Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-03-15
2Su,3S5i 56,060
Total population Of the State,

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By this Census it appears, that in lS49 Edge
field had 1926 white inhabitants, or more than
three times rs many as either Of the Districts Of
Georgetown, Horny, Kershaw, Marlboro or Will
liamsburr, and more than t,cicc rs many rs each
of thirteen judicial Districts, namely: Beaufort,
Charleston, Exclusive of the Cilv) Coleton,
Georgetown, Orangeburg, Chesterfield, Fairfield,
Horrv, Kershaw, Lancaster, Marlboro. Richland
and Williamsburg. 1t is likewise worthy of note,
shat Edgcfeld lacks but little of having twice
the population of either Newberry or Darling.
ton. Indeed the last Federal Census gives her
more than twice the population of either of these
Districts, and may as well add, more than twice
that Of Chester also.
But let US take still another view Of the SUBJ
iect. The white population of :he whole State
il 9SO.3S5, which, when equally divided among
the twcnty-ninc judicial Districts OF the State,
affords an average population for each District
of only 9.66S inhabitants, or 6,5SS less than
Edreheld contains. And still further. The er-
cess of population in EdgelieId, over what that
of an average judicial District Of The State would
be, is greater than the whole present population
of either Barnwell, Georgetown, Horny, kcr-
shaw, Marlboro or Williamsburg. And Edge
field lacks but $3.50 inhabitants of having twice
rs many, rs an average judicial District OF the
State would contain, even when we include, rs
I have uniformly done in these estimates, the
populntion of our Cities and the dcnsely peoped
Districts of the Up Country.
Having established beyond controversy, the
fact that Edge6cld has more than twice as many
inhabitants, and more than twice as much terri
tory as each of half the present judicial Districts
in the State, will next undertake to indicate
some of the CRYING evils which she is suffering
and has long suffered from her immense extent
and large population. But before doing SO,
must make the single remark, that the foregoing
statistics of population will again pass in review,
when we come to consider the propriety of divid-
ing Edeefield politically, and of abolishing the
present excessive Representation Of the Parishes,
as we'll rs the odious geographical line which
separates the people of South Carolina into two
sectional, Jealous and hostile factions, without
,ny inst cause. HARPER.
P.S-The Printer omitted in my last COM
munication to follow the manuscript, in emu
,neraling the judicial Districts which have less
than half the territory of EdgefeId., He speei-
fed only nine of those Districts, while there are
fourteen. The remaining FIVE are Fairfield, Hor-
ry, Greenyile, Kershaw and Lancaster, but the
intelligent reader must have readily corrected
the mistake. Judicial Georgetown should have
been included also, as only about one-third Of
the Parish of "All Saints" lies in that District.
The other two-thirds form part of the judicial
District of Horny. The two judicial Districts of
Geerpetowr and Horny constitute three election
Districts or Parishes. This anomaly of Election
and Judicial Districts running into each other,
does not exist any where else in the State, and
T am at Il loss how TO ascertain the territorial
extent of either judicial Georgetown, or of judi
cial Horny. The amount Of population IN each