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Massachusetts And South Carolina

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Parent Issue
Day
2
Month
October
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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Rev. J. S. C. Abbot writes to the New York Evangelist, "Tlioughtsby the way9:c!e," in a tour from New York to New Hampshire. Beginning at Boston, he draws the following contrast : - Chr. Reflec. "There is no city in the Uaioti which now looks so thrifiy ns Boston. No aspect of poverty meets the eye. Tlie immense warhouses which are rising on every side, are crowding the inhabitants into the lovely environs Which surround ! the city. The institution of the gospel, I the öause of temperancé, nnd intelligent legislation have made Massachusetts wliat it is. The sun in its circuit does not shine unon a more favorable land. And it must be n hard problem for infidelity to solve, why the temporal prosperity of a village or a State keeps pace so nccurately with the progress of religión. If a failhful Christian minister goes into a town dilaniduted hy inteniperance and vice, in a very few years the nfkience of bis singlo mind, with that accompnnying blessing vvhiöh God almost invariably grar.ts, repairs the dwellings, fertiliz.es the fields, and rcars up in the young a noblcr race, beauliiled with the lineamönts of iHtelligence and virtue. Massachuseits is more indebted to her clergy for her prosperiiy than to nny other earthly cause. It is the Sabbaih and ils ihiluences which invig.rates the arm of ndustry, and which invesis ihe producís of that industry in the home comforts which adorn the Stnté and bless its inhnbitants. A few years agr, South Carolina was more wearrhy'Vlisn Massachusetts.With a more congenial climate and a rícher soi] by far, she lias been Oonstohtlygrovving more and more poor ; b.irrenness bas cursed her slave-tilled fiRlds, nnd the eye of ihe traveller is coniinually pained hy the aspect of ruincd villagfs and dilapidated mansions. The inhabitantsofNsw England have no conception of the wretched, pOverty stricken aspect ofthe suuthcrn States. Jfassachusetts is able this d;iy to pui'ch;ise sixteen South Carolinas; and is said to be worth more thnn all the slave States united. There is something terrible in the calitij vet re■sistless energy with which Divine retribution is conducted. Long years of retribution aro probably to follow the long yöars of oppression which are pas!.

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