The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-26

STArlsrcAr rrAILAons Or HzErzs's Book.
Nat only does this .inOendiary work abound
with incentives IL treason, massacre and
bloody revelation, bot its statistics are falia-
cious, and evidently prepared for the purpose
of deceiving the ignorant and fNnatical portion
Of the community. The attentive and intelli-
gent reader who will take the trouble Of ex-
aiming them closely will easily detect their
fallacy. BY way Of showing the superior pro-
ductiveness of the free States over the slave, he
compares the value of their respective cereals,
and gives, at page 20 of the Compendium, the
following results
Free States 1851 ,1Oo 1oS
SAVc StaeS.. OVOvSSVOi
In favor Of tho free States ......... ~ 0so
At page 81 the value of the other agricultu-
raj products of the North and South are COM
pared as follows
OrHR AGRICULTURAL PRoDycm.
Free States.
In favor Of the free States loS
The aggregate difference between all the
agricultural products of the South and North
thus appears to be-
TOTAL PRODUCTS.
Free States. .$S66, lS2 Z16
slave STATES ........................ 40x,lo04Sz
In favor of the free States .sloa osl "a
Now the fallacy of this deduction will be
made clear by turning to table at page II of
the Compendium, in which the population Of
the free and slave States is compared
Northern population ia 49, 922
southern p0puiation v,olZv1v
1t will be thus seen that the Northern popu-
lation is one and half that of the Southern, and
yet it does not produce one-iifth more. Ac-
cording to the foregoing figures the North
ought to yield, in order to make its productions
equal to the South, seas, 1854, 1872, as any school
boy can calculate by the rule of simple proper
ton, thus
Southerm Northern
Population Population. Anscer.
9,6i2,s79 1s,as4,s22 s4e2 lSO.4s2 se45 esq., 22
The true state of the case, therefore, is
What they ought TO produce $645 6S4, 722
What the free States do produce b66 l32, 226
Against the free States and in favor of tho
slave. .................... $SS,4oz0So
Again, if we take the proportion of popula-
ton to the square mile, the figures will be still
more in favor Of the South. According to one
of the tables quoted in Helpers Compendium,
(at page 7l,) the population Of the South is
only 1l.29 to the square mile, whereas the po-
pulation of the North is 2l.9l. By the rule Of
proportion, the result on this basis ought to
be-
n Uos,O O. n
il2s 2f.el saS2, lso,4S2 ss9S, 460, 1872
Now let us subtract what the North actually
produces from what it ought to produce, on
this basis, as follows
What II actually produces .......... SOS 1882 ,228
Against the free States $3.50 $50 ESQ
twill be thus seen, according to Helpers own
figures, that there is balance of 1882 1884,, $50
against the free States and in favor of theslave,
instead of $l03,9sl,744 to the credit of the
Northern States, as the dishonest writer pre-
tends If we add these two amounts together,
the result will show that he lies for abolition
to the trifing sum of $436, 31s, 7OO-tour hun
bred and hirty-sia millions, three hundred and
eighteen thousand, seren hundred dollars!
Such is a specimen of his statistics, on which
as little reliance is to be placed as on his other
facts and arguments against the South. The
book is a tissue of falsehoods worthy of the bad
cause for which it is written, and its endorse
ment is disgrace to all who have given it the
sanction of their names.