The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1849-04-11

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"A Ess.Iaf % ssItialse
s2f 9llr::3 I.sst The
saTI I'D sac IIssI
amt
froias q free iasate, one Ys ,,as jus
retiirnel d 6 Tee to fpnglaSs
libefal in its tote ,lsI Stis i,,s
/ haps teo much SO, to Tho South. Tho lecture
lsin some places bring ssuch effective and star.
lung pr6oftfiat We wsfeS On airst reading ~.
clined to believe hat itswas tbs
object Of SELF beheiit and ii thus la ID i1a OH, n
finstitutio tiat sdutfi6r might demand
southern patronage and ssehdoEEs sement to lans
lpfurthers action .eng hiss -bsinE iii Rad
merely to tickle otr national vanity. Tho
IsHne belief has taken;hold cin fliosmiiid SoI
many others but he 1t may, ,it iss d gjro.
1;durtionof vast utility aitho fsqmoofii iiiis cal.
cnlationsiarei erronccns.a Butswo aie esiiclili.
led to- look;mithsuspicion On the north iii such
|,natters and particularly o,l.rO Oho, still Mr.
FlsHER hay be sincere iiiiall Ills Belief and Ii
EsoaRe! hail him asioia OF our defefidessit
I sIt has always been:assumed by; the noftt,
l:thatswe are tprospe that ws araiiin
a declinr-- MrsF Fisher proves to the contrary
I've arcl and have beeiii alwayag the most
prosperous He sets ioiit with rsmarkihe
tbattf,e two great sections of tihsl country
We're, i'm most respects nearly Eedaal tat the
time oftl,e Rdoptiontot tho Federal yeonssitu
Etonsi nI&caltbs pohulatons in sessei,t; ecnnl-
tivation and fertilityof soil That the, policy
ofthe Goyerninentjsinee 1916; byttaxation,o Of
commerce has been hemaking offbe north,
and the: ground for The supposition of South
ern mpovershmentt!H He says t.thcy first OBJ
lectSof ciyilizedlife isto accumulate wealth.,
and because. we lack in asone measure the
enterprise ofthe northiin so.doingtweiaIe fas.
ruhhing'to decay, ,lsuclri is the language Of the
North Mr.. Fisher says sin regard to this
supposition-'sfet in oppositiom 10 the exist
ing opinion the subject,; / maintain that
the South is greatly sheiisuperior eto athe
North IN .WeRlih,iin proportion to the num-
Der OF their oaiSens respectively. and thishe
proves by comparisons. iIn' regard; 10 the rel
alive means fthe twosections in 1910, states
that the average wealthgof d free sperson in
Virginia is $685. in nFeie York iitSis Tonly
$500, moro thanlone third greater; IN Mary
land, the average wealth is 1851, while ein
Massachusetts itiis only $4O6: Der Zee. cent
richer. Each white person in fKeatucky ay-
erages $456s while i'll Ohio tits only siSe76
The white population Of {pisgii iiili iiniia equals
that of Massachusetts, yeti 1910 the former
built 402 brick houses and the latter 324.L
Virginia had the same numbcr 2of hogs Il, in
1910 that Ohio had, yet Ohio exports d alarge
amount Of Pork.while Virg iaia Imports l1ree largee
quantities; the white population Of Ohio being
1twlce that of 7Firgi,fia. The wheat crop in
Virginia, in Is4O, was I0,lO9, ,7I6 { bushels,
while in New York: it wsas l2:2sG, AIS. q The
natural increase of'tlie popuiation,is 60 per
cent:'!thatlof the South is 655e pei: cent. I'm
1lS43, in. New, York, there was one pauippter path
to every seventeen individuals; III the ciity, in
4lsi7, there,was onc'to every FIVE. dependent,
more or less, cntpublc charity with ua
that pauperism is almost unknown. In New
York there are 1000 convcts III tie Penitet,n-
tiarics; in Virginia II l whites and so blacks.
which indicates four tines the amounts Of
crime corresponding with tile poIpulatieoSn1!.-.
With the South ls3,766 free negroes live,
happier far than those Of the North. That
out of IL 1903 free negroes inythe city, Of New
York only lob voted, by right Of properly pi+pe
qualifications. I'hit in.Vifgmia and Massa-
chusetts there are ten times as n many FREQ
negroes in the Penitehtiary as Their p5roposf-
ton. to the white Population. III, concludes
by warning the whole Union as to the rastric.
ton Of slavery He says the two great II , sys-
tens have grown up with each ,other and if,
one falls-both must.~ Concluding with the,
following appropriate cpitaph, IL such deplor-I
able able event should ever nippon Here
were a people who disputed about the Ca ca
pacity Of the African for liberty and ciyliza-
ton, and did not themselves possess the Ca
pacity'to preserve their own.'' '.,'a : '-tt
4i ELEcfIoNs.-The Election for Intendant'
,wardens of Columbia; Camdon and Che
raw, for the ensuing year,Were held on Mon
day week!last. alsFts4s i4,f.
The following gentlemen were, elected:.
For Columbia, DR.. EDWARD sILL-I Iutendantl
Wardens--lsti ward James Fcnton,J J. S.
Boatwright.G aj23 FiSiG YsHl3T 80
I'd ward--W. M, Glaze, Johns. Scott
Z 3D. ward--Galloway Monteitli, r. Bayne.
For Chcraw-Dr. NJ, MacleanG-I -Intentlant.
WarOens-J::A. Moore,J p. IIarrall, E. j.
Waddell and:S. Keeler .fl Ill it,EFt aFH
For Camden.-J. R. McKain- -Intendaiit
% Wardens.-J. Dunlap, John Rosser,sA. M
Kennedy and a tie betweenJ ]. FySusherlafali