Facts from "Southern Side Lights"; Wm. and Mary Qrtly., Vol. 8, No. 1

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Facts from "Southern Side Lights"

   Edward W. James

   William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 1.
   (Jul., 1899), p. 74.

                   FACTS FROM "SOUTHERN SIDE LIGHTS"(1).

                           BY EDWARD W. JAMES.

   "Southern Side Lights" show that "in 1850 the South had one pauper for every 303
free inhabitants, and the North one for every 118.  Massachusetts had one for every
63; Maine, one for 112; New York, one for 52; Virginia, one for 185; Maryland, one
for 109; Arkansas, one for 54.  In the free States were more than five times as
many paupers as in the South, and eight times as many criminals.  Ten years later
the South had 25,181 paupers, one for every 332 inhabitants, and 7,398 criminals,
one for 1,130, while the North there was one pauper for every 64 of the inhabitants,
tot total number being 296,484, and one criminal for every 208 inhabitants, the
total being 91,438."  The increase in the population of the North from 1850 to
1860 was 41 per cent and the increase of paupers 160 per cent.  The population of
the South advanced 29 per cent and the paupers increased 18 per cent.  In Massa-
chusetts in 1860 there were 18,010 native and 33,870 foreign born paupers.  In 1860
48 per cent of the criminals in the South were foreigners, and in the North 68 per
cent were foreigners.