The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-03-13

CENSUS or SOUTH CARoLINA.--We publish this
morning an abstract Of the census of the State for
which we are indebted TO the courtesy Of the mar
shall. This statement is official. Ii presents a
very gratifying result. and is sufficient answer
| to the snsers which have become the slersotyped
feature ofal comments by a certain class Of pot-
lcal writers, upon this State. The increase Of
population in ten years has been more than 10 :
900, and this while South Carolina affords an in
cessant 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 arrogant
ly made, than that ofthe North over the South in
the matter Of population. The superiority of their
institutions, they 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 Massachusetts, in which the former showed
to advantage. We will extend this comparison,
and embrace within it the results Of the present
census--results far more favorable to New Eng
land than those Of any preceding census, for rea-
son that we will point in the sequel.
-Four Of the New England States, viz New
Hampshire, Massachusetts,, Rhode Island ard
Connecticut, were of the original Thirteen, who
framed the Confederacy. The area Of these -four
States is 1911 square miles, and their aggregate
population at the first census Of 1880, was SAT )
ooI: lheir aggregate population by the census ol
1850 is ] 1891 1884. The increase il little les,
than III per cent In the sixty years.
The area of South Carolina is "a, 900 square
miles, or nearly the same as the aggregate OF the
four New England States. Her population by
the census of 1880 was 249,0 73. By the censu,
of 1850 it is 668, 557, the increase being littl,
moro than 168 per cent. Those who wish to try
conclusions az to comparative influence Of free ant
slave institutions on the advancement of popula
ton, would do well to solve this problem Of al
increase in South Carolina during sixty year.
amounting to 168 per cent, while the four mode
States of Free-soildom only show an increase in
the same time Of 1872 per cent. 3m
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 dur
ing the same time have been systematically sub
shutting foreign in place of native labor in their
mills. And lastly, New England has been COW
cred during the same period with network Of
railroads, nearly the whole labor Of which hal
been done by foreigners. The returns show, a,
the result of these causes, that in the city of Bos
ton the foreign population is over 1000, and il
the State Of Massachusetts, it amounts to nea
two-ffths of the whole.
Such causes have operated in but very sligh
degree at the South. Our internal Improvement
and our manufacturing establishments, are carriet
on mainly by the native population, and we ar
entirely out of the way fthe current of European
emigration. The growth Of South Carolina il
eminently her own,--the expansion of her natv
powers, and it may challenge a comparison ii
that respect with any other State.