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

I England were equally divided among
, citizens. it would give each but $3.50, viii
the property of the five tslave' States ea ma
ly divided among their citz ems, would gi,
each the sum Of $500, showing a differe d
In favor of the slave States of S153 D
capita This. then, Is the way Slavery b
Impoverished the Southern people. Mass
ehusetts, which is the richest of the Ne
England States, and. perhaps. the richest
the non-slaveholding States, could, if b.
property were equally divided among a
her citizens, give each S54S. But Sout
Carolina, il her property were SO divided
could give every citizen 1000.
After Connecticut and Rhode Island ther
is no non -slaveholding State that could Civ
over $3.50 to eschsof its inha bitants, and
majority of the Northern States could no
give aver $500 to each, while majority @
the slave States could give $4OO to ever,
white man. The population of all the fre
States, according to the census of 1850. wa
Id, ,1l4, $50. The white population of tn,
Slave States was 6,312.S All the North
ern States Of thirteen million citizens haC
accumulated property to the amount of So,
196, ,683 900, while the slave States OF on Is
six million citizens had accumulated, So,
775. 10000 worth of property.
While the population of the North was
one hundred and nine per cent, greater tn an
the South, it has accumulated riches bui
sixteen per cent. above the South. So a
division of all the property of the non
slaveholdng States, among all their inhab-
itants equally, would give to each only
1928, while the same division of the riches
of all the Slave States would give to every
white man $439. This is the way slavery
has impoverished the white people of the
South. This is the losing game of slave
ry,' of which we have heard so much fo=
quarter of Century. The census of 1850
shows that the wealth of the slave States
was about double per capita to that of the
non-slaveholding States. What folly, then,
what mpudence for us here in the North to
talk of the losing game of slavery with
these figures staring us in the face!
8. We hear a great deal about the bar
barism and wretchedness which slavery in
ficts upon family aud home in the South -
What say the figures on this subject. Let
us take again the six boasting New England
States, and compare th5m with the five old
slave States, having the same population.
1t must be conceded that home for every
family is one of the most desirable bless
iugs that civilization ca bestow. The more
com plete, or the less mixed this home, the
RT6aLeT IuO DsOOdOillblOS VI duO
virtue. Now these five New England
States had, according to the census, SIS ,532
families, while they had only 447, 787
d dwellings,. So that New England had
seventy thousand seven hundred and forty
three families without separate home;
while the five slave States. containing the
same population, have 506, 769 families, and
476 369 dwellings.
Thus, in New England, one family in
every seven is without home, while, in tho
slave States, only one family In every fifty
two is destitute of this inestimab able blessing.
This, then, is what slavery has done for the
white homes of the South. This the sooia
wretch eduess aud baTbarism we hear so
much about. There are actually more white
families broken up, separated and scattered
TO the four winds of heaven in these New
England States than there are slave fami
lies thus separated in the Southern States.
But our present estimates are all concern
ing white people North and South.
f. We hear incess sanity OF the irreligion
IF slave holders, and our Northern clergy
are in th 9 habit of praying for the Southern
people as though they were heathens and
with out Christian habits. 1t is not an easy
matter to estimate the relative religious
merits of a people, We can only take tn
ference to religious institutions as our guide. |
Let us again take the six New England |
States and the i've old slave States, and
Zee in which section we find the grea test
evidence of profound and consistent attach.
nent to the worship of God. We are still
guided by the census of 1850. After two
centuries of religious agony New England
1as erected 1907 churches, while the five
Did slave States, with the same population,
1ave erected sO8l churches. The New
England churches accommodate 1,OOO,S9
souls, while the churches in the i've old
slave' States accommodate 2 $50, ,472 souls.
SO these irreligious slave States have
erected double the number of C churches, and
furnished the means of grace to over mil
ion more souls than than the Ooastlng
oharisees Of New England have. One third
IF the population of New England Is un-
provided with any place of worship. while
,hese slave States have provided churches
or a million more people than car go to
church, if they wanted to, in New England.
This is the s'irreligioE Of slave holders.'-
gain, we all know that the religious senti
nent of the South is almost entirely free
from the innumerabIe isms which have de-
noralized aud broken up the churches in
the North. All such abom nations as Nor
Millerism, Communionism, Free
Ioveism and Spiritualism are all of Northern
birth. and have never made any headway
in the South. The Southern churches have
steadily resisted all these profane and cor
ruptins innovations upon the pure domalH
of Christian faith. 1t is the raress thing to
see church split to pieces there by schlsm.
Neither is there comparatively, any OF the
indecent soctarian violence at the South
which has disgraced the very name OF re-
ligion in the North. ct
The ministers Of the Gospel in the South,
as a class, are, in Christian department. ana
in manly character, far ahead of the clergy
as class, in the North. One reason OF tnls,
undoubtedly, is, the settled, disninen, ana
tolerant character OF the Southern churcues
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