Squatter sovereign., 1855-02-13

churches IN IN. E1uS ldilu >oS dIe Cnllafldn,
2S5 Universalists; while of the large num-
Der in these Southern States there are but
| l Unitarian, z Universalist!
While we do not intend by this to inn
ply that the members of these churches
are not good men, we purpose thus to call
attention to the fact that opinions usually
deemed by the Christian world heterodox,
or infdel, find no place among slavehol-
ders: they 'srun not after strange Gods"
invent no new religions, but are content
with old fashioned humble Christianity.
Out of the census, we can point to Nor
monism with its polygamy; Millerism,
Spiritualism, as taking their birth, -four
ishing alone where abolitionists are found.
The Stoves, and Beechers, with the
Fanny Wrights, and Abby Folsoms, are
to be found alone in that land which pro-
duced Joe Smith, Miller, the Misses Fox
What is it which has thus reversed the
condition of these people, set at naught all
our experience; has converted the indolent
thoughtless Southerner into the humble
orthodox Christian; while the men of the
north, the world over noted for religious
enthusiasts, the sons of the Puritans, have
fallen from their simple stern devotion, be-
come settlers up of strange doctrines? We
may ere we conclude be able to suggest
an explanations the meantime we ask
the good men of the north to think ON this
matter for themselves.
/ We turn now from the religious to the
social condition of the people of the slave
holding and non-slaveholding States. We
will take them as they are, not as they are
represented; we viii test bold assertions by
stern facts. We again take the six New
England States and the five old slave States:
we shall contrast their condition, because
again we design to give the abolitionists
every advantage. When we assert, that
these slaveholding States are far in ad-
vance of New England in all the elements
Of real prosperity, that the people are richer,
healthier, happier; that their natural in
crease of population is far greater; we
know that we shall be met with a sneer
at our presumption: we are aware, that
again we undertake to show the laws of
nature reversed, to overthrow all the teach
ings of history, of experience in other
countries; and yet the task is easy: the
facts and figures are before us, the calcu-
lation is simple.
We appeal again to the census Of 1850.
We find in the census the first great test
ofthc superior condition of our own over
other countries, is in the larger proportion
of our dwellings, to our families. 1t
needs no argument to show that country
the happiest which has most homes for its
people. Not only is their physical condi-
ton, their mere comforts promoted, but
there is nothing which more certainly con-
duces to health and good morals The
watchful care oft the home circle, the cheer
full happy fireside, preserve not alone the
body from disease. but the mind, the heart
from corruption and vice. We turn then
to the census, and compare the homes and
families of New England with the homes
and families Of these old slave States.
Me-, N. H., VT, Families. Dwellings.
Mass, RI, Conn. 51S,532 AZ, ,7S9
Md, Va, N. Ca,
S. Ca, Georgia, S 5o6, 1868 4es, ,e6s
has IL ,564 more families, these Southern
States 4S,5S0 more dwellings,! New Eng
land has 70,743 families without home!
In New England, the land whose ''homes'
the abolitionis.s delight to praise, one in
every seven of the families is homeless
while In these Southern States but one
family of fifty-two is without home
Taking the average of the number COM
posing family, and New England has
373 200 of its population thrown upon the
world, who have no place for home.
Could we trace in the census the full
consequences of this vast difference in the
condition of the people, it would present a
picture far from dattering to the abolition
moralist. There is no father In New
England who would not place his family
In the humblest cabin, his own home, there
to learn the lessons of virtue, rather than
for the luxury, expose them to the corrup-
: ting influence of the public house: there is
no mother who would not toll with aching
bones to guard her daughter with the shield
) of the domestic hearth. AT home the viz.
tues flourish; abroad vice plants its seeds
/ takes root and thrives. If examples were
/ needed, we could point to our cities: where
| in the crowded dens of poverty sucl
5 appalling scenes of vice and debauchery
are exhibited; and to the country, where
r the hearth of the cabin the bed Of man:
: integrity, Of woman's purity.
; We have no wish to point out and gloa
over the evils which must attend such q
= destitution of dwellings In any portion o
5 our eountry-we are content to show how
= much superior is the condition of the slave
= holding States.
2 But there are consequences exhibited Ii
I the census, which we can In some degre,
Y trace to this cause.
j 1t is claimed that New England ha
f far outstripped the slaveholding States il
], the growth Of Its population.
t This should not seem strange, nor neel
! we look tothe sscurse of negro-slayery" fo
e its explanation Since the barbarians o
b the north overrum the Roman empire, tn,
northern countries have been deemed tn,
1 bee-hives of population, from which Il
S send Its swarrns to the more southern
= chimes. Such has been the case In Europ
: and Asia: -the hardy, healthy. vigorou