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(IS M 1 I.I.JU aW..L-l'J)T." I. l ILJI I Jf AMI'S R.ROMXSOX, EDITOR. "NO UNION WITH SLAVLIIOLDI'.ns." ja-.v j'eaesox, runusnisa agent. VOL. 13. NO. 4. SALEM, COLUMBIANA COUNTY, OHIO, SATU11DAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1S57. WHOLE NO. 022. The Anti-Slavery Bugle. NATIONAL COMPENSATING EMANCIPATION CONVENTION. The Business Cnmmittco rnport"d a preamble fend resolutions, which were nmcnded, upon mo tion of C-orrit Smith, herouiuUer mentioned, to rend Kg follows : Whereas, In consideration of thoso moral polit- leal and commercial relationships hy which (in times past) tho Free States havo directly or indi- recllv contributed to tho tnnction nnd sustenance of Slavery, and of the magnitude of tho difiicult.es Involved in its extinction, nnd also tho immeasur able advantages which would accrue to every sec lion from its removal, thcrofote Resolved, That, in tho opinion of this Conven tion, it is highly desirable that tho people of the North should unite in a generous and brotherly npirit with the people of the South, nn share later ally with them in tho expense of putting an end to o great ft political and moral evil as Amorican Slavory. Elihu Butritt advocated the resolution in a long and aide Bpeech, of which I can give hut a mere synopsis. For years said he, our most illustrious statesmen have'recoiled from grappling with this question, and thousands who revoro their memories now deem it fanaticism to venture an attempt nt emancipation. Should slnves increase at the pres ent ratio, iu 1950 they would number 3H,()00,000. The failure of West India cmnncipat'on had been adduced as an evidonce of the iucapaoity of the black race for freedom, and tho scntimout that it was dangerous to touch Slavery where it now ex ists was already creeping into professed Anti-Slave-ry journals in tho Free Stntos, But all these ob stacles were but ns mole-hills to the Andes compar ed to the deep sectional reeling between the North find South more bitter and unfriendly than be tween any two nations. lie believed Hint if these two groat sections could be canvassed to-day, three fourths of the people would bo favorable to such a plan of emancipation as may be looked for from this Convention. We huve conio together in a cor dial spirit of Iraternal co-operation, and to con struct a plan not only to do away with Slavery but to abolish the alienation and distrust w hich grow out of its existence a plan which shall make the Union in reality ono. The central principle of this plan was, Compensation to the Slaveholder, nnd in behalf of it both sections were to work, and each State Rive its ai l. The North has in timet past received great profit from the staples of the South, and as a northern man, in veiw of tho proslovery legislation of tho country, ho would prefer not tu go into particulars as ts our moral responsibilities in relation to the system, Ho would rather say to the South, lot by gones bo bygones, we havo nil of us lived in glass houses too long to be alio now to throw stones nt ono unother. Tho thioo politic al parties of the North cspect to put an end to Slavory through the Federal Congress, nnd ho had never heard of a Southern statesman w ho supposed it could be done in any other manner. Noithom action cannot dojt without indemnification. Ruf ui King, in 182-5, had offered in Congress a resolu tion providing the public lands for such a compen Ation.nnd Daniel Webster had ndvacatod tho same proposition at a subsequent period. Shall wo with miserly weights and measures deal outaRmall part of our great public domain to the South ami clutch the lesidue ourselvcsor squnndc.r it uponrail road grants? Nn-a thousand times, no! Rather lot in, iu the name of the Croat Jehovah and the con tinental Congress, say to the Soutf, : Take it til and extinguish this curse of Slavery, and let it be said by our cbilcren's children, that Ihcss broad acres upon which iod bad put bis stauipof Iree dom had purchased liberty for millions of human beings, and had extinguished sectional hatrsds and iealousics. The public lands nt 75 per cent per aero, would yield SI 2(10.000,000. No, allowing a compensation of t-'-O lor oaeh slave, nnd this sum would Riii'ike to fi-eo tbeiu all. It is trm-, The Charleston Courier thinks thin sum too small, t nd Kji S.Vlll rer head is a more equitable late. Hut there is a difference between S'.iling into bondage nnd into freedom, for iu tho latter ca.-e the laud ot the slaveholder would greatly increase in value while in tho former it would be deeica-ed. Thu then, putting, as ho confidently believed it could tn dono. tho compensation to be paid at V-50 per head, and the 3.5'uO.OOO slaves would require .S-75, 000'-0UO, still leaving a surplus of y.'i'Jj.OUO.tiUl) arising from thB public lamln, to no useu in too eu ucation or other improvement of the new made fieo-men. Under t'.iis plan, the great objection of the North to an extension of territory M..mll im removei !. and tho dav loiuht conio v.hcu Central America would b added to tho I'oion. Tstit there is still another source of aid in this work viz., tho surplus revenuo arising from customs. A largo surplus revenue was depreciated l.y com mnrciil men. and was cortainly to be avoided. To lessen, tho tariff was reduced, but, tho consump tion of imported articles largely increasing, tho vonotinn was not diminished bv tho reduction. One years surplus revenuo would make Missouri a free State, and one month s wouta unswer lor uc. nwnre. anil so on. Thus in duo time, without iu creasing taxation one dollar or imposing upon our citizens a burden that would bo fell, nnd without the proceeds of the publ.o lands, every Mato tu our Confederacy migni ueeomo iruu. uLiiiirciuiu"ii thus produced would restoro tho good feeling that ought ever to exist between the North and tho South. It would expedite tho day of tho slaves redemption for fiftv or ono hundred years, and they would enter upon Freedom under auspices pecu liarly ravorablc. That they would be retained by the South, to perform nccustomed labor, if thus emancipated he had no doubt. In tho Northern iha fild of labor is fillod. and any form of emancipation that should tend to throw GO.OOOlaves into euoh of the Northern States would produce a domestic revolution, and the enactment of Black OH, U.K. Hi" vuni.iiiii.-ni. i. ,i-..:. ri i. .t.o r.,na t..r In vfi lttrn thriRA Of 111 omaneinntinn were thus to nrooeed primaril re thus t'o pro'ooed primarily from K C.pneral Government, still no Stato should ro ceive its portion except upon tho solemn action of its Legislature. No attempt would bo nude to in fringe State sovereignty, nor was any compulsion to be used toward the Slave States. Each State was to decide for itself when it would enter upon the work, and in what manner it would carry it for ward, arid thus nil constitutional snags would be Moided and State sovereignty respected. The Eev. Mr. Unnkin beliovcd there wns no ne cessity for a separate party organization, for he thought that men of all the great political parties could unite in aidiriR forward tho work of compen satory emancipation, IIo did not think tho move ment recognized the moral right of Slavery, if he did ho would huvo nothing to do with it. ile felt that lifo and freedom were moro precious than money, and he therefore advocated tho plan pro posed. Mr. Watkins (colored nun) of the State of N. Y introduced by Gorret Smith, said the subject was one of the docpest importance, llevolution was the order of tho day, and the watchword was Ko form. Institutions'and systems once regarded us the embodiment of human wisdom wero now loon ed upon as the embodiment of human folly. Ilea on. not custom, was now the eovereign power, nnd by this standard must all projects stand .or fall. This doctrino of Compensated Kmancipalion demands the closest scrutiny, anil, hue every move ment which has humanity for its basis, must be well defined and understood. In his opinion, it was highly objectionable nnd ought not to suoeoed. It recognizee distinctly the right of the slavehold er to property in man. If he bns a right to sell, bo lias a right to hold, ami if to hold, to keep r.s lon(( ns ho may choose. Tho s lavo is a man, in leeling, thoughts nnd aspirations, nnd if n man, he cniiuot bo held ns property. Iu his judgment, thoso at the head ol this moment directly recogniz ed tho right of property in men, Tho South ha not intimated any intention to accept compensate n nnd release its bondmen. The call lor this Con vention should have como from slaveholders nnd t rom Abolilionhits. This movement would draw aside llio country from the true isuc now be- (ore it (viz.). Abolition of Slavery. In Missouri and Kentucky, it would rctnrd it. It would crush out tho conscience of tho North, now to thorough- ly oroused n-:iiiiHt Slavery ns u heinous pin, a crime against U on nnd luminnity. Jt would stop tho awakened tlaveholder, and lead him to be lieve ttiat Maverv was niter nil rmnr, mui it would confirm tho South in tho general o;.iuio;i that they had a right of property iu man. He saw i's el-1 foots already here in this Convention, w litre men who had for years battled with this' giant crime, were now closing their eyes to its enormities. Again if we arc to abandon the living issue now ncioro (lie country and go into a system ol compensation, tho Blave, and not tho slaveludder, sliouia be theotjectot our movement, t or years, tho latter has lived from tho swent and toil of ,,e rormcr ; tho one is already rich, tho other degrad- ed and poor, Fathers and mothers, sous and daughters, Lave been the victius of every outrage: they have been herded together with sheep and beasts of burden ; thov have boruo the galling yoko upon their necks ; nnd now we are asked compensate the men who have dono ull these things. The slave should be compensated ; hu manity and justice alike demand it. lSut this plan ignores the claim of the poor slavo, and refuses to place him upon a level with man. For one, I put iny foot on such ft transaction. At this day, wo should not talk of national compensation, but na tional retribution. (Jod's laws cannot bo violuted by man or nation with impunity. This Oovorn nient has departed from justice and truth with full knowledge of the consequences, nnd unless re pentance and good works speedily come, national retribution will inevitably follow. Mr. l'ryne spoko at considerable length in oppo sition to the scheme of the Convention. The slaves of the South, said he, Rio not on sale their nowspapers say they are not. Nj power could compel a sale, so tho whole sjlo-mo would fail in the outset And even if they could be pur chased, tho Government had no money to buy. liis honored Iriend, Ucrrct Smith, had taught hiu. that Uoveituucnt was poor ?.s poor as a church mouse. Tho money and lands belonged to tlm people, to tho toiling millions, and Cuverntnont lias no right to W'.ko either for such a purpoi-o. This scheme, again, diverted attention from tho -rent An!i slavery movement, that was gradually making its way into the natiouul cunccieiieo. 1'ut some mav say, if we cannot havo the surplus rev enuo and public lands, then ltt us resort to rfiicct taxation. Supposo wo propose payiug $.2-5 per bead to the uiasier and ?5 tu the slave, it would require jl,l25,t00,Ut)0, which would be a tax ol o7,o0 upon every mnn, woman and child in the country. To such a tax tho people would never submit. In his view, simplo emancipation would be of sufficient advantage to the South to justify such a measure. Witluu ten years, her wealth and commercial importance would be increased to isuch an extent ns morn than to compensate her for tho Iocs of $1,125,000,000 in tddve. Mr. l'ryne's speech was un able one. and elicit ed c.rihi'Junillo applause. His points had a peculiar pungency, from the fact, as he said, ' that his principle id liberty had been imbibed at the foot of that "Gamaliel" poiuiiiijj to Cerrit Smith. Tho Kov. Mr. Monroe (colored aiun) of Michi gan followed in a few remarks in favor of tho s-.hf.me proposed. Gsrrilt Smith upon rising, was rcoieved with great tipplaii-e. He is a nobia specimen of a man ind no one con listen to him with indiH'erauce. His etjlo in loic.tde and concise, his voice deep and impressive, and Lis delivery at times impass ioned, llo began by referring to the speeches made in the al'ioin ion by his old fellow-laborers in the Ami .Slavery canto in opposition to tins movement lint upon a loll and candid review id' his cuursc, bo was fully tralii-ried that ho was right, ai.d that they were wrong. Indeed, the opposition had tended to Attach him more closely to the plan. We this day inaugurate a great movcmtiiit a full of hope to tho slave, to tho slaveholder, and tho whole couuty. Wo hero doclaro thut we of tho North will tlmre with tho South in tho tempo rary loss which abolition will cause. Slavey is national, not sectional. We of the North have mide it national, and its sin lies as emphatically at our doors as ut the duma of tho Suui.li. The commerce of tho North, its politicians and it? churches, havo bowed down and done this mon strous system reverence. Northern help admitted Texas and Northern voles repealed tho Mii.souri Comnromiso. liut lor Northern churches and col- lego-, thero would be no proslavety spirit at the North and comparatively litllo at the South. It wns. therefore, no moro than even-handed justice that the North should largely contribute toward a deliveance from this great evil, But it ia said we propoBO a bribo to tho slavo hnhier to eeaBe from hiu wron.:. It seems to mo ,., K i t,rrililfl is tho KVStClll. SO full of Uliserv to mastor and slave, and perilous o the whole country, that ho was wiling to appoul to tiie princi ple of soilishnesH to bring it to uu ena. i nava a neiirhbor who is a miserable drunkard. I urgo him by every consideration of interest, duty and honor to abandon his cups, but all to no avail.---I then take lower grounds, and offer him a cow if ho will quit his disgusting habits. Is this sin ? or is it bribery ? 1 cannot so regard it. I thus provo my sincerity and my deep interett in his n-nlfurw. If. then, we appeal to the slaveholder ,,n,,n moml wrounds to emancipalo his slaves and ,..-.. n- . . - . 1m r,.lnsoa. is it a sin or bribery for us to say, II yau will do it. we will make good to you a part of tiie loss occasiotieu litereoy t iu. uui h ib ui- ,i ,i,.,t ... ,,mi.nii bv such a proposition the riirht of nronertv in man. But it 1 say to uut u i say to tne rumseller. Throw away your casks of poison and I will aid yon in securing an honest living, do 1 indorse his right ol property thorein ? Now 1 recognize no proporty in man, or in rum when exposed to sale for drink. We hold fast to our faith that no man cat. possess property in his lol-low-uiau. It is as aburd to claim it in the case ol mat. n.ado in God's own image, as it would be to claim it in God himself. Now we do not intend to bi7 out tho slaveholder, but only to compensate him alter emancipation. The atcrngo value of a good Idnve is $1,000. The highest Bum woproposo giving is $2f0, not ns a purchase, but only 1 make good in port the loss to the slaveholder. It is urged again, the slaveholder would bo rich er after emancipation than before. This may bo truo of States, s States, but I think but f.-.w of tho planters would bo richer than now ; besides, nearly oil of them will bo throw ;n into compara-, tivcly holploss situations and into untried oiicuin- But it has been , urged that stioli ine o.juiu wuum fr i n aw 'l n flecoinn is;, bo ciuii'iun u ivou,., u." North could well afford to pay a great sum. It has shared in tl.o prolits.and can well afford to part with n portion of it to terminate this horrible sj .,,! r,..t ,,,, nnd iriaeelullv aud without bloodsh 1 to tho question of Slavory. But the sum we offer will be refused indignautly by the South say some. Well what Cheu t Does that relieve us from the duly of making the offer By it we discharge our consoieuces and acknowledge our willingness to bear our part of the burden of emancipation, . A 'e ' is eaul tins moveniout will neutral-1 to!.11'0 n" ".V Past labors. I do not ss see it. For; Ins wo now confess our portion of tlx ft'iilt. The : ."South hs its responstbiiitv nnd we havo ours. Let us discharge ours. Hot run the Oen"rsl (Kit- , ernmont constitulutionnlly act in thin mstter ? 1 i tdniit the Constitution never contemplated sik h n j ichemo, becane in that day it was believed on all i 'innds that Shivery would die out in one genrra-l ion. 1 put it tir.on the eronnd of a preat nati mal !... 1 I- 1 . J .1. . a.. been c?contitiues to be bv that extension, wbv hesitate to preserve it by the same means f Jehn Ouinev Atliiiits believed thnt !.iinri"t5 eonl.l abid- !i:-hS!averv under the war t.owor. with or wiihout 1110 consen ol tho l.i nstitutu n (inmt uini prof-s-; nig emergencies must override exi-tins laws. This is such ci-e. The exigeneiej nt.,1 nsi essi- ties of tho iiati.jn demand imtierttively that Con-! press, reflecting of 'course tho popular will, shall act up to the crisis and relieve the nation from the "open, irigeaiamit.os. t oe speaker .ur. i o no UKcnit!iC ?-uth to a Imim ot hfMO I,';";'"''" t (. Ira i T m-n uli ..ii ' .1 I iavii O If nut Adrnnf of crime. I reolv that, if the North has been ini iipi'nsfMtv. .1,.n;.ri,,tt .limioit l,n r.i.wtT to r.nr- i K 1.. . . . " ! eouwu jjiiiuiiitim, nur R gu'ni ni'iTisny mil biiihi- gcr man tno t-ontitu!ion. iiy tiist pnrciiao, niv very was exlerile.j, ami li, in tlietacoM the t. on- .i.-i. , , - . j I : . I mmu:B ino uenuoiic w as en'isnjrereii ni it in " crnno. i repiy ma. .oe ,. p ui im. " partnership with tuem, ;et. In this cai;e, tho old "'"'''n of ''honor among thieves is elearly ap;m9 Preble. No.j hor will our plan supersede moral , Horts to rid the country of this curse, but they . cn pntforth far moro hopefully than before. ... ,.i.i jei.rs.i nave t-een lahoring to persuane tl.o Aort i '.U"J ' i-i ci,i.,.eei,iii iui,a the South ... this matter, and here we have means for a peaceful and bloodless) extinction of Slaverv. But. savs an obicclor. lot tho proposi- titm come fi urn tho South. Let it repent and take tho first step. "When tho sky falls you will catch Inks." but ynn will have a b ug time to wait. j A ruffian is murdering a w hole family one by one. ' If morsl suasion will r.ot indtico him to desist, dibv i I not offer him a reward to do s.i.nt.d uiunt I wait, ought I to wtit, until he repents hi. d offers to j stop himself? Long beWro too slavehrdder willj''"'- repent hundreds of thousand will havo quite as j nuieh regard for ll.o millions of slaves as fur j the souls of a few thousand slaveholders. j This movement will hnvo great power if it is invi- gurated and carried forward in love. Lovit is (hp! great remedy for human wrnni within and with- ( the province of stHto-maiiship; iStafcsman-! ship has al--vvs been a f jih.ro where love and Lu- inanity have been wanting. A true slatiismau iiinst i Imvo u loving heart or hn tannot succeed. Abo- litionints must hnvo a ! cart for tho t-b-.M-hebler us well u for tiio slave ; and one rcsxm tlir-y havo no stronger hold upon lha Southern couai-ienee is lliut this principle 'd love docs not pre-inm-pate in tlmir! actions. Tho South hates Kopuhliriuii.:m us pro ceeding upon a principle ol untagonn-m ur.d so! lidilKss. Let Kcpubiiciu.isiii espouse this move ment, and it will evince a kind and fialoriul spirit that the S nithwiil appreciate. We n-ck the co operation ot ull parties in tins mnvtmuut. It is ti noble work, worthy the help t.f u1 who regard the . .. . ' -1 . . . " .... soffciinirs of the i -ppresscd and the honor of the nation. ho vvi.l not aid in lU glorious cunsuin umtiou. i , ; j ; I ; COMPENSATED EMANCIPATION. As the question of buying the slaves is now prom inently before tho people, we copy the followitig articles on the subject as especially opportune. From the New York Tribune. .. inVl,,vin co'imiJorKtions of right and wrong. Ii j,, in pt.oai.i1j(l ti1B destruction of Ninoveh , fr i,er abounding wi.-koness, had nuded, 'And 1 We rejoioo thut this Convention is to bo hell, and trui-t it may bo iimnerou'ly attended. Let Slavery, liktt any other prer,t social tvronx, be dis f.u,;d in every prnclicaldo light, and every pos sible mode and measure ol rcure'-s t e tluroogtil oonsiderud. Wo w i d not sny that some mea-'iire of National compensation to Aw chohlers may not ultimately, und w ii-ely, be nd q-tc d. Certainly, if the slavelioldiiig class were this day to make the oiler 'tiivo us tho Public Lands, and wo will abolish Slavery:' or, 'Give us Twenty Millions per annum lor fitly years fi-i-m th Federal "J'.'oitsu. v. and wo will abolish Slavery to-morrow,' we hlionld I o inclined to answer. 'Take the lands, tir lake the money, and let our countiy be a UopnUitt in (Iced i.n well ns in name ;' but, if. the itbi.ei.cn of tiny such prolier, we d-m ir to tho w id nit and poln-y of art offer from our side, its we do to the justice of the proposed couipensatiou systoui, for toe lot- lowing reasons: I. Itsoems to ignore tho essential error nnd wrong, tho injustice and mischief, of shareholding, It tends to contirm the slavt-hohii-is iu the error sedulously inculcated by the Pio-Slatery journals, that Slaverv, whatever ...oral nbjtii.ns mav .e urged to it,"sccu. es pm..t industriaLpeciniary and social advantat-es, to Ihe cIh as individual., and generallv. These nre tho elemet.t.,1 lallacii-s whtreby" Slavery is this day upheld, and wo farj and dread to strsn.-then them. Overwhelm n Pro- Slavery man with facts and arguments showing ' ..... t.T... ...,i;, ,.c ii, nig iiecesai y 111 urntu unit minuumi ... ...v .l.v.h.,1. .v.it, i,.t l,e lorn, nnon vo.i with tho question, 'Without Slavery, how shall the world bo supplied with Cotton, Sngoj, Coffee and Tobacco t Now we meet this ouostion direct- ly, by showing that Slavery cripples and blights tho productive capacity of any region it rules, hs ie clcurly evinced by the spar.se population und low price of bin'' in Slavo tts compered wiili Free Suites, We do not, of course, maintain that the identical individuals now growing Sugar and Cotton would produce moro of thoso staples in Freedom than they do in Slavery any morn than tho convicts in our Stute Prisons would make our boots, shoes, files, ,to., at liberty, than they do at present: hot it is ovoivholtuingly demonstrable. that a fieo-l.tbor community, other things bein lemial. produces more, improves moro, enjoys more. ,. - ,, -i . . i r tiiau one whose labor is mainly extorted from. j slaves. Wo can pro.-o beyond question that Yir i;hiih, ur miy uvin-r oiniuomiu, us m...... stronuor. mure populous, moro procrcsslvn. ten vears hone?, or fiftv vers. if she wore to abolisu slavery to morrow, thr.n if she were to retain it; but if New Y'ork wore to offer Virginia Fifty Millions of Dollars to induce hor tu give up Slavory. how naturally and plausibly the Slave Pross would say, They would not seek to bribo us to giv up our slave, unless they felt that Slavery gave us an ad vantago over them I' We know ibis would be f.illaciois; but it would be a very plausible fal lacy, on i would nid to close the oyci and Larueu the' heuits of the slaveholders. II. Ir all discussions of grave charietor nnd monion', it is well to keep tho moral element in tho fe.vground. If Slavery be csen'mlly right,!'. shou.d bo loft undisturbed ; if wrong, thoso who havo power to abolish it cannot do so a moment loo scon. Seek fust the king loin of God and II is his righteousness, and all thoso things shall be added tint vou.' is tho Divine rulo for all eases am authorized to t-tier ten Uoll.iri per pea;, ioi- every one of you who repents forthwith,' wo don't bolievo ho would have pri-OjClied to such purpose as ho did. A good m.anv sinnurs woul I have stopped Co hi.!j;ii) for fiftv in dollars or evon twenty perhaps till tho season for repentance had passed. III. The compensation plan ignores the fact Slavery has always taxed tho Free Stales, nnd Is taxing then, to day. In Postage, in Pul-lic Dofcnco7 iu the .uboidiuntiou of our industrio-l the evils it bnn Wfanelit mini,! t.n tmrnlv lt'iin I r hi ., .... ' ... I. .. - ... I ... it " v - " ' j " huuvih ri ieivir it 0.13 '-ii'-r.ii 'u mn r.nr anonai genius won it require ages i ir incir complete era lieution. 1 lten,t:ie negr-.es. I,. A, A I 11 . .1-.. . 1 , - . i 1 . . u . e .1. . m1" i.-.-n uh-hi hiju oru-.aiiKeo 07 ion itihii i r me havo employed hundreds of them : and, with the oxoep,L,n (;f one UH,m U;(,Ur(, Hunter. n.;t one done for us a week's honest labor. I have tnkga tlmn Mkt hav9 M Bnd clothed ,1(jni JMr at-tcr vKr on thoir RrrirR, fruln tllt. ,Sttttc9 nd in return have L-enerallv found them nit i'l''j to those who seek to live by agriculture so fully us ,.. will to those who seek to crowd into cities like Toronto but it bs-i of tiuth must roc 'S!i''d by the candid. We know honest, wfrtbv, industrious ncruM ; but ths negroes ol N'w ork have m.-.ny points of resemblance to Prince's (Inscription of their Canada brethren, Colored people are l.tvorites here as servants, and, 'f q'l'ililio.l ami deiligent, can command better wage than whites; jet we nre confident that there are more Black to tlay it. New York who seek to lire hy liarlolrv, silling liqu .r, and other modes of Pandering to other's vi--fs.th.in by d nvn out 'i;1'- ""'"il lab or. And this deplorabla sUte of linB proies. not that the blacks ate enoatia'dy worse iUn other people, but that they have, ns a race, I ron eduealed in the very wort school to be knmd t-n tb'.s continent. The road li'-i.a sl-ivoty of ,uul "l l I'ody to true fiee;!..m is not merely a commercial policv to the presume I nter-sts n( cotton-growing, in false nnd dcgM ling notions cl tho worth and dignity of Labor, leading our r oith to seek by any and every mr-;ns to nroi-l n life el prodnctite indi!?try, wo of tho f'res Stntes are and lo'ig hare been burdened nnd d:inng-l by the Sl.ivo sjitem. And, il flatery were abolished til-morrow, tb work of Nations! df-liverance from ll.n n.ll. It I--- . ...tl l. I .. t ... overseer, reared in dense itnoranee. cenoral mi- ( hastily and the notion that Labor in a badge ot , deL''adutii n and an uninili jnted iura. w,m!d b. for eenerati, ns. a hiviw trial to us all. As we ' write nor eye rests on this passage !r :m a recent letter of ( ol. J. l'rines, r member of the Canadian 'I'm haninnt, wlm, in reply to the revives uf a inettihg of the lihu ks of Toronti, in wbi. h he was acn-el of having unjustly denounced their people says : "It has ben my misfortune nnd the misfortune f iy fnaiily to live among thoe Hlaoka (and i 1. . X . ' L V.Vi1 ."f"? toI r"!- 3;.. 1 i upmjeu nuioirens ot mem; ana, wun me, ro(,lleSi ,liHr(1, an i a gr vceless worlhf 'ss lvintf gt , v,,,.ltl0n,j. -iq :J ?(rv ni,,in RnJ ,nj in ,IpHPripti,in 0f ,ho j ,rkin, B iAV- i ,.,,..1,1 ,H :,. l, cm white men, wi.h very few exceptious.' J ' Of course this is strotiily put we think more strongly tin:, the fiict, will warrant and it wi'ifj dab -ult, t.nt a long one. Ages id l-.'iter treatment j l,,fln Waeks have ever yet received, cither in New Y ik or Now Knol u-.d, will bo reooiiud P rai-:o them to tha pt ttforui t f a h ue uuiilio .d. flu y bare many good eli-monts they are docile-1 and imitative unil, if thev could ur.lv be Created hmiianely and consi-lerattly, they might improve uiuch f'sster than they do; still, in view of tho ' "idigni'.iet cotistaiilly and wantonly heaped upon t .1 . .., - :.. . . 11 .. - ...1 l i.- .... i them, tut 7 are doing as will as could bo expecte-l 'I hoo a.iiong them who ure honest, thrifty, slf respeeting, Ueservo far more credit than whites, even in the humblest condition, who evince like quality' s, since -.hey have overcome far stronger liittorMO'-tftndrrtfr, towardjdelwseoujt.t and knavery. But oiuancipatiid slaves, or tiio cli.iJreo of such, arc not a desirable class of neighbors or fellow citizens; Mid tho overthrow of Slavery in the S nub must largely increase the northward move Mient ol Blacks. 'Let justice be tljne, though the heavens f.t'.l ;' let every man te free, though we kntrs' that many will (as many d 1 ari l always di.l) abuse their IVeedom ; but tve protest ng iinst the a-riimptii. involied in the eCMpen-aling plan that tho burdens of Kmaneipatinn aro to bo borne by the South, w hiie its ben. iiT" enure to the North. We timily In iieve that, while Loiaucipatioii, like any radical and pervading chnpje in soe'n! and p. Utii-al ri l ui ois, im:t iuv.i!-e m-iny individual liani.-hipH, nnd a teiopoiary gend's.l disruption be tween Capital and lii'o.r 111 flu-olioMing eou.mu-niii:--. jot iu good eil'. eU wruld bo instantly nnd bent licialiy felt throughout tha South, in inlbix of an init-liigent mui t-ilieient Laboring Class, nnd the orr.eral app: iieioiirn of real property, while its boidens wm.ld fairly khared by tho North. Why tie i freeing i on should tho North pay the South for its slavcj 1 NO COMPENSATION TO SLAVEHOLDERS. . required to bo done, under the law cf Moses, by , w,iu, ttl0 Mrvailt a directed to bo .sot free ai stauces. Jubilee, with a 'cowpsnsutiou' from his mas- L.i'rnct from the Declaration of Principles, drawn up by William Goopki.i,, nn l adopted by I the Khode Inland Auli-Slavery Convention in ls:V.; V. c can-tot C0P.ent to tlT.-r the sHvo master a r.tpcnee.non. ,J e km ol nolhing that he has '" "'' ' ""'red to do, wbie.i sho.,1.1 entitle hm. i " '-' ''"' r.l'vmg used his c.K!.W.t . ''! '""'' bu iT f ,th. !'"9 ct'ihodicd in tho slave cod,- or revealed in V raclioul opera iou-:t cannot he for toe pro . tecli.m afforded the slave by toe slave laws it 1 ' l'or'.'oer -. Tho history of f-irmer exporimcnts .Hmy proves that, by emancipating Choir slave, un,i paving them fair wages, tha masters gaiu mo j CVi iristoud of losing it. They save tile, immenso i ,( drivers and overseers, irou collars, whips, chains, and thu:i)b-.c.mvs ! Slave labor Is waste- ! f'.Und ,,,,proaial;lo iu the long run, and tiio uih that orn States would bo c..r:chcd, not l...poVt;..,..cd, i l)jr ouiiiuuipnlion. Above all, we cannot offer tho master a coupon- .111 r , 1 - ,1 1 .1 I'unuut be for having forbidjoi. the slave to K-ini to read the Bible it cannot bo for having st-pa rated wives from their hii jbands nnd infants from their mothers -it cannot be for any or for all these things that the slave master is entitled to a com peu.-ation. Nor can it bo lor ceasing to do them thing., in tho case of emancipation. Men should! neter bo hired to abandon sueli disgraceful prae - tiee, nor will men of true Christian honor receive sueh a compensation. Besides, tiiaviiholding is cithern profitable prac tice, or otherwise, If it is profitable, then the proliti of tho slave's own lul or must have paid the master long ago, for the original purclu'so m-iti-v, even if ho wore entitled to bo refunded for i. The lii'Ciks.ind Bomans, like the modern Spaniards, always allowed the slave to go tree as soon as he had paid for h.mselt his purchase value. It Ti.iuo. ii ino- , i .r liolo.ng bo proht able, then surely two centimes of service must have Bulhced for tho compensation duo the slaveholder, even upon tho admission of his claim. But if slavehol ling bo not profitable if the keeping is worth ns ninch as tho labor thou the property in tho slavo is merely nominal, and of no real value I The master can suffer no lost in giving up such proporty ! How mttch should be paid to a man for the damages done him in taking away a horse, which could earn no more than bis keeping ! We see no foundation, then, for the compurgation of the master in this case. If ho loses, it is put by emancipation, but by II." unprofitable purchase, in the first place. Let him bo rntroatod to make a hotter iuvestu.out, in future. Again : Emancipation destroys no propirly it breaks in0 bonos it unstring no muscles ; tho slavo can Ln ns much money after emancipation r.s ho crsr j ,.,i;j. Thoro is no property destroyed. And il jit be taken from the claiiiatir, on ncconnt nf the j traiisjlbr. O.i the other band, the slave i 'entiilod Ctimr.Dn,itiou' for his um tiied labor. This was shvv it' thrr foold bllT. they lltfot Sf ll. ...... 1. 1 i. . I, n . , 1 . V. . ,,,11,1 ,mn it rinnr. iitiui'" ' . . - . . . . . . . , nminuini urnni'in .7.1,11.... - . turning siavrnouer i' uu ';ij " - V I r nil Hie smves srouu ne innipoi ii . .v. .... 1 : l. ..:n..'ihln ii Jii-nrV. I tie ithoohi u'hijiiiik um j,. ...... j-.- . ution for the slave, bee.uno it contradicts the fun 1 imenfsl principls, that man c-mnut hold pr"por t in man. Tho moment a oi.mpsnnition i off red tit the master, tb? hold tir-on bis eonn-isn? is r !inqoihed. Ths ri-.!it of pro rty is admitted, md thers is no room f ir oh irgini him with ihe .in or holdint it. In the lango,e of a sluvrVil l- ... -tf (1 ,f-r.,n,nnt eolild tel re!l I'S. it IH;ht hold tney fiatlt SMI. nu-isrs miirbt poekot t!:B eomin-nfation tnonsj, nnd ue it to pure'n-ie more sloe Iroai nbr ia I. Tli rieeliuo of c-unrens.ition, m a prini'ipl of sniinciiintipn. wo hoi 1 rs:cnti.tl to the integrity and sue. -v m tlie Aoti r'lavevv c m -. a.i i r .inn so t i the preservation of cnrr.vt Christian princi ples nod universal tresil nn. et nil appropriation f.,r tho n-lipfof m-timl itve. wticnevr it m.!.t orour, vrH.U not h a Pou)n--uion. :hh,v J, m pr,,m Jivis.i-m -t lows amonK pfirtr.cru in wick - . i..V. .. , if ..tx,irv Difriii. fJiii'Ti i. L''Uiij'riiiiuii. i j .1 . ..I 1 I ....! . nut nn nm li nil Ittrt .... t .iaci llie pnilt ot Hiavory hIim ir.nt.rii.,., the .acrilice. it misht be .lone without1.... tu .1 riiii i v . ., ...... , r .-, :,,n w- f.n inr.dvintr tlin nrineiiiln nf comnenntion. " can never consent to pav men for having sinned, nor offer thorn money tu loave off sinning, the worPl is not to bo regenerated in this way ; nor havo the graces of Christian penitence and amendment, from tho days of Simon Magus to tho present hour, been purchased with gold and silver. Il I I I TO WHOM COMPENSATION IS DUE. Extrnnt from tho 'Declaration nf Sentiments' of the Nttiotial Anti-Slavery On vention, adopted in Philadelphia, December, lii: Wo maintain that nn comDOnsatinn should be J given to the planters emancipating their slaves Because it would be a surrender of the great fundamental principle, that mau canuot hold prop-jjcet Pl-tO ill llllin ! erty in mun ; Because Slavery i a crime, and therefore it lint an article to brni.hl ; Biitause the hold-rs t.f slaves nre not tho just proprietors of what they ohini ; freeing tho is not df-privinc, them of property, but re-1, storing it to the right owner ; it is not wronging , thu.sltr, but rihtiiijj tho slave mutuiiiij; to ! I Because Immediate nnd general emancipation would ouly destroy uominal. m,t real property: it would not umpuiato a limb or brest a bone ot ho blavvs, but bv loiosing motives into their broasts, would make them doubly valuable to the i.mslel.t as lun laborers ; and K-icau-io if c.iiopeusatioii is to bo given a I all, it nh'iui i be civeu to tiio outrai;.d and cuiilless hlaves not tj those who havo pluodored and abus ed theui. WHERE LIES THE INDEBTEDNESS. Extract from a speeoh delivered by Goorge Thompson, Esq., in Manchester, Eugland, before tho abolitiou of British West India slavery : I am very friendly to compensation. I should like the negro to 'e compensated. (Applat.se.) 1 should liko them to show bow much n-onn-o d o nPjrro for iiis hitherto KicgnipensutoJ toil ; what debt wo one to Af. ica, where no wind lor ages lias gone over her plaius, witiiout gathering op the sighs of bleeding, broken beans ; where there is 110 sand Hint has not been steeped with tears or tho blood of c.iptui-ed victims. I stiould liko to so what compensation we owe to the negro : how much to that ngnd man, tottering on the brink of the grave, whc.se limbs aro now growing feeble, after years of unrequited toil ; hour inui-h to that poor woman torn from her infant, aud set to labor 11. the field, if, indeed, a valuation can be put pp 011 tho natural feelings of a mother towards the tiirp.ing of her body; and thin I shotilllike to strike a balance bet .vt en tho compensation duo to tho negro, and tho compensation due to the plan ter. Eloquent speeches and arguments aro made or. tha rights of tho planter in tho llou.se of Com mons, echoed in tho major nnd minor pro rluvorv periodic. lis of the day. And at this moment, if Patliioi'-nt were sitting, s mio West India parti san might be making an eloquent speeoh in lavor f himself, and saying, 'Take care of the jitanter only think of tho melancholy condition of tho planter's wife il you re luce bis i.u-ouie, by not giv bun power to raise iar e crops and dispone i them. Give additional bounties to his sucar : lev morn prohibitory du'.ius ou lice-grown produce. Mind that you protect tho planter.' Next niorn- s itoe l:. !y a:p;ing her tea, and reading the .Horning l'ost intent sav, J 'car me, what an ann- able speech! How he pit tow the planter ! Beally I feel inclined to ).ity the planter, too.' (Laugh ter.) And thin til 1 tl.o lady's sympathy would be on ihe side of the planter, and sbo would think nothing of the slave. j LETTER FROM THE SOUTH. Tho paragraphs below we extrnot from a before ns written from Louisiana. If, as a Jotter lu'.lcr ftom Mississippi last week stated, the writer was in d inger of "hues and imprisonment for taking a religious pnblieation that only meekly whisper- i ed that it was uuti-nl.ivery, our readers will see our reason fur acceding to the request of the wri ter, not to publish his name or exact residence, lie intends to free his slaves and live nt the North. The sentences aro not always complote ; we give them as they are actually writlcu : "If I bad not known nnd seen so muoli of the cruelties and outrages of slavery, if God hud not in mercy epetied my eyes, and s-dteudud my heart. and caused me to say, 'Down with that cruel whip ........... , it, .if l . .: lout I n-i-4 ii.iinii.i'i ioi aiTivitu ir.ua, 111. iiiimiu un- , lam-h at .hose who aro now hutraing for the extension of slavery. Bcenuso you well know, sir, that frail fallen man at times is liable to lose his temper, nnd glut his passion on the helpless victim that mav be stretched out naked, or almost so, at his feet. here there is no appeal from the whip nnd the one-man power of the slave-owner nnd slave-dri ver. A solemn case it . to lie tried belore the American people that of slavery extension or the non extension cf the sensual and brutal min ster, slavery that has made the church a bed of sin and cruelty. ti, .a,.n,i r;i,a. uinrci,ni,i ;n v.. ii .tuld me that overr-eeinir an J Christianitv woul 1 r.ui answer to,;e.hcr; that I had to quit ono or other. Then, O how wicked it must be to ex tend Che system, it a Christian man canuot super intend its affairs. "Paul was a giod arrl-slavery mm, for when bo sent tho furtive slave buck to his ma .ter, he seut tho fugitive slavo back to his master, be snnt him tint a.i a crv,ntt, but ubuvo n servant, a brother beloved, both in tiio iles'o.aud in the Lord aud and knowing that thou wilt do mora than I say. "If somo of Cho friends of slavory extension Iiad been with me amongst the sugar and cotton plantations nf the South f ir the last twenty years, and bad soen tho Christian female slave forced to live iu a stato of sin, forced to yield her own chill of fourteen to gratify tho sensual lusts of the mas ter, bad known of funsters making a practice of these things, too bad to be writtuu or talked about cvou tho church being guilty ot these things r , 1 . ', ,, I nnrl fl.,1.1 . srifill f '1 1, h is OVU ? Who dare, in ' t 1,1 I i neighbor's business i SO I bis voice aaainst this cruelty and, meannei..- if they bad seen tho board ns it had mashed the nluui salt into the llosb, nnd seen ton or twenty whipped of nights at tho cotton-weighing, hail ssmi tho stocks, tho neck irons tho gags, end stiff leg belonging tu slavery nnd know that cruelty and shivery, went hand in hand, because there must bo a stimulant to labor, and from that be) has no apreal. The slave mastar has his own (graveyard, nnd the fl-eh and blood of his sieve ne noi co ns ne piensev n slave Slate, pry and ft to wants to du Thus much wo extract from the letter, the rest is harder. Tne system is the same every where. Itself a violation "of tho first principles of right, H nr,,! viiiloes, and tan live only only on in i i;iee. Notbintt in the above is worse than what occnrrs I but a few weeks sg-i between us and the capital or our ovtn country, wiicro u puur um mon thru -t ii.m rrison .,r ton yeaM tor having t rx of 'Tir !- Tom tahin in Ihh htinds. And vet our own MothoJ.Mt organs cirfulato in thai vr t.vt h .torliofMl. and M;tliuitKt nnnnrtors "itine- ., it i 1 l k I r.trs HlilOful ITIO OKI mHIt 3 Him nci t.iiB 01 i:ieui rn-ui'it uuiuui vs.vivq iv n by r Wbv T Forsooth it is "political I sliamo on suctt poltroonery ! It nmkes u nlusti t..r our species. Worn ua ouch slaves, we too. like our colored brethren, would buy an underground ticket, and make off for Canada, and till we reached it keop omphati rally under grouud. Z. Ucraid. From the Radical Abolitionists. THE SLAVE TRADE. taxed to sustain a police navy fur its iupproa siou. Hesolved. That we rooognize in the domeikio io slaves ,(, ,lb Srmth that form of government bes Hlapted to the African race, most conducive to the pnrmansiicy of our institutions and the groat com hiiusoif; morcial interests of tho world ; and such it is the duty of Christians and patriots to sustain them, These resulutions wero supported by the same Tho following Resolutions were presented ia the Southern Commercial Convention in TeDOes se, Aug. 11th. Unsolved, That the slire trade bein a trans fer of slaves from one master to another, is not .trictlv wrnir. sod is not therefore, a prorjer sub 0 prohibition; nnd that the attempt :o sup ll.a Al'ri...n alura truila llAvirtfl, lau ill tA.t in press the African slave trade having resulted in Mjinore evil than good, tho South ought not to be l,.,)lir,0 f reasoning that has been employed by our Northern Divines in support of slavery. The uritiugs of Dr. Hodge, Prof. Stuart, Pres. Kisb, Uiniiop Jledding, Dr. Spring and Dr. Lord, are pro ducing their legitimate results. Among other ar- ' guuienls, tho christianizing influences ot slavery upon tho Alrii-.tn race were conspicuously brougut forward and dwelt upon with much unction. One of tl.o speakerj, Mr. L. J . Gogerty, said : "Were they the Christians of the North,! at men who were anxious to see the Christian relig ion diffused into every region of the eaith, to go in opposition to the greatest missionary enterprise that the sun ever shone upon, from any such consid oration as they had referred to ? They sent their missionaries to and fro, and what did they do t Wliv ctfmparatively nothing. Look at your mis sionaries here, and see what has been ttie result ( ' their exertions. He maintained that the African slave trade, so far from being an evil, did more than tho greatest missionary enterprise in the cause of religion and civilization." (Applause.) The gentleman's argument was fair scqual tsr the ulaiu. so often made, by even Northern Minis' ters, on behalf of their 'Southern brethren.' that they hold their slaves in order to christianize and civilize them. If the argument be good in favor of tho slave trade. It is well that the plea is now be ing pushed to its legitimate results. But some of our pro lvery clergy will not prubably relish the disparaging comparison betweed their owu 'mis- siounry eiitcpriso and the slave trade I let we tf.tn tiaroty rornear too reinnrK, iuhi 11 biiucij a Christian institution, or indeed compatible with Christianitv, the slave trader has one advantage over them in the argument. IIo conducts his mis sionary operations on 11 magnificent scale or would do so. if wo would only repeal the act for hanging his Missionaries. And why should they be hang ed, while the slaveholders are welcomed to the communion table ? The resolutions in favor nf re-opening the Afri can slave trade were opposed by eonio; in the con ! vention. as impolitic, and were deferred as prema- tore. But a preliminary measure was taken, in the adaption of a Uesolution demanding the termina- ttnn of that clause of our treaty with Great Britain which binds us to assist in putting down the slave trade, on the Alrican coast. Kesolved, That in the opinion of this Convention the eighth nrrh-lo of the treaty of Washington, ratified on the 10th, of November, 1812, ought te be annulled, under the provision of the first clause of the eleventh .utele of said treaty. Resolved, That a copy of the above resolution be sent, by Che President of this Convention, to. to the senators and representative in Congress from each state here presented, with the request that it be laid belore the lesislatures of their respective states fjr thoir considralion.' The vote on its adoption stood Cl to 27. The Convention had previously voter! down an amend ment offered by Mr. Soeed, of lennessee, to the et foel that in their opinion, it was contrary to tbe set tled policy of the country to repeal the laws pro hibitory of the African 'slave trade'. This declar ati.m received but forty votes. Here we have, then, (says the If. T. Evening Post) a distinct expression of a settled purpose on the part of this Convention, and nf the people they represent, to make a revival of the African slave trade a cardinal question of southern poliey. By it they purpose to test the soundness of their rep re'.eritntives in Congress, and whatever irjfionoe thev can exe.r. either through state or nations. channels, Is pledged to the repenl of all restriction upon tho connnerco in human beings. Cattail IIvd'on's Account or tub) FailckA ur tub Occam Carle. Captain Hudson, the com mander nf the Niagara, in communicating to tho Navy Department the particulars in regard to the accident to the telegraph cable, says he baa every reason to Pel reason to believe, from what has thus far been ex- perienced in wire laying, that under ordinary cir- eumstnnef s of weather, and with machinery adapt ed to the purpose, for such as they had on board requires altering and improving, the cable may be laid in safely on the track marked out for it in tba Atlantic ocean. lis says that at the time the cable parted, the Company's Chief Enginber, Charles L. Bright, and his men, were attending their breaks to lessee) tho expedition of the cable until it was finally car ried away, which tuado..nll hands, throughout the day, feel like a household or family which had load I tie i r dearest frieud. Our officers and men had become deeply iuterestcd in Che success of tbe en loririco. Si-car avd Molasses Coming Dowm. In Boston on Wednesday, a lot of molasses (.banged hands at forty-three cents a gallon, for w hich a short lime ago, seventy-two conts was refused I Flour, sugar1 and potatoes, bhow tbe same symptoms ot dteitBtf