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THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE hi published every Friday, at Salem, Colum tiiand Q.,Ohio,hj the Executive Committee Of ilia " Wmian Am-Snvier Socist j ahd is the only paper in thi Great West which advocates teceasion fretn bro-elsverjr governments and pro-elavery church blifani cations. It ia Kdited by BxniAtoiit ; and J. Eliiabith Jonas; and while urging bpon the people tha duty of holding No union With Slaveholdere,'' aither in Church or Slate) at the only consistent position an Abolitionist can occupy, and as the best means for the de struction of slavery t it will, so far as its lim its permit, give a history of the daily progress of the anti-slavery cauae exhibit the policy nd practice of slaveholders, and by facts and arguments enue.Tor .u incrcnse in eai aim activity of every true lover of Freedom. In addition to its anti-slavery matter, it will onlain general news, choice extracts, moral tales, 4tn. It ia to be honed that all the friends Df the Western Anti-Slavery Society all the advocates of the Disunion movement, will do what they can to aid in the support of the paper, by extending its circulation. You who live in the West should sustain the pa toer that is published in your midst. The Bugle is printed on an imperial sheet, and ubscribets may lake their choice of the following TERMS. )l,50 prr annum, If paid within the first 6 months of the subscriber's year. If paid before three months of the year has vxpired, a deduction of S25 cenia will be made, (educing the price to $1,35. If payment be made in advance, or on tha receipt of tha first number, 50 cents will be deducted, making the subscription but 91. To any person wishing to examine the cha racter of the paper, it will be furnished 6 months, for 50 cents in advance; to all oth ers 75 cents will be charged. (gj- No deviation from these terms. ' fcj- We occasionally send numbers to those who are not subscribers, but who are believed to be interested in the dissemination of anti-slavery truth, with ilia hope that they will either subscribe themselves, or use their influence to extend its circulation among their friends. Q& Communications intended for inser tion to be addressed to the Editors. All oth ers to the Publishing Agent, James Barnaby. The Ohio Black Laws. BY WM. L. PERKINS. The laws of the Slate of Ohio, the first of which is entitled " An act to regulate black and mulatto persons," and the others, acts nmendatoy thereof, and which in common parlance are aignificanlly denominated " the Ohio Black Laws," are contained in Swan's Statutes, commencing at page DOS. The first was passed January 5, 1804 mora than two years after the adoption of .ur Constitution, and required all black and .mulatto persons residing here prior to June, 1804, to have their names and the names of their children registered in the office of tho clerk of the court of Common Pleas in the proper county, and take a certificate thereof, us evidence of their freedom. It pro! ibits the settling or residence of others within the State, unless they have a certificate from -norae court in the United States of their free dom, which must be recorded in the proper county. It prescribes a penalty on all per sons who shall hire or in any way employ any colored person who has not such certifi cates. Care is taken to provide for the clerk, who must be paid by those for whose espe cial benefit his services are rendered. The last section visits a severe pecuniary penalty on any one who shall remove or attempt to remove from the State any colored person, without first proving his right to do so ; and doubtless this section performed the office of grand lubricator, rendering me ways smooin and alippery, ao that this otherwise uncover ed deformity glided easily through the Leg ialature. The first amendatory act was pass ed January 25, 1807. This act prohibits any black or mulatto from emigrating to or settling nere, unless within twenty days he uliaN enter into bond with two freehold sure ties in $500, for his or her good behavior and support if afterwards chargeable, and nnn.mmnliance. the overseers of the poor r. ...ihnrized lo remove Such person out the Stale The bond is to be entered into before the clerk, a certificate taken, and the clerk to receive one dollar from the emigrant, and a penalty of 100, half to the Informer, ly Way of temptation to cupidity, is provided ngainat any person who shall employ er bar i.r inch emiirrant if he has not the Certifi cate, and moreover auch employer ia made forever chargeable for his support, if he shall u.ina inahta to sonoort himself. The 9th section of this act prohibita any black or mu Utto person from being sworn or giving evi :.. .., or nrosecution in which ... , jhiKm narlv is a white person. The remaining amendatory act was pass ed January 27, 1834. It enacts no new dis t.;iiii hut nrovides for the recording and authentication of the certificate. There on the face of Swan's Statutes another -nmmnnlv known as the " Kentucky Black ....-...., ----- - .. - Law," passed In IBJtr, wnere me iree people of Ohio, by their representatives, servilely played lackey to tha slave aristocracy Kentucky i but this has been repealed. vf wo other provisons in our la w may be class ed with the foregoing. One denies the lored man the power to gain a eettlement, the oilier debars him the sacred right of benefit of the school fund for tha educa tion of his children. It is proposed lo show that these laws a violation of the Constitution of the United States and of this State, of the Oidinance 1787, and of the principles and genius of institutions. First t They are a violation of the Consti tution and Ordinance. Up to the lima the adoption of tha Constitution of Ohio, colored inhabitants of tha territory had the rigbla and franchises which the whites possessed. Tha Constitution of tha United States declare! that " the citizens of Etata shall be entitled to all the privilegea nd immuniliea of eitizeoe in the several Stales." The Ordinance of 1787 for the of Ihia then territory, provided ' for every five hundredree malt tnnaotiams there ahoold be one representative in General Assembly." In the 2d article the " Arliclee of Compact," in the same law, ia thii provision : " The inai' ani of the said territory shall always be AMI' - - AVERY B J JLLJJL-iO "NO UNION WITH SUVRIlQt.bEttS." VOL. 4--NQ 18. SALEM. OHIO, M1DAY, DECEMBER 22, 1818. WHOLE NO. 174. tilled to the benefit of judicial proceedings according to the course of the common law." Tnese ..Articles or Compact" our Supreme Court have decided in 6, O. it. 4l0, are as obligatory on the State as her Constitution. , By a territorial act passed December 6, 1799. ! of is act i. of co the are of our of the all each go vernment that the of or ganio tn- to ascertain the bUmber of "free male into bilants " of the age of twenty-one, and to regulate the election of representatives for the same, proviaion ia made for taking the number of "free malt inhabitants " and in defining the qualification of electors, mention is made of "every free male inhabitant? These several organio laws and legisla tive enaetmenls were in force at the lime of Ihe adoption of our Constitution, and there existed no law abridging the rights of color ed citizens, except such as were fugitive slaves. Inhabitants,7" "ret male inhabit' ante," " citizens," are words of most gle ral signification, and embrace every class of society. In these aeveral laws and acts no allusion whatever is made lo color. The Word "free" negatively excludes slaves, white or black, and the "one as well as the other. This caution waa unnecessary, for by the "Articles of Compact," of the ordi nance, alavery could not exist here; so that the moment a slave, of any color, should touch our holy soil, unless he were a fugi tive, he was a freeman. It is plainly demonstrated by the preced ing, that at the time of the adoption of our State Constitution the colored inhabitants of Ohio had all the rights, privileges and im muniliet of other citizens. Of what lights did the Constitution de prive the colored citizens of Ohio! for, as we have already shown, the blacks were part ol tne people; Die delegates who formed the Constitution were therefore the delegates of llie colored portion, as well as ol the white portion of the people, and tha whole people must abide by the Constitution. By the first section of the fourth article, it ia provided that " in all elections, all while male inhabit ants above the age of twerty-one years," &c, "shall enjoy the right of an elector." Throughout the Constitution this is the onlv mention of or allusion to color, and by its negative effect excludes blacks from voting at elections. These rights so left them were by the Constitution guarantied to them. The Legislature is bounded by the Constitution. Its powers are thereby delegated. As the delegates of the people finished their fabric ol liberty, they closed the door upon the in' troduction of any further powers, or the trans gression by the Legislature of those given; placed their seal upon it, nnd in the 28lh section of the bill of rights, set over it a ne ver-sleeping guard, which, like the double flaming sword, turns every way, and declares "that all powers not hereby delegated remain with the people. 1 here is no power dele' gated to disfranchise an innocent citizen. If the laws under consideration do dislran chise such, they are therefore nnconeiilU' tional. Among the franchises of a freeman are the following: 1 he right to remain peaceably in the Stale to be employed and receive the hire of hie labor without his name being en rolled or exhibiting a certificate the right to testify in courts of justice and otherwheres where testimony is given the right lo gain a settlement and be supported in his innrml ty by that government which in his vigor he has helped sustain the Ngrt that his chil dren shall be educated by the public bounty provided for all the people, and for which side by side with our white fathers, his CO' lored father fourhi and bled. Of these in estimable franchises the "Ohio Black Laws' have divested the innocent, colored citizens, and I hey are therefore thus far unconslitu tional and void. The citizen of other Stales coming here to reside, Is required to give bond tor good lie havior and his maintenance; he therefore has not the privileges and immunities of citizens of this State, and ao the law is a violation of the provisions of the Constitution of the United States, above quoted, and is there fore void. By lite course of the common law every individual, whatever his grade, country, religion or color, unless interested, infamous by crime, ah atheist, or related as husband and wile, may be sworn and give testimony in all places, Of this high fran chise the colored citizens of Ohio are digest ed by these laws without any offence on their part, and ao the law ia an infraction .Via mnwi.inni nf f ha . Arlinlinffnrtl n.ht itm -..it.v..w. . v. in the ordinance above quoted, and therefore void. . I urn now to show that these laws besides being an infraction of the letter of our con stitution and other organic laws, are a vio lation of the principles and genius of our in stitutions. And in the first place, it is to be consider ed that ours is a government of written con stitutions. They rest not in the minds Preaidents.Governors, Legislators, or Judges, to be varied by Ihe passions and caprices changed or changing men; but, living archment and paper, remain ine same. na A IICJ BIC IIU. OCWIW.tU jJV . aes, thai, all unseen by the people. Legisla tors may enact auch laws as they please, and refer to a hidJen constitution for authority; or a judge, after hia victim is caught in toils of the courts, may draw the manuscript from his side pocket and say, " here is law ;" but through a press, free as the air breath, thev are printed and re-printed, in the hands of every citizen, demanding their approbation and support. Without this approbation and support, they are paper and lampblack. 1'hey possess intrinsic power to tompel reverence or obe dience ; for these they rest alone on the res pect and regard of the people. The people, aa if by an irresistible force of instinct, here to their organio laws. This ia the cret of the perpetuity of the Union, amidst tha roar of conflicting elements. Thia ia way on which our country has advanced rail-road speed, overtaken and cut-stripped the progress of the old established govern ments of the world. Cherished by the eminent, in all its departments, this popular devotion to the constitutions would grow ol of of on our growth, and strengthen wiih Our Strength. and imagination could set no bounds lo our greatness. But it, on the other hand, legls- atort and lodges disregard these sacred In struments, every infraction serves to weaken the publio respect. The consequence of un constitutional laws repeated daily In Ihe eyes of the people the deep regard for them, of which 1 have spoken, Is speedily changed to contempt and disgust. Our progress will be stayed, anarchy intervene, and Ihe history of our boasted free Institutions be written In the past, by the literary minions of monarchy and tyranny. It must ever be remembered thai at the foundation of our institutions lie the princi ples of equal rights and equal justice. Ob serve how carefully the constitution of Ohio hss established this substratum. " Jill men are born equally free and independent."-' ' 1 hat all Courts shall be open, and every per shall havs remedy by due course of law, and rigtit and justice administered without denial oT delay." "The doors of the said schools, academies and universities, shall be open for the reception of scholars, students and teachers, nf evtiy grade, with out any distinction, or preference whatever." The foundation shaken) the superstructure cracks, crumbles, falls. Have not the laws under contemplation subverted these princi ples Examples explain things best. Two citizens of Massachusetts, one white the oth er black, come to Ohio; one is received into all the rights of citizenship, the other is com pelled to give, bail) is excluded from the courts, and his children condemned to igno rance. A white citizen of Ohio buys and sella with a Colored one. The first sues the other on account, and is admitted to prove it by his oath. The other presents his account well kept and in amount the largest he pos sesses a moral character above reproach, but looses his offset and the fruits of his industry and frugality, because the Almighty having seen tit to give htm another complexion, our laws do not permit In in to testily. A lew years since, in Cleveland, a White person entered the house of a colored family and broke and destroyed the furniture and goods. The benevolent relieved their distresses, but Ihe outraged laws, strangled by the power that made them, reposed in silence. A few years since, a colored man resided about a mile north ol Uincinniti, and being in the city, was kidnapped and sold into slavery. He got tree, returned, ntid sued bis kidnap per. He was shot in Ms own house, in the bosom of his family, ihe members of which saw and recognized the murderer. Qui ha walks Ihe streets of the proud city of the west with impunity, and men point the finger, and say, " t here goes Ihe law-protecrev mur. The county of Clinton waa the ajefcrr of a more horrid tragedy a number ol yeara since-. A man -and his wife- were kidnapped. Prompted hy Ihe love ol liberty and the tier rors of slavery, the man resisted desperate ly. The frantic husband was overpowered. They were taken into the Woods, and the husband waa deliberately shot btfort the eyes nf hit wife. She waa carried into a slave State and sold there. Rhe succeeded in ob taining her freedom, and returned. Bat the blood of her murdeted husband ctied from the ground in vain. Her skin was blatk ; and ihe land groans under the guilty tread of the murderers. Two instances of kidnapping have nVcur red in Ohio three summers past. One or them in our metropolis, upon the person of a re spectable freeman, fourteen years a citizen of Ohio-. A part of his kidnappers Were ar rested and put on trial. Benevolent citizens of Columbus bribed those who had htm in custody under claim of title ih Kentucky, for $500, lo give him up. He returned to Uolutnhus while the trial 01 his kidnappers was in progress; There site ihe judge ih robes of justice, tha scales trembling In his hand the guilty meh are there they may and probably will escape for Want of proof arid there sits Jerry Phinnev. the sublect of the outrage knows every oneof ihe minutest facts of the dark transaction. Why does not the Prosecuting Attorney, sworn faithfully to discharge his duties why does not the Judge, conservator ol the laws, Call on the witness to disclose the perfect knowledge ih his possession I W hy does not Ihe Injured man speak i Mis skin is not of the same complexion with that of the culprit's at the bar his link are hermetically aealed bV the law. Where, In the annals of the christian world, is justice so Pinnacled 1 It ia an indisputable fact, that white meh settle in the neighborhood of blacks for the purpose of plundering them of their property under the sanction of law. In the case Jordan vs. Smith 14th Ohio Reports 19$, the " The white man may now plun the the we and po pular but no ao' se the gov. with court aay der ihe oegro of his properly ; he may abuse his person; he may lake his lire: He may this in open day-light, in the preaence """"""" 7 " '"iv..u.., he must go acquitted, unless perchance there mourned and given stamp to our jurisprudence, happens to be some white man present Judge Hitchcock, Ihe oldest member or the court, oi great ana long experience, wno more than any other man in the Slate, has UJ .J . ... I. ....1... ......JM.. ana wno wrote tne opinion ot the court in aoove case, aooa nta testimony, thai "tne uniform effect of the law has been to prevent ustice, both pub ho and private." By these 7 w. i . j - ..v. From the illustrious Washinrton down- warda to tha man of the smallest derrreo common aense, it is an acreed fact, oftener reiterrated than any other, that the education or me wnoie people is the great bulwark our free institutions. We have now in a tale about 20,000 colored persons, I several census show thai their Increase is gular; not a shade of difference aince ihe enact ment of the " Black Lawa " from what was before ; and relatively the same aa whitea. They are to remaia with ua, a por tion of our population, and are to inorease with our increase. Is it wise that they shall ba kept in ignorance? la it magnanatnoua. that u, aa intelligent people, should dsn them tha means of intellectual and moral Im provement, and then unbraid them as degra ded and Viaioust Thev rfe.ir. .a.,..: they wish to ba valuable citizens wt mock their aspirsllona, and tell them they are de- f rauru. . mi innuman wretch who eaves any being in the form of humanity to perish with hunger, yet we leave the immor tal mind to famish with want. Wa boast that our instituting. m The hypocritical Pharisees made brosd their phylacteries, ana wore them conspiciously, but in preetiee disregarded the sentiments upon them. So we loudly quote the Declar ation of Independence, the Ordinance and our Constitution, against slavery we pririu mem in muuk cipunis we hurl epithets at our brethren nf the slave States, and when they point In derision at our disgraceful laws, we make uh in clamor what we want In nrl. ciple, and vociferate, Vt are free we are free -art we not a free Slattf Wei no slavery tn taio f m tha name of Liberty, What mean spoiogists Tor the "Ohio Black Laws." bV the words "freedom and .locorvt" The colored Citizen of Ohio may indeed ex patriate himself, and find in Canada under a monarchical government, the Liberty de nied him in I free Republic. So may the subject of tha Grand Turk. Is he free who is under bonds 1 Is he free whose lips are closed, and Whom the laws forbid to speak the truth 1 Is he free who is condemned to ignorance and consequent degradation 1 uoes slavery eonstst in tellers and chains 7 Then there it no slavery in the United Slates. These are Iht insitrnia of crime, noinfsliitp. ry. Is the Idea of slavery to be confined to physical coercion t Does freedom consist in exemption therefrom l None but a slave of the lowest grade could entertain notions so gross. No. It is the manacles imposed on the mind shackles placed on the rights cf man, as man, in contradistinction Trom his tights as an animal Which constitutes the worst of slsvery. Our fathers did not pour oul their blood lor our emancipation trom foreign bondage, that their decendanta should daily and forever witness Ihe operations of domestic slavery. Let us, Tor shame, cease boasting of oatfree State. We are a slave State more degrading to us on account of our organic laws and boasts of freedom, than the slave lows of our Southern brethren to them. The children of a free country should be reared with sensitive regards lor liUtfian rights. There should be no laws or customs which can Tjlind their keen sense of ihe rights of mart', of justice and freedom. On this sense, the purity snd perpetuity of ou institutions must greatly depend. The tyr annoua operation of these laws habituate them to look on injustice and oppression As sanctioned by .their own governments, and they grow up tyrants, in contempt of the aaered priireijHta- frtoicb sustain our Institu lions. f have How shown that the Black. Laws of Ohio " are unconstitutional. That the Constitution of ihe United Slates arid of Ohio, depend for their support on ihe reverence of the people for them, and that these laws prevent that reverence. Thai the principles of equal rights and equal justice lie at the foundation of our in etitutions.and lhatthey are subverted by these lawgi I That popular education is the bulwark of escutcheon. our institutions, ana mat these lawe over throw it and train up a numerous class in Ignotance and degradation; I hat while Wa boast free Institutions, we In fact sustain and enforce the worst of slave ry t snd That while our children should be reared tn habits of a quick sense of the right of hu man nature', these laws accustom them to look with Complacency on injustice and op pression. t will only add my ardent hopes that the time is at hand, When the people of Ohio Will wipe this deep and only stain from their Anti-Slavery in New Mexico. of the Sahla Fe Republican of October 1 9th contains the proceedings of a convention of delegates of the people of Hew Mexico, " to torin a lyonsiiiuuon ana eppiy in congress for a State or Territorial Government, and to do such other acts as lo them may seem for the interest ot tne people," A majority ol the convention Were Mexi cans. Antonio Jose Martin, of Taos, was elected president, arid J. M. Giddings Secre tary ; and the business ol the convention was transacted rnainlv through an interhret'er. The bhlv official act of thia bodV wak the adoption of a petition, on behalf of the peo ple ol Iew mextco, to me congress oi tne United States, in which they ask fur the . organization or a territorial civtl go do of Nevr Mekino. thev represent ,,e organio and statute lawe, promul . b u,horil of ,ha United States. in . i ne mil" ...i.u - i . i . oepiemoer idiq, wnu uiiib icw viier tions, would be desirable lo them. That overnor, I Rlal.l ,h(1 .Dnointment of a G( ...... r .k. rr.rri,nr lTi.i J - - Marshall, District Attorney, and Judges; and haTe1, ,h, u,usl ri hu of , from ,h. x,iiorisl Courts lo the Supreme Court of the Uniled S,ale,. They "respectfully, but fi , ,-ainilt the dismemberment our (their) lerniorr. in idor oi iexas. . jQt lny eau8e." iney rurtnermore aay, We do not desire lo have domestic slave of within our borders, and Until the time I .hull irrive for our admission into the Union wa desire to be protected by Congress against oi ii. introduction amongst us. a local leg the jslaturs is asked for. and that their interesta he re II the may he represented by a Delegate in Con' gress. On motion or Mr Quinn, it wss Resolved. That the petition of the peopl or New Mexico, in Convention assembled, the Congress or the United States, be warded to Hon. Thomas H. Benton, and Hm. John M. Clayton, and that they be noMtsd Is represent tha Interests of T ' Territory, In the Senate of the United Slates." It appears, from a ataterhrnt in the Re. pablican, that two of the delegates refused to take tha oath of allegiance lo the United States. This convention Was held In purtuihce or Proclamation issued bv ihn aninir f!nvr. nor of the Territory, Donsciana Vigil. At one oi tne meetings, we observe Hint the claim of Texas, lo snv nortlon of the Teiritoty of New Mexico, and the recom mendation of the President of the United States thai it be attached to the same, waa denounced in atro- terms. Thev sav that " it ia fabricsted ' defraud the government and the people of l ie Territory of their just rignia, ana tnai i-ey took npon it "with scorn and disdain there not being In the State ihe least sIil ow or right, except in the wicked imagination or grasping demagogues." The Slavery Question in Relation to California & New Mexico. - or or to tor th r- this There Is no lontrer any reason lo doubt that both New Mexico and California are destined to remain free Slates. For aeveral months we felt very anxioua aa lo the result or the centroversy in relation to these territories. e greatly feared that the demands of the Southern politicians, heretofore, in all contro versies between them and the politicians of the Northern Slates so potential, would be acceded lo, and Ihe virgin soil of the territo ries acquired by treaty from Mexico, would be cursed by the translation thither of African slavery with cur other "democratic institu tions." We breathe more freely now, since the convention assembled in New Mexico has protested against the introduction of our " peculiar domestic institutions" into that ter ritory. 1 his request can hardly be trampled under foot by Congress, and although Con gress may not inhibit alavery there, it will not legalise its introduction in violation of the earnestly declared wishes of the New Mexi cans. It is Very well known that Texas has pre ferred a claim in favor of tho extension of her jurisdiction overall that portion of New Mex- ivu ijrnig un una sine oi ine mo uranae, I his claim is based On the resolution of the Texan Congress of 1836, which body, With a presumption rarely paralleled, declared that the Kio Urande was the "rightful boundary" of Texas, from its mouth lo its source. This line includes a large portion or New Mexico, and on it, we have nd doubt, a controversy will spring up. The claim or Texas will be sustained by a majority of those who ate in faVor Of extending and perpetuating negro slavery, and opposed by those Who are in fa vor of restricting it within Its present limits. The decision of ihe question Will belong lo Congress, and it la not to be aupposed that a majority of Ihe representatives will record their vetes in favor of a claim which the Whigs, in their opposition to the grounds on which the supporters of the Mexican war un' dertook lo Justify the Course pursued by Mr. Polk, repudiated with great unanimity. The Whigs contended thai the rightful boundary of Texas did not reach the Rio Grande, as ne cessary to show that the administration, in ordering the army to advance and take pos session or the disputed territory transcended Its legitimate power. If it be true that the claim of Texas to the boundary of the Rio Grande was Just, then the declaration of Mr. Polk that ihe war Was commenced by Mexl co,in shedding Americart blood on American soili Was Strictly true. (Jut the Whigs uni versally took issue with lite President, and that party must in consistency repudiate the Claim of Texas to jurisdiction over any por tion of New Mexico. A! jny of Ihe lemo CraU. who are opposed to the extension or sla very into New Mexico, will join the Whigs in congress in opposing the lVXn Klalm, nd the tr-sult Will be a lare maiorilv in the House of Representatives against thai claim. Such a decision will protect ihe Now Mexi cans from the invasion of iheir territory by slavery which they so Justly and Wisely dreftd; We feel the most profound idV at lllebroa- pect of the Settlement of ihe alaVerv aues- Hon, as it relates to the Mexican territories, ih opposition to the wishes or those who would lorce on them a blight aa fatal as the breath or a pestilence. We sincerely hope that limits will speedily be fixed beVohd which the dark and bitter tide of slavery cannot pass. To hem in alavery within cer tain prescribed limits is a great point gained. oo long as new and fertile fields remain open to ine extension ol slavery, its perpetuation will necessarily be secured, llut bounded and confined, it will in the course of time, become an evil So insupportable that its up holders will find some means to rid them t elves or it. We are hot without a strong hope that very considerable portion or Texas Will rescued from the curse Of slavery. Very important movements are in progress in Ire land and France which may result in confin ing slavery to the cotton and antra r regions or Tekas. We refer to the movements respect to emigration from those countries Texas. Already ihe work has been success- fully begun, and it is stated that a large num ber of persona in comfortable circumstances in Ireland and Franca are preparing to to Texas; The troubles in Europe will cause an immense emigration to Uniled Statea, and Texas will be the recipi ent of much of it, and these emigrants, making provision lor tne nsppmesa-and pros perity of iheir families, will hardly make laiai a blunder aa to employ slave lobor tha cultivation of the aoil. Louisville aminer. (Ky-Thereisa gentleman yet living, his 68th year, who saya he shipped Ihe cotton from Charleston to Liverprjot--.thtee bags which he helped pack by hand, with tha teed. The consignees tn Lifer pool discouraged any further shl-.m.ni I they did not know how to t.te the seeds. This fenflemsn fits In his pot. session a bed quilt, In t ford stale of preset' vslion, made from litis parcel of cotton, by his reverend mother. The seed wefn pick ed oul by Iter fingers. Now, our country Is the princfpsl cotton producing' part cf the world, making more than two millions of bales, all in the Southern aection. (fc5 Those who are curious to learn whit the assembled wisdom or the State is doiorf at Columbus, msy get an Inklihg of It from tha following details. What a mercy thai It iacnly the Whigs and Democrats who are guilty of such revolutionary sets t had It been the Disunlonists, the cry of Treason I would have rung throughout the whole State, bat as party interests require such demonstration al this rrisis, why, it's ail well enough. From the Elyria Courier. OHIO LEGISLATURE. HOUSE. a be in to re move the in so in Ex in first and . t'B'm As Was anticipated, difficulty has arisen In organizing our Legislature. From the daily reports which are before ua we shall endeev or to give a concise and accurate statement of proceedings, so far as received. Between the hours of eight and nine Mon day morning, the bell of the Slate House gave an uncertain sound, whereupon the De mocrata proceeded to the House, and called Leiier from Stark to the chair. Smith, of Brown, waa appointed Secretary. A call of Counties then commenced, beginning with Hamilton, and aeveral members elect handed in their certificates, including the five De mocrals from Hamilton, and went aworn in by Judge Reed, who Waa tn attendance for the purpose. Bofure ten o'clock, 37 such certificates were received, at this hour Leitef called ihe House lo order, and requested those not havtntr Certificates lo retiie irom within Ihe bar. (Every partef the House, even tha windows were by this time crowded with spectators.) A call of the House to include only those not sworn in was then ordered, and Townshend, and Van Doren, of Bandua ky, were sworn. This finished, a Whig moved that tha House proceed to organize regularly by ap pointing Holcomb, lo the chair. The greal est confusion ensued, those in the cilleries adding to the tumult, during which a motion was maae mat tne oiu nig iiem, sjwin, should call the roll, the Whigs voted aye, and Letter Insisted upon order, Townshend voted no. The roll of unsworn members waa again called, the Whigs refused to answer except Bigger of Guernsey, who was sworn. Swirt, then commenced, irom tne ten oi the desk, to Call the list of Representative districts in alphabetical order. 1 hose alrea dy sworn refused to answer to this call, but those who had not presentee; their certtneatea except. Morse, Lee and Chaffee. Were sworn in by Judge Avery, the last words of the oath being drowned In the voices of the vo ters and the Veiling in the galleries. During all this lime Leiter Was also calling the roll of unsworn members. The Whig tide of the House then adjourned till two oVIock. The Democrats and spectators remained, and roll call'itim noise end confusion, laughing &c, were the order of the day till half past one, When a lunch from Kclseyvs wss brought in, of which those present generally partook.' A few minutes before iwo, Samuel Bigget addressed ihe Chair, remarking thai forob vfous reasons the House could not proceed to business, that he desired to converse freely with members irrespective of party, and there' fore moved an atllournment until Tuesday morning. This motion was seconded by Mr. Townshend. and the eyes and nays being cal led, there Were three ayes, (Messrs. Uigger, Smart and Townshend,) lo thirty-six nays. A new Call of the roll was ordered and J. F Morse, member for Ashtabula and Lake was sworn; At iwo o clock the Whigs returned. nd Mr. Holcomb called the House to order. whereupon Leiter called out "Gentlemen must keep order,'' Mr. McClure, Free Soil member from Summit, stated thst he had given his certificate, as he supposed, to the proper officer, he therefore regarded himself aa a member of the House, and ahould per form his duty, fearless of Consequences-. Ort motion, Mr. Swift proceeded to read the cer tificate of a Justice of Franklin, declaring be had administered the oath to certain mem hers. The tumult was almost deafening.-" Cries Were heard of "order I order! slop him ! no, no go on don't let him do it order ! order I whew I go it 1 hurrah!" Mr. Leiter. at the same time adding to the disor der by rapping incessantly upon his desk and crying "order!" Mr. Olds, of Picka way, attempted to speak, hut Was interrupted by Leiter and Pugh, of Hamilton. As tout! as he Could be beard he said " My proposition is this: we have seen gentlemen called up upon your side of the House and sworn, whose credentisls you have liken as prima fweia evidence of their right to seats. There are other gentlemen here With credentials in the hands of the Clerk of the late House or Representatives! let their names be entered upon the list with yours snd We are prepared to go with you into an oganizatlott of a House or Represent taiives." t-'ugh replied, Claiming that the organic! tion was Complete. Mr. Spencer, Whig from the 1st Disttict of Hamilton, made some re marks claiming his seal. A resolution waa then submitted -y Mr. Townshend, of Lor ain, in substance as follows t " Hesohei Thai Messrs. Spencer, Run yanv Pugh and Pierce, all claiming rights to represent the first district of Hamilton coun ty, he requested not lo lake their seats In thia House, until all questions in relation to tnoso teats be decided." Mr. Oldt then supported his proposition, staling that if it was not met in a spirit of candor he Was ready to consider Ihe above resolution. Considerable discussion ensu ed. Mr. Pugh tligested that tile Senate, in some ease or contest had received eeftificatea and adiiiltted members under precisely the ume circumstances that trie W htgs now urgn to reject the Democratic members flora Ham ilton. Mr. Olds "fhe Senate is the judge of the) mulificatiohs or its own members. We are" ' . . . - ... J here tor the purpose oi organization, mu i nottobediawn ftom bur position. We stand! here determined iq do right and resist Ih wrong i and make Ihia proposition Le the name of our members be entered oport yo-: list, and w. will aee.pt your chairman) provided you will tk. a CU Vomr 'ief M:. Sifto Mr. Twn-siw-