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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

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dred and thirty-nine million six hundred and ninety-four thousand
two hundred and forty-one pounds, valued at fifty-nine million
one hundred and ninety-nine thousand one hundred and eight
dollars. And yet, the North is a poor, God-forsaken coun-
try, bleak, inhospitable, and unproductive !

What next? Is it necessary to adduce other facts in
order to prove that the rural wealth of the free States is
far greater than that of the slave States? Shall we make
a further demonstration of the fertility of northern soil, or
bring forward new evidences of the inefficient and desola-
ting system of terra-culture in the South? Will nothing
less than "confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ,”
suffice to convince the South that she is standing in her
own light, and ruining both body and soul by the reten-
tion of slavery? Whatever duty and expedience require
to be done, we are willing to do. Additional proofs are at
hand. Slaveholders and slave-breeders shall be convinced,
confuted, convicted, and converted. They shall, in their
hearts and consciences, if not with their tongues and
pens, bear testimony to the triumphant achievements of
free labor. In the two tables which immediately follow
these remarks, they shall see how much more vigorous
and fruitful the soil is when under the prudent manage
ment of free white husbandmen, than it is when under the
rude and nature-murdering tillage of enslaved negroes;
and in two subsequent tables they shall find that the live
stock, slaughtered animals, farms, and farming implements
and machinery, in the free States, are worth at least one
thousand million of dollars more than the market value of
the same in the slave States! In the face, however, of all

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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 :

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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.

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