The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-08-10
From the Rochester Freeman,

The following statistical account was taken
from the Albany Eve. Journal, paper that is not
by any means devoted to the cause of abolition.
If Shareholders do not see, in this statement, the
i'll effect of their favorie institution, it is because
they not willing to look at the subject as it is.
The abotonists are the true friends of the South.
They say to the South, abolish slavery, and en-
pIoy free labor; adopt right system Of agricul-
ure and then you will shortly, not only rival the
North in commerce. but your lands, instead of be-
ing worth six or eight dollars per acre, will be
worth, as they are in New York and Pennsylva-
MIA, from fifty to one hundred and fifty dollars.
The South are deceived by the pro-slavery mer-
chants of the North. They fan the fame of anti
abolition to please the slave-hoder, and to induce
him to view all this in the light OF friendship,
knowing that as long as slavery exists they are
under no apprehenson$ of rivalship from south
ern merchants But without dwelling longer on
this subject, let every Southcrner carefully read
and consider the following statement; and if he
cannot fairly attribute the great decline of com
merce with them, and the increase Of it with as
to any thing but slavery on the one hand, and
freedom on the other, he ought to view those who
are earnestly engaged in pleading the cause of u
UNIVERSAL md immediate emancipation as the true
friends Of the South Let him study the work.
ing of emancipation in the West India Islands ;
but don't let him be deceived by drawing his con-
illusions from the distorted accounts in many of
the newspapers, in which the writer's have some
private interest or the qualification of some pique
in view. But let him 60 to all the documentary
evidence that has been published, such as the Off
cial communications of the Marquis of Sligo Sir
Lionel Smith, the Queens speeches, sc. &c.
Let him study the work of Thome and Kimball,
which he will find rep'e'e with documentary evil
dence that cannot be resisted If he will lay aside
his prejudice,and enter on the study of this subject
in earnest, he will the good policy Of that sy2
tenn, which would instantly change their millions
of slaves into freemen. Then, instead of "hc
2colf returning after the lapse Of an huu1red gears
to hoal orer the deSolotionS IF Slace7y," one of
Virginias representatives, few years since, said
of her, we should shortly see her old barren fields
flourish and blossom as the rose
DECLINE OF SOUTHERN CONNIE RcE-The report
Of committee of the Southern Convention,
which was held last April, in Charleston, furnish
es the following table, showing the comparative
progress of commerce of the North and South.
The statistics of the United States enable US to
present the following statements exhibiting at one
view the rise, progress and decay of Southern
commerce. They are extracted from one of the
documents formerly published by this Convention,
and show that the time was when the people OF
The South were the largest importers in the coun-
try.
In 1869, the value of the imports Of the several
colonies were as follows
Virginia, E951 lao sterling
New England States, $4,000
New York, $4,000
Pennsylvania, 100000
South Carolina $4,000
The exports were in about the same proportion:
Virginia exported nearly four times as much as
New York and South Carolina nearly twice as
much as New York and Pennsylvania together );
and five times as much as all the New England
States united.
The same relative proportions Of imports is pre-
served until the adoption Of the Federal Constitu-
ton, when we find them to be in the year 1871
follows:
New York, 1922, GOO
Virginia. 2,486,000
South Carolina 100000
There are no data 10 show the imports into the
several States from the year 1901, to 1920, but
the general fact may be assumed, that the import
trade of New Y ork and other Northern States has
been constantly progressing, while that of Virgin
ia and South Carolina has as regularly diminish
ed. From 1921 to the present time we have suf-
Gcent data, and they exhibit the following as the
state of the import trade:
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