Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-04-16
MANUFACTURES. AGRIcuLrURk.
grATE,

We here learn that the manufactures of Louisiana and
Maryland greatly exceed in value the agricultural pro-
auctions of those States. In fact the manufacturing
productions of Maryland double those of her agrcul-
ture We hnd, also, the fact that in Virginia
features amounted to $3l 96 976 and her agricultural
! productions to only $52,5l2,452.
Thus here, in old Virginia, her manufactures consti
tute greatly over one-third of HER productive wealth.
So too the manufactures Of Kentucky and Missouri
greatly exceed one third of their productive wealth
In North CaroinA her manufactures exceed OneOurth
aud in Tennessee onehth OF the prod labor OF
those StItes respectively. Bat the mos. remarkable
fact presented is that our entire manufacturing produc-
lions amounted 10 Sl9l 4iS 1885, and entire egricul
tural productions 10 SS6l0O9l. Thus we have the
fact that agricultural productions but little over
! dyuble in value manufactures
Having facts at command to sustain the views have
urged allow me tc invite your attention to a few of the
most important The assessed value of real estate and
personal property under the of 1860 in the slave
Stls was $5,4G5 sos 957, being only $l075 ls 662
less than the amount held in the free States which is
greatly in favor, when We bear in ind the fact that
the same places the population in the free States
at 9D7 753 and the slave States at ~ 243 293 and
includes in the latter 9j05 slaves. Thus while the
free States exceed in population the slave States 6GS
400 vet they not 50 wealthy the people OF tie
slave States. They have Onethrd more in population
than the slave States vet only exceed them in ealth
one-sixth. II you divide the aggregate wealth b. the
white population in the two sections we find the aver
age amount Of property falling TO each person in the free
states only s35l-whie in the slave States it amounts
to $G5Oo each person. So our people, percapita are
worth nearly douby as much as they in the free
ates.
But we will cite other facts concusvey demonsti ating
the greatly superior wealth Of the slave States over the
free States If the real test Of national wealth. as is
maintained by the great champions of political econo-
my consists in the magnitude of the excess of the an
nua productive labor of a country after furnishing SUBJ
ssterce the slave States incomparably richer than
the free States any other country The slave States
after supplying food ami clothing, to very considerable
extent to cur people, exported in cotton sugar. rice mo-
lasses tobacco breadStufs meats &c. previous to the
dissolution of the Union, two thirds of the annual
exports from the United States SO clearly is this de-
monstable whether make average for series of
years or take any single year in the last ten years and
run the parael-that will not fatigue you by citing
long tabular statement, embracing several years but
present statement taken from the report Of the Secre-
iary of the Treasury for the year 1856.
have omitted the expectation oil gold and silver be-
cause they could not be designated properly amongst
our domestic productions in the common acceptaion of
the term This table discloses in what States we may
look for the real wealth which impaired such unprece
dented prosperity the old Union. The slave States
produced our exports in the proportion of two to
one But the free States by transportation, shipping
commissions &c, distracted from them about forty mil
ons and by the return goes gained equal amount
under the caption of commercial profits, &c, while the
pro eeye features of the Tariff placed millions in their
pockets in the form OF enhanced prices. These, to-
gether with the unequal disbursements of the Federal
Government in payii out fully two dollars in the North
in the South, all combined to make them rich at
our cost.
Exports frsna the Free States tn 1886, of Domestic
Predictions.
From the sea. 1856 797
Forest 504s,esr-
Agriculture ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. SS,S43,2z7
KAw produce. ..........:. ............ l,oo2,iIo
Manufactures 3O,9IO992