The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-12-21


nax. This investigation occupies eight tables.
the recapitulation of which We here give :o'
p Free States. .a7s a6s6n9
Slave States. 4SSsslo6p 6pi
Balance in lbs @ "a SO aelam
Free States. se1i42z.23
Difference ia value. SIS. .19s Jos
a- 1ieoTHER AGRICULTURAL DIFFERENCES. yeg
To render still more evident the superiority
of intelligent and voluntary, over uneducated
and compulsory labor, additional tables are
drawn up, in which it is shown that while
Massachusetts produces sixteen bushels of
wheat to the acre. Virginia produces only
seven. that Pennsylvania produces fifteen. and
tieorgia only Eve that while Iowa produces
thirty-six bushels of oats to the acre. Missis
sippi produces only twelve; that while Rhode
Island produces thirty. and North Carolina
only ten that while Ohio produces twenty.
Eve bushels of rye to the acre, Kentucky pro.
duces only eleven that Vermont produces
twenty, and Tennessee only seven /; that while
Connecticut produces forty bushels of Indian
corn to the acre, Texas produces only twenty;
that New Hampshire produces two hundred
and. twenty bushels of Irish potatoes to the
acre, Maryland produces only seventy-6ve
that Michigan produces one hundred and forty,
aud Alabama only sixty. Gs1o sTad asai1
The total value. of farms and domestic ami.
mails IN the Free States in 1850. was So 576..
I425 397 $; in the Slave States, $l492. .l07. .33s.
making a balance in favor of the former of
81 ,0s4 3f8 059a az 1t should be stated. and it
appears in the tables-that the value of each
class. as well as that Of the aggregate, is
greater at the North than, in the Souit.saBy
adding to the last balance in favor of the Free
States the differences in value before enuner.
Ested, we find the enormous total of $l,1SS,-
f299 9o5. - 5,A1 1913 2sekS fbsnaas
To the foregoing enumerations. .ate gallon
measure products of the various States have
not been included. Enough is known. how
ever to render it evident that the value oftie
milk, wine, ardent spirits, malt liquors fluids,
and oils, annually produced and sold in the
Free States. is at least City millions Of dollars
greater than the value of the same articles
produced and sold in the Slave States. The
estimated monthly sales of milk in New York,
Philadelphia and Boston, are estimated to
amount TO larger sum than the marketable
value of all the rosiu, tar. pitch and turpen.
time. annually produced in the Southern States.
| Passing on to that important branch of in.
dustry, ship building. and showing the i'm.
measurable superiority of the North 10 this
department also. we are next directed iosthe
products of mining enterprise Here we iind
that while the South as whole is more bount.
fully supplied with snbierranean treasure than
tine North. the, mines of the latter section are
made to yield $s5 900 0O0 annually, while
from those Of the former, only the sum Of
$4,000 900 is obtained.
as DEcLINE OF soUTHER 5AGR!cuLTURE.
81 In series OF very suggestive tables com.
parison between the crops raised in Kentucky.
Tennessee. Virginia and Alabama il, 1870.
and in the same States in 1850, shows that
deeline.in agricultural pursuits is going on in
these States. We quote the table relating to
Kentucky: ' t''''4 '''' sloa st,..,.. a5:'iz
Crop of ls4s. -. soaIsa s, IssIs7s
lsso.....-..r.,.s2,i ,its-s so xe,1 azssit slssIs
Decrease -. ..s....... 2,s6 $50 81 avE sOs.s9o
COMPARATIVE wEALrii OF ThH FREE AND SAVE
l-.'i''a, t-9e-i STATES. rEsa' bi0s set 70
The entire wealth Of the Free States in
1850 WINS 81. .l02 t72. los, that of the SIaves
States $2.s36 ,O9o. .T37 leaving balsnee in
favor Of the former of $ll66, ,0sl 37l.-
When we subtract also from the estimated
value ofthe Slave States, the estimated value of
slaves, $1,000, 900 oo0it reduces their wealth
to sl.336.O9O.737. I'd q eo ss ss
HOW SLAVERY CAN BIZ ABoLr>HED.
The chapter of the Crisis which treats Of
the method of aholishing Slavery Is TO open
to more serious criticism than almost any
other portion of the work. The writer, az
the champion of the non slaveholding whites
Of the Southern States, .endeavors 10 arouse
them to & sense of their degradation through
the influence of Slavery, but ip the pursuance
of this very laudable purpose. unnecessarily
,ffnds the prejudice of the aristocra,ic slass
Where interest is at stake, it Is very Sili.
'ult TO convince man or class Of men, that
hey ought to act contrary 10 that interest.
Tut the infusion Of very large amount of
larshuess, adds nothing TO the force of sn
rgument. Mr.. Helper does not reason With
entleness. 1t will be remembered that thus
ar his conclusions have been drawn from fig.
res. Here, however, he theories, and his
onoiusOns are entitled to the same saspect o.