Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-12-25
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The Resourcs or the Two PEOPLES
The New York correspondent of the London lines
tDr Nackay) furnishes the British public with some
official statistics bearing this subject which cannot
fail to make an impression people who give so much
attention to matters ct production and trade. The
facts brought TO light not so novl our own peo-
pe but they furnish ground of great
TO persevtre and justify the fullest confidence in final
success, we transfer them TO our columns In intro
ducug them, the Times correspondent SAYS IF only
the exhaustion OF either of the combaaDts and not the
Intervention of Europ TO end the strife it is highly
important to ascertain more exactly than by mere con-
lecture tie relative resources Of the beIgerente Ybe
great veal b OF the North, aided by the command of
the is doubtless sufficient to p5otract the war for
generation, If the Northern people of one mind
But are not the resources OF the South though unaded
by foreign commerce, or by any greater help than may
be casually afforded by few successful breaches of the
blockade, sufficient to cope with the whole power of the
North for as long period the patience of Europe
will tolerate! Those who 10 doubt Oh this subject
may hnd material for calculation in the following tables
drawn from the u6cal returns Of the last Census Il 86O)
OF the w. Stats, prepared at time when secession and
civil war we're not deemd possible By the Northern
mind. They are drawn from the volume recently pub
lshed by authority of Congress and exhibit some re-
suits tor which neither the European Governments nor
TIE Federal States altogether prepared and show
setsustanlng power 10 the Southern and Slave States
which renders the secomplacent Boosting of the North
an unsafe foundation on which to build 10 specializing
upon the duration of the contest The facts of these
tables, admitted to be authentic BY the Federal Gov
ernment, show that 10 the production of food-even
before the time when the Southern Government recon-
mended its people to increase the cultivation of corn
rice and sugar aud diminish that OF cotton and tobac-
co-the SOush was much more nearly on a level with
the n 0Ith than niue persons out OF imagined The
South produces relatively horses than the North
and positively more pork and Indian corn, both OF
VIII ch largely used 10 feeding its agricultural la
boters. Were rice and sugar added to the food items
and these with maize and pork and animals ghtered
for consumption balanced against the food produce of
the North it would be found leaving and obac-
out OF the calcu atioD, that the South with small
er population, Is actually richer than the North 10
wealth rrawn from agriculture and that, under such
circumstances, its capabity of enduring long
much larger-quite irrespective of foreign commerce
than the world has been taught to believe The figures
speak for themselves, and tell story which Mr.. Lin.
coin ard the North wolld do we'll to study -
AMERICAN STATISTICS
Population resources &c. the free and of the Slave.
holding states, according to the Census of le %:
Population of the Free States lsso7 1853
:. Slave States Gree, s227,2
Total population of the United States ex.
GLIDING the territories, sl,l5l ,O4s
The assessed value of real estate and per-
sonal property in the Free States was 1854 O2761a
Ditto, il the Slave States, 5,465 so 1851
Tota* assessed value for the 81 States s36
!
The number of acres of improved lands in
the Free States was 86,l8l, 46f
Ditto, in the Slave states, 4,623, 05t
Total improved lands in the 81 States,
l62 sO4 So
The cash value Of farms, farming implements
and machinery in Free States $4,2O9 ,O62 1876
Ditto, in the slaVeholding States, 2,675,476 8 81
Total value in United States of ditto Sc 500 Isl
The number of horses and mules in the
Free States, was 1865, 23c
Ditto in the Slave States, $685. 23t
Total number of horses, and mul % in
the United States 1206 ATE
SUMMARY MICH cows WORKING cXEN OTHER CATTLE
SWINE.
In the Free States In the S!aveholding States
Mich Cows, 5235, 264 Mich Cows, 3428 oil
Working Oxen, l,0ll 1868 Working Oxen 117H2 8t
Other Cattle 6,4l2 200 Other Cattle, 8ls7 lie
Sheep, Is 1851 3l2 sheep, 1864 Iii
swiGe. IL ,S46 629 Swine, 20 65l, Is.
S9,S73,2 4O5O6 72t
1888, 26
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