Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-03-16
klaVeFy and PreedOm-.-.their Fruits.

The following extracts from the Speech of
Hon. L. ID. Campbell, uti-Taylor Whg,)
OF Vhlo, made in the House of Representa-
tiyes Feb. 18th, 1850, exhibit in very forci-
Bile bght the opposite influences of Slavery
and Freedom upon the cause of Education
and Social improvement. Ii is no wonder
the South shrieks in agony when blows
like these are dealt at her darling institu-
ton
upon the question as to what Is true
haRPness and comfort there may be some diff
ference OF opinion. II is a very comfortable
mIuB, no doubt, TO have a negro to rub you
down when you get up in the morning after
having been off on "bust" the night be-
iorei-to pour out your sherry at dinner-to
bring you light when you wish to take your
evomng smoke--or to keep off the flies as
you ioke your afternoon snooze This is
mere animal comfort In the Northwest, we
beilcse that the cultivation of intellect, the
Advancement of public morals, are the true
scatces OF public happiness. Hence, we
BUM churches and school-houses, found
co'ieges and academies, establish literary as
socmtions, and Sunday schools! take up
| the gauntlet thrown down so vauntingly by
tho honorable gentlemen, and il is by this
standard that | bring up Ohio, native State,
the first-born" under the ordinance of 'S7,
and proudly place her by the side of the
southern States, TO meet her examination,
and IN unbiased verdict
inke my statistics from the census tables
returned in 1910. Ohio has about one half
on.y OF the white population of Virginia,
Nofih Corolinn, South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Missis-
sippb eight Of the prosperous and happy"
slave States; yet she sends to school FORTY
hcQ thousand children more than the whole
% s'.Sai together.
Ohio has about the same white population
as North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Ainnma, and Mississippi united; and she has
Kfonr HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN more colleges,
academies, and schools than the whole five
tuGciher, aud sends to school ONE HUMID
RID AND THIRTY-ONE THOUSAND more chill
dicfli
In order to bring the test nearer to our inn
mediate homes, propose bringing the dis
trcf have the honor to answer for here, in
to conparison with the honorable members
happy constituents. do not boast of the
fnssMge ence of my constituents-;lcy are
State. There is one county in the gentle
mans district whose people suppose he
had in his minds eye, when depicting the
prosperous and happy condition of the South!
IL ought to be the most intelligent county
south of Mason and Dixon, if we may Judge
from the vast number of speeches which |
have been made for its special improvement. |
Il is the county Of Buncombe! Laughter, y
The statistics show that my district, compos-
ed Of three counties, has tipo hundred and for
Iy-three colleges and schools, and sends to them
upwards of fifteen thousand scholars. Bun
combe has one college and the startling num-
Der of one whole school (laughter) precisely
he same number that you find sustained in
several Of our villages by the free negroes
do not know that il should be counted as a
ohole school either, because, by reference to
he whole column, see il contains only ten
scholars
Buncombe gives one school to every 1000
If her white pOpulation-my district, one TO
very 275.
My district sends one out of five of her
white population to school. Buncombe sends
me to $50.
A voice: You take no account of our
private Schools not returned by tho CEN
us.
Mr.. Campbell. Nor do take any account
# OUR private schools. Every log cabin in
ny district is a private school-house! You
an find those there that never get to public
chools. In the long winter evenings you
will find collected by the fire-side, the evil
lences of that increase of population com
,lained of circle of flaxen-haired, hearty J
,oys and girls. The Oldest has perhaps ad-
anced at school TO the "rule of three" and
las a class of younger ones in simple addi-
ion at home-calculating not the value of
he Union, but probably the number of bush
is of corn taken to market during the day.
II this way many of our people are educated,
nd not few of those thus brought up, find
heir way, in the course of time, TO seats in
his House. have a constituent, now in
ny mind, who was born in Kentucky, and
anne to my district which is now his home,
Who received his education in one of these
rivate schools of ours At the age of six
cen he drove baggage-wagons with supplies
DR. the army which defended our frontier
)n his return he was crippled in his wagon
lg operations. Being confined for yehs he
etook himself TO study, and at the end of
nat time had, without the aid of teacher,
ecame master of the Latin and Greek Ian
uages. The "crack of his whip" has been
card in both branches of Congress, and if ,
ne Union is not dissolved too soon, we would /
ke to see how he could manage the great '
m of State! {
But have heard of these private schools I
f the South before. l will apply another c
st, which may be more satisfactory and 4
lore just
In the five slave States above named there I
re- of whites, over twenty years of age, who b
lnnot read or write, l38, 900. In Ohio with
le same white population) there are those
ho cannot read or write, $4,000. Showing Il
the slave States with the same white b
Opulation of Ohio, one hundred and three d
lousand more white adults who cannot read q
: write than we do. Your private schools, a
lerefore, are not quite SO efficient us ours. q
will not say that your scholars are not as apt a
o,,.a aa that n,soht no ra0nrdpd aa a0- | u