Manners Of The Slavocracy--Charity--Intelligence

are uispostu iu givo wo uuumw jjie y ng community full credit íor every gomj of ,i,e y they exhibir, and for every good deed mon i Jo; but we contend that they have no valid P''i be rearded as the exclusive or prime &C)OC sof all the benevolence and gcnerosity in its pu luntry. Their reputation for these qualitics T), -iseu from their lavich e.tpendiiures on iheir n pi,ins and equipage of that ol vvhich they have Mr. d others, rather than lioin .iny lurge amounis : ously expended to benefit the human race. gooJ lerners ai e 8igmaiized by nnny V 3 a pïcayuiu set. whöse highest ambiüon ís somc le up coppers. Now. let faets speak. ie reccipts into the treasury of the American igp Büptist Mission for tour years endinií ' & , 1841, were, city: om the Fr ee States $130,710.98 or tv k Slave ;' 50.454,29 C fierencc in favor of the freo States, $30,262, 60 fj ie receipts into the treasury of the negs 3aptist Bible Society, for last year, were, - c& om the Free States, f 15,471, 39 '' Slave States, 9,474.15 Thj ififcrence in favor of the free States $6.997,34 ny i ew York alone gave almost as much as all thej slave States. refo i the Piesbytorian denomination the diespariiy to c istly greater. The general average of C i.ions to the American Bi-ard from the Souih estl ïly afficentli par t of the whole. Just he cuntn butions to the Home Missionary ral f for 1831, were, mei rom the Slave States, $700.00 thal n Free " 48,OUO.U0 to ! he contributions to the American Bible me f lor twenty years were Pur rom the Slave States, $70,000 " Free '. 300,000 ""3' %he Philanthropist says: „!..!a linm ïi11 eludir Vn-ir t ïin RrtiitK nm. lilGs wnh the :onb, in ns liberajity io thu causu tha 'American ;md Foreign JMitsmns." Oi ihe cür ,0ü(j Ut, acknqwjedged in the April number . tie Mièstonary Herald, only $o69 "6 weie reed irom the South! Oi this, jjjilóü oü were wc ived trom Alexancria. (D. C) and $09 sci uted by six persons in Georgia, wuii New ,-ea {land. ñames. I In relation to the Bible cause, how s it? In last annual report ot' the American Bible sat y, is a statement, showing the nutnoer ol s ies of thescripiure8 sent to tlie severai States. a ( the moneys received irom thein respecuvely. examination we rind that to the Cree Siates a s e been sent during the year, 1110,048 copies an irom 'hem have been received $S5.til)7: of Ie to the slave states have been sent 25,484, -f'ourth as many; and irom them have been ;ived, 10,859, about one-fitth as much. as f rom Tree States. The single State of New York tlu :u!ated more than twice as miny copies, and c( triouted more than twice ís much nioney, a whole South. And the Young Men's Bible ' ñety, of Cincinnati, contribirted more tlian "" seven States of South Carolina, Georgia, sa ïbaiua, Louisiana, Missouri, Kentucky and ve kansus. !iow, whether this amazing clilTerence between vliberality of the free and the slave Stateo be SP ributed to the extravagance, improvidence, and u l-indulgence, or the absolute poverty ol the sr ter, it matters not: on eiiher supposition, . y will at once be acknowledged io be the rooi the evil. The next timeasouihern statesman u' ïtures to expatiaie on the blessed influence ot very on ihe characier ol' ihe individual and of ( :ieiy, we hope he will not forget these fuete." Having examined the liberality of the c s in a few particulars, we shall briefiy remark . ïcerning their fiVNURAI. INTF.I.I.IGENCE.Here we apprehend there is as great a . ehension respecting tbcm, as there is in referice to their benevolencc. Northerners are apt imagine a slaveholder must of course be gen e!, refined, and well educated: wliich is far u om being true of them generally. Theodore Veld says on ihis subject: "The noüon so common at tlie north that the lajority of the slaveholders are persons ol sl ation. is entirely erroneous. A verifao tl olders in each of the slave States have been 0 ïcn of ripe educaiion, to whom our naüonal , ratureis much indebted. A larger numbermiy e called ice.ll educated - these reside rnosrly in u ríe ei ties and large villages, but a mnjority of thd b laveholdcrs are ignorant men, ihousands ol the;n e loioriously so, mere boors unable tu write their lames or 10 read the alphabct. "No one of the slave States has probably so ' nuch gent-rai education as Virginia, it is the q ildest of them - has furmshed one half ol' the i iresidenis of the United States - has expended norp pon her university than any state in the '' Jnion has done during the same time upon i:s c :olleges - sent to Europe nearly 20 years since s 'or her most learned professors, and in fine, ( ïas far surpassed every other Slave State in ïer efforts to disseminate edacation amung her ? :itizens, and yi t. the Governor of Virginia in t lis message to the legislatura (Jan, 7, 1830) , ays, that of four thousand and fourteen adult ■ nales in that state, who applied to the county ïlerks ior marriage licenses in fe year 1837, ' 'one ttovsind and fortij-SiTun zeere unable to ■crite their ñames.' The guvernor adds, 'These statements, ii will be remeinbere'1, are conlined ;o one sex: the education of females it is tobe renred. is in a condition of much greater j kct.' ' j "The Editor of the Virginia Times, publishsd j it Wheeling, in his paper of January 23, IboU, saya- " 'We have every reason to suppose that i fourth of the peop!e of the state can not write , their names, and they have not of course, any other species of education.' "Kentucky is the child ot Virginia; her firsi ' tlerswere some of the most distinguishedcitizens of the mothcr state; in the genend diffusion of , lelligence amongst her citixens Kentucky is probably in ad vanee of all the slave Staies except Virginia and Soiith Carolina; and yet Governor ' Clark, in his last message to the Kcntueky !_, gislature, (Dec. 5, l-të) mikes the follow ing declaration: 'From ihe computation of those most familiar wilh the subject, il appears ihat at least one third of the adult population of the slate ure unable to icritttlieirnaw.es.' " Onr rrndprR nr? familiar with the Rtatislies ofMr. Wiee's district in Virginia, whereina white population of 25,127 persons of all ages, 3,445 over 20 years of age cannot read or write. The number of slaves in the District is 22,250. So that there are probably a large number ofslaveholdere among the ignoramuses in that District. This profound ignorance in our tnasters has been repeatedly noticed by the Northern press, and rather tendB to bring 'the chivalry' into contempt. We find the following in our exchanges: The number of white persons in Massachusetts. over 20 years of age. who cannot read or write, accordins to the late census, is 4448. out o a population of 728.932; in Virginia, 58,707, out of a population of 745.842 white persons of the age above named. The Old Dominion holds a larger number of unlettered white people ihanany State in the Union, and it is proper that she should.