Hillsdale Whig standard. (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1846-1851, 1850-06-18
Speech Of Mr.. Clark.


Among the able speeches made in tho
House of Representatives upon the Slavery
Question, we have read hardly any with moro
satisfaction than that of Hon. Charles Z.
Clark of New York. 1t is a calm, forciblc
and vivid exposition of the law and policy
Of the matter. We extract from it the fol-
lowing striking aud conclusive statistics;
The area of Virginia is, 6l,352 square
miles. The area of New York is 10000
If the States of Vermont and MASSACHUSETTS
were added to New York, their joint would
be ~ square miles less than that of Virginia
alone. The soil of Virginia is naturally "A
fertile as that of New York, her resources Of
the forest as great, her mineral resources at
least equal, her fisheries vastly more valuable,
| her hydraulic power as great, her position for
commerce and her natural channels Of COM
merce better, her climate is unreasonable
superior.
| In 1890, the population of Virginia was
748,305, of which 2o3,4 were slaves. The
population of New York 340.l20 of which
III 1924 were slaves. Virginia had 2260e5
moro white inhabitants than New York, and
| l25. .l03 more slaves. In short Virginia, in
| 1890, had 4O6, l6S more inhabitants than New
| York
| In New York, the number Of slaves grad
ualy diminished till 1920, when slavery be-
came extinct.
In Virginia slaves rapidly increased till in
| ls40 they numbered 44s,957, and her white
population numbered 790,510. In all, bond
and free, 1899. 1877; while the free white pop
uation of New York had increased to 3.428,-
92l-a difference in the increase of the whole
number of l,597,3l2, and difference in the
increase of free white inhabitants Of l,S6a,-
l9l in fifty years.
In that period Virginia has made 3sl miles
of roailroad; New York about 1000 Vir-
GINA has made about 172 miles Of canal;
| New York about $50 miles.
The fund in New York is S6,49l,so3
That of Virginia l,4s0,25l
The productive public property of
New York is 3O,l36,992
The productive public property OF
Virginia is 6,lo7,364
The domestic produce exported by
N Y. in l8i6 amounted to 3e,77l, POS
The domestic produce exportedby
Virginia the same year amount
ed to 3,e7s,s.s
duce ia,s7ss4s
Virginia exported of foreign pro
d1ce 1854
Virginia, the mother of the Presidents, the
Old Dominion, larger and of greater natural
capabity than New York, Vermont and Mas
sechusetts combined. exported in the year OF
grace lS4H, 20 the amazing amount OF &l ,554
about in the ratio of 100 TO 100000,
The registered and enrolled Tonnage Of
Virginia in ls4s, was I2s,364 tuns-7l7.375
tuns difference. The State Of New York
paid to this government for postage in the
year ending June 80, 1540, $604, ,532, 81
The State of Virginia paid in the same year
for postage Sl09,30l 93. The transportation
of the mail in New York cost the Govern
ment in the same year S23s, $50; in Virgin
l66,l30. New York pays in postage $780,
002 more than it costs TO transport the mail
in that State. Virginia pays in postage. 1885,
s33 less thin IT costs to transport the mail m
Virginia. difference between these two
States Of S5l2,s35 in one year. Virginia
! does not pay for the transportation OF the
mail within SI6,s32. There are but three
slave States--Desware, Missouri and Louis
iana---tbst pay their own postage. 1t costs
the Government TO transport the mail in the
slave States $5l9,43s,l2 moro than those
States pay in postage. There are twelve
States in the Union from which bounty lands
have been distributed for service in the Mex
| lean war--Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri,
| hlaOhtna, ioWd, MisslsSlppi' A<ouisiauo, W iSH
| igan, Arkansas, Wisconsin and Florida
Six Of these States arc free, six slaveholding.
! The area of the six slaveholding States ~
| 323,I46, that of the six FREQ States is 900,
$50 square miles--32, ,ss7 square miles more
! in six slave than in six free States. Those
six slaveholdng have better climate, and
better located, are as fertile, and have great
er natural advantages than the six free States.
There have been located in those States
for Military services in the Mexican war up
TO March 2S, 1850, 4l,7s0 land warrants, of
which 34.434 have been located in the six
Free, and only 7,346 in the Slave States
about six to ono. The soldier who locates
his land with Wow Of being freeholder,
and having farm and home, the specula-
tor who buys to sell again, rush full gnliop 70
the Free State--they fleo from the Slave
State as they would from tho Cholera.
DaiyiNo Hts owS CARNAGE The Nilsson
ri papers speak Of an emigrant who packed