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To: DiogenesLamp

The numbers you posted are not backed up by a source.


146 posted on 04/13/2018 8:07:03 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: SoCal Pubbie
The numbers you posted are not backed up by a source.

You just missed it then. It was at the top of the page. The "Source" is a book written in 1860, by New Yorker and economist "Thomas Prentice Kettell".

He was on your side, he was a well known and widely respected economist at the time, and it was before the Civil War had even started.

That's a pretty good source, because he has no incentive to manipulate the data to favor one side over the other.

152 posted on 04/13/2018 8:23:51 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: SoCal Pubbie
The numbers you posted are not backed up by a source.

Here are some more numbers for you. You will like these numbers even less. You also won't like the source they come from because you won't be able to criticize it.

PeaRidge to DiogenesLamp

This data chart must be the one you are seeking:

U. S. Department of Commerce

Agricultural Production of the South Yearly Detail 1859

Value of Total U.S. Exports ..........$278,902,000

Value of Raw Southern Products:

Cotton .....................$161,435,000
Tobacco .....................21,074,000
Rice .........................2,207,000
Naval stores .................3,696,000
Sugar ..........................197,000
Molasses ........................76,000
Hemp .............................9,000
Other ........................9,615,000

________ Total ( 71% ) $198,309,000

Value of Southern manufactured Cotton exports ............4,989,000
Value of cotton component of Northern Manufactured cotton exports (60%) ......3,669,000

___________ Total ( 74% ) $205,459,000

Value of Processed Foods:
.............Bread-stuffs/processed fish/meats/corn...........$36,640,000

Total Southern Products ( 87% ) $242,099,000

Export Specie for Purchase or debts: ........$57,502,000 assume 20% for overseas purchase.

Total Southern Contribution ....................$252,000,000

U.S. Department of Commerce, U. S. Treasury, Report of L. E. Chittenden, Howell Cobb, Treasurer, Annual State of the Union Address, James Buchanan, J. D. B. DeBow, Charles Adams, Thomas Kettel, W. F. Taussig, Thomas Huertas, Historical Statistics of the United States Department of Commerce, pg. 106,432.

Don't fear the numbers. Embrace the truth.

157 posted on 04/13/2018 8:49:44 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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