New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-01-04
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DEDICATION. NOaTEz AND SOUTH
The axiom thai Figures viii not lie has a
certain force; but if We would have the whole
truth, we must add tina. they can be made to lie
airociously. Thus, The Daily Nems seeks TO
parry the force of orr statements alleging FAR
greater prevalence Of ignorance in the Slave
than in the Free States by such assertions as The
following, proiesscdly based on the Census Re
turns of 1850:
1--WE find in four Northern States which ut The last
election gave heavy mJjofites for Tie Abolition candi.
dates, TIE number of uncdJclted adults, male ana
female up To nearly on,ha.f Of the lumber cred
tied to the fifteen Slave States. Nay more. taking
Massachusetts and South Carolina - representative
States. the one the center Of NcwEngand Abolition
Ism. the other Of Southern feeling against 1.-THE one
great manufacturing. tie other great cotton growing
state, find the Total OF ignorance, ~ developer
By reading and writing greatly ia favor OF the Aoilh
for NJ the date Of the last prbiishod census MaSaic
selts had q $50 adults Who could neither read nor write
while South Caio!na lad but 1904. To this amount
add the States Of Delaware and Florida tie one having
$3.50 tue OTHER 3s5. end Massachusetts beats them a.
with surplus equal 10 thnt Of Dtlhwarc TO spare
"Of the number who cannot read or wiite IN Mas-a-
clrsotts the County OF SuiOls. ~ which boston The
Athens o: America il part, has 1ifJ, ncar'y double
the entire number credited Ia lie State oil Florida; The
Comfy OF MlallrscA. IN WHICH ioNfd ~
Jogos IN 53.s of these un:ortanaies; aud these two
counties combined lad within ga ~ many OF their
adult white population unable 70 titW read or wilte
10 the whole state of Mississippi.
" The State OF Clio where AholliiOnlsm Doasteh OF
its hundred thousand majority 10 the last election
the tables show had more of IT, white population
uuobe TO write their names o. to read than And the
Southern StOics OF Arkansas. florida, Texas. Souta
Carolina and M.ssissirp. confined
" Thus We migi I 20 on without limit show ing that
gnnrpnce aud wa OF education afo no moro pants OF
southern than of Northern growth bnt va hayc said
enough IN all conscience 10 convict lHE IkibuNE o!
gross Justification AID We take pleasure ~ paIiding
Tie flcl that waB OF education exists IN our MIDST a.
Wei a. elsewhere
The Nsns, il the above SiHi"r""i. "s"ind"a
altogether the Slave population OF the South,
whose education has long been forbidden under
the severcst penalties. Rcmi,,.ng near!y'half
the population of the Cotton States, and more
than half that Of several of them, including South
Carolina, 10 perpetual and legally compelled
ignorance, The Aei,s compares tie residue with
the people of the North, aud finds q balance
against u.s. Ii We should exclude the Laboring
Glass Of the Free states from our computation,
We could strike an enormous balance against
but TO what purposcl
But this ia only the beginning. The Nens finds
IN four Tree States As many uniaught Whites as
in hGlf the Slave States. Indeed Why conceal
he fact that four Of the Free States have good
deal more thar half the population Of the Slave
Siatesi What use in trying TO iuggle Oh q
point So generally understood
Yet even tins is but the beginning. Massa-
chusctts, says The NcrS, has motct whltel adults
who cannot read and write than South Carolina.
Has she not more than treble the white popula-
toni Has she not more than twice a. many as
South Carolina, Florida and Delaware togeiherl
Why not be manlyi
Still, Massachusetts, Lad $3.50 adults who
them did she reari Certainly, not ten per
cent. The residue come 10 her from the Old
World. How Is she TO blame that poor men
and women who cane 20 her too old TO be
tauch. remain uneducated' How could she
help that'
Yet We are told Of the ignorant thousands
in Suffolk (Bo-ton), in Middlescx, aud in ONO,
whereof each give abolition majorities." Yet
Inc NfNs ~ uNuip 'iht thN hi''N-
Gated voters of those localities do not swell the
Abolition majorites," but reduce them. SUI.
folk County gave a majority against Lincoln
By means Of these very ilitcrate voters whom
The Nens scores up on our side. So in Middle
sex, in Ohio, though the majorities are Repub.
lican, the voters who can neither read nor write
VIGOROUSLY did not swell, but aided to reduce
Them Not one in FIVE OF the voters who can
neither read not write in any State voted for
Lincoln, or voted on our side last Fall. Their
votes help the olgarchic faction (Which The
Nens calls Democratic') and 1.-THE South"
SMe the ignorance Of the voters is charged up
against " Abolition" and the "The North"
Any one accustomed to attend the polls in this
city, or who will note the localities wherein
illiterate voters VIGOROUSLY live, either knows
this already, or can easily learn it.
Is not The Ners ashamed Of it's gross peryer.
sions!