The Slave Power

A planter m Virginia, owning fifty slaves has a power in the election of President and Representatives in Congress, equivalent to thirty votes, while a farmer in Massachusetts, having equal or greater pioperty, has only a single vote. With this atrocious injustice to the people of the free States, staring them in the face, one hundred and iwevtyseveti members of the House of Representativos, solemnly declare that every proposition to obtain relief from thia provisión of the Constitution' 'ought to be promptly and decisively condemned .' In this number of one hundred and twenty-seven, who thua virtually subject the free States to the Slave Power, is almost every Democrat from those States. 'O shame !