Numerous other contrasts, equally disproportionate, might be drawn between the vigor and munificence of freedom and the impotence and stinginess of slavery. We will, however, in addition to the above, advert to only a single instance. During the latter part of the summer of 1855, the citizens of the niggervilles of Norfolk and Portsmouth, in Virginia, were sorely plagued with yellow fever. Many of them fell victims to the disease, and most of those who survived, and who were not too unwell to travel, left their homes, horror-stricken and dejected. To the horror of mankind in general, and to the glory of freemen in particular, contributions in money, provisions, clothing, and other valuable supplies, poured in from all parts of the country, for the relief of the sufferers. Portsmouth alone, according to the report of her relief association, received $42,547 in cash from the free States, and only $12,182 in cash from all the slave States, exclusive of Virginia, within whose borders the malady prevailed. Including Virginia, the sum total of all the slave State contributions amounted to only $33,398. Well did the Richmond _Examiner_ remark at the time--"we fear that generosity of Virginians is but a figure of speech." Slavery! thy name is shame! In connection with tables 44 and 45 on page 292, it will be well to examine the following statistics of Congressional representation, which we transcribe from Reynold's Political Map of the United States;-- UNITED STATES SENATE. 16 free States, with a white population of 13,238,670, have 32 Senators. 15 slave States, with a white population of 6,186,477, have 30 Senators. So that 413,708 free men of the North enjoy but the same political privileges in the U. S. Senate as is given to 206,215 slave propagandists. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The free States have a total of 144 members. The slave States have a total of 90 members. One free State Representative represents 91,935 white men and women. One slave State Representative represents 68,725 white men and women. Slave Representation gives to slavery an advantage over freedom of 30 votes in the House of Representatives. CUSTOM-HOUSE RECEIPTS.--1854. Free States, $60,010,489 Slave States, 5,136,969 ----------- Balance in favor of the Free States, $54,873,520 A contrast quite distinguishable! That the apologists of slavery cannot excuse the shame and the shabbiness of themselves and their country, as we have frequently heard them attempt to do, by falsely asserting that the North has enjoyed over the South the advantages of priority of settlement, will fully appear from the following table:-- FREE STATES.