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

that Michigan produces one hundred and
forty, and Alabama only sixty.
The total value Of farms aud domestic
animals in the Free States. in 1850, was
s., SIG ,425, ,397r in the Slave States, ST..
49,, ,l07 1888, making balance in favor of
the former of 81 ,0s4. .3ls.059. 1t should
be stated, aud it appears 10 the tables, that
the value of each class. as well as that of
the aggregate, is greater at the North than
in the South. By adding to the last bal
ance in favor of the Free States the differ
ences in value before enumerated, we find
the enormous total Of 81 .lsS, ,299 .s03
In the foregoing enumerations. the gal
Ion measure products Of the various States
have not been included. Esough is known,
however, TO render it evident that the value
of the milk, wine, ardent spirits, malt liq-
uors, fluids, and oils. annually produced
aud sold in the Free States. is at least fifty
millions of dollars greater than the value
Of the same articles produced and sold in
the Slave States. The estimated monthly
sales of milk in New York. Philadelphia
and Boston, are estimated to amount to a
larger sum than the marketable value of
all the rosin, tar, pitch and turpentine, an
nually produced iu the Southern States
Passing on to that important branch of
industry, ship building, and showing the
immeasursble superiority of the North in
this department also, We are next directed
to the products Of mining enterprise
Here we find that while the South, as
whole, is more bountifully supplied with
subterranean treasure than the North, the
mines of the latter section are made to
yield SIS 100000 annually, while from
those of the former. only the sum of Sl2,-
900, 900 is obtained.
DECLINE OF SOUTHERN AGRICULTURE.
In series of very suggestive tables,
comparison between the crops raised in
Kentucky. Tennessee, Virginia and Ala
bama in $40 aud in the same States in l6-
so. shows that decline in agricultural
pursuits is going on in these States. We
quote the table relating to Kentucky:
Wheat, bush. Rye, bush.
! Crop of lS41.. ,sO3, l52 ,32l ,3I3
Crop of l850........ -. 2,lis,S2e 4l5,OI3
Decrease. 1900 $3.50 9Oi 800
/ COMPARATIVE WEALTH OF THE FREE AND
/ SLAVE STATES.
The entire wealth of the Free States in
1850 was S4, ,lO2, Jos, that of the Slave
States s., ,936, ,O9O, ,s37, leaving balance in
favor of the former of SI,l66,Osl ,371.-
When we subtract also from the estimated
value of the Slave States, the estimated
value of slaves, 81 600 900, 600, it reduces
their wealth to 81 ,336 6.09o,737.
How CAN SLAVERY BE ABOLISHED.
The chapter of the Crisis which treats OF
the method of abolishing Slavery is open
to more serious criticism than almost any
other portion of the work The writer, as
the champion of the non slaveholdiny
whites Of The Southern States, endeavors to
through the influence of Slavery, but in
the pursu an ce of this very laudable pur
pose, unnecessarily offends the prejudices
of the aristocratic class.
Where interest is at stake, it is very diff.
cult to convince a man or class of men, that
they ought TO act contrary to that interest,
but the infusion of a very large amount OF
harshness, adds nothing to the force of an
argument Mr.. Helper does not reason
with gentleness. 1t will be remembered
that thus far his conclusions have teer
drawn from figures. Here, however, HI
theories, and his conclusions are entitled
10 the sane respec. as opinions from an,
other equally respectable source. and n,
more; they are substantially as follows;
The average value Of an acre Of land il
the Northern States in 1850, was s2S OF
in The Southern S. 81. Slavery beng tn
cause of this difference, the author con
: cludes that in equity the shareholders Q
: the South owe their on-slayehol din
brethren of the same States the sum q
: 500 70 on every acre of Southern soil i
e the possession of the latter. The area @
q the slave States is 544 ,926, ,720 acres; {
II this amount l73, ,024, 900 acres are owne
by Shareholders; the Government own
4U, ,000, 900; the non Shareholders 33l ,902
720. The value OF the last at S22 73 pc
i acre is $7,544, ,I45 ,S25, tho amount of ii
8 shareholders debt on this single score.
d Being opposed to slaveholding in ever
e. form. yet willing to show the comParatiS
value of all the negroes and of this va
u sum, the writer subtracts the former amour
from the latter. A balance Of $5 .944 ,l4s
Bps against the shareholders is the resul
W 1t may be said that Mr.. Helper does u
expect this balance to be paid just yet.
% Leaving out of the calculation the estim
40 40 ted value of the slaves, he urges that
30 slavery were abolished the rise 10 the val
10 of real property thai would ensure to 4
"a Shareholders net profit of $2,333, ,535, s.
the estimated rise being the amount
,ss difference now existing between proper
'23 at the North aud at the South.
20 sLAKHoLpIso AND POPULATION.
n. The relation of slavsholding to popuI
70 ton is next discussed. By the sensus
u 1850, it appears that there are 347,3
of shareholders in the United States, but
o. this number, Mr.. Helper thinks, neal
: I6O. 900 are merely slave hirers. The e
~ ncstuess--the ferocity. perhaps, W
- which the author here deDounces the sla
,;a holders, aud appeals to the working u
Of South, to rise up against the privllel
of small class, though ill-advised.
!. hardly liable to the the charge of hyPo'
SCs SG sy.
: Having demonstrated by figures the
8h profitablsness Of slavery, and shown
SIS non Shareholders their power to bring
az. termination to their long suffered wroni
,ios large space is devoted 10 Southern, Nor
err, and Bible testimony against slave
,rl. Under the first head, We have the opini'
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