25 $1,028,563
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
