For daring to have political opinions of his own, and because he did not deem it his duty to conceal the fact that he loved liberty better than slavery, the gallant author of the extract above quoted was peremptorily dismissed from his post of analytical and agricultural chemist in the University of North Carolina, ignominiously subjected to the indignities of a mob, and then savagely driven beyond the borders of his native State. His villainous persecutors, if not called to settle their accounts in another world within the next ten years, will probably survive to repent of the enormity of their pro-slavery folly. TABLE NO. LVIII. VALUE OF THE SLAVES AT $400 PER HEAD.--1850.[6] ------------------------------------------------------------- |Value of the Slaves| Val. of Real and Per. States. | at $400 per head. | Estate, less the val. of | | slaves at $400 p. head. ---------------|-------------------|------------------------- Alabama | $137,137,600 | $81,066,732 Arkansas | 18,840,000 | 21,001,025 Delaware | 916,000 | 17,939,863 Florida | 15,724,000 | 7,474,734 Georgia | 152,672,800 | 182,752,914 Kentucky | 84,392,400 | 217,236,056 Louisiana | 97,923,600 | 136,075,164 Maryland | 36,147,200 | 183,070,164 Mississippi | 123,951,200 | 105,000,000 Missouri | 34,968,800 | 102,278,907 North Carolina | 115,419,200 | 111,381,272 South Carolina | 153,993,600 | 134,264,094 Tennessee | 95,783,600 | 111,671,104 Texas | 23,264,400 | 32,097,940 Virginia | 189,011,200 | 202,634,638 |-------------------|------------------------- | $1,280,145,600 | $1,655,945,137 ============================================================= TABLES 34 and 35 show that, on account of the pitiable poverty and ignorance of slavery, the mails were transported throughout the Southern States, during the year 1855, at an extra cost to the General Government of more than six hundred thousand dollars! In the free States, postages were received to the amount of more than two millions of dollars over and above the cost of transportation. To Dr. G. Bailey, editor of the _National Era_, Washington city, D. C., we are indebted for the following useful and interesting statistics, to which some of our readers will doubtless have frequent occasion to refer:-- PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES. Appointed. March 4, 1789 } George Washington, _Virginia_. " 3, 1797 } March 4, 1797 } John Adams, _Massachusetts_. " 3, 1801 } March 4, 1801 } Thomas Jefferson, _Virginia_. " 3, 1809 } March 4, 1809 } James Madison, _Virginia_. " 3, 1817 }