The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-12-21
,;,,on. from auy other equally respectable

on;nious from any other equally respectable
source, and no more /; they are suostanuahsI
as follows:
The average value of an acre OF land IN
The Northern States in 1850 was S26 o. IN
The Southern So 81 Slavery being the canse
,of this difference, tile anihor concludes that
sp enuity the shareholders OF the South owe
tbeir MOI, sls vehaiding brefhren Of the same
states the sum of S22 73 on every acre OF
Southern soil in the possession Of the latter
The area of the Slave States is 544 9Z6 tZ0
acres: Of this amount f73. 3.024000 acres are
owned BIZ shareholders; the Government Z PSI
10000 600; the non-slavebolders 35I9OZ zI0.
The value Of the last at s22 73 per acre isl
S7,544l4S. .e25; the amount OF the slavehold- |
era debt on this single score
Being opposed TO slaveholding in every
form, vet willing TO show the eompsrativel
: value Of all the negroes and of this vast sum.
she writer subtracts the former amount from
the latter. A balance of S5.944,14SS24l
against the shareholders ia the result. 1t may
be said that Mr. Helper does not expect this
balance TO be paid just set. Leaving ont OF
athe calculation the estimated value OF the
slaves, he urges that if Slavery were abolished
the rise in the valae OF real property that
would en.ue, would alone insure TO the slave
obolders ret profit OF 81 333.535.5l0.--the
estimased rise being the amount of difference
now existing betw cen property at the North
and at the South. ~
sLAvEHoLDrEG AND POPULATION
9 The relation of slavehoIding to population
4 IL not discussed. By the census of 1850, it
appears that there are BAT 325 slaveholders
, in the United States, but of this number. Mr..
Helper thinks. nearly 100, 600 are merely slave
heirs. The eearnestness-the ferocity, perhaps
with which The author here denounces the
shareholders. and appeals TO the working men
Of the Solth, to rise up against the privileges
. of small class, though ill-advised, is hardly
liable to the charge Of hypocrisy.
ST. The following is his
e PROGRAMME FoR ABOLITION.
l.. Thorough organization and indepen-
q dent political action on the part of the non
slaveholding whites of the Sonth
az 2.s Ineligibility of pro-siavery shareholders
never another vote to amy one who advo
Gates the retention and perpetuation of human
slavery.
~ 8 No Cooperation with pro-slavery poll
tciaps ;,no fellowship with them in religion /;
no affiliafion with them 10 society.
4. No patronage to pro slavery merchants;
no guesfship in slave waiting hotels; no fees
to pro-slnvery lawyers no employment Of
spro-slavery physicians I; no audience to pro-
eslayery parsons. 7tss4ss
b.a5. No more hiriag slaves by non-slave-
holders.
6. Abrupt discontinuance Of subscription
to pro-slayery newspapers. Hsa sas
As q. The greatest possible encouragement
to free white labor. es.i,- ss-,
g.. Immediate death to Slavery, or if not
immediate. unqualified prescription of its ad.
vocates during the perie of its existence.
i49. A tax Of sixty dollars on every Slave
holder for each and every negro in his posses
sion at the present time, or at any intermedi-
ate time between now and the 4th of July,
l963-said money to be applied to the trans
portation of the blacks TO Liberia. to their col
onization 10 Central or South. America, or to
their comfortable settlement within the boun
daries Of the United States.
SIG 10. An additional tax of forty dollars per
iannum to be levied annually on every Slave
lcholder for each and every negro found in his
possession after the 4th day of July 1863
said moaey to be paid into the hands Of the
negroes SO held in Slavery, or, in cases o.
death, to their next Of kin, and to be used BY
them at their own option. Les < 49, i5ss.i
40 Having demonstrated by figures the IN
proftableness of Slavery, and shown the men
Shareholders their power to bring a termina
Etiou TO their long suffered wrongs, q large
espace is devoted to Southern, Northern, and
Bible testimony against Slavery. Under the
first head we have the opinions of Washing
tan, Jefferson Madison, More, Patrick Henry
John, T. NJ, T. 'J.. Peyton, and Edmund
Randolph, Henry and Cassius M. Clay, Ben
ton, Mason, Gov M'Dowell of Virginia, Ire
s dell. Pinkney, Leigh. Marshall, Boiling. Chan
dler and Birney. and the early abolition policy
of Maryland, Delaware, the two Carolinas ant
Georgia. Many Of these expressions Of son
timent have often been quoted. but others or.
not familiar to the public. United they hav
great strength. A chapter of Northern tes
etimony succeeds, which is followed by the tes
s timony Of the nations, the Churches and th,
Bible. Cd h 7sz q ssaaeaa
! f,as FREE FIGURES AND SLAVE. ksfa ssl
Under this caption are enumerated SOM
important statistics of the Free and Siav
q States, especially such as relate to commerce
manufactures, internal improvements, educa
S ton aud religion. We give few, Of the gen
eral results of the table in which they ar
embodied.
The tonnage Of the Free States in 1876
amounted to $4252 6l5; that of the Slav
erSlaies to. only S855.5l Z; the exports Of th
Free States during the same year we're $l67
III
the imports of the Free States were 1886, BAT
. $40 ;sof the Slave States $24 $50. .528. Il
1850 in the Free States the product of MAJ
= ufactlres was SS42,586 05S; from the sam
source in the Slave States $l65 Alb ,O27 Vi
derived. In the former case these profits uel
g the result Of an investment of $430 240.05
81 and the labor Of 780576 hands; in the latte
Of $95. .029 875. and 16l 733 hands. We nee
not reproduce the tables Of Bank capita
Post-Ofice operations and miles of cana
snd railroads in operation 1t is known
nearly every one that the mail service at II
5 South is carried on at large loss to the Go
ernment. sf.s.z; gsss ii - t.sgsss,l
There are. l49l1 public libraries in IL
Nor,h, with an aggregate of 3.880,234 vt
umes. In the South there are 695, with 64!
ID SIT volumes The North has 62s433 publ
&. schools, with 72,62l teachers and 2769 81
pupils. The South, 18.507, with 1873
teachers and 581 .8el pupils.
asai 7fs'Ai THE LAST CHAPTERS. -ls".
81 The concluding chapters of the 'Orisis' a
s. devoted to topics more or less intimately &C
!, necfed with the preceding sections, but whi
require less formal notice. Among 9th
important and interesting topics we 4
Southern Literature; White and Black
n bor and the adaptedness of the extreI
Southrto the former; the Commercial stat
tics Of leading Northern and Southern Citi
the Condition Of the Poor Whites Moral a
8 Social. ees g. ssass "a " t5'
q - We have TINS sketched the contents Of
a book which few will indorse as whole, /
which none can wholly condemn when righ
estimated.
t-Efef LAwREsoEI K. L, Nov. 2. 1859
Editors Portage County Democrat:
A r. n al q
a. very Aatteripg Report of the present yield
of the gold mines of the Rocky mountain