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

Oto'Oo hoett oSCOiNiuE W ~ChodN; OiO.-
$50 families, while rhey lad only 4i7,7S7
dwellings,. So that New England had sev-
entr thousand seven hundred and forty
three families without "a separate home !;
while the five slave States, containing the
Same population, have sos 76s familes,
and 416, ,369 dwellings. Thus, in New En-.
gland, one family in every seven is wilhout
home, while, in The slave STATES, only
one family in every ffy-tuOO is destitute of
this ineslimabls blessing. This, then, is
what slavery has done for The 'schits homes
of'the south. This the social wrelchednsss
and barbarism we hear SO much about
There are actually more white families bro
ken up, eparsied and scattered TO The four
winds OF heaven in these New England
States than there are slave families thus
separated in The southern States. Bat our
present. estimates are all concerning white
people north and south.
|. We hear necessarily of the irreligion
OF ave'holders, and our northern clergy
are in The habit of praying for the southern
people as though they were hea,hens, and
Without AuEtStIdu 4. Is nOk all easy
matter 10 estimate the relative religious
merits OF people. We can only take The
visible evidences Of attachment, or of in
difference TO religious institutions as our
guide. lie. us again lake ihe six New En-
gland States and the FIVE old slave States,
and see in which section We find the great
esl evidence Of "a profound and consistent
attachment to The worship OF God. We are
still guided by the census of 1850. An er
lwoNcehturies OF religious agony, New En>
gland has erected 4,6O7 churches, while
the i've old elave' States, with the same
popuI alton, have erected 8,08i churches
Tbs New England churches accommodate
one million eight hundred and ninety three
souls, while the churches in the five old
| 'sfave' States accommodate two million
eight hundred and ninety-six Thousand four
hundred and seyenty-two souls. So thess
irreiigioas slave States have erected double
the mum Der of churches, aad furnished the
means OF grace 10 over a million more souls
than The boss;ing pharisees OF New En-
/ glan,. have One-thfrd of the population
of New England is unproTided with any
1 place of worship, while these slave States
have provided churches for million more
people than can go 10 church, il they wan
led 10, in New England. This 10 The ''irre-
/ ligion OF slave holders" Again, We al
know that The religious sentiment OF tie
south il almost entirely free from the innu-
merable isnls which have demoralfzed and
broken up the churches in the north. Al
such denominations as MornonisTn, Mill e:
J ism, Communism, Freelov eism, and Spir-
! ituaism, are OF northern birth, aud have
never made anv headway in the south. The
southern churches have steadily resisted all
J these profane and corrupling Innovations
/ upon the pufs domain of Christian faith
II is the raresi thing TO see church split to
pieces there by schism. Neither is there
comparatively, any OF the indecent sectari-
an violence in the south which has disgrac
ed the very name OF reli ion in The north =
The ministers OF the Gospel in the south
as class, are, in Christian deportmen ut, and
in manly character, far ahead OF the clergy
as class, in the north. One reason o.
This, undoubtedly, is, the settled, digniied
I aud tolerant character OF the southern
churches Like people, like priest, " is an
! old maxim. The lang guage WHICH the dis-
ferenl secls in the north are in The habit oi
| applying 10 each ether, is far more becoms
ing The fish markels than the temple of God
Such indecent aud protane clerical dema-
gogues as Beecher, Chesver, Tying, and Bel
lows, even leaving out their Aboritionism
would not be tolerated in The soelh. With
| all these facts known 10 US, what intoleTa-
bic itnpudence for US TO talk about The "ir.
religious character oil slave holders ~
] ;. We are sold that slavery has brought
Reconsideration and crime upon the south
Lei Us have the figures. The census ol
! 1850 shows that the ratio oil whites in the
Penilenliary OF Virginia, for ten years, was
one TO twenty three ihousant, whie The ra.
ito in the Massac hnsetts States Prison was
one 10 seven Thousand Ave hundred and
eighty seven. Ia the city OF New York, in
Isi9, there were i,235 convictions ior
crime, which was more than in all the fl
teen slave States for that year. In the
Stale of New York, in 1880, there were Ten
thousand two hundred and seventy convic-
| tions for crime. In South Carolina, in a
population more than one-fifih that of New
York, there were only forty six casss oi
crime The bills OF crime in Charleston, S
| c., for that year were six and half pei
cent lees than in Boston. The same cen.
sus discloses The fact that free negroes south
are great deal ess addicted 10 crime Than
| free negroes north. In Massachusetts, the
ratio OF free negroes in the States Prison,
for ten years, IVES one TO two hundred and
fhy. In The Peniisnl;aty Of Virginia it W as
| one to three thousand and one. So that 10
The non n.slsveholding States TWO hucdred
and fifty free negroes corntn. as much
crime annually as three thousand free ne.