North Carolina standard., 1851-07-05
rr,on the Charleston Courier.1

,,;,ahIa Iscare delivered on the 10th of April last,
by .,r fellow-citizen G.. g. Memminger. before the
Young Mems Library '4ssocsaf,on Of augusta, "a.
sl,ewing African slavery to be consistent with the
,noral and physical progress of nation, which has
been published by w. S. Jones. Augusta, Ga. Mr..
Memminger has handled his subject with his charac,
tarstic abiIity and most concusively demonstrated
not only that the institution of African Slavery, It
exists at the South, is not national evil, but that 1t
positively favorable 10 the moral and physical pro-
oress both Of the master and slave. We cordially |
commend this lecture to the attentive perusa Of all
classes OF the community, and can assure them
that they will derive considerable information and
satisfaction thereroln. The learned gentleman has
illustrated his subject with corious references to an
cent and modern history. and SO fortified his argu-
ments, that they indeed irrefutabe.
Did our space permit, ould willingly transfer
to our columns the whole of this excellent address;
as it is content ourselves with quot;ng the
concluding portion of his argument, in ich he sue
cessully coniravenes, by reference to the two sec
tons of this hemisphere, the assertion so frequently
reiterated by the enemies of institutions that they
act prejudiciaIly to social advancement.
I'VE have been much in the habit of receiving
all facts and reasonlngs, receive our goods
from the North, that we have never disputed their
assertion that our institutions had operated unayora-
bly, upon our relative progress. We are greatly In
debted to Elwood Fisher for leading the way right
conclusions this subject. We have been so much
accustomed regard steam boats and rail roads and
great cities the indications of national pros
perty, that had lost sight of the great truth, that
national prosperity is really but the aggregation o
the happiness and prosperity of individuals Rail
oadsand steam bouts and great cities TO be found
in Egypt, and Russia, and India, we'll as in New
York and Massachusetts, while the masses are ac-
tualIy suffering from want. The greatest public
work now standing In the world, the Pyramids OF
Egypt, is really a monument OF the individual
wretchedness which must have been suffered by the
vast multitude, whose labor was compelled to rear
them.
A just comparison, then, Of the condition of two
people, only be made by comparing the relative
comforts, happiness intelligence and virtue of its in
Al iyi The between
the North and the South numerous; but for
occasion like the present. the detail of them would
be tax upon your patience. But it may be proper
remark generally, that paupersm and crime, which
are the two great indications of want and vice,
much greater at the North, in proportion TO the pop
uiaton, than at the South even after making proper
allowances for the immigran population among them.
In New York in 1874, one out of every FIVE of the
inhabitants received pulic charity. In Massachusetts,
one of every twenty. Large numbers of able
bodied men are included. In l949 in Boston, there
Is, 900 paupers, of whom Alb only were for
eigners. In New York and Massachusetts together
there 100000 paupers and they increase at the
rate of 900 per cent for ten years, while the popuia
ton itself Only increases go cent Let any South
ern compare these facts with what he around
him ard draw his own conclusion.
So. too, with crime. The number of convcts in
the three Penitentiares of New York 1000, at
the time tha: in all tire State of Virginia there were
but 200 white and black. If we take what its peo-
pie are pleased to call the land of steady habits,
namely, all New England and compare their Peni-
tentiafy convic,s with those of Virginia, they are
Just twice numerous in proportion 10 the popula-
ton. The statistics of the city of New York exhibit
that larger number criminals exists in that city,
than in all the Southern States put together. And
60 back to New England, find in Massachusetts is
alone 1908 committed in single year, and Of these
only l,l65 were foreigners. But to come still near
the point of comparison, take Ohio and Kentucky,
which only separated by the Ohio River. In
Ohio there 470 criminals in the Penitenary in
Kentucky only $780,, one-half at Louisville, on the
border, and third OF the whole number are from
free States.
$50, too, if we appeal to the positive indications
of prosperity, the surprising results will be
found. The vast emigration into the North, and the
expenditure there of most of the Federal Revenues.
give much activity and hustle TO every thing, that
our imposed upon by appearances. But the
rigid forms of figures which years census af-
Gord will not bend To fancy. These tables, made out
by Northern men themselves, exhibit the surprising
fact that the native population of the South increase
faster than that of heNorh Leaving o the enigrants
to the North from 1910 1850, their population has
increased 10 per cent; while in the South it has in
creased % per cent; nearly SO per cent. than
the natural increase of the North. We have before
US the results of 60 years, from the first census
in 1890 to the last in 1850. From these may fair
ly institute comparison, and in doing so, will
allow the North to select their four model New
England States, and compare them with the South
ern State which they traduce and vilify most, name
ly, South Carolina. Massachusetts, New Hampshire
Connecticut, and Rhode Island like South Carolina.
Were parts of the original l3. The cf the foul
New Eng land States is 23 III square miles, and their
aggregate population in 1890 was s27,867. Their
aggregate population in 1850 1881 1884, little
under l22 per cent.
The of South Carolina is $4,000 square miles,
or nearly the same the four New England States.
; By the census of 1890 her population was 219,O73
BY the of 1850 it is 668 557, little over 16s
per cent. Let it be observed, moreover, that the
whole emgrant population is included in the North
ern census, of whom, in Boston aore, there 60,
I00O and in the State Of Massachusetts one-ifh oil
the entire popuatioD while at the South there is no
such population to any extent. And thus it appears
that under all these disadvantages, the increase oil
South Carolina under Slave Institutions is 46 pei
cent greater than the model States of the North.
If the comparison extended between the State
of Georgia and the North, the difference would be
still more remarkable For this great State has in
creased in population nearly so per the last
ten years. and exces in rapdity of growth, any that
can be brought in competition.
; But told that are behind the age in all
the enterprise of day. Let point to the Char
, lesion and Hamburg Rail Road, and to the Georgia
Rail Road, which were for years the longest Railroads
in the world and the pioneers of those enterprises
let invite them to this fourishng city and visit
its Manufactures and see its energy; TO ride to
chattanooga and look through the tunnel in the Cum
herland Mountain-and let them examine Rivers
and see where Steam Boats absent where Nature
will permit their presence. And above all, let us
take them to farms, and plantations and homes.
and shew them our people, white and black well
clothed, we'll fed, and we'll housed, contened and
happy, if they would but leave us to ourselves.
Ii we turn attention to the external indications
Who needs to be told that the great articles which
Cotton Tobacco and Rice, are the products of the
South. and that the