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 28 In the Free States the Sunday-school and contain 478,858 volumes; in the Slave States they are 275, and contain 63,463 volumes. In the Free States the college libraries are 132, and contain 660,573 volumes; in the Slave States they are 79, and contain 249,248 volumes. In the Free States the church libraries are 109, and contain 52,723 volumes in the Slave States they are 21, and contain 5627 volumes. In the Free States the libraries strictly called public, and not included under the heads already enumerated, are 1058, and contain 1,106,397 volumes; those of the Slave States are 152, and contain 273,518 volumes. Turn these figures over, look at them in any light, and the conclusion will be irresistible for Freedom. The college libratain 57,721 volumes. libraries are 1713,



ries alone

of the Free States are greater than

of Slavery.

greater than all the libraries of Slavery

school libraries alone of large as

all

the libraries

So, also, are the libraries of Massachusetts alone

New-York

are

and the commonmore than twice as



the libraries of Slavery.

Michigan has 107,943 Arkansas has 420. Among educational establishments, one of the most efficient is the Press; and here again all things testify for Freedom. The Free States excel in the number of newspapers and periodicals published, whether daily, semi-weekly, weekly, semimonthly, monthly, or quarterly and whatever their character, whether literary, neutral, political, religious, or scientific. The whole aggregate circulation in the Free States is 334,146,281 in the Slave States, 81,038,693. In Free Michigan, 3,247,736 in Slave Arkansas, 377,000. In Free Ohio, 30,473,407; in Slave Kentucky, 6,582,838. In Slave South-Carolina, 7,143,930 in Free Massachusetts, 64,820,564 a larger number than all

volumes in her

libraries







—



in the ten Slave States, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina,

South-Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana,

and Texas, combined.

the aggregate

This enormous disproportion in

In the Slave newspapers find more favor than any others but even of these they publish only 47,243,209 copies, while the Free States publish 163,583,668. Of neutral newspapers, the Slave States publish 8,812,620 the Free States, 79,156,738. is

also preserved in the details.

States, political



Of

religious newspapers, the Slave States publish 4,364,832

the Free States, 29,280,652.

Of

literary journals, the Slave