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The Daily Dispatch: May 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
Our resources for the War. A foolish idea prevails at the North that the South cannot raise her own provisions, and will starve outright if the war be kept up.--The idea is born of Helper and is only a type of a class of ideas on this subject by which the North is most industriously deluding itself.--The Census tables show that the South raises more provisions per man than the North, and nearly as much as the great grain-growing region of the West. The statistics of the country also show that the Eastern manufacturing free States consume an equivalent of all the surplus products of the Western free States; and that the free-labor North, taken as a unit, exports little or nothing abroad. The gold of California and about twenty-five millions of miscellaneous truck constitute the sum total of Northern exportations of Northern growth and production. The surplus provisions of the Western free States are nearly consumed by the Eastern manufacturing free States.--The whole exports of