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23 land, 54,970,427; cash value of farms, $1,117,649,649; average value per acre, $6.18 value of farming implements $65,345,625. Such is the mighty contrast. But it does not stop here.

Careful tables place the agricultural products of the Free States, for the year ending June, 1850, at $858,634,334, while those

of the Slave States, were $631,277,417; the product per acre in the Free States at $7.94, and the product per acre in the Slave

and the average product of each agriculturist and in the Slave States at $171. Thus the Free States, with a smaller population engaged in agriculture than the Slave States, with smaller territory, show an annual sum total of agricultural products surpassing those of the Slave States by two hundred and twenty-seven millions of dollars, while twice as much is produced on an acre, and more than twice as much is produced by each agriculturist. The monopoly of cotton, rice, and cane-sugar, with a climate granting two and sometimes three crops in the year, are thus impotent in the competition with Freedom. In manufactures, the failure of the Slave States is greater still. States at $3.49



in the Free States at $342,

It appears at all points, in the capital employed, in the value of the raw material, in the annual wages, and in the annual

A short table will show the contrast

product.

Free States.

—

$465,844,092



$842,586,058. Slave States.

$86,190,639

Capital, $430,240,051 value of raw material, annual wages, $195,976,453 annual product,



—

Capital, $95,029,879 value of raw material, annual wages, $33,257,360 annual product,





$165,413,027. This might be illustrated by details with regard to different

manufactures

— whether

of shoes,

wrought-iron, and iron castings

—

cotton,

woollen, pig-iron,

showing the contrast. It might also be illustrated by a comparison between different States showing, for instance, that the manufactures of Massachusetts, during the last year, exceeded those of all the Slave all



States combined.

In commerce, the scale.

Under

statistics,

failure of the Slave States is

this head, the census

and we are

left, therefore, to approximations from but these are enough for our purpose. It apof the products which enter into commerce, the Free

other quarters pears that,

on yet a larger

does not supply proper