Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-01-12
From the New York Herald


Statistical Falacfes Helpers Book. - q
Not only does this neendary work abound with in
centves to treason, massacre, and bloody revelation
but the statistics falacious and evidently prepared
for the purpose of deceving the ignorant and anatical
portion of the community. The attentive and intei-
gent reader who will take the trouble of examining them
closely will easily detect their faacy By way of show
ing the superior productven Of the free States over
the slave States he compares the value of their respec
tive cereals and gives at page p of the Compendium
the following results
Free States, 1851, 7O9, 703
Slave States, SOC, 7"S7
In favor of the free States .........$ 44 1872 636
At page 81 the value of the other agrcul ura pro-
ducts of the North and South compared follows
OTHER AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS,
GI 500 555 -
slave States l55,ZZ3,4l5
In favor of the free States SIS, I99 los
The aggregate difference between all the agricultural
products OF the South and North thus appear be:
TOTAL. PRODUCTS.
free states, S566, l32, 2ZG
Slave States. >. 462, ,4s2
In favor of free States. lO3, $751; 744
Now, the faacy of this deduction will be made clear
10y turning to table at page II of the Compendium
in which the population of the free and slave States is
cOmpared t....... ,..- .>a..-,? 80
Southern pOpuatlon,... ....,......... 9,6l2, 979
1t will be thus that the Northern population is
produce one-flth more. According to the foregoing
figures the North ought to yield in order to make its
productions equal to the South $G45 692 1922 as any
school boy calculate by the rule of simple proper
ton, thus '.-
Southern Northern
Population. Population. -f 80 Answer,
96l2979 l3 434, 922 S462 4s2 $645 ,6e4 722
Now let us subsract what the North actually produ-
ceS from what it ought to produce this basis fol-
lows: r.-... ..... --a. ~. ...
What it ought to produce. 1895, 469,1S2
What it actually produces 566, 1872, 226
Against the free States. 1892 1856 $50
The true state of the therefore is '-~'''.''
What they ought to produce. $645, G84, 722
What the free States do produce, 566, 1872 226
Against the free States and in favor of ------
Again, if we take the proportion of population to the
square mile, the figures will be still more in favor of the
South. According to ohetof the tables quotedn Help
ers Compendinns fat page 7l} the putHlation of the
South is only l.29 to the mile whereas the pop
ulatOn of the North is 2l9l. By the rule of proper
tion the result ought to be- '-' Il
Pop. So. NJ. Pop. So M. - ,.,... Answer -
n.29 2l.91 $462, 50,4S2 q: $898, 469, Isl
1t will be thus seen, according to Helpers own fig
ures that there balance OF 1892 1886 $50 against the
free States and in favor of the slave instead of $lO3
98l744 to the credit of the Northern States as the
dishonest writer preends If we add these two amounts
together the result will show that he lies for abolition
to the tring of $436, 70O--four hundred and
thirty millions, three hundred and eighteen thousand
seven hundred dollars
Such is specimen of his statistics which aslittIe
reliance to be placed his other facts and
against the South The book is tissue of falsehoods
worthy of the bad cause for which it is written and its
endorsement sa disgrace to all who have given it the
sanction OF their nameS.'' -FsFi : sS>.