The Camden daily journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1864-1864, 1864-08-31
Starving Out tile soutll,''-What Say
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" '''o" '"'t! 'ho o"SoeW vi St9rVlhE out tho
South" and 'cuttirg off supplies" go, may be
said with case, but doing it is another thing
lie says:
l will select first, South Carolina, to run the
parallel with, for several reasons, the chief of
which are that she has been supposed TO pro
ducc nothing but cotton ant. rice and she is the
most derided and costtn,ncd of I'LL the slave
holding States. Not many persons are aware
that this State alone produces five sixths nearly
of all the rice grown, but the census of 1850
shows that to- be the fact besides nearly all the
rice, she produces wheat to within 5000 bushels
OF all produced by the six New England Suites
together. :. She produces almost As much corn
rs The State ofNcw York, and six millions of
bushels OF that grain more than al the New
Eng States together, for she produced up-
wards Of 100000 of bushels
She produced more oats than Maine more
BY 100000 Bushels than Massachusetts moro
than 100000 bushels Of potatoes over anil
above what Maine produced more beans and
peas by 10000 bushels than all the Northern
States together, except New York more beef
cattle than Pennsylvania by l,74O and, almost
as many as all the New England States togclh-
er; more sheep than Iowa and Wisconsin by
l0,699; more hogs than New York by 4715i:
Il. b.
900 more Than all the New England States
with New jersey, Michigan, Wisconsin and
California in the bargain more horses and
mules lily 10000 than Maine, New Hampshire.
Massachusetts, and Rhode Island together: he.
sides all which she produces largely of oxen.
cows, and variety OF products of smaller
kinds.
Virginia and North Carolina produccd ;o;ut-
ly 13,363,000 bushels OF wheat; or 24i 900
bushels more than the great wheat 'Ssate OF
New OK, or quantity equal t. the whole
product of the six New En-; ;land States, witt,
New Jersey, Michigan, Iowa and Wisconsin,.
all Pnt together. Virginia, North Carolina
and Tennessee produced ll5,4715o3 bushels
Of corn. Il quantity exceeding hy 100000 bush:
els the joint product Of New York, i'cnhsyya-
i,nia, Ohio, New Jersey, Connecticut. Massocm-
sclts. New 1lampslire, VERMONT anl Maine:
Tennessee alone produced 16, ,5O6 more hogs
than all the six New England States, with New
York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Iowa and
Michigan; for that State produced 3,lO4,s 500
ltogs, while the eleven Northern Status named
produced but 3,Oss,304. Most of people have
thought that the North was reaIIvt the hog nro-
dueng section, Int such is hy no means the
'act The whole number of hogs produced in
! $50 was 3O,3l l6,GCS, Of which the sIavchold-
ing States furnished 2o,77O,73O or more than
two-th'ns OF the whole swine production.
1t will doubtless surprise many persons TO be
told that the seven gulf or cotton Statos Of
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississinni
Louisiana and Texas produced 45,1s7 mole
beef cattle than the six New ENGLAND Statcs
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New JERSEY
Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin, atoretbcr
but such is the fact, Tor the census Of $50 tells
us that these seven cotton States produced g.
354, ,48D beef cattle, while the thirteen North-
crn States named produced but 3,31a.3q7,
A single glan:e at the live stock columns Of
the seventh census will prove to the inon;rer
that the slaveholding States produced moro
beef cattle than the non-savcholdinp bv 1.7so
5s7. That while the North PRODUCED 81
J. q cows, the South prHauccd ,s29,s1o. Tba1
the Northern States produced sGG,3o7 work.
oxen, AGAINST S20,34O produced by the South
crn States. That while the North nroducnd
23lo,962 horses and mules, the South nro.
duccd 259,35s more, for the Southern produc.
ton was 2,57O32O. f'"'
IN conclusion, as people have been 50 much
m the habit of conceding superiority TO tho
North, in these and other points Of view, nav NV
be the above statements may be doubted +
so, refer the skeptical to the seventh census
OF 1850, the last date We have.
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