The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-01-17
The United States Census from Irish View

From the Dublin Freeman Jour1lalJ
The United States look forward to the no distant
aay when their flag shall wave over quarter OF the
globe and the discordant republics which retard
their mutual prosperity and disgust the admirers OF
popular liberty by their constant appeals 10 arms and
mterminable intestine feuds shall merge into one
vast association of free States, controlled and direct
ed by that central power which now operates IN
narrower but still mighty circle from the city OF
Washington. They are already looking after the
0ueen of the Southern waters, Cuba Whether 1t be
necessary for the defence OF their commerce in the
Gulf of Mexico not, it is destined to add another
10 the acquisitions of the republic by war or purchase
However men nav dissent from that policy,
which by introducing unassmilating races into the
nnion would weaken its strength or on the broader
ground Of national morality, which cannot recognise
The right Of the stronger to Cypress the weaSerthe
fact OF Cuba being coveted by the Southern States,
and the probability of its future absorption is unyer-
sally admitted. -.
The States are in the full tide of prosperity. All
the elements of greatness visible in every State
of the Union, and all the conditions OF universal en-
pire proceed in her TO sure fulhment. The mother
and rival OF the republic also shares in the golden
prosperity which unforeseen causes have created and
which likely to exercise an influence on the world
that the boldest Spectator cannot reduce to any de-
terminate limits. But though progress has marked
the career of the old country, it has not been 50
rapid general, or so marked in Its extension 10 all
classes of society in the younger and more favored
country. An old and thckly peoped State, which
has been accommodating power and population for cen
turies must be slower III its social accreons than the
crease il so wide as be all but inexhaustibe but
still in those conditions where both stand on a level
and England might have equaled or outstripped her
rival in the race, she sinks below her In vitality and
vig0r.
The statistical document which appears in another
Part Of our columns, furnished by our New York
correspondent, is striking proof Of the immense
Roadway made by the States. The compiler OF the
census report takes just pride in comparing the
progress his country has made, both absolutely and
relatively in accordance with the natural
laws which regulate the onward movements OF all
States undisturbed by great physical disasters, and
relatively 70 Great Britain which has long been on
the pinnacle Of prosperity and progress. The Irish
census supplies the culver from which MI. Kennedy
discharge a barbed arrow against England. Into
that part Of the subject shall not enter except TO
repeat the words Of the report and acknowledge the
obligation they involve -
These startling and appalling facts proclaim the re-
ay of the uierngs perenced from the famine in Ire
hand and Il is consolation TO feel that distance
did not preclude those efforts behalf by our own
sizens and government, without which the des0aton
would have been more strongly marked
In the ten years preceding the last the pop
uatjon Of Great Britain and Ireland had increased
only about half million and in the last half century
the increase Of England aud Wales was 1872 per cent
IN the ten years intervening between the last two
the population Of the States had increased
from seventeen from twentythree millions, or 30 per
cent and in the past fifty years at the rate Of 337
per cent, or nearly quadrupled.
The number of houses occupied as dwellings in the
States amounted to 1868 ,f27 which is less BY nearly
which amount to 500 437 or one house TO each six
persons being nearly the same proportion az IN the
Union Under the head Of comparative dwellings
the reporter again refers TO Ireland and notices the
.extraordinary' fact which has been frequently al
uded to by ourselves that in exact proportion 70 the
dminution Of the Irish population since ISL has been
abe reduction n the number Of houses.
The Union makes ample provision for its pa1pers,
for there, too, they have tin poor among them"
The whole number Of persons relieved in all the
States though In very inconRiderabe numbers in
1860 was 1874 972 Of whom G8,53S were foreigners
and GG i34 Americans. The entire cost Of their
maintenance was close upon three millions of dollars
or Tess than 5000 600, being al the rate Of Is per
head. The aggregate may seem startling the report
remarks, 70 persons who have not studied paiper
statistics in other countries; but when the numbers
relieved in England and Wales az well as the amount
ior their relief are taken into consideration tho bar
tben " paupcrism on the Union must BE deemed