New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-05-30
RESOURCES or THE souru,

A great deal has been said in the North about
the paucity of the resources of the South in the
line of breadstus and provisions, and the facility
with which she could be starved into submission.
This idle gasconade intelligent men smile at, al
though it was evident that hundreds of thousands
at the North implicitly believed in it, and actually
thought that few weeks stoppage of the supplies
would bring us to the verge Of starvation, instead
of doing what it has done-brought them to the
brink of bankruptcy, over which they will shortly
take fearful plunge.
great many people, even in the South are not
aware of the extent of our resources in the way of
means for supporting human life. correspondent
of the Baltimore Sun has done the country good
service by compiling some valuable statistics from
the census of l850--the. tables of the census of
1860 being as yet unavailable, or rather not OBJ
tainable. We shall make free use of the figures
and compilation, and direct the attention of our
readers thereto.
According to the census of 1850 South Carolina
produced fve-sixths nearly of all the rice grown
besides nearly all the rice, she produced wheat to
within 5000 bushels of all produced by the six
New England States. She produced almost as
much corn as the State of New York, and G,000,-
600 of bushels of that grain more than all the New
England States. She produced more oats than
Maine; more by 100000 of bushels than Massa-
chusetts; more than 900 900 bushels of potatoes
over and above what Maine produced; more beans
and peas by 900 bushels than all the Northern
States together except New York; more beef
cattle than Pennsylvania by l740, and almost as
many as all the New England States; more sheep
than Iowa and Wisconsin by 1869; more hogs
than New York by At Isl, more than Pennsylvania
by %, 1877, and $4,000 more than all the New Eng
land States, with New Jersey, Michigan, Wiscon
sin and California in the bargain. What splen
din showing for the often sandered, but glorious
little Palmetto State!
The remainder of the statistics compiled by the
correspondent of the Sun are equally interesting
Virginia and North Carolina produced jointly
1859 900 bushels Of wheat, or 24l 900 bushels
more than the great wheat State of New York, or
a quantity equal TO the whole product of the six
New England States, with New Jersey, Michigan,
Iowa and Wisconsin all put together. Virginia,
North Carolina and Tennessee produced lis AL
59S bushels of corn, a quantity exceeding by
100000 bushels the joint product of New York.
Pennsylvania, Ohio, New jersey Connecticut
Massachusetts,, New Hampshire, Vermont and
Maine.
Tennessee, alone, produced 16 306 more hogs
than all the six New England States, with New
York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Iowa and Michi-
gan for that State produced ,lO4,8OO hogs while
the eleven Northern States named produced but
3,0Ss, 1884.
1t will unquestionably astonisn many people to
be told that the six Gulf States of South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama Mississippi, Louisiana and
Texas, produced As, 162 more beef cattle than the
six New England States, New York, Pennsylva-
MIA, Ohio New Jersey, Indiana, Michigan and Wis
consin, altogether but such is the fact, for the
census of 1850 tells us that these States produced
1857 4S9 beef cattle, while the thirteen Northern
States named produced but 8 ,3l2,327 From this it
will be seen that it will be very difficult job to
starye out the Cotton States.
And, according to the census of 1850, the South
ern States produced four millions of bushels of
corn more than the Free States produced; and in
many other products the superiority of the South,
population considered was surprisingly manifest.
We presume the census of 1860, if it ever is
allowed to go before the world, according to the
returns made by the different NIarshals, will show
still greater preponderance in favor of the South,
as the constantly continued aggressions of the
North stimulated our farmers to increase their
growth of cereals, ETC., year by year. For this
year, if the seasons continue propitious, we shall
raise breadstns sufficient to last at least two years.
while in every other department we shall be
strengthened immensely, and in another year shall
become completely Independent of the world-wl
be able to cothe and feed ourselves within ourselves
and then have full cotton, sugar, rice and tobacco
crops on hand, worth at least $275 900 900, as
surplus to go upon. How absurd and ridiculous,
then, is the talk about starving and bankrupting
such people!