...from this table that the adult male white and free negro population of the United States, in 1860, over twenty years of age, who could not read and write, was bat little short of half a million. In other words, that in the last presidential election, if the...

...Republic'. When the last census was taken, in 1860, the total number of white people in the United States over twenty years of age who could not read and write was 1,126,575. In 1865 there were in the State of Bhode Island 10,181 persons over fifteen unable to read...

...censuses of 1850, 18ti0, 186.-i and 1870 are presented : " In 1850, the number of persons in Rhode Island, over twenty years of age, who could not read and write, was given as 3, 607, of whom 1,248 were native, and 2,859 were foreign by birth ; 3,340 were whites, and...

...censuses of 1850, 1860, 1865 and 1870 are presented : " In 1850, the number of persons in Rhode Island, over twenty years of age, who could not read and write, was given as 3,607, of whom 1,248 were native, and 2,359 were foreign by birth; 3,340 were whites, and...

...from the census that the adult male white and free negro population of the United States, in 1860, over twenty years of age, who could not read and write was but little short of half a million. In other words, that in the last presidential election, if the...