"Yes; and six years hence you may make nothing."
"That's true. But it would cost me more to live at the North."
"There you are mistaken. What do you pay for your corn, your pork, and your hay, for instance?"
"Well, my corn I have to bring round by vessel from Washington (North Carolina), and it costs me high when it gets here—about ten bits (a dollar and twenty-five cents), I think."
"And in New York you could buy it now at sixty to seventy cents. What does your hay cost?"
"Thirty-five dollars. I pay twenty for it in New York—the balance is freight and hauling."
"Your pork costs you two or three dollars, I suppose, for freight and hauling."
"Yes; about that."
"Then in those items you might save nearly a hundred per cent.; and they are the principal articles you consume."
"Yes; there's no denying that. But another thing is just as certain: it costs less to support one of my niggers than one of your laboring men."