Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-05-19

adopted the theories aud abstractionsp ol
the cable and distinguished men and pa.
trots" Of Virginia, and treated slavery, as
they regarded it, more to be deplored than
to be fostered, and consequently got rid OF
It; while the latter repudated these teach.
ings, and regarded African bondage "a
blessing to both races; one to be encourag
cd, cherished, and fostpred;" and, conse.
quently, have continued it TO the present
time and now defends it as wise and
benefcent institution, and one of her Re.
preseutatives, Mr.. Pryor, upon this floor
at this session, declared il to be "the high.
est type Of civilzatiorE'
New York contains an area of $4,000
square miles, and Virginia 6l, 1862 square
miles. In soil, climate, aud natural advan-
tages Virginia is equal, if not superior, to
New York At the taking of the first
| census, ITO, the population of these States
was as follows: Virginia 74S,308 New
York, 340,330. In the year 1850 the
population was as follows: Virginia. l,42I,-
Gel; New York, 3,09I394 The value of
re0l estate in those States in 1850 was: in
Virginia, 1882, los, ,924; in N. York 1894
G49, ,649 The value of personal and real
estate in Virginia 39l, ,G4G43S; in New
York, $l,080, ,309,2lG. The value Of
church property was, in Virginia, S2,9O2.-
220; in New York, $2l ,539,56 Virgin.
10 had $3.50 public schools, with 67,353
pupils, New York had l $50 public schools
with 1888 pupils; New York had IL $50
public schools, with 675,22l pupils The
annual income of the school fund, in Vir-
| ginia, was 3l4 G25; in New York, $1,472,-
657 The post Office statistics of any conn
try afford good evidence of its business ac-
tvity, Intelligence, and educational progress.
Total annual transportation Of mails for
the year ending June 80 1859, in Virginia
4,0OG, 72j miles, at an annual cost of $378,-
872; and in New York, 6, CSC, ,4SS miles. at
an annual cost Of $4G2, SOC The Govern
ment expended, for the year ending june
30, 1859, for pest service in Virginia,
/ $50, sol 03 and received during the
SINE period, $255 075 10; being an excess
of expenditures over receipts of $685.
725 33. The Government expended, dur
ing the same period, and for the same pur.
pose, in the State oil New York, 81, ,1O7,-
$50 70, and received 81 ,553, ESQ "a; be-
ing an excess of receipts over expenditures
of $445,79 So. viii the Representatives
Of Virginia explain the cause of the differ
ence between that State and New York
upon any other basis than the superiority
of free over slave labor? | submit to the
judgment of the American people of all
sections, that it is owing solely to the cause
that Virginia, against the opinion of her
early statesmen, has encouraged and foster.
ed the curse Of human slavery while New
York, in accordance with that opinion, and
in the spirit of the Revolution, has abol-
ished it,
For the purpose of showing that, in COM
parison with freedom, slavery affects iniur-
ionsIy the prosperity of State, | will in
stitute Il comparison between fourteen free
States and fourteen slave States, namely,
free States Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana,
Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan
New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, anL
Vermont; slave States: Alabama, Arkan
sas, Florida Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana
Maryland, Missouri, Mississippi, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee
and Virginia. These free States have an
area of 402, 693 square miles, and the slave
States have $40, 1928.
In soil, climate, and natural advantages,
these fourteen slave States are equal to the
fourteen free States named, and l think,
in some respects, better.
In 1850, the population of the free states
named was Is, ,O36,93 and of the slave
States, 1921, ,237
The value of real estate in the free states
was 50, 40S, 309,9S7 in the slave states,
$l,4l6, ,l02,42l. The moral, social, and
educational condition Of the same states
compare as follows value of churches iu
the free States, $50, ,972, 525 in the slave
states, S2l ,224 ,22G. Public schools in the
free States, 81 ,00S, with 2,7ll, ,O35 pupils
public schools in the slave States 1873.
with 572, ,89l pupils. The annual income of
pablo schools in the free states, Sc, ,G63, 603;
in the slave states, $2,676,l7 The white
population at the same period was in the
free States, l2,S42,27 in the slave states,
6ll3,3OS. The number of scholars in
colleges, academies, and public schools
was in the free state, 2,S7S,29l and il
the savee states only 6S7,S9I. The nun
Der of free white persons, over the age O
twen;y-one, at this period, who could no
read or write, was: in the free states, All,
036 in the slave state, 509,346.
The Postmaster Generals report Of thi
year, to which have before referred, show
the following facts total annual transpor
taton Of mails in these free states, SO, 7T3,
l54 miles, at an annual cost Of S3l27, 060
in these slave states, 370l7,5lI, at an an
nual cost of $4,745,329 being carried il
the free states, l,765, 643 miles further, a
a cost of 81 ,6lS, 269 less than in the slav,
state.
The postal expenditures for the same
period were as follows in the free states
$5,5l3, 169 68 in the slave states, So,
$4,000 65 and receipts as follows il
the free states, $5,052, 95s IA in the
slave states, 81 908,O37 98, The expen
dtures in the slave states being $42S, SO:
81 more than in the free States, and th
receipts $3,l44,9 ,920 l6 less. The tabl
which | have prepared will show the resul
, 10 each state, and comparison can be in
stituted, seyerally or in the aggregate, an
the result will be about the same.
The table we have not been able to prt
, pare.--ED. Tel.
II the system Of slavery, as it exists /
the fourteen slave States have named,