Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-07-01
SLAVERY UNPRoFITABLE FOR THE
PEOPLE.

Slavery is improbable for the people. America
Is poorer for Slavery. l am speaking in the great
focus Of American commercc-the third city for
population and riches in the Christian world. Let
me, therefore, talk about Dollars. America, l
say, is poorer for Slavery. If the three and n
quarter millions Of slaves were freemen, how much
richer would she be2 There 10 no State in the
Union but it is poorer for Slavery tits a bad tool
To work with. The educated fleemen is the best
working power in the world.
Compare the North with The South, and see what
u difference in riches, comfort, education. See the
superiority of the North. But the South started
with every advantage of nature-soil, climate,
everything. To make the case palmer, let me take
two great States, Virginia and New York. Com
pare them together.
la geographical position, Virginia has every
advantage over New York. Almost everything
that will grow in the Union will grow somewhere
in Virginia, save sugar. The largest ships can
sail up the Potomac II hundred miles, as lar as
Alexandria. Rappehannock, York, James, are all
Manageable rivers. The Ohio TANKS Virginia more
than three hundred miles. There is sixty miles OF
navigation on the Monawha. New York has a
single n~avigable stream with not II hundred ana
fifty miles Of navigation, from Troy to the ocean.
Virginia has the best harbor on the Atlantic coast,
and several smaller ones. Your State has but a
single maritime port. Virginia abounds in water
power for mills. | stood once ON the steps of the
Capitol at Washington q within six miles OF me
under my eyes there was a water-powcr greater
thaa that which turns The mills Of Lawrence, Low
ell and Manchester, all put together. In 1886, it
did not turn a wheel now, | am told, it drives n
grist mill Caughter). No State is SO rich in wa
ter-power. The Aleghanies are a great watershed,
and at the caves the streams rush forward as if
impatient to turn mills. New York has got very
little water power of this sort. Virginia is full Of
minerals-coal, iron, lead, copper, salt. Her agri-
cultural resources are immense. What timber
clothes her mountains what soil for Indian corn,
wheat, tobacco, rice even cotton grows in the
kOuthprn mart. WASHINGTON sad tho pnntral couu-
ties in Virginia were the best land in the United
States. Daniel Webster, reporting to the Virgini-
ans of his European tour, said he saw no lands
in Europe SO good as the valley of the Shenandoah.
Virginia is rich in mountain pastures favorable to
sheep and horned cattle. Nature gives Virginia
everything that can be asked of nature. What
a position for agriculture, manufactures, mining,
commerce! Norfolk is a hundred miles nearer
Chicago than New York is, but she has no inter
course with Chicago. 1t is three hundred miles
nearer the mouth of the Ohio but if a Norfolk
man wants to go to St. Louis, I believe his quickest
way lies through New York. 1t is not a days sail
farther from Liverpool it is nearer to the Medi-
terrarean and South American points. But what
is Norfolk, with her $4,000 tuns of shipping and
her fourteen thousand population What is Rich
mond, with her twenty-seven thousand men-ten
thousand Of them slaves! Let me CIPHER out some
numerical details.
In 1870, she had 5000 inhabitants now she
has l,42l 900. She has not doubled in 60 years.
In 1900, New York had 100000; now she has
S,04S,00O. The has multiplied her population al
most ten times (applause). In Virginia, in 1850,
there were only 452, 900 more freemen than sixty
years before; in New York, there were 2,724,OOO
more .Jreemen than there tcere in 1870. There are
only los, 600 dwellings in Virginia 463,OOO in
New York. Then the Virginia farms were worth
S2l6,000,000; yours, 1854, 200, 900; Virginia is
wholly agricultural, while you are also manufacture
ing and commercial. Her farm tools were worth
81 ,000,0 900 yours, S22,00O,000. Her cattle, $685.
$780, 900 yours, S73, 000,0 900. The orchard pro-
ducts Of Virginia were worth SIT, 900; Of New
York, 81, 100000. Virginia had 476 miles of
railroad you had 1926 miles. She had $4,000
tuns of shipping, you had 942, 900. The value of
her cotton factories was not two millions; the
value of yours was four and a quarter millions.
She produced sS4l 900 worth of WOODEN goods !;
you produced 100000. Her furnaces produced
two millions and q half; yours produced eight
millions. Her tanneries 1891 900; yours, 9,S04,-
600 All of her manufacturers together were not
worth 100000 those of the city Of Neic York
alone have an annual value Of sos, OO0, 600. Her
attendance at school was 100, o00; yours, G93 900.
But there is one thing in which Virginia is far
in advance of you. Of native Nirginians, over
twenty ycays old, who could not read the name Of
Christ" nor the w. / "God"-free white people
who cannot spell democrat-there were 81 1888.
That is out of every five hundred free white per-
sons, there were one hundred and fire that could not
spell PIERCE. In New York there are 30,670-no
more so that out of five hundred persons, there
are sic that cannot read and write. Virginia is
advancing rapidly upon you in this respect. In
1910 she had only 56,7S7 adults that could not
read and write; now 2S,j96 more. So you see she
is advancing!
Virginia has 81 newspapers New York, 42S.
The. Virginia newspaper circulation is 50 coo New
York newspaper circulation is l,G22,000. The
Tribune and l think it is best paper there is in
the world loud and long applause; after which
three cheers were given for the TfGune)-has an
aggregate circulation of 10000; 10000 more
than all the newspapers of Virginia (applause).
Virginia prints every year 100000 of copies of
newspapers all told. New York prints ll5,000,-
900. The New York Tribune prints Is, 900, 600
more than the whole State of Virginia put together.
Such is the State of things counted in the gross,
but | think the New York quality is as much bet
ter as the quantity is more Qaughter).
Virginia has $4,000 books in libraries not prl-
vate New York 1,760,0 600; a little more than TWEEN
ty times as much. Virginia exports SO, 800 900;
New York $53, 100000. Virginia imports 1926
900 New York, Sill ,000, 900. But in one article
of export she is in advance of %you-she sends to
the man-markets of the South about 100000
or 2,000,0 900 worth Of her children every year
exports slareS! The value Of all the property real
and personal in the state of Virginia, including
slaves, is $3.50, 70l ,SS2; of New York 81 ,0S0,O 600,
000, without estimating the value of the men VIII
own it. Virginia has got 472,52S slaves. | vii
estimate them at less than the market-value-a
S400 each; they come to Sl89, 000, 900. | subtrac
she is worth not quite 24l2, GOO, 600. Now, thu
State of Now York might buy up all the propert.
of Virginia Including the slaees, and still have S649
100000 left; might buy up all the real and person
al property of Virginia, except the working-men
and have 1888, 100000 left. The North ~appropri
ates the rivers, the mines, the harbors, the forests
fire and water-the South kidnaps men. Behold
the commercial result.
Virginia is a great State-very great Yo1
don't know how great it is. / will read it to yo'
presently. Things are great and small by com
parison. am quoting again from the Richmond
Eramiaer March 2f, 1854. Virginia in th.
eonfederacy is the impersonation of the well-born
weIleducated, well-bred aristocrat" [peu.JoIa
while the children of Jefferson and the only chiRRrel
of Madison are a connecting link between tn.
human and brute creation !" CeN-edacate7, will
q per sent, of her white adults unable to read thu