The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-03-19


Cxssus or SourH CAnoLuA.---Ws publish
this morning an abstract Of the census of the
State, for which we are indebted 10 the courtesy
of the marshal. 1ds statement is official. II
presents very gratifying result, and Is = suffi-
Gent answer to the sneers which have become
tho storeotyped feature Of all comments by
certain class of political writers, upon this State
The increase Of population in ten years has been
more than 10000, and this while South Carolina
affords IN incessant emigration to the new
States, and gains less by Immigration than any
State in the Union except North Carolina
There IL no boast more commonly or AFRO
gantly made, than that of the North over the
South, in the matter of population The supe-
riorty of their institutions, they are perpetually
saying, Is proved by their superior Increase -
The Southern Press some time since replied to
one OF these boasts, by instituting comparison
between South Carolina and Massschus in
which the former showed to advantage We
Will extend this comparison, and embrace within
1t the results Of the present census--results far
more favorable to New England than those of
any preceding census, for reason that we will
point in the sequel.
Four of the New England States viz; New
hampshire, Massachusetts,, Rhode Island, and
Connecticut, were of the original thirteen who
| As~NS~" saAo S~"NuutACJ. uo area Ol tucHe TOUR
States is 23,l II square miles, and their aggre-
gate population at the first census of 1890, was
S27,867. Their aggregate population by the
census of 1850, is 1881 ,234 The incrsase is
a little less than l22 per cent in the sixty years
The area of South Carolina is $4,000 square
miles, or nearly the same as the aggregate of
the four New England States. Her population
by the census of 1890, was 246,O73. By the
census OF 1850, it is 668,557, the increase being
a little more than l68 per cent. Those who wish
to try conclusions IA to comparative influence OF
free and slave institutions on the advancement
Of population, would do well to solve this pro-
blem OF an increase in South Carolina, during
sixty years, amounting to 1873 per cent, while
the four model States of Free seldom only
show an increase, in the same time, of l22 per
cent.
And this census is especially favorable to New
England for three reasons. Boston having been
during nearly the whole ten years the terminus
OF the British line Of steamships, received con-
slant tide of emgrants 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 a network
| of railroads, nearly the whole labor of which
has been done by foreigners. The returns show,
as the result of these causes, that, in the city
| of Boston the foreign population is over $4,000,
and in the State of Massachusetts, it amounts
to near two-fifLhs of the whole.
Such causes have operated in but very slight
degree at the South Our internal improvements,
and our manufacturing establishments, are car
ried on mainly by the native population, and we
are entirely out of the way of the current of
European emigration. The growth of South
Carolina is eminently her own--the expansion
OF her native powers, and it may challenge
comparison in that respect with any other State