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HISTORY OF OHIO. 



We suspect that a greater proportion of our population be- 

 long to some church, than any other people in the Union. 

 This is more the case with the people in the Scioto and Miami 

 countries, than in any other part of the state, perhaps, but it is 

 so, generally, in all parts of it. As to talent and learning, 

 we have at all times, had a good degree of them in the pulpit. 

 Our ministers, like our lawyers, speak with a great deal of 

 animation, otherwise, they would not be western people. They 

 speak extempore, mostly, but not a few of them, speak accu- 

 rately, so that every sentence might be printed, and it would 

 read very well. On the whole, we feel quite proud of our 

 ministers as such, as Christiana, as citizens and as men. 



The Presbyterians have in the state, about twenty presby- 

 teries as follows, viz: 



304 477 33,949. 

 Thiadenomination of christians, have besides the above three 



