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Show 178 2. On tho usi11g up system: Capital sunk-700 negroes, at $1,000, Compound interest on it, for 7 years, Cost of keeping, at $4-0,00, • Interest on ditto, computed as above, Total, Deduct as above, $700,000 355,~4 l JOG,OOO 53,241 $l,30<,5R2 1,032,817 Balance against the using up system, • $271,705 Being a dead loss annually, on the average, of $38,824! For every dollar that we diminish tho estimated cost of keeping, we increaee the above loss by $381,49, and if we put the keeping, as we ought to, at $20,00, accordmg to the estimate above from 1\Irs. Stowe's data, it will bring the annual dead loss up to $46,453. For cyery hundred dollars, on the contrary, that we diminish the estimated value of tho negro, we diminish the annual dead loss by $5,408,- 30. If, therefore, we take the highest estimate of tho keeping, the negroes must not cost over $283,00 per head, to make it more profitable to use up seven hundred on an estate every seven years, than to work the estate in J>erpe· tuity with one thousand, and if we take the lowest estimate of the keeping, they must not cost over $141,00! When, therefore, Legree told the ''collecting clerk to the large mercantile house," (if he ever did tell him,) that he worked his estate on a system by which he suffered a dead loss of $40,000 a year, he was plainly t•·ying how much tho raw youth could swallow! Certainly, no man, of woman born, ever told such a. story in sober earnest; and if the "coll ecting clerk'' took it in earnest, I, for one, shall not doubt his voracity. I commend this" NEW A RADIAN NIGTI1''S ENTERTAINME~T'' (Key, p. 257) of FIGURES vs. FANCY, to :riirs. Stowe's especial considcratior., and hope she will go through the calculations for herself, or, (if, as I shrewdly suspect, her fort• CA HI N . 179 doesn't lie that wny, but rather in figures of JtUETORIC,) get_ soma_ one of " those legal gentlemen who have given her t~JCJr .. ass~stanee and support in the legal part of tho discuS· s10n, (1 ref~cc to the 1\cy,) to do it for her; and I should not wonJcr 1f tho result should be, the conclusion on her part, "th~t these nomadic Arabs, the digits, arc making a very u~fau· usc, among us, of the family reputation gotten up dunng the palmy days of their innocence, when they were a breezy, contemplatively unsophisticated race of shepherds," and never thought of tripping up a lady, even th?ugh she would wrestle with them. Alas! the days of cl_Hvalry arc over; and now, "e\"cry one must look out for Ins own toes, as the jackass said to the chickens:" if I "step on" hers, let her "mention it." (Vol. i. p. 239.) But perhaps, after all, l\Irs: Stowe, finding herself a sharer in "the bcwihlcrmcnt of the few olu-fashioncd people" silo refers t?, and having a shrewd suspieion, if she "does not ,k n. ow . Wit,h very g..r eat clearness. , " "'vhat 'perc on t age '* ancl ,\VCJngc mean, may say that sho meant Legree's lan-guage to be taken" in a Pickwickian sense:" "I shouldn't wonder." 'Ve come now to the" peck of corn a week," which l\frs. Stowe tells us (Key, p. 45,) is the negro's "usual allowance." Anu how much would she Aave him have? Is not a peck :M;')~~~:;-t~J~owo'~ ~?r. her frio.r:iJ, u that most respectab le femn.le pcrsou, n t gton. s ) Hlcn of per-centage" seems to be about as lumiS~ o~,:.ca:'"~~~ :~ th~' retailer ont in Illinois, who "ea.me,ll as :Mrs. t . 1 'y, unde1· my personal observation," some ten or t;;net,v~;~:~~~n~g~ ~t _n~y rate, if he d~d not, the mzecdote did; n.nd "tl g . 01 • JS all one. lle was boasting that he nt'ldc doull:;~\'l~:tl;J~;~l~l~·:~~n J_lis business, and on some one's expressin~ n sa id he "1 don't kldCJ stood e~carly the meaning of the term, "W'cll," this,-tiJat ever lOW :tnytlnng a.Lout your 'per cent.,' but I know llll·ee per cent.!" y dollru· 1 pay out, brings ·in t7tree : thn.t'.!!! what I en.U |