Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-06-30

There are NOT halfa dozen vessels en- neagsd - s,s
been unable to nd a vessel at Liverpool loading for
Virginia within three years, during the height ofOur
( busy season..
Railroads and canals are the avenues of COM
merce and here again the Free States excel.
Of railroads in operation in 1854, there were
/ 3,lO5 miles in the Free States, and 4,2l2 in
the slave states. Of canals there were 3, 1892
miles in the free states, and l,ll6 in the
slave states.
The Post Office, which is not only the agent
! ofcommerce, but Of civilization, joins in the
uniform testimony Accordingto to the tables
for 1859, the postage collected in the free
states was 5,532, ,999, and the expense of
carrying the mails S6,74s, l89, leaving a
deficit Of 81, ,2l5, ls9. In the slave states the
amount collected was only $l,988, ,O50, and
the expense Of carrying the mails Sc, ,Ol6,6I2,
leaving the enormus deficit of 81 OPS, 56s the
difference between the two deficits being ST.
Sl2.372. The slave states did not pay one
third of the expense of Transporting their
mails and not a single slave state paid for
the transportion of its mails; not even the
small State of Delaware Massachusetts,
besides paying for hers, had a surplus larger
than the whole amount collected in South
Carolina.
According to the census of 1850, the value
of churches in the free states was SCI, ,773, All;
in the slave states, S2l, GA, ,5sl.
The voluntary charity contributed in 1855.
for certain leading purposes of Christian
benevolence, was, in theft states, S952, ,8l3;
for the same purposes in the slave states,
Sl94, TS4. For the Bible cause, the fee states
contributed $3l9, ,667; the slave states, $685.
1875. For the missionary cause, the first con-
tributed S3l9, ,667 and the second, lOI.934.
For the Tract Society the first contributed
Sl3l, ,972; and the second S24, 725. The
amount contributed in Massachusetts, for the
support of missions was greater than that
contributed by all the slave states, and more
than eight times that contributed by South
Carolina. -,--.. .rt..y- 7rs
Nor have the free states been backward in
charity, when the slave states hare been
smitten. The records of Massachusetts, show
that as long ago as 1871, atthe beginning oftbe
Government, there was an extensivscontribu-
ton throughout the Common nwealthunder the
particular direction Of that eminelt patriot, /
Samuel Adams, for the relief of inhabitants of
South Carolina and Georgia. In 1855 we were
saddened by the prevalence of yellow fever
in Portsmouth, Virginia; and now, from
report of the relief committee of ihat place,
we learn that he amount of charity con-
tributed by the slave states, exclusive ofVir- !
ginia, the afflicted state, was Sl2,l and, |
including Virginia, it was S33, ,39s; while |
S42, ,547 were contributed by the free states. /
In all this array we see the fatal influence
of ofSlavery, but its Barbarism is yet more
conspicuous when we consider its Educational
Embellishments, and the unhappy resultst /
which naturally ensue from their imperfec, |
character.
OF colleges, in 1856, the free states had 81, /
and the slave states SO; ; but the comparative /
efficacy of the institutions which assume this /
name may be measured by certain facts
The number Of graduates in the free states
was Al, ,752, in the slave states I9,64e; the |
number of ministers educated IN Slave colleges |
was TAI, in the Free colleges 10, ,702; and the 1
number of volumes in the Libraries Of Slave /
colleges 30S, oil; in the Libraries of the Free |
colleges 667, ,227. If the materials were at /
hand for a comparison between these colleges,
in buildings, cabinets, and scientific apparatus, /
or in the standard Of scholarship, the differ
ence would be still more apparent .
OF professional schools, teaching law, med
icine and theology, the free states had 50,
with 299 professors, 4,526 students, and 49,
95l volumes in their libraries, while the slave
states had only 80 professional schools, with
l22 professors, 1907 students, and 30, 796
volumes in their libraries. The whole num-
Der educated at these institutions in the free
states was 23,5l3, in the slave states 3,sl2.-
Of these, the largest number in the slave
states study law, next medicine, and lastly
theology. According to the census, there are
only sos in the slave theological schools, and
TAI Studying for the ministry in the slave
colleges; and this is all the record we have
of the education Of the slave clergy
ITO Be Continued