The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1864-08-19
Roll Caii of the stntes.

worthiest bear away the laurel. As
the roll is long one, we must con
tent ourselves with calling the repre-
sentative ones.
States You will answer as your
numbers are called out.
Number one!
New York Here. was the fifth
in rank in 1870, now l am first
Population 3 1851 900; wealth 1,S43,
33S,000 My laborers are freemen
Number Twol
Penusylvania-I1ere. I was sec.
ond in 1909. and hold my own. Pop
ulation 100000. Wealth 1,416, SOL
GOO. My laborers are freemen.
Number Three
Ohio--Hcrc. l entered in 1900 as
the eighteenth in rank. TO day l
have $3.50, 900 population and 81, POS,
sos, ,422 wealth. My property is the
work of the free laborer.
Number Four
Illiuois--Here. I entered in 1910
as the twenty fourth in rank. Now
l have population of1.7l1.951, and
in wealth SS7l,8G0,000. No bond.
man treads my soil.
Number Five!
Virginia--Here. I entered the
Union in 1890 as the first in rank -
Ny population is 1896. 900, of whom
100000 are Siyrs. My wealth is
S703, 246 600. My splendid climate
and fertile soil have not saved me-
Each ten years since 1920 I have ta-
ken q place lower in the class.
Number Six!
Indiania--Herc. I entered in
1900 rs the twenty first in rank. Ny
il ,300.0 900 Ny wealth
S52S, ,33S,000. have but 23.s00
square miles of territory, while Vir.
ginia has over $1,000 Ny motto is
free labor.
Number Seven!
Observation-Disclosures. I entered
IN 1899 rs the fourth State in rank
with 200 square miles of barren
rocky soil. Ny population is 1921.
900. My wealth 1915, ,237 900 My
sons are everywhere; the pioneers of
education, commerce, navigation and
colonization. Ny citizens are all
freemen.
Number Eight!
Missouri--Here. I entered in
1910 as twenty third in rank. Ny
population is 1,lS2,000 Of whom ia,
800 are slaves. My wealth is S50l,
2l4,000 have established an ordi-
nance Of universal freedom.
Number Nine!
Kentucllv--IIerc. / entered in
1890 rs the fourteenth in RANK. MY
area is near $4,000 square miles, soil
and climate superior. NY wealth il
5666. 100000 Population l,l55, ,000, of
whom 225.50 are slaves Had ! i'm
proved my opportunities and gifts,
would have ranked to day the fourth
State instead Of Illinois, | believe
in the divinity of human bondage,
and the Justice OF involuntary labor.
Number Ten!
Tonncssee-Here. l entered in
1870 as the seventeenth in rank, with
domain of 45 900 square miles of the
finest land the sun ever shone upon.
Nv population is 1,l09, 600, of whom
1919 are, or were, slaves. My
wealth, ls .rwas S493 .903.S00. Had
wisdom guided me, l would to-day
hold the third rank in place Of Ohio.
Ny political guides have worshipped
negro slavery.
We must here close the roll call for
the purpose of adding few rehec-
tions and suggestions. Is it not re-
markahle that Massachusetts with n
soil proverbially poor, and a harsh
climate. should be three ranks above
Tennessee in point of powerS 1t is
remarkable to superficial observer,
but in this case, "happy is he who
can find ont the causes Of things -
And the cause is srcadily found. One
Stale exalts, digniies labor, invention
and enterprise of all kinds, and idle
ness is disrcputable. In the other it
is esteemed a sort OF degradation to
labor and q great honor to be able to
live in luxurious ease, on the unpaid
toll ofa hundred slaves whose sole
incentive to their daily labor is the
scourge of m overseer.
In one State the laborer is counted
n man and a citizen; in the other n
piece of property, a mere brute. 1t
is to the interest ofthe Massachusetts
lahorer to love his State, hut the
Tennessee hondmen have every mo.
tive to hate their State with an eX-
eeeding bitter hatred, Consequently,
while the Free States prosper. the
Stave States gradually decay, Now
let us reason with those who have
been friendly to Southern Confed-
eracy," on the matter. Grant your
Governments established and acSnowl-
edged. How long could it last, with
q continuation of the same relative
progress between free labor and slave
labor in the future, which has been
mode heretofore? In fifty years the
slave government would be so weak
compared with its free neighhor, that
it could not protect itself Much has
been spoken aud written in this coun,
try about State sovreignity and inde'
pcndencc, but surely the most super
ticial observer must see that the labor
system Of the South tends inevitably
to weaken the States, and divest then
of all sovreignity and independence