f Chicago was
570.31, and from 1850 to 1860, 264.65, and of St. Louis, from 1840 to
1850, 372.26 per cent., and from 1850 to 1860, 106.49. If both increased
in their respective ratios from 1860 to 1870 as from 1850 to 1860,
Chicago would number 398,420 in 1870, and St. Louis, 331,879. It would
be difficult to say which city has the greatest natural advantages, and
yet when St. Louis was a city, Chicago was but the site of a fort.

PROGRESS OF WEALTH.--By Census Table 36, the cash value of the
farms of Illinois in 1860, was $432,531,072, and of Missouri,
$230,632,126, making a difference in favor of Illinois of $201,898,946,
which is the loss which Missouri has sustained by slavery in the single
item of the value of her farm lands. Abolish slavery there, and the
value of the farm lands of Missouri would soon equal those of Illinois,
and augment the wealth of the farmers of Missouri over two hundred
millions of dollars. But these farm lands of Missouri embrace only
19,984,809 acres (Table 36), leaving unoccupied 23,138,391 acres. The
difference between the value of the unoccupied lands of Missouri and
Illinois, is six dollars per acre, at which rate the increased value of
the unoccupied lands of Missouri, in the absence of slavery, is
$148,830,346. Thus it appears, that the loss to Missouri in the value of
her lands, caused by slavery, is $340,729,292. If we add to this the
diminished value of town and city property in Missouri, from the same
cause, the total loss in that State in the value of real estate, exceeds
$400,000,000, which is nearly twenty times the value of her slaves. By
Table 35, the increase in the value of the real and personal property of
Illinois from 1850 to 1860, was $715,595,276, being 457.93 per cent.,
and of Missouri, $363,966,691, being 265.18 per cent. At the same rate
of increase from 1860 to 1870, the total wealth of Illinois would then
be $3,993,000,000, and of Missouri, $1,329,000,000, making the
difference against Missouri, in 1870, caused by slavery, $2,664,000,000,
which is more than double the whole debt of the nation, and more than
twice the value of all the slaves in the Union.

The total wealth of the Union in 1860 exceeded $16,000,000,000. If this
were increased $1,000,000,000 in time, by the augmented wealth of
Missouri, and our revenue from duties and taxes should be $220,000,000,
the increased income, being one seventeenth of the whole, would exceed
$12,000,000 per annum; or, if th