The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1850-07-13
THE CENSUS OF 1850.

1dE CENSUS OF 1851,
Inquisitiveness is said to be one Of the moet
marked traits Of American character Truth
lies at the bottom of a well, and we are eter-
nally 'pumping it out. We are essentially
people. We abiure theories;
we abbor chimeras; we ridcule ghosts. Our
Lares and Penates are palPable. tangible, Lying
facts. Fiat Lux is our motto; and we are
the sworn enemies OF clouds, and mists. and
Of everything that can dim, Of eve
rything that can distort, and Of everything thar
can Obfuscate. We would know the real
stamp and color and proportions of every thing,
and would have il stand out in as broad bold
relief as meridian sunlight can give it. We
are a nation Of ventilatOrs and are for letting
the beams Of day through our whole political
and social creation. And we are right; for
public opinion is our vital element, aud it can
never be pure and salubrious, unless it has free
range everywhere, with no dark clOisters, or
murky caves, or shadowy forests to obscure
and contaminate it,
operations on the list Of June, is one Of the
mghtiest ventilating processes the world ever
witnessed. Its sweep is universal. Its six
enormous schedules will give the country an
ain kneVer had before. They will expose
a up all Of it's elements, and functions,
all satiOns-POpulatiOn, profession, color,
occupation place of nativity, births, marriages,
deaths, paupers, convicts, ignoramuses, deaf,
dumb, blind, lndiots, uRatiCs, slaves, fngitives,
freelneni products of agriculture, names OF
owners, agents, and managers, acres Of land
improved and unimproved, cash value Of farms,
aud value Of farming implemenlsi horses,
mules and asses; working oxen, milch cOwt
live stock and animals slaughtered during tht
year; wheat, beans, peas, buckwheat, barle
potatoes, clover, grass.seed, garden products,
cheese, butter, fax, hops, silk cocOOns, sugar
molasses, hemp, value Of home made manu-
factures, products Of industry, the name o.
manufacturing corporations, companies Of in
dividuals, kinds Of manufacturing business
capital invested in real and personal estate
quantity, kind and value Of raw material used
including fuel, the kind Of motive power, mum
Der Of hands employed, number and cost o
female labor and the annual quantity, kIn'
and value Of such product; the aggregate val
uation Of all real and personal estate, State
county, parish, town and road taxes the mum
Der and character Of colleges, academies an
schools, the amount raised for schools, an
received by them from public funds, the libra
ries and their extent, the numbel, class an
circulation of the periodicals and newspapers
Sunday schools, the churches, their names an
the number each will accommodate, the COZ
of labor, the average wages of female domei
tics, carpenters, day laborers, farm hand
whether with or without board the averag
and short crops, and in short everything tha
in any way relates to the character and pOlit
cal economy Of the nation.
The new census will be one tremendous al
ray Of invaluable figures any one of whic
may disarm hundred phantOms, and put
flight thousand sophistries. Facts are III
only data Of all political dialectics, the prlmaT
elements Of all political science. Such stat
; ments as this census will furnish are the be-
, cons which illuminate the great civil dee
and guide the public pilots on their onwaI
j course. Society is in perpetual state OF FLU
r tuation. 1t is a sea Of currents and count
, currents; and tho policy or the measure whi'
may at one time be embarked upon with pc
feet safety and success, will, at another, end
shlpwreck and ruin. The statesman, unlll
the philosopher whose province is the unive
sal and lmmutable, has to do with the paHiO
=. - lar and the transient, the conditional aDd Il
contingent. Such investigations and devs
opements, as are involved in this census la
= are indispensable to all wise legislation; al
- the more complete and exact they are, t
better for the interests Of the country.
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