New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-06-15
.sarnsSns,s STATISTICS.


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Mr. Charles Sumner, = his recent TRADE N the
Senate, undertook to demonstrate the maiign IN
fuence 81 slavery by citing the inferiority OF the
south in the raspectsbf population, wealth, col
legcs, newspapers, and everything else. Some oil
his assertions We're true and some false. But none
lot them, whether true or false, served ~ any &C.
gree to establish his proposition that the Institution
Of slavery in the Southern States Is an obstacle IN
tho way Of civilization, or wealth, or the general
happiness and contentment of the people,
Very true Is It that the North has grown in popu-
lation more rapidly than the South. But can Mr..
Sumner account for it in no other way than be-
canse Of slavery He could. easily enough, If he
chose. But Mr. Sumner is one Of those logicians
who never states an argument fairly. He states
only such facts as favor his side Of the question:
hut cooy ignores such as would damage him. Be-
cause the South has not grown in population as
fast as the North ergo, according to Mr.. Sumner,
it il slavery alone that has done it. The argument
is Just as unfair as if we were to assert that Sumner
il a yiler aboltionist than Fessenden because the
initial letter Or bis name is s. while that Of the lat
ter II nof
The North has increased in population more
rar;,lv than tbo Sontb for t,vn reasons. One ia
the heavy aanral ;rm;rras;on ~ foreigners. most
II xvhop .att,s II tba Nortbern and North western
statas a,a +ho o.ter 4 Inc uniuss one.sided and
rart;o, g, ;, ~ the Federal i,oyernment Until
uaar ~ ~, aco tl,e Immigration ID this country
80 va,.v rreat reaching some wears. the high
s,,,,,a s. hsls million Of neople. II takes hut
fasr wears Of such immigration to give decided
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ~ numbers ID The section in which
thev may setfie. When Mr.. Sumner talks about
the excess of Northern over Southern representa-
lives n, the lower House Of Congress, he ought to
recoIfect that enough foreigners to constitute
constituency for four or five additional representa-
tives come to this country this year.
These foreigners settle mainly in the Northwest.
ern States. Doubtless, Mi. Sumner will argue
that il il slavery that keeps them from the South
But This is not true. in tile sense which Mr. Sumner
womb have the reople Is understand 1t. These
ip,mirrants can 10 ID Illinois. Iowa. Minnesota
Wisconsin. etc.. and buy rich and productive Gov
ernment lands for mere trihe-never over one
dollar and quarter an acre. They can buy no
such lands In the South ct that price. Moreover,
it is general law of emigration, as we have
shown in previous article, that people follow the
parallels Of latitude. Germans ana Irishmen, com
ing To this country. settle down where the climate
Is tHt utaTGSh W litdl htCy iCAppO5
hind. In the Southern cities we find a great many
Spaniards, Italians, and emigrants from the south
Of France but we find them very rarely in the
cities of the North.
In addition to this, we think it can be easily
shown, though not within the narrow limits OF
newspaper article that the whole policy Of the
Federal Government, from the beginning, has been
to build up and enrich the North ct southern eS-
pense. In this business that monster engine,
high Protective Tariff, has been the CHEF nstru
ment II has enabled ths North 70 90 nearly az
the importing and exporting business Of the coun-
try, with immense profit Besides the Tariff, we
nave hshing Dountles, ana haVisallon iaW 1 anu
The giving away the public lands mlilons 81 acres
at time, all Of which tend to aggrandize the
Northern section Of the Union.
But, even admitting, for the sake q argument,
that MI summers assertion y correct-that ~ Is
slavery which has prevented the South from Keep
ing paee with the North IN the matter Of popnla-
tion--Mr. sumner mas YET % prove, g make ~
argument against slavery vaiia one, that aehse
p equation is desirable Ihefe are many people
VINO VIII CONSIDER " ING strongest soro 81 afs1lhehe
M 5atea' n Sasey, Y y ~ sno"h % hase -
enect OF preventing . dense popuiatioh. ~ Is I'M
aehiaoie mat whefe large masses q people are
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