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during the same year, amounted to only 50 o24 657
In 1870, the imports Of New York aud Virginia
were about equal in 1868, the imports of New
York amounted to the enormous sum if Sl73 go.
1899; while those of Virginia for the same period,
amounted to the pitful sum of only 1899 004. In
1850, the products Of manufacturing, mining and
the mechanic arts in New York. amounted to
1927 1912 those OF Virginia amounted to uuly
$40 705, ,3S7. AT the taking of the last census the
value of real and personal property in Virginia. in
cluding negroes, 1901 ,6l6 .43S; that of New
York, exclusive Of any monetary valuation of hu'
man beings, was 81 ,080, ,3O9 2lG.
In August, 1856, the real and personal estate
possessed in the City of New York amounted in
valuation to s5ll,74O,50l showing that New York
City alone is worth more than the whole State OF
Virginia.
In 1890, Massachusetts contained 37S7l7 inhab.
itants in the same year North Carolina contained
393 65l in 1850, the population of Massachusetts
was 004,5l4, all iroemen while that of North
Carolina was only $50 039, Of whom 2S9 54S were
slaves. Massachusetts has an area of only 7 500
square miles the area of North Carolina is so 704
square miles, which, though less than Virginia. is
considerably larger than the State of Now York
III 1000, tne exports VI NhssaC0uSeIlS hntuHt'u
to sic S05, ,304 and her imports to Sal 367 $50 du-
ring the same time, and indeed during all the
time, from the period Of tho formation of the gov.
ernment up 20 the year of 1858, the exports and
imports of North Carolina were so utterly insight
fcant that we are ashamed 90 record them. In
1850, the products of manufactures, minining and
the mechanic arts in Massachusetts, amounted to
Sl5l 1877 l45 those Of North Carolina to only So
III ,245 In 1856, the products Of these industrial
pursuits in Massachusetts had increased to
thing over S2SS, 900 coo, sum more than twice
the value of the entire cotton crop of all the South
ern States In 1850 the cash value Of all the
larms, farming implements and machinery IN Mas
sachusetts Sll2 2S5 93l the value of the same
in North Carolina in the same year. was only
81 ,S23 208. In 1850 the value of all the real and
personal estate in Massachusetts, without recog
nizng property in man, or setting a monetary
price on the head of single citizen, white or
black amounted to S573, ,342;2s6 the value of the
same in North Carolina, including negroes amount.
ed to only S226, ,S00,472. In 1856, the real and
personal estate assessed in the City OF Boston
amounted in valuation to within n fraction Of
S25O 600. 900, showing conclusively tlnt SO far
us dollars and cents are concerned, that single
city could buy the whole State of North Carolina
and, by right of purchase, if sanctioned by the
Constitution ofthe United States aud by State Con.
stitutions, hold her province. In 1850 there
were in Ma. sachusetts Sol native white and free
colored persons over twenty years of age who
could not read an / write in the same year. this
class of persons in North Carolina numb bered so
083; while the 2S3 .548 slaves were by legislative
enacmcnts, kept in state of absolute ignorance
and unconditional subordlnatiun.
In l760, we learn from NJ. Benton's "Thirtv
Years View" the foreign imports into Charleston
were - CO.. GOO in 1856, they amounted to only
Sl,75O 600! Ia 1851, the imports into Ph;ladel
pha, which, in foreign trade, ranks at present but
fourth among the commercial cities of the Union,
were 81 ,0G3,02l. In 1850, the products Of manu-
faeturet, mining and mechanic arts, il Pennsyl Iva
MIA amounted to Slj5 ,044,9l0 the products Of
the in the South Carolina amounted to only
81 ,OG3 5l3.
As shown by the census report of 1850, which
wasIprepored under the superintcndence of native
of South Carolina who certainly will not he Gus.
pected Of injustice to his own section Of the coun
try, the Southern States. the cash value of all the
farms, farming implements and machinery in
Pennsylvania was 1892 sos GAO the value of the
the same in South Carolina in tho same
year, was only $50 5l8O38. For a compendiun of
the same census, we learn THAI the value Of all the
real and personal property in ennsyvania actually
amounted to S729, l44 99S ; the value OF the same
in South Carolina, including the estimated value of
584925 negroes amounted TO only S2SS,c57 G94-
We have not been able to obtain the fgures neccs
sary to show the exact yoIun of rroI ord ,rsoro,