Free States $1,513,631,032.
That is, the _additional_
value of the actual products
of the Slave States, caused by
emancipation, $1,513,631,032.
Total value of all the property, real and Ditto, of all the Slave
personal, of the Free States in 1860, States, including slaves,
$5,225,307,034. 852,081,081.
$10,
Annual gross profit of capital, 39 per cent. 22 per cent.
If we could add the annual
earnings of commerce (not
included in the Census
s T Tables), the yearly product
of the Free States per capita
would be almost triple that of
the Slave States, the commerce
of New York alone being nearly
equal to that of the entire
South.
Total agricultural product of Free States
in 1859, $2,527,676,000 $862,324,000 (Slave States).
Agricultural product of Free States per Ditto of Slave States per capita
capita in 1859, $131.48 in 1859, $70.56
Ditto, per acre in 1859, improved and
unimproved lands, $15.65 $3.58
Ditto, per acre, improved lands, $28.68 $11.55
It is thus demonstrated by the official statistics of the Census of the
United States, from 1790 to 1860, that the total annual product of the
Free States _per capita_ exceeds that of the Slave States, largely more
than two to one, and, including commerce, very nearly three to one. As
regards education, also, we see that the ratio in favor of the Free
States is more than four to one in 1850 (4.12 to 17.23), and, in 1860,
more than five to one (3.21 to 17.03). And even as regards agricultural
products, we have seen that those of the Free States were $2,527,676,000
per annum, and of the Slave States only $862,324,000. The value of the
lands of the Free States was $25.19 per acre, of the Slave States only
$10.46 per acre; the produc
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