The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-01-19
Prem the Dublin Freemans Journal.
The United States Census from an Irish View,

The United States look forward 10 the no distant day
when their flag shall quarter OF the globe
and the dscordant republics which re,ad their mu-
ua prosperity and disgust the admirers OF popular liberty
by their constant appeals 10 arms and nermnabe intes
tine feuds shall merge into vast association of free
States, controlled and directed by that central power
which now operates in a narrower but still mighty cir
Gle from the city of Washington. They are already
looking after the Queen Of the southern waters Cuba
Whether be necessary Tor the defence OF their
merce IN the Gull OF Mexico or not is destined to add
another TO the acquisitions OF the republic by pur
chase However men may dissent frem that policy,
which, by Introducing unassmiaed races into the Union
would weaken its strength, or ON the broader ground oil
national morality, which cannot recognise The right Of
the stronger 10 Cypress the weakerhe fact OF Cuba be-
ing coveted by the southern States, and the probability of
its future absorption, is universally admitted,
The Stes are in the full lide OF prosperity All the
elements oil greatness are visible in every State OF the
Unon and all The conditions oil universal empire proceed
in her 10 fulhment The mother and rival of the re-
public also shares N the golden prosperity which unfore
seen causes have created and which are likely TO exer
influence the world that the boldest specula
tor cannot reduce 10 any deteminate limits Bot though
progress has marked the OF the old country has
not been so rapid, so general or marked in It's extern
sion TO all classes OF society in the younger and more
favored country. An old and ihckly peoped Stale which
has been accumualing power and population Tor cen
ures, must be slower in is social accreions than The
younger aud energetic where the field of increase ia
wide 10 be all but iBexhausble; but STILL in those
conditions where both stand level and Eng land might
have equaed or oustrpped her rival in the race she
SINKS below her in vitality and vigor
The statistical document which appears in another
paIi OF our columns furnished by our New York cor.
respondent, is striking proof OF the immense headway
made by the States. The compiler OF the census report
takes Just pride IN comparing the progress his country
has made, both absolutely and eyabsolu,ey 10
accordance with the natural lava which regulate the
onward movements OF all States updisufbed by great
physical disasters and relatively 10 Great Britain which
has long been on The pinnacle OF prosperity and progress
The lrlsh census supplies the culver from which MIR
Kennedy discharges barbed arrow against Engiand
Into that part OF the subject we shall not enter except 10
repeat The words OF tho report and acknowledge the OBJ
rThese startling and appalling facts proclaim the
reality oil the suheriHgs experienced from the famine in
Ireland and i IS some consolation 10 feel that our dis
lance did not preclude those ers in her behalf by our
own citizens aad government, without which the desc
lalion would have been more strongly marked"
In The ten years preceding the last the popula
ton OF Great Britain and Ireland bad increased only about
ball million, and in the last bali century the increase Of
England and Wales was o2 per cent In the ten years
intervening between the last two censuses the population
OF the States had increased from seventeen to twenty
three millions, &c per cent, and the past fifty years
at The rate OF a37 per cent, or nearly quadruped
. The number Of houses occupied a. dwellings in the
one.tentb than the inhabited house. in Great Britain
which amount 10 3669.437 or one house 10 each six
persons, beng nearly the same proportion in the
Union. Under the head OF Comparative Dwellings" the
reporter again refers 10 Ireland and notices the eyrsor
binary fact which has been frequently alluded to by our.
selves that IN exact proportion to the dmnuion OF the
Irish population since Sti has been the reduction in The
number OF houses
The Union makes ample provision for its paupers-for
there, too they " have the poor among them" The
whole number OF persons relieved in all the States though
in very nconsderabe numbers in $780, was l3i 972 of
whom s,53s were foreigners, aud GO ,43i Americans
The entire cost Of their maintenance close upon g.,
0os ooo less than f6oo 900, being the rate OF G5
per head. The aggregate may seem startling, the report
remarks 10 persons who have not studied pauper stas
tics in other counnes bu, when The numbers relieved il
England and Wales well as the amount for their re-
lief taken into consideration, the burden OF pauper-
ism on the Union must be deemed very light In seven
teen years the poor.law expenditure in England and
Wales amounted 10 IS, 900 600 sterag vas, sum, and
which country like England only could sustain.
These ate the main features OF the report They ey.
hib remarkable instance of national progress and
point lime when the Union shall have realized that
elimination power which had been so long enjoyed by
/" the fruitful mother OF States" bot from which she
gradually declines in the proportion as the younger
and more elastic daughter ascends