The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-02-24

tants, most OF which could readily and adyanta-
seously be made within its own borders.
COMPARATIVE VIEW or rHB PRESENT CONDITION
or INV Es6IasD AND VIRGINIA
New England virginia
White population, 1910, 2,2l2,165 740, 96s
Free cold do do. 22,633 As, Str
Slaves, do % 44s, 1887
Totslp'p. in ls4O, 2,2Ss,s2I l,2ss, s27
Persons employed in
Agriculture, 4l4,I3S 3ls.77l
In Manufactures, 1877 5s 81 i47
In Mining 81 e95
In Commerce, I7,757 6.S6l
In Navigation, 44,06s 1884
In Learned Profess
slOns, 1850 z ee6
Whites over 20yeaE
of age who cannot
read and write, 1904 -- 5s.7s7
Students in Colleges, 1857 ,OeT
Do IN Academies, 1864 III Os3
Scholars IN pnnssy sehools. sr1A OF Is
Capital employed III
Manufactures, $50, s24, 22s Il, $3.50. ssi
In Foreign Commerce, l9,467, 1913 1925, 500
| In Fisheres, IL 1851 294 % asa
In Lumber Business, 2,096,04l iis.2lO
Banking capital in Lsi0, 81, l34 $50 S,637, 400
estimates or THE ANNUAL PRoDucrs, BY Pro
FEsSoE TUckER or VIRGINIA, ON THE
BASIS or TRI CENSUS OF Is40
Annual products of
Agriculture, ga, 74s, $50 s.. oss, s2l
OF Manufactures, s2,7S4,ls s,349, 2lI
OF Commerce, 1888, TAO 529e 45l
OF Mining, 3,s03,6Ss 1921 ,62s
POPULATION, ACCORDING TO THE CENSUS
OF 1880 AND ls40.
Unit a.. 1000 80
Colored dc. 1890 2l,37S 5l7,IO5
White do. ls40 2,2l2,165 FAC, 9Os
ColOIed do. 1910 22,657 49s. s2e
Increase ofwhites IN
fifty yean, I,2ls,sS4 2ss, $50
Increase Of colorei
persons in fftyyr's, 5,6I3 49,, $3.50
Increase of total pop
ulation, LIZA, 997 A9i. 4soI
The per centage Ct increase on the total popu-
lation in fifty years, in New England, l2l $40
in Virginia, 65 Clio.
five now compare Virginia with New York,
the disadvantages Of slavery will appear in
still more striking point Of view. One of the
citizens Of our State, Thomas +. Marshall, in
a pamphlet published in ls4O, draws the follow
ing comparison between Virginia and New
York:
ain 1890, Virginia, with 10000 square miles
Of Territory, contained population Of 749, 3OS.
New York, upon e surface of 1855 square
miles contained population of 344,l2O. This
statement exhibits in favor of Virginia a differ
ence OF 400, le5 inhabitants, which is double
that Of New York and 5000 more. In 1880,
after race of 40 years, Virginia is found 10
contain ,2ll ,4O5 souls, and New York ,9l6.-
Cos, which exhibits difference in favor of New
York Of 701 ,203. The increase on the part of
Virginia will be perceived to be 49, starting
from basis more than double that of New
York. The increase of New York upon a basis |
of 34O,l20 has been ,57B,3 human beings |
Virginia has increased in ratio OF 81 per cent,
and New York in that Of 500 per cent. The
total amount Of property in Virginia, under the |
assessment Of 1898, was Oil .s30, 5Cs- The ag-
gregate value Of Real and Personal property in |
New York, in 1888, was 1854, 900 600, exhibit |
ing an excess in New YORK over Virginia Of
S442, OCT, 4s2. Statesmea may differ about
policy, or the means to be employed In the pro-
motion Of the public good, but surely they
ought to agree as to what prosperity means. |
think there can be no dispute that New York
IL greater, richer. moro prosperous and pow
erful State than Virginia.
"What has oc:asioned the difference7 There
IL but one explanation of the facts have
shewD. The clog that has staid the march Of
her people, the incubus that has weighed down
her enterprise, strangled her commerce, kent
sealed her exhaustless fountains Of mineral
wealth, and paralysed her arts, manufactures
and improvement, Is Negro Slavery"
Since these remarks were written, the GEN.
sus Of ls40 has been published, showing that
New York has increased during 10 years, $751;
il3 inhabitants. while Virginia has increased
only 2e,525-all Of which Ia in the western part
Of the State where there are but few slaves, and
the ruinous effects Of the system are less severe
ly felt.
Furthermore, the census of Is4O has de-
veloped the important and alarming fact that
the population of Eastern Virginia, is less by
&c, log inhabitants than II was in 1880. The
population Of the Union has increased during
the same period 80 ITO per cent, which APP
piled to the population of Eastern Virginia in
1880, say s,3s0.04s would give l,lO5, 454 as the
number Of inhabitants there ought to be in this
Iection Of the State, but deducting from this.
The actual population shsws that Eastern VII
,inia has, in 10 years, fallen short of the gen.
,ral advancement by the number Of 2ss, SIG In
aabitants. II the ratio Of the increase of popu-
alton and the value Of Real Estate be consi-
Tered a. tests Of tho prosperity of State, then