The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-09-19

lOtal OF lnuus'i poo,ooO,OOO 9lIO, OUO,uOu
This table, like that exhibiting the
agricultural developments of these four
States, is worthy of careful study. II
mus be remembered all the time that
each State has made it's own report,
through agents selected from among its
citizens by former national Admins
tration, under the direction of Secre-
tary of the Interior, not upduly pre0i5-
posed towards the Northern free States.
The reports must be regarded as fair
and true. And what astounding re-
suits The productive induetry Of the
1,155, 69l people Of kentucky is more
than that combined of the 2,167087
people of Georgia and Tennessee and
that Of the 2399,5l1 people Of Ohio is
almost twice as great as that Of the
1922 III people of Kentucky, Tennessee
and Georgia. And while the population
of Tennessee lie less than four per cent.
IN excess Of that Of Georgia, her pro-
ductiye industry lacks but 3 small
fraction of being twenty. five per
cent. greater. Why is this? Is
there any we'll founded reaaon that
man in Georgia should pro-
duce less than one in Tennessee; and
one in Tennessee still less than one in
Kentucky; ard one in Kentucky fer less
than one in Ohio? A cause there I'M
doubtedly is, if we could only find it,
Such disparity Of productions as is shown
between the people of Georgia and of
Ohio is not accidental. Had it been
South Carolina, for instance, we might
have attributed il to lofty feeling of
personal dignity which disdains TO soil
its robes with the dust and grease Of the
shops. In this way the mesgre showing
which that high motorized State makes
of her industry-less than seven mil
lions-might perhaps be explained. But
Georgia has additionally despised such
follies. She has claimed, in virtue OF
her enterprise, TO be the Empire State Of
the South, Her manufactures have been
her pride and bosst L is not chat the
energies of her people arc absorbed In the
ever-onnobling pursuits Of agriculture
For here the pre-eminence Of the people
of Ohio is hardly less conspicuous.
There is, however one marked differ.
ence between the two populations
Nearly forty four per cent Of the peopl,
Of Georgia are slaves. These all belong
to the laboring or producing class, and
form, doubtless, more than one halt o.
it, This forces the inquiry into The
comparative productiyeness Of free ant
slave labor, both in the free and the slay.
States. This inquiry, like al the Others
we have stated, is left 10 be pursued by
the reader at his leisure. Ii il shall bt
found that slave labor 10 far less pro.
ductiye than free labor in the fire,
States, but more productive than fret
labor in the slave States, this may eX'
plain the disparity pointed out But how
shall we explain the explanation? Why
is slave labor, and still more fee labor
in the slave States, less productive thar
free labor in tAe free states? Is there any.
thing in the insePlrable connection sla
very sustains to labor being in part but
synonym for compulsory labor that rer'
dera labor dishonorAble In the prcseuc.
of slavery and unworthy freeman? Il
that thecsu5c why as i'm each of the foul
States under consideration, the proper.