Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1845-11-04

soEiehing. Ttsro no issE " Slate Ike Maasa.hu.
s,ts bseomug Loco foeo. Tho people 100
ahd don't swiu liquor enough.
Allow here somsthing personal 90 myseli I do ina,
~sh be The author Of that cannot .ub,,,p
tate. The correspondent Of the Charleston Mercury M
Washington, has called mo to sceount for my saismen,
That Charleston. ever since the Compromise has been
losing in population and business ,o.ry To rrL, ,b,
statement, he gives table OF tho espors aud imports. of
that city, ir"m 1871 to lSi5 Th. mode 81 reaching ia.
difficulty, rnd.eulou. But taking his ow ..,emen,
he proves that Charleston did la importing twenty
years than she has ever don. since rh,
he has auJed here. both foreign aud domestic port.
!" no VIII hnd by examination. Bu', 10 he to tcst the
amount I" business done IN city by tho foreign imports
anu oaportsf By no TIL. VI exports sud
imports. Us be hss them, vary but very e, year for year
but does not the correspondent Of the Mercury know
that the buls Of all the dunbc articles imported into
Charleston. 10 simply nothing than ship ballast
Think OF aeiiy which talks iuously about imp ,ng
that has nnt in any year. exceeded 900 600 Char
esionis full OF foreign merchants and many the articles
on witch adaty II pail. are small their
friends in Europe. The lages, imports consist of wilma
aud SegaH IL is rare ,ing to all American shin
destined lot Europe in the hsrbor at Chare.on
NAH English and British Colonial ships 20 there with
almost substance for ballast get oaG Tor Europe
You ship after ship there for lumber which sail, far
some Colonial port 10 exchange her papers for British
Gle aranee. 10 escape paying duty England. This
ul Treaty which gave England all this advantage was
made by Mr. Meane. present Minister to rhs, Court
BY II, We are building up British Marine vi over 20
oOO men 10 fight evil day. Merchants
IN Augusta and other placen. have, likewise share in
the goods imported into Charleston. But when 1
spoke OF that losing population snd business made no
n''on c imports itom exports foreign ports. spoke
vi her general business.
To settle this fact To the satisfaction VI every one
need only say that the population tho city has been de-
elnng yearly The Me:cuIy Correspondent does not deny
iS. Now, AJAX, If peopl. would leave u place that
the increase IN businessl by the census Of l540
Charleston fell behind hundred in population
compared with her 1880, and Savannah lncrea.
ed from 1880 TO 1910. five thousand During The e
ence o' the ariil Of 1928 Charleston had larger popu
aion aud OF course did more bune thsn she has ever
done aimee. Her population fell Of most during the y.urs
al 1885, 49, 10, II and ~ when they were living under
the blessings OF free trade Her white population is
not 1000 and her whole population not over % 900
II any will shew how the business Of place will
increase, when the people leaving like flock of pi-
geons, he can do Than mortal man. The domestic
uade of he city, falls OIL every year. There no increase
oi stores, but decrease, and when say this speak that
which every Charles'cnan knows is true, That the arii
cannot be the cause is evident she goods
abroad under te Compromise than she sends to Eu
rope and the ports al lie Uaiied States received no
better prices en, Iha re does now and her goods in
cheaper, aud have been since the passage OF the
tariff Ut lSi2 IN tina, city. than they were under the
Compromse. so the tarH does lessen your business
Mr.. Correspondent. Your lands out and your
dispiried people moving o this the cause Of tie
decline. The population within fifteen aud thirty miles
round the city, Onchird less than one day before
the revolution Your peoples spirits broken down
You cannot show politician your State that poor
unpcvIed for, but halt If the people arc poor indeed
Row, ifyou mad with Polk land remember we tod
you you would not Ike him when you took him bed with
youl gs go home li animate your people charge their
policy and II Jim Polk does do lie proni.ed YOU
just come Mckenzie ON him. Gilmore aud Pickeas can
give you the materials. Ii these gentlemen will give
their letters and conversation from and with Polk III
pledge myself I'd convict him any Court of tie United
States Of the bases deception aud fraud. tell the coun
try Tar Polk is concerned his hands tied He is
afraid Of exposure. lie therefore, sacrifice Pcunsy
yann aud New York, conciliae few persons in
Carolina, and They tbs people II he possibly fEd
s.ios the arif he'll it. He in much more
trouble than the people Of and he and his party
much their end than they have any expectation Of or
desire be. Ia tie time, wish them not To get so
low TO be without the benefits OF Calonel.
SOUTHERNER