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productive in those States than it is in New York and Pennsylvania. 

 In the two former, the proportion to an individual is greater than 

 in any other State. In Rhode Island, it is $110, and in Massachu- 

 setts, $103. The annual product from manufactures in Rhode 

 Island is very nearly four times that derived from her agriculture. 



If we distribute the annual product among the free population 

 exclusively, then the proportion to each individual will be greater 

 in the slaveholding than in the free States, for in several of them 

 the proportion will then be more than doubled. Thus, in South 

 Carolina, it will be raised from $45 to $101 ; in Mississippi, from 

 $79 to $164 ; and in Louisiana, from $99 to $189 ; then the highest 

 proportion in the Union. 



The whole of the 1,063 millions annually produced, together 

 with the omitted articles, amounting perhaps to between 40 and 50 

 millions more, are annually consumed, except a very small portion, 

 which adds to the stock of the national wealth. The progressive 

 increase of this wealth will be considered in the next chapter. 



