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OUVEB JGIIKSOIV, Editor.
"NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS."
JANES BARNABr, Publishing Agent.
YOL. 5--N0. 8.
SALEM, COLUMBIANA CO., OHIO, NOVEMBER 3, 1849.
WHOLE NO. 216.
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Reception of Wm. W. Brown in London.
We copy below, from the Lilicrctor, the
remarks of W. V. Brown, ut n public meet
ing held in London, on the 27th ult., for the
purpose of welcoming him to Englund.
George Thompson introduced Mr. Brown to
the meeting. The Mr. Jones nlludcd to, is
on Englishman by birth ; but a residence of
eighteen years in New Englund lias prepared
him for the work of opoligizing for the bru
tal prejudice nguinst color existing in in this
country; hence he attempted to disprove the
the assertion of Geo. Thompson, made in his
remarks introducing Mr. Brown, that there
is a cruel and inhuman prejudice existing in
our Northern States against the colored peo
ple. Mr. Thompson of course established
lus assertion by numerous and uiideuiublc
facts..
Mr. Brown, on coming forward, was
greeted with loud uppluusc, which fur a time
prevented him from proceeding. He said
lie feared that the eulogy which his eloquent
friend, Mr. Thompson, had heaped upon him,
had raised the expectations of the meeting
too high as regarded what they should hear
from him that evening, To remove that im
pression, however, he would state, that he
was nothing more nor less than an American
sluve, born and brought up under the ' pecu
liar institution' of America (Hear and laugh
ter ;) having passed twenty years of his life
hi slavery, and muking his escape from
bondage without educution, und never in fuct
having had a day's schooling up to the mo
ment when he then uppeared before them.
Under such circumstances, tho meeting he
was sure would be ready to muke all allow
ances tor any delect thut might be observable
in his mode of address. (Cheers.) lie pre
sumed they had all heard something of that
' peculiar institution ' of America from which
he hud so unceremoniously graduated.
(Laughter.) In the first place, whut wus the
slavery of the United States? Bo much wus
Kuid ubout American democracy, American
republicanism, American philanthropy, und
American Christianity, that when American
sluvery wus spoken 01, people generally sup
posed that slavery, uimd ull those glorious
uistitutiuns which they heard so much ubout,
must be rather better than sluvery in uny
other portion of tho world. But whut wus
the fact? Wus it so? Why, the slave ot
the United States wus a chattel ; a thing, a
commodity, without any legal right to own
himself, or to receive the avails ot his lulor
deprived of the privilege of protecting him-,
self, his wife or children. He spoke not
from theory or hearsay, but from actual ex
perience, when lie thus described the work
ings ol the sluve system in America. He
Wus not only an American sluve, but the
eon of an American slaveholder; and they
would sec in the latter tact uuother hideous
feature of the damning system of sluvery.
(lleur, hcur.) The sluve ill the United States
Was unprotected by luw or public sentiment,
and occupied the sumo position as u man's
horse or dog. In St. Louis, irom which he
had escaped, the horse in tact received more
protection than the slave, tor tl the quadru
ped wus uumerciiully beaten, an action might
be brought against the man lor the oflence
but if a sluve was flogged with however-so-much
severity, a cry wus immediately ruised
among the by-stuuders, '(Jive it the nigger!
give it him !' (Hear, hear.) If a sluve teels
that liod has given him a right to occupy
higher position tiiuu merely toiling lor tho
man who claims to own both his body and
soul, und attempts to make his escape, the
blood-hounds are put upon his truck, and
caught, he is drugged buck again into sla
very, tlirown into a dungeon, tortured, and
finally sold from his wile und children, and
sent to be worked upon n cotton, sugar,
rice pluiitutiou in Louisiana or Mississippi.
(Hear.) The Constitution of tho United
States made a man in Boston a slaveholder
in common with John C. Calhoun of South
Curolina. Every citizen of the United States
was bound by the Constitution of the coun
try, in the event of the slaves attempting
get their liberty, to take up tho musket und
hoot down those poor sluves. The law
17U3 gave the slaveholders a right to go into
tho free States to catch sluves and drag them
back again to bouduge. Why, os to Boston,
the citizens of that place, only six years ago,
paid $i 100 for the purchase of George Lu
as he was being dragged away, within
the very sight of Bunker Hill, to gluvery
Virginia. Another law ioiuuuo mu men
Boston to feed escaped slaves under a penalty
U500, and the costs of prosecution, ilie
of 500.
Aineiicans had introduced sluvery into Mex
ico, where it had before lieen abolished,
were ot that time ttempting to get posses-
;
a
if
or
to
of
ti
mer, in
in
sion of Cubai for tho same purpose of ex
tending the bIvrvo system. In Culm, the
American prejudice against color did not
exist, and colored men were allowed to fill
Easts in the army and elsewhere. Ho had
een refused a passport to come to Europe,
which the American Secretary told him was
never granted except to the servants of di
plomatic agents, while at the same time a
regular passport was grunted to the boot
black of asluvcholdiiig Judge w ho was going
out as Consul to Naples.
31 r. JSrown then narrated several glaring
instances of prejudice against color, m con
firmation of Mr. Thompson's assertion, which
Mr. Jones hud denied. In Howe street church
in Boston, which had not been built above
two years, it was provided in the deed, that
if a pew was sold to a colored man, the sale
should he null and void. A voice 'No
prejudice against color in that, Mr. Junes!'
The same exclusive, degrading und persecu
ting system prevailed in regard to education,
the children of colored persons being exclu
ded from the common schools. Hisses, and
cries of 'Shame!' 'No prejudice in that,
Mr. Jones!'
Allusion (said Mr. Brown,) was made at
the commencement of the meeting to the
lamentable conduct of Father Muthcw.
lleur, hear. A voice ' (Jive it him !' Laugh
ter. No one regrets more thun 1 do thut he
should have thrown his iulhicnce into the
scale of American shivery. Hear, hear.
Tho circumstance proves, however, the
Iwlclul etli'cts w hich shivery exerts over ev
ery individual who comes within the sphere
ol its iulhicnce. Here is u man who, in
16k!, in conjunction with Daniel O'Connell,
sent Ibrth an uddrcss to America, signed by
70,(JC0 Irishmen, culling upon their country
men in the United Stutes to take sides with
abolitionists, und have nothing ut all to do
w ith pro-slavery people, as liir as their in
fluence wus concerned ; telling them that
the ubolitioi lists w ere the friends of the ne
gro, and culling upon them to join them
heart und hand ; und telling them, moreover,
that they must not even keep neutral, lor
mere wus no neutral ground upon the unti
shtvery plutlorm. lleur. That man goes
to Amenta, breathes its corrupting uir, und
murk ! in u moment he is parulyzed ; he can
do nothing whatever lor the poor sluve whom
he hud before recommended to tho zeulous
support of his - countrymen in the United
Stales, lleur. He wus culled upon by the
sluve, in the persons of the Anti-Sluvcry
Committee, to uttend a First of August meet
ing in celebration of that British West India
Emancipation which he himself had labored
to bring about. Whut wus his reply ?
cannot commit myself while in America.'
Loud groans, hisses, and marks of disapprobation.
The slave comes upon his bend
ed knees to this Irish apostle, und tells him
that his wile has been toni from him and
curried into the most miserable bondage
reminds him, ' You culled upon your Irish
brethren in America to stand by the Aboli
tionists ; wo now only usk you to practice in
America what you preached in Ireland.' Ho
turns round und says, ho cannot huve any
thing at all to do with the anti-slavery work
in America! Hear. And why? lie. had
u lew days before received un invitation from
our sluvcholdiiig President to become his
guest while visiting Washington. Heur,
hear, hear. Yes, he hud received an invi
tation to the White House, und ho immedi
ately throws himself and his influence into
tho hands of the sluve power. Samson was
never more thoroughly shorn of his physi
cal strength by throwing himself into the
lap of Delilah, thun wus Futher Muthcw
snorn ot his moral influence by his uposlucy
to the auti-sluvcry cause. Loud Cheers.
The mun who in Ireland, seven years ago,
said thut slavery wus a high-handed sin, has
found out, since he has reached America,
tiiut there is nothing in Scripture against
sluvcholdiiig. Cries of ' Shume.'J It might
not be just in mo to express my warm feel
ings upon that point, und therelbro I will
quote your own Cowper, who bus said,
' Of nil the arts sagacious dupes invent
To cheat themselves, und gain iho world's assent,
The worst is Scripture wurped from its intent.
Those men go wrong who with ingenious skill
Bend tho straight ride to their own crooked will,
And with a clear und shining light supplied,
Fir.-:t put it out, then take it lor their guide.'
Cheers. He (Mr. Brown) hud been asked
why he hud come to Englund ? His answer
wus, in the fust place, thut he might, lor the
first time iu his lift.-, stand upon a soil thut
wus rcully free. Cheers. Ho wunted
see the people who hud knocked off the
chains lrom t00,000 of his brethren in sla
ver)'. Oh, what a glorious utmosphcre was
Englund! Just the very breathing of it
expanded tho limbs of the sluve thut the
chains thut hud bound him for thirty ycurs
burst asunder! Ho wished that every sluvo
uud slaveholder in America could see that
meeting. Another reason why he came
Englund w as to agitate the question, una1
endeavor to build up public sentiment there
so thut Englishmen would suv to America,
'If you wish to bo thought of as other na
tions, never again send a slaveholder to rep.
resent you in the Court of St. James.'
wanted a public sentiment raised up in Eng
lund, which should ltoint the finger of scorn
at every slaveholder who dared to pollute
soil. Tho welcome which the people
i.ngland bail extended to linn (Air. liiown,)
would lie appreciated by the 3,000,000 slaves
and the (100,000 colored freemen as un honor
done to them. All men hud not acted
Father Mat hew hud. There was one mun
who, fifteen years ago, went from that coun
try to America to ugitute the question ot slu
very, und ulthough he rose one morning
found, in the pious city of Boston, a gallows
i-pec ted before his door, as a warning to him
to stop agitation uihju thut subject, yet he
fused to close Ins lips upon the question,
iu the meeting thut guve him (Mr. Jtrown,)
farewell in Boston ujion leaving America,
three of the loudest, longest, and heartiest
cheers that were given on that occasion,went
up tor that mun and thut man was Ueoroe
TuoMf son ! Loud and prolonged cheering.
Mr. Brown concluded a long and most elo
quent spc'cli amidst reiterated cheers.
Tho following resolutions, drawn tip I y
Mr. Farmer the first moved by H. T. Atkin
son, Esq., and seconded by W. II. Ashurst,
Esq.; the second moved by I). McDonnell,
Esq., and seconded by Wm. Gccsin, Esq.
were adopted with cordial unanimity:
licso'.ved, That this meeting tenders its
warmest and most cordial congratulations to
Mr. William Wells Brown upon his arrival
in England, beyond the reach of tho Ameri
can mau-stciilcr. That, animated by the
common feeling of Englishmen, they 'indig
nantly repudiate tho doctrine of the inferi
ority of the African race, and on behalf of
tins nation publicly give to Mr. Brown, as a
represent itivo of his oppressed people, all
unreserved recognition of his right to perfect
social, political and religious equality ; a right
received from the hands of his Creator, but
of which ho was impiously robbed by nomi
nal Iloj ublicnns and Christians in America.
That having, in the providence of God,
achieved his own dclivcrencc from slavery,
and resolved to consecrate the emancipated
energies of his mind, and the influence of
fits moral character, to the cause ot the re
demption of his three million brethren in
bonds, this meeting welcomes him to the
metropolis of England, and bids him God
speed in his holy mission on both shies of
tho Atlantic.
Jicsolved, That in the deliberate end sol
emn judgment of this meeting, tho claim of
property in man, either as practically assert
ed in the Slave States of the American Uni
on, or ns conventionally abetted in the free,
is a fciirliil invasion of the prerogatives of
God, and wholly incompatible with the reli
gion of Christ, whether prolesscd by indi
viduals or communities. Thut while anxi
ously desirous of rendering u full and re
spectful acknowledgment of whatever is
honorable in the national character of a peo
ple hnving a common origin with themselves,
the requirements of truth and justice de
mand from Englishmen a sorrowful but em
phatic declaration, that the constitutional und
legislative establishment of slavery, in any
country, is a virtual destruction of its claim
to be regarded by the world ns a really free,
independent and enlightened nation. That
this meeting cordially sympathises with tho
sell-sacrihcing efforts ot tho American Auti
Shivery Society, and expresses a fervent hope
thut its exertions may speedily issue in tho
removal of this national stigmu from the
American churucter.
Life of Henry Bibb.
Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American
Slave, written by Himself.
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This fugitive slave IiterntiireTa'tIc8tlTied tvJ
be a powerful lever. W e have the most pro
found conviction of its tioteiicy. We see iu
it the eusv mid infallible means of oliolition-
izing the free States. Argument provokes
argument, reason is met by sophistry. But
narratives of slaves go right to the hearts of
men. We dcly uny mun to think with any
patience or tolerance ot sluvery alter reading
Jiihb s narrative, unless lie is one ot those in-
tulels to nature, wlio tloat on tfie race as
monsters, from it, but not of it.
Ilenrv Jiihb is a bright, mild looking, gen
tlemanly sort of man, about 31 years of age,
not more Aliietm than European m his hue.
age, and in fuct, doubtless, having some of
tho finest Kentucky blood in his veins. Ho
early liegan, while being used as the tool of
Kentucky luxury, to cducato himself in tho
science of running away. But falling in love
Willi a damsel of Ins own condition, lie mar
ried her and almost forgot his plans fur free-
dom, till he found himself the father of a slave,
ami felt the tun ilegradatiou ot seeing wile
nnd child brutally ubused before his eyes
without the power to protect them, lie es-
caped to Canada. Keturncd with the design
ot bringing oil his wife and child ; was be.
trayed; imprisoned; escaped; wus betrayed
again, and finally he and his wife and child
were taken to New Orleans by the slave-tra
ders nnd sold to one " Deacon Whitfield,"
Ued Hiver planter.
Lite on that plantation is very particularly
described. Thut Deacon flogged him most
unmercilully lor attending a pruycr meeting
His various uttemptH to get uwuy from the
incarnate fiend ore full of tho most painfully
romantic interest, lull, too, ot "human na
ture." His experience us the slave of a gang
ot blacklegs, to whom bis pious muster soli
him, and their lieuevolent endeuvor to pur
chase his wife and child that the family
might not lie separated, (to credit to human
ity. t lo at last became the property of an
Indian, from whoso heirs lie escaped, jour
levins to Jeflerson City on the Missouri Hi
ver, w henco steam and his own good wit
transferred him to Cincinnati uud linul Lib
erty.
We believe this to be un unvarnished tale,
giving a true picture of sluvery, in oil its fea
tures, good, bad and indillcroiit, if it has so
intinv. 1 lie book is written witli perlcct art
lessness, and the man who can read it Unmo
ved must be fit for treusous, stratagems and
spoils.
One conclusion forced upon the philosopl
leal reader ot such narratives ot runaway
sluves is this, thut however tolerable chattel
shivery may bo as an institution lor savage
and barbarous lite, when you bring it into
the purlieus ot civilization and Christ uinitv
it becomes iinsm-ukablv iniquitous and into!
eruble, If Mr, Culhoim reullv means to Hi
hold shivery, he ntjrf there is no help for
it abolish Christ limit v, printing, urt, science,
und take his putriurchs buck to the ntandurd
of Central Alricu, or the days of .'-hem, Hum
anil jupnet,-T-LAronofie.
CaliiolVs Doflir'mns. It Is stated In
Southern paper that tho census of Soul
Carolina shows that sixty thousand white
adults, in that Still o cannot read or write.
Add to diem the tlneo-lil'tlis of her popula
tion the slaves who are forbidden bv luw to
read or write, and vou have the verv best rea
son given why one man rules the Stale with
more than a despot s power,
From the Boston Republican.
West India Emancipation.
On no Bullion tirnl.i.i.. I .i i
' -v..u,, IIU3 UVl'll
such gross, premeditated, and oft repeated
uiisi, 1Mt.-r....UM.,s, ns on unit relating to the
consequences and effects of tl
of the slaves in t,e British West Ind ia Is-
lattus, wmcn took placo August 1, lSlf.
The. niisrepresctit-jtions are published by
Southern slaveholders, and oUirr journals de
voted to their interests, and under their pat
ronage and control. Perhaps some allow
ance should be made for the amount of in
terest they have at stake; for the prejudice
they feel against emancipation, which has
been cherished in their bosoms till it has be
come second nature; and the ounoyanco
which such an example, close by them, is
adapted to iuipart. But all this is no suffi
cient excuse.
BookB have been published bv honest and
impartial men, who have carefully examined
into the state and condition of these islands,
before and since the emancipation of the
slaves, which hooks have been filled with
well authenticated facts, proving the perfect
safety, as well us happy eflects of this eman
cipation. These hooks contained facts which
convinced Dr. Lvcrctt and other discerning
men of the sMety, expediency, anil beneliciul
eflects ot emancipation to the former mas
ters os well as slaves. Yet with oil these
fiicts staring them in the face, these slave
holders in our Southern States continue to
speak of this experiment os a failure, in or
der to deceive people who huvo not the
means of ascertaining tho truth.
The following well-timed und well applied
rebuke of the constant slander and abuse
above referred to, is taken from the Kingston
Journal, published on the Island of Jamaica:
The allusion to the British West Indies is
most unfortunate, inasmuch ns the condition
of those colonies falsifies all tho statements
id predictions of these Southern members.
Who will look at this island, lor example.
and say " the existing relation between the
free ami servile races cannot be separated,"
and the races " cannot live together in peace,
or harmony, or to their mutual iidftmtitgc ? "
here is the man, however favorably incli
ned toward tho much-loved system of the
Southern States of America, or preindiccd
ugumst ine (turn lined nilialiitaiits ot that
portion of the Union, or of this colonv, who
will be bold euough to assert that "wretch-
nneunitit miot-v- iiml .1.tt-..l,it i.i.i Iim-n Iwuni
the result of emancipation? But the South-
ern members uppcured to feel that their
ground was not sate under them, lieneo
thev tell their constituents, that " since tho
emancipation," the llntisli government "lias
"'"yuxa, wuijciciit military nnu nuvai lorcc
to keep feiuvKs 'hfcwB, tmd irg," autn-
ncr oi mugisuaies, cuusiuoies, anu oiner civ
il ofliccrs, to keep order iu the towns and
plantations, and enforce respect to their for
mer owners." It is very evident from
observation that they know nothing of
true state of ulliiirs iu the West Indies, or,
they do, have purposely misrepresented them.
There has been a very large diminution
both the muilury uud naval forces in
West Indies since the ubolitiou of slavery.
Somo years ago tho regular troops iu this
alone amounted to from eight to
thousand men. Now, we believe, there
not two thousand in it.
As to the nuval forces, those who knew
Port Koyul during the palmy days of Slave
ry, and look ut it at present, can say whether
there Iiub been a lulling oil in this depart
ment of our defence. During slavery', every
rural parish hud four or five constables,
tho towns a larger number, the total
which, we have no doubt, would be found
fully equul to the number of police now cm-
ployed lor tho preservation of the peace.
Some three hundred and fifty of thehe ore
vided among twenty-two parishes, nnd a pop
ulation upward of 400,000 souls, "to keeji
der,- os tnese southern members s:iv, "
tho towns and on tho plantations, and
force respect to lbrmer owners." But there
is no police on tho plantations, nor any
cessity for them ; nnd whut will appear
astonishing to Southern alarmists, "the
und political superiority of education
talent" is still preserved. The Southern
members of Congress, ullcr crowding u
ot misstatements into very nearly ns many
lines, thus wind up their (illusions to
West Indies: "But notwithstanding nil
the British West India possessions are ruin
ed, impoverished miserable, wretched,
destined probably to be abandoned to
black race." This, ninny of our readers
think, is going uheud rutlicr too last
to a conclusion much too rapidly.
reply is, It is not true ; there never was a
riod in tho history of the British West Indies,
in w hich life and property were more secure,
und eace and quiet more uuivcrsul, or a
feeling existed between ull clusses of
community.
Evils of newly acquired freedom.
There is only one cure for tho evils which
new iy acquired freedom produces und
cure is freedom ! When a prisoner leaves
cell, he ennnot benr the light of day : ho
i.i ... .i: . ,
iiiiuiuu iu iiiscrumuaie colors, or recognise
faces. But tho remedy is not to remand
into his dungeon, but to accustom him to
rays of the sun. The blaze of truth uud
muy at first dazzle and bewilder nations
which have become hall" blind iu the house
of Itondugo. But let them gaze on.und
will soon be able to licar it. Iu a lew
men learn to reuson. The extreme violence
of opinions subsides. I lostile theories correct
cuch other. The scattered elements of
cease to conflict, mid lieghi to coalesce.
at length u system of justice nnd order
educed out of chaos.
Tiie ' Undivided Half.' A paragraph
hoi been the rounds of the papers, stating
that the undivided half of a negro wus to
sold iu New Orleans. Tho sale bus taken
jiluce ; hut how tho poor negro was divided
whether horizontally or longitudinully
we are not informed,
The State and the Priesthood.
What have tho Slate nnd the rriesthood
been doing for mankind ? Wo mean the
State and tho priesthood as ft whole, during
all generations. We know very well whut
they ought to have been doing we tuider
stond their proper mission. To the State tins
been committed the protection of the natural
rights of life, liliertr, property, nnd opinions,
ot mnsscs of men socially amalgamated into
tribes and nations. To tho Priesthood has
been committed tho prom.ihiition of tho Di
vine law, the inculcation and exemplification
of every virtue the preachiii.T of spiritual
f-eedom, nnd the doctrines of immortality.
They have had under their combined care,
the social development nnd moral elevation
of the ruce, as denizens of time and of
eternity.
But what have they been doina ? lias not
the Stnte crushed tho multitudes under a
relentless despotism, and led embattled hosts
to mutual destruction ? What n sad record
is history! War and dcspoti--iu fill almost
every page. Everywhere it is war war
never reusing; ami almost everywhere it is
despotism. I'herc have been n Fiiccesion
of great Empire the one supplanting the
other. There have been n countless numlier
of struggles between lesser powers. Man
kind huve been the victims of rapacious nm
bition nnd cupidity. The State has lieen
concentrated in the will of individuals who
have sported wi'h the great interests of hu
manity. The State has not existed for men,
but men for the State. The world has not
been governed to tho great ends of social,
intellectual, nnd moral advancement ; it lias
been devoured by Kings nnd Emperors.
Individuals God's solitary and oil-persecuted
ministers of truth and love, have given
light nnd conducted the progress of the race.
The State has not fuliilled its mission.
And what has the Priesthood been doing?
They have entertained the people with vain
shows, and awed them with fearful supersti
tions. They have written books of legends
litr truth. They have shut out the light of
natural religion itself by pretended revela
tions. They have labored to build up their
own power, bv prostrating the intelligence
of the people. T'hev have done for the mind
what the despots of the Stale have done for
the body. The kings have built prisons nnd
dungeons, mid forged chains for the limbs
ot man. llio priests fiavo built temples.
ctttlieilruls and aha is for his spirit. Between
was necessary that the despots should gain
command over the intellects. The priests
mastered these, and gave them over into the
hands ot the desiioU lo quell nil opiiohi
tionto iuy ihmori dunking. .and . jufttlcfs
spirits, the priests required the uid of civil
jKwer. The despot returned the kindness
ot tho priest, by placing ot ins disposal the
sword of the Slate. Huve not the two gone
on together hand m hand i Js not the his
tory of mankind the history of the success
tul uud united machinations ol the king and
the priest? These ure owful words to hit
man ears the king and the priest symbols
ot tyranny, superstition uud woe: .v. i
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br.AVEiioi.DiNo lnorni.ES. While pass
ing down tho Ohio river lour vears since,
we cume in conflict with two Keutuckiiuis
who stepped on board at Muvsville. One of
them, a inegar-visaged old man, we ascer
tained had lost some of his "peculiar pro
perty," w ho took it into their heads one morn
ing to put their locomotive i.i motion in the
direction of a Erce State. The other was a
tall, raw-boned, real son of Kentucky, who
could blaze av.'uv at the Abolitionists one
moment and crack jokes with them the next,
lie had followed two Iws, who had escaped
from the old man referred to, ns far as San
dusky, Ohio, and had them arrested and con
fined"; but from informality, or want of proof,
the upshot of the matter was that they were
released, nnd he wns placed in durance vile
AtK'r remaining n day or two, how ever, he
was permitted to depart, on paying costs.
WhiU; on a recent visit to Kipley, we men
tioned tho circumstance to n friend residing
there, who observed that ho was well nc
nuainl"d with the old man and his associate
that he hud losi all his sluves, valued at 3,500,
excepting one old woman, and hud spent
about $1,000 in fruitless flbrts to recover
them. On remarking to lus old slave that ull
the others had lelt, she answered. "Yes,
Massa, all the niggers gone but oti and me!"
lie now hires his worlt done; and tie late
ly told our friend, that he gets along about
well us w hen copending ou lus slaves. Mer
cer (I'a.) Luminary.
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1' ro-Slaveby Co-.yr '.dictions. Tho
contradictions in which the ndvocutes ond
apologists. of Shivery involve themselves arc
certainly diverting. According to these
more voluble than I igical persons, the Alio
litionistf ure retarding the progress ot'riimu
cipution. Yet it is these very co-workers
w hom the Perpetuuliuts would crush ut all
huznrds. Nothing, not even invasion, could
induce a servile revolt, ond yet tho mails
must be robbed lert n s'niy copy of an Anti
Slavery journal should fidl into the hands of
n wretched helot w ho could as easily lead
tho inscriptions of Nimroud. J. n. l. AaC
A. S, .Stand.
The Charleston Mercury soyi that "the on
ly wav to n Northern man's sensibilities is
through the wckct." We veil remcinl.er
that, aller the great Pittsburgh fire, three times
ns much money wss contrbuted for the suf
ferers by the city of Boston ulono, as by the
whole Stntj of South Carolina. Such fiicts
go to show thut, if there is a way to the sen
sibilities of NorUurn men through their pock
ets.there is ulso a w ay to their pockets through
their sensibilities. Louisville Journal.
Judgo Gamble, the Democratic candidate
for Cunul Commissioner in I'a., is a decided
and avowed friend of the Proviso, and of the
nlndition of slavery in the District of Cohnnbia,
Opinions of Washington on Slavery.
"Ho has nevertheless (must I say it?)
numerous crowd of slaves; but they are
treated with the greatest humanity ; well fed,
well clothed, nml kept to moderate lobor;
they bless (Jod without ceasing for having
given them so good a mostcr. It is task
worthy of a soul so elevated, so pure, and so
disinterested, to liegin the revolution in Vir.
gmin, to prepare the way for the emancipation
of the negroes. This frreat man declared to me
that he rejoiced at trhat trot doing in other Slate
on this luhjcrt ; that hr tincrrely itsirtd the ex
tension of it in his oicn cotintry ; but he did
not dissemble that there w ere still ninny dif
ficulties to be overcome; that it wns danger
ous to strike too vigorously at a prejudice,
which had liegun to diminish; that time, pa
tience, and infbrmntion would not fail to van.
quish it. Almost oil the Virginians, added
he, U'licve that the lilierty of the blacks can
not soon become general. This is the reason
left v fnry tnsh not to form a society which may
give dangerous ideas to their slaves. Thero
is another obstacle ; the great plantations of
which the Slate is composed render it ne
cessary for men to live so dispersed, that
frequent meetings of a SuoVj would be difficult.
1 replied that the Virginians were in error.
that evidently sooner or later the negroes.
would ontain tlicir lilierty every where. U
is then for the interest of your countrymen
to prepure the way to such a revolution, by
endeavoring to reconcile the restitution of the
rights of the blucks with the interest of tho
w hites. The means necessary to be taken fa
Mi rirf can only be the icor of a bociktt j
and it is worthy the Savior of America to
put himself nt their head, and to oen the
door of lilierty to three hundred thousand
unhappy beings of his own State. He told
me that he dtsired the formation of a societt,
and that he wauld second it ; but that he did
not think the moment favorable." Conrer
if7o) of H'a.s!iiniiton,i,i tlie Travels of Bristol
dc I ' arville, in ('. S. in 17tW, translated and
published in 17lrJ.
"I can only say, that there is not n man
living, who wishes more sincerely than 1 do
to see a plan adopted for the olxilition of it
(Muvery ; but there is only one proper nnd
cticctual mode by which it can be oecom-
"lislied, ond that is bv legislative authority s
and this, as far as my suffrage wilt go, sludt tier
ver oc. teaming. I Alter of ttaslungton to itq
berl Morris, . tpril Vith, 1760.
" The benevolence of your heart, mv dear
Marquis, is ao conspicuous ujioii all occa
sions, nun i never wonuer ot anjr tresli proois
ui n , jour nun purchase ot an estate iu
the t- olony ot Cayenne, iritA a vxtw of eman-
!
us
cipaling the fuccj on it, is a generous and no-
ble proof of your humanity. Would to God
a like spirit might diffuse itself generally into
tlte minds of the people of this country. But I
despuir of seeing it. Some ctitions were
presented to the Assembly at its lust session,
tor tho ubolitiou of sluvery, but they could
scarcely obtuin a rending. To set the sluves,
afloat ot once, would, 1 really believe, be pro
ductive of much inconvenience and mischief;
bid by degrees it certainly miglj, and assuredly
ovgU to be effected; and that too by legislative,
authority" Litter to Lafayette, May 10A,
17t!().
" I never mean, unless some particular
circumstances should compel mo to it, to
possess unother slave by purchase, it being
among my frst wislus to see some plan adopted
by irhich slavery in this countrji may be abol
ished In) law." Letter to Julin '. Mercer, Sept.
Cth, lH'tHi.
" From what I have said, you will perceive,
that the present prices of laud in Pennsylva
nia ore higher than they ure iu Mary land
and Virginia, although they arc not of a su
perior quality, among
other reasons! because there ore laws lure
for the gradual abolition of slavery, which
neither ol the two ;iites above mentioned
have at present, but which nothing is morecer
tain than that tluy must have, and at a period
not remote." Ltttir lo Sir John Sinclair, Dec,
11th, 17U0.
" Upon the decease of my wife, it is my
desire that nil the sluves whom 1 hold in my
own right, shull receive their freedom. To
emaiicipnto them during her life, would, tho,'
earnestly wished by me, lie attended with,
such insuperable difficulties, on account of
their intermixture by marriage with the dow
er negroes, as to excite the most poiuliil sen
sations, if not disugrecublo consequences ta
the latter, while both description are in tho
occupancy of llio same proprietor, it not be
ing iu my power, under tho tenure by which
tho dower negroes ore held, to manumit
them. ,1ml I do, moreover, most
pointedly and most solemnly enjoin it upon my
executors hereafter named, or tlie survivors of
them, to see that this clause respscling slaves, and
every paii thereof, be religiously fuijillcd at tlie
epoch at which il is directed to take place, with
out erosion, neglect or delay, after the crops
which muy then lie on the ground are bar-,
vested, particularly ns it resiiects the aged
and infirm, seeing that a regular and perma
nent fund lie established liir their support, as
long as there oro subjects requiring it, not
trusting to the uncertain provisiou made by
individuals." H'ashingtoiU H'ill, dated July
IKi, 17'JO 17U1.
ForTiir.Rn Trepidation. We wonder if
the keeper of a powder-magazine ever gets
to look c.pou all his fcllow-cilizcus who wear
irou nuns in their shoes as uiceiulionea f if
he considers flint and meel as inventions of
the enemy of man.uiid tlie lightning, that ever
busy scavenger ot tlie neriul highways, as a
personal injury? Such, at any rate.seems to he
the meuiul condition at which our Southern,
friends have arrived, Though they profess
to livo iu a bouse of such asbebtic quality as
might defy the fund conllugnitiou, they are
hi such constant dreud of tire thut M r, Calhoun,
has even attempted to put out tlie sun with;
with a tour-ounce squirt. J, u l, JSfyf t
.?. Standard,