Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1851-03-13
From the Charleston Mercury.
Census OF South Carolina.

We publish this morning an abstract of the
Census of the State, for which we arc i'll
debted to the courtesy of tho Marshall. This
statement is official. 1t presents very grail
fving result, and is sufficient answer to the
snecrs which have become the stcreotyped
feature of all comments by Il certain class Of
political writers, upon this State. The i'll
crease of population in ten years has been
more than 10000, and this while S. Carolina
affords an ncessant emigration to the new
States, and gains less by immigration than
any Slate in The Union except N. Carolina.
There is no boast more commonly or ar
rogantlv made, than that of the North over
the South, in the matter Of population. The
superiority of their Institutions, they are per-
petualy saving, is proved by their superior
increase. The Southern Press some time
since replied to one of these boasts by insti-
tuting comparison between South Carolina
and Massachusetts, in which the former show.
ed to advantage. We will extend this COM
parison, and embrace within it the results Of
the present ccnsus--rcsulls far more flvora-
bic to New England than those Of any pre-
cedng census, for reason that we vii! point
in the sequel.
Four of the New England States, viz: N.
Hampshire: Massachusetts, Rhode Island and
Connecticut, were of the original Thirteen,
who framed the Confrderacy. The area Of
these four States is 23.ll7 square miles, and
their aggregate population ut the first census
ofl790, WAS S27:S67. Their aggregate popu-
la'ion by the census of 1850 is 1871, ,234.-
The increase is little less than l22 per cent.
in the sixty years.
The area of S. Carolina is $4,000 square
miles, or rcarly the same rs the aggregate Of
til, four New England States Her popus-
tion bv the census of 1880 was 2iG,073. By
the census of 1850 it is 66s,557, the increase
being Il little more than lG8 per cent Those
who wish to try conclusions rs TO compare
tive influence / f free and slave institutions on
the advancement ofpopuation. would do well
to solve this problem Of IN increase in South
Carolina during sixty years amounting to lSS
per cent. while the four model States Of Free
soildom only show an increase in the same
;stime-Qf 123 per cent.
- :.;;s census is especially favorable to
Eesy ffngland for three reasons. Boston haT-
ing been during nearly the whole ten years
the terminus of The British linc OF steamships,
received constant tide Of cmigrants. The
Manufacturers during the same time have
been Systematically substituting foreign in
place of native labor in their mills. And
lastly, New England has been covered during
the same period with Il network Of Railroads,
nearly the whole labor Of which has been
done by foreigners Tie returns show. us
the result Of these causes that, in the City of
Boston the forei gn population is over $4,000,
,nl i'm tir Stntp 0f massachusetts, II umOunts
to near two-!ifths Of the whole.
Such causes have operated i'll but 4 very
slight degree ut the South. Our internal i'm
provemcnts and our manufacturing establish
mcnts arc carried OH mainly by the native
population, and VIC are entirely out of the
way of the current of European emigration.
The growth OF South Carolina is emincntly
her own-tl.c expansion Of her native powers,
ard it may challenge Il comparison i'll tlat rc-
spect with any other State.