New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-06-01
speech of MIR. Clarke.

Among the able speeches maue III Tue iiouse VI
Represer tatives upon the Slavery Question: We
have read hardly any with more satisfaction than
that of Hon. CHARLES +. CLARKE OF this State.
1t is calm, forcbe and vivid exposition OF the law
and policy of the matter. We extract from it the
following striking and conclusive statistics;
The area of Virginia is CT, 352 square miles. The
area of New.York is 40 O00 IL the States OF Yer
mont aud Massachusetts were added 70 New York,
their iont area would be ~ square miles less than
that Of Virginia alone The soil OF Virginia Is
naturally as fertile rs that OF New York. her re-
sources of the forest great, her mineral re-
sources at least equal, her fisheries vastly more
valuable her hyCraullc power as great her posi-
ton for commerce and her natural channels OF COM
merce better her climate is immeasuraoy superior.
In 1890 the population Of Virginia was AZ, 3O5,
of which 2O3, 427 were slaves The population OF
New York 340,l20 OF which 2l,324 were slaves.
Virginia had 226 Os5 more white inhabitants than
Hew-York and -, l03 more slaves. In short Viz
GINA, in 1890, had 40e,lss more inhabitants than
New-York.
In New-York, the number of slaves gradually
diminished till 1920, when slavery became extinct
In Virginia, slaves rapidly increased till in 1910
they numbered i4s,9s7, and her white population
numbered 79O,5lO In all, bond and free, ,239, 797 ;
while the free white population OF New-York had
increased to 242s 92l-a difference in the increase
of the whole number of l,597,3l2, and difference
in the increase OF tree white inhabitants OF IcO4,
| l9l in fifty years.
In that period Virginia has made 3sl miles of
railroad; New-York about 1000. Virginia has
made about ls2 miles OF canal New-iork about
| $50 miles.
The school fund IN New.York Sc 4si, 1908
The productive pubic properly Of New.York sss9l
The productive public properly Of Virginia 6lO7 Si
The domestic produce exported by New-iork In 49,.
The domestic prcda:e exported BY Virginia The
NewYor exported Of foreign produce. 579 70
Virginia exported Of foreign produce. 1854
| Virginia, the mother OF the Presidents, the Old
Dominion, larger and Of greater natural capacity
than New York, Vermont and Massachusetts com.
BIN d, exported, in the year OF grace ls4s to the
amazing amount Of el,55i-about In the ratio OF
| 100 TO 100000
The registered and enrolled tonnage Of Virginia
in ls4s, was l2s 3e4 tuns that of New York s45.
40 tuns-7l737s tuns difference. The State OF
New-York paid to this Government for postage in
the year ending June 30 1919, s69i,532 81. The
State OF Virginia paid In the same year for postage
| Sl0g 30l 90. The transportation Of the mail II
New y ork cost the Government in the same yeai
| s23s, $780, in Virginia, Sl66 1870. NewYork pays
in postage S4560O2 than il costs to transport
the mail in that State Virginia pays in postage
S56s33 less than 1t costs to transport the mail IL
Virginia. difference between these two State,
Of 1855 in one year. Virginia does not pay fol
the transportation Of the mail within S56, S32.-
There are but three slave States-Delaware, Ms
souri, and Louisiana-thst do pay their own post
age. IL costs this Government to transport tn,
mail in the slave States $50 ass IL more tina
those States pay in postage. There are twelve
States in the Union from which bounty lands hav,
been distributed for servicee in the Mexican war
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Alabama lows
Mississippi, Louisiana, Michigan, Arkansas, Wis
consin and Florida Six OF these States are free
six ssveholding. The area Of the six slaveholdn.
States 1928 l46 that of the SIX free States is 300
259 square miles-32,ss7 square miles more in th
six slave than in the six free States. These ST.
slave States have 6 better climate, and better 10
Gated, are fertile, and have greater natural al
vantsges than the six free States.
There have been located in those States for Mil
itsry services in the Mexican war up to March ,.
, $780, also land warrants, OF which 81 434 hav
been located in the six Free. and only 1916 i
. the Slave States-about SIX to one. The solde
who locates bis land with a view OF being free
holder, and having farm and home, the speculs
tor, who buys to sell again. rush, fall gaop to tn
Free State-they fee from the Slave State as the
would from the Cholera