Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1868-11-06
Commodnre Maury,s Address.

us does not look ike II, especially Wnen We con
slider the money and labor you have expended
in the purchase and preparation of these
Grounds. That you lack energy i, mistake;
I don't believe it. Error is always mischievous
and think it best to correct the false impress
sions.
Apparently the North is more prosperous
than the South because the North is manufac
turing and commercial, the South agricultural.
In all manufacturing and commercial commu
mites, products are concentrated, and there is
a chow of life and activity which is never seen
in agricultural communities, because labor Is
there diffused Another reason is that the
statistics showing the rewards Of labor at the
North and South are not quite fairly presented
For instance suppose that one OF your neigh
bors in giving you an account of his earnings
during the year, should tell you that he had
housed so many barrels of corn, which was
worth five dollars barrel, and killed so many
hundred weight Of pork, that was worth eight
cents pound, and 50 many pounds OF bacon
worth twelve cents but when you come to cat
echise him little closer, you find that it had
taken all Of his corn to fatten his pork, and all
of his pork to make his bacon. Now this is
the way with the hay crops Of the North,
which they tell you are worth as much as the
cotton crops Of the South. In the last returns
the hay crop Of the North, is put down at up,
wards Of three hundred millions Of dollars; the
value of the live stock alta little more, and the
value of the butter and cheese at many mil
lions, when the hay went to make it ALL
There is still another error for this apparent
greater prosperity Of the North, and the appa
rent show OF greater enterprise and energy
there. According to the census Of 1890, the
population of the U. S. was very nearly equal.
ly divided between the North and South and
according to the returns of the subsequent CEN
sus of 1900, the ratio of natural increase was
greater at the South than at the North. But
Notwithstanding this, the population of the
North, according to the census of 1860 was, In
round numbers, eleven millions greater than
that Of the South Did it ever occur to you,
when an Emigrant comes into the country, to
calculate how much he adds to the national
wealth, not by the money which he brings, but
by the labor which he is able to perform. For
that labor you will pay him, at the least. one
hundred dollars year. ~!
He, therefore, represents an industrial cap
ilal, Of which hundred dollars a year is the
interests, precisely in the same rate that the
steam engine by the work which it is capable
of performing represents an industrial capital.
The labor, therefore, of a white man repre-
sents quite as much industrial capital as the la
Dor Of negro before the war, which, for an
able bodied man varies from twelve to fifteen
hundred dollars. Taking old and young, male
and female, let us suppose that each emigrant
represents an industrial capital Of four hundred
dollars And then we must take these eleven
millions Of excess of Northern population as
the number Of emigrants, and the descendants
of emigrents, which have come into the country
since 1870 and settled at the North rather than
at the South Multiply that by four hundred
and you have upwards OF four thousand mil
lions of dollars which the North has acquired,
not from any superior energy OF her people, but
merely by the influx of laborers and foreigners
from abroad. Suppose these eleven millions
had settled in Virginia, what would not have
been,the wealth Of the State?
So much for what TRANSFERRED before the war
How is it since? The public prints and speak
ers Of the South are continually pointing to
this and that source Of wealth among us, and,
because itahas not been more developed, charge
you land in apostrophizing you, | mean the
people of the South u maintain that you, the
farmers of Augusta, the country gentlemen of
Virginia. the men of the South, have been and
are applying your industrial energies with de
gree Of intelligence, skill, vigor and effect, not
excelled by any other people in the world
Man for man, your surplus products are not
surpassed by any other people anywhere. This
opinion may surprise some, but maintain it,
and to vin1icate you | appeal to facts and fig
ures, and to the official records of the Govern
ment ITSELF
There has been established in Washington
Bureau of Statistics. Mr.. Delmar is the Chief
of that Bureau. He makes report on COM
MERGE and navigation for 1867 and sends it to
the Secretary Of the Treasury The Secretary
of the Treasury forwards it to Congress for the
information of the people. My facts and fig
ures are upon this authority. These figures
were obtained under oath, at least those of them
which relate to the exports OF the domestic pro-
ducts, from which l am going to quote. These
figures were obtained under oath IRON the ships
before they were allowed to clear, and the state
ments thus made were tabulated in the various
custom-h houses and transmitted to Washington,
and it is from them that the statistician of the
United States Government complies his Table
lo; viz: a statement of the gross pecle
value of the exports of domestic products from
the beginning of the Government to June Both,
1867
TABLE 1S-BUREAU OF STATISTICS.
Statement OF the gross specie value OF eX-
ports of domestic produce from the beginning
of the Government to June Goth, 1867:
Extract in millions.
1S57-338, 100000, the largest up to that
time lS5S-293, 100000; 1S59-335, 900, 900;
l860-373, 100000; lS6l-3S2, 0O0O 900, war
figures estimated 1S62-2l3, 900, 600; 1868
240 900; lS64-24l 100000; 1s65-197,-
100000 war figures; 1S66-4l4, 100000; 1867
1894, 900.
Total exports of Southern products during
the fiscal year ending June Both, 1867, curren-
cy value, 1928, 400, 75e Total exports of do
nestle products from the U. S, same year,
value, $47l ,60S, 900.
Proportion of Southern products to all do
M rtad
Bushels of Indian corn, production of South
ern States for lS59-6O, 434, 937 $685. of all the
States, S3s, 1921 For 1867, 20,605, 5l3;
Of all the States, S67, GAG, 295.
Exports by Southern States, before the war,
so per cent:
Exports by Southern States, after the war,
81 per cent. la
Population of the Southern States, according
to U. S. census of 1860. 1O,259,0l7; popula
ton of all the other States, q, lS5,963.
Average bushels Of Indian corn in Southern
States, 425.
Average bushels of Indian corn in all the
other States, 10.
In 1S6O-estimated Bureau Statistics-Sou
thern States, 9,56S, 100 all the others, a. 9l6-
1865. Average bushels of corn to each person
in the Southern States, 33I in all the others %.
These arc from the official documents of the |
Washington Government, and it is worthy OF
remark that in assigning SO per cent. to the
Southern States of all the exports for the year
ending June, 1867, the Government statistician
gives them no credit for bread stuffs, lumber,
provisions, minerals and the like, sent over the
border. .....
He estimates the population of the Southern
States at 9,56s, 7O9; Of all the rest at "A 937-
l72. and makes the value of domestic products
exported by the former, 1928, 406, 757 by the
I L, l. ..RI
abroad 60 ner cent of the total ualna of all its