Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-09-10

Another 6iBantie Piece or Hasoallty.
Il Is not surprising after the trs-
mendous election frauds, the tissue bal
lots and shamefully-falso counts Of
South Carolina, that another gigantic
piece Of rascality begins TO develop
| itself there. IL was hardly TO be ex-
| pected that the Southern States would
| forego the opportunity offered by the
| census TO employ the same means 10 in
crease their power which have proven
so successful in disfranchising the ne
/ grOes. IL Is now given out that South
| Carolina will return over one million of
inhabitants by the new census. This
would be an increase Of about thirty
| three per cent in ten years. There has
been little or no immigration to South
| Carolina, but a large emigration from
It. This wonderful increase must there
fore be ascribed solely 70 natural causes.
II was long ago demonstrated by NAL
thus that the earth would in few hum
| dred years be too small TO contain the
/ human beings born on it. according to
the natural rate Of increase, if it was
not checked by war, want, disease and
crime. But all these obstacles will not
/ avail If the ratio Of increase in South
| throughout the earth. Why should it
not9 There are parts Of this continent
[ much more favorable to rapid increase
/ Of population than South Carolina.
| There are healthier States, where the
| night-rider does not add terrors to the
malaria OF the rice swamps; where food
is more abundant and the conditions Of
| life and health more favorable; where,
] al a.. 8 49,.
/ from Europe and the East adds its
/ mighty stream TO that of natural in
crease. But South Carolina must in
| some quiet, silent way have been re-
! ceiying vast immigration, or the fecun-
/ dity Of its people beats that of the rab-
| bits, which Darwin reckons as among
| the most prolific of mammalia. Stats
/ tics have been growing into a science
/ for a hundred years or more. We can
now calculate with a great degree Of
/ births and kinds of disease. Life in
/ surance would be worse than a lottery,
without the knowledge gained by meth
odical, systematic and scientific tabula-
| ton Of census reports But it is really
one Of the most stable and fixed lines
/ of business of our time. The margin
]
and is constantly growing smaller, but
when the census reports from South
! Carolina come in the statitiscal con-
| crosses may as well adjourn. The ele-
ment of certainty or probability is elm
mated, for if, under her conditions,
South Carolina has increased thirty
three per cent in population in ten years,
who knows but what she may increase
] 81
Her people would not even then be as
! prolific as the rabbits, and there is no
/ knowing what surprises nature may
have in store for us yet.
/ President Hayes, good, easy soul, ap-
/ pointed Supervisors in South Carolina
| in opposition to the protest Of promi-
nent Republicans. Among them is
Hammond, a cousin to Wade Hampton.
They have appointed thOrOugh-going
| Hampton Democrats as enumeratOrs.
/ The census Of South Carolina has been
| in the hands of Just such men as under
/ Butler subdued the negroes by tie shot
/ Gun policy. Butler dictated the ap-
| pointments Of most of the census Off
GERS. 1t is he who at a Democratic
meeting, a few days since, boasted that
the census would give South Carolina
] ONtE lnlllluu llldUlLduL5. ne no
doubt is fully advised of the work of his
miniOns, and in advance of the Census
Bureau. This great increase will help
explain past and future frauds. 1t will
swell the representation OF South Caro-
lima in Congress. 1t will assist in keep
/ ing South Carolina in her place at the
head of rebelliOus States. 1t enables
old South Carolina to at last stand up
beside young Kansas, which, with all
her immense immigration from many
/ lands, has vet but a million. So fraud
hopes by unblushing perjury to keep
/ pace with youth and freedom. South
| Carolina and Kansas! There they
/ stand, representatives of the two
| systems. The one scarce fifteen
/ years old, the other over CEN
tury. The one rising like young ath-
| lete stripped for the race, with vast
possibilities before it, for humanity.
II enters the race a giant. The other,
decrepit and shaky, totters on TO dis
honOred age, cursing the civilization
which will not stop to listen to its Sc
nile rawlings. Contrast them. How will
it be when the census of 1890 reports
the futile frauds OF South Carolina and
the unchecked march of Kansas? The
petty villainies of the day are impOtent
alike to stay the onward march of free
government and to conceal the failing
strength of bad government. Kansas,
rescued even from the claws of the
monster in which one William H. En-
| glish helped to thrust her, the adopted
child of stalwart Republicanism, stands
nobly up an empire with the glory of
youth and young manhood on her
brow. South Carolina, like an old
robber dying, gnashes her teeth in
helpless rage, the victim of evil pas
sions and an ill-spent life. She should
be the pride of our countryside is its
shame. indianapolis Journal.
POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS.