One slave State Representative represents 68,725 white men and women.
Slave Representation gives to slavery an advantage over freedom of 30 votes in the House of Representatives.
CUSTOM-HOUSE RECEIPTS.—1854.
| Free States, | $60,010,489 | |
| Slave States, | 5,136,969 | |
| Balance in favor of the Free States, | $54,873,520 |
A contrast quite distinguishable!
That the apologists of slavery cannot excuse the shame and the shabbiness of themselves and their country, as we have frequently heard them attempt to do, by falsely asserting that the North has enjoyed over the South the advantages of priority of settlement, will fully appear from the following table:—
FREE STATES.
SLAVE STATES.
| 1607. Virginia first settled by the English. 1627. Delaware settled by the Swedes and Fins. 1635. Maryland settled by Irish Catholics. 1650. North Carolina settled by the English. 1670. South Carolina settled by the Huguenots. 1733. Georgia settled by Gen. Oglethorpe. 1782. Kentucky admitted into the Union. 1796. Tennessee admitted into the Union. 1811. Louisiana admitted into the Union. 1817. Mississippi admitted into the Union. 1819. Alabama admitted into the Union. 1821. Missouri admitted into the Union. 1836. Arkansas admitted into the Union. 1845. Florida admitted into the Union. 1846. Texas admitted into the Union. |