whites will be forced to keep the tide of coloured emigration from coming north; and what will become of the Republican Institutions?

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Agriculture

Professional and per

sonal services

Trade and transporta

tion

7,670,493 7,075,983

594,510 584,867 135,862 5,888,133

4,074,238 2,712,943 1,361,295 127,565 107,830 2,446,962

1,810,256 1,750,892 59,364 26,078 2,547 1,672,171 Manufactures, mechan- 3,837,112 3,205,124 631,988 86,677 46,930 2,978,845

ical and mining

All occupations

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435,920 602,983 22,728 1,215,189 138,416 38,276

54,849 52,643 1,968 577,157 139,602 7,901 17,392,099 14,744,942 2,647,157 825,187 293,169 12,986,111 2,283,115 933,644 70,873

According to the figures in 'The World (New York) Almanac' for 1887, the number of immigrants arriving in the United States was in 1880, 457,257; in 1881, 669,431; in 1882, 788,992; in 1883, 603,322; in 1884, 518,592; in 1885, 395,346; in 1886, 334,203. Of those who arrived during the year ending 30th June 1886, there came through the New York customs district 266,370; through Boston, 25,046; through Philadelphia, 20,822: 84,403 were German; 49,619 Irish; 50,803 English; 12,126 Scotch; 27,751 Swedish; 21,315 Italian; 12,359 Nor

wegian; 6225 Danish; 4805 Swiss; 3318 French; 55,404 Europeans not classified; all others, 5668. There seems not to be perfect accuracy in these figures, but they serve to indicate the sources from which this conglomerate nation is deriving its strains of blood. During some years the Irish headed the list; but now the tide of immigration is strong from other countries, and the Irish strain is a much smaller percentage. Of course the annual fluctuations in the numbers from the respective foreign countries may be considerable.

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