By taking a sort of inventory of the agricultural products of the free and slave States in 1850, we now propose to correct a most extraordinary and mischievous error into which the people of the South have unconsciously fallen. Agriculture, it is well known, is the sole boast of the South; and, strange to say, many pro-slavery Southerners, who, in our latitude, pass for intelligent men, are so puffed up with the idea of our importance in this respect, that they speak of the North as a sterile region, unfit for cultivation, and quite dependent on the South for the necessaries of life! Such rampant ignorance ought to be knocked in the head! We can prove that the North produces greater quantities of bread-stuffs than the South! Figures shall show the facts. Properly, the South has nothing left to boast of; the North has surpassed her in everything, and is going farther and farther ahead of her every day. We ask the reader's careful attention to the following tables, which we have prepared at no little cost of time and trouble, and which, when duly considered in connection with the foregoing and subsequent portions of our work, will, we believe, carry conviction to the mind that the downward tendency of the South can be arrested only by the abolition of slavery. TABLE NO. I. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS OF THE FREE STATES--1850. ------------------------------------------------------------ States. | Wheat, | Oats, |Indian Corn, | bushels. | bushels. | bushels. --------------------|------------|-------------|------------ California | 17,228 | | 12,236 Connecticut | 41,762 | 1,258,738 | 1,935,043 Illinois | 9,414,575 | 10,087,241 | 57,646,984 Indiana | 6,214,458 | 5,655,014 | 52,964,363 Iowa | 1,530,581 | 1,524,345 | 8,656,799 Maine | 296,259 | 2,181,037 | 1,750,056 Massachusetts | 31,211 | 1,165,146 | 2,345,490 Michigan | 4,925,889 | 2,866,056 | 5,641,420 New Hampshire | 185,658 | 973,381 | 1,573,670 New Jersey | 1,601,190 | 3,378,063 | 8,759,704 New York | 13,121,498 | 26,552,814 | 17,858,400 Ohio | 14,487,351 | 13,472,742 | 59,078,695 Pennsylvania | 15,367,691 | 21,538,156 | 19,835,214 Rhode Island | 49 | 215,232 | 539,201 Vermont | 535,955 | 2,307,734 | 2,032,396 Wisconsin | 4,286,131 | 3,414,672 | 1,988,979 |------------|-------------|------------ | 72,157,486 | 96,590,371 | 242,618,650 ============================================================ TABLE NO. II. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS OF THE SLAVE STATES--1850.