The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1845-04-02

On examination il will be found. thatJu-
ei.zaI and diplomatic appointments are all
made according, TO Federal nombers,' with
81 huge number Eat large" according to MIR.
Upshur's plan. Thus. of the Judges OF the
Supreme Court 5 are shareholders, and the
5 tnemi,ers of Mr.. Tyler's last Cabinet, only
one was from Free State.
Now. all this discrimination in favor OF
slave- holders. under preteEce OF federal
numbers" has no warrant. whatever. IN The
Constitution. By that instrument II was
agreed that. in the appointment of rePresen-
ra,iYes and Of direct lakes, five slaves shsuid
be counted as three free representatives. sup
posed The North would receive, in The rule
Of taxation, an equivalent for the inequality
in the representation. But the Government
is supported by indirect taxation, aud the
North has thus lost the expected equivalent
while il receives no compensation, whatev-
er. for the unconstitutional application oil
Federal numbers" 10 appointments 20 oiAce'
aud to the distribution ofpubIic funds
And now, Messrs Editors, what is the
comparative population of the free and slave
regions, including both States and terrIio-
rio. The last census gIves Us 9'12I:S29
free Inhabitants in the Free States aud Ter
ri;orie.. and 1,Si3.505 five inhabitants in the
Slave States and Territories! Thus, we
find that the Slave region has not quite one
third of the free inhabitants of he Union.
Is then in consequence OF intellectual su-
reriorty and literary attainments, that our
Suu,hern brethren have acquired such
matchmaking influence in the government o!
the na,ionl A single fact answers this ques-
ton. We learn from the census. that there
ere in the United States, $40, COB white per
sons, over twenty years OF age, who cannot
read and write. IN proportion TO their free
population. as we have seen, the Slave States
and Territories ought not 10 embrace more
than oae-third Of this number, viz: 50. 23l.
But the cenrus tells us that they have 3l5,-
S37 white persons, over twenty years oil age,
.sbo cannot read or write-ihat is, nearly
lhree-fiths of the ignorance Of the Nation,
with only one-third if its free population.
A.c:!ier very remarkable fact is the small
nurlaer Of shareholders in the United States.
Human flesh, like land in EnsIaad,is monop-
Oiled at the South by a few. In some parts
of the Slave States the whites are to the blacks
as i00 10 l, and, in one county in Arkansas,
rs 81 10 l. In other parts the slaves are ex-
ccedinely numerous, and far ou.numbering
Ih. whites.
th. Shareholders canuot,on an Average. possess
les Than ten slaves, including women and
children. and probably they possess many
more. Now, the whole number Of slaves Is
2,tS7 ,Il3. which, divided by ten, gives 245,-
I'll as the whOIc number Of shareholders IN
tie nation. Yet this handful Of men, by the
meaus of the magic OF Federal numbers"
AMI the venal sycophancy of Northern De-
Inocracy, rule Ire couatry! The South has
no9 an equal number Of Senators with the
n nth. In the next Congress, six more
Senators will take their seats-t"o from Iowa,
two FROM Florida. and two from TkTAs-giv-
ias The lave-holders n majority in one branch
OF the Legislature. Having the majority and
tn rrefore controlling the Northern denocra-
ey, they will become absolute, and will, from
Ii ne 10 time, make as many new slave States
on of Texas as they see ct; and yet all this,
according TO the Courier, will not increase
thu political power of the slave holder The
assertion is on a par with Gen. Jsckson's, THAT
ihe annexation of Texas will "enlarge the
area Of freedom" although it will probably
extend slavery 10 the Isthmus of Panama!