The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1864-01-21
From the New York News.


The Tribune. in its bitterness against the
the Southern States, loyal and disloyal, not
only loses its temper, but resorts to the most
preposterous and silly falsehoods in order to
convict those who live South of certain
geographical line of want of that common
intelligence which distinguishes the Amer
lean citizen. In combating a statement
made by General Foote in the Confederate
Congress on the 18th inst, the Tribune says:
s'There are not to-day, four millions of
free persons in the actual Confederacy, of
whom not three millions can read or writer"
One million out of four millions-twenty-
Eve per cent, of the entire white m ale
adult population of the Confed crate States,
charged with being unable to write their
own names, or to read them when written!
Where did The Tribune procure its facts?
In what document did it find its figures to
prove this absurdity? We are at a loss to
guess. We have hunted in the only place
where the facts are on record, and we find
that they do not bear out The Tribune in
its statements; but, on the contrary, the
documents and the figures prove them false.
The census statistics of 1850, the last pub
lished, and to which the public have &C.
cesa, give in each State and in each coun-
ty, the number of those unfortunates who
cannot read or write, and we find the num-
Der in the entire South, Border and Gulf
States included, but fraction over one-half
of the number The Tribune charges against
the States it calls the actual Confederacy,'
which omits all the Border Slave States not
embraced under the so-called. Emancipation
proclamation of President Lincoln. In con-
sultiDg the Census figures, and figures The
Tribune knows will not lie, we fud in four
Northern States, which at the last election
gave heavy majorities for the Abolition can
the number of uneducated adults,
male and female, runs up to near one-half
the number credited to the fifteen Slave
and South Carolina as representative States,
the one the centre of New England Adolf
tionism the other of Southern feeling against
the one a great manufacturing, the other
a great cotton growing State, we find the
sum total of ignorance, as developed by
reading and writing, greatly in favor of the
North, for at the date of the last published
census, Massachusetts had q ,539 adults
who could neither read nor write, while
South Carolina had but 10 ,684. To this
amount add the States of Delaware and
Florida, the one having 1926, the other g.,
$50, and Massachusetts, beats them all, with
= surplus equal to that of Delaware to spare.
OF the number who cannot read or write
in massachusetts,, the County OF Suffolk. in
which Boston, the Athens of America, is a
part, has TAB, nearly double the entire
number credited to the State of Florida; the
County of Middlesex. in which Lowell is
situated, rejoices in 1888 of these unfor-
Inmates; and these two counties com bined
had within 574 as m any of their adult white
population unable to either read or write as
.he whole State of Mississippi.
The State of Ohio. where Abolitionism
ooasted of its one hundred thousand major
ty at the last election, the Census tables
show had more of its white population un-
able to write their names or to read than
lad the Southern States Of Arkansas, Flori-
Ia, Texas, South Carolina and Mississippi
combined.
Thus we might go on without limit, show
ng that ignorance and want of education
are no more plants of Southern than of
Northern growth; but we have said enough,
n all conscience, to convict The Tribune of
gross Justification, and we take no plea
ure in parading the fact that want of
ducation exists in our midst as well as
Elsewhere. r-..