| Value of live Stock | $286,376,541 | |
| Value of Animals slaughtered | 56,990,237 | |
| Value of Farms, Farming-Implements and Machinery | 2,233,058,619 | |
| $2,576,425,397 |
RECAPITULATION—SLATE STATES.
| Value of Live Stock | $253,723,687 | |
| Value of Animals slaughtered | 54,388,377 | |
| Value of Farms, Farming Implements and Machinery | 1,183,995,274 | |
| $1,492,107,338 |
DIFFERENCE IN VALUE—FARMS AND DOMESTIC ANIMALS.
| Free States | $2,576,425,397 | |
| Slave States | 1,492,107,338 | |
| Balance in favor of the Free States | $1,084,318,059 |
By adding to this last balance in favor of the free States the differences in value which we found in their favor in our account of the bushel-and-pound-measure products, we shall have a very correct idea of the extent to which the undivided agricultural interests of the free States preponderate over those of the slave States. Let us add the differences together, and see what will be the result.
BALANCES—ALL IN FAVOR OF THE NORTH.
| Difference in the value of bushel-measure products | $44,782,636 | |
| Difference in the value of pound-measure products | 59,199,108 | |
| Difference in the value of farms and domestic animals | 1,084,318,059 | |
| Total | $1,188,299,803 |
No figures of rhetoric can add emphasis or significance to these figures of arithmetic. They demonstrate conclusively the great moral triumph of Liberty over Slavery. They show unequivocally, in spite of all the blarney and boasting of slave-driving politicians, that the entire value of all the agricultural interests of the free States is very nearly twice as great as the entire value of all the agricultural interests of the slave States—the value of those interests in the former being twenty-five hundred million of dollars, that of those in the latter only fourteen hundred million, leaving a balance in favor of the free States of one billion one hundred and eighty-eight million two hundred and ninety-nine thousand eight hundred and three dollars! That is what we call a full, fair and complete vindication of Free Labor. Would we not be correct in calling it a total eclipse of the Black Orb? Can it be possible that the slavocracy will ever have the hardihood to open their mouths again on the subject of terra-culture in the South? Dare they ever think of cotton again? Ought they not, as a befitting confession of their crimes and misdemeanors, and as a reasonable expiation for the countless evils which they have inflicted on society, to clothe themselves in sackcloth, and, after a suitable season of contrition and severe penance, follow the example of one Judas Iscariot, and go and hang themselves?
It will be observed that we have omitted the Territories and the District of Columbia in all the preceding tables. We did this purposely. Our object was to draw an equitable comparison between the value of free and slave labor in the thirty-one sovereign States, where the two systems, comparatively unaffected by the wrangling of politicians, and, as a matter of course, free from the interference of the general government, have had the fullest opportunities to exert their influence, to exhibit their virtues, and to commend themselves to the sober judgments of enlightened and discriminating minds. Had we counted the Territories on the side of the North, and the District of Columbia on the side of the South, the result would have been still greater in behalf of free labor. Though “the sum of all villanies” has but a mere nominal existence in Delaware and Maryland, we have invariably counted those States on the side of the South; and the consequence is, that, in many particulars, the hopeless fortunes of slavery have been propped up and sustained by an imposing array of figures which of right ought to be regarded as the property of freedom. But we like to be generous to an unfortunate foe, and would utterly disdain the use of any unfair means of attack or defence.