The North And the South a Statistical View of the Condition of the Free And Sla
The North And the South a Statistical View of the Condition of the Free And Sla
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Ratio of increase 89. 11 per cent. Assume 60, 000 whites in Virginia at the close of the first year, and the rate of increase as above, then in ten years she would have 594, 660 white inhabitants, and in twenty years 5, 793, 475. Number of whites in Virginia in 1850, 894, 800 ; in the slave- holding States, 6, 184, 477. Thus, as to population, slavery in two hundred and fifty years has done the work of twenty. As to the value of lands, it has done still worse. Thus, in little more than ten year...s, Wisconsin had brought up the value of A STATISTICAL VIEW. 53 her farms per acre to $9. 54 ; Virginia in two hundred and fifty years had barely raised the price of her lands to $8. 27.
We give below, from different authorities, the past and present condition of the lands of the Free and Slave States.
" New England" (says " A perfect description of Virginia, " published in London in 1G49) "is in a good condition of liveli hood ; but for matter of any great hope but fishing there is not much. " Compared to Virginia, "it s as Scotland is to England, so much difference, and lies upon the same land northward as Scotland does to England ; there is much cold, frost, and snow ; their land is barren, except a herring be put into the hole you set the corn in, it will not come up ; and it was a great pity all those planters, now about 20, 000, did not seat themselves at first at the south of Virginia, in a warm and rich country, where their industry could have produced sugar, indigo, ginger, cotton, and the like commodities, " Said Sir Thomas Dale, in 1612, speaking of Virginia, "Take four of the best kingdoms in Christendom, and put them all together, they may no way compare with this country either for commodities or goodness of soil.
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Ratio of increase 89. 11 per cent. Assume 60, 000 whites in Virginia at the close of the first year, and the rate of increase as above, then in ten years she would have 594, 660 white inhabitants, and in twenty years 5, 793, 475. Number of whites in Virginia in 1850, 894, 800 ; in the slave- holding States, 6, 184, 477. Thus, as to population, slavery in two hundred and fifty years has done the work of twenty. As to the value of lands, it has done still worse. Thus, in little more than ten year...s, Wisconsin had brought up the value of A STATISTICAL VIEW. 53 her farms per acre to $9. 54 ; Virginia in two hundred and fifty years had barely raised the price of her lands to $8. 27.
We give below, from different authorities, the past and present condition of the lands of the Free and Slave States.
" New England" (says " A perfect description of Virginia, " published in London in 1G49) "is in a good condition of liveli hood ; but for matter of any great hope but fishing there is not much. " Compared to Virginia, "it s as Scotland is to England, so much difference, and lies upon the same land northward as Scotland does to England ; there is much cold, frost, and snow ; their land is barren, except a herring be put into the hole you set the corn in, it will not come up ; and it was a great pity all those planters, now about 20, 000, did not seat themselves at first at the south of Virginia, in a warm and rich country, where their industry could have produced sugar, indigo, ginger, cotton, and the like commodities, " Said Sir Thomas Dale, in 1612, speaking of Virginia, "Take four of the best kingdoms in Christendom, and put them all together, they may no way compare with this country either for commodities or goodness of soil.
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