The South And The North

A writer in the N. Y. Evangelist ihus abiy sutns up a comparison of the twosec(ions of country; In the ibrcguing consideralions we find ampie reasons for the languishing condition of the South. We find why it is, that of the 13 original States the 7 non slavehol ding States, which with an area of about 150,000 6quare miles, had in 1790 apopulation, of 1,908,000 souls, have dow 6,4G9,434, white the six slave States, with with an area of upwards of 200,000 square mi'es which in 1790 had a population of 1,848,009, have now but 3,826,323. We finri why il is, thutwhilethe Nonh abounds with large cilies, and towns, and flourishing villages, the South hasscarcely a single place entitled to the name of a city; and as lo what are denominated its large towns, they are but litïle superior to Noithern villages. We fiiid why it is that improvements are started at the Norlh, and tardily adopted at the South; why so niany young Southrons are sent to the North to be educated; why the trade of the South is in the hands of Northern merchants; why their learned professirnsare so largely recruited frora the North; why their learned professions areso largely recruited fiom the North; why their newspapers have Northern editorsand printers; why Nonhern mechanics are in sucli requisition there; why Southern railroads ure built with Northern capital, and by Northern contraciors and engineers, and why, the connection of the South with the Norlh. preserves the formcr from actually retrograding towards barbarism. - This will explain why Charleston, the proud metropolis of the South, has fur the last twenty years or more, been nearly stalionary, and is, at this very moment declining in population and prosperity; why South Carolina is a poor State, hersoil worn onf, and her energies dep.resscd; why her population, which in 1830, amounted to 581,185, amounted ia 1840 bui to 594,398, being a gain rif only 13,213 in ten years, in a population of more than a half a million; and why miles and miles of country which, once cultivated, but now deserted, are already overgrown with the inferior kinds of forest Lrees, with here and there a tcnaniless old munsion, in the midst of this new wilderness 1 'Have you signej the anti-slavery petttions this ycar? If not, do it immodiately.'