The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-08-18

Republican JoutuSs VI SuV ~v" w Nv"
making 70 sussaiu their false ayefment that
she southern people were eagaeed In con.
sp,r,cy 10 dcfrsrd The Neth ~ returning
- The census much larger population than
The soutberr States really have. One Of
she noss malignant swd wutrwshfuI OF these
,Ibe,,ers Of the South Il sbc journal which
the depcsed Public Primer CLAP publishes
IN Washington.
rs,ker carr ssys fha the ratio q s'''
crease cluim<d IN the lat decade foe SsrS
ptu,a q ssc sisees thst made by the state
n ..v sou~e~ decade from 1920 to iSso
Tm increase essimeC sy US for the last de.
cad< e sbous - per cent. The increase
from 1854 to 1880 was from i,0Ss,iH to
1..ii.@ es, or l4s, 80, or about IA per cent
There /, falschood No. !. The increase from
Isto 70 1854 was from 1.2S9.79T 10 l,42l,.
Gel. or sI,sos, Or also over. II per cent
There IA falsehoed No. 2. The increase from
1850 10 1850 was from l,42l, G6i 10 ,s96 isfs,
or l74,es7, or over ~ per cent. There Is
falsehood Nc.;3.
Father CxspP says Georgia increased 90
fast during the decade from 1870 to $3.50
I.ook at the facts. The increase 10 Georgia
from 1890 to 1900 was nearly 100 per cent
From 1909 TO 1910 II was over 80 per cent
From lsIe to 1870 it was over 30 per cent
From 1879 10 1880 II was over 30 per recent
From 1890 to 1910 Il was over "a per cent
From 1910 to 1850 1t was over 81 per cent
From 1850 to 1860 II was over ~ per cent
Father CLAPp Is contradcted by the facts
In every statement be makes.
These are figures enough to show that
there Is nothing extraordinary ID anincrease
OF Is per cent. in ten years In southern
State. The States that are already over
crowded cannot increase very rapidly here
after. The South has mere srabh land
than the North, and a much Setter climate,
and will hereafter increase more rapidly
than any OF the deusely populated states
of that inhospifable cline. Nearly ha'I'
II not more, OF the numerical strength OF
the country must at seme day aot very lar
in the future be in the States now known
as "the South, Hereafter they must In
crease rapidly, and the North very slowly,
IL at all.
Slavery not only kept immigrants away
from the South up to 1860, but drove to the
West a large number OF the best OF the ma
tiyes amongst the white race. Slavery hav.
ing been abolished, the South will hereaf-
ter not only receive her full share OF for
eign Immigrants, but she will Keep at home
her own sons aud daughters. These facts
explain all that Is necessary 10 be explained
I'm the census. A new era has dawned upon
the southern States. The increase from
1870 10 1880 is as nothing compared TO what
il will be from 1880 TO 1890. In 1890 Viz
GINA will have over two millions OF people !;
Georgia two millions; and Texas three mil
lions. There is nothing In store for the
South of the future but wealth, happiness,
prosperity, aud population. The census
takers will not be dreaded in this section
ten years hence; but New England will
look upon them with fear and trembling.
But this by the way. Let us 60 on show
ing up Father CLAPP. He does not under
stand Why region which has increased 25
per cent. In population should not have COL
Iected more customs duties. "Of the
Si3S.000, 900 received from the customs du-
ring the last fiscal year only 80 100000 was
collected in southern ports"! So says the
old fraud, apparently in earnest. The
Democratic city Of New York. by the same
token. ought to have increased by some
several hundred per cent, seeing that about
a hundred millions of the above revenue
were collected al that port!
Father CLAPp proceeds to show that the
southern States do not own as many ships,
nor manufacture as many articles, as the
northern. True enough. Ours IS pro-
ducing region. We are an agricultural
people. Ore county in Virginia raises more
wheat than four or five OF the New Eng
land States taken together. The South
grows cotton and tobIcco; and thus pays
all the debts of all the people OF this Union
to Europe, and has prevented the United
States from becoming bankrupt. But for
her productions the United States would be
poor indeed. But for handling these pro-
ductions the Yankees would have never a
shin TO load. and never cotton factory to
boast Of. The South furnishes everything
that makes this country independent. Take
her cotton from New England, and those
States would dwindle down to nothing.
Take the handling OF her cotton and to-
baoco from New York, and that city could
fnd nothing wbeewith to pay her indebt-
edness TO foreign countries. The North
was sighting for life when 1t battled to keep
the southern States Ia the Union. A higa
protective tariff between the South and the
North ysald beggaf tie latter.
These are not IDLE boasts. They are
facts. Eere Is a short extract from a speech
made 10 Inaisna last Saturday by Mr.. Pc
nI1zsR, a,Gis,fnguisbed speaker and writer
OF 81. Louis. As be rs "a German. he may
DE presuaedrts be impartial. At any rate
he gives = laensine, uaaduiterated Yankee
as his authority. The Sac.s stated, how
ever, are 50 we'll known that they need not
the endorsenent 81 Mr.. AnHiSsoN or any,
body else. IRdeed. we are inclined to think
that MIR. ArNISsOx kas been adjust TO the
South. Mr.. haLtIzCe said:
lower one thiyd d all otr .ezports are
raised 10 add by abe &euth According to
abe moN eninem RenuSiican sta,istician in
the osuntrg. Edward Atkinson, OF Boston,
tie saIue 81 fhe lasf ten cotton crops alone
was not less than ~ 500 900, 900. and proba-
bly S3&les00Q 900. Two thirds Of tins has
been exparted. whtea ,meaas that for one
single staple produced by The srebeis'' du.
ring the last ten years Ahis country reeaFed
the enormous sam OF two thousand milAisns