The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-05-23

menl OF Stale, whether gross errors Wer
not contained in the Census of 1870; b.
whose fault such misstatements wer
made; and whether any thing had beel
done by that Department 10 correct them
The resolution of Mr. Adams was adopted
but, as yet, the Secretary OF State has no
seen tit 10 enlighen Congress on the sub
Ject. The false statements Of the Censu
were, however, notorious, and of Them
the Department of State could not have
been Ignorant at the time when the truth o
them was appealed 10, in the Document'
accompanying the treaty, as reason why
the treaty was negotiated and should bt
ratified. DR. Jaruis of Dorchester, haC
detected the false and injurious errors o
the Census, and exposed them in pamph
let devoted 10 that subject, and from il
abstracts had been taken, which were cir.
culated in many public journals. This
information can readily penetrate the free
States, but from the slave States it is care
fully excluded.
If the returns, as made, from the free
States had been correctly published by
the Department of State, we have reason
to believe, that even then, there would
have been great injustice done TO the free
colored population Of this country, and 10
the cause OF human rights universaIIy.-
In taking the Census of the free STATES,
there is much nearer approach TO cor.
rectness, in the various statistics which
are required by the authority of the Con.
stltullon and of Congress, than in the
slave States. In Massac husetts, there is
no difficulty in Obtaining correct returns
respecting The insane, and other unforlun-
ate classes among the colored population.
TO get equally just accounts of the same
classes from the plantations of the slave
States, is next 10, if not quite impossible.
Many causes combine TO make the diff.
Guilty very great, aud to prevent its being
overcome. Here the State is divided into
towns, with systematic municipal reguIa-
lions. There, no such thing is known.
Here the unfortunate children OF the COL
ored population, are the objects of parental
affection and care. A large parl of the
children of slaves know no father, and but
a little while, mother. The idiot, the
deaf, and the blind are worth nothing,
are nuisance, 10 theI: owner. Neglect
and i'll treatment Of course, 10 enhance the
calamity of nature, till early death brings
the welcome release. The disparity be-
tween these classes, in the free and 10 the
slave States, must, therefore, be consider
able. among those who survive, whilst the
disparity in the Census must be far great
er None know these facts better than
they who prostitute the Census for the
propagation of slavery. G. A.
RATHER WILD. A New York paper
says
"When we are convinced that we
ought, not in any case to vote for slave
holder, we shall feel constrained to take
ground openly and manfully, for disso-
luton of the Union"
We do not attach quite so much conse
quence to Shareholders, as this paper
does. They do not constitute, with lis,
the south. We consider the slavehold
ing class, as an excresence on the south
and the sooner it is Topped off, secundum
iegem, the better. We have now before
US a letter, from one who ought to know
on the margin of which is written
",rhe number of slaveh olders, from
auditors's olfice) in this State, is 81 ,450"
That is, in Kentucky. Amid white
ofsix hundred thousand, the
number of shareholders, is but thirty one
thousand four hundred and fifty. ! may
be willing to vote for any candidate select
ed from the five hundred and seventy
nine thousand non-slaveholding Ken
tuckians, aud yet, i'll object TO voting
for any one of these thirty-one thousand
Oligarchs, that is equivalent to dissolu
ton OF the Union
Aye-it equivalent to dissolution of
the Union 0iM tOuery.-Ci@cinnat1
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