Slavebreeders And Domestic Missions
A correspondent writes: - "I have before me ilie J;muary number uf liie Spirit ofMissions, u Protestant Episcopal periódica I, ia whu-h is pubüshed liet of the conlributio::s made to the cause of Dotnestic missioas under ihe direciioncl ihnt rtligious body, f'rom Nov. 15 to Dec. 15, 1841. à was's'.ruck with the disparity betweeh Ihe ciutnbutions of the fiee and ihe slave staies. Conneciifut with a j population of 30Ã,000 contribuled 405.- Virginia, North Carolina, Souih Carolina, and KenÃucliy, witb a popirlation of trÃorc tha 3, 100,000, contributed 341,00. Oà thissum, Virginia, the "niother of Stntes,1 cntributed $14. Norlh Carolina, 5.- Take, as connected with these facts, onoiher. fn Virginia, oweoutofevery Ãwelve. andn North Carofina, ono out ofeyery rune of the white population cun neilhcr wiite nor read. Ãn CVninecticut thcre i but one such per?on iñ 574 of the population."