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 29 States publish 20,245,360 the Free States, 57,478,768. And of scientific journals, the Slave States publish 372,672 the Free States, 4,521,260. Of these latter, the number of copies pub;



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is 2,033,260 more than five whole land of Slavery. Thus, in contributions to science, literature, religion, and even politics, as attested by the activity of the periodical press, do the Slave

lished in Massachusetts alone

times the

number

States miserably this

in the

fail,

while darkness gathers over them.

According to the census respect between the two re-

of 1810, the disproportion in this gions was only as two to one.

and

is still

It is

now more

than five to one,

going on.

The same

disproportion appears with regard to persons con-

In the Free States, the number of print1229 were in Massachusetts in the

nected with the Press. ers

And

seems to be increasing with time.

was 11,822, of

whom



Slave States there were 2895, of whom South-Carolina had only In the Free States, the number of publishers was 331 in 141.

Of

the Slave States, 24.

than twice as lina

many

had none. 2.

as all the Slave States

In the Free



had

59, or

more

while South-Caro-

were 73 in the Massachusetts had 17, and SouthThese suggestive illustrations are all derived from

Slave States, 9 Carolina

these, Massachusetts

— of

States, the authors



whom

But if we go to other sources, the conOf the authors mentioned in Duyckink's Cyclopedia of American Literature, 403 are of the Free States, and only 87 of the Slave States. Of the poets mentioned in the last

official census.

trast is still the

same.

Griswold's Poets and Poetry of America, 123 are of the Free States,

and only 17 of the Slave

States.

Of

the poets, whose

place of birth appears in Eeed's Female Poets of America, 73 are of the Free States,

and only 11 of the Slave

States.

And

by weight or quality, it is the same as when them by numbers. Out of the Free States have come

if we, try

authors

we

try

all

whose works have taken a place in the permanent

of the country

—Irving,

Prescott, Sparks, Bancroft,

literature

Emerson,

Motley, Hildreth, and Hawthorne also, Bryant, Longfellow, Dana, Halleck, Whittier, and Lowell and I might add indefinitely to the list. But what name from the Slave States qould

—

find a place there ?

A

similar disproportion appears in the

number of

Patents,

attesting the inventive industry of the contrasted regions, issued