CHAPTER   II.
THE NORTH AND SOUTH.
Slavery exists only in the Southern States of the confed-
eration. How is it, then, that, ruled by this culpable inter-
est, these States in their turn rule the whole confederation ?
Whence comes the preponderance manifested in the Fed-
eral legislation and policy ? Is it that the South is richer,
more populous, more intelligent than the North ? Strange
position ! Socially, the North is progressing, the South
declining. Politically, the North is conquered, the South
victorious.
Proofs of this strange contrast abound.
The Slave States have a superficies of 851,448 square
miles, or 544,926,720 acres ; the Free States, 612,597 square
miles, or 392,092,080 acres. Consequently, the first have
238,851 square miles, or 152,834,640 acres more than the
second. Notwithstanding, the white population of the
second amounts to 18,669,061, while that of the first is but
8,038,996, that is, 10,630,065 less inhabitants ; and if the
colored population, slave and free, be added, tbe North
has in all 18,893,856 inhabitants, or 30.84 per square mile ;
the South, 12,240,294, or 14.34 per square mile ; that is,
6,653,562 less inhabitants.