of Rhode Island.

As regards schools, colleges, academies, libraries, and churches, I must
take the census of 1850, those tables for 1860 not being yet arranged or
published. The number of public schools in Rhode Island in 1850 was 426,
teachers 518, pupils 23,130; attending school during the year, as
returned by families, whites, 28,359; native adults of the State who
cannot read or write, 1,248; public libraries, 96; volumes, 104,342;
value of churches, $1,293,600; percentage of native free adults who
cannot read or write, 149. Colleges and academies, pupils, 3,664. (Comp.
Census of 1850.) The number of public schools in Delaware in 1850, was
194, teachers 214, pupils 8,970; attending school during the year,
whites, as returned by families, 14,216; native free adults of the State
who cannot read or write, 9,777; public libraries, 17; volumes, 17,950;
value of churches, $340,345; percentage of native free adults who cannot
read or write, 23.03; colleges and academies, pupils, 764. (Comp.
Census, 1850.)

These official statistics enable me then again to say, that slavery is
hostile to the progress of _population_, _wealth_, and _education_, to
_science_ and _literature_, to _schools_ and _colleges_, to _books_ and
_libraries_, to _churches_ and _religion_, to the _press_, and therefore
to FREE GOVERNMENT; hostile to the _poor_, keeping them in _want_ and
_ignorance_; hostile to _labor_, reducing it to _servitude_, and
decreasing _two thirds_ the value of its products; hostile to MORALS,
repudiating among slaves the _marital_ and _parental_ condition,
classifying them by law as CHATTELS, darkening the immortal soul, and
making it a _crime_ to teach millions of human beings to _read_ or
_write_.

THE CAUSES AND RESULTS OF THE WAR.

There are certain theories in regard to the causes of the present war,
which are so generally accepted as to have fortified themselves strongly
in the principle of '_magna est veritas_ et prevalebit.' Theories based,
however, upon facts which have taken their rise long since the true
causes of the war had begun to work, and which, consequently, mistaking
the effect for the cause, are from their nature ephemeral, and farther
from the truth than they were at their origin. Few thinkers have looked
below the surface of the matter, and the majority of Christendom,
ignoring any other past than the few brief years that have rolled over
our national existence, forgetting that great causes o