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The North and the South :

a statistical view of the condition of the free and slave states
  
  
  

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CHAPTER VIII.
  
  
  
  
  
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CHAPTER VIII.

EDUCATION.

I. COLLEGES.

The first college established in the Free States was Harvard
University, founded in 1636; which was sixteen years
after the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth. The first college
in the Slave States was that of William and Mary, in Virginia,
founded in 1692, or eighty-four years after the settlement
of Jamestown. The number of students in the former is now
365; in the latter, 82. The number of alumni of the former,
6,700; of the latter, 3,000. The number of volumes in the
library of the former is 101,250; of the latter 5,000.

It will be seen by Tables XXXIII and XXXIV, taken from
the American Almanac for 1856, and showing the present condition
of the colleges in the two great sections, that the number
of colleges is nearly the same in each. The comparative character
and efficiency of these institutions, may be in some measure
learned from the following facts. The number of volumes
in the libraries of the Southern colleges is 308,011; in
those of the northern, 667,297; over two to one. The number
graduated at the South is 19,648; at the North 47,752;
about two and one-half to one. The number of Ministers educated
in the Southern colleges is 747, and in the Northern,
10,702; a ratio of fourteen to one.

It would indeed be interesting, were it possible, to compare
these institutions in respect to value of buildings, apparatus,
cabinets, &c.; but the statistics of these cannot be readily obtained.
Still more difficult would it be to compare statistically
the ability of professors and the standard of scholarship.


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TABLE XXXIII.
Colleges in the Slave States.

                           
SLAVE STATES.  No. of
Colleges. 
No. of
Instructors. 
No. of
Alumni. 
No. of
Ministers. 
Students.  Volumes
in
Libraries. 
Delaware  18  83  42  137  11,500 
Maryland  69  607  13  399  33,292 
Virginia  10  72  9,528  146  1,174  65,875 
North Carolina  24  1,406  123  469  23,700 
South Carolina  14  3,124  190  23,800 
Georgia  34  1,359  133  643  25,700 
Alabama  40  676  28  333  23,200 
Mississippi  16  252  16  315  10,700 
Louisiana  26  94  10  157  9,000 
Tennessee  39  838  74  570  29,744 
Kentucky  54  1,342  130  700  27,900 
Missouri  44  339  29  568  23,600 
Total  59  450  19,648  747  5,655  308,011 

TABLE XXXIV.
Colleges in the Free States.

                               
FREE STATES.  No. of
Colleges. 
No. of
Instructors. 
No. of
Alumni. 
No. of
Ministers. 
Students.  Volumes
in
Libraries. 
Maine  15  1,418  303  274  43,150 
New Hampshire  12  4,187  883  258  31,900 
Vermont  16  1,536  527  228  21,650 
Massachusetts  47  9,404  2,612  807  122,750 
Rhode Island  10  1,860  500  225  34,000 
Connecticut  43  7,407  1,956  669  91,000 
New York  84  6,888  1,461  1,080  80,516 
New Jersey  54  3,855  837  449  28,000 
Pennsylvania  66  8,298  741  959  71,180 
Ohio  12  88  1,958  644  1,191  92,191 
Indiana  27  546  158  300  19,600 
Illinois  30  257  79  245  15,860 
Michigan  14  130  180  13,000 
Wisconsin  11  30  2,500 
Total  61  517  47,752  10,702  6,895  667,297 


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II.—PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS.

The condition of the Professional Schools is shown by the
following Table, taken from the same authority as the above.
From this it appears that at the South a larger proportion of
professional students are in the Law Schools than at the North.
Next in order in this respect in Medicine, and last, Theology.
Indeed, the Census Tables do not show where the great body
of the Southern clergy are educated, since but 747 are returned
from the colleges, and only 808 from the Theological
Schools.

It will be noticed that the number of Professional Schools
in the Slave States is 32, and in the Free States 65, or two
to one. The ratio of Professors is a little larger. The number
of Students in the former is 1,807, and in the latter 4,426.
The number of volumes in the libraries of the former is
30,796, and in those of the latter, 175,951; more than five to
one. The number graduated at the former, 3,812, and at the
latter, 23,513; over six to one.

TABLE XXXV.
Showing the Condition of the Professional Schools in the North and the South,
from the American Almanac for
1856.
SLAVE STATES

         
Professional Schools.  Number
of
Schools. 
Number
of Professors. 
Number
of Students,
1854–5. 
Number
Educated. 
Number
of Vols. in
Libraries. 
Law  19  231 
Medicine  13  75  1,307  3,004 
Theology  10  28  269  808  30,796 
Total  32  122  1,807  3,812  30,796 

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FREE STATES.

         
Professional Schools.  Number
of
Schools. 
Number
of Professors. 
Number
of Students,
1854–5. 
Number
Educated. 
Number
of Vols. in
Libraries. 
Law  19  240 
Medicine  22  152  3,095  15,950 
Theology  34  98  1,091  7,563  175,951 
Total  65  269  4,426  23,513  175,951 

III.—ACADEMIES, PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

In all the New England colonies, a law was passed in 1647,
"That every township, after the Lord hath increased them to the
number of fifty householders, shall appoint one to teach all
children to write and read; and when any town shall increase
to the number of one hundred families, they shall set up a
grammar school; the masters thereof being able to instruct
youth so far as they may be fitted for the university." See
Colonial Laws.

Again, in Connecticut we find the following: "Forasmuch
as the good Education of Children is of singular behoofe and
benefit to any Commonwealth, and whereas, many parents and
masters are too indulgent and negligent of theire duty in that
kinde:—

"It is therefore ordered by this Courte and Authority thereof
that the Selectmen of every Town, in the Several precincts
and quarters where they dwell, shall have a vigilant eye over
theire brethren and neighbours to see first that none of them
shall suffer so much Barbarism in any of theire families as not
to endeavour to teach by themselves or others theire Children
and apprentices so much Learning as may enable them perfectly
to read the Inglish tounge, and knowledge of the Capitall
Laws, upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect
therein." See "Code of Laws established by the General


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Court of Conn., May, 1650," as recorded in Vol. II. of the
Colonial Records of Conn.

In the year 1671, or twenty-four years after the establishment
of public schools by law in the Plymouth Colonies, and
over thirty years after Harvard college was founded, and a
printing press set up in Cambridge, Gov. Berkley, at that time
Governor of Virginia, said of that State: "I thank God there
are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have
these hundred years, for learning has brought disobedience and
heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged
them, and libels against the best government; God keep us
from both."

The following Tables Nos. XXXVI., XXXVII., XXXVIII.,
and XXXIX., show the condition of the Academies, Private and
Public Schools in 1850, as given in the Census Compendium:

TABLE XXXVI.
Academies and Private Schools in the Slave States.

                                 
SLAVE STATES.  Number.  Teachers.  Pupils.  Annual
Income. 
Scholars in
Colleges,
Academies
and Public
Schools. 
Alabama  166  380  8,290  $164,165  37,237 
Arkansas  90  126  2,407  27,937  11,050 
Delaware  65  94  2,011  47,832  11,125 
Florida  34  49  1,251  13,089  3,129 
Georgia  219  318  9,059  108,983  43,299 
Kentucky  330  600  12,712  252,617  85,914 
Louisiana  143  354  5,328  193,077  31,003 
Maryland  223  503  10,787  232,341  45,025 
Mississippi  171  297  6,628  73,717  26,236 
Missouri  204  368  8,829  143,171  61,592 
North Carolina  272  403  7,822  187,648  112,430 
South Carolina  202  333  7,467  205,489  26,035 
Tennessee  264  404  9,928  155,902  115,750 
Texas  97  137  3,389  39,384  11,500 
Virginia  317  547  9,068  234,372  77,774 
Total  2,797  4,913  104,976  $2,079,724  699,079 

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TABLE XXXVII.
Academies and Private Schools in the Free States.

                                   
FREE STATES.  Number.  Teachers.  Pupils.  Annual
Increase. 
Scholars in
Colleges,
Academies
and Public
Schools. 
California  170  $14,270  219 
Connecticut  202  329  6,996  145,967  79,003 
Illinois  83  160  4,244  40,488  130,411 
Indiana  131  233  6,185  63,520  168,754 
Iowa  33  46  1,111  7,980  30,767 
Maine  131  232  6,648  51,187  199,745 
Massachusetts  403  521  13,436  310,177  190,924 
Michigan  37  71  1,619  24,947  112,382 
New Hampshire  107  183  5,321  43,202  81,237 
New Jersey  225  453  9,844  227,588  88,244 
New York  887  3,136  49,328  810,332  727,222 
Ohio  206  474  15,052  149,392  502,826 
Pennsylvania  524  914  23,751  467,843  440,977 
Rhode Island  46  75  1,601  32,748  25,014 
Vermont  118  257  6,864  48,935  100,785 
Wisconsin  58  86  2,723  18,796  61,615 
Total  3,197  7,175  154,893  $2,457,372  2,940,125 

TABLE XXXVIII.
Public Schools of the Slave States.

                                 
SLAVE STATES.  Number.  Teachers.  Pupils.  Annual Income
of Public
Schools. 
Alabama  1,152  1,195  28,380  $315,602 
Arkansas  353  355  8,493  43,763 
Delaware  194  214  8,970  43,861 
Florida  69  73  1,878  22,386 
Georgia  1,251  1,265  32,705  182,231 
Kentucky  2,234  2,306  71,429  211,852 
Louisiana  664  822  25,046  349,679 
Maryland  898  986  33,111  218,836 
Mississippi  782  826  18,746  254,159 
Missouri  1,570  1,620  51,754  160,770 
North Carolina  2,657  2,730  104,095  158,564 
South Carolina  724  739  17,838  200,600 
Tennessee  2,680  2,819  104,117  198,518 
Texas  349  360  7,946  44,088 
Virginia  2,930  2,997  67,353  314,625 
Total  18,507  19,307  581,861  $2,719,534 

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TABLE XXXIX.
Public Schools of the Free States.

                                   
FREE STATES.  Number.  Teachers.  Pupils.  Annual Income
of Public
Schools. 
California  49  $3,600 
Connecticut  1,656  1,787  71,269  231,220 
Illinois  4,052  4,248  125,725  349,712 
Indiana  4,822  4,860  161,500  316,955 
Iowa  740  828  29,556  51,492 
Maine  4,042  5,540  192,815  315,436 
Massachusetts  3,679  4,443  176,475  1,006,795 
Michigan  2,714  3,231  110,455  167,806 
New Hampshire  2,381  3,013  75,643  166,944 
New Jersey  1,473  1,574  77,930  216,672 
New York  11,580  13,965  675,221  1,472,657 
Ohio  11,661  12,886  484,153  743,074 
Pennsylvania  9,061  10,024  413,706  1,348,249 
Rhode Island  416  518  23,130  100,481 
Vermont  2,731  4,173  93,457  176,111 
Wisconsin  1,423  1,529  58,817  113,133 
Total  62,433  72,621  2,769,901  $6,780,337 

It will be seen that in the South a larger proportion of the
children who attend School, attend at private Schools, than at
the North. Still the number of scholars in these Schools is
but a slight fraction over two-thirds as great at the South as at
the North, and the amount of money paid for the support of
these Schools nearly $400,000 less in the slave than in the
free States.

It is to be regretted that we are unable to compare these
Schools in other respects, but figures can carry us no further at
this time. Perhaps by comparing the different sections of this
chapter we may be able to form a just opinion.

It will be observed that the Public School statistics would
not be materially affected for purposes of comparison, were
those of the private Schools added to them.

The number of public Schools at the South is 18,507; at
the North, 62,433; a ratio of about three and one-half to one.
Teachers at the South, 19,307; at the North, 72,621; almost


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four to one. The number of Scholars at the South is 581,861,
and at the North, 2,769,901; nearly five to one, and over
2,000,000 more at the North than at the South. Indeed, if
we compare the entire number attending all Schools (Colleges
Academies, private and public Schools,) we find in the North
a majority over the South of 2,241,046, which is now more
than three times the entire number attending School in the
Southern States. In other words, more than four-fifths of the
children attending School in the Union are in the free States.
The amount of money expended annually for these Schools is,
in the Slave States, $4,799,258; and in the free States,
$9,237,709.

The State of Ohio is not quite two-thirds as large as Virginia.
Virginia has 77,764 scholars at School and Ohio has
502,826.

The area of Kentucky is very nearly equal to that of Ohio,
the population almost exactly one-half as great, and the number
of scholars at School a little more than one-sixth.

Massachusetts is one-fourth as large as South Carolina, and
contains nearly four times as many white inhabitants. The
number of scholars attending School in South Carolina, is
26,025; in Massachusetts, 190,924.

The amount expended for Schools, both public and private,
in South Carolina, is $406,089; in Massachusetts, it is $1,316,972;
a difference of almost a million of dollars.

The whole number of scholars at School in the fifteen slaveholding
States, is 699,079; in the single State of New York, it
is 727,222.

Such are the figures of the Census for 1850.

Great effort has been made to obtain such statistics as to
show the condition of all grades of Schools at the present time,
much more fully than it can be learned from the census for the
time when that was taken. Not enough, however, could be obtained
for purposes of just comparison, the annual reports
from the Slave States being so exceedingly meagre. So far,


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however, as such reports could be obtained, they show that the
difference between the free and slave States, in regard to education,
is constantly increasing.

This arises from the want of any regular system for education
of the poorer classes, who are increasing so rapidly in the
Southern States. Proofs of this might be given, were it not a
well known fact.

On page 146 of the Census Compendium, it is said of
"Georgia—no public Schools strictly, but Schools receive a
certain amount of aid from State funds. This is true for many
Southern States."

The State of South Carolina appropriates annually the sum
of $75,000 to free Schools. Gov. Manning, in his message
of Nov. 28, 1853, says that "under the present mode of applying
it, that liberality is really the profusion of the prodigal,
rather than the judicious generosity which confers real benefit."


In the State of Arkansas, only forty Schools were reported
to the Commissioner for 1854. It is of course utterly impossible
to obtain any reliable information with regard to the Schools
there, though we may form a very just opinion concerning
their character in such a community. The Commissioner says
"The great obstacle to the organization of common Schools is
not so much a deficiency in the means to sustain them, as it is
the indifference that pervades the public mind on the subject
of education."

The amount expended by the State of Virginia, in 1854, for
the education of poor children, was $69,404. For the maintenance
of the public guard, $73,189.

New England, whose area is less than one-twelfth greater
appropriated $2,000,000 for Public Schools, and felt secure
without a public guard.

The State of South Carolina has established one Free State
Scholarship; the State of Massachusetts has established forty
eight.


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In Kentucky, the average number of scholars at school in
1854, was 76,429. In Ohio it was 279,635. The total amount
of money distributed (for public schools) during the year
1854, in Kentucky, was $146,047. The amount appropriated
by the State of Ohio for the same purpose, was $2,266,609; a
difference of over $2,000,000.

There are very many items of expenditure for educational
purposes at the North, for which the corresponding sums at the
South cannot be ascertained. Among these are Teachers' Institutes,
holden annually in every county in many of the
Northern States; Teachers' Associations, Normal Schools,
School-houses, &c. The value of school buildings in the State
of Ohio in 1854, was $2,197,384, and in Massachusetts it was,
in 1848, $2,750,000; even in the little State of Rhode Island
it is $319,293. The amount raised by taxation for educational
purposes is now, in each of the three states, New York, Pennsylvania,
and Massachusetts, over one million dollars annually.

The Report of the Commissioner of Public Schools to the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, for the year 1851, gives
the following facts:

The value of school buildings in the city of Baltimore, is
$105,729; New York, $552,457; Philadelphia, $858,224;
and in Boston $729,502.[1]

The following table is copied from the same report:

TABLE XL.
Showing the Condition of Public Schools in certain Cities.

             
CITIES.  Population.  Schools  Teachers.  Pupils.  Cost of
Tuition. 
Boston  138,788  203  353  21,678  $237,000 
New York  517,000  207  332  40,055  274,794 
Philadelphia  409,000  270  781  48,056  341,888 
Baltimore  169,012  36  138  8,011  32,423 
Cincinnati  116,000  17  124  6,006  81,623 
St. Louis  81,000  73  168  6,642 


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The population of Baltimore is 30,000 greater than that of
Boston. Baltimore has 8,000 scholars at school, for whose
instruction she pays $30,000. Boston has 20,000, and pays
for instruction, $230,000.

It would indeed be interesting, were it a matter capable of
statistical comparisons, to trace the results of the superior educational
advantages enjoyed by the children of the North; to
compare the philosophers, orators, and statesmen, men of skill,
science, or literature, authors, poets, and sculptors, of the two
sections. To see how many of those who are most distinguished
at the South were born, bred, and educated at the
North.

DeBow, in a labored article in the Census Compendium, in
behalf of the southern schools, says: "An examination of
Massachusetts shows, out of 2,357 'students,' mentioned, 711,
or one-third nearly, born out of the State, and 152, or one-fifteenth,
born in the South. On the other hand a southern
town, taken at random, furnished one out of three editors, four
out of twelve teachers, two out of seven clergymen, born in the
non-slaveholding States."

The presumption is that not so large a proportion of the students
in Southern institutions are sent there from the North to
be educated, and that, on the other hand, not so large a proportion
of the editors, teachers and clergymen of the North are of
Southern birth and education.

 
[1]

Besides this there were paid for new buildings in Boston, $56,000; in
Philadelphia, $24,473; and in Cincinnati, $10,000.

IV.—LIBRARIES.

The following tables, Nos. XLI. and XLII., are of great
importance in connection with the subject of education, as showing
the literary tastes, habits of thought, and sources of enjoyment,
of the people. These tables also show the character of
the various institutions in the two sections, more correctly than
it could be ascertained from almost any other source, embracing
as they do the Public School, Sunday School, College and
Church libraries:


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TABLE XLI.
Libraries other than Private in the Slave States.

                                   
SLAVE
STATES. 
Public.  School.  Sunday School.  College.  Church.  Total. 
Number.  Volumes.  Number.  Volumes.  Number.  Volumes.  Number.  Volumes.  Number.  Volumes.  Number.  Volumes. 
Alabama  3,848  32  3,500  15  5,775  7,500  56  20,623 
Arkansas  250  170  420 
Delaware  10,250  12  2,700  5,000  17  17,950 
Florida  1,000  800  860  2,660 
Georgia  6,500  11  1,800  15  1,988  21,500  38  31,788 
Kentucky  47  40,424  18  4,617  11  33,225  1,200  80  79,466 
Louisiana  9,800  12,000  5,000  10  26,800 
Maryland  17  54,750  6,335  84  28,315  10  33,792  1,850  124  125,042 
Mississippi  7,264  103  3,650  730  10,093  117  21,737 
Missouri  13  23,106  13  17,150  66  14,500  19,700  600  97  75,056 
North Carolina  2,500  1,500  19  2,352  21,593  1,647  38  29,592 
South Carolina  16  73,758  2,750  30,964  26  107,472 
Tennessee  5,373  5,100  18  2,498  9,925  34  22,896 
Texas  2,100  430  1,600  100  12  4,230 
Virginia  21  32,595  2,706  11  1,975  14  50,856  330  54  88,462 
Total  152  273,518  186  57,721  275  63,463  79  249,248  21  5,627  695  649,577 

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TABLE XLII.
Libraries other than Private in the Free States.

                                     
FREE
STATES. 
Public.  School.  Sunday School.  College.  Church.  Total. 
Number.  Volumes.  Number.  Volumes.  Number.  Volumes.  Number.  Volumes.  Number.  Volumes.  Number.  Volumes. 
California 
Connecticut  42  38,609  5,039  107  38,445  82,600  265  164  165,318 
Illinois  33  35,982  29  5,875  86  12,829  7,800  152  62,486 
Indiana  58  46,238  1,800  85  11,265  8,700  400  151  68,403 
Iowa  2,650  160  24  2,980  32  5,790 
Maine  77  51,439  11  2,225  131  26,988  39,625  1,692  236  121,969 
Massachusetts  177  257,737  792  104,645  433  165,476  18  141,400  42  14,757  1,462  684,015 
Michigan  280  65,116  119  31,427  15  3,500  7,900  417  107,943 
New Hampshire  47  42,017  1,200  70  20,117  19,975  2,450  129  85,759 
New Jersey  77  43,903  10  4,080  35  8,564  24,000  338  128  80,885 
New York  43  197,229  10,802  1,388,729  137  33,294  25  138,870  2,698  11,013  1,760,820 
Ohio  65  65,703  13  9,665  248  53,910  22  56,573  975  352  186,826 
Pennsylvania  90  184,666  30  17,161  226  58,071  21  77,050  26  26,452  393  363,400 
Rhode Island  26  42,007  12  5,814  50  23,765  31,000  1,756  96  104,342 
Vermont  30  21,061  16  9,700  38  10,020  23,280  580  96  64,641 
Wisconsin  12,040  33  2,163  28  5,017  1,800  72  21,020 
Total  1,058  1,106,397  11,881  1,589,683  1,713  478,858  132  660,573  109  52,723  14,911  3,888,234 


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From these it will be seen that the total number of volumes
in the libraries of the South, is 649,577; in those of the
North, 3,888,234; a difference more than 3,000,000 in favor
of the free States. Six volumes in the libraries of the North
to one at the South. But we need not compare aggregates
when the difference is so overwhelming. The Sunday School
libraries of the North are nearly twice as great as the College
libraries of the South; and the College libraries of the
North greater than all the libraries of the South.

Maine has more volumes in her libraries than South Carolina,
Rhode Island than Virginia, or even more than all the
five states, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and
Florida; and Massachusetts more than all the fifteen slave
States.

Michigan and Arkansas are very nearly equal, both in age
and territory, Michigan having been admitted into the Union
in 1837, and Arkansas in 1836; while the area of Michigan is
56,243 square miles, and that of Arkansas 52,198. Michigan
has 107,943 volumes in her libraries, Arkansas has 420; a
ratio of 257 to 1.

The public school libraries alone of the single state of
New York, contain more than twice as many volumes as all
the libraries together of the whole South. Nor are we to
suppose that because Common School Libraries, they are necessarily
inferior either in cost or character. We learn from the
American Almanac for the present year, that in the State of
Illinois "690 school libraries, of 321 volumes each, were distributed
throughout the state. The aggregate cost of these
221,490 volumes was $147,222, or an average of $213 for
each library."

If the New York common school libraries were purchased
at a similar cost, (over sixty-six cents per volume,) their value
is doubtless greater than that of all the libraries in the fifteen
slave States.


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V.—ILLITERATE.

Thus far the large figures have been all in one direction, but
here the case is different. The South is in advance and still
advancing.

The following tables, Nos XLIII. and XLIV., show the
number unable to read and write. It will be seen that the
number of native white citizens of this class in the free States
is 248,725, and in the slave States 493,026, a number about
twice as great in a population of far less than half.

The number of native white adults who cannot read and
write, in the State of Tennessee, is 77,017, in a white population
of 756,836. The number in New York, 23,241, in a
white population of 3,048,325.

TABLE XLIII.
Persons in the Slave States over Twenty Years of Age who cannot Read and
Write.

                                 
SLAVE STATES.  Whites.  Free
Colored. 
Natives.  Foreign.  Native
Whites. 
Alabama  33,757  235  33,853  139  33,618 
Arkansas  16,819  116  16,908  27  16,792 
Delaware  4,536  5,645  9,777  404  4,132 
Florida  3,859  270  3,834  295  3,564 
Georgia  41,200  467  41,261  406  40,794 
Kentucky  66,687  3,019  67,359  2,347  64,340 
Louisiana  21,221  3,389  18,339  6,271  14,950 
Maryland  20,815  21,062  38,426  3,451  17,364 
Mississippi  13,405  123  13,447  81  13,324 
Missouri  36,281  497  34,917  1,861  34,420 
North Carolina  73,566  6,857  80,083  340  73,226 
South Carolina  15,684  880  16,460  104  15,580 
Tennessee  77,522  1,097  78,114  505  77,017 
Texas  10,525  58  8,095  2,488  8,037 
Virginia  77,005  11,515  87,383  1,137  75,868 
Total  512,882  55,230  548,256  19,856  493,026 

The number in Georgia is 40,794, in a white population of
521,572, and of Pennsylvania it is 41,944, in a white population
of 2,258,160.


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Again. The number of white inhabitants over twenty years
of age, in the state of New Hampshire, is 174,232. The
number of native white adults who cannot read and write, is
893, or 1 in 201. In Connecticut it is 1 in 277; in Vermont
1 in 284; and in Massachusetts 1 in 517. In South Carolina,
on the other hand, it is 1 in 7; in Virginia 1 in 5, and in North
Carolina 1 in 3.

Such facts as these show the condition and character of the
schools in the North and the South more clearly than all other
statistics combined.

TABLE XLIV.
Persons in the Free States over Twenty Years of Age who cannot Read and
Write.

                                   
FREE STATES.  Whites.  Native
Whites. 
Natives.  Foreign.  Free
Colored. 
California  5,118  117  2,318  2,917  2,201 
Connecticut  4,739  567  1,293  4,013  826 
Illinois  40,054  1,229  35,336  5,947  34,107 
Indiana  70,540  2,170  69,445  3,265  67,275 
Iowa  8,120  33  7,076  1,077  7,043 
Maine  6,147  135  2,134  4,148  1,999 
Massachusetts  27,539  806  1,861  26,484  1,055 
Michigan  7,912  369  5,272  3,009  4,903 
New Hampshire  2,957  52  945  2,064  893 
New Jersey  14,248  4,417  12,787  5,878  8,370 
New York  91,293  7,429  30,670  68,052  23,241 
Ohio  61,030  4,990  56,958  9,062  51,968 
Pennsylvania  66,928  9,344  51,288  24,989  41,944 
Rhode Island  3,340  267  1,248  2,359  981 
Vermont  6,189  51  616  5,624  565 
Wisconsin  6,361  92  1,551  4,902  1,459 
Total  422,515  32,068  280,793  173,790  248,725