Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-11-03

IouHu HutIDeTS, eleVen n1lllOnS greater tn
that Of the South. Did it ever occur to 20
when an Emigrant comes into the country,
calculate how much he adds to the nation
wealth, not by the money which he brings, b
by the labor which he is able to perform II
that labor you will pay him, at the least, or
hundred dollars year.
lie, therefore, represents an industrial ca,
ltal, of which hundred dollars year is th
interests, precisely in the same rate that tn
steam engine by the work which it is capabl
OF performing represents an industrial capital
The labor, therefore, of white man repre-
sents quite as much industrial capital as the la
Dor ct negro before the war, which, for al
able bodied man varies from twelve to fifteel
hundred dollars. Taking old and young, mall
and female, let us suppose that each emigran
represents an industrial capital of four hundred
| dollars Aud then we must take these clever
millions Of excess of Northern population a.
the number of emigrants, and the descendant
OF emlgrents, which have come into the country
! since 1870 and settled at the North rather thar
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
Uceu Iuc WEALTH OF the Ctate
SO much for what transpired before the war;
How is 1t since? The public prints and speak
ers OF the South are continually pointing to
this and that source of wealth among us. and,
because 1t has not been more developed, charge
us with lack OF enterprise maintain that
you land In apostrophizing you, I mean the
people of the South)-I 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 vintcate you | appeal to facts and fig
ures, and to the official records of the Govern
ment ITSELF I.1ia 1a SOD hal, E
There has been established in Washington
Bureau Of Statistics. Mr.. Delmar is the Chief
OF that Bureau H. makes report on COM
merce and navigatio for 1867 and sends it to
the Secretary of tie Treasury The Secretary
OF the Treasury forw ards 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-
duets, from which am going to quote These
figures were obtained under oath from the ships
before they weie allowed to clear, and the state
ments thus made were tabulated in the various
custom-houses and transmitted to Washington,
and 1t Is from them that the statistician of the
United States Government complies his Table
IS; viz a statement of the gross pecie
value OF the exports of domestic products from
the beginningof the Government to June 3Oth,
1867 =: s ,r,.,. .s,
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 30th, 1867:
Extract in millions .s.fH ..f
1857-33S, 600, ,0O0 the largest up to that
time; 195S-293, 900 900; lS59-335 600 900 !;
lS60-373, 100000; lS6l-3S2, ,O0O0OO, war
figures estimated; 1862-2l3, 900 600 1863 =
240.0O0, 900; l864-24l 100000; 1S65-l97,
600, 900, war figures 1866 -4l4, ,O00,0UU; 1867
1894, ,OO0
Total exports of Southern products during
the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1867, curren-
cy value, 1928, 4O6, 759. Total exports of do
mestlc products from the u. s., same year,
currency value, SAL, ,60S, 600.
Proportion of Southern products to all do
mestlc products exported, SO per cent.
Bushels of Indian corn, production of South
ern States, for l959-60 434 937 1868; of all the
States, S3S, 792, 74O. For 1861, 32O COS, ,5l3;
of all the States 867, ,946 295.
Exports by Southern STATES, before the war,
so per cent. 5.-. -al
Exports by Southern States, after the war,
81 per cent. -n4 I -a1 ae
Population Of the Southern States, according
to U. S. census of 1860, 10, ,259,0l7; popula-
ton of all the other States, 81 lS5, 1858.
Average bushels of Indian corn in Southern
States, 425 .oi- - .i..
Average bushels of Indian corn in all the
other States, 49,.
In lS6O-estimated Bureau Statistics-Sou-
hern States, 9,568, 7O9 all the others, "a, 9l6-
765. Average bushels OF corn to each person
in the Southern States, 33} in all the others,
D. sef t
These are 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 statlsticlan
gives them no credit for bread stufis, lumber,
provisions, minerals and the like, sent over the
border. as .sf 1i.-s 5.
He estimates the population of the Southern
States at 1868, ,7O9 of all the rest at 24,937-
l73, and makes the value of domestic products
exported by the former, 1928, ,406, 757; by the
latter $l43, POI ,245, Or he makes % per cent OF
the population OF the whole country to send
abroad 60 per cent. OF the total value OF all ITS
exports In other WORDS. notwithstanding the
! devastation of the war, the average domestic
| exports amount, iii value. for each person II
| the Southern States, to $34 32 per caput; IL
all the other States to $5.75.
| He estimates the population of the South fol
the year endir June 30th 1866, at 9,56o, 10Y
| ara OF all the States together at "a, 503, 49, -
According to these tables, the South in 1866
| had very nearly the population that the whole
| United States contained III 1920. And Wha
were the exports OF the domestic products o
the whole country that year? Fifty one millions
The South in 1866 exported. according to tn
same authority, $272 ,O00,0 900, specie value, o
more than five to one In 1850 the pop1latlo
of the whole u S. was, In round numbers, "a
900, 900, and the domestic exports amounte,
that year to $l36, 100000. Now the > lutl
with not half the population OF 23, 0OO,ool
have been exporting $4,000, 600, being tw
for one. .t
But notwithstanding these facts, opinion
have got abroad most injurious to the South
and which it is necessary to correct.
Mr.. Adams, a few days ago. In his speech
Charleston, tells you what Mass. thinks OF IL
Southern people that the Evolutionary idea
the Southern man there is, a dirk III one pocke
and a pistol in the other; "a cigar IN one sic
of his mouth and qnid OF to bacco IN the ot
er: INDECENT and domineering, lntolerant Of az
differnce of opinion.
A Northern gentleman who had establisnf
himself in South Carolina in discovering wh
goodly land it Is, AID now peaceabIy dispos'
are the people, writes 10 hs friends nus;
Il had been led to believe that 1t was da
gerous for Northern man TO travel here al
) hat robberies and outrages were common.
would naturally be supposed that the Oince
, of the Freedman 5 Bureau We're peculiarly