other.  Politically, when the pennons of Clay and Calhoun rode the gale, the vote and voice of North Carolina were ever given for the great Kentucky leader.  Let us accept these omens for the winter campaign, which will open with the triumph of the Union and the Constitution on the Cumberland heights of East Tennessee.

’In one-fifth of Georgia, over an area of 12,000 square miles, slavery only exists by the usurpation of the cotton aristocracy of the lowland districts of the State.’  In all of them, slaves, though in a greater proportion than in the rest of Alleghania, are very greatly in the minority, as appears from the following table:—­

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