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" MARWS fi.nonLVSOX, EDITOR. "NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS." w4v rjc.insox, publishing agent. VOL. 12. NO. '21. SALEM, COLUMJHANA COUNTY, OHIO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1S57. WHOLE NO. 587. The Anti-Slavery Bugle. From the New York Evening Post. HOW THEY SUPPRESS SERVILE INSURRECTIONS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. THE CHARLESTON GUARD-HOUSE. To the Editors of the Evening Post: Having looked int; the Woikhouso, let us turn view of the "Guard-House," an edifice wqnally suggestivo of the Rystem that gave its ex istence. St. Nichnl's Church, with it tall, gaunt eteeple; the City Hall, with its broad, squatty root; the antiquated Court-House, with its diliip- idated walls, and the Guard II ouse, with its con-' tinunl in-going nnd out-going of lazy looking men if .. ."m in uniiorms uiese uatitc tno lour corners ot .ueet- ng and Broad streets, two of the principal thor oughfares in Charleston. The Guard! lotiso.stnnd ing on the southwest corner, is of tho Doric order, with heavy Corinthian columns, forming acolotiade on the streets here named. Thero is a sombre, tomb-like air about the building, nnd when scon on a misty day (its walls nro exquisitely dingy) presents an appearance qu:te like w hat one might imagine tho Pur.lheon.if hung in mourning. The Charlostotiian betravs n sintrular pnssiun for lastnoning nis puoiio uuiiuings niter tno style ol the ancients. This Guard-House, is the rendezvous nnd bar racks of what is culled "Tho Guard." The Guard isa formidable body of well disciplined men main- tainod lit tho expense of tho city; their duty is to jirotoct it ngtiinst thn mischievous designs of the slave population. Thero nro two Guard-Houses in Charleston the upper nnd the lower one on what is called the Neck, nnd the other in the centie of the city. The latter, the principal ono, is that wdiich we are describing. A sentinel, in umtorin similar to mat worn hy ; the British infantry soldier, with cross-belt, fire- lock and heavy sidc-anns, paces in front. In fine weather, tho officers and non-commissioned officers of the Guard may be seen, some seated on benches, lytic luitering nbout under the front colonadc. The inside of the Guard-Houso is fitted up with rooms for tho officers and non-commissioned officers, a long room fur tho guard on duty, cells for the confinement of delinquents picked up during tho night, und nn immense square room for the use of tho privates of tho corps, which is fitted up with benches and bunks, similar to those in the 'twoen decks of n hhip. We should not forget that there is also a court-routn in tho Guard-House. In this his Honor tho Mayor holds a court every morning at ten o'clock, for the disposal of such persons ns are brought in for misdemeanor during tho night, The Guard consists of nearly fivo hundred men, (I speak from, memory.) mostly Irish nnd Germans, employed at a leguhir stiend per month. It were well to bear in mind that this body id' men is inde pendent of the "day police," the constnbulary.nnd the private watchmen, ivhich together form a numerous body, but have functions of a similar nature, The Guard is officered by a captain, (quite an important charactei;) first, second, third und fourth lieutenants ; sorgeanr.' corporals, ftnd lance corporals, who wear u uniform and receive a very coiisidorablu yearly salary. On .Sunday n portion of the Guard is dotn led on special service, and, arrayed in a bright uniform, present quite n soldierly appearance. At the ringing nf the early bell the members of tho Guard on relief muster at the Guard-House, where they perform a scries of evolutions peculiar to their service, and nro then marched out, in charge of officers, to their several beats, where they ruiiniiu until midnight, nnd nro relieved by nnother file. The city it may bo said, is lined with these man during tho n'ght. who may bo distinguished by their gray, slouchy night uni forms, their clean white cross-belts, their tide arms and their truncheons, Thcso men, ulthough singularly illiterate as a class, nnd fer icious in their hate of the negro, (this is especially so with the suns of Erin,) are invested with an almost ub solute power over him. Iudeed.it has been charged by those who look upon the Gourd as unnecessa rily expensive to tho city that it is nothing more than a system of espionage- upon the slaves, whom it serves to make ci euiios, while a better end would bo obtained by conciliating their friend ship. The ringing of the first bell nt n quarter to nine, is the signal for all slaves ami persons of color to repair to their homes. Those f. und out niter nino o'clock, without a pass from a w hite citizen, nre liable to seizure by the guardman, whoso duty it is to convey them to thn nearest gti.ird-housc, whore they are iucarcera.cd in celb and arraigned before his Honor in the morning. If merely found "out without criminal inteut,"iiio owner is notified in the morning by the guardman who apprehended bini. The muster, if unwilling to have his slave punished, may appear in his behalf, and an offering a satisfactory excuso for being found ' out alter hours," a tine of four dollars is inflicted, one half of which goes to tho guardman. If the owner be indifferent, or refuse to appear on behalf of his slave, then the slavo is ordered sundry stiokes of the paddle, sent to tho Workhouse, pun ished, and discharged. When it is remembered thnt the free colored people are amenable to the slave-laws, and nru held under a surveillance even more rigid than that to which the slave is reduced, their hardships are easily comprehended. Many of these "free peoplo of color" nro model of good behavior, and wealthy: and when suljccted to the petty tyranny of these ignorant guardmcn, their chagrin may be more easily imagined than described. This system of giving passes is of itself a farce, for alut8t any white man may give A twelve or a one o'clock pass to a negro, and the proper officer will countersign it ; a single night pass is not required to be countersigned. With such passes the negro runs the guard. Again : negroes fre quently forge passes, and being much more intelli gent than many of the guardsmen, (wo have known several of the latter who could neither read nor write). doeeive them, nnd pass unmolested to the ob ject of their visit. Several times have 1 been called by guardsmen who, having dragged to tho light of a lamp an unlortunaie slave, were puzzling their wite over passes not a word of which could they decipher. Of course I always interpreted favor ably to the weaker, nnd being well known, bad the satisfaction of seeing the slave go on his way rejoicing. Indeed there is a continual concocting of deceptions au l clashing of interests between the negroes on one side, und the guardsmen on the other. Tho former, with his characteristic ounning, makes tho guardsman his study. Ho can tell you the beat of every one of them, and who among them are unable to read passes. He can point you to those he can bribe with a small amount of pocket chango; he can toll you who is cruel in the exercise of his duties, and who is more humanely inclined; and he will, when his necessities require it, take advantage of their weakness. On the other hand, tho guardman is continually concocting schemes to dinw the pogro from his hiding-place after bell-ring; aod having succeeded, be will pounce upon him, and either demand a lee for his release, or drag hiui off to the Guard-House with the satisfaction of knowing ho wilt gel a share ot the fine im posed iu the morning. Violence is in many instances made by the guardsman a means of extorting monoy from the slave for bis release. We have, indeed, w itnessed cruelties perpetrated by these meu upon defence less slaves that would liavo disgraced the savage Spaniard in (ho days ut the Pueaniers all done ! ; I ! in the hope of extorting paltry kihiik. It in true, that some of the cruelties 10 which tlio slove in a victim re 'lit from the ebullition of passion ; hut when we consider that the ncrn tin tiu voice in law, end singularly slender means of redressing his wrong, we can como to no other conclusion taan thnt the people investing tho official with power to commit ouch outrages, should bo held responsible for the evils which result from it. As I Imve hefore said, there is in Charleston n certain numher of verv resnertal.lo and some hnt wealthy "bright men." These men nro free, do not associate with slaves, and liavo no interest in with them. In this sense one would naturally suppose it to he the best Policy of w hites to endeavor to coneilituto their friendship. But they do not bo regard it. And as tyranny always falls under the weight of its own fears, so also nro the slavo laws made to bear heuvicst upon . ..... .... ... ' those intelligent "hrinht men. who nro thus re- duced to incre menials nf the most ignorant fi. reign-j or employed on the Hoard. There is living in' a free ''bright man," of the name 0fj Din-cclf, who owns property to tho amount of sixty thousand dollars, has given his family an ex- rellcnt c lucation, is celebrated for his chariti?, and in every way a most worthy citizen. If by any circumstance" this man be caught out after "bell-ring" wi'hmit bis puss, the most vulgar guardioan may stop him nnd make him an object ot espionage 1 rem em tier to nave heard one ot these worthies, who was subsequently in my em ploy, boast of his successos over Durech". Tho milder muv liiihrn tvhntl.ni mti.li ti strut, .tit to tl..,t which promotes the safety and best ihteiests of the whites. There is still another guard in Charleston tho Mounted Guard. In lino, tint little city nf Charles ton, by night, swnruis with urmed men. This guard consists ot between forty nnd fifty men, mounted on so ninny horses. Each man is heavily nruied, utid provided with means to give nn alarm at the shortest notice. I ho members ol tho .Mounted Guard ride ahoiit the city during the night, in pairs, rendevousing nt certain points to make re ports to their officers, I would hero remark, that the tfficers of both these coips are appointed year ly by the Mayor nnd Hoard of Aldermen. In addition to tho citadel, (a spacious fort in the upper part of tho city,) w hich is well stored with munitions of war, and full of cadets from all parts of tho State, Charleston possesses several ol the best necoutered and disciplined volunteer com panies, to be found in this country. Theso hold themselves in readiness to be called nut nt nny moment. Such, then, nro tho means of potting down an attempt nt insurrection. Let the curious sum up this formidable body of nrincd men, nnd contrast it with the population of Charleston, only some thirty-four thousand, two-thirds of which isi'1 colored, consequently umcnahle to the laws lor the regulating of slaves, nnd tho moral needs no further comment from me. F. C. ADAMS. MESSAGE THE GOVERNOR OF MISSISSIPPI WHAT HE THINKS OF REPUBLICANISM. Govenor McRae devotes a largo portion of bis Annual Message totheeuhject ol the Into Presi dential election and of the issues involved. Oi the ami-slavery sentiment of tho North, which con stituted the basis of thu campaign for Fremont, he s'ays : "The origin nnj cause of this sentiment is not well understood hy the people of tho slavcholding stales, aud thcrelore tfiey do not lully appreciate its danger. Many suppose th .it the excitement ol tho people uf thu non-sbivcholdiug states on the slavery question grows out of o;casiooal acts ol Congress involving legislation or, this subject. In this they are mi-iukeo. These may be pretexts but they arc not tho cause. Apart from the fugi tive slave law, founded upon a constitutional pro vision, no net ol Congress has ever been passed to adva ce the interests of slavery, or to increase or extend its dominion. This sentiment grows out ol the dill'ereiice in our social systems, aud has its origin in more deep seated causes. They are: "First, tiie delusion, settled into conviction, up on the minds of the people of tlio lioii slavehold ing states that slaveryas it exists witJi us, is a so cial and moral and political evil, and a sin against God. This they ate taught in their schools, through the pulpit, und through the press. And this arrays against us tho religious sentiment, uni ted with tho ppirit of fanaticism, developed by a false application of what they suppose to be true Chrislianily, to a social system nut understood by them. "Secondly, a fooling of jealousy nnd envy, orig inating with them in a supposed superiurity, which the relation of master and slave gives to the slave owner, which, encouraged, leads tu preju dice, and cultivated, rankles into hate, "Thirdly, the d"siro for political power in the control of tho government, to subserve tho purpo ses of interest and ambition. "No more powerful combinations of sentiment can be arrayed against us than theso. And these are all stimulated by the lurthcr greatly mistaken , .,, I-.- i I-. l l sentiment, that socia and nol.tica equality belong alike to the white and black race. The Governor thinks that, unless tho ssctional ngitativn is tilhiyea under tho administration of, Buchanan, or some paramount question of loreign or domestic policy arise, tho much feared crisis will come upon us in the next Presidential cleo- lie enumerates the declared objects oi in free soil party should they obtain the control of the government, and proceeds as Pillows : "The seeond question is, what will the people of tho blaveholdiug states do to arrest, if possible, this semimciit in the nen-sb'vei.obiiiig stales, and to prevent this sectional party from getting the control ut the government "In the adjustment of the question growing out of tho acquisition of Territory from Mexico, and involving tlio rights of the South on the subject of slavury, under w hat were termed the 'Measures uf in 1S50, Mississippi, in her Bover- cignty, took her position in these terms: She declared, in reference lo those 'measures,' nviA in niiiiiiPttl inn with il,u. h,--..;..,;.... h i'...,.ior gress of tho prooosition to exclude slavery in the lcrritories, ann to auoitsn ii in the JJistrict of Co - lumbia. that while she did not entirely approve, she would abide by them as a permanent odiust - merit of a sectional controversy -that she hela the! Union secondary to the rights and principles it was designed to perpetuate, aud that violations of rights miiiht occur which would amount tu intul- eralilo oppression, and justify it resort to measures of resistance, amongst which she enumerated the lollowing : 'T. The interfering, by Congrossionnl legisla tion, with thu institution of slavery in the states. "2. Interference with the trado in slaves be tween the states. "d. Any action of Congress, on tlio subject of slavery iu the lJisirict of Columbia or in places su.ject to the jurisdiction of Congress, incompat ible with ths safety and domestic tranquility of the rights and honor of the slaveholding states. "4. The refusal by Congress to admit a new state into the Union, on the ground of her tolera ting slavery within her limits. "j. The passage of nny law by Congress prohi biting slavery in any ol the territories. "The repeal of tho Fugitive Slave Law, and tho - neglect or refusal by the gxnoral government to i position . and recommends tho Legislature ot Miss coiiniion i"'!'!'' to invito tho other slavchulding states to the'"'eet in convention, respectively, nnd tc assume I lo "'u'0 ,lin Kov'i''inio'1t. This ho justly declare to bo no disunion scnti Cburlesiijn nient, no movement cuiculatcd to hasten that dis- enforce thn Cunstitutitiohnl provisions for the re - cUnmtion of fugitive slaves." In this position lie declares the pcoplo of Miss issippi nre united, and renews his reoomemiation to send resolutions re alarming this position t each of the nun shiveholding Mut.'s. ' If then." he says, "northern states sluill ninke the issuo of tho Union with us upon the Constitution, the re sponsibility will he with them, nod the right with ! " ""v ue me res.ni. .- I ... l. I. ff I He states that Georgia has taken much tho snmo "he "'""O grounds, by which the united sontiment jo! the whole people ol those states may be I brought to bear upon tlie conservative sentiment of the North, in order that "tho reflecting and i i .i ...:tt : :.. .1.:- -.it'.. JUBl ""u g"1"' men meie m join us in hub tuun sastcr, but tho reverse. VIRTUE vs. DEFEAT. A DISCOURSE, Preached on November 9, 1856. (The First Sunday after the Presidential Election.) in the Unitarian Church, Cincinnati, Ohio. by MONCURE D. CONWAY, Minister of the Church. Published by Request of the Congregation. 2 Peter I: 5: "AM to your Faith Virtue." i lllClll US Ul'U O UIIUIO , t.,t,',,i'li Itio H(lii-i " iii ' UJlil.u heli tho proud turrets of tv rotten, jej,radillK craving Church fell crumbling in the iip,llne8i PVen when the danger was most imminent t(mt tiuj w,iul 1 fall upou himself, ho stands, the ; UIiapproachcd hero of the Reloimalion. Never was tnu,.0 a curse, a thurst, a plot, a blow nimed nt ,m,rtal man, which was not to more terribly nimed ; j 1 rough image of Luther, were as the tiles on the ! roofs of tho houses at Worms, pross about tho ; rools of the world. We nil feel the pressuro of ! enormous evils. And sad as this may be iu netu Comproinise,' nl experience, it is tho glory of our manhood, that wegroun under evils. Tho lower uuiuiuls do uui 'giuau under the perception of the wrongs of war, slavorv. or national dishonor. Jhe sense ut ue wedded to Virtue, still brootls prophetically I over llie 'd world, and cannot give it up. lu her!'1'0 best uge which sees most evils, und these must be accuuuted signs, not of weakness, but ol The fnio uso of tho word v'.rtuc hero carries us back to its nohlo origin. Its history marks the d velopenient of tho higher nature of man It is from 'lie Latin tie, which menus man. Tho mil itary tendencies ol tho liomans,, exalting the phy . J u sical man, niailo virtiu s'g'nlv strcnih. w hen tho sword of tho spinr. came flaming from the i. ist, ami the staiiUara ot the soul were piani - cd on heights winch the Caesars never reached, tne regeneration entered this word, also; virtus or ani mal strength became virtue or spiritual strength. Not now llercules but Chiist was the true man; tho fir of virtue. We must bring then the holiest nsiociafions of our immortal nature to tho internreiaticti of this brave old word, wbijli would seem to sound the bugle in hearing of ull that is noble within us. This virtue which must achieve what tho cyo of Faith bus seen is our essential manhood, superi ority to low fears and vulgar interests and pass ions, moial courage; all, indeed, that makes us mure than cattle; all that goes to form the highest conception winch the mind can grasp, a 31 not a nipcu, uui u nuc iiuu, vwwi viou a wit; iu"ihS in him I .1 ..... I J . ..I'.. 4i n ..I..... ..,.. Tho dawn of tho sixteenth century found two men prominent in tho world, who.-o character.! may be esteemed the truest representatives of the mixed elements which entered thnt Reformation with which they are associated. These are Lu ther and Erasmus. lirnsmus, the sago of Rotterdam, stands before us the polished gentleman nnd accomplished schol- ar. ue lias also eyes in ins noau. Jio is not ono who can be made to see by spiritual comr.relinn - stun, that it was right that Henry ha Monfortj should bo permitted parricide for ono ducat, Ibnr tivrcs, nnd night carlines ; that it should be pro claimed in every city nnd hamlet, on tho authority of God's vicegerent, that poisoning was nhsolvable for eleven ducats, six livrea tournois, incest for thirty six livres, three ducats. He sees more clear- ly than any man auve.exactiy now it is to ne reiorm d ; nay, sees that tho demand bud on bimsell nnd his coteuipurorios is to rel'orm it. His faith was clear as crystal. Grotius well spe iks of Krnsmus, as "the man who so welt showed tho way to a rea sonable reformation.' Yet we do not find him traveling tho rond he could so well t urvey and define, Alas, bo loved comlort too w ell lor that rougti time '. At lust ; sympi.thizing with Luther, beat last weakly cen-' surcd him lor going too fast and too far, when be 1 was only billowing, with tho solemn step of fate, j the work which inexorably arose before him to be done, und concerning which ho had no choice Erasmus had secret faith in tho movement, and much of this he wrote ( lit in fine rhetoric, but never i:i strong action. Ho has himself classified i.is character in its relation to the Reformation as ono of essontial timidity. "Let others," ho said "affect iimrtyidom ; for myself, I nm unworthy of the honor.' 'I urn not,' ho says elsewhere, 'of u mind to venture my life for the truth's sake ; nil men have not strength to endure the martyr's death. For myself, if it ciimo to the point, I should do no heller than Simon Peter." Tho result wtis, he offended both sides, and nt last was brought to tho humiliation of pi.r ;ing himself of the charge of Protestantism, which he bad at first endorsed, and in w hich ho secretly had faith. To his faith he did not add virtue ; and to-day the memory of Erasmus is dear to no heart; critics only say, 'lie wrote tiuo Latin.' In strong contrast appears the other of these two, Luther, 'the fierce physician,' ns Erasmus called him. Not frightened by the flames kindled by himself throughout Europe, but glorying in .1 .... ii. ..n.. i., . ..i.. i.tj i,.,,ij, .. bi, at liim. lie was but firmer tu Jus truth, saying only. "Hero I stand! L Ciuuot otherwise, God help me 1 Amen." Thus did Luther add to bis faith virtue, and thereby did his own work, and that of Erasmus also. Always, mv friends, does the Reformation go on, always do devils us thick as thoso which, in the ' BU,:I' things is a sign of a nobler presence on earth ,"' umu " '"s '- ; I which shows our actual lilc. It is a sign ol tho ! presence ot Faith, who, though sho may not yet strength. If the age (und by that 1 mean the nu- noriiy of men. who constitute the brain and heart uf every age,) were meaner than it is, it would find less evil, because it would not care for much good; it would not, that is, put forth a claim beyond the ripeness of nature to satisfy. A lower aim might be reached, but it must come from a lower source. The evils, against which we murmur, iniht say to us, "Wo think the age is vory fastidious, und that it makes a vast noise over very common-place things. Read your class books over again ; what generations have boon lice from war, slavery, and the like ? Why should this ago claim an cxemp tion? Are you nut over-nice ubout it?" It is very true, we have becutue sophisticated nnd fas tidious and are like thn young Goethe, who when hut six years of uge, plagued his mother to know if the slurs, which some fortune-teller hnd declar ed to be auspicious at his birth, would perform nil they had promised. "Why," said the mol.cr, Vhould you have the assistance of the eturs, when - ' 'othor pcuplo get on very well without thcin ? ' ll am not to bo Mi-t-ti.-d with what is sul'icient lur; other ppi.pl,. Was the child's reply. The Rcloriners of lo-dav distinctly tako tt i i position, that they cannot mid will not.'if they can help i, put up w ith w hat was enough for former generations. This high discontent w ith tho nctonl is the awaking insight of tho human spirit de - lnaniling a pel fection in nil thinirs vhieh it can I-- ' r iere hnd outside nf itself: hut. burning nil tho tooro intensely thete.it would rise, on the world, star, hy star until 'ho whole beavenlv host !'f 'ts v.'r.,1p should rise and overawe tho night. The spirit which in Christ cried. 'Uelodd 1 I create nil tl. a Ot ... . '.I Mnn i in us6 ever coexist w nn too race, W herever there is n fossil creed questioned by some iii!iint child who (anniit dissemble ; w hcrev - er there is a Ilowanl insane ubout defective pi is - ms; wherever there is h Wilberforce nnroyinj; nil solid nnd respectable merchants nnd lawyers by persistent investigations into tho treatment ill slaves in the West Indies; or a Granville Sharpe otitrHgiiigKngli.-h Courts nnd Judges by pertioae - ions inquiries as to ;ho laws in Slavery, forcing tho reluctant Lord Mansfield to decide that the nir ot England was too pure for any slavo to( prcnthe ; thero the old fire ever seething at the corn oi me woriil, shoots uut its vulcanic tonpoc and solid things become melted nnd fluid. In our Innd it rises to-day fiercely, thrcateninii tboi terrible wrongs which lor a time triumph over us, and with nn intensity which never can be quench - cd until our t.a'ion shall come forth from the fur- nnee refilled and pure, And in the ranks of this unceasing Reformation. each of us is either an Erasmus or a Luther ; the man l faith only with virtue added or the man of faith. Good sentiments nro cheap enough. Every man is angry if ho is clasped nS n SimiiOPtei ot "tolnf iitoi i I . I lis ! 1 i itvnrt ithuugh the whole practical life may be devoted to jit. There arc those who would suppress a free 1 discussion of the slavery question in the country, 1 . - ll - .i . . . . . - lim tmu cMiccianv in tne pulpit : tnev are verv inoo'-' mint, when told that they are co-operating with tho assassin of (Minim r ; but really the only dif- fermicc is, that they use tho cant j, biases, 'agita- uon no'i -pomies in the pulpit, to atrike 'town freedom nf Rr h u ,il.t t!o, K-mtt. I1. It. , j takes honestly to iiulla r.cnhu. How common it I is to hear nu n say, "I am in favor of such a id such n principle,' or, 'I nui opposed to thi-i or that : evil ; then go on in their serene way, condemning j all who i; n finger to toil for the elevation of the principle, or the destruction of the evil. Generally, these expressions of love for ri 'ht principles on the part of oor Lrasmucs are lion i-, hly Inlse. Jbo whole life cives the lie to the tongue. Good principles, or a real sense of wrong nru inn trie quieiists some wouitl nave us helievo. Ileal faith is a living power, aod moulds tho life of il. II. . . the man it enters, by its essenti.il activity. It is the grand aggressive principle, leaving nothing where it was: when men know that pestilence of a fatal kind is in their immediate vicinity, are they so passive? And when amidst glaring in justice and oppression, nay. criminal and cruel inliiction, no on in the old routine, what shitll wn think but that their good sentiments nro miserable con i ventmnalisms. aud their professions ot faith w ill , fu .fnWehod? Lut if wo could suppose, that such sentimental- isms e.ro true, it reveals n slill morn rle.M-mlirw moral condition. If moil mi in, pre. thn wroii.r we cannot hold them responsible, they nro moral idi ots; and duty is always.co-orJinate with conviction, Hut. that meu rdiould actually fee vuit evils ii: arms' length of them: really have a sense of their I'..l... . . J - I : 11 ... ' I u in ii tiuru nun e.Mcni. ill 11 hi 11 uii it ill reii use and contentment, implies such a fearful selfishness, such radical, ptncticnl atheism, that one might well covet for them tho condition of the savage, the mere animated clud, who knows not his moral na kedness. It would seem, then, that tho demand t,f tho time is not for light. There is nlwavs more light th peupio nre willing lo want in. l he worn groans, not because theories nnd nmt.il principles nro not clearly enough defined. We nil l now evil: moral Calibans being as fabulous us Shakspere's. God liavo the soul of man, when he culled it into exist- ence, senses, just as Uclitiite us taste and smell in the body, by which it should know right nnd wrong. The spiritual instinct is traceable directly up to tho First Cause, with which every man is in larger or leus contact, unlesi we suppose a peison al devil. Newly born mice show signs of tcrr ir nl the first sight ol n eat, and nil minimis have in stinctive terror of tho nnimals which instinctively nrev unoti them. Such nn uncrrinfr insiinot lias the soul for the evils which prey upon her virtues. is no uso arguing ubout Justico, Mercy, II inor. Honesty. C'hnstitv: or n.'ainst Cruelty. In. humanity. Falsehood. It is like nriuiiii? with ear - ni s ness and lojic.thut white is white and not black. If then our faith is so clear, if tho very air is la- den with good sentiments, why is not the earth re-j deemed f'oni the evils which nftlict nml degrade: mankind? If all men in their senses favor Free dom, and condemn Shivery, why is Slavery upper- most, in sumo form, the world over? If all men's hearts announce that war nnd bloodshed are wrong that man, made in tho iininage of God, should not be hronirht to the auction block, nor irivon bodv ami soul into tho unrostiicted power of another man, should nut. bo kept in ignorance through life, should not have tho whole higher life within him dwarfed for another's pleasure, whv dnsooh hearts remain motionless, j hy su jli hands and tongues palsied ami still; Uli, lriend s, it is because beautiful Virtuo is no lipped mining men. nnd is no more longer worshipped seen hovering about our habitations. Oh, thou heroic Spirit of Man! who once did'st dwell among men, did'st thou then lie down anil dio with Lcom D.s in the noble gravo of Thermopj l;o? 1 'id Vt thou lake the deadly hemlock with rjocnATF.s aud depart with his spirit? I'id'st thou dio with Li'tu iiii or Si:uvcri:s.or on the scalfold, with Rl'ssF.i.l or Sidnev? Whither, Oh Virtue, bast thou gone! See, poor bleeding Humanity, stricken, crushed, look up through blinding tears, praying thy roturtt! Mmll virtuo, manhood, again appear on earth? The earth aw tits her king. Like Andromeda chained to the rock, w ith the dragon hearing with each wavo, she awaits the gcdlike Perseus, v ho shall leap forth like lightning to tho rescue ; w ho shall cry, "Let inego ! I shull not rest, no not in Heaven, amidst such wrongs. Poor child, 1 inn thy sworn knight until thy every wrong is righted, until thou art saved from cruel oppressors." Ii is the tendency of a true Faith to draw about it a body of Virtue, which radiates virtuous in fluence, as the linger radiates a rope, modeled on itself, V) coil and hold whero itself cannot be carried. It is not natural for faith to be apathetic and still born. We see this in the evcry-day interests of life. Men do not discover tho power of the lightning rod to protect their bouses, then leave it in tho sell ol books to bo taught children as a mere fact of science ; they lilt it by their chimney : they do not discover the vast powers of sleam and tho tcleirraph. and still sru on iu the old ways ol 'locomotion nnd sending 'news; but no sooner is tho abstract fact known, than in n roads bind tho world, nnd the electric tongue is heard through ait ull nations. Why then in the I.;.. I, ........l ,,n.i ;..;,.,! ;..,,..,.,..( 1... .1 j where it might be supposed that wo would bo all t.iLi, ......... .. ..u r,.i. twit, iiiiuicem ul llltlltlltll. l,n mum n .t in,, . tl,,.to.. a.l.l ........ I. U human lifo, do we evudo und hesitate, and let the Pecalogoe, the Goldeu Rule, the great discoveries of the spirit, before which the inventions of Fi.-i.ton, or Newton, cr Mouse, or Fra.nklin' aie is tapers in the sun, pass ou generation by gener ation, unappropriated in the world of politics, or trade, or cveu domostio life, aud only iuto a very few individual lives ? j i , I ' knows that God is king in this universe, lie knows i that God's ways nro not ns our ways; thnt the j very word God, involves ns a necessity the com thcr i pleto triuini h of nil that is good. Why should and lead balls do their work ; the named nnd un Thero : named heroes pass to oilier spheres; tho great i j i I brothers, it is hecuusc wo ndd not to our A irtuc, simple manliness; the noblo resolve that surrenders a hum to a Principle in the strength of which !. id, wi'h nil the power of His rig!i' hand, is immovably enthroned in his heart, nnd for which bo is able to endure nil ; ennntin!? nil suffering for that principle joy, nil toil case, al, 1 shame, glory and delight ! i Down I Down! vn clamorous fears, vo spirit" r - . , evoked by passions from her deeps, ve swarm i ulnar interests ! Tukn me. O Eicnml Truth nnd ! lilbt ! 1 am thine, nnd thine alone. Infinite nnd ! Perfect God 1 i 1 seo nrotind me Kings nnd Queens. Ah, you .1 1 t 1 .1 1 1...., ............ Al Faitli i ' m .jct-civc on; , i cix n;',ilruoii ti o o i lioviring over each one, with tho seeptro nn ! purple ; and I know that ye tire born, each to the, , rightful inheritance of a kingdom nnd throne : fairer, greater, than nny kingdoms and thror.es! bich ev r glittered nn the planet. Why do you; , not grasp your power? Why nrc your hands gluel to 3our sides ? Why do you let pretendets ! usurp the seat of the soul? There, it is reach! Alas, I had nearly forgotten. Virtue nlone can lAichain the earthly fpell, nnd rouo the noble, .King sleeping in each of us : from tho deptln of. w hat we are giving tlio awlul gltmpso ol what wc might bo. I know that awful shadow of Duibt, whieh evil times like these, comes nn many souls which have been striving lor tho right. It is related of ISki ti s, thnt ns he fell upon bis sword nt tho battle nf Phillippi, ho exclaimed. "I have followed theo, O Virtue, through life, and find theo at last but n slindow." And on us to-day conies that cloud. when the first great essentially moral conflict which a nation ever saw, has past, anil the battle field, cleared nlmost.reveals the fallen forms of heroes. When we think of tho s?eniinglv hupe- hoiiuago ol millions, whose oppressors nre .glutted with power ; when we think of how our own fellow beings with their families in Kansas. it 1. . I I. . . iv . . 1 1 ..: ,1 ocoeaui too ucei ot ruumu uespuiimu, lay sun aw bile, awaiting with full hope the moment when 'he heart of their country might come like the good .Samaritan, to bind their wounds, pouring in on ana wine, men seeing mat it is mo j.evne who comes n ml limits, nml loisses liV fin the other tide; of Freedom for which t or fathers toiled, sub dued and fettered ; uhis, w hen v. e think ot these things, tho shadow w hich le.ll on Ckuti s, falls on us, und in bitterness wo cry, "Yes, Virtue is n shallow. Satan is enthroned, not God, if thero i.v any God !" but the reason why the heart faints is because 'ts faith has not yet flowered in virtue. Any one who has espoused tho cause o. I reeuomnot ut the voice of party, nor lor any interests of section, nor lor mere expectation of success, but because it was the side of Virtue,) knows in his heart thnt he and his cauo cannot be dfjcote.i ; knows that Justico and Kibt nre beyond the control of such ,-, - t t. i Tl- petty tilings t.s J.ieelions nna 1 resiueucies, He our political methods no better than ins providen tial lines? If tho full sway foi a time of Wrong is its path to death, w hy shall wo murmur? Y who sit sadly by tho sepulchre of Liberty, seeing only the s.;il which men have placed ujion it, the stone on the mouth of thu sepulchre, tho nrmed guard which surrounds it.think not thnt altogether can hold that spirit mere ! listen close to the prophecy of Vii tu in your hearts, hear there the video of nn angel which even now cries, "It is not lin.n t, to rim... I" o- . . ov,. When my sinking heart asked, "Is then Liberty indeed dead?" there came a poet with heart a-twiu with the wholo world, nnd ho said. "Courage 1 my brother or my sister 1 keep on ! Liberty is to be be subserved, whatever occurs. There is nothing that is quelled by one or two failures, or by tho inditierenca or ingr ititudo of tho people, or the show of tho tushes of power soldiers, cannon, penal statutes. W hat wo believe in, waits latent for evcrthrough Asia. Africa, Europe, America, Australia, Cuba, and all the islands aud archipelagoes of the sea, what wo believe in invites no one, promises nothing, sits in calmness and light, is positive and com posed, knows no discouragement, waits patiently its timo, a year, a century, a hundred cen turies. The battlo ragea with many a loud alarm, nnj frequent advance and retreat. I ho imiucl ! triumphs or supposes he triumphs. Tho prison, i scaffold, garvote, hand-cull's, iron necklace, anklet. speakers and writers are exiled they lie tie 1 distant lands, the cause is asleep tho strong throats are clinked with their own bloud, the young! nien drop their eye-lashes toward t!"ie ground when 'hey meet. Rut for all this, Liberty has not gone out of i ho place, nor tho infidel entered into possession. When liberty goes out of placo, it is not the first to go, nor tho second or third to go. It wuits for till tho rest to no it is the last. When thero are no more memories of tho lovers of tho whole, of tho nations of tho world; the j lovers' names scouted in the public gatherings by the lips of tho orators, boys not christened after ! them, but christened after traitors and murderers ! instead ; laws for slaves sweet to the taste of people ; tho slave-hunt acknowledged ; you or I walking abroad upon the earth fluted ntthe sight ' of slaves, nu matter who they are ; and when "H ; Rbi and nil the souls of men and women arc dn - chargeu iroiu any part oi me cartii, man suau uic.,,,- instinct of liberty lie discharged from that part of the earth, then shall tho infidel and the tyrant como into possession. Theio two ubout live millions of voters in the United Slates. On lat Tuesday about two in the live decided practically that the violation, in tho face of tlio sun, uf every cummandment in the decalogue by open act of the President of these States, through bis sevile instruments, is worthy to be sustained and encouraged Rut are we to think for it moment that these two millions of men are essentially bad hearted, that they enjoy murder, and robbery, nnd rape, nnd arson, nnd would like to inaugurate thorn as domestic institutions? Tneir votes have i one that way, but not their hearts. Go into their houses ; whoso portraits bang on the thoso of Nttto, or the Gegrof.s of England. or Judge Jr.iTRifcs. or ISexedict Aiinolu? Or are lliey tno laces in vi tsi.r.y, aim tux, ami uiiiik- field, and W Asuixoiox, ana l.Al .WETiE wnose lile-loiig force was leveled at slavery. What are their children's nan.es, C.vuuCl.A V Captain KiDD? MosiioK KuwakIj? nnd olber borjer ruffians, or Fsu.NKi.is.lloWAiiD nnd Wu.beriuiile ? The people arc right nt be u t.and a few years mure of common schooling will make them right at bead too, and will cause them to stare at many things they now do. When in thosprintr cf '54, TU'ftxs was nn trial nt Roston on tho charge of having so far forgotten his color as to desire licedoin, I learned well Ibis 1 lesson nbout the popular heart, i suppose ncnuy ! live hundred thousand people thronged the city Irom every part of the State. Aud when through tt,..ir miilst down Statu street, the poor man was - - 1 carried, manacled, a deuso phalanx of United States trOIUIS 00 OVCrV SIOC. 111B HCVCOUO VUlier III the wharf, with red sircnrners like bloody stripes, awaiting hor victim. I passed uhmg tho sidewalks I "f the city ; not at all attracted by seeing the slave returning. W hy shou d I ha attending to 4vtiivv Hchns? 1 1 i in I had lien when a child, for his master and I wero born in tho same county lived in the same village j slaves with band- cuffd, I bad seen pasting our village streets in : ! it uusocu upon me now toe siave power una always lonnd its right hind in the North. To these men, that man icWm they paw chuinerf, was the only I slave on earth ' Tiicy eould not have believed it, but here really was a" Man, made in the image of God, chained 1 and there was no power to rescue ' that man I Terrilic fact I Slavery then actually . exists, nnd there nre men who enn actually come in'upto nnother man nnd put chains on him, and possess him, ns they possess a horse ! And lit'RNS is but one of five" millions I Well, it was not then depravity, but ignorance, which hnd made the ma of these very men perhnps vote for him j I 0f virtue. Delcat then attests the difficulty : p; rel)mjn when the poor, eating, sleeping ani walls, L,. wmt;h dogs us over the world, shall have turned to dust? lend it;" a fool's," Win gold and end it;" gam and bier's, "Win gold and lose U;" a wise mao's,"Wi gold and use it." SdaJ for the Social. 'gangs nil my lifo. Hut there whs one siuht which J I hnd never seen, w hich nhsorhed me now. Oh, tlloSO men (if eV Eturlnnd I 'I'hev lri,lrat nn i jr. i I ) f. L,il. a, ..I I,. ..i .. :r u 1 iki ki. ti, i.t ii vinus i vision of the endless Night had suddenly become i dread reality: yes. 1 myself snw strong men villi tears streaming on their cheeks, bovs ruki. ting nlong w ithout laughter but in wild d'isjiayj men of intluenen nml iro.il -h linnn-fr. il.nt. U..A i - v. ....... ....h.i.i, c r.VJ n, nfisitting perhaps on street boxes nr aton. tith ! laces pressed down into their ImtoU t All 11..- thought i, for ono slave chained in their streets, when thero nro ti ve millions where he came from. and most of them far worso off than he! Then ! I. 1 . ., . . . . uniier whose administration the rendition occured; and it is estimated that Fifty Thousand anti- slavery men were born nmid the pangs of that day I Even tho lawyer who defended the shave catcher's claim, like,ludas when he saw the result of his treachery, Christ in chains, repented, nnd has been vigorously canvassing fir Liberty during this contest. Then, niter all, thcso men are not devils, nnd tberol'oro wo cannot for nn instant admit thnt Liberty lias suffered more than an ap parent defuat. Let us learn, too, that it is the very grnndour cf our cause, which has made its triumph remote nnd difficult. You know thn'. calves and dogs nnd sheep nnd nil lower animals como to their full growth nnd strength in a mnth or n year or two or three years ; but Mas, the nobler aniinak the culmination id' nature, takes a long timo to reach maturity nnd full growth: bo needs more than a a score of years, so is it with ideas or projects ; those which are low reach their strength early; not so the high human idea, the party of Liberty, standing nmitlst other ideas and parties, ns Man amongst lower orders. The triumph of the cauve of Africnn Freedom is not to be classed with the triumph ol tho cause of Temperance or Missionary Societies, nr anything of the kind. It presup poses and involves iv largo perception of the nwful nnd niniestio nature of loan, the. inSex'ble justice of tho universe in w hich never yet went sin unpunished; aye, it implies a lull tide beating from human hearts nn toward the celestial shores, which when they shall come shall bo jubilant mornin stars, heralding in their song the Perfect Day of God, even then flaming up in the East, streak on streak, nnd unsealing every eye to the new creiv tion. Ah, yes, brothers, thoso who have low aim soonest reach them. But the highest lesson of defeat is yet to be re ceived. It is not evil in the world which is our trouble. that is God's affair, but it is evil in men's hearts. The slavery of five millions of Af ricans, in itself, we could easily view, ns we do the destruction of life by cholera, but ii it the dread- fvl tack of ririie in the country, which alone it th corner-stone oj blaveiy. Wo httvo said how it nppenrs with the mass of men to be ignorant, which is also criminal, but ' who nre those who deceive the people? What shall he said of the falsehood which sugars over the crimes of which this nntion stands convicted by the moral sense of the world, with the name of Democracy, nnd gives them to the people? Thnt was a terrible saying of Montesquieu, "that it would not do to admit that tho negroes were men, lest it should appear thnt tho whites were not." We must remember then that ns tho evil is not so much in the suflering of the African, as the ignorance and guilt of the Caucasian, so the tri umph over the evil would not be so much in being rid of it. ns in being rid of complicity with it, that is, in finding men willing to do their best against it. It therefore has become a test of virtue throughout our land. Every man is made to feci that God did not put him hero to abolish Slavery, but to tia right by Slavery nnd every other evil. And it is because this evil stands behind such strong en trenchments, with interests, laws, powers, talent, aud wealth on its side, with all devils, such as selfishness, ambition, meanness, nn its side, thnt it is so great a source of virtue. The evil stands only to be assailed: no other reason for the exis tence of nn evil in God's universe, can Do imagin ed; it stands, that souls may grow strong io wrestling with it. A friend rea l me tho other day, a sentence from a Mvr written by the venerable Channing, ' which said, '1 find that I have been nil my life trying to find virtue by some other means than virtue itself.' So wo nil do. Virtue is manhood ' moral strength ; we are ever seeking it in thing! which yield no moral strength, in mere social re spectability or church-going, or in not doing harm, careless whether we nre doing good. We devote ourselves to what it is easy to devote ourselves to We pitch feathers to generate muscular force. We seek the joy of victory in fields where there is no enemy, Not thus. Oil man, shs.lt thou reciere strength nnd sing pagans! 'Good things come huril ' said Plato, twentv-five hundred years nffO. J tlie Uw has not changed iu that time. Thou ,.nst pother r.earls on the wave tons, nor nick j up diamonds liko leaves. Tf.ou canst not attain the divjn0 rewards of virtuo without the perils, cares. of our cause nnd its grandeur; attests, too, its power to generato virtue within us. And we might thank God for permitting Slavery, if it gen erates virtue in men nnd women ; fur tho earth ex ists not to be free from evils, but to produce noble human souls, ns nn aprle-l tree exists to produce npples. And heaven knows we need something to yield virtuo. This lifo of ours seems poor enough, moan enough ; nnd nenrly the only good thing nbout it, is that we know that it is poor and mean. A perpetual round of getting, eating, drinking, sleeping that's o j fit life for an, immor tal nnd divine being ! Are we to go on thus, nev er piorcing'to tho heart of any deep spiritual vein i looion u e muv mine heavenly treasures which lii-otlicrs ! I stand before you a stranger ; an exile from my church, robbed by Slavery of that first and dearest association ; robbed by Slavery of my own home; my purents forced to go to distant city to see me, you will allow me some renson for bating Slavery. Rut let us see that it does not rob you and me of something more than home or friends; see that it does not rob ue of Virtue, does not cause our manhood to swerve from its task, or our spirits to cease striving for the r ?, : ;.. ,i . ,.:. jil a, the shadow passes r ,"ht. n the more in its anient auu ncuiiu, llver pi pledge our hearts and hands again and forever lor God und the Right ; so shall undreamed eiicr-in and new hopes be bom within us, and Faitli am) Virtue together strike forth, as pinions, to bear us on to the God whom the true Spirit of j jjaJ ever M firB the bun I A vain a Ronermi ser s, ' Vt i A vain man's motto is, "Win gold and wear it;" mis man s, " l in gold and share it; a mi-. in Bold r.nd spare 11; profligate s,"Wm cold nnd spoiul It; a brokers, "Nm guia ana