NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS.--The number of newspapers and periodicals in Rhode Island in 1860, was 26, of which 18 were political, 6 literary, and 2 miscellaneous. (Census, Table No. 37.) The number in Delaware was 14, of which 13 were political, and 1 literary. Of periodicals, Delaware had none; Rhode Island, 1. The number of copies of newspapers and periodicals issued in Rhode Island in 1860 was 5,289,280, and in Delaware only 1,010,776, or largely more than five to one in favor of Rhode Island. As regards schools, colleges, academies, libraries, and churches, I must take the census of 1850, those tables for 1860 not being yet arranged or published. The number of public schools in Rhode Island in 1850 was 426, teachers 518, pupils 23,130; attending school during the year, as returned by families, whites, 28,359; native adults of the State who cannot read or write, 1,248; public libraries, 96; volumes, 104,342; value of churches, $1,293,600; percentage of native free adults who cannot read or write, 149. Colleges and academies, pupils, 3,664. (Comp. Census of 1850.) The number of public schools in Delaware in 1850, was 194, teachers 214, pupils 8,970; attending school during the year, whites, as returned by families, 14,216; native free adults of the State who cannot read or write, 9,777; public libraries, 17; volumes, 17,950; value of churches, $340,345; percentage of native free adults who cannot read or write, 23.03; colleges and academies, pupils, 764. (Comp. Census, 1850.) These official statistics enable me then again to say, that slavery is hostile to the progress of _population_, _wealth_, and _education_, to _science_ and _literature_, to _schools_ and _colleges_, to _books_ and _libraries_, to _churches_ and _religion_, to the _press_, and therefore to FREE GOVERNMENT; hostile to the _poor_, keeping them in _want_ and _ignorance_; hostile to _labor_, reducing it to _servitude_, and decreasing _two thirds_ the value of its products; hostile to MORALS, repudiating among slaves the _marital_ and _parental_ condition, classifying them by law as CHATTELS, darkening the immortal soul, and making it a _crime_ to teach millions of human beings to _read_ or _write_. THE CAUSES AND RESULTS OF THE WAR.