th Carolina,
New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, South Carolina, Georgia,
New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Kentucky, and Tennessee.
Area, 169,668 square miles 300,580 square miles.
Population in 1790, 1,968,459 1,961,372.
" 1860, 10,594,168 7,414,684.
Population per square mile in 1790, 11.60 6.50.
" " " 1860, 62.44 24.66.
Increase of population per square mile,
from 1790 to 1860, 50.84 18.14.
FREE STATES OF 1860. SLAVE STATES OF 1860.
Area, 835,631 square miles 888,591 square miles.
Farm lands, 161,462,000 acres 248,721,062 acres.
Value, $4,067,947,286 $2,570,466,935.
Value per acre, $25.19 $10.46.
Total product of 1859, namely: of
agriculture, manufactures, mines, and
fisheries, $4,150,000,000 $1,140,000,000.
Per capita, $217 $93.
Copies of press issued in 1860, 760,034,360 167,917,188.
By Table 157 (Census of 1850), ratio of
native white adults who cannot read or
write, 4.12 per cent. 17.23 per cent. (more than
4 to 1).
Same Tables for Census of 1860, partially
estimated, 3.21 per cent 17.03 percent. (more than
5 to 1).
Whole additional value of all
the Slave States, whether farm
lands or unoccupied, if worth
as much per acre as those of
the Free States,
$5,859,246,616.
Total value of products of the
Slave States in 1859, if equal
per capita to those of the
Free States, $2,653,631,032.
Deduct actual products of
1859, $1,140,000,000.
Absolute increase of 1859, if
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