Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-05-16

rlc10 DlOOuf anu uAtC AihSAy
Analo-Saxon as African blood ensla we'd
here. What must be the proportion OF
.dmixture to make slavery right? $
The advocates of slavery discard theo-
ries, speculatiOns. and distractions; they
Drefer actual results. 1 am glad of an OP-
to test slavery by the standard
which its advocates set up. Let slavery
and freedom be Judged by their fruits l
will institute a comparison between Tree
dom and slavery from statistics-trom Oh
fetal documents-about which there IS no
DISPUTE. The statistics which l shall pre-
sent are from the Compendium Of the Cen
sus of 1850, by J. D. B. DeBOw, and from
the Postmaster Generals report accompa-
nying the President annual message, made
at the commencement of this Congress
These Statistics will show the actual re-
suits of freedom and slavery, respectively
upon the prosperity of the States; their
material growth; their educational and NOR
al condition. I challenge gentlemen to
show single fact correctly taken from the
documents alluded to. / will first take the
States of New York and Virginia. The
former adopted the theories and abstract
ions of the able and distinguished men
and patriots Of Virginia, and treated slave
~, as they regarded it, more to be deplOred
than to be fostered,' and consequently got
rid of it; while the latter repudiated these
teachings, and regarded African bondage a
blessing to both races; one to be encour-
AGED. cherished, and fostered;' and, eonse-
quently, has continued it to the present
time, and now defends it as wise and ben
fcient institution; and one of the Repre-
sentatives, Mr.. Pryor upon this hOor'
at this session, declared it to be the high
est type of civilization
New York contains an area of 1900
/, square miles, and Virginia 6l, 952 square
miles. In soil, climate, and natural ad-
yantages, Virginia is equal, if not superb
or. to New York. At the taking of the
first census, 177G, the population of thest
States was as follows Virginia, 74S,SOS
: New York, $40, $50. In the year 1850
the population was as follows; Virginia
l,42l, ,661; New York, 3,OT, 1874. Th'
value of real estate in those States in 1885,
was in Virginia, s252,lO5,s24; in Ne'
: York, S564,649, ,649- The value of per
/, soual and real estate was. in Virginia
!. 1891, ,43S; in New York, Sl,OSO,
3O9.2I6. The value of church propert.
v was, in Virginia, $4,000, 22o; in New York
3 s2l, l,539, ,561. Virginia had $3.50 publ
4 schools, with 1853 pupils; New York ha'
- 1850 public schools, with 675,22 pu
/. pills. The annual income of the school fund
. in Virginia, was s314,625; in New York
e s1,472,657. The post Office statistics
, any country afford good evidence Of its bus
q. mess activity, intelligence, and educationa
progress. Total annual transportation q
mails for the year ending June 80, 1855
:. in Virginia, 4,O06,72j miles, at an annua
, cost of 1878, ,S72; and in New York, G.
6S6,488 miles, at an annual cost of 1852
"a SOC. The Government expended, for th
: year ending June 80, 1859, for postal SCI
st vices in Virginia, s5l0,SOl,03; and II
,e ceived during the same period, S255,075
70 20; being an excess of expenditures owe
receipts of s255,725.33. The GOvernmer
expended, during the the same period an
j. for the same purpose, in the State of Ne
1t York, sI,l07, ,sS6,79, and received 81
{ 553,6S0.34; being an excess Of receipt
, over expenditures of si45,79S,65. WI
'e the Representatives of Virginia explain th
lie cause of the difference between that Stat
10 and New York upon any other basis tha
J. the superiority of free over slave labOr?-
10 l submit to the judgment Of the America
u people of all sections, that it is owing sol,
ie " to the cause that Virginia, against Il
re re opinion of her early statesmen, has encoul
Il aged and fostered the curse of human slav
L nv; while New York, in accordance Wit
R. that opinion, and in the spirit of the Re-
5 olution, has abolished it
a For the purpose of showing that, in con
of parison with freedom, slavery affects I'M,
At riously the prosperity of State, wi
r institute comparison between fourtet
n free States and fourteen slave States; nam
70 ", free States: Connecticut Illinois, Il
be diana, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts,, Mic
at igan, New Hampshire, New Jersey. Ne
Il York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Islam
no and Vermont; slave States Alabama, A
r kansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LO
r. isiana, Maryland, Missouri. Mississippi
!, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tenne
! see, Texas, and Virginia These free Stat
of have an area of 4o2. .693 square miles, al
h the slave States have S49,328.
70 In soil, climate, and natural advantage
:. these fourteen slave States are equal to t
b fourteen free States named, and l think
MT some respects, better.
ey In 1850, the population of the free Stat
in named was 1906, 1884; and of the sla
he States. 9,52l. l.237.
'es The value of real estate in the free Stat
of was s3,4Os, sos, 1887; in the slave Statc
di- sI,4I6,IO2,42l. Tie moral, social, Al
de educational condition of the same Stat
by compare as follows value of churches
SIX the free States $50. .972.525; in the sla
his Saates, s2l l,234, 226. Public schools
it the free States, 6l,Oos, with 2,7ll,o'
"a pupils; public schools in the slave STAT