Part 30

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.

[165] The Earl of Elgin and Sir Charles Grey.

[166] “The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.”--_Notes on Virginia_, Query XIX.: Writings, Vol. VIII. p. 406.

[167] Letter to the Whig County Committee of the County of Essex, November 5, 1838: In Memoriam J. W. B., pp. 9, 10.

[168] Hon. Charles Allen.

[169] Drayton, Poly-Olbion, Song XIII. Warwickshire, the middle county of England, is the shire referred to.

[170] Iliad, tr. Pope, Book I. 528, 529 [406].

[171] Speech at Chicago, July 10, 1858: Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, p. 20.

[172] Speech in the Senate, May 16, 1860: Congressional Globe, 36th Cong. 1st Sess., Appendix, p. 314.

[173] The Landmark of Freedom: _ante_, Vol. III. p. 291.

[174] Swift, To the Citizens, 30-33. These words were introduced to sustain not merely the speaker, but also John A. Andrew, who was about to be nominated Governor of Massachusetts, and against whom this very accusation had been made.