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The Daily Dispatch: March 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
of which she now levies an annual tax of at least a million and a half of dollars? Although the non-slaveholding portion of the State outnumbers the slaveholding, in white population, and would consequently pay, but for the slaves of the latter, more than a half of the annual taxation, it pays less than a third; for the figures paid by each division of a the State are as follows: Tide-Water$1,132,342 Piedmont972,044 Eastern Virginia$2,104,386 Valley$523,086 Northwest404,195 Southwest289,618 $1,216,899 These are the taxes locally levied; besides which are revenues to the amount of about three-quarters of a million, which are paid, in much the larger part, by the East; so that, at least two out of every three dollars of the four millions of annual revenues raised by the Commonwealth, are paid by the slaveholding districts of the State. It would be a moderate estimate to say that, of the labor annually performed in the Commonwealth, at least one-half is performed b