Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-12-12
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The white population of the slave holding sta.es
amounts to 2ls, and the Shareholders 70 s4s,-
525.
The above item Is paraded through the Black
Republican press with infinite gusto. and We OBJ
serve is being copied in the South without CON-
ment. The Tribune, the Albany Journal aud
other pre..e. Of the same kidney. expa,iste upon
itin a characteristic style and triumpbantly call
on the people of the North to look at the numer.
zeal insigni6canoe Of the Southern oligarcby-the
"insolent band Of SLAVE. dealers and cotton plan
trrs--which seeks TO control the domestic and
foreign affairs Of the republic aud TO despotize
over eighteen millions Of Northern freemen.-
Three hundred thousand against eighteen mil
lions, Why, say they. let the social and poiti-
cal pressure of this immense majority be once
brought effectively against it. and It will be
crushed like an eggshell and pulverlzed into in
visible powder. But they reckon without their
host in thus arguing. they are at fault both in
fact and inference. The rationale and the morale
of the statistics which they cite teach very diff.
ferent lessons.
We gu ie from the compendium Of the u. S.
Census Of 1850. 10 show the real number holding
the relation of slav eholders in the South. page
GAY
Tho total number of families holding slaves by
the census of 1885, was 337,525. On the average OF
81 TO family there about 1000 900 persons in
the relation of slaveowners, or about one-third oil
the whole white population Of the slave States In
South Carolina, Alabama. Mississippi aud Louisiana,
excluding The largest cities, one-half OF the whole
population"
Now, when il Is remembered. in addition to
this. that the staple agriculture in the South Is
universally carried on with slave labor-ihat
the whites In the South who do not own slaves
are yet dependent upon the results Of their Ia
bor-ihat even in the North, from the strongest
economical and commercial considerations. all
the manufacturing aud productive interests are
intimately concerned in preserving and inoreas-
ing the consuming capacity of the South. which
is in proporti n to the amount and productveness
Of slave labor--when these and other fncts and
corollaries are logically considered, the anti
slavery black league propagandists will find that
the :. slave power" as they term il, is not 80
contemplate in point of numbers or material
guarantees as they would have their fanatioa
disciples imagine II is interest. in fact. that
is interviewer with every other interest in the
Union and throughout the commercial world
1t represents an actual capital invested IN slave
labor Of over fifteen hundred millions; it sup
ports an import and export trade of not less
than two hundred millions. and domestic
trade which, in all its ramifcatons, is almost
incalculable. Such an interest will not lightly
ego by the wind" before the pulpit outpourings
OF such preachers as Beecher and Parker, or
the newspaper denunciations Of the Greeleys and
Weeds Behold the breadth and depth of its
foundation. II has destiny which corresponds
in height to this base; and nothing but the most
gross self. qualification, and the most ignomini
Gus surrender to its enemies. can defeat its ac
compli.huent