The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-08-08
Taxable Resources.

The average increase of the Free
States for the last ten years has been
27l.9I per cent; Of the Slave States, 49,
90 per cent.
Massachusetts,, with population OF l.
23l ,065, and an area of T.sUO square
miles, has valuation of Ssl5, 5,237 ,433
Virginia has a population of ,3s9. .73l
and an area Of 81 ,352 square miles, and
a valuation of only S793, ,24g ,6SI-less
BY S2l ,937, 752 than that of Massachus
et.s. Possessing an area almost nine
tiuos as great as Massachusetts, water
power hundred fold greater. soil of
unsurpassed fertility, riOh minreal de-
posits, one Of the best hartors on the
continent, hundreds of miles of Davigable
river, with all these adsaDtage.-thc clc
ments of an empire within berselt-the
Real Estate OF the Old Dominion is val
ued at S57 ,46l 1897 less than that of the
little Bay State. Her personal property
even including her pa, ,l70 negro
slaves, worth, at less than an average val
uatiou, Sl50,000.0 0.000-is e>tiu ted at
s62, ,675, ,5l3 less than that of Mas "a hus.
etts.
MARYLAND and North Carolina togeth
or, having a population of 2Sl .327 great
er than Massachusetts,. aud joint area
of SIS. 500 square miles, have valuation
including slaves valued at 1929, Soc
OOO-less by $40. 9s,Q3i than Ma>sa-
chusctts The real estate of Massacbus
e.ts, with only $500 .quare miles of ster
lie soil, is valued at S475,4 3. l65. which
is S3l ,s2I ,3i5. U.ore than the value OF
the real estate of North Carolina. South
Carolina, Florida, Texa-, and Arkan.as
coabintd! The real property of New
Ycrk exceeds by more than $4,000. .0n0I
the cogtiued valuation Of the same kind
of property in the States of North Caro-.
lima, South Carolina, Georgia. Florid a,
Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, and AFkau-
sas'
The three States of Neg York, Ohio.
and Pennsylvania bave population OF
9,l33,5ll, which is ,43s $50 more than
the entire population. SLAVE and Free. OF
the eleven rebel States, while these ca me
States have SALVATION of Sll9,7Sl, SIS
greater than all the SO called Coufe der ate
States. u
Ia all these comparisons the Rebel
States have been allowed the advantage
Of baving the sersile members of their
communities reckoned both as property
uad as population. But in struggle
such as is COW going Oh they arc fully
yailstIe neither as one nor the other, and /
the figures which represent them, wbetb
er in the column of population or in that
OF property, denote purely frtlciou>
value. Their value as property Is pre-
dicated upon peace, upon domestic secu
rity, unrestricted com aercial Intercourse,
and the ready realization of values ali OF
which conditions are now wanting. The
very strife Hbich gises Significance an
importance to such a comparison OF the
resources of the sections, has stricken
from the valuation OF the Rebel State.
81, ,735, $40. 425-the estimated worth OF
their human chattles, as they appear Oh
the tax lists OF those States.
They will still retain partial value as
population. Bet. granting their entire
loyalty to their masters, their value can
be but small fraction Of the amount de-
noted by the figures which represent them
in the totals of population in the severai
States. Al the Influences and ctarac
teri ties which, 10 time ofpeace aud do.
aestic security. eyerdePrcciate from their
value as producing class. must nov be
aggravated's huadred fold = Tribune