lition has impeded this improvement.--ED.

[274] We heard the late Dr. Wisner, after his long visit to the South,
say, that the usual task of a slave in South Carolina and Georgia, was
about the third of a day's work for a Northern laborer.

THE

EDUCATION, LABOR, AND WEALTH OF THE SOUTH.

BY SAMUEL A. CARTWRIGHT, M.D.,

OF LOUISIANA.

NOTE.--This article of Dr. Cartwright's was
designed by the Editor to follow "Cotton is King,"
but the copy was not received until the
stereotyping had progressed nearly to
completion.--PUBLISHER.

* * * * *

It has long been a favorite argument of the
abolitionists to assert that slave labor is
unproductive, that the prevalence of slavery tends
to diminish not only the productions of a country,
but also the value of the lands. On this ground,
appeals are constantly made to the
non-slaveholders of the South, to induce them to
abolish slavery; assigning as a reason, that their
lands would rise in value so as to more than
compensate the loss of the slaves.

That we may be able to ascertain how much truth
there is in this assertion, let us refer to
_figures_ and _facts_. The following deductions
from the Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts
of the State of Louisiana, speak in a language too
plain to be misunderstood by any one, and prove
conclusively, that, so far at least as the slave
States are concerned, a dense slave population
gives the highest value and greatest
productiveness to every species of property.
Similar deductions might he drawn from the
Auditors' Reports of every slave State in the
Union EDITOR.

1. _Annual Report of the Auditor of Public
Accounts of the State of Louisiana._ Baton Rouge,
1859.

2. _Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public
Education._ Baton Rouge, 1859.

3. _Les Lois concernant, les Ecoles Publique dons
l'Etat de la Louisiane_, 1849.

4. _Agricultural Productions of Louisiana._ By
Edward J. Forstal, New Orleans, 1845.

5. _Address of the Commissioners for the Raising
the Endowment of the University of t