Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-11-17
MISC LA NY.
From the Madison County Abolitionist.
Keep IL before the Peoples

nd sold like cattle in the market. That !
d 1886, Virginia sold 10000 Of her own
hildren, at a valuation of ga, 100000.
Keep it before the People-That slave
y has twenty-five representatives upon
he floor of Congress, as the representa-
ives Of property.
Keep 1T before the People-That Ohio,
under the old ratio of representation, with |
i free population of 100000 more than
Virginia, had two members less than Vir-
GINA.
Keep 1t before the People-That Penn
sylyania, with free population, equal nj |
most to South Carolina, Georgia, Alaba-
ma, Mississippi, Louisiana and Kentucky,
will have according to the new ralio, say
10000, twenty eight representatives,
while these States will have forty-three!
Keep 1T before The People -That New
York, with population of 2,428,9l9, is
to have forty representatives, while the
thirteen slave States, with flee population
of less than double that OF New-Y ork,
will have ninety seven representatives in
Congress
Keep It before the People-That the
free population oflh North. is 9, 1858, 1852;
and will have on The floor of Congress,
one hundred and fifty four representatives;
while the South, with free population of
4,8l2,873-less than half--is to have
ninety .sevenl Whereas, if the ratio of
representation was based upon free popu-
lation only, their number would be Is.
| Keep ~ before the People-That the
distribution of the Revenue, from the sale
of the public Lands, say 100000 per
ann, is made according to the electoral
vote, instead of the free population. So
| that the slave States receive, for a free
population less than half in number to
those of the free States, twice as much of
the revenue, in proportion to the popula-
tion. ~
Instances--Free population of the free
States, 9,653,762. Dividend, $I,8l5,
O26. ...
Free populotion OF the slave States. 4.
8l2,873. Dividend, $l,l8l, 7O2.
The injustice of this division may be
clearly seen when it is remembered that
of the money thus distributed. the people
of Ohio, Indiana. Illinois and Michigan
/ gel. to each inhabitant, l8I cents; while
is. Carolina gets 80 l-6; Georgia, 20 /:
} Alabama, %; Louisiana, %; Kentucky,
%; and Tennessee. % cts. to each inhabi-
tant And thus ends the great Distribution
Bill" Of the Wings. -..:
II Keep 1t before the Peopie-TEat this
legislation of which SO much is said in
behalf of the party in power, is giving the
f South premium for slavery. Not only
toleraling it, but taking money belonging
; to hard working men Of the North, to pay
southern men for their institution.
Keep 1t before the People-That the
; surplus revenue was distributed in thu
. same way, in 1887, aud no protest wa:
entered by any man on the floor of Con
5 gress.
Il Keep II before the People-That TO
5 forty out of forty-elght years, slavery ha
I had President from her own territory
: Keep 1t before the People-That 70
thirty out Of thirty-six years, We have hat
: a slave-holdipg Speaker in the House 0
e Representatives, who has the appointment
i of oil the Committees.
y Keep IL before the People-That sine,
s 1880, there have been five appointment
9 to the bench or the Supreme Court of tn
Z United States, and every one from slav
9 States.
y Keep 1t before the People-That tn
t District of Columbia is the greatest slav
I. mart in the world : and that on the page
of It's statute book, among other laws
r bloody as death, stands unrepealed, th
Re following "A slave convicted Of Sc tin
fire 10 building, shall have his head Gu
n of, and his body divided and hung up i
IF the most public places. "--,es Laws ofti
ofl District.
n Keep IL before the People--That such
" law makes model oil our Republic, 70
e Prince Metternich to laugh at, and to Civ
}. his pubic criminals the choice of workin!
9 inthe State mines forilits, or being Danish
ed to the United States; and to know tina
y they chose the former.-[See Brook
}, Letters from Austria.
81 Keep u before The People--That iron
K 1926, to 1928, six persons were sold 70
o their Jail fees, in the district of Columbia
q and that on the 9th of February, 1886
II eighty-two Northern congressman volet
: "that Congress ought not, in any way, in
Il terfere with slavery in the District of Co
5. lumbia."
$ Keep II before tie peopls-T hatthis hor
e rid Slave system ito say nothing of tn
G christian governmental system, that abet
$ i and sacrifices all political professions /,
g its dragon interests is the pet OF the reli
r gion ofthe country that the professe,
+ chistians of the country, who can With an,
= convenience or qualification to themselves
i and where the climate will admit off holc
q ssaues; that their dedicated ministers owr
P slaves; that their church organizations
o own human cattle-own their own indiyid
e | ual members. and let ont their hn.l;a. ~.