The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-08-08

TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1871.
A LIST OF cities in the United States
with population of over ten thousand
rs shown by the recent census, is printed
in this paper. There arc hundred and
thirty.iour of them; siXty-seven that
have over twenty thousand; twenty-five
with over fifty thousand; fourteen with
over a hundred thousand eight over two
hundred thousand; and four over half
million. Wheeling ranks SO. Her pop
uation when the census was taken was a
little below twenty thousand; but the
subsequent inclusion Of South Wheeling
has swelled it to 23,4l1; and We give
these figures us showing the present pop
uIation ofthe city rather than those when
the census was taken.
These 1874 cities are distributed among
the States US follows: New York Isl
Massachusetts II; Pennsylvania 10; Ohio
10; Indiana 7; Iowa 9; New Jersey .;
Connecticut 8; Virginia 5; Maine 4 ;
Kentucky &; Georgia 4; California A.
Missouri 3; Michigan 81 Wisconsin . !;
Maryland . District of Columbia ,; Ten
nessee .; Alabama :; Texas 2; and
Louisiana, Rhode Island, South Carolina,
Delaware, West Virginia, Minnesota,
Kansas, Nebraska, Vermont, North Caro-.
lima, Minnesota, Utah und Mississippi
each. Of these, the former slave States
have thirty Out the fourteen cities Of
over ahundred thousand, they have four,
with q population Of about million; the
free States ten with population of about
four millions A comparison Of the agre.
gate population Of these l04 cities in the
North with those thirty in tho South
would show the difference between the
two sections still more strikingly.
Does il occur to our readers that there
are lessons Of craftsmanship in the facts
here indicated that there Is profound
significance in the different results shown
bytheso figures. Why do these Northern
States have so many more and so much
larger and more wealthy cities than the
Southern States? Why this difference
between New York and Virginia, Mas.
sachusetts and South Carolina, PGnnSyl.
vania and Georgia, Ohio and Alabama
Let us ask our contemporary Of the Reg.
lister to explain these strange results How
have these States north Of lis got so rich
and populous when they had no word
"white' in their constitutions to protect
their people against tho peris Of marry.
ing niggers how when they were cursed
from their earliest history with that
system of popular local government
called the township system, which that
silly old Democrat Ton JEFFERSON urged
on Virginia as tho best plan of local gov.
eminent "ever devised by the wit Of
man." Is II not marvellous that those
States have grown so great md rich
while being devourcd by the "hOrde of
township officers that we have been
hearing so much about here for some
years past Then again those great
States of the North were cursed with
the free secret ballot, which protected
the poorest man in the right to vote Just
rs he pleased without annoyance from
the impertinent curiosity or coercion of
any one. Strange that people got along
so well with what that polished relict of
the old slave civilization who spoke at
the Court house few nights ago called
the "sneakiDg ballot"
And yet with all the drawbacks of free
society, free schools, an unmuzzled press,
the ballot, the township, no protection in
their constitutions for traitors, no prOtec.
ton for the white people against marry.
ing niggcrs, people from abroad would
come in and settle, and till the soil and
manufacture, and build cities, colleges,
churches, factories they would thrive,
multiply and grow rich. While in States
like Virginia where the soil was more fer.
tile, the climate more balmy and nature
every way more generous; where none of
these drawbacks in society and form of
government existed, and. where to the
patrlcian mind of the school in which
Mr.. FAULKNER was reared, nothing was
left to be desired socially or politically,
we find to-day n sparse population, IN I'm.
cultivated country, few and small towns
and cities, little wealth, and widespread
ruin and bankruptcy.
Eight years ago DIR people, with these
two pictures set before their eyes, chose
to take the highway along which our
Northern sisters had Travelled 50 happily |
and prosperOusly. Now, after those years
of growth and prosperity we are asked to
turn back into the old ruts. Is II not rca.
sonable to ask of those who give lis this
advice to explain why we should not ralh.
or take the advice OF The census, which las
no partisan and selfish motive to deceive us?
If the census Is right il these facts exist, rs |
we know they Ito without the aid of the |
census, why shall we now give up sys.
ten of State and local government under
which we have prospcred and are pros.