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It must be acknowledged that a territory like the South is worth fighting for. Eight hundred and fifty thousand square miles, as large as Great Britain, France, Austria, Prussia and Spain, with a most productive soil and a most genial climate, whose staple productions none of those great countries can grow; with three thousand miles of coast line, indented with bays and crowded with islands, and its vast centre watered by the Mississippi, into whose bosom are poured thirty-six thousand miles of tributary streams.
Let us see what the "goose that laid the golden egg" was doing before the experiment of "cutting it open" was undertaken by the North.
The Census of 1850 and the Report of the Secretary of the Treasury for 1857 show that each inhabitant of the South, of all classes, produced $13.30 more than each individual at the North.
The average agricultural production at the South was $58 to each person, when, at the North, it was only $44.70. The total agricultural product