Where are YOUR sources for this statement? Which archives did you visit? Which authorities do you cite?
This whole thread is a joke.
On p. 94 of BCF, Dr . Mcpherson writes:
"The city of Lowell, Massachuetts, operated more spindles in 1860 than all eleven of the soon-to-be Confederate states combined."
For a source he cites:
Stephen J. Goldfarb, "A Note on Limits to the Growth of the Cotton-textile Industry in the Old South." JSH, 48 (1982), 545.
Now, are you going to dispute this statistic, and the other -hard-cold-statistics-- that he provides, or just carp some more?
Walt
You mean the southern agricultural stats? Check the post a few days back. I believe I provided the numerical stats for cotton production and its market price in 1860. I also recall quoting directly from the senate debates on the matter from that same year. You ignored the entire post and have yet to respond to any point raised in it, just as you have failed to respond to the original post in THIS thread.
This whole thread is a joke.
Considering that you have not yet even bothered to read it's article yet, please excuse me when I dismiss your attempted characterization of the thread as nonsense alleged by a person without any familiarity with that which he purports to judge.
Now, are you going to dispute this statistic
Why should I? It bears no relevance to much of anything in this discussion beyond citing a narrowly defined strength of the northern economy. I strongly wonder why you even bothered posting it or what you intend for it to demonstrate.
If you mean it as a matter of economic analysis, I need only to note that judging the entire southern economy by a carefully selected spread of northern economic strengths is little more than an exercise in propagandist futility with no merits or validity in the field of economic analysis.