The North and the South; A Statistical View of the Condition of the Free and Slave States (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: ...limits of each State, respectively, is nearly equal. The manufacturing establishments in these counties are generally confined to their cities, and a table showing the origin of the free population of the cities only, would give a large preponderance of persons born without the limits of their respective States. The means of constructing such a table are not accessible. There are, besides, other counties of smaller size which should be included with those in the foregoing table. These are necessarily omitted. Deducting the aggregates of this table from the total manufactures reported for the South, and there are left for the manufactures of the Slave States, Capital $64,196,736 Hands employed, males and females, 104,101 Annual product, .... $95,116,284 Annual product per head, ... 914 Adding the aggregates of table XXI. to those reported above for the manufactures of the North, and the total manufactures of the free population of the United States, will be: Capital, $461,073,194 Hands employed, males and females, 838,212 Annual product, .... $912,882,801 Annual product per head, .. 1,089 Further amendment of these aggregates should be made by adding for California--in which State the marshales returns for 1850 were generally defective, and for the most important localities lost or destroyed by fire--the following estimates, based on the returns of the State census for that State, taken in 1852, and ordered by Congress to be made a part of the National census, viz: Capital, $5,942,526 Annual product, .... 30,000,000 The true total, then, of the manufactures of the free population of the United States for 1850 will be: Capital invested, .... $467,015,720 Hands employed, males and females, 838,212 Annual product, .... $942,882,801 Thus, then, in seven times the c