Washington telegraph., 1849-11-14

In the National Intelligeacer OF the
23d ult., there is an article on the COM
parative wealth of the Southern and
Northern States. It seems to have been
written by late citizen of Michigan, but
now resident of Florence, Ala. His
facts and statistics are all taken from
authentic public documents. His COM
parisoa between the States Of Michigan
and Arkansas, both admitted into the
Union at the same time, and both agri-
cultural States, will exhibit some facts
that will not little surprise those who
are in the habit of extolling Northern
enterprise, and undertaking. Southern
labor and Southern institutions. The
writer observes:
The young State of Michigan seems
by its situation formed to be the abode
of wealth. A rich soil and a mild climate
have rendered her peculiarly adapted to
wheat growing. Her forests of pine and
live oak nigh. stock the markets of the
world. With more than three -fourths
of her boundary upon the Lakes, she has
every facility for carrying off the products
of her soil and her forests; but where
nature has been wanting art has supplied
its place, and her splendid system of in
ternal improvements may challenge the
world for comparison.
"If we turn Southwark from this fa-
vored spot, we will pass, in sailing down
the "Father of Waters" low, unhealthy
region, whose name has always been
synonymous with every thing that is bad
and worthless, and which no one would
probably think of placing in favorable
light beside the Peninsular State. In
my search after truth determined to as
certain whether Arkansas was indeed SO
far inferior to the other, as has been often
declared in the public prints, and which
inferiorty has been regarded as an an
answerable argument against slavery.
"MIcHIGAN.-The crops of Michigan.
as estimated by the New Orleans Com
mercial Times, (very good authority }
were last year $7,OO0,0OO. The live
stock, according to the census Of 1910.
was worth $3,75S,145. Adding 25 per
cent, the estimated increase since 1910,
and we shall have the live stock of
Michigan, in 1848, worth $4,697 ,68l,
and the whole agricultural products Sill
697.6S1. Her population in 1917 was
10000.
"ARKANsAs.-The crops of Arkansas
for the same year were valued at Sc, ,O0O,-
600, and the value of her live stock, found
in the same manner as before, was &c.
304, 4,0l3-making the whole agricultural
products of Arkansas in 1646 $12, 3O4 3.
Her population in 1847 was 5240O. in.
cluding slaves. Thus we have the aver
age productions of Michigan to each in
TO1S, dlu VIC ouIIlC III AAhduSoS,
counting slaves, $500; or, deducting the
slaves, the average income Of each free
white citizen of Arkansas, from agrcul-
ture alone last year, was SOL, or more
than three times that of the free citizens
of Michigan. And not only this, but in
1910 Arkansas, with but little more than
half the population of Michigan, actually
produced ar amount of manufactures
nearly double that of Michigan. The
State of Michigan produced. in 1910,
2,277 ,039 bushels Indian corn; and the
State of Arkansas, with not half the
population, produced 1916, ,632."
We would say to the uncalculating
boaster, that figures speak louder than
words.
NNo nuhliSh tho follOuyior ovf,oof from,