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■and see what 300,000dnrs do. We at the North are apt to suppose that almost the entire population at the South are owners of sla ves. Bttt this is very far from being true. In Dr. Channing's new work en the Oreóle case - a work before which slaverv may well trerable- are the folloving statistics: "I have spoken of the great majority iri our country who have no participation whatever in slavery. Indeed, it is little suspected at home nny more than abroad, how smal] is the nnmber of slaveholders here. I learn from a jndiciotis correspondent at the South, that the slaveholders in thnt región can not be ratrd at more that Sno,O0O. Some make them less. Snpposinnr each of them to be the hrad of a family, and each family to consist of five members: then there will be 1,500,000, havinor a direct interest in slaves as property. This is abont one-eleventh of the whole population'of the United States. The three liundred thousand actual slaveholders are about a fifry-sixth part of onr whole population. These govern the South entirely, by actin in concert, and by the confinement of the best educatinn to their ranks; and, still more, to a considerable extent, they have govemed the country.- - Their cry rises nbove all other sounds in the land. Few as they are, their voices wellniijh drown the qiiiet reasonings and remon srances of the Norlh in the House of