The Cecil Whig., 1862-04-26

twenty times as much land as Massachu-
setts all of which lands are situated in
mild and productive climate well
adapted to the grow of breadstuff,
together with cotton, tobacco and rice,
the three great Southern saples, aud
abounding with mines of coal, iron, lead,
and al other minerals to greater ex-
tent and variety-even to the precious
metAls, gold and silver-than any o her
of our country east of the Rocky Noun
tains. For full history of the mineral
and other resources of wealth, and
adv antages of trade ard soil of those
States, see Gov. Wise's Reports, as
we'll as all o:her tourists aud speach-
makers on the subject of the resources
and institutions of the South, from the
day that Pocahontas relieved Captain
Smith from bondage in 1920, to the
bombardment Of Sumter, one year ago.
Had the lands of the States of Virginia
and the two Carolinas been Of the same
value as those Of New Jersey-and they
ought to have been higher as they
advanced south, because Of the better
quality of soil and the adaptability for
the more valuable products of agricul-
ture, and the products of the mines,-
and it ought to have increased in the
proportion that 1t did from the the
almost polar regions of Maine to New
Jersey, say from $l2 in Maine to $43,67
in New Jersey. But for the sake of
calculation will put the lands at the
jersey price, say $43.67 per acre; this
for 26, 6,l52,3l1 acres would have brought
up the land to the value of $1,144, 1885,
$50, instead of $2l6, ,4Ol, AL, the
estimate of 1850; showing a difference
of 1927, ,762,ll9 in the total value of
the lands of Virginia. The same price,
$43,67, on the 20,996,9Sl acres of
North Carolina land would have brought
its value up to $9lS,611,9lS, ins cad of
$67 ,S9l, ,766, the present price; showing
a difference or loss to that State of
$3.50, 72O, 1852 and to South Carolina,
a. the same rate of price of land, loss
loss of 45,660,OO0.
l will cite only few more facts from
the census of 1850 to show the actual
difference between slavery and freedom.
The total value of church property in
Massachusetts was $l0,2O5,2S4 in
Virginia, S2,S49,l76; in North Carolina,
$3.50, 1893, and in South Carolina, ST.
l4O,246 there being nearly twice as
much invested in church properly in free
as in the three slave
States named, with their nearly twenty
times as much territory. Benevolence,
Education and Patriotism bear about
the same deplcrable proportion as that
of church properly, or State wealth and
proper y. For during the prevalence of
the yellow fever at Norfolk, few years
since, Bosom sent them $4,000; which
was more aid than they received from all
the Sta'cs south of The Potomac, outside
Of Norfolk city.
And as regards Education: in South
Carolina, the great leading State in this
rebellion, there are only 1882 of all
colors, white, black and mixed, over
the age of 20 years, who can read or
write, in the entire population of the
Sta'e of 66S,507 ; and yet the Govern
ment formerly paid $225,000 more for
carrying the mails in that State than
was received from the people for pos
tage. While in Massachusetts there
are only 1851 natire adul,s, over 20
years, Of the State, of any color, out of
a total population Of 994,514, who can.
not read or write and with all these
readers the people of Massachusetts not
only paid all the expenses attending the
transportation and distribution of their
own mails, but they paid near $500, 900
towards carrying the mails to other parts
of the Union.
Of the patriotism of the South -
About 100 years ago the people of this
country were subjected to many insul 8
at the hands of their British rulers, and
among other indigni les they declared
that this country should not enter into
any system of manufacture that we
should not even manufacture a hobnail,
and that cloth made from the cas.-off
clothing of old England, worked up into
a kind Of shoddy, was good enough for
the Colonists. At this announcement,
tho females of Massachusetts, fared up
and evinced a determination that they
could be relied upon for their assistance
in an effort to be free from England on
the score of clothing; accordingly on a
certain day fixed upon for the purpose,
three hundred matrons of Massachusetts,
upon Boston Commons with
their spinning wheels and materials for
spinning. This act of the ladies of
Boston was the first show of resistance !;
which was soon followed by seventy
men, disguised as Mohawk Indians,
throwing the tea overheard, and that
soon after brought on the battle of
Bunker Hill, and which soon relieved
this country of British rule, causing the
people to shake off the incubus of
slavery. Hence the great value of the
of New England in general,
and Massachusetts, in particular.
Had Virginia and her Southern con-
federates repudiated slavery at the time
that Massachusetts, did, their lands
would at this day have been worth count-
less millions more than they now are,
even 20 more than l have laid them at !;
and her products of Agriculture and
in like increased p1o-
portion.
How lamentably different the men of