RESULT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES FROM 7796 to 1856. Elect'l vote. 71 68 73 64 162 14 128 45 122 De Witt Clinton 89 183 34 218 No opposition but one vote - 99 84 41 37 178 83 219 49 11 7 Martin Van Buren 170 William H. Harrison 73 1836 Hugh L. White 26 Willie P. Mangum 11 Daniel Webster 14 234 60 170 105 163 Lewis Cass 127 Franklin Pierce 254 1852 General Winfield Scott 42 James Buchanan 174 1856 ) John C. Fremont 114 8 No choice by the people ; John Q. Adams elected by the House of Representatives. Millard Fillmore York Tribune have contributed about $30,000 for the purpose of securing Kansas to Freedom; and, with the same object in view, other individuals and societies have, from time to time, made large contributions, of which we have failed to keep a memorandum. The legislature of. Vermont has appropriated $20,000; and other free State legislatures are prepared to appropriate millions, if necessary. Free men have determined that Kansas shall be free, and free it soon shall be, and ever so remain. Harmoniously the work proceeds. Now let us see how slavery has rewarded the poor, ignorant, deluded, and degraded mortals—swaggering lickspittles—who have labored so hard to gain for it “a local habitation and a name" in the disputed territory. One D. B. Atchison, Chairman of the Executive Committee of Border Ruffians, shall tell us all about it. Over date of October 13th, 1856, he says : “Up to this moment, from all the States except Missouri, we have only received the following sums, and through the following persons : A. W. Jones, Houston, Miss., $152 H. D. Clayton, Eufala, Ala., • 500 Capt. Deedrick, South Carolina, 500 $1,152." On this subject, further comment is unnecessary. Numerous other contrasts, equally disproportionate, might be drawn between the vigor and munificence of freedom and the impotence and stinginess of slavery. We will, however, in addition to the above, advert to only a ugle instance. During the latter part of the summer of 1855, the citizens of the niggervilles of Norfolk and Ports. mouth, in Virginia, were sorely plagued with yellow fever. Many of them fell victims to the disease, and most of those who survived, and who were not too unwell to travel, left their homes, horror-stricken and dejected. To the horror of mankind in general, and to the glory of freemen in par ticular, contributions in money, provisions, clothing, and other valuable supplies, poured in from all parts of the country, for the relief of the sufferers. Portsmouth alone, according to the report of her relief association, received $42,547 in cash from the free States, and only $12,182 in cash from all the slave States, exclusive of Virginia, within whose borders the malady prevailed. Including Virginia, the sum total of all the slave State contributions amounted to only $33,398. Well did the Richmond Examiner remark at the time—"we fear that generosity of Virginians is but a figure of speech.” Slavery ! thy name is shame! IN CONNECTION with tables 44 and 45 on page 292, it will be well to examine the following statistics of Congressional representation, which we transcribe from Reynold's Political Map of the United States : UNITED STATES SENATE. 16 free States, with a white population of 13,238,670, have 32 Senators. 15 slave States, with a white population of 6,186,477, have 30 Senators. So that 413,708 free men of the North enjoy but the same political privileges in the U. S. Senate as is given to 206,215 slave propagandists. A contrast quite distinguishable ! That the apologists of slavery cannot excuse the shame and the shabbiness of themselves and their country, as we have frequently heard them attempt to do, by falsely asserting that the North has enjoyed over the South the advantages of priority of settlement, will fully appear from the following table : FREE STATES. 1614. New-York first settled by the Dutch. |
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