Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-09-22
From the New York Evening Post
NumbH OF shareholders In the United States.

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No census has ever given US the number
OF slaveholders. We hear and see and feel
so musn OF their power, that we are apt TO
confoufd them with the tUhiie population of
The SoiRh. II is one of our popular delusions
That eYfry Southerner is the owner of slaves,
whereas, IN fact, the people who are forever
threatening to dissolve the Union unless per-
mi,ied 70 govern it, are a very small landed
arisiocracy.
In sHAn Address to the Non.Slaveholders
Of the South" published a few years since,
there Vas a long array of arguments and sta
iistics 70 prove that each master could not, on
an avefage, hold less than fen slaves. or
course on this average, the slave population
dividedby ten, would give the number Of
ownerfYlz; 248,77I, The number deduct
ed from The white males over twenty years
old, in The slave States and territories, viz
l,Ol6,so7, would give US 767 500 adult white
Observation-Disclosures.
A Tag has recently come 10 light, which
most cSnelusively proves that this supposed
average OF len slaves to a master, is very far
below tae True number. 1t seems there has
been . late census (Is1s) taken in Kentucky,
OF votes, of slaves, and of shareholders. Mr..
Underwood Of that State, in a recent speech,
published in the New York Express, gives the
number Of voters (lsls) as 3 9,6l2-the
number Of slaves 192,470, and the number Of
slaveholders eight thousand seren hundred and
forty-fhree being an average gilmore than
fWentyfac slaves 10 each master.
Now, let it be recollec,ed that the slaves
are necessarily less concentrated upon Ken
lucky fsrms than they are upon the large cot
ton and3sugar plantations of the more South
ern States. II is well known that the great
planters hold from one hundred TO twenty
hundred slaves.
A letter from the parish Of Ascension,
Louisiana, giving an account of the ravages
of the cholera, lately published in the news
papers, says +" Mr.. Trist has lost 90 negroes,
kennef3l Dele 40, Minor &c, Col. Bib
has lost "a, Bishop Polk 64." But let us
apply even The Kentucky ratio, obviously too
small, p the whole slave region, and the re-
suit is astounding. The whole number of
slaves men, women and children, were by
the lasl census, 2,497,7iI. This number
divided by %, gives 1l3, 077 as the sum to-
tai OF Tie slaveholders in the United States.
Beyondali question, even this is an exagge-
.raled estimate.
W<ASAe sv apaliseato 5ndaa of aeon.
facy Of )ihe estimates, made BY the sIavehoid.
ers themselves, of their number.
MI. horace Manu. IN speech, 3oth June,
1916 IN me HOUSE oil Representatives Oh,
served ~ nave seen the number oil actual
siaveho'oers Variousiy esuma'ed' oot 'he
nighes' estimate have ever seen, Is MTee
h"norea nouSand' ne was mere interrupted
ny VII, uay,e' Oh hlaoama' II 'ne gen
'e"ian 'iom MASSACHUSETTS mas oeeh in'ofn-
60 tha' tne NUMBER OF siaVeno'ueis Is ohly
lures nuhuieu 'nousahu, men WI. teIi nun
mis- FORMATION Is ufIerLy JaiSe.' MI Mann
-""ll me gentleman tell me now many
mere are MI. nayie-" len umeS az
many len ,hes 'hIee hunuieu 'housahu
oeing Nh'ee n'hilohs' 'nete "ffe' according
10 we gentleman from Aiaoaina' more save
noioefS IN me country man saves! MT
Mead oil virginia, seeing the awkward po'
slHoh IN when MI: HayIe had placed MN
SELL came 10 ms relief ny Teinarklng' ""her
ia'her OF mo'her owned slaves they wert
considered Jotnt properly q me Jam'ty' aho
mus including the grown ana 'he young
mere are ABOUT 'hfee miiiohs interested II
slave property, mus was II attempted Il
neu'TallEe one aosuroity by ano'her' allow
ing' on an average, SIX persons 10 a ia1liiy
Inc s'aVeho,uerS' lheH wives ana chlIuieh
cannot IN 'he aggregate e%eeeu SIX huhuIe'
n'ousahu, nor me sid'enolulnB 'o'e'o oh'
hunoteu 'housahu'
rms small, out PoweIlui arstociacy
WIEN 'ne poil'icai authofliy OF me states II
In which they reside, and 'his they do' no
only by 'he't weai'h ana superior eunca.'on
out ny hdhih9 '"e mdsses oei'e'e 'h"l u.
projecting ana pefpe'ua,ing slavery tne1
are p'onQ"ng Tue genera good. Accoiuin'
70 MI: ohoetwooa' mere IS a majority 0
i0o'oo' non'Sla'eNoia'ns Vo,erS, yel al IN
Ieceh. eiec'9n, mos u .nese Wen weI
wneeoIeu anu 'nIea.eneu 'Hto pe'pe.ud''nI
! Inc "paNlaicha' lhsu'u.ioh IN uhat H,a'e.
II Is obvious 'na' he power ol lhe mas
: tets fes's whOny upon 'he ignorance an
suoseiv.ehcy o. lne hon.slavenoiee,s. iienc
! me wIatn ana ltepInd.lon "an.ies'eu ny ~
s'a'enoiueIs, whenever an a''euP' IS "au
10 ehligh'en we poor huulole Fo'els DIS 70 vi