FEss. and the twentieth Ohio. represented by myself. The number of persons out of each 100 10 years old and over in these four districts who can neither read nor write is as follows: Tenth Kentucky -----------------------------------22.5 Second Tennessee ---------------------------------- 11. 2 Sixth Ohio ---------------------------------------- 2.7 Twentieth Ohio --------------------------------------------- 2.7 Yet in these returns are included all foreignborn persons over 10 years of age. of which there were in the twentieth district of Ohio. 77.167. in the sixth Ohio. 3.219. second Tennessee. 1.667. and tenth Kentucky. 187. In my district the foreignborn number nearly onehalf as many as the natives160.890while in the other three districts the total number of foreign born is but 5.073. or less than onelifteenth of the number in the twentieth district of Ohio alone. It is true that great portions of the South are still suffering from the effects of the destruction and devastation of the Civil War and the theft and vandalism of the reconstruction period. but net these mountain counties. They were almost universally on the Union side and welcomed the northern armies as deliverers. and not as invaders. their soil and people were too poor to attract the cupidity of the carpetbagger. and the fact that almost the entire population of these mountain counties who are old enough are either on the pension rolls or trying to get there is proof that they never shared the political views and were never subjected to the discrimination suffered by the great mass of the southern white people.
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