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luring capital has been taken there by the Yankees. 

 Let us therefore take Ohio, a first-class agricultural and 

 manufacturing State with an industrious population. 



"From 1850 to 1860 agricultural capital in Ohio 

 increased 87 per cent., and from 1860 to 1870 it 

 increased only 54 per cent. Manufacturing capital 

 increased from 1850 to 1860 97 per cent., and from 

 1860 to 1870 it increased 164 per cent. 



" Perhaps it may be urged that agricultural capital in 

 Ohio has about reached its climax and cannot expand 

 much more, while manufacturing capital may expand 

 inimitably. If so to any extent in Ohio it would be 

 doubly or trebly so in the older States. Let us examine 

 Connecticut. Agricultural capital increased from 1850 

 to 1860 27i per cent., and from 1860 to 1870 it 

 increased nearly 39 per cent., showing that it is pos- 

 sible for agricultural capital to still increase greatly in 

 value even in the oldest States. The manufacturing 

 capital (in Connecticut) increased from 1850 to 1860 

 76 1 per cent., and from 1860 to 1870 it increased 109 

 per cent. In this old State, as elsewhere, to him that 

 had it was given, for the number of establishments 

 increased from 1850 to 1860 19 i per cent., and from 

 1860 to 1870 they increased 69 i per cent. 



"How about the operatives? They increased in 

 number from 1850 to 1860 27 per cent., and from 1860 

 to 1870 they increased 39 per cent. 



" The number of operatives have not maintained 

 their former ratio to the capital on which they are 

 employed. In 1850 there was an operative in the 

 United States to every $557 of manufacturing capital, 

 in 1860 one to every $770 of capital, and in 1870 one 

 to every $1031 of capital. 



