Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1841-01-07


AS was sitting in my arm chair the other dav
musing upon the events Of the late Presidential
election, my mind was quite naturally turned unon
thoughts Of Loco Foco humbugs during the ATE
Presidential canvass, and among the rest the grim
form OF Abolition, which frightened Grannv Ritch;e
so much arose in It's turn. determined therefore.
inasmuch as had the official returns before me IN
examine them, and to what was the verdict OF n
majority Of those who are most interested in mi,
subject, and 20 form from thence an impartial and
hna opinion OF the truth or ialsehood of Gen. Har-
Tiscn's connection with the Abolilionists deter
mined 10 60 upon the principle, which believe IN
be correct that those who have the most interest in
subject are generally the best guainted with thai
subject, and that the people arc Intelligent and
pable Of selfgoyernment. From the official returns
gathered the following facts LIST. That Kentucky
which has large slave population, gained the Wbig
banner TO be given to that State which gave the lar
gsst majority in proportion 10 the whole vote, Ken
lucky is her location, more interested in the Abo.
tion question than aav other State. %. That
Louisiana, with the largest number Of slaves in
proportion tosihc whole population Of any State -
the Union, gave an overwhelming mnioritv IN Ola
Tip; the largest she ever gave in any election. I'd
That the strongest slave. holding sections of each
slave State voting for Van Buren,, gave maioritiss
10 Harrison, VIZ: The Eastern part Of Virginia. tbc
Southern portion Of Alabama, the river counties in
Arkansas, and The rver cOuntieg IN the State Of
Missouri. 9TH. That II you divide the "a a,.,ss
into saveholding and non savehoding. and add
the whole popular vote Of each section together the
result will be, that in proportion 10 the whole
popular vote, the slavehoding section. has eiv.
en- larger majority than the non slavsholdinr and
- therefore, the banner section, as Kentucky Is In,
banner State. therefore conclude that this thing
Of Abolition was either oil n humbug, or that tbs
voters OF the slave States are more ignorant Than
"Suabian Dutch" and have been humbueged bv an
'old granny" (Gen. Hauison.) Extending nv re-
searches, especially TO Old Virginia, discovered
49,. -.
slaves Of tho State, gave Harrison about 600 ma.
lorty, and that the Western part, ming the re-.
naming TENTH gave Van Buren, upwards Of 2 O00
Now, there arc in Virginia, seven Congregational
districts west Of the Blue Ridge and Of these three
VIZ; Craig's, Lucas, and Beirne's gave maortieS
10 Harrison, and four gave majorities to Won buren,
VIZ: Samuels', Hopkins, Johnsons and Steenrod,s'
was therefore DESTROYS Of nscerlainng the reative
number ofsaves IN these several districts and Lv "a
ference 10 Martins Gazetteer Of Va. the best and Ia
test authority have IN my possession, have a,eer
tanned that IN 1888 tax was paid upon the following
numberoi slaves in each Of these districts Upon
1885 In Lucas 85s5 in Crlig's, 3O7I in Beirnsi! ~
these three Wing districts, making in all 1854
How stands The case with the four .oro Foeo ds
/ tricisi Tax in that year (ls33l was p,d pno,
, 5l2l negroes in Samuels district, upon ttiG in
/ Hopkins, upon 22lO IN Johnson's, and COS in
Steenfod's, making in the four ,O53, about one
half ~ proportion 10 number with the three Wbio
| diftrcts There nre other facts worth mentioning
| The strong Wing county Of Wood owns about bnlt
the slaves in Johnson's district; and Rockingham.
Which gave Won Buren, majority Of Ills. pad In
80 taxes on lo9 slaves only Shenandoah, which
| gave mnlonly Of Ills, paid taxes upon s91: and
/ Poge, with majority Of near COO upon 81
/ Whereas, upon tho other hand, the strong Wbc
counties, in Eastern Virginia, Of Loudoun. Aeco.
mac, Albemarle, Prlsylvania, Bedford, the civ Of
Richmond, &c pay taxes upon or times ss
many ,iaye' as uey give votes. Af,er taking Tn,
\ view Of the subject which have. I wonld ask +
any rational man will listen 10 the "sickening tiIs'
Rliehle Is always telling about the political union
Abolilionism and Whggery7
a CITIZEN OF GREENE.