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of Virginia paid in the same year for postage $109,- 

 301.93. The transportation of the mail in New 

 York cost the Government, in the same year, $238,- 

 680; in Virginia, 166,130. New York pays in 

 postage $456,002 more than it costs to transport the 

 mail in that State. Virginia pays in postage %^^^- 

 833 less than it costs to transport the mail in Virginia 

 — a difference between these two States of $512,- 

 835 in one year. Virginia does not pay for the 

 transportation of the mail within $56,833. There 

 are but three Slave States — Delaware, Missouri, and 

 Louisiana — that do pay their own postage. It costs 

 this Government to transport the mail in the Slave 

 States $519,438.15 more than those States pay in 

 postage. There are twelve States in the Union from 

 which bounty lands have been distributed for service 

 in the Mexican war — Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Mis- 

 souri, Alabama, Iowa, Mississippi, Louisiana, Michi- 

 gan, Arkansas, Wisconsin, and Florida. Six of these 

 are free, six slaveholding. The area of the six slave- 

 holding States is 323,146, that of the six free States 

 is 290,259 square miles — 32,887 square miles more 

 in the six slave than in the six free States. These 

 six slave States have a better climate, and are better 



