The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1856-07-23
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SP EECH III
HON. J. J. EVANS, OF S. C.,
In reply 10 Mr. Sumner, of Massachusetts,
delivered in the Senate of the United
States, June %, 1856.
IcoNcLuDEp FROM OUR LAsr.1..

lCoNcLUDED FROM OUR LAST
MIR. Evans. | have no disposition to
sonsume the time OF the Senate hv any
further remarks on the subject think
the evidence is very >satiSf:cIor (a, lcas;
it is 10 my mind,) that this was AN ag.
gressive assault on thcp part of the Son
ator ftom Massachusetts [Mr. Sumncrl
which nothing can justify. ..-
As 10 the Consequences which followed
ami whith un!.appily occurred in the
Senate Chamler---as that matter is nen
ding in II different tribunal, and before a
different body, / do not ;ll;nk it necessary
that shond say anything further Than
tts: that regret it for one rcason-I do
not say for any otllcr-I regret il for tie
reason that it has gwen occasion to tie
g'osScHt Misrepresentation and aggrava-
iIons that Gan be conceived Of have
seen, ia most OF the accounts which have
read do not say ii is SO in the proceed
inys of the State I.egi,a;urcs-tlct trans
actions so slndowcd furl and presented
tat ew"uil haycsurrosel the rre,i,' EFT
.i the Senate was IN his chair at tic time.
There Is not Il word sal! from which you
would draw The mtcrchce that the Sen.
a-ufmas not IN session. | understand
there are pictures circul dhn-rcrhaps in
Washington lin which Mr.. Sumnrr is
represented as down upon the .round--I
d" not know that / represents him as
holding up his hands begging for merry
-and Mr.. Bro"ks as standing over him
with club, aud bcaiiag him when down.
f.rcrvholy knows tla, is not SO. Sir.
saw that affair. did not see the frs,
how, but | saw all after the first, or sec
omd, or third blow, aud know as wei!
What tranSpred us any body else. do
not know WHO was present.. The thing
WIS doac so soon, and there was so much
confusion, that did not know the Sena
i,T from Connecticut Mr.. Fo,terl was
present, although he was sitting INN G.
diately Gel.ind Inc. take leave of th,,
subject now.
The next point to which propose to
call the attention Of the Senate, is that
part Of the Senator'S speech in which he
hoaSed that the productive industry of
the State oi Massachusetts exceeded three
t'mes the value Of the whole cotton crop
OF the United States. That is ma,,or Of
ejaculation. have troubled mvsclf some
10 look into IL, and will state the result
O: my examination. | do not know that
understand the exact meaning of the
Senator when he speaks of productive in.
dusiry but presume that productive
industry Is that which labor produces out
OF capital and wien, therefore, l,e speaks
Of productive industry, he lneans ,liat the
interest which capital yields, with the
profits of The labor, amounts 10 three
lln'Ss the value Of The cotton crop. AZ.
cor.Hng ,o the census of 1850, the value
OF the cotton exported i'll that year was
Sll2.3lj,alT. There were consumed in
the United States seven hundred thousand
bales, which, at $35 bale-lc.s than il
really bronght-wouId amount to 81 :
600,0o4. These items together make
the sum Of sI36,Sl5,3l7. According to
the censua, on page l70, the product OF
all the manufacturing aud mechanic arts
OF Massaclu cts was $I5l,l37,I45. II
10 this you add, for the fisheries, SO 6,GOG,.
$40, you Lave total Of Sl57,7I3, 004.
II anpears rom the census, that the raw
material used in these manufactures was
OF the value Of Ss5, 5,s56,77l. Deduc,inc
this from the total, the result is the avails
of labor in all these various departments
According to this subtraction. the produc-
tive industry Of Massachusetts, in 1850,
was $fl ,Ss7,223, or SG4, 4,92s. .094 less
than one years cotton crop. According
TO the oeDsus, the number of hands EN-.
ployed in manufacturing, mining. and the
mechanic arts, was one bundred aud ffly,
five thousand nine hundred and thirty
eight; in the fisheries, eleven thousand
five hundred and twenty three; making
10 all one hundred aud sixty-seven thou.
sand four hundred and one. II YOU di.
vide the $7I ,ss7, ,223. which is the pro-
duct after deducting The raw material, by
one hundred and sixty-seven thousand
four hundred and one, the whole number
OF flaborcrs, every person employed, includ.
ing men, women, aud children, Wust have
earned S430 each. Whether that is true
or not, do not know.
This statement, however, as far as |
know, does not include those persons en-.
poysd in ship building, IN the marine of
massachusetts, and in merchandise
Whether they are included or not. does
not appear from the census, the whole
plumber Of occupations in Massachusetls
is two hundred and niuety.fve thousand
three bundred-a little more than one
third Of her whole population. II you
multiply that number, S43O, which each
person employed in manufactures seems
W have earned, it gives you total Of