"Knowest Thou The Land?"

Two adjoining counties in Mississippi, Washington and Isqueena [sic], situate between the Yazoo and Mississippi rivers, have, by the census of 1860, an aggregate of 21,711 slaves to 1,799 free persons, or about 92 per cent. slaves.  This must be the very garden of Eden, in the view of the advocates of that system.  There is scope for a poet in imagination in the conception of a society thus constituted – more than ten negro slaves to every white person throughout two large counties.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 31, 1862, p. 2

George Pomutz - 1860 Federal Census

Page No. 87

SCHEDULE 1. – Free Inhabitants in New Buda Township in the County of Decatur State of Iowa enumerated by me, on the 13^th day of July 1860. C. G. Bridges Ass’t Marshal.

Post Office New Buda.

Dwelling-houses – numbered in the order of visitation.	536
Families numbered in the order of visitation.	601
Name of every person whose usual place of abode on the first day of June 1860, was in this family.	George Pomutz
Age	40
Sex	M
Color	[W]
Profession, Occupation, or Trade of each person, male and female over 15 years of age.	Attorney
Value of Real Estate	100
Value of Personal Estate	200
Place of Birth, Naming the State, Territory, or Country	Hungary
Married within the year
Attended school within the year
Person over 20 years of age who cannot read & write
Whether deaf and dumb, blind, insade, idiotic, pauper or convict