[161] “Mr. Mann. … I have seen the number of actual slaveholders variously estimated; but the highest estimate I have ever seen is three hundred thousand.…
“Mr. Gayle, of Alabama, interrupted, and said: If the gentleman from Massachusetts has been informed that the number of slaveholders is only three hundred thousand, then I will tell him his information is utterly false.
“Mr. Mann. Will the gentleman tell me how many there are?
“Mr. Gayle. Ten times as many.”
Cong. Globe, 30th Cong. 1st Sess., App., p. 835, June 30, 1848.
[162] Distributed according to the following table:—
| Holders of | a single | slave | 68,820 | |
| ” ” | 1 | and under | 5 | 105,683 |
| ” ” | 5 | ” ” | 10 | 80,765 |
| ” ” | 10 | ” ” | 20 | 54,595 |
| ” ” | 20 | ” ” | 50 | 29,733 |
| ” ” | 50 | ” ” | 100 | 6,196 |
| ” ” | 100 | ” ” | 200 | 1,479 |
| ” ” | 200 | ” ” | 300 | 187 |
| ” ” | 300 | ” ” | 500 | 56 |
| ” ” | 500 | ” ” | 1000 | 9 |
| ” ” | 1000 | and over | 2 | |
| ———— | ||||
| Total | 347,525 |
De Bow’s Compendium of the Seventh Census, p. 95.
[163] Erasmus, Adagia, Chil. I. Centur. IV. Prov. 79.
[164] Pope, Essay on Criticism, 580, 581.