Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1854-08-05
No, IN. RlsAmsad wis

asns,--In the National Era Of the srth ind the
following abstract from the Richmond Enquirer, which
the Era comments upon in Its usual style.
"wth less population by half million the ten South.
eru States have about thousand churches than the
ten Northern States which boast loudest Of their moral
ity and enls htenment With Of half million
population the FREQ have double the number
Of criminals which found in the ten corresponding
slave states Such revelations will complete the revolu-
ton Of public opinion in respect to slavery"
This the Era does deuy, but goes say that the
Enquirer has nothing by which ii prove what says
but thinks 1t have caught them at randum in
newspaper, without the slightest knowledge Of the pa
terniy If the editor OF the Era will take the trouble
get the Gazetteer OF tue United States by r. s Fisher
which |. good authority he will there end that there
not only many criminals in tho FREQ the En-
quirer SAYS there is but great many more. This Is
very hard question for the editors Of that Abolition paper
to explain They have given several why there
is criminals in the North than in the South Of
which this tina, the laws rgdly enforced in
the than in the slave states. They this fact is
well known but deny it, it has no foundation whatever
Take the number Of persons arrested in the North and
compare them with those arrested in the South and
il will be four in the free in the slave states This
is ndspuabe fact and defy the editors Of the Era
show the contrary. There several other
given BY the Era why there criminals in the
North than there is in the South but they Of little
Importance.
There is one great reason why the North furnishes more
criminals than tho South, which the ouesided editors
tirey overlooked and that is Pauperism leads crime
This well known fact and deserves the serious
editors Of the Era Ia looking over the statistics Of
the number of paupers in the ten free states find there
l076s6 in the ten corresponding slave States find
there only 1855 This is startling fact although
there s only about half million more people in those
fraNS havA laaat
than the corresponding slave Sates II the editors
Of the Era will look this side Of the question for few
minutes think they will come to the conclusion that il i.
the psupers and Migrants that Gil the penenarss and
the jss Of the free States and that their laws
rgidy enforced than in the slave States have
sufficiently shown how weak the arguments put forth by
the Era are far the criminals OF the sections OF
the country concerned.
will say word or two in regard to those high
price, commodous elegant churches which the editors Of
the Era boast 20 much about: have been in OF
ihem,-they very fine, admit; they very costly
and they also large but far my experience
goes, do not think the persons that attend those fine
churches have any religion than Of those
worship in Of those log houses in the South spoken
OF by the Era have always understood that IL did not
make any difference where person went TO church,
whether it in a palace, in = barn, or in a field The
Era says the churches in tho North very large but
would advise him to take look in one Of them, and
think he will find that it is about large enough hold
two such congregations generally in them. How
much better il would be If those people that build fine
churches would only be contented with plain churches
where every person-rch or poor, black whe-could
go and worship their God be directs them do. Why
do they give of that money that they spend in
fine churches and educate those 10000 paupers? Let
them put them in such way that they honest
living, and then-and not till then-can they boast OF
what the South is Boosting Of: few criminals few
paupers, and cheap churches.
have said enough to show what the Enquirer said il
the fac-that the STAKEHOLDER longer shrnks from a
contest OF argument Confident in the justice Of his
cause he readily accepts the defiance of the abotion
The aboitions deals in declamarons-the champion OF
slavery in arguments FROM TIE SOUTH