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No. 2.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h1 class="nobreak">FACTS FOR THE PEOPLE<br /> - -<span class="smaller">OF THE</span><br /> - -<span class="bigger">FREE STATES.</span></h1> - -<div class="figtitle"> -<img src="images/title.jpg" alt="" /> -<div class="caption">PRIVATE SLAVE-PRISON AT WASHINGTON.</div> -</div> - -<p> -NEW YORK:<br /> -PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM HARNED,<br /> -<span class="smaller">FOR THE</span><br /> -AMERICAN AND FOREIGN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY,<br /> -<span class="smaller">22 Spruce Street.</span><br /> -$1 PER 100, $8 PER 1000.</p> -</div> - -<div class="pleasehide"> -<hr class="chap" /> -</div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[2]</a></span></p> - - - - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2>SOUTHERN SCENES IN 1846.</h2> -</div> - - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/i_002.jpg" alt="Man in suit whipping enslaved person chained to a tree" /> -</div> - -<h3 class="break-before">Murder of Slaves.</h3> - -<p>The Abbeville (S. C.) Banner -states, that two of Gov. McDuffie’s -slaves were killed on Friday, -Feb. 13th, by two other slaves, acting -in the capacity of <em>drivers</em>! -They were killed by what the law -terms “moderate correction!”</p> - - -<h3>A Slave Woman attempting Suicide -at Baltimore.</h3> - -<p>In June, 1846, the Baltimore -Sun gave an account of a woman -who “jumped out of the window -of the place in which her owner -had confined her, and immediately -took the nearest route to throw -herself into the water.” She was -rescued. But, says the Sun, “Upon being taken upon the deck of the vessel, -she begged the by-standers to let her drown herself, stating, that she would -'sooner be dead, than go back again <em>to be beaten as she had been</em>!’”</p> - - -<h3>A Slave Suicide effected at Richmond, Va.</h3> - -<p>A correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer, July 25, 1846, wrote from -Richmond, as follows:—“An unpleasant occurrence took place in this city yesterday. -A man, who has a number of negroes in his employment, was proceeding, -for a slight offence, to punish one of them by whipping, when the poor -wretch, knowing his master’s unmerciful nature, implored that he might be -<em>hung</em> at once, instead of whipped. This of course would not answer, and on -tying the negro’s hands behind him in the usual manner, the employer went -into another room to procure a cowhide, when the negro, taking advantage of -his master’s absence, rushed from the room, jumped into the river, and was -drowned.”</p> - - -<h3>Slave Suicide and Slave Hunting in Louisiana.</h3> - -<p>In June, 1846, the New Orleans Commercial Times said—“We learn that a -few days since a negro man, belonging to Captain Newport, of East Baton -Rouge, while closely pursued by the dogs of Mr. Roark, of this Parish, ascended -a tree and hung himself. Mr. Roark, with Captain Newport’s son-in-law and -overseer, were in pursuit of a runaway slave. They did not know that this -negro was out, and were surprised upon their arrival, a few minutes in the rear -of the dogs, to find him suspended by his neck, with his feet dangling only a foot or -two from the earth. Every effort was made to restore animation, but without success, -although on their coming up the body was still warm. The act was one, -it would seem, of resolute predetermination, as the slave was well provided with -cords, which he made use of to perpetrate his suicidal purpose.”</p> - - -<h3>More Murders of Slaves.</h3> - -<p>The Palmyra (Mo.) Courier, in August, 1846, says:—“We understand that -a gentleman, living in Macon county, while out hunting with his rifle, last -week, came suddenly upon two fugitive slaves, who gave him battle. He shot -one, and split the other’s skull with the barrel of his gun. He then started for -home, but before reaching it he met a man in the road, who inquired if he had -seen or heard of two runaway negroes—describing them. The gentleman replied, -that he had just killed two, and related the circumstance. On proceeding -to the spot, the stranger identified them as his slaves.”</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[3]</a></span></p> - - - - -<div class="chapter"> -<h2>THE FUGITIVE SLAVE.</h2> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/i_003.jpg" alt="Fugitive slave with hat, bag and dog" /> -</div> - - -<h3 class="break-before">A Slave Hunter Killed.</h3> - -<p>The following is from the -Washington (Pa.) Patriot of -1846: “We learn that a few -days ago, a fugitive slave from -Maryland was pursued and -overtaken in Somerset county, -in this State by a man named -Holland, a wagoner from Ohio, -who was tempted to the task -by the reward offered, $150. -When they reached McCarty’s -tavern the slave attempted to -escape, but was caught by Holland -while in the act of climbing -a fence. The slave drew a -long knife, which he had concealed -about his person, and -plunged it into Holland’s heart, causing his death instantly. He made good his -escape, immediately pursued by the people of the neighborhood, who at nightfall, -had surrounded him, but in the darkness of the night he eluded their vigilance, -and is now beyond their reach.”</p> - - -<h3>The Rights of the Fugitive.</h3> - -<p>The Hon. J. R. Giddings, in a speech in the House of Representatives, at -Washington, Feb. 18, 1846, said—“In regard to arresting slaves, we [of the -free States] owe no duties to the master; on the contrary, all our sympathies, -our feelings, and our moral duties, beyond what I have stated, are with the -slave. We will neither arrest him for the master, nor will we assist the master -in making such arrest. I am aware that the third clause of the second section -of the first article of the Constitution was once believed, by some, to impose -upon the people of these free States the duty of arresting fugitive slaves. But -it is now judicially settled that no such obligation rests upon us. Indeed a proposition -to impose upon us such a duty, at the time of framing the Constitution, -was rejected, without a division, by the Convention. We, therefore, leave the -master to arrest the slave if he can; and we leave the slave to defend himself -against the master if he can. We do not interfere between them. The slave -possesses as perfect a right to defend his person and his liberty against the -master as any citizen of our State. Our laws protect him against every other -person, except the master or his agent, but they leave him to protect himself -against them. If he, while defending himself, slays the master, our laws do -not interfere to punish him in any way, further than they would any other person -who should slay a man in actual self-defence. The laws of the slave -State cannot reach him, nor is there any law, of God or man, that condemns -him. On the contrary, our reason, our judgment, our humanity approves the -act; and we admire the courage and firmness with which he defends the ”inalienable -rights with which the God of Nature has endowed him.“ We regard -him as a hero worthy of imitation; and we place his name in the same category -with that of Madison Washington, who, on board the Creole, boldly maintained -his God-given rights, against those inhuman pirates who were carrying him -and his fellow-servants to a worse than savage slave-market.”</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="smcap">Another Slave Suicide.</span> “The slave of a farmer in an adjoining county, -(Jefferson,) having been jumped upon and stamped by his master, <em>with spurs on</em>, -so as to cruelly lacerate his face as well as his body, he was found, next morning, -in an adjacent pond or stream of water—having tied a stone to his own -neck, (as it is said,) and plunged in, for the successful purpose of drowning -himself, under the feelings of desperation caused by the fiendish treatment of -his master!”—<cite>Balt. Sat. Visiter, Aug., 1846.</cite></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[4]</a></span></p> - - -<h3>PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES.</h3> - -<table summary="Presidents"> -<tr> - <th class="bt br bb">No.</th> - <th class="bt br bb">Name. </th> - <th class="bt br bb">Native State.</th> - <th class="bt br bb">Born.</th> - <th class="bt br bb">Installed into office.</th> - <th class="bt br bb">Age at that time.</th> - <th class="bt br bb">Years in the office.</th> - <th class="bt br bb">Died. </th> - <th class="bt bb">Age at his death.</th> -</tr> -<tr> - <td class="br tdc">1.</td> - <td class="br tdc">Geo. Washington</td> - <td class="br tdl">Virginia</td> - <td class="br tdc">1732 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 1789 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 57 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 8 </td> - <td class="br tdc">Dec. 14, 1799</td> - <td class="tdc"> 68</td> -</tr> -<tr> - <td class="br tdc">2.</td> - <td class="br tdc">John Adams </td> - <td class="br tdl">Mass. </td> - <td class="br tdc">1735 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 1796 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 62 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 4 </td> - <td class="br tdc">July 4, 1826</td> - <td class="tdc"> 91</td> -</tr> -<tr> - <td class="br tdc">3.</td> - <td class="br tdc">Thos. Jefferson</td> - <td class="br tdl">Virginia</td> - <td class="br tdc">1743 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 1801 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 52 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 8 </td> - <td class="br tdc">July 4, 1826</td> - <td class="tdc"> 83</td> -</tr> -<tr> - <td class="br tdc">4.</td> - <td class="br tdc">James Madison </td> - <td class="br tdl">Virginia</td> - <td class="br tdc">1751 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 1809 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 58 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 8 </td> - <td class="br tdc">June 28, 1836</td> - <td class="tdc"> 85</td> -</tr> -<tr> - <td class="br tdc">5.</td> - <td class="br tdc">James Monroe </td> - <td class="br tdl">Virginia</td> - <td class="br tdc">1758 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 1817 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 58 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 8 </td> - <td class="br tdc">July 4, 1831</td> - <td class="tdc"> 72</td> -</tr> -<tr> - <td class="br tdc">6.</td> - <td class="br tdc">John Q. Adams </td> - <td class="br tdl">Mass. </td> - <td class="br tdc">1767 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 1825 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 58 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 4 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> </td> - <td class="tdc"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> - <td class="br tdc">7.</td> - <td class="br tdc">Andrew Jackson </td> - <td class="br tdl">Virginia</td> - <td class="br tdc">1767 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 1829 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 62 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 8 </td> - <td class="br tdc">June 8, 1845</td> - <td class="tdc"> 78</td> -</tr> -<tr> - <td class="br tdc">8.</td> - <td class="br tdc">M. Van Buren </td> - <td class="br tdl">N. York </td> - <td class="br tdc">1782 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 1837 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 55 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 4 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> </td> - <td class="tdc"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> - <td class="br tdc">9.</td> - <td class="br tdc">Wm. H. Harrison</td> - <td class="br tdl">Virginia</td> - <td class="br tdc">1773 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 1841 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 68 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> — </td> - <td class="br tdc">April 4, 1841</td> - <td class="tdc"> 68</td> -</tr> -<tr> - <td class="br tdc">10.</td> - <td class="br tdc">John Tyler </td> - <td class="br tdl">Virginia</td> - <td class="br tdc">1790 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 1841 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 51 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 4 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> </td> - <td class="tdc"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> - <td class="br tdc">11.</td> - <td class="br tdc">James K. Polk </td> - <td class="br tdl">N. Car. </td> - <td class="br tdc">1795 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 1845 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 49 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> </td> - <td class="br tdc"> </td> - <td class="tdc"> </td> -</tr> -</table> - -<h3>PRESIDENTIAL TESTIMONIES.</h3> - -<p><span class="smcap">George Washington.</span>—“I never mean, unless some particular circumstance -should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase: <em>it being among -my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be -abolished by law</em>.”—<cite>Letter to John F. Mercer.</cite></p> - -<p>“There is not a man living, who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a -plan adopted for the abolition of it (Slavery); but there is only one proper and -effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is, by the legislative -authority; and this, <em>as far as my suffrage will go, will not be wanting</em>.”—<cite>Letter to -Robert Morris.</cite></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">John Adams.</span>—“Great is truth—great is liberty—great is humanity; and they -must and will prevail.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Thomas Jefferson.</span>—“The rightful <em>power</em> of all legislation is to declare and -enforce <em>only</em> our <span class="smcap">NATURAL RIGHTS AND DUTIES</span>, and <em>take none of them from us</em>. -No man has a natural right to <em>commit aggressions on the equal rights of another</em>, -and this is <span class="smcap">ALL</span> from which the law ought to <em>restrain him</em>. Every man is under -a natural duty of contributing to the necessities of society, and this is all the -law should enforce upon him. When the laws have declared and enforced all -this, they have fulfilled their functions.”—“The idea is quite unfounded, that on -entering into society, <em>we give up any natural right</em>.”</p> - -<p>“The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the -most boisterous passions; the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and -degrading submissions on the other. * * And with what execration should -the statesman be loaded, who, permitting one-half the citizens thus to trample on -the rights of the others, transforms those into despots, and these into enemies, -destroys the morals of the one part, and the love of country of the other. For, if a -slave can have a country in this world, it must be any other in preference to -that in which he is born to live and labor for another. * * And can the -liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm -basis, a conviction in the minds of the people, that these liberties are the -gift of God; that they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed, I -tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; and that his justice cannot -sleep forever. * * When the measure of the slaves’ tears shall be full; -when their tears shall have involved heaven itself in darkness; doubtless a -God of justice will awaken to their distress, and by diffusing light and liberality -among their oppressors, or, at length by his exterminating thunder, manifest -his attention to things of the world, and that they are not left to the -guidance of blind fatality.”—<cite>Notes on Virginia.</cite></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">James Madison.</span>—“It seemed now to be pretty well understood, that the real -difference of interests lay, not between the large and small, but between the -Northern and Southern States. The institution of slavery, and its consequences, -formed the line of discrimination.”—<cite>Speech in the Convention for the formation -of the Federal Constitution.</cite></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">James Monroe.</span>—“We have found that this evil (slavery) has preyed upon -the very vitals of the Union; and has been prejudicial to all the States in which -it has existed.”—<cite>Speech in the Virginia Convention.</cite></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">John Q. Adams.</span>—“Nay, I may go further, and insist that that (the slave) -representation has ever been, in fact, <em>the ruling power of this government.</em> The -history of the Union has afforded a continual proof that this representation of -property, which they enjoy, has secured to the slaveholding States the control of -the national policy, and, almost without exception, the possession of the highest -executive office of the Union.”—<cite>Speech in Congress, Feb. 4, 1833.</cite></p> - -<p>“Fellow citizens: The numbers of freemen constituting your nation are -much greater than those of the slaveholding States, bond and free. You have -at least three-fifths of the whole population of the Union. Your influence on -the legislation and the administration of the government ought to be in proportion -of three to two. But how stands the fact? * * * By means of the -double representation, the minority command the whole, and a <em>knot of slaveholders -give the law and prescribe the policy of the country</em>.”—<cite>Speech at North -Bridgewater, Nov. 6, 1844.</cite></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">James K. Polk.</span>—On the 12th of May, 1841, a resolution was introduced in -Congress, to the effect, “That the President of the United States be requested to -renew, and to prosecute, from time to time, such negotiations with the several -maritime powers of Europe and America, as he may deem expedient <em>for the -effectual abolition of the African Slave Trade</em>, and its ultimate denunciation as -<em>piracy</em> under the law of nations, by the consent of the civilized world.” The -vote on this resolution was 118 ayes and 32 nays; <em>James K. Polk voting in the -negative</em>. (Cong. Deb. vol. 7., p. 850). Mr. Polk, since occupying the presidency, -has pardoned two individuals, convicted in the courts of having been -engaged in this trade.</p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="chapter"> -<h2>BURDENS OF SLAVERY ON THE FREE.</h2> -</div> - -<h3>The Presidency.</h3> - - -<p>Of the fourteen presidential terms, now expired since the formation of the -government, eleven have been filled by slaveholders, one by a “Northern man -with Southern principles,” and only two by Northern men. The present incumbent -is a slaveholder, sworn fully to do his utmost to uphold, and even extend -the abomination; and most terribly he is fulfilling his vow, in the surrender of -free territory in Oregon, and in a war of conquest for slavery in Mexico, at a -cost of millions of dollars and thousands of lives. By holding the Presidency, -slavery controls the cabinet, the diplomacy, the army, and the navy of the -country. The power that controls the Presidency controls the nation. No -Northern President has been allowed to serve more than one term.</p> - - -<h3>The Vice Presidency.</h3> - -<p>The President exercises much of his power by and with the Senate. The -Vice President is, ex-officio, President of the Senate. As such, he has the casting -vote in all questions before that body. For the last twenty years, with one -exception, <em>he has been a slaveholder</em>. From the adoption of the Constitution up -to June 1842, there were 76 elections, in the Senate, of President pro. tem. Of -these the slave States had 60 and the free States 16. Most of the 16 were in the -earlier periods of the government. Mr. Southard was elected in 1842. Previous -to that, no Northern man had received the appointment for <em>thirty</em> years! -so careful were the slaveholders to watch their interests by securing the casting -vote.</p> - - -<h3>Senate.</h3> - -<p>For a long series of years the Senate has been equally divided between the -free and the slave States. In this condition of it, it was a great point with the -slaveholders to secure the casting vote of the Vice Presidency, and right carefully -have they done it. This vote is of less importance now, since, by the -admission of Texas, the balance of power is broken up, and “The Valley of -Rascals,” on any tie vote, now rules the Senate and the nation.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span></p> - - -<h3>Department of State.</h3> - -<p>The Office of Secretary of State is the most important of any, perhaps, in -the cabinet of the President. As it is the duty of this officer to direct the correspondence -with foreign courts, instruct our foreign ministers, negotiate treaties, -&c.; his station is second only, in importance, to that of the Presidency -itself. Of the 15, who had filled this office up to 1845, the slave States have had -10; the free States 5. The whole number of officers in this department at -Washington, in 1846, is 86. Of these Virginia has 6 and the District of Columbia -45.</p> - - -<h3>The War Department.</h3> - -<p>In 1846, there are, at Washington, 98 officers in this department. Of these, -the District of Columbia has 49—exactly one half, and Virginia and Maryland -have the balance.</p> - -<p>The free States generally have furnished the seamen and the soldiers; the -men to do the fighting and endure the hard knocks, <em>but slavery has taken care -to furnish Southern men for officers</em>. Thus, of 1054 naval officers, New England -has only 172; of the 68 commanders, New England has only 11; of the 328 -lieutenants, New England has only 59; of the 562 midshipmen, New England -has only 82; and New England owns nearly half the tonnage of the country. -Of all the officers in the navy in 1844, whether in service or waiting orders, -Pennsylvania, with a free population more than double that of Virginia, had -but 177, while Virginia had 224. In 1842, under Mr. Upshur, of 191 naval -appointments, the slave States had 117; the free States only 73.</p> - - -<h3>Post Office.</h3> - -<p>The greatest opposition to cheap postage is from the South. The reason is -obvious. As multitudes of their Post-routes do not pay for themselves, they -must be paid for, through a system of high postage, by the North, or be given -up. Thus in 1842, the deficit in the Post Office department from the slave -States was $571,000, while the excess over the expenditures in the free States -was $600,000. This went of course to make up the deficiency of the South. -So that in 1842 alone the North paid all its own postage, and $571,000 of postage -for the South. Nor was this all. The whole number of miles of mail -transportation for 1842, was 34,835,991, at an expense of $3,087,796. Of these -miles, the mail was carried 20,331,461, at a cost of $1,508,413, in the free States; -and 14,504,530 miles, at a cost of $1,579,383 in the slave States; that is, it cost -$70,970 more to carry the mail in the slave States than in the free, while it ran -5,826,931 miles less. Under the new system, from official returns, presenting a -comparative view of the postage received at forty-two offices, North and South, -during the third quarter of 1844 and 1845, it appears that while the falling off -at the offices in the free States has not been one third, that at the offices in the -slave States has been more than one half.</p> - - -<h3>Civil, Diplomatic and Consular Agencies.</h3> - -<p>That most of the “spoils” of office, in these departments go to the slaveholders -is well known. The following is the Diplomatic Agency of 1846.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Full Ministers.</span> To <i>Great Britain</i>, Louis McLane; <i>France</i>, William R. -King; <i>Spain</i>, Romulus M. Saunders; <i>Turkey</i>, Dabney S. Carr; <i>Mexico</i>, John -Slidell; <i>Brazil</i>, Henry A. Wise;—all from slave States; and <i>Russia</i>, R. I. Ingersoll -from Connecticut.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Charges.</span> <i>Austria</i>, William A. Stiles; <i>Holland</i>, Auguste Davezac; <i>Belgium</i>, -Thomas G. Glenson; <i>The two Sicilies</i>, William H. Polk; <i>Sardinia</i>, Robert -Wickliffe; <i>Portugal</i>, Abraham Rencher; <i>Venezuela</i>, Benjamin G. Shields; -<i>Buenos Ayres</i>, George Harris; <i>Chili</i>, William Crump, all from the slave states, -and from the free States only <i>Denmark</i>, William W. Irwin; <i>Sweden</i>, H. W. -Ellsworth; <i>Central America</i>, B. W. Bidlack; and <i>Peru</i>, A. G. Jewett.</p> - -<p>Thus, of the seven full ministers six are from the slave States; and of the -thirteen Charges, <em>nine</em> are from the same; and the four given to Northern men<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span> -are among the most insignificant governments in the world. And this favoritism -of the South has been the policy for years. The civil and consular agencies -are dispensed with a like injustice to the free States. The following, prepared -by Prof. Cleveland, gives the number of persons employed in 1845, in -these several agencies, from a few States, with their salaries, and the number -of free white inhabitants in the same.</p> - -<table summary="Agency employment by state"> -<tr> - <th class="bb br">Free States. </th> - <th class="bb br"> Free Pop. </th> - <th class="bb br"> Persons </th> - <th class="bb br"> Salaries </th> - <th class="bb br"> Slave States </th> - <th class="bb br"> Free Pop. </th> - <th class="bb br"> Persons </th> - <th class="bb"> Salaries </th> -</tr> -<tr> - <td class="br tdl">New York, </td> - <td class="br tdr"> 2,378,890 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 37 </td> - <td class="br tdr"> $ 63,250 </td> - <td class="br tdl"> Virginia, </td> - <td class="br tdr"> 740,968 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 114 </td> - <td class="br tdr"> $200,395</td> -</tr> -<tr> - <td class="br tdl">Pennsylvania, </td> - <td class="br tdr"> 1,676,115 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 90 </td> - <td class="br tdr"> 123,790 </td> - <td class="br tdl"> Maryland, </td> - <td class="br tdr"> 318,204 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 133 </td> - <td class="br tdr"> 170,305</td> -</tr> -<tr> - <td class="br tdl">Massachusetts, </td> - <td class="br tdr"> 729,030 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 43 </td> - <td class="br tdr"> 86,215 </td> - <td class="br tdl"> Dist. Colum.,</td> - <td class="br tdr"> 30,657 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 99 </td> - <td class="br tdr"> 77,455</td> -</tr> -<tr> - <td class="br tdl">Ohio, </td> - <td class="br tdr"> 1,502,122 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 6 </td> - <td class="br tdr"> 4,400 </td> - <td class="br tdl"> Kentucky, </td> - <td class="br tdr"> 590,253 </td> - <td class="br tdc"> 7 </td> - <td class="br tdr"> 34,150</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<h3>Presidential Electors.</h3> - -<p>During the twenty years, ending in 1832, there were six presidential elections. -In these, the South cast 608 electoral votes, but only 41 of them for Northern -candidates. During the twenty years, ending in 1835, there were five presidential -elections, in which the South cast 515 electoral votes, only 11 of which -were for Northern candidates.</p> - -<p>In the presidential election of 1844, <em>thirteen</em> free States had 161 electors, and -gave 1,890,884 votes—<em>one</em> elector to 11,739 votes; while <em>twelve</em> slave States had -105 electors and gave 798,848 votes—<em>one</em> elector to 6,608 votes. In other terms; -<em>six</em> slave State votes counted as much in choice of President and Vice President -as <em>eleven</em> free State votes. In the same election, Michigan had 5 electors and -gave 56,222 votes, or <em>one</em> elector to 11,244 votes; while Louisiana had 6 electors -and gave 26,865 votes, or <em>one</em> elector to 4,447 votes—that is, <em>four</em> slaveholding -Louisiana votes were equal to <em>eleven</em> free Michigan votes.</p> - - -<h3>Federal Representation.</h3> - -<p>The present number of the House of Representatives, including Texas is -228. Of these 21 represent slave property. In fixing the ratio of representation, -after the last census, the House adopted that of 50,179. This would have -given a House of 306 members, and the free States a majority of 68. But a -small majority is more easily managed than a large. The Senate rejected that -ratio and sent back the bill with the ratio of 70,680. This reduced the House to -223 and brought down the majority of the free States to the more manageable -number of 47. The effect of the odd number, 680, was to deprive the four -great States of the north, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, -of one member each, with no corresponding disadvantage to any slave State. -Of this proceeding, even the correspondent of the New York Herald said,—“The -Senate apportionment has robbed the North of at least one quarter of its -practical influence in the Union, when regarded in its full extent; and the members -of the free States who voted for it, have thus surrendered the rights of their -constituents, and violated their trusts.”</p> - - -<h3>The House of Representatives.</h3> - -<p>The Speaker of the House has the appointment of all committees, and of -course exerts an immense influence in this, as well as other ways, in the legislation -of the country. During 31 of the 34 years, from 1811 to 1845, the speakers -were all slaveholders.</p> - - -<h3>Judiciary.</h3> - -<p>The Supreme Court of the United States is the court of highest appeal in the -nation. Its decision on all questions coming before it is final. Of the 30 -judges of this court, the slave States have had 17; the free States 13. The circuits -and salaries are still more unequal and unjust. Vermont, Connecticut, -and New York, with 42 representatives in Congress, and a free population of -over <em>three millions</em>, constitute but one circuit; while Alabama and Louisiana, -with but 11 representatives and a free population of but <em>half</em> a <em>million</em>, consti<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span>tute -another. So of other circuits. Louisiana, with a free population of -183,959, has one judge at a salary of $3,000; Ohio, with a population of -1,519,461, more than eight times as great as that of Louisiana, has only one -judge, at a salary of $1,000: that is, with eight times as many people to do -business for, he receives one-third as much pay. Arkansas, with a free population -of 77,639, has one judge at a salary of $2,000; New Hampshire, with a -population of 284,573, has but one judge, at a salary of $1,000. Mississippi, -with a free population of 180,440, has one judge, at a salary of $2,500; Indiana, -with a population of 685,863, has but one judge, at a salary of $1,000—that -is, two-fifths as much pay for doing more than three times the work!</p> - - -<h3>Surplus Revenue.</h3> - -<p>The Surplus Revenue, distributed by the Act of 1836, amounted to 37,468,859 -dollars. The slaveholders managed to have it distributed, not, as it should have -been, on the basis of free population, but that of federal representation. Thereby -the South, with a free population of 3,823,289, received $16,058,082,85, while -the North, with a free population of 7,008,451, received but $21,410,777,12. So -that for each inhabitant of the <em>free</em> North, there was received but $3,06; while -for each <em>free</em> person in the South, there was received $4,20; or $1,14 more for -each free person in the South, than for each free person in the North. The -South, by this operation alone, received for her slave representation in Congress, -$4,358,549!</p> - - -<h3>Revolutionary War.</h3> - -<p>In this war,—New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, -New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania,—seven States—furnished 172,436 -troops and were paid for services, $61,971,167. Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, -North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia—six States—furnished 59,335 -troops, and received $52,438,130. In other terms, the Northern States furnished -about three times the number of troops and received less than one fifth more pay. -In particular States the inequality was far greater.</p> - - -<h3>The War of 1812.</h3> - -<p>The Slaveholders envied the commercial prosperity of the North, and, to -crush it, decreed the war of 1812, under the pretence of defending “free trade -and sailor’s rights;” and one hundred and thirty-seven millions of dollars were -wasted in its prosecution, and $200,000,000 more were lost on sea and land -by Northern merchants and farmers, and then, leaving “free trade and sailor’s -rights” where they were before, they made peace, and demanded a National -Bank and Protective Tariff. And in the prosecution of the war, says <span class="smcap">Alvan -Stewart</span>, Esq, (Address to Abolitionists Aug. 1846)—“The South placed Major -General Smyth at Buffalo, a slaveholding lawyer of Virginia; Major -General Winder, a slaveholding lawyer of Maryland, at Forty Mile Creek, on -the side of Lake Ontario; Major General Wilkinson, a Louisiana slaveholder, -at the Cedars and Rapids of the St. Lawrence; and Major General Wade -Hampton, the great sugar boiler of Louisiana, and the largest slaveholder in -the United States, (having over 5000 crushed human beings bowing to this -monster and tyrant), was located at Burlington, Vermont, four slaveholding -Generals with their four armies, were stretched out on our northern frontier, -not to <em>take</em> Canada, but to prevent its being taken, by the men of New England -and New York, in 1812, '13 and '14; lest we should make some six or eight -free States from Canada, if conquered. This was treason against Northern -interests, blood and honor. This horrid revelation could have been proved by -General John Armstrong, then Secretary of War, after he and Mr. Madison -quarreled.”</p> - - -<h3>Florida, Florida War, Removal of the Indians.</h3> - -<p>While Florida was in possession of Spain it furnished an asylum for slaves -escaping from the contiguous States. It was therefore bought, at the dictation<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span> -of the slaveholders, at an expense of $5,000,000. For the same purpose, and at -the same dictation the late Florida War was waged, and the native Indian -exiled. Of this, the Hon. <span class="smcap">J. R. Giddings</span>, 1845, said,—“They (the army) captured -460 negroes, who were adjudged slaves by staff officers of the army, to -whom the duty was assigned, and who delivered them over to interminable -bondage. [See House Doc. 52, 3d Sess. 27th Congress.] We have no means -by which we can determine the number of lives sacrificed in that war; but it -may be safely asserted, that the capture of each slave cost the lives of two white -men, and at least $80,000 in cash, the most of which was drawn from the -pockets of the people of the free States. The whole expense of the -war is estimated at $40,000,000. The moral guilt incurred, and the sacrifice -of national character cannot be estimated. Perhaps I ought to add, on the -authority of Gen. Jessup, that bloodhounds were also purchased to act as auxiliaries -to our army, and that bloodhounds, and soldiers, and officers, marched -together under the star-spangled banner, in pursuit of the panting fugitives who -had fled from Southern oppression. [House Doc. 125, 3d Sess. 25th Congress.] -And blood hounds, and soldiers, and officers were paid for from the avails of -Northern industry; while our people were not permitted to petition their servants -to be relieved from such degradation.” One R. Fitzpatrick was employed -to get the blood hounds. He obtained thirty-three, and the cost, including expenses -of bringing to Florida, was $5000. The removal of the Indians from -the several slave States was merely to make room for slavery; and it has cost -at least $50,000,000, and of all these millions the North has had to pay the -largest share.</p> - - -<h3>Texas and the Mexican War.</h3> - -<p>Everybody knows that Texas was annexed and that the war is waged to extend -and strengthen Slavery. The cost of these measures is yet to be ascertained. -There is little doubt that it will exceed rather than fall short of one -hundred millions.</p> - - -<h3>Bank, Tariff, Southern Bankruptcy, &c.</h3> - -<p>The South originated the Bank and the Tariff. When they ceased to work -for its interests, the South abolished both. The sums filched from the North by -these changes of national polity and by Southern bankrupts, seem almost incredible. -$27,000,000, of the capital of the United States Bank was sunk at -the South. $500,000,000, it is estimated, would not more than meet the losses -of the North, in sixty years, from Southern bankruptcy. In fine, there is no -end to these burdens—this side-wise plunder of the free, by those whose entire -life is a wholesale plunder of the Slave. How long will freemen bear it?</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse">“We have a weapon firmer set</div> - <div class="verse">And better than the bayonet:—</div> - <div class="verse indent4">A weapon that comes down, as still</div> - <div class="verse indent6">As snow-flakes fall upon the sod,</div> - <div class="verse indent4">But executes a freeman’s will</div> - <div class="verse indent6">As lightning does the will of God;</div> - <div class="verse">And from its force, nor doors nor locks</div> - <div class="verse">Can shield you:—tis <span class="smcap">THE BALLOT-BOX</span>.”</div> -</div> -</div> -</div> - - -<h2>SLAVEHOLDING RELIGION.</h2> - - -<h3>Maintaining Theological Seminaries.</h3> - -<p>The following is the conclusion of an advertisement in the Savannah Republican -of March 23, 1845:—</p> - -<p>“Also, at the same time and place, the following negro slaves, to wit: Charles, -Peggy, Antonet, Davy, September, Maria, Jenny, and Isaac, levied as the property -of <span class="smcap">Henry T. Hall</span>, to satisfy a mortgage <i lang="la" xml:lang="la">fi. fa.</i>, issued out of the Supreme -Court, in favor of the <em>Board of Directors</em> of the <em>Theological Seminary</em> of the -<span class="smcap">Synod of South Carolina and Georgia</span>, vs. said Henry T. Hall. Conditions, -Cash.</p> - -<p class="right">C. O’NEAL, Sheriff M. C.“</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span></p> - - -<h3>Buying Church Furniture.</h3> - -<p>A runaway slave, in 1841, assigned the following as his reason for not communing -with the church to which he belonged at the South. “The church,” -said he, “had silver furniture for the administration of the Lord’s Supper, to -procure which, they <em>sold my brother</em>! and I could not bear the feelings it produced, -to go forward and receive the sacrament from the vessels which were the -purchase of my brother’s blood.”</p> - - -<h3>Supporting Churches by Slave Jobbing.</h3> - -<p>The Rev. J. Cable, of Indiana, May 20, 1846, in a letter to the Mercer -Luminary, says:—“I have lived eight years in a slave State, (Va.)—received -my Theological education at the Union Theological Seminary, near Hampden -Sydney College. Those who know anything about slavery, know the worst -kind is jobbing slavery—that is, the hiring out of slaves from year to year, -while the master is not present to protect them. It is the interest of the one who -hires them, to get the worth of his money of them, and the loss is the master’s -if they die. What shocked me more than anything else, was the church engaged -in this jobbing of slaves. The college church which I attended, and -which was attended by all the students of Hampden Sydney College and Union -Theological Seminary, held slaves enough to pay their pastor, Mr. Stanton, -<span class="smcap">ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS</span> a year, of which the church members did not pay a cent -(so I understood it). The slaves, who had been left to the church by some pious -mother in Israel, had increased so as to be a large and still increasing fund. -These were hired out on Christmas day of each year, the day in which they -celebrate the birth of our blessed Savior, to the highest bidder. These worked -hard the whole year to pay the pastor his $1000 a year, and it was left to the -caprice of their employers whether they ever heard one sermon for which they -toiled hard the whole year to procure. This was the church in which the professors -of the seminary and the college often officiated. Since the abolitionists -have made so much noise about the connection of the church with slavery, the -Rev. Elisha Balenter informed me the church had sold this <em>property</em> and put the -money in <em>other stock</em>. There were four churches near the college church, that -were in the same situation with this, when I was in that country, that supported -the pastor, in whole or in part, in the same way, viz: Cumberland church, -John Kirkpatrick, pastor; Briny church, William Plummer, pastor, (since Dr. -P. of Richmond;) Buffalo church, Mr. Cochran, pastor; Pisga church, near -the peaks of Otter, J. Mitchell, pastor.”</p> - - -<h3>Selling Ministers as Slaves.</h3> - -<p>At the great Convention, at Cincinnati, in June 1845, Mr. Needham of -Louisville, Ky., said:—“Sir, in 1844, a Methodist preacher, with regular license -and certificate, was placed in the Louisville jail, as a slave on sale. He -preached in the jail sermons which would have done credit to any white -preacher of the town. He kept a little memorandum in his pocket, in which -he marked the number of persons hopefully converted under his preaching. I -represented his case to leading Methodists in Louisville, and showed them a -copy of his papers which I had taken. <em>Not one of them visited him in his prison.</em> -He said he forgave those who had imprisoned him and were about to sell him. -He was sold down the river, which was the last time I saw him.”</p> - - -<h3>A Slaveholding D. D. whipping his “b—h” on Sabbath morning preparatory to -preaching.</h3> - -<p>March 28, 1843, in a public address at Cincinnati, the Rev. Edward Smith, -True Wesleyan, of Pittsburgh, stated that he had lived in slave states thirty-two -years; and, speaking of a certain D. D. of his acquaintance, he adds:—“He -was a slaveholder, and a severe one, too, and often, with his own hands, he applied -the cowhide to the naked backs of his slaves. On one occasion, a woman -that served in the house, committed, on Sabbath morning, an offence of too -great magnitude to go unpunished until Monday morning. The Dr. took his -woman into the cellar, and as is usual in such cases, stripped her from her -waist up, and then applied the lash. The woman writhed and winced under -each stroke, and cried, '<em>Oh Lord!</em> <span class="smcap">Oh Lord!!</span> OH LORD!!!’ The Doctor<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span> -stopped, and his hands fell to his side as though struck with palsy, gazed on the -woman with astonishment, and thus addressed her, (the congregation must pardon -me for repeating his words), 'Hush, you b—h, will you take the name of -the Lord in vain on the Sabbath day?’ When he had stopped the woman from -the gross profanity of crying to God on the Sabbath day, he finished whipping -her, and then went and essayed to preach that gospel to his congregation, which -proclaims liberty to the captive and the opening of the prison doors to them who -are bound.”</p> - - -<h3>The Greatest Impediment.</h3> - -<p>“We are about to make an announcement,” says the True American, “which -must sound very strange to those whose field of observation is unlike our own: -The greatest impediment to the success of the Anti-Slavery movement in the -slave States is, the opposition to it of those men who profess to have been commissioned -by high Heaven to go abroad and use their efforts for the mitigation -of human misery and the extirpation of human wrong! This assertion, which -appears so monstrous, will not surprise any one who lives among slaveholders. -Our conviction of its truth has been confirmed by extensive observation.”</p> - - - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="chapter"> -<h2>RELIGIOUS TESTIMONIES.</h2> -</div> - - -<p><span class="smcap">Archbishop Potter.</span> Some of our wise ones will have it that <i lang="el" xml:lang="el">doulos</i> means -slave. Archbishop Potter, than whom no man was more learned in Grecian -antiquities, in his work on them, published years ago, says, chap. 10, “Slaves, -as long as they were under the government of a master, were called <i lang="el" xml:lang="el">oiketdi</i>; -but <em>after their freedom</em> was granted them, they were <i lang="el" xml:lang="el">douloi</i>, not being like the -former, a part of their master’s estate, but only obliged to some grateful acknowledgments -and small services, such as were required of the <i lang="el" xml:lang="el">Metoikoi</i>, to -whom they were in some few things inferior.”</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="smcap">The Younger Edwards</span>, (Pastor of a church in New Haven, and afterwards -President of Union College)—“Every man who cannot show, that his negro -hath by his voluntary conduct, forfeited his liberty, is obligated <em>immediately to -manumit him</em>. And to hold [such an one] in a state of slavery, is to be every -day guilty of robbing him of his liberty, or of <em>man-stealing</em>—and fifty years -from this time (1791) it will be as <em>shameful for a man to hold a negro slave, as to -be guilty of common robbery or theft</em>.”</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dr. Adam Clarke.</span> “Among Christians slavery is an <em>enormity</em>, and a <em>crime</em> -for which <em>perdition</em> has scarcely an adequate state of punishment.”</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="smcap">Rev. Albert Barnes.</span> “From the whole train of reasoning which I have -pursued, I trust it will not be considered as improper to regard it as a position -clearly demonstrated, that the fair influence of the Christian religion would -everywhere abolish slavery. 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