New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-06-25

Compendium Of the Census, page IS, tho whole
plumber of Shareholders in the United States il cot
down at A7, sos; but Of these it appears that
&c, $40 own only single slave, los 683 own under
FIVE slaves, and 80, 765 own less than ten Now,
these owrers of less than ten not strictly to be
included in the class. They do not belong to the
planting interest. They are generally small me-
cbsnics tadesmep, and private families, that must
have servants; and, free servants are not to be
had, they purchase such blacks a. they want to
snsw er the purpose. Their interest in the subject
as On institution amounts to nothing. Their in
terest, in fact, is the other way-is against it an
institution In the census Of one town, out of $50
Shareholders, it was found that ll5-nearly half
were from Free States, foreign or domestic Now
this proportion corresponds with the number Of
those who hold under FIVE slaves, namely,
174,502, leaving 162,023 Southern savehold-
ers, Of whom 6O,765 own under ten slaves
Yet these 90 individuals who constitute the real
body of Southern shareholders, who are the repre-
sentaiives and agents of it. pretend to be the entire
SOuth-the States and the people Of the States
When 1t is proposed to exclude their atrocious
monopoly from our new lands, they raise terrible
about about invading the rights of the Southern
States and the Southern people. The country is in
daDger-the Union is in daDger-because beggsrly
ninetytwo thousand out of twenty-five millions of
white people cannot do as they please! It's case
somewhat like that of the great Hindoo deity at
Samnat, which the 2 600 priests and 500 dancing
women who lived by it had persuaded the super
stitious multitude was the most powerful and bene
fceht god Of oil the East. They gave ont that the
world would sink if nybOdy dared to profane the
sacred image; but When Mshmoud ran bis iron
mace into the belly Of the deity it was found that
the precious stones and jewels it contained gave .
satisfactory explanation the devout reverence Of
the Brshmins. Slavery has been our idol for many
years. Its officiating priests have persuaded us
that it was identified with the salvation of the
na'iop; but, now that the Census has probed it, We
discover that it is nothing more than snug and
comfortable support for handful of worshPers.
1t may be said that though tae slaveowners are
only 92 600, the entire South is interested in the
system of labor which they maintain. The pro-
ducts of this labor put in operation an immense
mechanism Of commerce ard trade; and they who
live by this trade have as much interest in Slavery
az they who are it's direct controllers But this is
true of every existing state Of things of every So
cal institution, and might be used to justify any
established despotsm, or any prevailing vice.
There is always large interest direct aud indirect
depending upon the status quo AID where the qaes.
toni whether that status quo shall be changed
or not this interest ought TO be heard. 1t might
be permitted the shareholders, therefore, to ident
fly themselves with the whole Southern community,
if the point in dispute were the abolition Of Slavery
where it is; but that is not the point now: the
poirt IL, whether Slavery shall be extended Into
regions where it does not yet exist and in respect
to that point the shareholders proper are the party
in action. A large number of people are inter-
ested in the Camden and AmbOy Railroad monopo
ly in New..Jersey, who are not shareholders. On Ia
question as to the abolition Of this monopoly within
the State, such people might be considered But
if that Company were to assert pretensions to
the enjoy ment of its peculiar privileges in New
York or in Kansas, the rest OF the world
would deal with it directly, and not suppose that
they were infringing the rights OF New-Jersey or
of the New.Jer.sy people, in resisting those pre-
tensions. The rest Of the world would say that
there mOnOpOlsts were arrogant and overlooking
fellows in pushing their clSms outside of their Pc
cuisr limits even though the half or twothirds Of
New. Jersey were supported by that monopoly. 1t
is against the extension of peculiar system, and
not the exsteI ce Of it where the people tolerate
it, that the war would be made.
We repeat then, that when the Douglasites de- |
claim against those who would keep Slavery out Of
the Territories, that it 10 warning upon the eq sl
rights Of the States they utter gross fallscy. |
Their general term is far too comprehensive. |
No war is made upon the States, nor upon
the people of the States, nor upon any class Of |
the people, bu, smpl, against the extension Of the
privileged power OF class beyond its legitimate
bounds. The people of all the States have the
freedom of the Territories; they may 60 there
when they please, and iu such numbers as they
please; but ey canDo. go privileged individuals,
carving with them peculiar privileges, and in
sistinQ that the anomaly Of neishbOrhOod shall
become the general law Of the whole land all
the ou,cry about Dus to the States is the versst
trash and bsldexdash. No persons are better aware
of this than the partisans Of Slavery, and they ad
here to the pret<x 1t only because truth aud honest
dealing will not anrwer their purpose.
We do not hear so much of the Ballot in England