Facts For Thinkers--Supreme Court Of The United States

The free populntion of tlie United States, -xclüdinsf the Terrhories and the District of "oluinbio, nccording1 to the census of i 840, vas 14.434,190 persons. Of these the nonsla vefiolding States contained 9,058,663; the ilavoliolditigr, 4,780,426. That is to eay, the "ree States contained jusi twice as many free nhabitants as the slave States, and 92,209 persons over. Now it ís a very important thing !o the laveholders to secure judicial decisions of the ii?hest authority favorable to To jftect this, it is thought necessary to have a nnjnritv of the Judgès of ihe Supreme Court )f the Ünitëd States from the slave Stntes.- nd accordirgly Congress has so divided the Circuits asto give to slave States, having not ne-thirl of the free population, five Judges, md to the free Statee, havingr more thon twohirils, only fodr. The Circuits, also, areso Lrronsrd that no sliwe State is included in he Circuit of a Judge re&iding in a free State, ft the Circuit of a Judge residing in a slaVe State. The fqllowinET táblecxhibits the enormoua nequalities of free populution in the several Circuits: FTtEK STATES. Cir. States Judges. Populatuh. posing it . Bu4 ï Story, WM 2d. Vt.,Conn.,N. Y. Vacant, 3,030,825 Sd. N. J., Penn. Vacant, 2,Ü96,6O1 r 1). Hifcb; J MXean 2-893i4G SLAVK STATES. 4ih. Del., Md.,Va., K. B. Taney, 1,246,574 5th. Alabama, La., M'Kiriley, .604,582 6Lh. N. C.S.C. Ga. J.M. Wayne, 1,185,510 8th. Ky. Tenn. Mo. JohnCntron, 1,569,183 9th. Miss., Arkan. P.V.Daniel; 252,079 The largest population of a slave Stale Circuit, is only a fraction over one.-half the, largest population of a free State Circuit, and less by sixty thousand ihan the .6inalest, while the smallest population of a free State Circuit, is more than six times the smallest population of a 6lave State Circuit. The 7th Circuit, of whïch Oliio is part, containa more than eleven TifliÉa as many free in habitaras as ihe 9th, of vvhich Mississippi forms a part. Do the people see anv degradation of tlie