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The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1865., [Electronic resource], Statistics of slavery. (search)
Statistics of slavery.
According the United States Census for 1850, the number of slaves then in the United States was 3, 204,013, distributed as follows: Alabama, 342,844; Arkansas, 47,100; District of Columbia, 3,687; Delaware, 2,290; Florida, 39,310; Georgia, 381, 682; Kentucky, 210,981; Louisiana, 244,809; Maryland, 90,368; Mississippi, 309,878; Missouri, 87,482; New Jersey, 236; North Carolina, 288,548; South Carolina, 384,984; Tennessee, 239,459; Texas, 58,161; Virginia, 472,528; Territories, 26.
In 1776, the slaves were as follows: Massachusetts, 3,500; Rhode Island, 4,373; Connecticut, 6,000; New Hampshire, 629; New York, 15,000; New Jersey, 7,600; Pennsylvania, 10,000; Delaware, 9,000; Maryland, 80,000; Virginia, 165,000; North Carolina, 75,000; South Carolina, 110,000, and Georgia, 16,000.
Total in 1776,502,132.
The first introduction of African slaves was in 1620, by a Dutch vessel which brought twenty from Africa to Virginia.
In his work upon the slave trade,
The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1865., [Electronic resource], To the people of the Second Congressional District of the State of Alabama . (search)
To the people of the Second Congressional District of the State of Alabama.
Fellow citizens: A serious question of propriety has arisen between me and the House of Representatives, of which I deem it my duty to advise you, and which will be better explained by an examination of the following proceedings of the House, as published in the Sentinel of the 17th instant, to which I invite your attention:
Mr. Orr, under leave of the House, rose to a personal explanation.
He had the Clerk e have voted, as he did in open session, to go into secret session to receive that report?
Would his colleague (Mr. De Jarnette); General Atkins, of Tennessee; Mr. Witherspoon, of South Carolina; Mr. Turner, of North Carolina, and Mr. Smith, of Alabama, have given their sanction to a "treasonable " report?
Are they capable of "treachery of the most infamous character"? Are they "traitorous Congressmen "? Can it be that they have brought forward "a disorderly, ruinous and fatal proposition"--"