The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1859-08-26
The Impending Crisis of the South.
and South Carolina.

-Pennsylvania and South Carolina.
Tho following article so fully meets
our views of the matter. that we transfer II
to our columns. 1t is from the Albany
Ercning Journal;
Thcro was timo within tho recollection
OF some yet living, when Charleston, IN
South Carolina, imported foreign fabrics
tor tho Philadelphia trade. That timo has
gone by mover to return whilst Ponnsylya-
mia remains Frou State, and South Caro-
Ina continues undor tho curse of Slavery
Charleston has spacious harbor, n central
position, and mild climate, bnt with tho
incubus of Slavery weighing upon her and
crushing her down, these advantages availcd
her nothing against the vigorous competi.
ton of a free people. She could not oyor-
como tho irnmutabo decree of the Almighty,
that Slavery is curse which brings dcsola-
ton and ruin in It's train.
Mr.. Benton in this "Thirty Years Wow"
says that in 1850 tho imports of Charleston
were sS2. .662, 900. In 1853 thoy had dwin.
died down to Sl,7j0, 900 "a decrease Of
$4,000 in ninoty.hve years, slow but om-
nous and highly insignificant diminution
The census Of 1880 shows the yalne of all
tho farms. farming implements and ma
ch'nery in Ponnsy ylvania to be worth S442,-
1885, whilst in South Carolina the Same
article were worth only SSG, SIG, o3S =
difforeuco O! 1856 0S0 COZ in favor of
Ponnsy yiyania. ln othor words. these items
in PENNSYLVANIA wero worth fire times as
much as the same Hero worth in South Car
olina
BY the same census tho value OF all the
real aud personal estate of Pennsylvania
Tod IN 4 N Snuth
olina, including 3c4 925 Slaves, to &2SS,
257 Goa "a dilurouco of S440, 1887, ,30l IN
favor of Penns ylvania. In other words, the
FrUo State Of Pennsylvania is worth nearly
three times us much as tho Slave State of
South Carolina. The number of free in
habitants in tho City of Philadelphia is 4OS
792 in South Carolina 2S3, 544--shOwiug
that the City Of Philadelphia, alone, con
tains l25,2lS moro free inhabitants than
tho whole State OF South Caroliaa.
We might extend our abstracts to books,
schools, and public journals in all of which
the comparison is equally tlattering to the
Free, and equally disparaging and degra-
ding to the Slave Stnte. But enough has
already been presented to furnish abundant
materials for sober reflection. Strange as
it NAV seem, in Wow of tho facts shown by
the glaring statistics wo have presented to
our readers. Southern Shareholders are mOv-
ing heaven and earth to extend the curse
SO fatal to their prosperity. In pursuing
such course, they initiate tho example OF
those wicked spirits, who being unable to
elevate themselves to the abOdcs of the
blosscd, exerted all their malignant inge
nuty and skill to bring down tho dwclIors
above to the Internal regions which they in
hubitcd, resolved that if they could not be
happy, they would do overy thing in thoir
power TO make others as wretchcd and us
miserable as themselves.
And stranger still is the fact that the
Northern men who have from their first en-
trance into life. brcathcd tho pure and
wholesome air of Freedom, who bavo wit
nessscd its nvigorating effects upon the
prosperity of individuals, and of States.
should for tho psltry Ioaycs and fishcs of
office combine with the SIuvory propagan
dsts of tho South to extend this desolatng
OWL
Tho punishment of tho South is upon her
for her violation of Gods immutable laws.
1t is visible on every side in her docrepl
tudo and decay. Can the North persist in
the sin of aiding to extend this iniquity and
escape the righteous rotribution of iicavon: