balance against the South in favor of the North of seventeen million four hundred and twenty-three thousand one hundred and fifty-two bushels, and a difference in the value of the same, also in favor of the North, of forty-four million seven hundred and eighty-two thousand six hundred and thirty-six dollars. It is certainly a most novel kind of agricultural superiority that the South claims on that score ! Our attention shall now be directed to the twelve principal pound-measure products of the free and of the slave States-hay, cotton, butter and cheese, tobacco, cane, sugar, wool, rice, hemp, maple sugar, beeswax and honey, flax, and hops-and in taking an account of them, we shall, in order to show the exact quantity produced in each State, and for the convenience of future reference, pursue the same plan as that adopted in the preceding tables. Whether slavery will appear to better advantage on the scales than it did in the half-bushel, remains to be seen. It is possible that the rickety monster may make a better show on a new track; if it makes a more ridiculous display, we shall not be surprised. A careful examination of its precedents, has taught us the folly of expecting anything good to issue from it in any manner whatever. It has no disposition to emulate the magnanimity of its betters, and as for a laudable ambition to excel, that is a characteristic altogether foreign to its nature. Languor and inertia are the insalutary viands upon which it delights to satiate its morbid appetite; and "from bad to worse" is the ill-omened motto under which, in all its feeble efforts and achievements, it ekes out a most miserable and deleterious existence. TABLE NO. IX. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS OF THE FREE STATES-1850. States. Hay, tons. Hemp, tons. California .... Illinois...... Iowa...... New Jersey.. Ohio..... Pennsylvania.. Vermont. Wisconsin. Florida.. Georgia.. Kentucky Louisiana.. .... Alabama.... Delaware... Maryland.. Mississippi. Missouri. .... Tennessee. Texas... States. North Carolina... South Carolina... 2,038 516,131 601,952 403,230 89,055 755,889 651,807 404,934 598,854 435,950 3,728,797 1,443,142 1,842,970 74,418 866,153 275,662 12,690,982 TABLE NO. X. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS OF THE SLAVE STATES-1850. Hay, tons. Hemp, tons. Hops, lbs. 32,685 3,976 30,159 2,510 23,449 113,747 25,752 4 150 44 157,956 12,504 116,925 145,653 20,925 74,091 8,354 369,098 1,137,784 198 15 17,787 63 7 16,028 39 595 139 Hops, lbs. 34,673 States. TABLE NO. XV. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS OF THE SLAVE STATES-1850. Cotton, bales Cane Sugar, 87 Alabama.... Maryland.. .......... ... .... .... .... .... .... ......... .... Texas......... ........... .... .. .... .... ........... Hay... .......... Tobacco......... Wool........ Butter and Cheese... ... 564,429 45,131 499,091 758 178,737 484,292 50,545 300,901 194,532 58,072 3,947 2,445,779 RECAPITULATION-FREE STATES. 2,750 10 " 28,427,799,680 lbs. @ 1-2 c. $142,138,998 443,520 " " 5" 15 " 10" 8" 10" 35 " 15" 15" 8 Rough Rice, 2,312,252 63,179 1,075,090 38,950,691 2,719,856 700 5,465,868 77 159,930,613 3 7,351 5,688 4,425,349 258,854 88,203 17,154 237,133 215,313,497 1,475,208 13,876,523. 52,479,117. 1,033,255 Total,......28,878,064,902 lbs., valued as above, $214,422,523 22,176 519,476. 304,827 2,572,943. |