Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-05-26

sd ICheever, Typg. and Bellows. even leavir
ed out their Abolitionism, would not be tole
oil rated IN the South. With all these fac
w known to us, what intolerable impud enc
rs Tor US to talk about the .'irreligious ch ar
le acter of ave'-holders"
l. 3. We are told that slavery has brou gh
'e Generalization and crime upon the South
20 Let US have the figures. The census of 1876
or shows that the ratio of whites In the Peni
IS tentiary of Virginia, for ten years, was on
l. to twenty-three th ousand, while the rati
W IN the Massachusetts States Prison was one
'f to seven thousand five hundred and eighty
n seven. 10 the city of New York, in 1849
j there 1885 convictions for crime, which
b was more than in all the fifteen slave States
!, for that year. In the State of New York
there were ten thousand two hundred and
seventy convictions for crime. To South
Carolina in population more than one fifth
that OF New York, there were only forty six
cases of crime. The bills of crime in
Charleston, 8. c.. for that year were six aud
half per cent less than in Boston.
The same census discloses the fact that
) Tree negroes South are great deal less ad =
} dicted to crime than free negroes North
In M assachusetts, the ratio of free negroes
in the States prison, for ten years. was to
25O In the Pententisry Of Virginia 1t was
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States $50 negroes commit as much
crime annually as 5000 free negroes in the
slave States. 1887 white people in the free
States commit annually as much crime as
23.OOO 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 rea-
son of this undou btedly is. that extreme
poverty is almost unknown at the South -
There is not the same debasiug competition.
the same selfish strife for the necessaries of
life there, and the selfish passions are much
less excited, while sense of superiority of
race, which is practically awarded to the
white man of every degree, shuts off from
thousand temptations incident to life in the
North. How else shall we account for tho
vastly less amount of crime in the South?
The census proves the fact, and ought for
ever to seal the lying lips of Aboiitiouism
b. Another of the falseboods of Aboli-
tionism, is. that the whites are physically
degenerating in the slave States. Where
are the figures for that2 One Of the signs
of physical degeneration is pauperism. Let
Us see. In the six New England States
there were SO. .43I paupers; in the five old
slave States, con tanning the same popula-
ton, there were IA ,221, giving in the New
England States an excess of paupers OF on 9 |
slave States. The ratio of native born New
Euglanders in the poor house is one to one
hundred and forty-three; while in these
slave States it is one to two hundred and
thirty-four. All nationaties in the New
England poor-hOuses are in the ratio OF one
/ to eighty-one, while in the slave States
they are one ID one hundred and seventy
one.
Another sign of physical degeneration is
the growing frequency of insanity. What
says the consus on this point? There were
in New England, 1929 cases of insanity,
while In the five slave States, embracing
an equal population, there were only, 2 1926
cases. Here is a 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 England,
with 1864 families more than the old
slave States has 16, ,534 less births annual
ly, and 10, 152 mo re 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 re-
fleet that the climate of great 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 find the population, even in
comparatively unhealthy climate, exhibit
ing signs of physical perfectabilty from
thirty to forty per cent above the healthiest
and the most orderly of the free States.-
This, then. is the way slavery has de-
Perforated the physicel man. If we wanted
further proof of this same kind of physical
debility frem Slavery we may find it in
the history of the present war-a history in
which even our boundless impudence has,
thus far, found nothing it dared to brag over.
z. Another faisehood of Abolitionism is,
that poor white people are despised and trod-
den nder foot by the slaveh older. This is
about the wickedest lie of all; for it is ex-
actly the reverse in the South. There the
white man wears an eternal badge of horor
in his white skin, which. however poor he
NAV be if be is an honest, upright and intel
ligent citizen, is always acknowledged, at
ali times and in all places. This fact as
tonished the English traveller, Col. Free
mantle, when he lately visited the South.
Speaking of this very class (poor whites) in
the South, he says: "Every white man is as
good as another (by theory and every white
female is, by courtesy, lady-there is only
one class" l.
This we know to be strictly true. A white
man may be as poor as Lazarus there, and
still, if he possesses the attributes of char
acter and intelligence his poverty never bars
him from the parlors of the rich. as 1t does
in the North. There the social ban Is on
the black race, and not, as here, upon the
poverty or misfortune of our own white race
Poyerty is never treated as crime IN the
South Let the poor, but honest white man
answer how the thing is here In the Nortn-
And let his answe. stand for the refutation
of the Abolition falsehood in relation to this
matter. /
9 8. Another charge is that the South is