The Placer herald., 1864-07-23

loveism, and Spiri,uaism, are Of northern
birth, and have never made any headway in
the South. The southern churches have
steadily resisted all these profane and cor
rnpting innovations upon the pure domain Of
Christian faith. 1t is the rarest thing to see
a church split to pieces there by Schism.
Neither is there, comparatively, any Of the
indecent sectarian violence in the South
which has disgraced the very name of reg.
ion in the North. The ministers of the Cos
pei in the South, as a class, are, in Christian
department, and in manly character, far
ahead Of the clergy, as class, in the North.
One reason Of this, undoubtedly, is, the set.
tied, dignifed, and tolerant character of the
southern churches. Like people, like priest u
is an old maxim. The language which the
different sects in the North are in the habit
of applying to each other, is far more be-.
coming the fish markets than the temple of
Cod Such indecent and profane clerical
Bellows even leaving out their Abolitionism
would not be tolerated in the South. With
all these facts known to us, what intolerabe
impudence for us to talk about the "irrelig
ious character of shareholders"
5. We are told that slavery has brought
Generalization and crime upon the South
Let us have the figures. The census of 1850
shows that the ratio of whites in the Peni-
tentiary of Virginia, for ten years, was one
to $4,000, while the ratio in the Massachu-
setts State Prison was one to 1887. ln the
city of New York, in lS49, there were ,235
convcts for crime, which was more than
in all the fifteen slave States for that year.
In the State of New York. in 1850 there
were 1920 convicts for crime. In South
Carolina, in population more than one>fflh
that of New York, there were only forty six
cases of crime. The bills of crime in Char
lesion, S. c., for that year were six and a
half per cent, less than in Boston. The
same census dscloses the fact that free
negraes South are a great deal less addicted
to crime than free negroes North. In Mas
sachusetts, the ratio Of free negroes in the
States Prison. for ten years, was one for
two hundred and fifty. In the Peniteniiary
of Virginia it was one to three thousand and
one. SO that in the non savehoding States
250 free negroes commit as much crime an
nually as 5000 free negroes in the slave
States. 1887 white people in the free States
commit annually as much crime as 23,003
white people commit at the South. The
criminal degradation among the whites at
the North is from three to five times greater
than at the South. One reason of this un
doubtedly is, that extreme poverty is almost
unknown at tie South. There is not the
same debasing competition, the same selfish
strife for the necessares of life there, and the
selfish passions are much less excited while
a sense of superiority Of race, which is prac
tically awarded to the white man of every
degree, shuts off from thousand tempta
tions incident to life in the North. How
else shall we account for the less amount of
crime in the South? The census proves the
fact, and ought for ever to seal the lying lips
of Aboitionism.
6. Another of the falsehoods of Abolition
ism is, that the whites are physically degen-
Grating in the slave States. Where are the
figures for that? One of the signs of physi'
cal degeneration is pauperism Let us see.
In the six New Enga States there were
33, ,43l paupers; in the five old slave States,
containing the same population, there were
l4,22l, giving in the New England States
an excess of paupers of one hundred and
thirty five per cent over these slave States.
The ratio of native born New Englanders in
the poor house is one to one hundred and
forty-three; while in these five slave States
it is one to two hundred and thiItyfour.-
All nationaities 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 seventy'one
Another sign Of physical degeneration IS
the growing frequency of insanity. What
says the census on this point? There were
in New England 3,s29 cases of insan.
ity, while in the five slave States, embrace
ing an equal population, there were only
1926 cases. Here is difference of more
than sixty 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.
Populational decrease is another evidence
of physical deterioration. New Eng gland,
with IL, l,564 more families than the old slave
States has 1854 less births annually, and
lO.l52 more deaths than these slave States.
The slave States have 81 per cent more
births, and ,hrty-three per cent less deaths.
This seems truly wonderful, when we reflect
that the climate of a great portion of these
five slave States is a great deal less healthy
than that of New England Where slavery
has existed for over two hundred years, wo
find the population, even in comparatively
unhealthy climate, exhibiting signs of physl'
cal perfec,abilty from thirty to forty per
cent above the heathiest and most orderly
of the free States. This, then, is the way
slavery has deterorated the physical man.
If we wanted further proof of this same
kind of physical debility from slavery, we
may find it in the history Of the present
war-a history in which even our boundess
impudence has, thus far, found nothing 1t
dared to brag over.
7. Another falsehood Of Aboitionism is,
that poor white people are despsed and
trodden under foot by the slaveholders.-
This is about the wickedest lie Of all; for it
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