CHAPTER VIII.

FREE FIGURES AND SLAVE 281

Opening Remarks--General Statistics of the Free and of the Slave States--Tonnage, Exports, and Imports--Products of Manufactures--Miles of Canals and Railroads in Operation-- Public Schools--Libraries other than Private--Newspapers and Periodicals--Illiterate White Adults--National Political Power of the two Sections--Popular Vote for President in 1856-- Patents Issued on New Inventions--Value of Church Property-- Acts of Benevolence--Contributions for the Bible Cause, Tract Cause, Missionary Cause, and Colonization Cause--Table of deaths in the several States in 1850--Number of Free White Male Persons over fifteen years of age engaged in Agriculture or other out-door Labor in the Slave States--Falsity of the Assertion that White Men cannot cultivate Southern Soil--White Female Agriculturists in North Carolina--Number of Natives of the Slave States in the Free States, and of Natives of the Free States in the Slave States--Value of the Slaves at $400 per head--List of Presidents of the United States--Judges of the Supreme Court--Secretaries of State--Presidents of the Senate-- Speakers of the House--Postmasters General--Secretaries of the Interior--Secretaries of the Treasury--Secretaries of War-- Secretaries of the Navy--Result of the Presidential Elections in the United States from 1796 to 1856--Aid for Kansas-- Contributions for the Sufferers in Portsmouth, Va., during the Prevalence of the Yellow Fever in the Summer of 1855-- Congressional Representation--Custom House Receipts--When the Old States were Settled and the New Admitted into the Union-- First European Settlements in America--Freedom and Slavery at the Fair--What Freedom Did--What Slavery Did--Average Value per Acre of Lands in the States of New York and North Carolina.