The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-05
THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER S, 1868.
NORTHERN AND s0UTHRRN Pro.
DUCTe.

At the opening of the Augusta county, Va.
agricultural fair, on the 2sth ult., Prof. M. F.
Maury eelyeied the following address:
Felosc CWizens-I do not come TO make Q
speech, but to have little plain talk with the
farmers Of Augusta. They tell me you are want
ing In energy and lack enterprise. This spectacle
before us does not look like it, especially when we
consider the amount Of money contributed for
the establishment of these grounds. think il a
mistake, and as error is always mischievous, /
think II best TO correct false impressions.
Apparently. the North il more prosperous III an
fhe eouth. because the North Is manufacturing
and commercial, and the South is agricultural
In all manufacturing and commercial communities
products are concentrated, and there is show of
life and activity which is never seen in s0ricul-
tural 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 represented. For instance, suppose
one of your neighbors, in giving you an account
had housed go many barrels of corn, worth Eve
dollars per barrel, and killed so many hundred
weight OF pork worth eight cents per pound, and
had so many pounds of bacon worth twelve cents;
but when you questioned him little closer you
found it bad taken all his corn to fatten hispork
and all his pork TO make bis bacon. Now this is
the way of the hay crop Of the North, which they
tell you is worth as much as the cotton crop OF the
eeulh. In the last returns the hay crop of the
North is put down as worth three hundred mil
lions of dollars, the live stock little more. and
the butter and cheese is valued at many millions,
when. in fact. the hay went to make it all.
There is still another reason for this apparent
b greater prosperity of the North, and apparent
show of greater enterprise and energy there.
According to the census of 1870, the population
Of the United States was nearly equally divided
between the North and south. and according to
the subsequent census the ratio of natural in
crease was greater in the South than in the North.
But, notwithstanding this, the population Of the
North, according to the census OF 1866, was in
round numbers, eleven millions greater than that
OF the South. Did 1t ever occur to you. when an
emigrant comes into the country, TO calculate how
mach he adds TO the national wealth, not by the
money he brings, but by the labor he is able to
ptnorml For that labor you will pay him one
hundred dollars per year. He, therefore, repre-
sents an Industrial capital Of which one hundred
dollars per year is the interest. Precisely in the
same ratio q steam engine, by the work it is able
70 perform, represents an Industrial capital the
labor Of white man. therefore, represents quite
as much industrial capital as negro did before
the war. which for an sblebodied man ranged
from $500 to $500. Taking old and young.
mee and female, let rs suppose that each
immigrant represents an Industrial capital of four
brsndred dollars, and then we must take these
eleven millions Of excess of Northern population
asithe number OF immigrants, or descendants of
infnigrsnts, who have come into the country
SINCE 1870, and settled 10 the North rather than n
the South. Multiply by five hundred, and you
have more than four thousand millions of dollars
WIlCn INC NOftn mas acquired, not Dy any gupe-
rioS energy, but by the mere influx of labor from
abfoad: suppose these eleven millions had set.
tied in Virginia, what would not have been the
wealth Of the State? So much for what transpired
before the war. How is it since The public
prints and speakers of the South are continually
pointing TO this and that source of wealth among
us; and because 1t has not been more developed,
chSrge swant of industry and energy. maintain
that you, farmers of Augusta, Virginia gentlemen,
hate been and are applying Industrial energies
VIII degree Of vigor and intelligence not ex.
cesed. Man for man, your surplus products are
not; surpassed by any people anywhere. This
ms; surprise some, but maintain IL, and to vim.
dicbte you, will appeal to facts and figures There
haS been established in Washington bureau of
statistics, with Mr.. Delmsr chief. He makes
reEDrt Of commerce and navigation for 1867, sends
II II the secretary Of the treasury and the secre
tart OF the treasury forwards 1t to Congress for
the information of the nation.
THESE figures, at least those which relate to the
EXPORT OF domestic products, from which | am
goitg TO quote, were obtained under oath from
the;shps before they were allowed to clear. and
talkilsied ct the various customhouses and re-
tu3ned and transmitted TO Washington, and it is
fron this that the sta tscian of the United States
government compiled his table eighteen. In order
to he exact have made q memorandum Of them.
FRoS TABLE IS BUREAU Of the gross
sp4ie value Of exports q nese produce from the begin