This shows a
total value of product in New York more than five times greater than in
Virginia, and _per capita_ more than 2 to 1. If we include the earnings
of commerce, and all business not given in the Census, I think it will
be shown hereafter, that the value of the products and earnings of New
York, in 1860, exceeded those of Virginia at least 7 to 1. As to the
rate of increase, the value of the products of agriculture,
manufactures, mines, and fisheries, of Virginia, in 1850, was
$84,180,428 (Table 9), and in New York $358,736,603, showing an increase
in Virginia from 1850 to 1860 of $35,519,572, being 41 per cent., and in
New York $249,263,397, being 70 per cent., exhibiting a difference of 29
per cent. Now the increase of population in Virginia from 1850 to 1860
was 12.29 per cent., and in New York 25.29 per cent., the difference
being only 13 per cent. (Table 1, p. 131.) Thus, it appears, the
increase of wealth in New York, exclusive of the gains of commerce, as
compared with Virginia, was more than double the ratio of the
augmentation of population. By the Census Table of 1860, No. 35, p. 195,
'The true value of the real and personal property, according to the
eighth Census was, New York, $1,843,338,517, and of Virginia,
$793,249,681.' Now we have seen the value of the products of New York in
1860 by the Census was $606,000,000, and in Virginia $120,000,000.
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