Thus it appears, that the loss to Missouri in the value of
her lands, caused by slavery, is $340,729,292. If we add to this the
diminished value of town and city property in Missouri, from the same
cause, the total loss in that State in the value of real estate, exceeds
$400,000,000, which is nearly twenty times the value of her slaves. By
Table 35, the increase in the value of the real and personal property of
Illinois from 1850 to 1860, was $715,595,276, being 457.93 per cent.,
and of Missouri, $363,966,691, being 265.18 per cent. At the same rate
of increase from 1860 to 1870, the total wealth of Illinois would then
be $3,993,000,000, and of Missouri, $1,329,000,000, making the
difference against Missouri, in 1870, caused by slavery, $2,664,000,000,
which is more than double the whole debt of the nation, and more than
twice the value of all the slaves in the Union.
The total wealth of the Union in 1860 exceeded $16,000,000,000. If this
were increased $1,000,000,000 in time, by the augmented wealth of
Missouri, and our revenue from duties and taxes should be $220,000,000,
the increased income, being one seventeenth of the whole, would exceed
$12,000,000 per annum; or, if the increase of wealth should be only
$200,000,000, then the augmented proportional annual revenue would be
$2,750,000, or nearly one eightieth part of the whole revenue.
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