Note 50 — IX.
Reading edition
The following table shows the facts of the case:—
Cost of post-office in slave States for the year ending July 1st, 1847,$1,318,541
Receipts from post-office,624,380
Cost of post-office in free States for the year ending July 1st, 1847,$1,038,219
Receipts from post-office,1,459,631
So the Southern post-office cost the nation $694,161, and the Northern post-office paid the nation $421,412, making a difference of $1,115,573 against the South.