The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1864-04-09

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with soil and climate adapted to all &C.
reals and in add ion thereto grows cot
ton, rice, and tobacco, which staples are
unknown to New Jersey.
Sou;h Carolina has Is, 1912 acres
valued at $l39, 662, sos, or at about 50
per acre,-this being $54 less per acre
than lands of New Jersey, and if multi
piled by the number of acres will show
loss to South Carolina, in her land
alone, of $S74,540,2GS by the worship
of her idol-the institution Of slavery.
Georgia has 26,659,49 400 acres of land,
which was valued at $157,073,0S2 or
at about Sc per acre,-being $57 less
than the New Jersey standard, which
land being multiplied by S57 will show
a loss of $3.50, 60O,930, or the loss
to that amount, i'll the price of her land,
by slavery.
BY summing up the aggregate loss
upon the price of land in the above
named States in the price of their lands
alone, it will show the enormous loss
upon this sum of five thousand four hun
dred and forty-nine millions, seven hum
dred and ninely-6ve thousand, six hun
dred and nineteen dollars, in comparison
with the lands Of New Jersey, of far
less value naturally but which lands
have been made valuable by the skill
and industry, which success always At
tends to free labor. So much for the
loss on land alone in those five Atlantic
Save States, and strange as it may APP
pear, the people of The cotton States
fight to open the slave trade, SO that
they may import thirty millions of slaves,
at $3.50 Ter head, whist Virginia and
other border slave States, are fighting
to open permanent home market in the
co ton Sta es for the same number of
their slaves at from ST 200 to 81 800,
and upwards, per head.
A comparison of the products of Ag-
rculture and manufrc ure of the six
slave States on the Atlantic, from Della
ware to Georgia inclusive, will stand
thus For agricultural products $780,
100000; for manufactured products
800, 900; for agricultural and
manufacturing products $3.50 ,600,w whilst
the produces OF New Jersey foot up 70
agriculture Sl9,372, 1874, and manu- a.
tured products $39, S26,3334, and for
for both agriculture and manufactured
together, $50 10 ,2S9. In 1860 the
manufactures ,f New Jersey increased
to ISL DOC, 200, whilst the manufactures
of the SIX southern States only amounted
to Sl44, 900 in the year 1860. |
have not the amount Of the products of
agriculture for 1860 at hand.
A more striking difference is shown
by comparing the products of Mass,
with those of the slave States in favor
of emancipation. Thus Massachusetts
with only $500 square miles of terri
tory, cold and forbidding, rock bound
soil, celebrated more for her product of
granite, &c, than for the growth of
agricultural products State that i'm
ports the most of the bread stutfs con-
sumed by her people the most of the
ma erlals Of all sorts for manufac uring
purposes, and the coal that drives her
machinery and warns her people and
yet the product of her manufactures in
1860 amounted to the enormous sum
Of $2G6, 200, 600 whilst the manufac-
lures of the entire southern States f. on
the Delaware to the Rio Grande and
Missouri: compromise line reached only
S2S2, 100000, Massachusetts manufac-
turing within Sl5,0OO,U0O, as much as
The entire South, and this degree of
prosperity has been attained by Massa-
chusetts, Notwithstanding the fact that
every vote the Shareholders and free
traders of the North ever could give was
thrown against the industry of Mas
sachusetts and the free S a cs gen
esally. One other feature is greatly in
favor Of emancipation. The roll of
education Of the entire natives of what
ever color; white, colored, and mixed,
above the age of 20 shows that but one
in every four hundred can read or
write whilst the rate in the south of
native free whites stands as one to every
forty, over 20 years of age, that cannot
read or write.
Massachusetts has $I0,266,O0O in
chuch property; five southern Stl'es
from Virginia to Florida, including
North and S,uth Carolina, and Geor-
gia, have only 100000 in church
property. 1t would be profitable to
pursue the subject of education to
show the necessity of emancipa-
ton, but | will only cite one of the
slave S ates-Nor Carojina-whicI,
has a white population of 69l 200, and
10 her eternal shame be il said $4,000
of her fairest females cannot read or
write ; the other slave States are no.
much better off in that respect. No
wonder, then, that they breed Hyenas
at the south.
I will take time to note one ohe,
institution or custom that has grown out
Of the institution, and that is that a
man called master may anal gama'e with
his slave woman, and of en- with his own
daughter by that slave, and then sell
the graud mother of his own children
yes, | have known that TO be done at
st. Louis. But the woman was toe
high spiri ed to serve her new master,
and walked deliberately into the Missis-
sippi river and drowned herself-as she
told Col. Elias Reston, her new mas err,
she would do. And yet women icnds
passing for respec able ladies, justify
such decentralization of character, and
almost unsex themselves to perpetuate