Vast Resources of Tennessee [pp. 553-554]

DEPARTMENT OF MISCELLANY. 553
POPULATION 1860.
Total In- Total in STATES. White. Slave. cluding STATES. White. Slave. cluding
free col. { free col.
Alabama........ 526,431 435.080 964,201 Pennsylvania... 2,849,266......... 2,906,115
Arkansas....... 824,191 111,115 4q5.450 Rhode Island.... 70668......... 174.620
Califo,rnia..... 861,3.858......... 305,439 South Carolina.. 291.355 402 406 708.7(08
Connecticut.... 451,520....... 460,147 Tennessee...... 826,782 275,719 1,1419,801
DIelaware.......90.5s9 1,798 112,216 Texas........ 421.294 182,566 604,215
Florida......... 77,748 61,745 140,425 Virginia....... 1,047,411 490,865 1,596,318
Georgia......... 591.5388 462,19$ 1,157.286 Vermont......8. 814.389....... 815.098
Illinois.......... 1,704,323..... 1,711,951 Wisconsin...... 774,710........ 775,881
Indiana......... 1,339,000........ 1,350,428
Iowa........... 673,844... 674,948 26,708,157 8,950,805 31,149,581
Kansas....5..... 106,579 2 1 )7.206
Kentucky...... 919.517 225.483 1,15.5,6S4 TERRITORIES.
Louisiana...... 357,629 881,726 708,01)2
Maine.......... 626,592......... 628,279 Colorado........ 84,281........ 84,277
Maryland....... 515,918 87,189 687,049 $2,261
Massachusetts.. 1,221.464......... 1,231,(,66 Dakotah........ 2,576.......... 2,576
Michigan....... 742,314......... 749,113 Nebraska....... 28,759 15 28,841
Minneso(ta...... 173,596......... 173.55 Nevada......... 6,812......... 6.857
Mississippi..... 858,901 436.631 701),305 $10,507
Missouri.........1,063,599 114,931 1,182.012 New Mexico.... 82.924......... 8,009
New Hampshire. 825.579........ 326,0738 Utah...........40,214 29 40,278
New Jersey..... 646.689 18 672,085.426
New York...... 3,881,780......... 3.880,7T85 Washington..... 11,138....... 11,168
North Carolina.. 631.10a 881,059 992,622 Dis. of Columbia 60,764 3,185 75,080
Ohio............ 2,302,838......... 2,339,.502 -- -
Oregon......... 52,33T......... 52,465 Total.......26,975,575 8,958,760 31,443,821
$ Indians.
NOTE.-Arizona has been taken from New Mexico and Idaho from Dakotah, etc., since the
census of 1860, and formed into new Territories.
2.-VAST RESOURCES OF TENNESSEE.
We have no doubt of the magnified future which is open to Tennessee, when
the era of good feeling is restored, and the angry passions which rule the hour
have subsided. To bring about this happy result, we shall co-operate heartily
with our fellow citizens. Nashville and Memphis will then take place among
the proudest emporiums of the country, and will attract a dense and wealthy
population. Already, Memphis is advancing with great rapidity, and a recent
spirit of mnanufacturing enterprise awakinrg in Nashville, gives much encouragement for her future. The Nashville Dispatchl says with truth of the resources of
the State:
Not one of the thirty-six States now composing this grand imperial Republic,
nor of the thirty odd yet to be formed from its present and future domain, unite
within an equal area industrial resources so rich and so varied as does our
goodly State. The political and military renown of Tennessee has long since
earned for it, the title of GREAT-an epithet which we have within a few
weeks past noticed, freely applied to it, by both Amrerican and British papers.
In these respects, we have a national and European fame. Not least among the
rulers of Americai has it long been, and is likely to be, our proud, yet just boast.
Equally high will be our rtnk irn thle annals of national prosperity, unless the
gifts of nature are mnarred by unwise human interference.
The space of a single editorial is hardly sufficient for a bare summary of the
principal features which, comnbined, furnish so rich and so remarkable a whole.
The peculiar point is this, there is scarcely a great national staple wlhich Tennessee is not capable of producing in a notable degree, and that the same remark cannot be made of any other State with equal force. To her mother,
North Carolina, and to her daughter, Arkansas, it is alone applicable.
The geographical position and the geological formation of Tennessee are such
as to bring about the singular result, that, with the exception of rice, sugar and
turpentine, all the great staples of commerce may in large quantities be procured within her limits. In West and Middle Tennessee, cotton has long been
the great staple; and, as Gov. Brownlow proves in his ablest Message, will long
continue such. The wheat of East and Middle Tennessee, has for years ranked
in the New York market, as equal to the best. The tobacco of the northern