Kentucky

The whole number of slaves in this State in 1843 was 176,107. The average assessed value of these was $360,24 - their whole valuation amounting to $45,837,175. This amount of property seiids two Representan ves to Congress! The number of slaves in 1840 was 182,253, showing a decrease of 6,151. This deficiency, with that of the natural increasesince 1840, is to be accounted for by sales down the river, emigration to the West, escapes to the free States, and manumissions. Some Counties in Kentucky have very few slaves. Letcher has 36, Harían 67, Lawrence 80, Pike 87.L? The proportion of vegetable fooc toeach inhabitant, raised in the Unitec States is thus estimated: Wheat, 5 i bush. Sugar, 3 lbs Corn, 26} Ricej 6a I Rye, U Potatoes, 5 bsh Buckwheat, i Barley, i " What need of starvatíon or hunger in a land wheresirch plenty abounds? ín reference to the article of Sugar, the dividend of which it will be seen is very smal], the Cincinnati Herald observes; "When it is recollected that the consumption of sugar to each individual in the Lnited States per annum must be reckoned at something near 30 lbs., it will be seen at once how absurd it is to expect ever to raise enough of the article at home lor home consumption. The tariff on sugar is one of the most absurd and opres wo„S k68 GVer imPsed' and no people would bear f, whose eye were not blinded by the witchery of slavery." ft? Many of our readers can recollect the indignation meetings, held in 1835 and '36, lo express abhorrence of abolitionism. Every city, and almost every villnge held one or more, solemnlydenounclng the wbole scheme as the "hnrbinger of deslruction to glorious Union. How changed the scène! Daily and weekly Abolition papers are springing in the same cities and villages, and :he voice of indignation against slaveholJing tyranny begins to be heard above hedin of politics, speaking in tones which each the èars of the remotest slavehold;r in the Union.fCf Politicians are quite willing tn conform to the prejudicesof religious men in making nominations of their cnndidates provided they can get the same persons to vote for them without inquiring into Lheir moral or religious fitness. The naionnl Conventions which notninated Vlessrs. Clay, Tyler, and Polk, were pened by reading the Scriptures and pray t by clergymen! Can a religious man onscientiauply say that he believes, either f them, if elected, wiU be "jusi, ruling i the fear of God"?