The Slave Representation

A correspondent asks if t be true ihat every elaveholder casts tlireo votes for five slaves, as is semetimes represented in antislavery papers. We answer, that t s not.- ín apportioning Representativos in the Shve State.-, the free persons count the same as an equal number of free persons at the Norlh : then all olher persons (excluding Indians not taxed) are enumerated aud three fifths of the number ackied to the whole number of free persons. The owner of five hundred slaves in South Carolina hns the same politicul power in electingf a President or Member of Congreas as three hundred of the free pojrulation (nol 300 voters) of Michigan. But the statement is often mnde that the owner of 300 slaves will cost 391 votes. This is incorrect. He wiclds a power equal to 300 free persons, which aunr.ber would inclmle fifty or 6ixty voters. Dut our National Constitútion knowp nothing aboul color. The word "white" is not found in it. According"io the present o pportionment, the owners of slaves send 22 Itepresentatives to Congress. These members represent only human property, and wil! therefoie be zealous for the niuintcnance of that metitution on which their seáis depend. This number mny be consideredns a corps of icserve, ahvays in readiness, in cvery important controversy, to throw their infliicnce for the South. And when we consider that few important mcasuroa ore carried by n greater nmjority than 25 the tremendons power wbich even this smal number can e.ert nmsl bo iippnrent. Besidee in the Sato, they have powerful auxiliaries lor acconling to u report of Mr. Adams las winter, Qevery Senator trom the Slnve States is a slaveholder, and has been for a general ion, with tcarcely anexceplion. The Dcmocracy of Michigan have votcd with great unanimity, lo toke into the confed cracy o foreign rintton, and give them Ihis po ütical premium for holding slaves, evcry three slavca counting ngainst five free persons in Michigan. This we fippóse they consider to bo tlpolilical rqvuUly!'' They oleo guaren tee the whole naval and military power of the United States to keep the slaves in euhjeclioi for all future timo. I lenco we conclude tha the slavc representado is quite ngrecable to the genius of "Modern Dernocracy." (Cr Don't fail to röad the artiele on the Ci rst. pnge concern ing Mr. Wjse anc the Slavc Trnde.