Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-11-02

fa!o, and perhaps Oswego. How this vii
tell upon the representation of the State
and upon its position in the Union, will b
seen upon the examination of some fact
that We derive from one Of her city journ
ais From 1910 to 1850 the total increas
of the State was go, GOO, of which New
York and Buffalo gave $4,000, and th
remainder Of the State 3Gl 200; and not
withstanding this increase, the State los
one member Of Congress. At the mex
census, the total population Of the Uniol
will be greater by at least fifteen per cent.
and unless she gain nearly 100000 sh'
must lose more than one member at tn,
next apportionment. That her whole in
crease will be greatly short of half mil
lion We fully believe, and should sucl
prove to be the case she must fall from hel
present repres' ntation of SO to one of 81
! Directly the reverse of all this is wha
is being done in our State. While New
York is breaking down all her interior
towns and cities, We are not only building
up those that exist, but We are creating
new ones and others must Of necessity bt
created on the various lines of road now il
, course of construction. Each of these
becomes market for the produce of the
vicinity, and thus offers inducements no,
only to the farmers there already to remain
but for others to come from abroad thus,
while New York is diminishing the attrac,
tion Of her farms, we are building up our
.owns, and increasing the attractions Of our
lands, the necessary consequence Of which
must be rapidly increasing population.
From 1910 to 1850, our increase was
800, 900, or thirty-one per cent, with gain
Of one member Of Congress. In the pres
ent decennial period, it must inevitably be
much greater, and we shall find ourselves
greatly in error if i! do not prove sufficient
to give Us two additional members Of Con
gress. Should it do SO, and should the
course Of affairs in New York continue as
1t has begun, the representations under the
census of 1860 will stand 81 to 81, giving
difference Of only I against 10 under the
census of 1910, and under that of 1880.
With each succeeding year, the differ
ence Of the growth must, we think, become
more manifest. The grand difficulty with
US has been to obtain roads, but that is
now happily in course of being rapidly
surmounted; and the State is bound, as
we think, to present attractions for immi-
grafton equal, perhaps we might say supc
rior, to those of any portion Of the Union
such attractions as will secure that un-
der the census Of 1870, now only fifteen
years distant, she will take her place in the
Union as being not only the Keystone, but
the Empire State. To those who may feel
disposed to doubt that such will prove to
be the case, we would suggest the expedi-
ency of furnishing an answer to the fol-
lowing question: IfPenusylvania, ,almos.
totally unprovided with roads, has steadi-
ly gained Oh New York for twenty years
past,is she not bound to gain upon her with
infinitely greater rapility now, that she is,
or is about to be, as well supplied with
roads as New York herself?
Before closing We may be allowed to add
word about our neighbors in Ohio. 1t
must be within the recollection Of many of
our readers, that prior to the last census
there prevailed throughout the State con-
tident belief that the time had arrived when
she might contest with Pennsylvania the
second place ia the Union. The actual
enumeration of her people, however, dis
pelled this illusion, and brought with i.
the mortifyipg fact that while Pennsylva-
MIA obtained one more member, Ohio had
for the first time in her history become sta
The cause for this is obvious.
Her whole efforts have been given to max
ing roads for people to pass through the
State, and make their way to the cheaper
lands of the West, while diminishing the
inducement to remain and cultivate her
own lands. With abundance Of coal and
ron ore, she closes her furnaces, and with
abundance of fuel to furnish steam to drive
ier mills, ard thus make a market for her .
'ood and her wool, she appears in Congress
Is the advocate Of a system that makes her
dependent on distant market for the sale
# her wool and her wheat, and for the
purchase of the clothing for her men, wo-
men and children, and the iron with which
o make her roads.
At the next census, Ohio will, We think,
axe lower place in the representation
han that she now occupies-and if so, it
ill afford strong evidence that the same
olicy which has sent Virginia from the
rst place to the fifth, is now in full ope-
alton, not only in regard to New York, an
ID State, but also to Ohio, one yet SO
Dung that half century since she had
ut a single representive on the floor Of
ongress.
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