Squatter sovereign., 1855-02-13

Let us not take aSSefllOnS, Dtt again tippiy
the test of truth-let us appeal again to the
census. We take again New England
and the same five old slaveholding States.
Me-, N. H., VT, Mass, sR. l., Conn.,,
Population Families. Annual Births
2,72S,1 lis. 51S, 1923. elias.
Md, Va, N. Car, S. Car, and Georgia.
Population. Families Annual Births
2,730,314. 506,96S. 1858.
With equal population, with 1854
more families, New England has 16,535
less annual births: the natural increase by
birth being 81 per cent. greater III the
Southern States than in New England!
Estimating the number of families, the
proper mode of estimating natural increase,
and these Southern States increase by
birth more than 80 per cent. faster than
New England. Here again we find the
laws of nature vanquished; the rule re-
versed: the North, instead of supplying
population to the South, is far behind lii
natural increase.
OF the five Southern States, which we
have selected for our comparison, two OF
them, South Carolina and Georgia, are
deemed so fatal in their climate, a north
ern Life Insurance Company would for
felt its policies for visit to their terrific
ries; and yet we find them more prolific
than the nurseries of the North! We
must look beyond the climate for the cause.
We find one in the greater number OF
dwellings, the consequent increase of COM
fort to their occupants in the slaveholdlng
States. But this alone is not sufficient to
produce so extraordinary difference: other
causes, equally efficient, much conduce to
this result; and those causes may, without
difficulty, be traced by their effects.
The natural increase of population indi-
Gates both the physical and moral condition
of people. To increase and multiply" /"
a people must be healthy and happy, viz
tuous and vigorous: they must labor, not
toll; their diet be nutritious, their habits
regular. Luxury and Incidence as
naturally beget efeminacy, as do destitu-
ton and oppression produce imbecility.
A people, virtuous, with comfortable
homes, ample provision, without excessive
toll, will even overcome the Obstacles OF
climate, and increase more rapidly than
those who in the most favorable climate,
without a home, toll for a scant subsistence
become vicious from destitution; and those
who from excessive wealth, with no stimu-
lus to healthful exercise, become idle and
effcminate. Virtuous women and vigorous
men, are the materials with which to pro-
duce rapid population. We trace the
course by its effects.
When it is thus found that the people of
the Southern States, with all the obstacles
r I. H.,
laws of nature, have increased by natural
increase more rapidly than the people of
New England, with all the advantages Of
climate in their favor, we are driven to the
conclusion, that the physical and moral
condition of the former must be far better
than that of the latter.
But we have other evidence on this
question, no less startling, not less conclu-
sive.
Although as we have said, two of these
Southern States are SO unhealthy, north
ern Life Insurance Company would for
felt a policy for a visit to their limits, not
only suffer under the usual fatality Of a
hot climate, but are liable to deadly diseases
peculiar to their locality; yet we find that
the number of deaths is far less than in
country of New England.
Me-, n. H., VT, Mass, r. l., Conn,
Population. Deaths. Ratio.
2,72s. .Aa 42,36S. 1 to 64.
Md, Va, n. Ca. S. Car, and Georgia.
Population. Deaths. Ratio.
2,730.3l6. 1926. to IS. .
In New England, there are 10,I52
more deaths annually than in these fatal
Southern States. In the former, the
deaths are in the proportion of to 81;
i'm the latter of to S5,- or nearly 33 pei
cent. in favor of the slaveholding States.
Here again we find nature conquered
The physical and moral condition of the
people of the South is so much better, that
climate and disease are overcome, death
vanquished, and his victims far less thar
in New England, with its pure air and
learned physicians.
We thus find that these slayeholdine
States which abolitionists would represen
as becoming depopulated, actually increase
81 per cent. per annum faster than New
| England, not taking into account the artif
cial increase by importation: the excess o
southern births being % per cent, o
northern deaths SO per cent. We have
not taken into consideration the increass
in the population of New England by ina
migration, because we can only look a
natural increase, to ascertain the physica
and moral condition of a people. Whei
we come to consider the political condition
of the respective portions of our country
we propose to notice the effect of an In
crease Of population by immigration, ant
it viii be found that it is by no means s.
clear that the north has cause to congratu
late itself on its advantage IN this particu
lar.
But while we thus exhibit the conditiol
OF the white race, the master In the slave
holding States, we may be told by tn
abolitionists, that we dare not look at tn
condition ofthe .'poor siave;" that the mas
ter's ease is their oppression; that the mas