COUNTIES FREE SLAVE Madison, 3,763 1,933 Hart,* Franklin, 9,076 2,382 Jackson, 6,808 2,941 Banks,* Hall, 7,370 1,336 Habersham, 7,675 1,218 Rabun, 2,338 110 Towns,* Union, 6,955 278 Lumpkin, 7,995 939 Dawson,* Forsyth, 7,812 1,027 Milton,* Cherokee, 11,630 1,157 Pickens,* Gilmer, 8,236 200 Faunin* Murphy,* Whitefield,* Gordon, 5,156 828 Cass, 10,271 3,008 Floyd, 5,202 2,999 Chattoga, 5,131 1,680 Walker, 11,408 1,664 Catoosa,* Dade, 2,532 148 * Counties marked with an asterisk, organized after the census of 1850, of which the foregoing are returns. Last in the list we have North-east Alabama, in which we find the following counties:-- COUNTIES FREE SLAVE Cherokee, 12,170 1,691 DeKalb, 7,730 506 Marshall, 7,952 868 Jackson, 11,754 2,292 Morgan, 6,636 3,437 Madison, 11,937 14,329 Limestone, 8,399 8,063 Lawrence, 8,342 6,858 'It will be observed,' says Mr. Taylor, That the three counties last named have a slave population, in the case of Madison exceeding, and in Limestone and Lawrence nearly equal to the number of free inhabitants. They would seem to be an exception to our former generalization, and are only included because there is other evidence that Athens, in Limestone County, and Huntsville, in Morgan County, were to the last possible moment the head-quarters of resistance to the Montgomery conspirators. It was the Union vote of these highland counties, notwithstanding the number of slaves in some of them, which would inevitably have been rolled down in condemnation of an ordinance of secession. This was well known by Yancey and his associates, and it was to avoid this revelation of their weakness over a compact and populous area of the State, which was in direct communication with East Tennessee, that they refused the ordeal of the ballot upon the consummation of their treason to the Union.