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 27 a third larger than Ohio, has

67,353 pupils in her public

schools, while the latter State has 484,153.

Arkansas, equal in age and size with Michigan, has only 8493 pupils at her public schools, while the latter State has 110,455. South- Carolina, three times as large as Massachusetts, has 17,838 pupils at pubwhile the latter State has 176,475.

lic school,

South-Carolina

spends, for this purpose, annually, $200,600 Massachusetts, $1,006,795. Baltimore, with a population of 169,012, on the north;

ern verge of Slavery, has school buildings valued at $105,729 Boston, with a population smaller than that of Baltimore, has 203 public schools,

those of Boston are valued at $729,502.

with 353 teachers, and 21,678 pupils, supported at an annual expense of $237,000 Baltimore has only 36 public schools, with 138 teachers, and 8011 pupils, supported at an annual expense of $32,423. But even these figures do not disclose the whole difference for there exist in the Free States teachers' institutes, normal schools, lyceums, and public courses of lec;



which are unknown in the region of Slavery. These advantages are enjoyed also by the children of colored persons and here is a comparison which shows the degradation of the tures,



Slave States.

ed persons.

It is their habit particularly to deride free color-

See,

now, with what cause.

ored persons in the Free States

is

The number of

196,016, of

whom

col-

22,043, or

more than one

ninth, attend school, which is a larger proporsupplied by the whites of the Slave States. In Massachusetts there are 9064 colored persons, of whom 1439, or nearly one sixth, attend school, which is a much larger proportion than is supplied by the whites of South- Carolina.

tion than

Among

is

educational establishments are public libraries ; and

here, again, the Free States

have their customary eminence, whether we consider libraries strictly called public, or libraries of the common-school, of the Sunday-school, of the college, and

of the church.

Here the

disclosures are startling.

ber of libraries in the Free States of volumes

3,888,234

the

is

14,911, and the

number of

The numsum total

libraries in the

Slave showing an excess for Freedom of more than fourteen thousand libraries, and more than three millions of volumes. In the Free States, the common-school libraries are 11,881, and contain l,5b9,683 volumes in the Slave States they are 186, and conis

States is 695, and the





sum

total of

volumes

is

649,577