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located, are as fertile, and have greater natural advan- 

 tages than the six free States. 



" There have been located in those States for military 

 services in the Mexican .war, up to March 28th, 1850, 

 41,780 land warrants, of which 31,434 have been 

 located in the six free States, and only 7,346 in the 

 slave States — about six to one. The soldier who 

 locates his land with the view of being a freeholder, 

 and having a farm and a home, the speculator who 

 buys to sell again, rush, full gallop, to the free State 

 — they flee from the slave State as they would from 

 the Cholera." 



At the time of the declaration of Independence in 

 1776, the whole number of slaves in the colonies was 

 estimated at 500,000, and they were divided among 

 them as follows : — 



Massachusetts, 3,500 



Rhode Island, 4,370 



Connecticut, 5,000 



New Hampshire, 639 



New York, 15,000 



New Jersey, 7,600 



Pennsylvania, 10,000 



Delaware, 9,000 



Maryland, 80,000 



