the ratio of Kentucky.

WEALTH.--By Tables 33 and 36, Census of 1860, the value of the product
of 1859 was as follows:

Ohio, $337,619,000

Kentucky, 115,408,000

_Per Capita._

Ohio, $144 31

Kentucky, 99 92

Thus is it, that, while in 1790 and 1800 Kentucky was so very far in
advance of Ohio, yet, in 1860, so vast was the advance of Ohio as
compared with Kentucky, that the value of the product of Ohio was nearly
triple that of Kentucky, and, _per capita_, much more than one third
greater. No reason can be assigned for these remarkable results, except
that Kentucky was slaveholding, and Ohio a Free State.

Their area is nearly the same, and they are adjacent States; the soil of
Kentucky is quite equal to that of Ohio, the climate better for crops
and stock, and the products more various.

We have seen the actual results in 1860, but if Kentucky had increased
in population from 1800 to 1860 in the same ratio as Ohio, Kentucky then
would have numbered 11,175,970, or nearly ten times her present
population; and if the product had been the same as in Ohio, _per
capita_, the value would have been $1,612,804,230, or more than fourteen
times greater than the result. Thus it is demonstrated by the official
Tables of the Census of the United States, that if Kentucky had
increased in wealth and population from 1800 to 1860 in the same ratio
as Ohio, the results would have been as follows:

Kentucky: population in 1860, 11,175,970; actual population in 1860,
1,155,684; value of products in 1860, $1,612,804,230; actual value in
1860, $115,408,000.

Some attempt has been made to account for these marvellous results, by
stating that Ohio has a border on one of the lakes, and Kentucky has
not. But to this it may be replied, that Kentucky borders for twice the
distance on the Ohio River, has a large front on the Mississippi River,
and embraces within her limits those noble streams, the Cumberland and
Tennessee Rivers, making, together with the Big Sandy, Licking,
Kentucky, Green, and Barren Rivers, the natural advantages of Kentucky
for navigation, superior to those of Ohio. But a conclusive answer to
this argument is found in the fact that, omitting all the counties of
Ohio within the lake region, the remainder, within the valley of the
Ohio River, contain a population more than one half greater than that of
the whole State of Kentucky