Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-02-08

! The cash value Of all the farms, farming
implements and machinery in Virginia, in
1850. was 1926, ,423 ,3l5 the value Of the
same in New York was $50. .63l .56s. In
about the same ratio does the value Of the
agricultural products and live stock of New
York exceed the value of the agricultural
products and live stock of Virginia.
A similar comparison between Massa-
chusetts and North Carolina; Pennsylva-
MIA and South Carolina; and between the
Free and Slave States as whole, exhibits
like fearful disproportion. Boston could
buy the whole of the old North State, and
within the recollection of people now liv-
ing. Charleston. s. c., imported foreign
fabrics for the Philadelphia trade. Such
are the changes. such the progress and re
PROGRESSION of seventy years.
Every intelligent Southerner knows that
he is compelled to go to the North for al
most every article Of utility and adorp
ment. from matches and shoe-pegs up to
cotton mills, steam ships and statuary;
that the South has no princely merchants.
few respectable artists: that in comparison
with the Free States, she contributes moth
ing TO literature or invention, that the few
products of Southern industry do not meet
with ready sale even at home; that the
North disposes of her floating capital, and
s1,e = L.
lists for the means necessary to build her
railroads. canals, and other public i'm
provements; that to visit foreign country.
the people of the South sail from Northern
ports; and that nearly all the profits aris
ing from the exchange of commodities,
from insurance and shipping Offices. and
from the thousand and one industrial pur-
suits of the country, accrue to the North.
In summing up this dependence, Mr.. Hell
per says: ain one way or another, we are
more or less subservient to the North every
died in Northern muslin; in childhood we
are humored with Northern gewgaws; in
youth we are instructed out Of Northern
books. at the age OF maturity we sow our
wild oats on Northern soil in middle
life we exhaust our wealth, energies and
talent in the dishonorable vocation of en-
failing our dependence on our children and
and on our childrea's children, and. to the
neglect of our own interests and the inter-
ests of those around US, in giving aid and
succor to every department OF Northern
power; in the decline of life we remedy our
eyesight with Northern spectacles, and
| support our infirmities with Northern
canes; in old age we are drugged with
/ Northern physic; and, finally, when we
die. our insuimate lbsdies, shrouded IN
/ Northern fabric, are stretched upon the
| bier, borne to the grave 10 Northern car
riage, entombed with Northern spade,
and memorialized with Northern slab. "
WHY THE NORTH Has SURPASSED THE SOUTH.
/ The author can find but one cause of
+ trouble, and that Slavery, "the son" of ga
consderate and merciful stakeholder, pa-
/ tive of the South, born and bred in North
Carolina, of family which has been in
the valley Of the Yadkin for nearly cen.
tury aud a half, Southerner by instinct
and all the influences of thought, habits
and kindred" intending to remain in the
vicinity of his birthplace, he has not only
become mot merely Free Soiler, but an
Abolitio1ist in the fulles: sense of the
term" He continues: "We are not only
in favor of keeping slavery out of the Ter
ritories, but carrying our opposition to the
institution step further, we here unhesi.
tatinply declare ourself in favor OF its i'm
mediate and unconditional abolition in
every State in this confederacy where il
now exists" This opinion has been form
ed from no "sickly sentimeutality," as he
proceeds to show, by series Of tables, for
the correctness Of which Mr.. DeBow, the
far from Abolition census collector and
editor, is responsible.
AGRICULTURAL SUPERIORITY OF the NORTH
The facts which come gnder this head
: are set forth in tables. which would occupy
! more space than is at our disposal. bu
which deserve a careful examination
They prove that the boasted agricultural
; superiority Of the South does not exist
. The total of the bushel measure agricultu
raj productions Of the North in 1850. a
compared with that Of Southern produc
e tions in the same year, shows balapc
: against the latter section of IL ,42l ,l52, i
a quantity, and difference in value c
d s44. 1872 .636.
a THE NORTHERN HAY CROP vs. SOUTHERN STA
!. PLEs.
!. The next fact to be established is, tha
i the annual hay crop Of the Free States
worth considerable more, in dollars an
cents, than all the cotton, tobacco, ric'
e hay, hemp, and cane sugar, annually pr'
duced in the fifteen slave States. In proc
of this the following table is subjoined:
Hay CROP OF THE FREE srATEs-1S50.
$50 ,ee2 tons at sl1.e0.......... s142, ,13e, q
sUSpgY PRODUCTS OF OF THE SLAVE STATES
ie 1850.
rs Cotton. 2,445,71o bales at s3aoo. 7s,964 9
VI Rice. .si5 ,2l3, ,49i lbs, at o.. 8.6l2,5
j. Hay.... 1,l37,7s4 tons, at l1.20.. l2,743,
!. Hemp. -, ,673 tons, at 1900. 1885,
~ Sugar =. .237 4 a3.0B0 lbs, At o.. l6,599,3 9