Mr. HOGAN. That may be, but Iam only citing these exceptions in order to show this House and the country that all the stories which we have heard of the terrible calamities inflicted upon those people of color in the South are as the “baseless fabrics of a vision;” merely “the figments of the imagination” of those who never saw the institution and never had anything to do with it. All this wrong, all this evil, all this error, have been the exception. The General rule has been the proper, judicious, conservative, I would say Christian, treatment of most of those who by surrounding circumstances have become the possession, or the property if you choose, of t a late masters of the South. But, sir, it has been alleged that the people were brutalized; that they were Iunge in intellectual and moral darkness; that no thought or care was given to their welfare. Sir, that is all a mistake. The southern people have in l the main labored earnestly and ardently in order to advance the condition of those eld in servitude. So far from these statements being true, I affirm that by the labors of the devoted men of the South in caring for the social and moral welfare of the Africans there, the Christian reliion has exercised a salutary influence upon those held in servitude, and more of them have been brought into the enjoyment of Christianity than were converted to the Christian religion by all the Protestant missionaries in all the world beside from the da 6 of Christ till the present time. Ispeak not now of what has been done by the Catholics with reference to the social and religious training of the Africans in the South. Ispeak of what has been done by Protestant ministers who have labored there; and I state it as a fact that up to 1859 1do not speak of any later period, for I have no information as to what has been going on there since that time there were brought into church fellow ship and under the influence of Christian teaching 425,000 and more of these Africans whose ancestors were pagans.