Failing in securing the Reports of the Baptists at the South, we are unable to exhibit in detail, their operations among the slave population. The same failure has also occurred in reference to the Cumberland Presbyterians, and some of the other denominations at the South. The statistics, taken from the _Southern Baptist Register_, will indicate the extent of their success. The following statement made up from the Annual Reports of the Churches named, or from the _Register_, shows the extent to which the slave population, in the entire South, have been brought under the influence of the gospel, and led to profess their faith in the Saviour: Methodist Episcopal Church South, 188,000 Methodist Episcopal Church North,[81] in Va. and Md., 15,000 Missionary and Anti-Missionary Baptist, 175,000 General Assembly Presbyterian, (O. S.,) 12,000 General Assembly Presbyterian, (N. S.,) estimated 6,000 Cumberland Presbyterians, 20,000 Protestant Episcopal Church, estimated 7,000 Christian Church, 10,000 All other denominations, 20,000 ------- Total 453,000 The remark has been made, in two of the reports quoted, that the number of slaves brought into the Christian Church, as a consequence of the introduction of the African race into the United States, exceeds all the converts made, throughout the heathen world, by the whole missionary force employed by Protestant Christendom. Newcomb's Encyclopedia of Missions, 1856, gives the whole number of converts in the Protestant Christian missions in Asia, Africa, Pacific islands, West Indies, and North American Indians at 211,389; but more recent estimates make the number approximate 250,000: thus showing that the number of African converts in the Southern States, is almost double the whole number of heathen converts. It is well enough to observe here, that these facts are not given to prove that slavery should be adopted as a means of converting the heathen, but to call attention to the mode in which Divine Providence is working for the salvation of the African race. Our opinion as to the advancement of the free colored people of the United States, in general intelligence, does not stand alone. It is sustained by high authority, not of the abolition school. The _Democratic Review_, of 1852,[82] when discussing the question of their ability to conquer and civilize Africa, says: