New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-01-08
mos. Of the academies and gr.mmn..cbool. Of,

most Of the academies and grammar schools Of
south are inferior TO the schools at public charge
Of the North far inferior 10 the better portion Of
the Northern District schools
In ls40 there were at the various Colleges Ia
the South 7,lo6 pupils, and in the Free states
s,92s. Here, too, the figures fail 20 indicate the &C
tual difference 10 the numbers Of such as receive a
superior education for the greater part OF the
eighty seven Universities and Colleges OF the
South are much inferior 10 the better Academies
and Hgh Schools OF the North.
In the Libraries OF all the Universities and Col
leges OF the South there are 223, 40 volumes In
those OF the North, 1913 sg7. The Libraries OF the
Theological schools ci the South contain 2. zoo vol
uInes those Of the North. lO2.0-O.
in The Slave States there are l.36s 325 free
white children between the ages Of i've and twenty
IN the Free States 536 6-s such children. In the
Slave states ~ schools ana colleges, there are
3Ol l72 pupils in the Free States, 2l2 iii pupils
at schools or colleges Thus, IN the Slave States
out Of twenty five free white children between i've
and twenty, there are not quite five az any school
or college; while ou' OF twenty five such children
IN the Free STATES. there are more than fifteen al
school or college
10 the Slave States, Of the free white popula
ton that is over twenty years Of age, there IS al
most one-tentn part that are unable % read and
write while in the Free States there IS not quite
one in one hundred and fifty six who Is deficient to
that degree.
1T is bat fair to infer that a. least onethird OF
the adults Of South Carolina, If lot Of much OF the
South are unable 10 read and understand even
newspaper Indeed, in one Of the Slave States
this is matter OF mere inference, for In l-37
Gov. Clarke Of Kentucky, declared in his Mes
sage 10 the Legislature, that one third OF the
adult population were unable TO write their names
Yet Kentucky has schoofund. valued at -, 22l, :
-l9, while South Carolina has none.
I'm l-46 there were seventy-six patents granted
by the national Office for inventions made 10 four
teen Slave States. with a population oil 1884 i3l.
or one for each 90 sos persons at the same time
there were 564 granted 70 the free States with a
population OF 972-, e22, or one Tor each lf2is per
In 1870 there were but COZ .s97 Slaves in the
Union; In $780, 2457,3j5. AT the present day
their number probably is not far from g. 1000 600. Ia
$780, Mr.. Gerry estimated their value at sl0 600
900; in ls4O Mr. Clay fixed it at $1,000 100000.
They are owned by a population OF perhaps about
300 600 persons and represented by about l0O,-
900 voters"
Tie Mseries Of !Slarery.
Take the mass ofslaves together, and an album
dance of testimony cOmpels the conviction, that
they are miserably clad and suffer bitterly from
hunger. So far food, clothing and shelter arr
concerned the physical condition Of the mass Of
feld. SHARES Is far lcOrse than that NJ condemned
criminals IN me ,rorst prison Of the United STATES
House slaves and mechanics IN large towns fare
better they under the eye of the public
arm-siaves feel most the poignant smart The
plantatiC rs large the dwellings distant. the
OF the public hears not the Oppressors violence
The horse fatteDs on his masters eye, says the
proverb; but the farm slaves are committed main
ly TO oyerseers, the Swiss Of Slavery, whom Mr..
Writ calls the most abiect, degraded and unprlR-
cped race
- Let us pass over the matter of food clothing
shelter and til to consider other features OF their
condition. They are treated with great cruelty
often branded with red hot iron the breast or
the shoulder the arm, the forehead or the cheek
though the Roman law forbid it fifteen centuries
ago. They are dishgured and mutiated, now by
the madness of anger, then by the jealous malice
of revenge their backs and sides scored with the
lash, OF bruised with the paddle, bear marks OF
the violence needful To subdue manhood still smol
dering In the ashes of the negro slave. Drive Ma
ture out with whips and brands-she will come
back. These abuses can be proved from descrlp
tions of runaways In the newspapers OF the South
"The slaveh lder's temptation TO cruelty is too
much for common men. HIS power is irresponsible
Il is easy to find a stick If you would beat a dog
The lash is always at hand: If a slave disobeys-
the whip ii he is idle-the whip; does he muir
mur-the whip; is he sullen and silent-the whip
is the female coy and reuctant-the whip. Chains
and dungeons also are at hand. The slave Is a
Thing Judge and jury no friends to him. The
condition OF the Weak is bad enough everywhere
in Old England and in New England. But when
the Strong owns the very Bodies OF the Teak.
making and executing the laws as he WILT is not
hard 10 see 70 WIFI their wrongs will amount
wrongs which cannot be told.
lit is often said that the evils Of Slavery are
aggerated. This is said by the masters. But the
story of the victim when told by his oppressor-tt
is well known whst that is. The few slaves who
can tell the story 6f their wrongs show that Slavery
cannot easily be represented worse than II is
Imagination hats behind the fact. The lives OF
Moses Roper of Lunsford Lane, OF Moses Grundy,
Frederick Douglass and w. w. Brown, are before
the public and prove what could easily be learned
from the advertisements OF Southern newspapers
con,ectured from the laws OF the Southern states
or foretold outright from a knowledge OF human
nature itself that the suiierings OF three millions
of slaves form a mass Of misery which the magma
ton can never realize, till the eye is familiar with
its terrible details. Governor Giles OF virginia.
calls Slavery q punishment of the highest order
And Mr. Preston says, Happiness is incompat Die
with Slavery.
Tie Marriage Te--Lua Leagued nth CuPidHy.
In the most important Of all relations that Of
man and wife, neither law nor custom gives Proteo
ton 10 the slave Their connection may at any
moment be dissolved by the masters command
the parties be esunder. separated forever, hus
band aud wife, child and mother; the infant may
be taken from lis mothers breast and sold away
out of her sight and power. The wife torn rom
her husbands arms, forced 10 the lust OF anothtr'
for the slave is no Person, bat Thing For the
chastity of the female there is no defence; no more
than for the chastity OF sheep and swine Many
are ravished in tender years. SO Is ne last iHsrf'
and ourage the most debasiHg, added 10 thus race
of Amercans By the laws OF Louisiana, all chil.
dren bora of slaves are reckoned as natural and
ileeitmate. Marriage is prostitution sacred
and permanent neither in the eyes OF the churches
nor the law The female slave is wholly II her
masters power. Mulattoes are more valuable than
blacks So in the Slave States Lust now leagues
with Cupidiry and now acts with singleness OF aim
The South is full of mulattoes It's best blood
flows 10 the veins Of the slaves'-mdsters 0icH'Hg
children as rhHe as themselves. Girls. the children
of mo attoes are sold at great price, as tood for
pirate lccntiousness public furniture IA houses
of tl-fane. Under the worst Of the Roman + m
perors this outrage was forbidden and the Project
Of the city gave such slaves their freedom. But
republican parents not rarely sell their own chill
dren for that abuse
Slar, Breeding States.
cater the formal and legal abolition OF the Airi.
can slave trade il became more profitable TO breed
slaves for sale in the Northern Savekolding states
Their labor was of comparatively little value 70 me
declining Agriculture OF Delaware, Maryland VIZ
ginia and North Carolina From Planting they
have become, To a great degree, Slsve-oreedrs
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