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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; Ter Rhode Island, after 1784, no person could be born a slave.
The ordinance of 1787 forbid slavery in the territory northwest of the Ohio.--The constitutions of Vermont and New Hampshire abolished slavery.
In New York it was provisionally abolished in 1799, twenty-eight years ownership being allowed a slave born after that date; and in 1817 it was enacted that slavery was not to exist after ten years, or 1827.
There were 1,602,535 male, and 1,601,778 female slaves in this country in 1850.
The Daily Dispatch: February 10, 1865., [Electronic resource], The meetings yesterday. (search)
Anderson,
of Botetourt, took the chair, when addresses were made by Colonel John B. Baldwin, of Augusta; Colonel Funsten, and Hon. John Goode, all members of the Confederate House of Representatives.
Colonel Baldwin's speech.
Colonel Baldwin, in the beginning of his remarks, referred to his course in the Convention of 1850, and the speech which he made in that body against the dissolution of the Union.
Separation, he said, was a bitter pill to him; but to be compelled to go back into it again would be the bittered which could be conceived of. He adverted to the oft-repeated expressions used by some people, that it was impossible for us to be subjugated.
He thought it mischievous to say that it was impossible for us to fail, and thought it created false security to so represent our affairs.
For himself, he felt called upon to say that there was danger of our being subjugated and conquered; but, at the same time, we should determine to meet the issue, instead of singing h
The question of Ocean Telegraphy, which has been for some time in abeyance, is undergoing at this time another attempt at solution by British enterprise.
Of the principles and manner on which this new effort is being made, we have little information in this blockaded region.
It may not be uninteresting, in this connection, to give a brief sketch of ocean telegraphy.
In 1850, an unsuccessful attempt was made to connect England and France by a submarine telegraph.
A vessel bearing a copper wire inclosed in gutta-percha, intended for this purpose, started from Dover and succeeded in paying out the wire and conveying the other end to the French coast.
The printing instrument was attached, and several communications exchanged between England and France; but the next morning communications ceased, and it was evident that the insulation was destroyed.
It was found that the wire had been snapped asunder, constructed, as it was, without any power of resistance to the action of