. and the separation of one pound of the wool from the seeds was regarded as a good day's work for one woman. So limited was the production, on account of the labor, that even high prices did not stimulate its cultivation, and the entire cotton crop of the United States in 1791 was only about two

of the debate on the pass- age of the act exists. It was stormy, no doubt. North Carolina's meaning was plain. Kentucky, in 1792, and Tennessee, in 1798, were admitted from this territory as slave States. To forestall this, Vermont was admitted as a free State in 1791, and we had eight slave and

everlasting bondage in fulfilment of the curs pronounced on Canaan: "It is a fearful abuse of God's word when men refer to the curs of Canaan in defence of American slave-traffic, and slave-holding, as is done in the Southern portions of the United States." — Lange's Commentary on Gen., p. 342, first column

United States abolished slavery in 1807. This measure, while a step in the right di- rection, was but a small help, for the following figures will show the rela- tive proportions and increase of free colored persons and slaves from 1790 to 1860:' Free Colored. Slaves. 1790 .59,466 697,897 1800 108,395

-night to unveil a memorial tablet, the gift of our late fellow member, the Hon. William Uhler Hensel. This tablet is intended to commemorate the pres- ence in past years upon this spot of three Presidents of the United States, and two other candidates for the same high office, but which they failed to