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 THE WORLD'S FAMOUS ORATIONS

tion of the Southern States to-day are non-pur- chasers of English goods. You must recollect another fact — namely, that this is going on clear through to the Pacific Ocean; and if by sympa- thy or help you establish a slave empire, you sagacious Britons — if you like it better, then, I will leave the adjective out — are busy in favor- ing the establishment of an empire from ocean to ocean that should have fewest customers and the largest non-buying population, ["No, no!" A voice, "I thought it was a happy people that population parted."]

Now, for instance, just look at this — the dif- ference between free labor and slave labor to produce cultivated land. The State of Virginia has 1.5,000 more square miles of land than the State of New York ; but Virginia has only 15,000 square miles improved, while New York has 20,- 000 square miles improved. Of unimproved land Virginia has about 23,000 square miles, and New York only about 10,000 square miles. These facts speak volumes as to the capacity of the territory to bear population. The smaller is the quantity of soil uncultivated, the greater is the density of the population ; and upon that their value as customers depends. Let us take the States of Maryland and Massachusetts. Mary- land has 2,000 more square miles of land than Massachusetts; but Maryland has about 4,000 square miles of land improved, Massachusetts has 3,200 square miles. ^laryland has 2,800 un- improved square miles of land, while Massachu- 20

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