Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-06-11
AN INTERESTING COMPILATION

Al INTERESTING COMPIL ALTON.
POPULATION AND.PRODUCTs IN THE FREE AND
| SLAVE STATES.
EXTRACT from Summers recent speech
| In considering the practical results of
| Slavery, the materials are so obvious and
diversified, that my chief care will be to
abridge and reject; and here l shall put
the Slave States and Free States face to
face, showing ut each point the blasting
influence of Slavery.
| The States where this barbarism now
exists excel the free States in all natural
advantages. Their territory is more ex-
tensive, stretching over S5I, ,44S square
miles, while the free States, including
California, embraces only 6l2, ,597 square
miles Here is difference of more than
229, 900 square miles in favor OF the slave
| States, showing that freedom starts in
this great controversy with field more than
Il quarter less than that of Slavery In
happiness of climate, adopted to produc-
! tionS of special value; in cxhaustIess mo-
tive power distributed throughout its
| space: in natural highways, by more than
| fifty navigahlc rivers, never closed by the
rigOrS of Winter and in 4 stretch of coast
along ocean aud gulf. indented by hospit-
able harbOrs-the whole presenting in
ization where agriculture, manufacture and
commerce, both domestic and foreign,
| blcnd-in all these respects the slave
States excel the free States, whose
climate is often churliSh, whose mo-
tive power Is less various, whose navi-
| gable rivers are fewer and often sealed by
ice, and whose coast, while less in extent
and with fewer harbors, is often perilons
from storm and cold. But Slavery plays
the part of a harpy, and defiies the choicest
banquet. See what it does with this terri
tory, thus Sgaei?m5 end an t foir oe u0snr;, :,
to be found in the growth of population.
In this respect the two regions started
equal. In 1890, at the first census under
the Constitution, the population of the
present Slave States was l,96S.372. of the
present Free States 1864 showing IL
difference of only 1853 in favor of the
Free States This difference, at first mere
Iy nominal, has been constantly increasing
since. showing itself1uore strongly in each
dcceuuial census, until, in 1850. the popu-
Iation of the Slave States, swollen by the
annexation of three foreign territories
Louisiana, Florida ard Texas-was only
9,GI2, T69, while that of the Free States,
without any such annexations, reached
Il, ,434.922, showing Il difference of 1922
1913 in favor of freedom. But this differ
| ence becomes still more remarkable, it we
conf ne our inquiries to the white population
which, at this period was only 6,I84, AT in
the Slave States, while it was l3,23S,6 $40
| in the Free States, showing a difference of
more than I, ,Oj4, 90 in favor of freedom, and
showing that the white population of the
| Free States had not only doubled, but COM
menced to triple that of the Slave States,
although occupying smaller territory
! uIationS furnishes another illustration. In
! the Slave States the average number of
| inhabitants to the square mile was Il.2S.
! while in the Free States it was 2l93, or
| almost two to one in favor of freedom.-
These results are general; but if we take
any particular Slave State and compare it
with Il Free State, we shall find the same
constant evidence for freedom. Take Fir-
ginia, will. a territory of 6l,352 square
! miles, and New York, with territory of
Al 400, or over $4,000 square miles less
| than her sister State. New York has one
seaport Virginia some three or four; New
| York has one noble river, Virginia has
several; New York for four hundred miles
runs along the frozen line of Canada; Vir-
! ginia basks in climate of constant felic-
/ ty But freedom is better than climate,
/ rivers or seaports. In 1880 the population
of Virginia was 748,6 sos, and in 1850 it
was I.42I ,66l. In 1890 the population of
/ New York was $40, ,l2O, and in 1850 it was
| 3,O9T ,394; that of Virginia has not doub-
| led in sixty years, while that of New York
had multiplied more than nine fold. \
| similar comparison may be made between
Kentucky, with 81 $50 square miles, admit
ted into the Union as long ago as 1890;
and Ohio. with 50, ,964 square miles admit
ted into the Union in 1902. In 1850 the
| Slave State had population of only 5S2,-
4O5, while Ohio had a population of $780,,
329-showing difference of nearly a mil
! lion in favor of freedom.
| As in population, so also in the value of
property real and personal, do the Free
States excel the Slave States. According
| to the census of 1850, the value of proper
| ty in the free Statcswas S4,lO7. l62, ,l9S,
while in the slave States, it was 50, ,93U,-
! 900. .T3T: or, if we deduct the asserted
propetey in human flesh, Sl,655, ,945, 49,
showing an enormous difference of bill
/ ions in favor of freedom. In the free
I States the valuation per acre was SlO,4T
| in the Slave States only 3.o4. This dis
proportion was still greater in 1855, ac-
cording to the report of the Secretary of
| the Treasury when the valuation of the
tfree States was S5.TT0, 194.6S6, or Sl4 -
| per acre: and of the slave States So, ,977,-
I 353. GAG: or, if we deduct the asserted prop
| erty in human flesh, So, sos, ,lS6, ,346 or L.
| 80 per acre Thus, II years from 1850,
the valuation ofproperty in the free States
received an increase OF more than the
whole accumulated valuation of the slave
/ States ut that time Looking 1T details we
| find the same edisproportiOns. Arkansas and
Michigan, equal in territory, were admitted
| into the Uuion'the snmeyear; and yetln 800
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