Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1864-06-30
COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA, 1Hl1isDAY, JUNE 80, 1864.

sas oF 1850. se6amnlase.l wealsh 60 sh
amount Of s ,0l3, 4S5 900, while shs Es
slave States, vita the same popaissioa
bad aecamalassd ~ aggseafa sealsa sve
the aGeumalased wealIh uf sha sax Naz
Ragiaai wsre eqaally divided ana ,ag ts
ieatlzens, Ik would give each 1as bat lhse
hmadrsd aad slSfg dollars, whils th
|, property .oE ths Eve ssiays' States Of els
Rsr capita. Tats, Ehra, Is sha say g
slavery has impuYerishad tha soulhssl
people. Massachusetts, tha richest d
tbs New England States, ana psshap.
the richest IL The -sIayeholdiag Stasea
cOuid, Il Gss property ware eqaally siivi,
ded among ell her esiixsas, give sAeh cas
$5lS. Bas South Carolina, If her pTop.
egty were so dlTided, could give eve !
citizen $i 200. AfteS Connectacas aal
Rhoale Island, there is no -sIRsevhalI.
ing Ssass THAI eouid give oTer $3.50 q
each OF Its Inhabitants, and majority oi
she northern States could not give over
$40 10 each whiie q maiorisy OF shs
fsisss' States ooaii givs $sa0 70 essgy
whise maR. The RepsaAsaea u all shs
y fsse Ssasaa asscrsifl III xs sha eansas 81
1850, was 3.2lA, j80, ana the white pap
/ aiation Of the sslaye' States wsas 6, ,3f2,.
sT9. all the nnrthrrn States OF i3. .OUO,
( 0sll ritlz ms aeeurnusatej property to the
amouaE vi -, ls5, ,6a3 ,U0J, ahila thu
j 'slaye' States Of only six miilisn citizens
had accumulated 81, ,77TS, t2O. 900 worth of
| pEopesty. While ths population Of the
North was one hundred and nine per
cent. greater than the South, lg has aeeu.
/ mulated riches but sixteen per cs.ls, above
/ she South. A division Of all the proper
| ty Of the sou. .siavshoiding States, among
ali their Inhabitants equally, woald give
10 each only 1898 while The same divis-
lon of the riches Of all the slave States
would give TO every white man &l39. -
This is the way 'slaseFy' has iiapovssish.
ed the whits PEOPLE Of the South. This
is ths .'Iostng game Of 'sidrery,' I" which
we have heart so much og fur swenfy
years. The Csasns of 1850 shows that
the wealth Ut the slave SsaEes sas about
doahsa Der eapsls 20 that of The nua-
IAlaseholling Stat. .. What folly, then,
What impulenee for az hera in the North
% :alk of the ''iosing game Of 'slavery,n
wish these hgafes staring - ~ The faee!
8. We bear great ieal ahsat basbar.
ism and xretchedness whieh slavery In
aicts % family sud home 10 the south. =
What say tbs Rgurcs on this sutjertY -
L.es US take again the six ooasting AeR
Engi aaa Statess aud compare thsmt With
| thg'iiFe old slave States hayingEhr same
population. Ii must be conceded that a
Fhonp for every family il onsi Of she most
desirable blessings that siEiiisAtioa can
bess0w. The more complete, Or ths less
mixed this homo, the greater the proba-
bilities OF happiuess and virtue. Now
thFsa six New EHgl4nd States had, ss-
cording TO Ihe census, 5lS, 252 fasailits,
| while they bad oaly 4h ,TS7 dwsliings.-
SO that Naw Eaghand had T0, IA } families
without a separate hoAs; while the Eve
'slave' States, eantainiag the same popE-
Iation, hare SOC, ,76s Eainiiss, and I1d,-
369 dweflings. Thus, ia New EngIand,
one fasnihIn every seven Ia withaas .
homa, wLiie 10 The slave States only one
family in every kfty-two is dessisate of
Ibis inestimabie blessing. This i what
slavery has done for ske white homes Of
rte Soush. This Is tha sssiai Wretehed-
meas aud haTbaEi-m we hear 50 much a.
boat. There are actually more white
families broken up, sep ptrased, and scas-
tered to the four wEn.Ia u hAvea ia thsse
New England States than there are slave
familiss ihas separated in the southern
States. But our present estimates Are all
concerning white people North and South
!. We hear necessarily of the ire
iigton of sslage'- hui iers, and oaR North
arn clergy ars ia the habit OF praying for
tha 5 'utheFn people as though they were
heathe..s, and without Christian kabits.
Is 10 not an easy matter 10 estimafs the
relative religious merits af people
Ws eau only take the visible evidences of
attachment, or Of lndiffsrenee 10 religious
Institutions as our guide. Let us again
take the six New Englsed States, and she
6Ve old slave Stairs, and see in which
sseiluE we ind The greatest evidenne of
| profound and consistent alta hnent ta
The RoFhi2 Of God. We are still guided
BY the census Of 1850. After swo ce.ssa.
ries of religious agoRy, Naw Enghaad has
erected I, 4,691 eaaichcs, while ihe Rgs old
slave States, 9Th the san population,
have erected s,0SI churches. The aew
England churches aceommada .e93,-
900 souls, while tho church . Of the Ave
old slave States accom- MEDIATE 2, ,E96, Az
souls. SO thesa irrefig1oua slave Stats
bayG erected double the number Of church
O., and furnished the means Of graee TO
over million mors soalk than The boast.
ing phaFisass of saw Eaglaad hass.-
| Oac-t thirl of The population OF Nee Eng
land is unprovided With aaY piaoS Gf aor-
| ship, while these slave States hare pro-
vidtd churches for millisu mare pSapss
than can 20 TO ehu.ch, If they waatesi 20,
| ia New England. This is the s'lrrsligioa
| ef slave holders" Again, We alt kupw
that the religious sentiment of the South
10 almost entirely free from ihs iuaamer-
able isfas whish hayo delaoFalized aud
bsoksn tha eharchea In the North AL
such abominalions As II rmonissn. Miller.
| ism, Comnluaisnl, FreciJvei@m, and SsaY-
itaalisln, sre Of Northern birth and Aave
| never EaaIe auy healwag 10 thr SnaaAs -
Tae Sonthera eharshes have steadily re-.
sisted al. these profaie and oorfaptinR
innovations aron the ruFs .iusatin IT
Christian faith. ~ Ii tie garess thing 10
| seuA ehareh split 10 piesas GhcFs by scAmsa.
| Neither IL Iheru, comparatively, ,ssay of
| the in.lecent sretarian yIoicHea IN ibo
South which has disgsaced ths-very Basae
Of rsligisn In ahs Nufth. The aaiaisasgs
OF she Guspel In ste Suash, So IS class,
are Ia ChsisIls d epnFt u Mt, aud In slaa-
/ IL character, Far ahead eli The elrFey, rs
1 clsss, In tha Norris. 0aa reas.sa u
| this, asdoa6tetlly. il, the ssttled. aigalasd
as.s s9leTans character of the Southern
churches. '.Llke people, like priest 2 Is
al oh niaxin, The language which shs
did rcnt srcts in Eae North are ia taa hab4
it ss app yi1g ta.each afhess Is Ear asors
becsm ag the ash snarkesa lhan he tesa-
pie Of hol. Sash indecent and araFana
clerical d.magogues as Bsreher, Chsevur,
Tyug, aslsa Is Lowe, even trnying osss their