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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2 691 691 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 382 382 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 218 218 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 96 96 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 74 74 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 68 68 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 58 58 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 56 56 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 54 54 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 49 49 Browse Search
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istical information. The report of the First Auditor of Virginia, to be laid before the General Assembly, shows that the whole number of births in the State in 1860 was 41, and in 1860, 32,029. The of births to the population in 1860, in the several district, was as follows. In Tide water, 1 in every 41, 1 in the Valley, 1 1860, 32,029. The of births to the population in 1860, in the several district, was as follows. In Tide water, 1 in every 41, 1 in the Valley, 1 in every 42 join the Piedmont, 1 in every 38; in the Southwest, 1 in every 25, in the Northwest, 1 in every 88, and the average in the whole State was 1 in every 88. It is interesting to contrast with the foregoing the proportion of deaths to the population in those district from which returns have been received. Lane, in the Ti1860, in the several district, was as follows. In Tide water, 1 in every 41, 1 in the Valley, 1 in every 42 join the Piedmont, 1 in every 38; in the Southwest, 1 in every 25, in the Northwest, 1 in every 88, and the average in the whole State was 1 in every 88. It is interesting to contrast with the foregoing the proportion of deaths to the population in those district from which returns have been received. Lane, in the Tide water district the rate 1 in 91; Piedmont, 1 in 77; Valley 1 in 100, Southwest, 1 in 118. The greatest variation in the results appears in the Western counties. The difference in the rate of births over deaths in 1859 is very striking is the Tide water district the increase is 1 in and in the Northwest 1 in 48. In Piedmont
r than any of us imagine. And if such expeditions should effect a landing and penetrates inland, the only allies they would meet would be the negro population of the Confederate States. Terrible allies those. Such expeditions, if successful, might result not merely in the destruction of the present crop, but might prevent the planting of another, and so deprive us for years to come of our American supply of cotton, a calamity which can only be estimated by calling to mind the fact, that in 1860 we drew 85 per cent. of our total supply of cotton from America alone. We are no alarmists; all we have hitherto foreshadowed has too surely come to pass — But we sincerely hope that the Federal Government will pause in their mad career before they inflict such a terrible calamity on the industrial population of the world. In view of such appalling danger we care not to have recourse to the figures of the cotton tables to show how rapidly our stock of the raw material is being used up b