Daily Republican., 1880-08-19

vhite, is perhaps the sleepiest plsee On
he continent. The growth OF the
county in the last SO years has peen
backward instead Of forward"
OF Marlborough he says:
"This Is a purely agricultural county
with one town, Bennetsville, containing
500 white and 1900 negroes"
Il is evident that the grossest frauds
have been psrpstratsd in South Caro-
lima in taking the census. The Super
vissrs we're men selected by that motto
rious fraud Hamburg Butcher Butler,
who misrepresents the State in the sen,
ate. who President Hayes was pressed
to nominate or let the State 90 without
the census being taken. Can there be an
honest man who will say that in the
face of the facts given that fraud has
not been perpetrated in South Carolina'
II there has not how could there besueh
remarkable increase reported In ten
vearsY To illustrate we will use the
following language of the correspondent
Of the Times:
at is generally known that the i'm
migrants who seek our shores 60 to the
North. west; they do not 60 and have have
not gone to South Carolina. In 1871
there were only S,07s foreign born per,
sons in the whole State, and 5,O0o Of
these we're in Charleston. The increase
cannot be accounted for by Immigration
by which the great States Of the North
west have built up a population. And
vet some OF these States will not DC
able to show such per centage OF In
crease for the last ten years one
Southern paper asserts that the increase
has been caused by the great fecundity
Of the women Of the South. But thls
will not do, for why did not this cause
swell the population in the same ratio
in decades preceding the last 7 1t ia
absurd to ascribe the increase to an ex'
cess OF births over deaths, as one paper
does. And here it should be noted that
The death rate among the negroes in
places where Il has been accurately de-
termined as in Washington, is nearly
twice as large as the death rate amonG
the whites. The increase Of the counties
Of South Carolina cannot be owing t.
the average longevity Of the negro. L
is said by some :nAt the census Of 1870
was incorrect and that the South was
then underestimated. This will mol
explain the matter, for where frauds
we're discovered in 1870 they were in
the other direction. The percentage
calculations, whose results are given
above, are not confined to the censuset
of 1870 aud 1880, but comparisons are
made with the censuses OF 1901
and 1860. The assertion that the
census of 1870 was incorrect does
not, therefore, affect them. How Ions
has it been since the papers of South
Carolina were deploring emigration
from that State to Texas 7 1t is said
by persons thoroughly acquainted Will
the State that it has lost quite heavily
by emigration. This loss has not beer
made up by immigration, and the remark
allie increase shown by the figures can
not be ascribed to an excess OF blrthi
over deaths. Finally, the increase
which is reported is located in the agri
cultural districts, the poorest OF which
seem to show the greatest accessions
no such increase is found in the cit.
districts"
In viow of these facts it is not strang
that those who know the ways OF tn
aristocrats of the South and remembe
the long and bitter struggle in tn
senate at the recent session by whicI
General Walker and President Hsye
were overcome as regards the selection
OF Census Supervisors, should suspec
that fraud has been practiced in maxim
up the census returns from some part
OF the South. The question is, wha
will the administration do about il!