Editorial note — Chapter XVII · : Principal Causes Maintaining The Democratic Republic—Part III
Henry Reeve translation
i [ [In the Northern States the number of persons destitute of instruction is inconsiderable, the largest number being 241,152 in the State of New York (according to Spaulding’s “Handbook of American Statistics” for 1874); but in the South no less than 1,516,339 whites and 2,671,396 colored persons are returned as “illiterate.”]]