The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-07-17

Tennessee 1 IN IL ~ -
Tsrtucky in 90 Louisiana IN IL
\ Carolina in 20 5. Carolina IN ~
10 the whole 10
In 1850, the white male population of the
Slave States, of twenty-one and upwards. must
have been rather more than 100000. Now, II
~. deduct from the whole number of Slave
holders some $1,000 minors and females, we
shau have three hundred thousand adult male
Shareholders. who govern politically the live
hundred thousand non-slaveholding voters of
the slave States, as effectually as they govern
personaliy the three and half million of
slaves. Nearly all the Representatives and
Seus,ors from the South are Shareholders; they
bel.ao 10 and represent the Order of 100000.
How happens it that their 100000 non-slave-
holding neighbors send no Representatives
and Senators? Ought they not to have a
larger proportion than the 100000? From
fhs free States every interest is largely repre-
s-nted-the manufacturing, mercantile, COM
nercal, farming, laboring. There are capital
ISIS and working men, farmers, mechanics, mer-
chants manufacturers, and professional men
allied TO one or more of these various interests,
il Congress. But, from the South, this large
class Of white voters, constituting FIVE hundred
thousand cut of the eight hundred thousand
white male adult population, has no other rep
reseutatives than are furnished by the Order
Of three hundred thousand, who possess, to
,-Pat extent, the capital land, and labor, of the
South.
VIII the time ever come when the politically
DISTINGUISHED white men of the slave States will
make themselves felt as political power? AS
i is, they are in bondage. If they entertain
sentiments adverse to the Oligarchy that rules
them. they must keep them to themselves. We
an recoect with what ferceness few gentle
men in Baltimore were lately denounced at
public meeting, called to pass sentence of
condemnation upon them for selecting Mr..
Blair, of Maryland, to represent them in an
Anti Nebraska Convention at Philadelphia.
The case of Mr.. Ray is another example in
pout-a school teacher, residing in Loudoun
county, Virginia, who, for expressing his oppo.
sition in a debating society to the extension
Of Slavery, was admonished by the mob to leave
the State The venerable Bishop Meade, too,
having addressed some encouraging words to a
colored person to whom he was administering
the rite Of confirmation, was lately arraigued
for that grave offence by a correspondent of
one Of tie leading papers in Virginia, and a
similar penalty was suggested
The New York Ecening Post alludes also to
the case of John G. Underwood, planter in
Clarke county, Virginia, who attended the Re-
pubican Convention at Philadelphia, and made
i speech there, quoting the sentiments of JEFF
iersOn in relation to Slavery, and protesting
against its extension. Preparing to return to
bis home, he was advised of public meeting
10 his county, called to denounce and prescribe
him, aad ne received from his e letter,
published in the Post, from which we quote
the following extract:
a. As far as we have learned, the excitement
Is al Markham Station, Piedmont, and Paris.
- told our friend they were watching at
Piedmont on Saturday for your arrival; and he
bad no doubt, if you had come that day, 50 great
was the fury, you would have met with personal
violence This friend said to me, IF l could
have been there, the man or men who offered
Mr.. Underwood personal violence would have
!elt few Of my heaviest blows Mr.. - and
Nr. - are the leaders at Piedmont; who at
Paris, do not know. At Markham Station,
The leaders say they go for giving you notice,
and a reasonable time TO wind up your business
sld leave the State. / send this morning to
alexandria, to mail this letter at that place,
and telegraph to you to remain in New York
Ill you receive it. / know not what to advise.
am afraid the excitement will meet you, if
you come. You know am jackson, and l
could not have Jackson blood in my veins, with
Ont resisting till the last drop is shed in defence
Of life and liberty; but l do not believe in
counting mob law or martyrdom."
The Post remarks:
The author of the foregoing letter, who is
10 snare the persecution of her husband for
opinions sake, carries in her veins some of the
best blood of Virginia. There is one district in
he State which was represented in Congress
Tor more than thirty years by members of her
family; by Colonel George jackson, her grand
laher; by Edward B. jackson, her father; and
by John g. Jackson, her uncle, whose first wife
wife and widow, now residing in Virgins, was
the emily daughter of Return J. Meigs, formerly
postmaster General, and also Governor of the
State of Ohio"
The most hagrant instance Of prescription
We hare yet heard of is announced by the fol-
towing Geographic despatch from Chicago:
Chicdgo Jane 30.-A Methodist Conference,
winch assembled at Rochester, Andrew coun.
y Missouri, on the l4th instant, received or.
uerS from number of Pro-Slavery men, to ad-
lourn immediately, and leave the State. Not
ompylng with the order, q mob assembled,
Entered the church, and took the presiding
Oneef, and tsrred and feathered him. An old
,uan, who attempted to prevent the outrage,
Inc Conference spoken of was probably
quarterly Conference, and the person tarred
1Aa iesthered, the Presiding Elder. The offence
vas simply the adhesion of the Methodists in
:, ,r'''ourl to tbs Methodist Episcopal Church
worth, Of which the cid Baltimore Conference,
,O1prehending the District of Columbia, q
'@'se portion of Maryland and Virginia, is a
NOuSutnent portion. The Order in Missouri,
4Ne' Inc lead of ex-senator Atchison and the
'Fp'essOrs OF Kansas, has determined to root
~ all such Methodists from that State, SO as
a a eoeFce absolute conformity in ell points to
-", nf doctrine and policy.
/. We 90 not say that every individual who be-
70 this Olgarchy of three hundred thou
- tyrant at heart-fsr from it many
sing to it feel that their own liberty is i'm
-, we do say is, that the Glass or
TH Ue'' a. unit, is an Oppressor, an enemy of
- y, the natural liberty of the black man,
~ 80 political liberty of the white man-a Des-
rNHSm as memorable as that of Austria, and
iu'ng Its power by the same !ntolerable
'uouS, as mark the rule of that lesden Alb
sOlutism.
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