In 1880 it was 1.399.750. showing an increase in that decade of 328.389. or about 32. per cent. The census of 1890. as reported. shows the population to be 1.617.947. or an increase of about 10 per cent. Those who are as well acquainted with the State of North Carolina as I am and who know that its prosperity and the increase in the number of its inhabitants have been little disturbed either by emigration or immigration know that there is a tremendous mistake here somewhere. either in the census of 1880 or in the census of 1890. The natural increase of the people ought to have been about 30 per cent.. according to the statistics. I know of my personal knowledge that there has been little emigration from the State. and what little there has been from the State has been fully compensated for by the immigration. But the last censusshows that the percentage of natural increase of the people has diminished onehalf in that State. thoughit has not been visited by pestilence and notwithstanding the fact that the natural physical condition of the people. which is favorable to fecundity. has been constantly increasing during the decade. There is a greater increase of wealth. there is a greater increase of all the comforts and conveniences of life. and there has been a greater increase in the marriage list in the State of North Carolina than there was in the preceding decade.
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