The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-02-27

advantages OF 1fceA0A anN t2i@soAg7 ~
which TIE former were made SO NANTES
By the figures themselves, that no think
ing man would even attempt TO explain
them away. We might, with prOpriety
have rested our case here; snd woul.
have done 60, bad not we since received
copy Of The Continental Monthly, con
tanning two letters from that able fnan-
cieE, Robert J. Walker, sx-secretaTy o
the Treasury, In which The subject il
discussed 50 ably, that we feel it would
be doing sn Injustice TO our readers, die
we not publish the leading p inis made
Ia his comparison, be has taken ths
States Of Maryland and Massachusetts,
the one containing > rich soil, enjoying =
eslubrious climate, and possessing IN
p,,alleIed commercial facilities; the
other land Of rocks, and SHOWS, and in
no wise superior to its rival in position
and the facts be produces are truly start
ling.
Massachusetts has 1000 square miles;
MARYLAND IL 600; and the area Of arabic
land in the latter is considerably above
double that Of the former; and the quAli-
~ Of the soil Is superior. Maryland has
inexhaustibIe mines # coal and iron and
the necessary faxes; Massachusetts, has
moo oAl. no valuable mines Of iron, nor
faxes. The population of Maryland in
1890 was 319.728; of Massachusetts,
31s717. In 1850 aryland had 687, O34,
Massachusetts, 1,2s1,O65. In seventy
years Maryland increased 367 800; Mas
sschusstts, s52 S48, or more than double
as much. In 1890 Mary land had % per-
sons to the square mile, in 1860, 81; in
1890 Nasssohusetis-h had 48 TO the square
smile, in 1860, 157. And all this wac
accomplished, with ali the advantages Of
soil and climate, on the side of the slave
State.
The value Of tue products Of Msssa-
ehuss Is in 1860 vas S287, 600 600; Of
Maryland, 6s 600 900. In Massachusetts
IL war S235 per head; ia Maryland, S9e
That is to say, tho average annual value
Of the labor Of each person in Msssa-
cbusstts was greatly more than double
that in Maryland. Massachusetts, With
. smsller territory, had 1,340 miles Of
rsilrosd; Maryland but $50. The value
Of ell property, real aud personal, Was,
In Massachusetts, sSl5 600, 900; in Mary
land, $376 10000 Comparing this
with the value Of products b. fore men.
toned, the profit On capital was 10
Massachusetts, thirty five per cent 10
Maryland, seven cen PER cent, or less
than half; and It Is a noticeable fact
that In only two slave states, Delaware
and Missouri, was the rate Of profit
larier than In Maryland, and both of
thslie had comparatively fewer slaves.
II now we take intelligence IS
standard, Ia Massachusetts the value of
printed matter was 10 1850, 50 9O5 GIG;
in Maryland S35O155. Massachusetts,
had two hundred and twenty-five news-
papers and periodicals., Of which one
hundred and twelve were Political,
thirty-Ons religious, fifty-one literary,
twenty eight miscellaneous; Maryland
had only ffty-seven; ell but one or two
political Massachusetts had three
thousand six hundred and seventy-nine
public schools; Maryland nine hundred
and seven. MASSACHUSETTS, had eighteen
hundred and sixty-one adults who could
neither read nor write; Maryland thirty
eight thOussn four hundred aud twenty
six exclusive Of her slaUes.
These are facts upon which the work
ing men Of Tennessee should ponder
II they would assume the position to
which God and nature entities them
they must abolish slavery; if they would
ssS their children educated, they must
render this free State.
II is noticeable feature, too, that the
decrease in wealth, prO6tA wages, and
intelligence, in the Southern States, is
In proportion to the number Of slaves
held by them. South osrolina is as in
fsriOr to Maryland, as the latter State is
70 Massachusetts,. Mr.. Walker shows
that in 1850 the product per head in
Massachusetts, was S235, in Maryland
soc, and in South Carolina $50; thus in
free and educated Massachusetts, Che re-
ward Of lAber is mere than double that
in Maryland, aud four times that in
South OarOlins. slavery, then, the
census prOvesyis hostile to the progress
of wealth and population, to science,
literature and education, to schools, col |
leges and universities, to books and IL !
braries, to churches and religion, 10 the
press, and therefore to free government; |
hostile 70 the poor, keeping them In want |
and ignerAnce; hostile 10 labor, reducing
it to servitude, and decreasing BY two
thirds the value Of its products; hostile
to morals, r-pudiating among slaves the
nsriial and parental condition, classify |
ing them by law IS chsttsls, darkeniBg |
the immortal SOU, aud making it crime |
to teach millions Of human beings to
read AID write"
Il is TO hoped that the members Of the
convention viii be careful to study she
census reports, if they have not already /
made up their minds in behalf Of eman- |
cipation. In the figures they can see,
IS through glasses, the goal Of greHtness
attsinable, or theruin that is awaiting rs.
A candidate asked, in 3 speech Che
ether dsy-"Why is the rebel currency
like an infidel?" he snswsred-"Bs
cause it knows not that its rsdsemsr
dVsth." Smart fellow.
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Hon. Horaos MAYNARD sddrsseed a