sippi 195,211
Missouri 58,240
New Jersey 674
New York 4

CENSUS OF 1840.--SLAVE POPULATION.--(_Continued._)

Pennsylvania 64
North Carolina 245,817
South Carolina 327,038
Tennessee 183,059
Virginia 449,087
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Aggregate 2,487,399

During the next decade the slave population swept forward to an
increase of 716,858. The entire population of slaves was 3,204,313;
2,957,657 were unmixed Africans, and 246,656 were Mulattoes. The free
Colored population amounted to 434,495, of whom 275,400 were unmixed,
and 159,095 mixed or Mulatto. The total number of families owning
slaves in 1850 was 347,525.

CENSUS OF 1850.--SLAVE POPULATION.

Alabama 342,844
Arkansas 47,100
District of Columbia 3,687
Delaware 2,290
Florida 39,310
Georgia 381,682
Kentucky 210,981
Louisiana 244,809
Maryland 90,368
Mississippi 309,878
Missouri 87,422
New Jersey 236
North Carolina 288,548
South Carolina 384,984
Tennessee 239,459
Texas 58,161
Virginia 472,528
Utah Territory 26
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Total 3,204,313

The Thirty-first Congress was three weeks attempting an organization,
and at last effected it by the election of a Southerner to the
Speakership, the Hon. Howell Cobb, of Georgia. President Zachary
Taylor had called the attention of Congress to the admission of
California and New Mexico into the Union, in his message to that body
upon its assembling. On the 4th of January, 1850, Gen. Sam. Houston,
United States Senator from Texas, submitted the following proposition
to the Senate:

"WHEREAS, The Congress of the United States, possessing only a
delegated authority, has no power over the subject of negro
slavery within the limits of the United States, either to
prohibit or to interfere with it in the States, territories, or
districts, where, by municipal law, it now exists, or