Balance in pounds, 24,539,694,211 Difference in value, $59,199,108 Both quantity and value again in favor of the North! Behold also the enormousness of the difference! In this comparison with the South, neither hundreds, thousands, nor millions, according to the regular method of computation, are sufficient to exhibit the excess of the poundmeasure products of the North. Recourse must be had to an almost inconceivable number; billions must be called into play; and there are the figures telling us, with unmistakable emphasis and distinctness, that, in this depart ment of agriculture, as in every other, the North is vastly the superior of the South-the figures showing a total balance in favor of the former of twenty-four billion five hun dred and thirty-nine million six hundred and ninety-four thousand What next? Is it necessary to adduce other facts in these most significant and incontrovertible facts, the oli garchy have the unparalleled audacity to tell us that the South is the greatest agricultural country in the world, and that the North is a dreary waste, unfit for cultivation, and quite dependent on us for the necessaries of life. How preposterously false all such babble is, the following tables will show : Tertible faca ity to tell country in de unfit for ssaries of e is, the States. TABLE NO. XVI. ACTUAL CROPS PER ACRE ON THE AVERAGE IN THE FREE FREE AND THE SLAVE STATES. Wheat, Oats, Rye. Ind. Corn, Irish Pota- bushels. bushels. ...... 7 15 7 121 35 825 Wheat, Oats, TABLE NO. XVII. ACTUAL CROPS PER ACRE ON THE AVERAGE IN THE SLAVE STATES-1850. 14 18 13 7 11 18 15 7 5 63 30 436 Rye, Ind. Corn, Irish Potabushels. toes, bush. 60 15 22 20 69 85 115 100 100 120 170 140 220 100 75 100 178 1,503 175 125 130 75 105 110 65 70 120 250 75 20 18' 275 1,360 What an obvious contrast between the vigor of Liberty and the impotence of Slavery! What an unanswerable argument in favor of free labor! Add up the two columns of figures above, and what is the result? Two hundred and thirteen bushels as the products of five acres in the North, and only one hundred and seventy bushels as the products of five acres in the South. Look at each item separately, and you will find that the average crop per acre of every article enumerated is greater in the free States than it is in the slave States. Examine the table at large, and you will perceive that while Massachusetts produces sixteen bushels of wheat to the acre, Virginia produces only seven; that Pennsylvania produces fifteen and Georgia only five: that while Iowa produces thirtysix bushels of oats to the acre, Mississippi produces only twelve; that Rhode Island produces thirty, and North Carolina only ten: that while Ohio produces twenty-five bushels of rye to the acre, Kentucky produces only eleven; that Vermont produces twenty, and Tennessee only seven: that while Connecticut produces forty bushels of Indian corn to the acre, Texas produces only twenty; that New Jersey produces thirty-three, and South Carolina only eleven: that while New Hampshire produces two hundred and twenty bushels of Irish potatoes to the acre, Maryland produces only seventy-five; that Michigan produces one hundred and forty, and Alabama only sixty. Now for other beauties of slavery in another table. |