Canton Weekly Register

The correspondent of the New York Herald writes as follows from Columbus Mississippi, with respect to the intelligence of the Southern whites:

"The candid truth is, that, generally speaking, the great majority of the Southern whites are not one whit the superior in education or morals of the negroes. Both races have to be educated. have to be freed from the bondage of ignorance in which the slaveholder has kept both the negro and the poor white trash,' before they will be able to judge correctly what is best for their interest and welfare. If any one wishes to comprehend how it was that the rebel leaders so successfully deluded this people into this accursed rebellion, and to see how completely the poorer whites became mere tools in the hands of the richer planters, he has only to come South and see how totally ignorant and fearfully depraved these poor whites are."