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;
—
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
