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or than all the libraries or slavery. Cei
also. are the libraries of Massachusetts,
alone greater than all the libraries of Sh;
very and the common school libraries
alone of New York are more than twice
as large as all the libraries of Slavery
Michigan has 107 ,943 volumes in her Ii
braries Arkansas has 420.
Among educational establishments, one
Of the most efficient is the Press and
here again all things testify for Freedom
The Free States excel in the number of
and periodicals published,
whether daily, semi-weekly, weeklyi
seni-monthly, monthly, or quarterly and
their character, whether literal
ry; neutral, political, religious or scientii
fic The whole aggregate circulation Id
the Free States is 334. l46,281; in the
Slave States, 81 ,038,693. In Free Mich
igan, 3,247 1876 ; in Slave Arkansas, 337,-
600. In Free Ohio, 30,473, ,407; ii
Slave Kentucky, 6,582,S3S. In SlAes
South Carolina, 7, ,145, $40 lin Free Mas
sachusetts, 64,S20, ,564--a larger number
than in the ten Slave States, Marylandi
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida,
Louisiana and Texas, combined. This
enormous disproportion in the aggregate
is also preserved in the details. In the
Slave States. political newspapers find
more favor than any others but even of
these they publish only 47,243.209
comics. while the Free States publish
163, 1886 Of neutral newspapers,
the Slave States publish S,8l2,620; the
Free Ststes, 79,l56,738. Of religious
newspapers, the Slave States publish A.
364,S32 the Free States, 29,2S0 ,65z.
OF literary journals, the Slave States pub-
lish 20,245 800 the Free States 81 ,478,-
76S. And of scientific journals, the
Slave States publish 372,672 the Free
States, 1921 ,260. Of these latter, the
number of copies published iu MassachuS
setts alone is 2,033, ,260-more than five
times the number in the whole land of
Slavery. Thus, in contributions to-
science, literature, religion, and even pol
tics, as attested by the activity of the
periodical press, do the Slave States MIS-
erably fail, while darkness gathers over
them. And this seems to be increasing
wta time According to the census of
1910, the disproportion in this respect
between the two regions was only as two
to one. 1t is now more than five to one,
aud is still going on.
The same disproportion appears with
II 10 ho
press. In the Free States, the number
of printers was 1922, Of whom 1929
were in Massachusetts in the Slave
States there we're 1885 of whom South
Carolina had only l4l. In the Free
States, the number of publishers was 33l;
in the Slave States, "A. Of these Mas
sachusetts had SO, or more than twice as
many as all the Slave States while South
Carolina had none. In the Free Statess
the authors were 10 F.; in the Slave States
9-.-of whom Massachusetts had II and
South Carolina 2. These suggestive il
arc all derived trom the last
official census. But if we go to other
the contrast is still the same
OF the authors mentioned in Duyckink's.
Cycl9pedia of American Literature, 403
are of the Free States, and only 81 of the
Slave States. Of the poets mentioned ir
Griswoids Poets and Poetry of America,
l23 are of the Free States, and only IL
IF the Slave States. Of the poets, whose
place of birth appears in Reads Female
Poets of America, 73 are. of the FREQ
States, aud only IL of the Slave States.
And if we try authors by weight Or quail
itv, it is the same as when We try theut
by numbers Out of the Free States
have come all whose works have taken a
place in the permanent literature of the
Prescott, Sparks, Ban
croft. Emerson, Motley, HiIdreIth, and
also Bryant, Lonsfellow Dana,
Halleck, Whittier, and Lowell-and E
might add indefinitely to the list Bus.
what name from the Slave States could
find place there?
A similar disproportion appears IN thd
number Of Patents, attestlng the lnven-'
tive industry of the contrasted regionsy
issued during the last three years, 1857
1853 and 1859. Ia the Free States
there were $3.50; in the Slave States.
| ,449-making difference of Sill i'm
favor of Freedom. The number in Free
was 972; in Slave SoutIf
Carolina, 80. The number in Free Cons
necticut, small in territory and popular
tion, was 628; in Slave Virginia, large
IN territory and population, lS4.
From all these things we mighs infer tho
ignorance prevalent in the Slave Ssases but
Ibis shows itself in specific results of de-
,lorable character, authenticated hy tho off,
;ial census. 1t appears that M tae Slave
States there were 493 ,026 native white per-
;ons over twenty years of age who cannot
cad and write, while in the Free st" scS, w'tht
loube the white population, there were but