The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-11-24

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devoted to agriculture and devoid q
manufactures, was far behind the
other States OF the Union in accumu
lated wealth. But Mr.. r. Fl. Ed
monds, the well know statistician
| and friend of the South, has done a
| splendid work in refuting these IDEAS
in series of articles on the Indus
trial Development of the South, be
ing published in the New York En-
gineeriDg Magazine Mr.. Edmopds
takes the United States census for
| several decades up to 1860, and
shows that the Southern States led
all the rest in accumulated wealth.
The New Orleans Picayune in com
nlentiDg on Mr.. Edmonds' articles.
says:
/ The figures of the official census,
I however, must be held as authorita-
tive, and there is no appeal from
! their declarations, From them it is
seen that the South, with 6,SOO,OOO
whites and 100000 negroes, max
ing all aggregate of 100000.
constituted only about one-third OF
the total population of the Union,
which was 100000 With one
third, or 33 per cent, of the popula-
ton, the South produced A per cent
OF the entire corn crop of the coun-
try, 80 per cent. of the wheat crop,
all the cotton, all the rice, all the |
sugar, and about four fifths of all |
the tobacco, besides large proper
ton of other crops.
Gin 1860 the South, with only 33 |
per cent. ofthe population, had agri-
cultural machinery to the value of
A per cent. of what was possessed
by the whole population. The South
had in banking capital SILT, 4OO,-
900, or nearly 30 per cent. of tie en-
tire banking capital of the whole
country. Moreover, the assessed
value of property in the respective
States shows remarkable facts.
Georgia's assessed values were great
er in amount than the combin"d
values of Maine, New Hampshire,
Vermont and Rhode Island. South
Carolina was sos, 100000 richer
than Rhode Island and New Jersey
combined, and these We're prominent
manufacturing States. Mississippi
'utranked Connecticut by $16O,00O,-
100.
''ln the assessed value Of wealth to
ach head of population Connecticut :
TODD first, Rhode Island second. :
'outh Carolina third, Mississippi
0urth, Massachusetts fifth, Louisi-
ma sixth, Georgia seventh, District L
{ Columbia eighth. Florida ninth, S
.entucky tenth, Alabama eleventh, i
'exas twelfth, New Jersey thir tenth, u
laryland fourteenth, Arkansas fif- r
zenith. Virginia sixteenth, Ohio sew !:
1teenth. New York only ranked c
Venty second and Pennsylvania d
1lrtieth in respect to wealth per
apita.
These are truly revelations, and "
ley demonstrate that the 100000
liftless and lazy white people of the
1uth We're capable of creating as -,
UGH wealth as were the 2O,OOO,OOO a
telligent and thrifty Northern r
lites, or else they had the ability "
masters to compel 100000 m
aves to equal the results of 90 SO
10000 free whites. la
Such was the condition of the 90
uthern people in 1861 in respect az
wealth and productive industrier + q
is also fact that the white neo NJ
of the South, although chew per u 81
a minority, had ioug dominated al
largely influenced the policy and tn
course OF legislation of the feder- les
government. And when the ones ml
MS OF difference came to the arh;t J
nent OF war the small white til
ion of the South was NOT ,opu- pl
any OF the clement wanting
itary praweas -, OF manhood,
'duce greet and the ability to ~,
1T aD@ commanders and bril- =
). daring soldiers of the first D.