The Free Negro Population

The subjoined table, compiled from the census of 1860, is interesting at this time.  It will be seen that the free negro population of the South is considerably in excess of the North:

NUMBER OF FREE NEGROES
In the Free States.		In the Slave States
California	3,816	Alabama	2,680
Connecticut	8,542	Arkansas	137
Illinois	7,069	Delaware	19,723
Indiana	10,869	Florida	908
Iowa	1,023	Georgia	10,146
Kansas	623	Kentucky	10,146
Maine	1,195	Louisiana	18,638
Massachusetts	9,454	Maryland	83,718
Michigan	6,823	Mississippi	731
Minnesota	229	Missouri	2,988
New Hampshire	450	North Carolina	30,097
New Jersey	24,947	South Carolina	9,648
Ohio	36,225	Texas	339
Oregon	121	Virginia	57,579
Pennsylvania	66,373	Dist. Columbia	11,107
Rhode Island	3,918		259,078
Vermont	582
Wisconsin	1,481
	222,747

– Published in the Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 12, 1862, p. 4

The Result Of Eight Censuses

We were favored recently by the Superintendant of the Census with a copy of a tabular statement, prepared, in his bureau, which, from its comprehensiveness and condensation, deserves a passing notice.  The table comprises the aggregate population of each State and Territory of the United States every tenth hear, from 1790 to 1860 inclusive, classing in a separate column, at each period and in each state the number of “whites,” “free colored,” and “slaves,” and we have all these aggregates of eight different census in a table 36 inches by 12. – We presume that the reader could hardly, of himself, begin to estimate the amount of human labor that was expended in traveling and obtaining and recording and reporting the details compressed into this space of 36 inches by 12, or the weight in tons of vast volumes of manuscript returns from which this compendium has been reduced.  Would the reader believe that these masses of figures in manuscript, of the eight censuses, would load one hundred wagons?  Yet it is so, incredible as it may appear.  What a labor, then, the reduction of all this to one sheet! – Washington Intelligencer.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 29, 1862, p. 2