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LAND AND LABOR. 



of that portion of our western country that was not 

 cursed by the existence of slavery upon its soil, there 

 has, within the present and past decade, been an 

 alarming increase in the number of great landholders 

 who, with all the power of capital, machinery, and 

 cheap labor, have entered into deadly competition 

 with the small farmer. Before the census of 1870 

 had been taken the movement had begun throughout 

 all the free States, as shown by the following table, 

 exhibiting, first, the number of farms of 1,000 acres 

 and over in the nonslaveholding States west of Ohio, 

 in the years 1860 and 1870 ; and, secondly, the num- 

 ber of farms of the same character in the nonslave- 

 holding States east of Ohio and including that State, 

 as shown by the Census Keports of 1870. 



I860 



1870 



1860 



713 Connecticut, 4 



302 Maine, 2 



76 Massachusetts, 



38 New Hampshire, 4 



13 New Jersey, 6 



5 New York, 21 



2 Ohio, 112 

 Pennsylvania, 15 



3 Rhode Island, 

 88 Vermont, 11 



2 



12 Total, 175 

 32 



1870 



1 







3 



6 



8 



36 



69 



* 76 



2 



15 



219 



Total, 606 1,286 



* 



In the Northwestern States between 1860 and 1870 



