New-York daily tribune., 1854-07-15
.e.;.ndo Of the return. from the slave States Up to

lar manner lest they should fnd out how numerous 7
Ley were in proportion their tyrants; so IN the
Sout the secret is kept fer az t can be as % tue
handful Of petty despots who grind the souls lie oul
If 35n0OO o human beings. and by the aid of the
sbsrp Democrats of the North determine the policy
of tscounry Itis certain that any table which gives
mere churches prOportiOnay to the south 'nah
North fssjEes the truth, as much any one when
would assert that the postage OF the southern STATES
affords greater revenue than that oil the northern
Else why was the 4" Southern All Society formed III
this City not quite year ago BY men the most
hostile TO the abolition of Slavery, with Mr. hailock
of The Journal Of Commerce. for their Treasurer tor
the express purpose of supplying the religious wants
Of the South, and building up evangelical churches IN
its waste places At the meeting by which that
Societ ty was organized "much interesting Information
"resnec,inp the southcrn and northwestern States,
and the need Of the proposed organization IN thei
behalf. was communicated, not only BY northern
"brethren who had travelled in those sections oi our
scouutry but also by the Rev. Dr. Hammer OF bsiti
"more Rev Mefsrs. DunniIg G, and Cumpston' and
"samuel Reeve, Esq, Of Virginia and the Kew
"Hueh S. McElroy, Of Kentucky Is 1t likely
that these highly respectable gentlemen, LABOR
ing and giving their money for the savsuOn OF
souls. and reporting religious destitutcn which
from their own experience they knew to exist,
would depart from the truth rather than Dir. John
Forsyth reasoning from the census tables auu
having n case to make out Moreover,
churches are built with capital, and not without IT,
and tie North has the capital aud the South
has not. New.York City alone could purchase
all the leading cities and towns beyond Masons and
Dixons line and we believe the cost OF the churches
in this City alone. equals half of all such
edifces in the entire South. We now speak Of
churches proper. But there are places Of worship,
used by Christian sects occasionally, scattered
throughout the North, which do not figure In the
cer sus. but which would make capital Offset to any
fancy numbers that can be afforded on this head at
the South. sfor the other religious machinery the
tract and bible societies, the theological colleges, the
lesaces and donations, theNorh has so overwhelming
prepOnd erance as to render comraron on the part
Of the South quite ridiculous. The religious news-
PAPER pTess too,-s potent an ecclesiastical nstru-
ment -e6ectDg more in three months in the way OF
giving publicity to religious doctrines than The first
sx hundred years Of apostolic teaching was able to
effect without t,-that immensely prepOnderates in
the free States.
1he Methodist organ vi tils Nitt aohc piihts H"io
papers than oil the religious press OF the South
with good part of the political ikewse--all taken
together The religion Of the South without north
ern help would be like the post Office o. the
South without northern aid, it would be sheer
bankruptcy-it could not pay its bllls and we be-
lieve that the Christian religion crcumtused IN
Slavery and the lavetrade at home with crescent
love for the slave trade direct with Africa in order to
recruit the new territories just opened to t-would die
ont sltogpther in the South were il not kept alive by
northern labor, northern capital and northern morals.
But this is not the whole story. Sr fOrsy tn would
have us believe that the census figures give l4,oo'
churches to 529 $50 population in ten slave States,
apainst t. 500 churches 10 c,1lS-3 population in ten
free States ard from this he draws his sweeping in-
ference Of slaye-drKipg superiority. These figures
be arrives at by selecting those free States which have
few churches and those slave States which have
MANY The true figures of the census are that the
sixteen free States with thirteen and a-half millions
Of pcpuaton have 2 800 churches, while the htteen
slave States with nine millions population have
GOO churches among the free States California Is
counted, with its population OF 92,5oo, and only -
churches. Doctoring statistics is not a very old
trade but Mr. John Forsyth, of Mobile is dabster
at it.
AS for another statement made by Mr.. Forsyth, OF
the comparative number Of paupers in Massachusetts
and Tennessee, it is hardly worth analysis The
world never witnessed State so magnifcently free
from poverty as Massachusetts,. OF native beggary
she has none and the French economists, Chcvaier,
De Beaumont and others, astounded at the fact
The poverty of Massachusetts is-a sum ahead for
her population sucL as the world dreamed of
to the last triple luster of years during which she
has revealed it. A people which shows its nhabit
ants possessed of about 800 piece 10 be cited
as having more paupers than Tennessee, the
majority of whose inhabitants are slaves-anl
the worst Kind of paupers-ignorant slaves!
Massachusetts,, told by census doctor, has
5549 paupers to 993, S99 inhabitants, while Ten
nessee has 53I paupers TO O92, ,OOO." This tawdry
arithmetic circuates in the South as argument In the
first place. it must be remembered that Boston has
considerable number offoreg immigrants and of these
not few are poor Irish; and the wonder is that,
considering the starvedout muttudes who 90 thither
there should not be ten times the psupers there
and there would be if she were slave State. But
we recently showed, that of ships load of mmi-
grants precisely one Of three hundred went TO
the South, while all the others sought for or re-
maiued in the free States have the KEY to the
pauperism-little as it Isl Massachusetts, Among
the immigrants twenty-five thousand arrived in
this City this in three days there Of course
many poor. To cite, therefore the pauperism of a
northern State, which region alone attracts these peo
pie and TO place it in dsparsging contrast with that
of southern State which the immigrant nstinctiyey
avoids, is, the part of any claiming TO be sta
tcian, nothing short of qualification Ii there were
two hundred thousand paupers in this City of New
York it would only prove the immense attractions Of