The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-01-29


Go the slave States, tabuIated in
1850, there was mich COW to every 4
persons. Ia the free States, tabulstsd,
one for every 81 persons. In $780, in
the slave States, one FOX every 4 persons,
and in the free States one to every So
persOns, or a slight gain of the proper
tioDate number Of mich COWS.
"The want Of good meadow lands in
most of the slave states, the poor and in
sufficient quantity of food usually given
mich cows, the unshel;ered condition in
which they are kept and the neglect Of
them by the negroes, would make the
yield of milk less than one-h&lf per each
COW Of those in the northern states. This
appears to be shown by the amounts Of
butter and cheese produced:
Totsl amount ofbutlsr produced in
ten free states 10 1850 30I go III pounds.
Or about a pounds per year for each COW.
tes saye s y g n $50 SIS pounds
Or about &c pounds pr year for each COW.
Average yield Of cheese per COW Ia ten Tree
Average yield ofcheezs psr COW in ten slave
states in 1s6q OF pounds
Mr.. DeBow then gives the rebel lead
ers some home thFusts, Of which the fol-
ley are q specimen Of the whole:
eve see in the above our road to prog
ress; cotton has failed or will fail Us; the
negro hiss failed or will fail us; it is idle
to hope longer to enjoy peacefully the
proceeds of his labor when at this mo-
ment eighty thousand Of his color are or
gsnizsd and hold arms in their hands TO
free their fellows. The longer the war
is protrscted the more violently will
slavery be destroyed. For two years and
a half we have wsged war, and lost more
than half the territory over which we as
serted jurisdiction; the supply OF cattle
no longer comes from Texas, nor does
cotton escape longer from the frontier to
furnish us supplies. The Mississippi
bears q hundred gunbOsts, half of them
iron clads, that effectuslly prevent our
occupation Of any point along its entire
course, or even the passage of it except
under cover of darkness and by stealth.
fThe fruitful valleys Of kentucky and
of Tennessee have been desOlated by
war, and are held By the enemy. Ar
kansas, = large part of Louisiana, of Mis-
sissippi, of North Carolina and Of Vir
GINA have been held or are now held By
the enemy, and have been exhausted by
the supplies drawn by the contending
forces. Nor can we regard Alabama,
Georgia, South Carolina or Texas exempt
from the march of heavy armies now or
ganizing for purposes of invasion.
"His Excellency President Davis
grsvely tells Congress, in his message.
that be has the means of enforcing Che
respect of nations, particularly that of
Great Britain, and simply by declaring
paper blockade Of the ports of the
northern states. he states unhesita-
tingly, also, that only q paper block
ade' exists along the $500 miles of
the southern coast, and expects the peo-
pls of the Southern OonfedeFacY TO for
get that only one month before, when at
Wilmington, N. G., be has assured the
people the whole force Of the Confede-
racY would be given to protect them,
since theirs was the only port not closed
by the enemy. Had he extended bis
presentations to the mouth of the river
he could have counted twenty blOokading
vessels living off this Enclosed port
The remainder of the three thousand |
five hundred miles of southern coast has
been closed effsctuslly by paper block
ade, and Wilmington alone remains open
to commerce, subject, it is true, to the
risks of capture ~incurred in passing
twenty vessels Of war lying in wait.
ga census taken now. as recommended
BY his Excellency Mr. Davis, in the same
manner as that Of 1850, over the districts
where it might be effected, would show
plainly the waste of war. How many
men between the ages of eighteen and
fifty would be found wanting? How
many peaceful, industrious inhabitants
would be found absent, having, through
a thousand channels, found their way
into the free States, actually filling up
the houses in every part Of that land, so
that none are untenanted? How many
of the houses in the region passed over
by the contending armies would now be
found occupied? How many negroes
would be found absent, ready to return
with muskets in their hands? How many
horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, ETC., would be
found remaining? What has been the
produce of our fields last year in cotton,
sugar, corn, flour, peas, potatoes, cattle |
and bacon, and what amount remains
unconsumed?
"But above all, what progress have we
made? Is the slave power more secure
than before we sece ded? Are we in such |
3 condition as to promise ourselves, even
with reputation Of all debts, both at
home and abroad, exemption from duties
and high tsxationP What have we to |
hope for, both as regards slavery or the
prospects of the Southern ConfederacyP