SOUTHERN STATES.
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vated minds, and refined manners; and are noted for their hospitality.
£ducation is not so general among the poorer classes of the people as
in the Middle and Eastern states.
6, Nearly the whole of the cotton crop of the United
States is raised here; which, with sugar and rice, is confined
io its southern section. In the northern, the principal pro-
Auctions are tobacco, wheat, and corn,
7. Gold abounds in nearly all the Atlantic States of this
region ; but is almost exclusively confined. to the upper and
middle portions of the country... This metal is now so exten-
sively found, as to have become an object of national import
aınce.
8. The gold region embraces a great extent of country, and reaches
from Virginia, through North and South Carolina, and Georgia, to
Alabama,
— 9. Branches of the United States’ Mint are established at Charlotte,
in North Carolina, and at Dahlonega, in Georgia, for the purpose of
®oinineo the gold found in the Southern States.
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10. The population of the Southern States is chiefly of
British origin. There are, however, many descendants of the
French and Spanish colonists, particularly in Louisiana and
Florida,
11, In Louisiana the French language is spoken to some extent, and
the laws and some of'the newspapers are published both in that tongue
and in the English,
12. The inhabitants of Texas include natives of all parts of the
Union, besides forcigners of different European nations, and a& few
Mexicans, the remnant of the former proprietors of the country,
13, The Neproes, who form about two-fifihs of the population, con-
Stitute a separate class, and are mostly hold in slavery. "The Indians
have nearly all emigrated to the Indian Territory, west of the Missis.
SIpni river.
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