New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-08-03
raxARGE REaNURCRa.

The average increase of the Free States for
the last ten years has been 271.9l per cent; of
the Slave States 1882 per cent.
Massachusetts,, with a population Of ,2Sl ,O65,
and an area of : 500 square miles, has yalu-
alton of 1916, 237 ,433. Virginia has popula-
ton of ! ,399, 73l, and an area of 6l,352 square
miles. and a valuation of only 1898, 2l9, 6sl-less
BIZ SO. 937 ,752 than that of Massachusetts,.
Possessing an area almost nine times as great as
Massachusetts,, water power hundred-fold
greater, a soil of unsurpassed fertility, rich
mineral deposits, one of the best harbors on the
continent, hundreds of niles of nayigable river
with all these advautages-the elements of an
empire within herself-the Real Estate Of the
Old Dominion is valued at S57, 46l ,937 less than
that of the little Bay State. Her personal
prOperty-eyen including her 1881 negro
slaves, worth, at less than an average valuation,
$780, 000-is estimated at $62, 675, 543 less
than that of Massachusetts,
Maryland and North Carolina together, having
a population of 2Sl 1897 greater than Massachu-
sets, and joint area of $500 square miles,
have Notwithstanding slaves valued at
1929. & Q, COOLIES, by S79, 49S,034 than Massa-
chusetls The real estate of Massachusetts, with
only 800 square miles of sterile SOIL is valued at
S475, ALB. l6J, which is S3l ,82l ,3i5 more than
the value of the real estate of North Carolina,
| South Carolina, Florida, Texas, and Arkansas
! combined The real property Of New-YOrk ex
ceeds by more than $i0000,O00 the combined
valuation Of the same kind of property in the
States Of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, and Ark
ansas
TIE three States Of New.YOrk, Ohio, and
Pennsylvania have population of $780, II,
which Is l,439, 655 more than the entire popula-
ton, Slave and Free, of the eleven rebel States
while these same States have valuation Of
SI19,79l ,5lj greater than all the So.caled Con.
fedeIate States.
In all these comparisons the Rebel States have
been allowed the advantage of having the servile
members Of their communities rcckoned both as
property and as population. But in q struggle such
as is Low going on they are fully available neither
as one nor Tire other, and the figures which rep.
resent them, whether in the column OF pOpula
ton or in that of property, denote a purely
Ucl!ClOuS Nuiuc. lHcI NtIut as property
predicated upon peace, upon domestic security,
unrestricted commercial intercourse and the
ready realization Of values, all of which cOndl-
tons are now wanting. The very strife which gives
significance and importance to such COMPARE
son of the resources of the sections, has stricken
from the valuation of the Rebel States 81 1885,
340, 425-tbe estimated worth Of their human
chattes, as they appear on the tax lists Of those
States.
They will still retain partial vaae as popl.
latiOn. But, granting their entire loyalty to their
masters, their value can be but small fraction
of the amount denoted by the figures which rep
resent them in the totals of population in the
several States. All the influences and character
istjcs which, in time Of peace and domestic
security, ever deprecate from their vane as a
producing class, must now be aggravated a
hundred fold. t.