The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-03-30
MORNING.. .....MARCH 50, 1865.

1t must be acknowledged that a terri
tory like the South is worth fighting for
Eight hundred and fifty thousand square
miles, as large as Great Britain, France.
Austria, Prussia and Spain, with a most
productive soil and most genial cl:
mate, whose staple productions none of
those great countries can grow with
three thousand miles of coas. line, in
dcnted with. bays a1d crowded with
islands, and it's vast centre watered by
the Mississippi, into whose bosom arc
poured thirty six thousand miles of tri
butary streams.
Let US see what the "goose that laid
the golden egg" was doing before the
experiment OF "cutting it open" was
undertaken by the North. The Census
of 1880 and the Report of the Secretary
Of the Treasury for 1857 show that each
inhabitant of the South, Of all classes,
produced $3.50 more than each indi-
| vidual at the North. The average agri-
cultural production at the South was
s5S to each person, when, at the North,
it was only $44.7o. The total agricul
tural productions for 1850 amounted to
one thousand, one hundred and sixty
four millions. OF this sum, the North
produced, in round numbers, six hun
dred and four millions, and the South
five hundred and sixty millions. Popu-
lation of the United States for 1850,
%, 1856 ; gives for average production
by each person, $5o.2o- Population Of
the North, 13,527,22o; each perso.,,
s447o. Population of the South,
1864, CSC; each person, $5s. If de-
duct from agricultural products amount
exported ($l1s,7 750, 11s), there is left for
home consumption $1,045, ,7O7, $685.
Each person, therefore, consumed $45. OS.
The North consumed $6O9,SS0,G2; the
South consumed $4S5, ,e27 ,053. The
North had. therefore, a deficiency, in
| 1850, of agricultural productions to the
value of Sc, 1O5, ,594; the South sur.
plus of $124,S55,7l2 or each person
| at the North consumed thirty-eight cents
more than he produced at the South
leach person produced $l2.9o more thar
| he consumed.
I What country on the face of the earth
cultivated by free labor, can produc'
such a record But the North was, afte
all, the chief gamer. The immens'
surplus of the South went into he
! hands, in exchange for Northern notions
The South paid the great bulk of tn
revenue, and, by her agricultural indus
try, built up the commerce and manu-
features of the United States. 1t remain
to be seen whether the cultivation of tn
Southern soil by the sword instead G
the plou ghshare will improve Northern
Q prosperity.
On the fine territory of the South "
, had at the beginning Of the war pop,
lation more than four times as large a
. that with which the American colonie
separated from the mother country
: and quite as large as the whole popula
: ton of the United States was ten year
y after the conclusion Of that war. Or
Iexports were three times as great {
those Of the whole United States at th'
d period. Our muster rolls exhibited
e million Of men-of men accustomed
the use Of the rifle, and as brave as ar
}. race of men on the face of the earth.-
!. The character Of the population in g
neral showed higher tone OF morall
= than could be found in any other cou
Ia try Of modern times. In respect i
y female virtue, in integrity in busIne
Ne u transactions, in truth, frankness, sin
plicity, generosity, and hospitality,
I'd community that ever lived surpass
- the South. These are strange result
a il slavery be the mother Of poverty Al
crime.
seyessl interesting. points are ~