THE
CONTINENTAL MONTHLY:
DEVOTED TO
Literature and National Policy.
VOL. V.—MAY, 1864.—No. V.
CONTENTS
AMERICAN FINANCES AND RESOURCES.
ÆNONE:
'OUR DOMESTIC RELATIONS; OR, HOW TO TREAT THE REBEL STATES.'
THE MOUND BUILDER.
A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE:
A SUMMER'S NIGHT.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
THE ENGLISH PRESS.
THE HOUSE IN THE LANE.
MUSIC A SCIENCE.
THOUGHT.
THE WAR A CONTEST FOR IDEAS.
HINTS TO THE AMERICAN FARMER.
APHORISMS. NO. IV.
THE WILD AZALEA.
A PAIR OF STOCKINGS.
LITERARY NOTICES.
EDITOR'S TABLE.
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AMERICAN FINANCES AND RESOURCES.
LETTER NO. V. OF HON. ROBERT J. WALKER.
London, 10 Half Moon Street, Piccadilly,
February 8th, 1864.
In my third and fourth letters on American finances and resources, thefollowing comparisons were instituted: Massachusetts and New Jersey,Free States, with Maryland and South Carolina, Slave States; New Yorkand Pennsylvania, Free States, with Virginia, Slave State; Rhode Island,Free State, with Delaware, Slave State; Illinois, Free State, withMissouri, Slave State; the Free States of 1790, with the Slave States ofthat day; the Free States of 1860, with the Slave States of that date.These comparisons were based on the official returns of the Census ofthe United States, and exhibited in each case and in the aggregate thesame invariable result, the vastly superior progress of the Free Statesin wealth, population, and education.
I will now institute one other comparison, Kentucky, slaveholding, withOhio, a Free State.
Kentucky—population in 1790, 73,077; Ohio, none. 18                        
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