Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-06-15

Free States. Capital, Si3O,2fOOj ; value
ofraw material, Si6j, Si4,002i annual wegcs,
S10j,076, 453 annual product 1912 ,jS6,O5S.
SLAVES States. Capital. S95 OPPOSITE value
of raw material SSG.100, $50 annual wages.
s33.257.360; annual product Sl65i13O2I
This might be illustrated by details with
regard 30 different manufacture whether of
shoes, cotton, wooden, pig iron, wrought iron,
and iron ca tings-all showing the contrast.
u might also he illustrated by comparison
between different States showing for instance,
that the manufactures of Massachusetts. dur
ing the last year, exceeded those Of all the
Slave States combined.
Ia commerce, the failure Of the slave States
is on yet larger scale. Under this head, the
census does not supply proper statistics, and
we are left, therefore, TO approximations from
other quarters but these arc enough f0r our
purpose. Il appears that, of the products
which enter into commerce. tho free states
had an amount valued at Sl,377,l 99.96S; The
slave States an amount valued only at SllO,-
7j1002: that of tho persons engaged in trade,
the free States had l3G.S5d, and the slave
States So .622 and that of the tonnage cm-
ployed. the free States had 2.79O,l 90 tons.
and the slave States only 726,2SJ. This was
in 1880 But in 1865 the disproporton was
still greater, the free States having 1852 GO
tons. and the slave States 855. 81 tons, being
O difference Of five to one: and the tonnage
Of Massachusetts alone being go, 727 tons.
an amount larger than that of all thc shave
States The tonnage built during this year
by the free States was j28,8l4 tons; 10y the
slave States, So $50 tons. Maine alone built
215,905 tons, or more than four times the
whole built in the slave States.
INC 'ofoieh commerce. as lhuIca'eo oy '"'
exports ana imports IN 800 OF 'n' iIee o'"'e''
was ~ I,ooo'ouo OF inc saves oli''''
9lo-'" - o. ne exports OIL 'le l'oo o'"''S
were ''o%O'o'o OF 'no saw o'''c9'
nlo,uu'nE 'he N"unleu cotton crop @i'-'""''-
10 INC imports oI 'ne Ilee oU.us were
P@-"'o COW ul 'ne sl"No "'"'c', % LOU
"@a' Inc lorelBn commerce Oh ne" lolA
"'""U was n,o'e 'nan '"iVo az '''So "' ''"'
"' d" 'no save states hor imports were
'"H',' uuu Nor uAPo'ts were la'EcI "'''
A"" 20 'nls testimony OF hBureS inc lestlino-
ny OF NHsihlah, M Louuon' IN let'er
just before the Sltlng oil a southern 'om-
meiclal Convention mus he complains ana
'',''o''
"e'' a'e nov nai ao"9n Vessels 'naaj'u 'n OUT
.iotrla yc.spl al Liverpool io,6ms for Virtiaa
'm' three years during the height of busy sca-on
h7''r18s and canals arc the avenues a.
commerce and here again the nee states
oNcci OF railroads IN operation In 1851
tucrc were 1905 miles in the free States,
aud 4.2l2 in the slave States OF canals
there were 1852 miles in the free States, and
l.ll6 DO the slave States.
The Post C6ico' which is not only the agent
Of commerce, but of civilization, Joins in the
uniform testimony. According to the tables
for 1893, the postage collected in the free
states was S5,532,999, and the expense OF
carrying the mails S6,74s,lS0, leaving de-
hct Of Sl,2l5,lS0. In the slave States the
amount collected was only Sl,96S,O5O, aud
the expense of carrying the mails S6,OlG,Gl2,
leaving the enormous deficit of Si,02S,56S
the difference between the two deficits being
S2.8l3,372. The slave States did not pay
one-third of the expense of transporting their
mails; and not a single slave State paid for
the transportation of its mails not even the
small state OF Delaware. Massachusetts be-
,iocs paying ior hers, haa a surplus larger
'ngn the whole amount collected IN south ga
roma
according TO the census OF lo'o' the value
OF W"oNs IN the Tree states was Sof''o'-
4'ai IN 'ue slave states S2l'oH'7bl'
Inc voluntary chdr"y contributed IN 1900
for certain leading purposes OF Christian be-
heNolence was IN the irec states S"33,6l3 :
l'f the same purpose, IN the slave states,