The true Democrat., 1856-03-11
continued to increase, till the whole number but little short of three millions.


 cause any slave or slaves to write, or shal ! use or employ any slave as scribe, in any manner of writing whatsoever shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds sterling,' in current money.' Laws oi similar kind were subsequently, passed n other colonies
 In less than nine months, ending July 21 l773, no less than six thousand four hundred and seventy-one African slaves were imported into South Carolina, and nearly all of them di- rectly from Africa. But there was a current setting the other way shortly afterwards When the British evacuated Charleston in l7o2 eight hundred slaves were shipped to the West Indies, and 1t is computed that the State lost during the whole war, in this and other ways, about twenty-five thousand
 "Since the beginning of the present century, attempts have been made, both by legislation and benevolent effort, to open door to the general naaaunaassaon cf slaves in tue United States, by establishing colonies in distant parts, especially on the western shore of Africa. Others, how ever, have opposed such efforts, and lrborea aoit much zeal an belsalf of immediate and universal enancipation."
 | In "Mandeviles Course of Reading" on page 225, will be found lengthy essay, ent- tied The existence of slavery inconsistent with our principles and institutions" in which all the arts of the most captivating and insinuat ing pseudo-l logic are brought into requisiton to prove to the credulous that an institution re- cognized and guarantied by the constitution is inconsistent with our free ,nstituions;;' that is to say, with the abolition, nfdel sabbath break ing, and woman's rights conventions of the south invariably emanate
 On pages 40, 65, and 169 of the IN ational Orator." "The Atrocity of Slavery" "The Evils of Slavery" and "The Horrors of the Slave Trade,'' furnish inexhaustible topics of our youthful school orators, whom we have often heard recte them in our schoolboy days with bursts of righteous indignation and raving eloquence scarcely surpassed by the great Will berforce, Pltt and Sergeant, the original authors of these fiery denunciations upon the heads of us unfortunate slaveholders'
 Most of the geographies used in our schools are chiefly dedicated to the benevolent object of glorlying whatever is produced in the northern States, and especially in New England, at the expense of the younger sisterhood. Any one, hy examining Mitchels geography" which, for years past has superseded almost every other treatise on this subject, and comparing it carefully with others, may satisfy himself on this point. This invidious distinction Is espe- | literary institutions colleges, universities and public libraries throughout the Union. In chroniclng the resources of the southern States. reference to their provision for popular educa- ton is either studously omitted, or else be. slowed in so superficial manner, without com ment of any kind as to leave the impression that the few which are considered worthy of being named in passing, have never attained the smallest celebrity. The New England universities, on the contrary, receive the credit (which, far be 1t from our inclination or inten- tion to withhold from them,) of having contri- buted to the Union many of its most distn- gulshed men. We would not detract from the classic shades of old Harvard or Y ale any DOT tion of that well-earned and richly merited re- putatiOn which Is not only monument of glo- ry to New England, but to our whole country; but we must, at the same time, be allowed to claim for the south the distinction of having given birth to a very large proportion of the great minds which have reflected so much ho- nor upon the Alma Mater of their adoption.- Like every thing else at the north, these insti- tutions have derived much of their support and fame from the contributions of our own citizens, who, for the false eclat which it brings with it, even up to this tme continue to send their children to them, to the neglect and dsparage- ment of similar institutions at home.
 We would not weary the reader with elabo- rate statistics to prove the fact, which no one who has read single published catalogue of northern college will undertake to deny A few illustrations which happen to be within our reach at this moment will be sufficient for the satisfaction of any who have never looked rlnto the calculation.
 writer in one of the Norfolk papers, direct ing the public attention to the Richmond me- dical college, makes the following statement:
 "The statistics of the University of Penn sylvania show that not less than 100 Virginia students have been numbered among its matri- culates every year since 181O Adding the number attending other northern schools and we may safely estimate the average number of | Virginans at northern medical colleges 10 be 15O. Their average expenses may be mode rately estimated at $500 each-making an ac- tual expenditure of S75,O0O, or of S3,15OOOO for the whole period, not estimating the inte- rest. Adding to the annual expenditure sim pie interest at the rate of per cent, and the amount will be found to be S7,213,5OO Con- pounding the interest and we have the startling amount of S13, ,9S8, 124 sent out of our State to the north for medical education alone
 "Just so it has been, and just so it will be,
 
 to everything else, till the people of this and the other southern States shall learn that they are gaining nothing, but losing much, by not patronizing their own institutions. We give our support to northern schools, and northern papers, and northern merchants, and mecha- nics and manufacturers, because they are little more celebrated or because they are less mo- dest than we, in trumpeting their own praise; and by so doing, we materially cripple the ef forts of home genius, and talent, and enterprise l We believe that 9s thorough a medical educa- ton can be received in Richmond as in any northern school and much more practical in re- lation to the prevalen, diseases of the south"
 A catalogue of the University of Pennsyl- vania dated in l945-6, contains the names of 432 students in the various departments. Of these, 265 a0ere from tue southern States-Virgi- mia contributing 80, North Carolina 55, South Carolina 19, Georgia 14, Alabama B, Missis- sppi 15, and Kentucky, Tennessee, Mary land, and Louisiana, the remainder. The first named State alone paid as her proportion nearly one- fifth; the second, eracy one eight; and the whole south, aoithn ftactlon of tOo-thirds.
 1 As an offset to this, we find in catalogue of one of the literary societies attached to the South Carolina college, commencing from the foundation of the society in 1906 up to 1S42, a list of members, numbering some thousands, ID Which aoe have searched in pain tor te name of c single student from c northern State, during e period of thirty sic gears
 The invidious and widely marked distinction 1 thus created has been recognized and endorsed 1 by our people to such an extent that the north ern colleges and schools have acquired all their celebrity at the expense of our own; and a youths education is not considered "liberal' one, unless he can produce diploma from one of the fashionable seats of classical learning in New England.
 We have already alluded to the importance of cultivating and fostering genuine home li- teratllre, and especially of encouraging the pub lcation of southern school books. We do not mean books prepared and printed at the north and sent here with southern imprnts on the title page. We are for no such hybrid com- binations. Let our school books be a0r1tten pre- pared and published, as we have said before, by | oo,Hbo,,, o,a.n Tba ubo1o uor, of ol;