The southern press., 1850-11-04

perhaps the first instance in which he has sue.
cessfnly resisted temptation to be rude toward
facts or myself
But will not permit Justice" TO escape from
this point with npunity. He complains that
the facts idduced are not sufficient lie denies
the conclusion without citing any further eyi-
dence. will produce more testimony. j have
now shown that at least two-thrds of the white
males in Virginia are freeholders. Let us cont
pare this with tile condition of the Boston popu-
lation, who have arrived at the acme of North
erncivilization and felicity According to Lemuel
Shattuck, the official municipal statistican oi
Boston for l845, there were only 81 % per cent.
OF the dwellings in that city occupied by owners,
SO 81 per cent. by tenants-noi one third free
holders And when we consider that, of the
white male adults Of Virginia, a considerable
number, not being yet married, live with their
parents in the freehold Of which they are to be
distributes whilst such us live thus with their
parents in Boston who are freeholders are reck-
oned as part of the freeholders, il will be appa-
rent that there must be much more than twice
as many freehoders in Virginia as there are in
Boston, in proportion to white population. In
l845 the number of males over theage of twenty
one was 32,363, and of these only 1918 had
iaraise property Of aay kind-nearly t0o-thirds Of
The men Of Boston pere destitute not only Of free
holds, bm Of all tarable property justice" and
his friend Mussey, sneer at onethird of the white
men of Virginia for being $50 mise,abLy poor as
to be unable to buy the rights of citizenship on
such easy terms rs twenty-five dollars" the
lowest value of freehold entitled to a vote, yet
tlco-Lairds Of the men of the great, rich, and
model city of the North are so miserably poor
that they are destitute Of property in any shape
which the taX-gatherer can touch.
In Boston there are 9l96 persons whose
taxes are under rs dollars which at the rate OF
taxation, 81 cents on the the ssl0O, would be
this class would be $4,000, which, for family,
is small IN amount of property rs in case OF
sickness or want of employment, so likely to
occur in city, would be protection in a city
from pauperism. The aggregate Of the pro-
perty of this class amounts to only SIC, ,23l ,200
and the balance of property in Boston that year
belonged to only 4,547 persons and amounted to
nearly | Is millions dollars, or ten times as much
per capita Behold then the equal distribution
of property in BostOn--one-se OF its men
rich, between one-third and one-fourth not equal
to the average wealth of Virginia or Kentucky
and nearly two thirds destitute of properly.
Compare this with the distribution of property
in Kentucky according to the auditors report, or
in Virginia even OH the freehold basis. And yet
we are constantly told of the inequality Of pro-
perty in the South All these statements con-
cernng Boston are taken from the official census
of the city in l345. And what is the tendency
the progress Of Boston? In 1920 the pro-
portion who paid poll tax only, or were with
out property was % per cent. on the tax payers
-uow it is 4S per cent! And now there are
some 5000 men who do not even pay 4 poll
taxi #.
The same work informs us that the number
of unmarried females from I5 to 25 in Boston
is l0, ,460-p 81 and in appendix, p. 43, we learn
that 4,046 females are in domestic service-and
it is well known that these are generally taken
from those who are unmarried but of marriage
able age. In the South, one-third of the whole
population is black is Of inferior capacity, and
is in slavery. In Boston, the aurora borealis of
northern civilization, Of religion, Of learning, of
liberty, of equality, of wealth, of comfort, two
thirds Of the men are destitute of property, and
more than onc-third of the women of our own
race, our own color, our own capacity, of our
own sensibility, in the bloom of youth and beau-
ty, in the season Of hope and Of joy--are in SER
vtude One-third of them too are nativcs-See
page Co. All these are in the service of 3,40l
families, out OF 1915, in the city, only little
own household work. In the South, it is alleged,
there arc only about 100000 shareholders. Al
lowing each Of these to have family of six on
an average, it would appear there are 100000
whites in the South, who have the service Of
slaves, and that is mare than one-ttird Of all the
Southern whites-many Of whom, if they do not
own slaves, hire them; another evidence of the
relative equality of condition North and South.
"Justice" next refers to Tie extraordinary
number OF carriages in Ohio, equal in proper
ton to those of Virginia, and exclaims "This
is truly one of the prodigies Of free labor" He
thinks it no evidence at all Of as equal distri-
button OF property in the latter as in the former.
If not, then the fact is not so favorable to Ohio
as "Justice" imagi ines-since, with only IL little
more than one-thrd Of the property per capita
of Virginia, and per white adult not even that,
the inhabitant of Ohio INDUCES in equal expen-
diture. But "Justice" never fails to mistake
extravaganza for wealth. That the white peo-
Pile of Ohio, with a State some three. fitths the
size Of Virginia, but with three times as much
ertile soil, should in sixty years accumulate,
ogether with what they took there, one-third
of the property per capita of Virginia, in $40
'ears, the latter having colonized in the mean
while considerable portion Of fifteen States,
md Ohio among the number, is not, after all,
such prodigy, particularly when we consider
he difference between the last sixty and the
preceding lS0 years. Even, however, suppos-
ng the 10000 pleasure carriages to be as valn-
ble as those of Virginia, and without adverting
o the fact that the number has been unaccount-
bly, doubled or trebLed on the Ohio auditors
chedule in two or three years. it is certainly
much better criterion of the distribution of pro-
'erty in Ohio than its actual accumulation, for
he auditors report shows what that is. "Jus-
ice" with his usual sagacity, perceives that
'eope living in level State like Ohio, with
'road and "pavcd highways" should, in conse-
luence Of one. .touuth Of the inhabitants Hcing in
o'cnS, have less occasion for carriages than in |
he most mountainous State OF the Union
Virginia, as well from taste rs convenience, is |
partial to the more manly and wholesome Gus
om of riding o. horseback hence, in 1870, she !
lad 326,43S horses AID mules, whilst Ohio,
lorse exporting State with twice the white
population, had only 430,527, or not two-thirds
If her proportion. And Kentucky, who, as |
Justice" says, has only one-eighth of the num-
,er of Ohio vehicles, has 475,543 horses and !
mules, or more than 100000 beyond her share
IS compared with Ohio, has enough horses ertra