New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-01-08

civil and religious liberty We have had it for
hundred years in operation south OF the Potomac
Effects Of Siarery on Education.
The effect on the intellectual, moral and reli-
eious condition of the SLAVE is easily understood.
He is only continued in Slavery by restraining him
from the civilization of mankind 10 this age. HIS
mind conscience soul-all his nobler powers
must be kept In state oil Inferior oeVeiopemeht'
otherwise he will not be slave in the nineteenth
century and in the United States. Ia comparison
With the Intellectual culture of their masters the
slaves are mass OF Barbarlans, still more emphat
icaly when compared with the free institutions OF
the North; they are Savages. This Is not mere
matter OF inference the fact is suostantiated by the
notorious testimony OF slave holders themselves
In 1894 the SYNOD Of South Carolina and Georgia
re ported that the slaves may justly be considered
the Heather OF this country, and Will bear compar
isou vita the Heather 10 any part OF the world
They are destitute OF the privileges OF the Gospel
and ever will be under the present state OF things
In all The STARE States, says The synod "ere are
o,rceir, Exclusively deroted 10 the religious Va
sfycf,ou of the Negroes OF the regular ministers
'bu, a very small portion pay any attention TO
them we know OF but five chorches In the slave
holding States built exclusively tor their use ana
there is not sufficient room for them IN the white
churches for their accommodation 'Ihey are I'M
able to read as custom. law and generally eoth
prohibit their instruction. They have no Biole-no
family affairs and when in atiiiction. sickness or
death they have no minister 70 address Ia them
| ,bs consultations of the Gospel. to bury them
| with solemn and appropriate services. Tney may
sometimes be peited and caressed as children and
| tow. they are never treated as men.
q, Hestnenism.' says another Southern authority
4, az real in the slave States as IN the South Sea
Islands, Chastity il no virtue among them the
.isvss1 ;ts violation neither Injuries female charac
81 IN thsir own estimation nor that oil their nus
80. Where there is no marriage recognized oy
,be State or Church IS legal and permanent be-
tween slaves where the female slave IS "nony 10
| her masters power--how can II be otner~iSs
| Said the Roman proverb. Nothing u unia"iN '''
| the master to his slaver
| "Ia ls40 in the fifteen Slave States ana terrific
\ ries there were a, the vsroas primary scno's W
Os5 scholars at the various primary schoo Oh Tue
| Free States 626o2s. The State of Ono alone hsa
DIS 6O9 scholars at her primary schools l1oSt more
| than all the fifteen Slave States. South CaroonA
| had 70 $50 such scholars. aud Rhodelsand l','0''
| New York alone had 500 367.
| . In the higher schools there were in the South
s5 935 scholars at the public charge. as they are
allied in the census in the North 432.3ss similar
scholars Virginia the largest OF the Slave states,
"a 7ol such scholars Rhode-lsland. tbs small.
80, % me Free States 1919. Massachusetts, alone
nd lss ash. more than four times as many rs all
| the Slave States .s.,,;.. .,3 srsr.
ma, .cb,ol. there were s9o6 scholars In TIE
Frss state. 97.l74. Bat the difference In numbers
here does no. represent the difference Of ise'' N'