Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-09-25

7 IL W bLS a ANeRNSh
dom and slavery. To be sure. the latter
is old enough to be the mother of the for
mer, for the white population of Missis-
sippi in 1910 was about the same as that
OF Wisconsin in 1885 yet the States are
of very nearly the same area, and the
aggregate of population in 1860 was but a
few thousands greater in the slave State
than in the free State. One of the first
and most noticeable results of this COM
parison is, that though in point of white
o pula6on the slave State is twenty-five
years older than the other, the white pop
ulation of the free State in 1860 was more
than twice as great as that of the slave
~State-that is, freedom accomplished twice
as much in twenty-five years as slavery
lid in Fifty years; thus, by this compare
ION, establishing the relative value of slav-
Try and freedom as that of one to four.
A more striking result is yet obtained BY
stating that in the eight years from 1852
TO 1860 the white population of Wiscon-
sin increased rather more than that Of
Mississippi in the sixty years from 1900 to
~lS60-giving a relative value Of slavery to
freedom Us that of one to seven and one
halt. ~
The fifty years Of the slave State tell
against the twenty-five years of the free
State when you look at the aggregate
value of farms, tools and stock-the figure
Tor Mississippi being S235,OOO 900, while
that of Wisconsin is 1885, 900, 900. II,
however, regard be had to the product of
4 single year, the free state is again a long
way ahead-the aggregate value of the
produc, of industry in 1860 being in Wis
;onsin S2S. 500, 900, while in Mississippi
wa but 6 1000. 900. The industry of
Mississippi has been turned almost ex-
clusively 10 the production of cotton and
corn-the product of 1860 being of cotton
lis, 263,6 600 lbs, and of corn 29,563, 735
oushels-the product of corn being more
han four times as great as that Of Wis
consin. On the contrary, the industry
Of the free State is as varied and multi
form as the wants Of civilized mar. OF
dour, meal, liquors, boots, shoes, clothing,
furniture, soap, candles, butter, cheese and
sugar, Wisconsin produced in that year
the value of over SIG, 600, 900, while Mis-
sissippi contented herself with a product
valued at less than 81, OOO, 900. Wisconsin
rev l5.SOO,O 900 bushels of wheat and
1000, 900 bushels of oats; while of the
iormer Mississippi produced but $50, 900
bushels, and of the latter but 100, 900
bushels. Wisconsin produced nearly
hree times as much butter as Mississippi,
.hree hundred and twenty times as much
,heese, and, generally, from twenty-five
o fifty times as much of the many other
accessories of life.
We call this a republic, and Mississippi
doubtless considers that she has a repub-
lean form Of government yet the curious
md suggestive anomaly is presented in
hat as in some other S,ates-the legisla-
ton is in the hands Of the race which is in
he minority, the white population being
but $4,000 against o negro population
# 43S, 900. According to the simple
rheory Of pure democracy, it would
seem that if but one race can be
allowed to exercise the right of suf.
frage there. the reins Of government
,hould be put into the hands of the
more numerous. Unless figures are much
given to falsehood, it would further seem
that the prominent public mar Of the State
who recently asseverated with SO many
rrpe,itions that theirs was q white mans
government, must, to put the fact mildly,
De laborins under a want of knowledge.
Certainly, the black man being in such
pr~eponderance there. it is difficult to see
Why he should not at least be allowed to
help make the laws. Just what the Mis-
,issippi conventionists meant in instruct
ing the Legislature TO guard the negroes
tgainst any evil that may arise from their
-m~ancipatlon, does not appear. The
phrase, however. reveals the old spirit Of
>lavery. in that it shows a purpose 10 re-
tain control Of the negro and his fortunes.
We hope the delegates to the Convention
were not the real representatives of the
people. We hope the spirit at home is
better than it was at Jackson. For the
preponderance of negroes over whites is,
in some counties such as to present posi-
bilities, and somewhat certain p~robabili.
ties, not pleasant to contemplate. Thus,
if one man be allowed to each five per-
sons, there were at the beginning of the
wal not less than twelve slaves to each
white man in the counties of Adams.
Kinds, Holmes, Lowndes and Yazoo;
not less than sixteen or seventeen in the
counties of Claiborne. Coahoma, Madison,
Noxubee and Tunica; not less than
twenty-three in the counties of jefferson
and Wilkinson; not less than thirty in
the county of Bolivar; and not less than
sixty in the counties Of Issaquina and
Washington. What Mississippi may be
is foreshadowed in what Pennsylvania and
New York now are-each of these States
being about her size. What she is has
been indicated in the foregoing figures.
What she promises to be does not, as we
said in the beginning, clearly appear.
Such indications as we have do not look
very favorable. The counsel for the hour
is to hare faith, but remember that faith
without works is dead; and take note
that the work Of this year was not finished
,v;,b the overthrow of the rebel Rrmies.