As a matter of general interest, and as showing that, while there have been but 11 non-slaveholders directly before the people as candidates for the Presidency, there have been _at least_ 16 slaveholders who were willing to serve their country in the capacity of chief magistrate, the following table may be here introduced:-- RESULT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES FROM 1796 TO 1856. Year. Name of Candidate. Elect'l vote. 1796 { John Adams 71 { Thomas Jefferson 68 1800 { Thomas Jefferson 73 { John Adams 64 1804 { Thomas Jefferson 162 { Charles C. Pinckney 14 1808 { James Madison 128 { Charles C. Pinckney 45 1812 { James Madison 122 { De Witt Clinton 89 1816 { James Monroe 183 { Rufus King 34 1820 { James Monroe 218 { No opposition but one vote 1824 { Andrew Jackson[7] 99 { John Q. Adams 84 { W. H. Crawford 41 { Henry Clay 37 1828 { Andrew Jackson 178 { John Q. Adams 83 1832 { Andrew Jackson 219 { Henry Clay 49 { John Floyd 11 { William Wirt 7 1836 { Martin Van Buren 170 { William H. Harrison 73 { Hugh L. White 26 { Willie P. Mangum 11 { Daniel Webster 14 1840 { William H. Harrison 234 { Martin Van Buren 60 1844 { James K. Polk 170 { Henry Clay 105 1848 { Zachary Taylor 163 { Lewis Cass 127 1852 { Franklin Pierce 254 { General Winfield Scott 42 1856 { James Buchanan 174 { John C. Fremont 114 { Millard Fillmore 8 AID FOR KANSAS. As a sort of accompaniment to tables, 50, 51, 52 and 53, we will here introduce a few items which will more fully illustrate the liberality of Freedom and the niggardliness of Slavery. From an editorial article that appeared in the Richmond (Va.,) _Dispatch_, in July, 1856, bewailing the close-fistedness of slavery, we make the following extract:--