The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-07-01

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VIM. Moore, Abbeville C. H.
julius Poppe, Anderson G. H.
Statistics to be Proud or
The New York Ne,cs extracts from
the last volume of the census for
1860, just issued from the Govern
ment printing press tables, some facts
illustrating the comparative amount
OF pauperism and crime in the North
ern and Southern States, as we'll as
each OF the States composing the
respective sections, for the y. end
ing June 80, 1860. Not havir room
for the tables, we aggregate results as
follows:
The nineteen Northern States of
California, Connecticut, illinois, In
dlana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massa-
chusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New York,
Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode
Island, Vermont and Wisconsin, con-
tanned a population of 8,917, 753.
Whole number Of paupers supported
within the year-native, LAO, ,23S; To-
reign, 156, ,241. Whole number of
criminals convicted within the year
native, 20, ,0S9; foreign, 81, 259.
Inc fifteen SuuIileru States III 1a,a-
bama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida,
Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mary
land, Mississippi, Missouri, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee,
Texas and Virginia, contained popu-
lation of IL, ,24O,59 Whole number
of paupers supported within the year
native, 1858; foreign, 1916.
Whole number of criminals convicted
within the year-native, 3,677; TO-
reign, 3,477.
This exhibit for the South, with all
s'the barbarism of slavery" is some
thing to be viewed with complacency,
if not pride. Not disposed, however.
to blow our own trumpet, we let the
Neacs speak for us. That journal
says:
"From these tables it appears that
the amount of pauperism in the
Northern States, during the twelve
months which they include, was 1.57
per cent: Of the population of those
States-O.7 73 per cent. of the paupers
being native born, and o. SO of foreign
birth. The amount of pauperism in
the Southern States, during the same
period, is found to have been O. 10 per
cent. of the population of that sec
ton of the country, of which 1. Is per
cent. was supplied by native born
paupers, and O.O4 per cent. by those
of foreign birth.
'Thus the ratio of pauperism and
crime in the North were, in 1860.
each eight times greater Maa then ace,-e
in the South.
"'Oh, but 1T is the large number of
foreigners we have among us that fill
our work-houses and our prisonsr we
fancy we hear some radical remark.
But let us take merely figures
that refer to native born Americans.
and see how the matter then stands.
Why we even then find that the ratio
of panperism in the North was fivc
times more than when what it is in
the South, and that the ratio of crime
among the native born was in the
North five-fold what it was in the
South.
''These facts conclusively demon
strate the high tone of morality that
existed in the South, and the small
amount of pauperism that vas found
there prior to the war. The South
ern people can look upon the record
with no slight degree of pride; and
the evidence it adduces onght alone
be sufficient to prove how worthy
they are to stand in the foremost rank
OF A1erican citizens, and to enjoy all
the 'e&ts and privileges which that
pos. Ion ought positively to guaran-
tee."
w. w. HOLDEN. .-Ex- Provisional