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ference in the increase of the free white inhabitants 

 of 1,864,191 in fifty years. 



" In that period Virginia has made 381 miles of 

 railroad ; New York about 1,000. Virginia has 

 made about 182 miles of canal ; New York about 

 850 miles. 



The School Fund in New York is $6,491,803 



That of Virginia 1,488,261 



The productive Public Property of New York, is 39,136,992 



The productive Public Property of Virginia, is 6,107,364 

 The Domestic Produce exported by New York in 1848, 



amounted to 38,771,209 



Exported by Virginia the same year, amounted to 3,679,948 



New York exported of Foreign Produce 14,579,948 



Virginia exported of Foreign Produce 1,554 



" Virginia, the mother of the Presidents, the Old 

 Dominion, larger and of greater natural capacity than 

 New York, Vermont, and Massachusetts, combined, 

 exported, in the year of grace, 1848, to the amazing 

 amount of $1,554 — about the ratio of 100 to 1,000,- 

 000. 



" The registered and enrolled tonnage of Virginia in 

 1848 was 128,364 tons ; that of New York 845,742 

 tons — 717,378 tons difference. The State of New 

 York paid to this Government for postage, in the year 

 ending June 30th, 1849, $694,532.81. The State 

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