The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-26

ing, without dlversifcation or Improvement: and
that the latter class, under the institutions of South
Carolina, does not exercise the same influence
that corresponding class of population does else
where.
We infer the reverse. We hold that in no
State is the planting interest more controlling
than in South Carolina. Every one of the pres
ent delegation in Congress from South Carolina,
is planter. What other State can show the
same thingl What is the representation of
Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, where we are
told farmers have so much more influence!
They are lawyers, doctors, merchants, &C.; sell
dom farmers.
The Republic goes on:
We propose to state some facts, to prove that
the prosperity of South Carolina had not increased
for long term of years that this decline was oc-
casioned by the condition to which we have refer
red, and to the competition Of fresher and more
fertile States, and that the relative diminuton of
her population and of her productions is not re-
ferable to the expressions of the Federal Govern
ment, but to the mistaken policy of her statesmen
and the IMPOVERISHED condition of her soil. In
proof Of this position We shall cite the popnla-
ton and exports ofSouth Carolina, from the adop-
ton of the Federal Constitution till the year 1912.
1854 sa,6s3,s6
The exports of South Carolina were, in
The exports of Georgia were, in 1871 49l ESQ
do do do 1s42 100000
White. Slape.
At the adoption ofthe Federal Con-
stitution in 1870, the population
Of South Carolina was l32, 906 107, O94
The population of Georgia was $500 29,264
In $780, South Carolina had gained 132 906 206, 1867
In 1880, Georgia had gained 245,972 lSS,267
In 1910, South Carolina had gained l,576 1857
| In 1910, Georgia had gained 4l0,348 1884
The population of Charleston was, in 1910,
24,7Il-in 1920, 80 ,2S9-in 1910, 29,2l1.
The increase of her exports after this period is,
we think, to be attributed to the railroad commu-
ncation which, with the assistance of Georgia,
she has extended to the West. This has not re-
eved the condition Of the smaller cotton planters,
which is much less prosperous than that of a cor
responding class elsewhere. At the same time
we shall compare the population and production
of Georgia during the same period. This will
demonstrate the superior agricultural advantages
Of fresh country with popular system Of insti-
tutons, and that division of labor which commerce
and manufactures produce. 1t will appear from
this comparison that these two States have adj
vanced in most unequal ratio in the acquisition
Of the materials of political power.
| And we propose to show that this whole state
ment and argument is utterly unworthy the
columns of a respectable paper.
Why give the exports of Georgia and South
Carolina in 1912? Have we no accounts before
or since or was there anything in 1912 to make
the principles ofphyscs and metaphysics operate
more distinctively or powerfully than before or
since. There is the last report of the Secretary
Of the Treasury on Commerce and Navigation,
for the year ending June 80, lS49. According
to that, the foreign Commerce of the two States
in that year was rs follows:
Exports. Imports
South Carolina, 9,7ol,l76 l,475,695
Georgia, 6,557,SO6 37l,O24
Taking the aggregates of exports and imports,
South Carolina had 1l,l76,s7l
Georgia, 7,22s,s3o
Balance in favor Of South Carolina, 3,S48O4
So that South Carolina Commerce exceeded
that Of Georgia more than fifty per cent, although
the population of Georgia was the largest by
about 6 PER cent.
Why did the Republic take the period of 1880
40, to show greater ratio of increase of Geor-
gia over South Carolina, and yet suppress the
fact that in that very period the vast body of
Cherokee lands in Georgia came into market,
lands of great fertility, that were divided by lot
among her people, and the price reduced so low
as to invite vast bodies of emigrants to whom
South Carolina could present no equivalent at
fractions That event transferred large numbers
Of South Carolinians to Georgia, and thus oper-
ated by the two-fold process of augmenting one
State and reducing the other.
The Republic tells us that in 1890 the popu-
lation was White Slave.
Georgia, $500 29,264
South Carolina, l32,9O6 1O7,O94
but that by 1880,
Georgia had gained, 245,972 lss,267
South Carolina, 1896 2OS,367
Why did the Republic forget to tell us that
Georgia has an area of $4,000 square miles, South
Carolina only $4,000, or not half as much. Does
not this account for the difference in the ratio
of emigration to the two, and from them? South
Carolina had even in 1910 twice as much popu-
lation per square mile as Georgia Is this the
effect of metaphysics or physics
The Republic tells us that the increase of
South Carolina exports after 1912, was the re-
suit Of her railroad communication, which,
"wth the assistance of Georgia, she has ex-
tended to the West" Does he. mean to say that
South Carolina had the assistance of Georgia
in extending railroads within the borders of
South Carolina! The reverse is the fact.
Far be it from us to institute invidious com-
parsons between South Carolina and Georgia
They are worthy to be sisters and neigh
bors. South Carolina took the lead of all the
States in railroads The road from Charleston
to Hamburg was in operation before there was
one in saohusetts--before, there was one
between the two great cities of the North, New
York and Philadelphia--or between Philadel-
phia and Baltimore. South Carolina has now
SCI miles of railroad line, 348 of which are
completed; and she is extending her lines East
and West She is the parent of the system of
which Georgia is so great patron South
70 hoe pow mora roll roads oomnlafad in