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also affirms that in any Southern State where the 

 negroes compose half the population, "the snuff 

 which is sold amounts annually to more than the 

 cost of all the farming implements of every kind, 

 including cotton-gins, cotton-presses, steam en- 

 gines for farm use, horse-powers, and all sorts of 

 mechanical tools." In conclusion, he says: "I 

 stand prepared with Chalmers' challenge, c Give 

 me your pinches of snuff and I will support the 

 church.' Give me your tobacco, cigars, and snuff, 

 and I will support the whole Southern church, and 

 do it handsomely." 



It is stated by Rev. Mr. Evans, formerly presi- 

 dent of Hedding College, Abington, 111., that 

 the people of that city and vicinity have, in the 

 course of twenty-four years, paid eighty thousand 

 dollars to Abington and Hedding Colleges, while 

 in the city itself twenty thousand dollars are ex- 

 pended every year for tobacco. " This great Chris- 

 tian nation," he affirms, "pays annually forty mil- 

 lions for its religion, and two hundred millions for 

 its tobacco ; " adding, " we make an estimate 

 within the limits of the facts, when we say that 

 this community, city, and country pay as much for 

 tobacco as they do for their religion and education 

 combined." 



Said the late President Wayland : " The Ameri- 

 can Board, an institution of world-wide benevo- 

 lence, and which collects its funds from all the 

 Northern States, does not receive annually as much 

 as is expended for cigars in the single city of New 



