The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1860-02-01

Helpers Book. - The Impending
Crisis.
Editor National Democrat.
Says one Of the endoTsers Of this book, "Mr.
Eelper deals in statistics, figures, numerical
fncts-hcts indisputable. He is the-Brutus Of
the hour; and no man who reads the Congress
sional record can fail to see that the dagger is
reaching Casar's heart" SC.
Let us analyze some of the "indisputabls
fac:s' Of Helper. lie sets down the ray crop
/ of he North, including the whole Western prai-
ries, at the fabulous sum Of Sl42, l39, S9o =
Now, the census report Of 1850, from which be
derives his figures, shows no such thing. On
psgo l76 Of the Compendium, we hnd the hay
crop of the whole country, North and South,
to be only SOC $40 494! which by the same au-
thority, the cotton crop was 9S,6O3,7OO in
stead of SIS, ,264, ,92S, as Mr.. Helper AYERS; and
mark, the cotton crop OF the last year reached
| Sl60000,0O0! Yet the Professor. in making
case that slavery is curse to national wealth,
! triumphantly declares "the hay crop of the
| North il three and hall millions of dollars
more than all the hay, hemp, cane sugar, tobac-
co and cotton Of the slave States!
In addition hereto, the man Helper has pre-
pared tables, disingeniously showing the rela-
tive value of nearly all other property raised
and held, between the two respective sections OF
the country, North and South. from which we
adduce, that this hay crop of the North that
amounts to such startling figures, after all, paid
nothing inasmuch as none was exported, be-
sides being fed to the live stock OF the country
and is Swallowed forth in other products, show
ing the article tt0ice catered, for We read from
| Helper that
IN THE FREE STATES,
| The value of live stock is $286,316, ,34l
" Slaughtered animals 36,990,237
! IN THE SLAVE STATES,
| The value of live stock is 800, I23.681 I
! " Slaughtered animals, 54,309, ,377
| Not so great disparity in the products OF the
two sections of the codntry, when we take in
| to consideration that the free States contain
nearly 100000 of inhabitants more than the
slave States.
The disingenuousness Of our author is exem-
plfed in another particular. Among the arti-
cles of national wealth, he has enumerated all
the jim cracks of Yankee land. such as patent
reapers, apple pearers and nutmeg graters, I'M
der the imposing head Of Earning lmple
IHGHlS -LdbillDSIy W. AbSoS ~ oSe" NN'' ~
as national wealth in favor Of the North at over
one million of dnlurs!-a sum which tie vendcrs
If we might Judge of the value they are held al
by the owners thereof by seeiug them 'lyng
around loose' at the auction and commission
shops, where, like Lay Il Martins backing
they are always on hand" would consider not
over cheap at one tenth the amount.
Mr.. Helpers book abounds in just such "in-
disputable facts" as the foregoing, and is wei
calculated to do the North great and irrcpar-
able injury. If it elicits anything, it is to show
state of facts that the North is really dependent
upon the South for their great source otnation-
al wealth; the North being the greatest mpor-
ter and consumer OF foreign fabrics, while the
South is the exporter. Then, as for debts, in
connection with our national wealth, ii we may
credit Mr.. Moran, late President OF The Erie
Railroad, the country has invested S0OO,UOO,'
900 in Railroads alone, not over S2OO,OOO,OOC
of which has ever been paid. More than three
fourths OF this amount attaches TO the North
and through stupidity or rascality, call it by
whatever name we please, half of these roads
are worthless, will never pay expenses, and
must be abandoned.
l venture to assert if the Foreign Debt Of the
two sections Of country were forced to be pald
in a twelve month from this day, the South
would be enabled to pay SO per cent. more thar
the North. Let justice be one. Such canard'
as Helpers Impending Crisis, may be thought
"a good enough Morgan until after the election
in 1860, but apprehend, Thurlow Weed, o
the AJany Jounat will be compelled to clip the
whiskers Of Tim Monroe once again, before he
,oools the Northern Democracy into its belief
or voting for any of its endorsers. The Bostor
Post says:
again, Helpers endorser in the Journa
writes:
"When Mr.. Helper touches commerce anc
manufactures the figures scald with their sar
casm Tonnage of the free States to l; ex
ports (foreign exchangeable values,) lG7 to lO9
imports 10 to l.
""ronnage of the free States to l Where
was it employed? In carrying the hay crop tt
foreign ports to pay for importations or take
the cash? No. For in the annual report o
the Secretary Of the Treasury to Congress fo1
1872, the succeeding year, it does not appear
that single ton of hay was exported. (Sct
page 42) In exporting Northern manufactured
articles? o. the total exports (S192, 2,378, 1884,
more than one hundred and nnety-two mil
lions, the South exported more than one-half
not including SpeCie--say full one hundred mil
lions. OF the balance, ninety-two millions
nearly two thirds was in specie 1887 437 1897,
and manufactures of all kinds furnished only
(S8,672, 1917 less than eight millions. Thi'
shows where the tonnage OF the free States was
, employed, so far as it was paying to carry a
broad our exports and thus help support ou
industry and pay up for over two hundred ant
twelve millions of foreign goods imported du
ling the year (S212,945,442l We have sale
that the hay paid nothing. Northern mauufac
and half
lions. Vegetable food raised North and South
including wheat, -four, corn, apples, rice ant
potatoes, paid nearly twenty millions ($19, ,682,
588) Here is some thirty millions all tolt
paid by the North in productions that year fo
t cur importations. Where did the balance com,
from? From the export of specie and South
, ern productions. The export Of cotton wa
? over eighty seven millions 1887, ,965, 1872 near
ly twice the export of Northern manufacture
J and agricultural produce. The value Of tobac
, co exported exceeded ten millions more ($10,
/, 0S1 .283,) of rice nearly two and half million
, $2,471, ,629D to say nothing of the products 0
f the Southern forests, and making no account @
5 the South's proportion Of the thirty seven mil
lions Of specie, which was exported to pay bal
ances against us, less by about five millions i'm
ported during the same year. Our Northern
e tonnage, then, must have been employed to
very large extent in shipping Southern cottoI
and tobacco to pay for the iron for our Northerl
railroads, wool for our Northern manufacturing
establishments, dry goods for the ladies, lin
seed, sugar, coffe, tea, hides, &c.
I "In this view ola few plain facts, what thcl
, must be thought Of the siXty-eight distinguish
s ed members Of Congress who have endorsec
over their ewn signature, this lying Helpe
e book, to further excite the North against tn
S South, and thus make little more bleeding