The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1864-05-25


which is practically awarded TO the while
man OF evsry degree shuts off from lhous-
and Ten piations incident 10 life in The north.
How else shsl We account Tor the vastly
less amount of crime in the souihl The
census proves the fact, and ought for ever
TO seal The lying lips of Abolitionism.
6. Another oi The falsehoods of Abo.
ilionism is, that the whites are physically
degenera,ing in the slave States. Where
a.e the figures for thai2 One of the Signs
OF physical degeneration is poupsfish,. Let
us see. In the six New England States
thefe we're 3,4sl paupers in the five old
slave States, containing the same poPula-
tion, there were 4.22l, giving in the New
England States excess of paupers Of one
hundred and thirty five per eeat. over these
slave States The ratio OF native born
New Enganders in the poorhouse is one TO
one hundredand forty-'hfee while in these
Ave slave States il is one 10 two hundred
and ihirly-four. All nationaliiies in the
New England poor-houses are in the ratio
of one TO eighty one, while in the slave
States they are one TO one hundred and
seyeniy-one.
Another sign o. physica degeneration is
The growing frequency OF i0saniiy. What
Gays The census on this point! There
were in New England, $3.50 cases of insan-
i:y while in ltfef five 'slave' States embracing
an equal population, there were only 2.326
cases. Here is difference OF more than
sisty per cent. in favor Of The slave States.
An equal per cent. will be found in favor
of the slave States in relation TO deaf and
dumb.
Popualional decrease is another evil
dence OF physical deterioration. New En-
gland with II, 564 more families than the
old slave STATES, has IS, ,5s4 less births
annually, and lOl52 more deaths than
these slave States. The slave States
have 27 per cent. more births, and thirty
three per cent. less deaths. This seems
truly wonderful, when we reflect that The
, climate of grea: portion of these five
slave States is great deal less healthy
than that OF New England. Where slavery
, has existed for over two hundred years, We
fad The population, even in comparative
) y unhealthy climate, exhibiting signs OF
, physical per!eciabiity from thirty to
forty per cent above The healthiest and the
most orderly of the free STATES. This, thea,
/ Is the way slavery has deieriorated the
> physical man. II we wanted further proof
OF this same kind ofphysical deriiny from
slavery we may find il. in the history o. :he
/ present war--a history in which even our
| h.. e.,
nothing il cared TO brag over.
, Z. Another fslseh0od of AboIiiionism is,
: that poor white peopls are despissd and
| iroddsn under loot by the Shareholders. This
5 is about The wickedest lie of all for it IS
exactly the reverse in ihe south. There
D ;he white men wears an eternal badge CT
honorin his white skin, which however poor
: be may be, if ne is an honest, upright, and
intelligent citizen, is always ackno wIedged,
al all times, and in ell places. This fact
asioni.hed the English traveller, Col. Free
j mantle, when he lately visited the south.
Speaking of this very class tpoor whi,es)
1 in the South, he says: "Every white man
is as good as another (by theory, and every
4 white female is, By courtesy, lady--thsre
, is oEly one class" This we know 10 be
strictly true. A white man may De poor
( as Lazarus there, and still, if he possesses
his poverty never bars him from the parloTo
: of the rich, as it does in the north.
There the social ban is on the black race,
and not, as here upon, the poverty or mis-
! fortune OF our own white race. Poverty is
never treated es a cri me in the south. Let
the poor, but honest white man answer how
the thing is here in the NORTH. And lei his
answer stand for The reFutation OF the Abo.
lilion falsehood in relation TO this matter.
RI g. Aro,her charge is that the South is
without schools, and has done nothing Tor
the cause OF education. What says the
ceu-us7 Take again the six New England
States, and com pare them with the FIVE origi-
/ nal slave States. These New England
States have OF Colleges and Academies,
002. The FIVE slave States have OF tho
same 1865. The New England States,
have endowed their Colleges aud Acade-
mics TO The extent OF ss43 sos The five
. Slave States have endowed theirs TO The
much greater sum OF 81 ,oSo, ABS. Thus, the
slave States have l63 more Colleges and
d Academies than the SIX New England
States and these five slave States have
beat the six States of New England in en-
dowments of these institutions OF learning
S236, $50. Under these figures, how look
, the sdilors, lecturers, and ministers Of the
North, who have crammed the public mind
with SO many impudent falsehoods on this
subject : II is but few weeks since a
New England chaplain. writing from New
, Orleans, TO New York paper, declared
| that "the South is without schools" when
the truth is, that the Stale OF Louisiana from
which this clerical vagaboEd wrole, has The