Each separate table or particular compilation of statistics will afford food for at least an hour’s profitable reflection; indeed, the more these figures are studied, and the better they are understood, the sooner will the author’s object be accomplished,—the sooner will the genius of Universal Liberty dispel the dark clouds of slavery.
TABLE NO. XXVI.
TONNAGE, EXPORTS AND IMPORTS OF THE FREE STATES—1855.
| States. | Tonnage. | Exports. | Imports. |
| California | 92,623 | $8,224,066 | $5,951,379 |
| Connecticut | 137,170 | 878,874 | 636,826 |
| Illinois | 53,797 | 547,053 | 54,509 |
| Indiana | 3,698 | ||
| Iowa | |||
| Maine | 806,587 | 4,851,207 | 2,927,443 |
| Massachusetts | 970,727 | 28,190,925 | 45,113,774 |
| Michigan | 69,490 | 568,091 | 281,379 |
| New Hampshire | 30,330 | 1,523 | 17,786 |
| New Jersey | 121,020 | 687 | 1,473 |
| New York | 1,404,221 | 113,731,238 | 164,776,511 |
| Ohio | 91,607 | 847,143 | 600,656 |
| Pennsylvania | 397,768 | 6,274,338 | 15,300,935 |
| Rhode Island | 51,038 | 336,023 | 536,387 |
| Vermont | 6,915 | 2,895,468 | 591,593 |
| Wisconsin | 15,624 | 174,057 | 48,159 |
| 4,252,615 | $167,520,693 | $236,847,810 |
TABLE NO. XXVII.
TONNAGE, EXPORTS AND IMPORTS OF THE SLAVE STATES—1855.
| States. | Tonnage. | Exports. | Imports. |
| Alabama | 36,274 | $14,270,585 | $619,964 |
| Arkansas | |||
| Delaware | 19,186 | 68,087 | 5,821 |
| Florida | 14,835 | 1,403,594 | 45,998 |
| Georgia | 29,505 | 7,543,519 | 273,716 |
| Kentucky | 22,680 | ||
| Louisiana | 204,149 | 55,367,962 | 12,900,821 |
| Maryland | 234,805 | 10,395,984 | 7,788,949 |
| Mississippi | 2,475 | 1,661 | |
| Missouri | 60,592 | ||
| North Carolina | 60,077 | 433,818 | 243,083 |
| South Carolina | 60,935 | 12,700,250 | 1,588,542 |
| Tennessee | 8,404 | ||
| Texas | 8,812 | 916,961 | 262,568 |
| Virginia | 92,788 | 4,379,928 | 855,405 |
| 855,517 | $107,480,688 | $24,586,528 |
TABLE NO. XXVIII.