Looking at details, we find the same disproportions. Arkansas and Michigan, nearly equal in territory, were organized as States by simultaneous Acts of Congress; and yet in 1855 the whole valuation of Arkansas, including its asserted property in human flesh, was only $64,240,726, while that of Michigan, without a single slave, was $116,593,580. The whole accumulated valuation of all the Slave States, deducting the asserted property in human flesh, in 1850, was only $1,655,945,137; but the valuation of New York alone, in 1855, reached the nearly equal sum of $1,401,285,279. The valuation of Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Texas, all together, in 1850, deducting human flesh, was $559,224,920, or simply $1.96 per acre,--being less than that of Massachusetts alone, which was $573,342,286, or $114.85 per acre. The Slave States boast of _agriculture_; but here again, notwithstanding superior natural advantages, they must yield to the Free States at every point,--in the number of farms and plantations, in the number of acres improved, in the cash value of farms, in the average value per acre, and in the value of farming implements and machinery. Here is a short table. Free States. Slave States. Number of farms, 873,608 569,201 Acres of improved land, 57,720,494 54,970,327 Cash value of farms, $2,147,218,478 $1,117,649,649 Average value per acre, $19.17 $6.18 Value of farming implements $85,840,141 $65,345,625 Such is the mighty contrast. But it does not stop here. Careful tables place the agricultural products of the Free States, for the year ending June, 1850, at $888,634,334, while those of the Slave States were $631,277,417; the product per acre in the Free States at $7.94, and the product per acre in the Slave States at $3.49; the average product of each agriculturist in the Free States at $342, and in the Slave States at $171. Thus the Free States, with a smaller population engaged in agriculture than the Slave States, and with smaller territory, show an annual sum total of agricultural products surpassing those of the Slave States by two hundred and twenty-seven millions of dollars, while twice as much is produced by each agriculturist, and more than twice as much is produced on an acre. The monopoly of cotton, rice, and cane-sugar, with a climate granting two and sometimes three crops in the year, is thus impotent in competition with Freedom. In _manufactures, mining, and the mechanic arts_ the failure of the Slave States is greater still. It appears at all points,--in the capital employed, in the value of the raw material, in the annual wages, and in the annual product. A short table will show the contrast. Free States. Slave States.