Daily national Democrat., 1861-10-10
The Ten.Negro Aristocracy of Cotton

cinnati Gazette, he said, concerning the
bogus Southern Confederacy:
Now let us look at the eligibility of repre-
sentatives to that government to be erected
upon their views. The Senator must be worth
$500 and 10 negroes. have asked Ken
tucky if the Hon. John C. Breckenridge is
eligible upon those conditions, and | have
been told no. Now own but eight negroes,
aud not nearly the amount of money named,
yet the people of my State sent me to the
Senate of the United States, and, l thank
God, was made welcome there
We have not. at present, the Constitution
of the so.called Confederate States, at hand,
and do not recollect its provisions concerning
qualifications for Office. We take it for
granted that Senator johnson knows its pro
visions well. According to the above, ifthe
rebels succeed in establishing their system,
no citizen can occupy seat in the highest
Legislative body who IS not the owner often
slaves We doubt if one in five hundred Of
the people of the United States have any
idea of the effect of such a provision. We
desire to call attention to some figures on the
sui iect We do not care about asserting that
figures will not lie. 1t will answer our pur-
pose equally well to have il agreed to by the
reader, that the figures of j. b. DeBow (of
DeBow's Review will not lie in favor of our
side Of the great question That distinguish
ed individual was Superintendent of the U.
S. Census in 1850, and prepared a compen
dium Of the census of that year, in which
book he furnishes great variety of inter
esting statistics. On page so, we find a table
showing the number Of male whites oftwcnty
one years ofage and upwards in the several
States. On page 95 we find table showing
the number of persons owning slaves and
classifying them according to the number
owned These two tables, be it remem-
bered, were prepared by the present Com
missioner of the Cotton Loan of the
rebel Government, and not by a friend of
some incredulous secession editor, who but
repeats the catchwor of the traitors, with
out ever looking at figures for himself, may
think we are romancing. The two tables
then, being admissible in evidence agsiaet
the Cottonocracy, show that, in 1850, the
white males of twenty one years and up
wards in the eleven States which are in re-
bellion, numbered a little more than one mil.
lion. The number of persons in those eleven
States, irrespective of age or sex, who owned
ten slaves, was only 81 ,246. If every owner
of ten slaves and upwards in the rebel States
was otherwise eligible, by age, sex and citi-
zenshp, the number who could aspire 10
Senatorial honors would be exceedingly
small in proportion to the whole. We think
the slave-property qualification should satis-
fy the most exclusive of the Cotton Aristo
Gratis A man owning only nine slaves is
not to be regarded quite sound on the
goose" lie may be worth ten thousand
horses, mules, or cattle, but it is no so. The
select party whose members each own ten
negroes or upwards, are your only real born
T rulers. Faithful services rendered these ma
bobs-these wonderful fellows worth eight
or nine thousand dollars worth Of negroe
apieee-services, we say, rendered them b,
those owning from nine negroes down t.
none at all, will not admit the middle or low
er classes to the privileges of the aristocrats
who own ten OF more "contrabrands o
the 81 246 owners of ten slaves and upwards
of course many are ineligible to the Senator
ship from lack of years; others are not citi-
zens; some are females, and some are free me-
groes. The census of 1860, although it
shows an increase of population since 1850,
does not probably show any material increase
in the number of the negro aristocracy.
We have no comments to offer upon the
subject. We only desired to call attention
to the novelty of founding Government in
which $4,000 of niggers' shoald entitle a
man to political privileges which could not
be enjoyed by one who owned millions in
other property, but held less than ten slaves
The great founders of the magnificent Cot
ton Kingdom would, perhaps, have mad,
: $4,000 in negroes the minimum price of ad
: mission into the first circles, but many o
} them would thereby have been "oversized;
and, besides, it would have been too exclu-
sive, for that nuisance, DeBow with his ugly
figures tells US that in all the United States,
there were not, in 1850, quite 5000 persons
who owned, each, fifty slaves or upwards. -
We trust that we show no disrespcct to the
$4,000 nabobs of Cottondom, by quoting
from their friend DeDow. It's not our fault
that the census makes such showing.