[59] Address before the South Carolina Institute.
[60] Fifth Annual Report to Directors of Graniteville Company.
[61] Mr. Russell uses the language of England. There are several collections of houses on this river bank, the inhabitants of which would consider it an insult if they should hear such a humble term as “village” applied to their pseudo towns and cities.
[62] “North America; its Agriculture and Climate,” p. 290.
[63] It was not long since estimated in the Legislature of Kentucky as seven to one in that State.
[64] I fear that it must be confessed that this general rule has now a multitude of exceptions in our large towns, where, in New York, especially, we seem taking some pains to form a permanent lower class. With the present great and apparently permanent falling off in the European emigration it can hardly last, however.
| The ratio of white illiterate to white population, per cent., as returned, is, | ||
| {Free States, | 3.36 | |
| {Slave States | 8.27 | |
| of the native population, over twenty years old, it is, | ||
| {Free States, | 4.12 | (Census Compendium, pp. 152, 153). |
| {Slave States | 17.23 | |
The ability to merely read and write may itself be of little value, but the fact of a child’s having had the painstaking necessary to so far instruct him is in some degree a means of measuring his other inherited wealth, and thus his breeding.
[66] “Resources,” vol. ii., pp. 197, 198.