The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent. (Port Gibson, Claiborne Co., Miss.) 1848-18??, 1851-08-08
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The Success Of Southern Enterprize.

Notwithstanding the clamor raised against
Northern oppression, and the violent denunci-
ations of the operations of our Federal system,
represented to be partial, unequal and unjust,
the stubborn fact cannot be got over, that the
South is advancing in the great race of pro-
gress and Improvement, in degree, and to an
extent, not only beyond our most sangune an
tieipations, but at rate of speed which will in
time, place US ahead of our older and richer
competitors of the North. South Carolina.
which, if we are to credit her restless and rev.
olutonizing politicians, is squirming under the
heel of the oppressor, and writhing as the VIC
tim OF despotism exceeding that of the colo
NAL vassalage of any eastern province, was
never in more fourishing condition than
atpresent. She must possess the recuperat;ye
virtues Of the camomile plant: the more she is
trodden upon, the more she fiourishes; for she
has developed energies and enterprise which
for the past seventy-fve years have laid DOR
mant and latent, and which never would have
been aroused or revealed, but for the magma
ry sense of wrong which has stirred up her
hitherto quiet and torpid people. Charleston
is now doing what she should have done thirty
years ago; she is throwing off her lethargy
and inertness, emancipating herself from the
provincial dependence upon Northern capital
and enterprise, and developing her own
strength and resources. Her destiny is that
of great and prosperous city; and were il
possible to estracise her factious, head-strong,
| and senseless politicians, she would be the last
| city in the Union that would make the unhaI-
| lowed attempt TO sever the bonds which unite
her to the eonfederacy.
The sober minded and rejecting portion of
| the citizens of Charleston are pursuing policy
that is calculated, not merely to enrich their
beautiful city, but which will most effectually
Illustrate the suicidal efforts of the secession.
lists to cut her off from the Union. In the
first place, liberal and far-seeng spirit of en-
terprize has engaged her citizens extensively
in works Of internal improvement. She is
now by railroads connected with North Caroli-
ma on one side, and with Georgia on the other,
and gradually but continually extending herline
of communications with the Ohio on the nor h
and the Mississippi on the west. The COM
munication with the West has become SO d.
| rect, that we notice a remark in a Buffalo pa
| per, at the extreme western end of New ork,
that they are getting Nashville news by the
way OF Charleston and New York, one or two
| days earlier than by the Cumberland and Ohio
rivers. And this, too, with only two or three
sections of the Charleston and Chattanooga
Railroad in operation. When the line is CON-
pleted, and Tennessee makes Charleston her
seaport, as she expects to do, and throws New
Orleans in the shade, Modification and disun-
ionwil be killed stone dead. Theron grooves
will bind South Carolina so firmly to the Mis-
sissippi Valley, that all the demagogues south
of MASON and Dixon's line cannot loosen her
But Georgia, in special degree, illustrates
this work of progress, showing what driving
industrious, enterprising people can do, when
they are once determined to be independent
In 1880, that State, in her relative position with
the other thirteen States, was eleventh. Since
that period sire has been uniformly rogresslye
and she row stands on the list, in respect to
population, the fifth. The following particu.
lars will exhibit her present proud position:
POPULATION.
Whltes .,... ..-...., 0zo,4l
blacks, .,...,.+.,........,.. 5S2,z94
Iotal. .................... 90S,Ill
Value of real and personal estate 34.56o,2l7
Amount of State tax. .........2 228,247 Is
County tax. .................. l70,803 56
Total. ..................S S499,05O SO