Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1860-12-29
[irom the New York Timesl
THE RELATIVE DEGREE OF WEALTH
AND ELEMENTS OF PRODUCTION
NORTH AND SOUTH

We have shown the value, per head, OF the
products of the industry of Massachusetts en-
tering into consumption, to exceed four-fold
that of the same number in South Carolina.
mere description of the agencies employed
in the two States will compel to such conc!u-
sion, without the support of n voucher or Il fig
ure. Within the compass Of one hundred acres
in the city of Lowell are agencies at work which,
assisted by 10000 laborers, more than one. half
females, produce for general consumption fab
rios exceeding in value more than one-half the
whole exports of South Carolina. 7ico Lowels,
consequently, are of greater moment than this
State, in commercial affairs. Philadelphia is
dozen South Carolinas rolled into one.
In these days science realizes the fable of
Cadmus by supplying in abundance the cor
ditions upon which increase of population de-
pends-food, clothing and shelter. 1t is the
nucleus around which, as their vital principle.
great aggregations of men gather. An i'm
provement in the manufacture of iron rendered
possible the construction of railroads. iron ships,
and in fact, all the great works Of the day. Its
inventor proved to be more prolific, and has
added Il larger number to the population of
England and the United States, than all the
families Of the country in which he was born.
Millions in England, to-day, owe their very ex-
istence to the power-loom, the spinning -iunny,
and the process of puddling-iron. Goodyear.
by teaching how to combine India-rubber with
sulphur, became the progenitor of thous-
sands, and, in time, of hundreds of thousands,
even if he had not left lineal descendant. In
the commerce Of the country he is to-day q
larger figure than the State of Florida, as his
Improvement sends larger amount of values
into consumption. One of the finest towns in
Massachusetts is an outgrowth of an improve
ment by Bigelow, in the manufacture of car
pets. BY process that enables one man, as
sisted by machinery, to perform the labor of a
hundred. he gives employment to ten times the
number Of those whose labor he superseded
Food may be supplied in the greatest abun-
dance, and yet those enjoying it never rise above
the level of barbarism. A man to-day eats as
much as he did thousand years ago; vet in
clothing, shelter and luxuries, which are the
product of art, his consumption has increased
a hundred fold. The whole progress of society
lies in the inventive faculties of man. No fur
ther argument is required to establish our
premiscs-thc superior productiveness of la
Dor in Massachusetts over South Carolina, and
to the degree estimated. The wealth of the
former is in vastly greater ratio. A City like
Lowell adds millions to the value of the lands
OF the State outside the limits of the CITY. A
million dollars invested in q manufacturing es-
tablshment repeats itself many times in the in
creased value of other kinds of property, and
the products of the soil. Without a variety of
there can be little or no increase of
wealth, except in simple ratio to increase of
population. The number Of negroes, which is