The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1843-08-03

peen appropriated W culdtSS tH0 Ooto0t
of slavery, 10 recover fugitive slaves, an
to support an EXTRA and undue proportion
of shareholders in office that they nigh
rule US with rod of iron.
In proof, look at facts.
Shareholders have filled the Presiden
tial chair for forty years, and Northern
men only taoelve years and four out 0
the twelve it was filled by Northern
man with Southern principles" Thus A.
years out of So they have had all thu
nominations of Judges of the Supreme
Circuit and District Courts, the Attorney
Generals, District Attorneys and Mar
shalIs, all the nominations for the Cabi
nets, the officers of the Navy and of The
Army, Postmasters, Treasures and Col.
lectors of revenue, Foreign Ministers
Charge DAfaires and Consuls. They
have, consequently, prescribed Northern
feemen however eminent Y qualified fol-
Office, and nominated slaveholding despots
10 fill most of those important stations.--
Thus out of the last IL Judges of the Su-
preme Court ten have been from the
South and tUo from the North. Foreign
Ministers. 80 las, RI from the South and
from the North. Consuls, SO last, %
from the South and 5 from the North
Navy, chief officers, So last, At from the
South aud from the North. Army.
chief officers, So last, % from the South
and s from the North. While the North
have furnished, since the revolution
1922, 465 soldiers; The South only
283,733. The greater proportion Of
Secretaries and Clerks of the Bureaus
have also been from the South.
The South have had all the Vice Pres
idents either in the person Of shareholders
or Northern men pledged to slavery, ever
since the Senate was equally balanced be-
tween the north and South. And the
South have been able thereby to control
the Senate and sanction all the nomina-
lions that pleased them, of savehoding
President, by the casting vote of the Vice
President beng given to the South. Oul
If II elections of Presidents pro TEN, of
he Senate, 81 have been from the South,
nd only l6 have been from the North.
Ever since 1911, eUcry speaker in the
House of Representatives has been
'laveholder but :aoo. Thus they have
oeen able to secure all the committee of
he Senate and House, and thereby Sc
cure all the reports in favor of the slave
One would suppose that with all these
advantages, together with their superior
oil and climate, they must have out
lrpped the north altogether in prosperity
But what are the facts? Look at the
ensus and you will See the retarding in
luence of slavery upon the population Of
he slave states. From this we learn tha,
he increase of population in the free states
rom 1880 10 1910, was at the rate of 80
er cent, while the increase of the free
population in the slave states was ONLY 20
Ter cent. Why this difference Of Is ln
ne two ratios? No other cause can be
ssigned than slavery, which drives from
ne south many of the virtuous, and en-.
,rprisiug. and at the same time deters
migrants from other states and from
'reIgn countries from settling there
he influence of slavery on population is
rikingly illustrated by comparison be.
veen Kentucky and Ohio. These two
ates are of nearly equa! areas. Ken
cky, however, having about 5000 square
lies more than Ohio. They are sepera-
d only by a river, and are both remark
de for the fertility of their soil but one
Is, from the beginning, been cursed with
avery, and the other blessed with free.
I'm. Now mark their respective careers.
1872 Kentucky was erected into
ate. and Ohio in 1902.