New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-07-01

slayetOlGiDg OlEsICHJi VIM" H'' ~ ''"s $3.50
law to this co1ntry, hsd We had time and space 70
60 into greater detail on that occasion. Perhaps
one or two supplementary considerat ons may not
BE- superauous or unAdif ing. The whole number
OF pc, scDs en- poy slaves is set down In the cen
su, as We stated in that article, at H 90 Ibis
includes all using slave sergce, as the census Itself
states, whether as owners or h'rers. VI course,
large proportion Of those SET down as employing
iess than ten slaves have not even the
qualified ;nterest in maintaining the pre-
dominance of the Slave Power in the nation
that the actual ownership Of even iex slaves
might imply Probably all who are set down as
owning 6ve slaves or lees, and many of those as
owning between FIVE and ten. are ia fact merely
hirers, bsviDg no interest in thu perpetuatlon OF
Slavery whatever but every interest in its removal
that the wish to get better aid chesPer services,
and TO escape from the crushing tyranny of the
masters, csn create. This is the class, above all
hers, on whom the yoke Of the shareholders
presses the heavest-next 10 the slaves them
selves They are persons generally from the
North. of some Intelligence and educstiOn, OF some
itdustry and capital who what curse Slavery
lie 70 tlefn dQQ tlcif CutlUIcu, oDu yC. no'c tncA
bands tied and their mouths gagged, from moving
fpger or wse gng tongue for their deliversnce
The terrorism that broOds oyer these unfortunate
citizens s terrible indeed.
Again IS to the 81, 257 persons-to which num-
Der We proved by figures, which cannot ie-that
the actual Slave Interest is confined, we should
remember that not all Of them are in the posses
.ioh of politca, power. This gross numb"r in
cIudes all the women ard cbildre n owning slaves.
We mean, OF course, the women and minors who
own slaves il their own right and not the members
Of slsvehoGing families. Now, as the women and
Minors bave no vote, 1t would be but fair TO deduct
them from the nunber Of persons concerned in
sayeholdipg that constitute the SavePower proper.
Allowing one third Of the plumber, or 3O755, to
come under this head, it would reduce the number
OF sciual 7Oti,g Shareholders to $3.50? or
this remainder, it will be remembered,
modersts proportion of the richest and
most intelligent. reside permanently in this
city, IN Philadelphia at Newport, and in various
places in the Free States. besides q considerable
nsmbe. that i've In Europe. These Absentees
comprise the mos. bumsn zed, cultivated and re-
0bP1 DOEIiOL OF THO Ctn'tHoioCAS PN'r"ho "ii"
have no preudices, or none which they cannot
conquer against holding slaves AID living luxury
upor tie proceeds Of their unpaid toll; but who
sorink from the oi.com'orts aunOf apces, yugar'
ties and dsa, rec abts Of thousand kinds iusepa-
rsble from lf7iDg in slaveholdng community
They sra also many of them, DESTROYS of educating
their children az distance from the moral corrup
4 (: a.. Of th. N
Slavery. Nov, though this class of persons have
much TO DO with the moral support of Slavery by
their social i, huebce on Northern society and in
Northern churches, still il would be but fair 70 de-
duct the vo,irE portion Of these nonresident slave
holders from the actual political element that con-
trolls us all This can only be done approximately.
Perhaps We might reduce the number of 6l,5o2 to
50. OOO without stretching the figures. But az it
is doubtful whether there are TO- 900 men, living by
Slavery, rich enough to afford to live away from
tee coarse pl-nt, of their plantations, We will be
moderate and OF ly take off the odd numbers on this
account We ehs be very much within bounds
10 saying that tie Political Slave Power does not
list of 30 many ss GO, 600 voting men.
Here. thee, is state 'of things well worthy the
or themselves. Putting the population Of the
United States at the very moderate figure Oftwensy
FIVE millions, Wa have this fact staring US in the
ACE The policy. the Legislation, the destiny Of
twenty FIVE millions Of human beings is now con-
troled and virtually governed by less than sixty
thousand men :! Sixty thousand ulen govern, to all
ibtents and purposes with abso!ute sway, at this
xofs. f.ux su,U,nas bUo1rsd and
(orty thousand souls =! And we are pleasantly
told il Fourth of July Oratons and Negro catching
Sermons that this is Model Republic And now,
encouraged by their success in tGe past, and see-
ing The constant necessity of Strengthening them
selves in TINA to come, our sixty thousand
lords demand fresh material guarantees Of
thsi: power ever is. Aided b. traitors among
ourselves, they haze forced their way across bar.
riss raised BY their fathers AID ours into terri
tories consecrs:d for three score aud ten years to
freedom, The sixty thousand demand absolute
equality Of tights there with the twenty-five mil
hons cine hu,dred AID forty thousand And this
Piece and Douglas AID Buchanan call equality
uLde- the Constitution, and sound Democratic
doctrine Let the people Of the Free States IN.
ders'a-d tbst ibis is precisely the question Thi,h
they have go. TO meet Taken out Of its gildsd
'sEc"phssos AID stripped Of its perflmed
cefenents, thu black, loatbsone, ugly
reality they uu<. confront 10, whether
they y i'll submit to have their laws drafted aud
Sdjucssd upon, TER Presidents appointed their
Douest C Interests tempered with. their Foreign
Policy dictated. their War and Peace made for
them ther NntiOI al honor tarnishe1 and fhsir