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the difference between the

The Slave

813,872.

two deficits being $2,pay one third of the exand not a single Slave State

States did not

pense of transporting their mails paid for the transportation of its mails

State of Delaware.

not even the small



Massachusetts, besides paying for hers,

had

a surplus larger than the whole amount collected in SouthCarolina.

According to the census of 1850, the value of churches in the Free States was $67,773,477

The

in the Slave States, $21,674,581. voluntary charity contributed in 1855, for certain leading

purposes of Christian benevolence, was, in the Free States,

$953,813 for the same purposes, in the Slave States, $194,784. For the Bible cause, the Free States contributed $319,667 the



Slave States, $68,125. tributed $319,667;

For the missionary

and the second, $101,934. For the Tract and the second, $24,-

Society, the first contributed $131,972

725.

cause, the first con-

The amount contributed



in Massachusetts for the sup-

port of missions was greater than that contributed

by

all

Slave States, and more than eight times that contributed

the

by

South-Carolina.

Nor have

the Free States been

the Slave States have been smitten.

backward

The

when

in charity,

records of Massachu-

show that as long ago as 1781, at the beginning of the Government, there was an extensive contribution throughout the Commonwealth, under the particular direction of that emisetts

nent patriot, Samuel Adams, for the relief of inhabitants of South-Carolina and Georgia. In 1855, we were saddened by the prevalence of yellow fever in Portsmouth, Virginia and

committee of that place, we learn that the amount of charity contributed by the Slave

now, from a report of the

relief

was $12,182 while $42,547 were

States, exclusive of Virginia, the afflicted State,

and, including Virginia,

it

was $33,398





by the Free States. In all this array we see the fatal influence of Slavery, but its Barbarism is yet more conspicuous when we consider its Educational Establishments, and the unhappy results, which naturally ensue from their imperfect character. contributed

Of

in 1856, the Free States had 61, and the Slave but the comparative efficacy of the institutions, which assume this name, may be measured by certain facts. colleges,

States 59