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THE ANTI-SLAVEUY HUGLK.
A CLERICAL DOCUMENT.
. Our readers will be Amused by the perusal of
the following following curious manifesto issued
hj the Rer. Henry M. Donnison who Was so un
fertunato a to loose his property recently by the
'tfeoiaion of Judge Jameson of Columbus. After
. the girl had been placed In the hands of her gur
dian, Mr. Donnison arrived In Columbus nnd made
sm Imperative demand of bis property. Mr Van
Slyke, lior guardian politely declined it compli
ance. Then bis Revorence went back to the Neil
uouae ana issued me following address! "To a
candid and honest public."
We omit the first part of the document which is
(biographical, largely detailing tho affection of
Rosetta to "Miss Alice" her mistress and the oc
casion ot her being caught in a place eo fatal to
lave holding as Columbus proved to be. Proceed
ing with this topic, he says of bis friend who had
ithe girl in custody:
. "He thought by stopping in Columbus, where
he had once resided, and yet has many friends,
he might avoid observation, cloistered under
i what should be the sacred roof of a privato mim
ily. But alas I in the merciless and marauding
t course of abolitionism, no "man's house is bis ens
ile," and black Women were soon seen hovering
about the house like birds of illomen, and pres
ently the Slioriff of the county appeared with n
habeas corpus, and by eo infamous a prostitution
cf that writ of prictlecs value to a true Ameri-
can, and in spito of her asseverations that she
did not want to be Tree, but wished to return
nor parents and "iittio ucssio," the poor
girl was forced away from her protector, on the
Sabbath day, and lodged in jail. Tho next morn
ing she was brought beforo a court, and with n
nioekory of a trial, before time was allowed for
the attempt even to defend both her and her rights
guaranteed by the constitution to every citizen of
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no uniieu suites, sue was declared tree, and, be
ing a minor, was put under a guardian, lest she
should exercise lier liberty in returning to her
parents, and this when Almighty God hns made
me her guardian, as I have over been her best
earthly friend.
And now, after this simple statement of facts,
appeal to my fellow-countrymen of Columl us
and Ohio, to pudge between me and these mom
tealing Abolitionists. Who are the friends of this
Eoor child f Who is it likoly is most attached to
er true interests, her master, or those who are
now, it is to be hoped, ashamed of thmr mean
ness in depriving as honest) and good a citizen
as themselves of the humble friend of his dead
wife, and the faithful attendant of his innocent
ohild, thus calling in tho majestic sanctions of the
lw to give a color of respectability to an action
that should sink its perpetrators to the lowest lev
el of the contempt ol every ingenious and upright
mind J
Who have sought really this girl's freedom anil
levation in society, those who in defiance of nil
right have placed the ward of another under a
guardian (forsooth) who is put over her to watch
with ly nx-eyos lest, ia obedience to every impulse,
he should make uso of her freedom to return
borne a guardianship from which, when she
merges, she can never raise above the servility of
your, hewers of wood and drawers of wu' err
or I, who designed to grant her most earnest
wishes in making her the fund companion and
cherished dependent of a beloved child f Judge, I
pray you who sought her happiness, he who whs
restoring her So the home of childhood nnd the arms
f her parents, to her brothers and sisters, or the
kidnappers who havo barbarously forced her from
tae society ot all she loved forever? Why. I had
understood that this last ruthless deed was the
pecial prerogative of slaveholders alone, and that
the abolitionists, those dear friends of the colored
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avu, uvkiwu uuuiiug bu uiucn in me unrrid in
stitution of slavery as the suudoring of families
.that it sometimes of nccessitv rcnnirAill Tim
.what law, human and divine what civil, social,
nr mnrnl nMifrntinn ivK.i r. ..'.. .:.. t:i.i-
or moral obligation what Constitution or Bible
what tie of affection or blood will not t! cse mis
guided men or inhuman monsters, trample under
ioo ii n scanu in mo way ot their ungodly fan
a iicism i nave nicy not encouaaeed slavos to
run away trom thoir masters, wbon Paul sent them
back r .
Have they not scattered incendiary namnhlrt
and sent wily and disgusted emissaries throughout
the wholo South, wherever, nt least, the necks ol
their panders were safe from tho halter, to excite
the lowest nnd most ignorant clas of snuthen
people to discontent, sedition nnd revolt? Have
tbey not thus, while adding "bars of brass anil
triple steel" to tho shnckels of the slave, done oil
.in their power to provoke a servile and internecine
war, a war that spares neither age nor sex in its
jjicibucoa iui j uaniBi men in piiirioiic, as moral,
as religious, and women as lovely in evory relation
of lifo as the world can produce ?
When the poverty of the Klavo stood in the wav.
have thoy not urged him to steal whatever had
been committed by a confiding master to h:s trust,
and to suffer no consideration of duty, or love, or
mercy to hold him back from the embraces of
his tnends with white faces and black hearts,
who procured his freedom by such unhallowed
means, only to allow him the most monial position
about their houses, or to wander as a beggar in
thoir streets ?
1 When tho glorious Constitution of our country
provided in its social compact for the preservation
of the rights of tho South, havo they not de
nounced this groat Union of tho States itself as an
i'nstrument'of fraud and oppression that ought to be
broken ? nnd have they not rosistod the whole
some provisions of the Fugitive Slave Bill with
chicanery, violence nnd blood? When tho Ten
Commandments forbid tho coveting and stealing
pf a neighbor's servant, nnd book of Leviticus en
joined it upon the Jews to purchase their "bonds
men of the hoathen around them, who should be
their heritage forever," and the now Testament
repeatedly enjoins upon slaves to be obedient to
their masters in aM things," have not those same
men .defied the injunctions of Holy writ, and pro
n a iced the Biblo a forgery, and God, if ho sanc
tioned suoh things, a tyrant ?
' I appeal to you, fellow citizens, to know if
all these statements are not truth mil thn T
ask you if you will continue, through your Leg
islatures and your administrators of justice, to
permit, in default of your strenuous opposition,
so dire a stigma to rest upon tho noble, and
manly, and virtuous pnplution of the North
from the actions of theso deluded men, and these
. nnwhipped miscreants? If you persist in
this supineness I speak it not ns a threat, but
in all mournfulness, like a prophecy of Cassan
andra bo assured a day of retribution will
come.
Xou or your children ici see this Republic di
vided and its borders devasted by perpetual war.
uorn iikb yourselves upoa tree soil, I have spent
ui my mannooa among Southern men,
i and I knuw that every instance of tamnerinir with
the institution of slavery alienates somo truo
.uw-ieu piimoi irom thai union which our fat li
mn cemented with their blood. I know that
perrsonal rights are dearer to the people of the
duuiu man ma uarren giory derived Irom a union
With strangers, from which too many already
thiuk they have nothing to gain and much to
lose.
And I k now'that this growing dissatisfaction is
confined to no one class of men, but that it is shar
ed in by the vicious and virtuous, the rich and the
. poor, the cultivated and the ignorant; thnt it is
found among professional men nnd mochanics,
godless wordlings and devout Christians, lawyers
and merchant, and clergyman, and judges, nnd
legislators ot the state and ledernl government.
The adherence of slaveholders to their rights of
person and property, is still stronger than all their
political preferences or combinations, whether as
Whigs, Democrats or Know-Xothings, or even us
ckiiens of ti e United Stater, but if through
Incessant machinations agninBt theso rights, pat
tnetism itself should give way to tho galling sense
f wrongs nnd oppressions, tbo Union may perish:
but its blood will rest upon those men and their
children who could, but did not crush this hydra
beaded fanaticism of a portion of their own mini
ver by the omnipotence of the ballot-box. The
. tHs of a' dissolution of the Union are incalcu'a
bls. The farewell address of him, the Father of
'tis Country, and ths far seeing vision of that great
ipounderof the Constitution, the late Chief Jus
tics Ptory, hare portpysd but half it horrors.
The rest remain to be written with the pen of
history rather than of prophecy or political fore
cast, in characters of Scry and sanguinary desola
tion.
With a most sincere and cordial esteem I nm
your fritnd and felmw cili7.cn.
HENRY M. DENNISON.
Communicated.
Color-Phobia.
Mb. Editoii: Tho Snlcm Division of tho Sons of
Tcmpcrnnco is not, it appears, so disloynl to the rul
ing influences of church nnd state, in our fice count-y,
is to admit persons even slightly colored, to a participa
tion in the manifold benefits and blessings of the order.
Recently a colored man, respected and esteemed by all
who know him intelligent, morsl and In every respcet
worthy of confidence and fellowship, was, upon oppli
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cation, excluded from this Division, solely on account
of the fact that some of his ancestors msny generations
ago, lived peaceful livoi in Afticnj instead nf (like his
anglo-saxon forefathers) prowling nhnut in hordes
half starved and raked, and robbing nnd butchering
each other, in thj woods of ancient Britain.
The people of Memphis ought to know that if Salem
th'rf, by accident, rescue a slave girl from tho cars, we
are not yet so far gone as to do any thing to protect
fugitive slavesagsinst tho temptations that luro men to
drunkenness, crime and trie gallows.
It is claimed that tho National and Ornnd Divisions
have forbidden the admission of colored persons to the
order. Why then are colored men admitted to so many
subordinate Divisions? Why ia tho 'Pure Fountain,'
the only one from whence they are driven ? Intelligent
members say thoro is nothing forbidding subordinate
Divisions to admit them. It is a frco will offering to
the hunkcrism, meanness and brutality, that sluvcry
engenders, and church nnd state sustain.
Our most influential ministers, and somo of our best
citizens are members of the "Pure Fountain" Division.
Are these persons going to countenance this proceed
ing, giving aid and encouragement to tho pro-slavery
feeling so rife, in the land? If not, let them set them
selves in a right position. If to let the people know it
Y. Z.
NEW SCHOOL GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Rev. Samuel II. Cox, D. D., has recently been
in St. Louis lecturing nnd preaching. By bis evan
gelical toadyism, he has secured quite a breeze of
popularity. Ho seems determined that it shall con
tinue to fan him, if submission to slavery can se
cure its continuance. The next General Assembly
of tho New School Presbyterian Church is to meet
in St. Louis. And Mr. Cox sends to tbo churches,
through tbo New York Evangelist tho following
instruction, relative to the delegates to the Assem
ble Slaveholders and their ecclesiastical allies at the
north mtinngo admirably. They convene their
Assembly where all its actions shall bo under slave
holding surveillance, and then this famous Rabbi
sends forth his instructions to send up just the
men who, from deficiency in consciunco or moral
courage, shall givo neither trouble or uneasiness
to their masters. Tho work in which Dr. Cox i
engaged is quite as infamousin character, nnd will
prove far worse in its inllucnco than that of his
Itcv. Brother, Dcnnison, who is endeavoring to
kidnap a frco woman by tho aid of the U. S. Com
missionor and Murtbal.
Dr. Cox says :
" Tho people bore are expecting the General As
sembly, next May, with increasing interest and
siitisfai tion, It ought to bo anticipated by all our
l rosbyteries with large-hcartc! mid appropriate
wisdom. I hey will certainly no great good or,
great harm, by meeting nt St. Louis. Tho reasons
are many and mighty. Of this 1 would ulfuution
atnly warn all tho Presbyteries. If a Presbytery
has any member in it that is only goodish and
weak-minded; impulsive, nnd not otnll compre
hensive, or well experienced, or rightly informed ;
or, it ho bo par.i'uu, emotional, ami destitute ot
knowlcdgo and good manners ; or, if bo be a tlic-
irizer, an al stractioniit, or a philosopher of one
idea; or, if obstiuato, or unanimous in sclfcstecni
1 1 I v : then I snv. fur thn snlcn ol' nil thn emls ilmt
Paul would pu-sueand prefer, or which the winlaitt !
that is piofilubte to direct would inspire, give him I
an impartial turlotigli to stay nt home; and consult
his honour anil usefulness and fanio and peace, l y
putting a wiso man, instead of buu, ns a Commis
sioner to tho (icucrnl Assembly of 1805 Sonic
may despiso this counsel still I soberly give it,
loving the Church nt largo and our own branch of
it in particular and loving also ninny dear breth
ren who diucr Irom me, possibly, in these things.
I do not want to seo tho General AssembW net at
II out of character, or against the Constitution,
or in any with no or with little wisdom. And this
city is full of noblc-mindoil nnd principled persons
who will watch them ; and tako impressions for
after ages from what they see, and hear, nnd feel,
of tho wisdom of tho Assembly. Our dear breth
ren in the ministry here, good and true, nro much
interested, nil of them.to show tho otucllcnce alone
of truth and order, in all the collective snd indi
vidual actions of our beloved Assembly. Other
wise, we shall only injure them, nnd counteract
our own prayers, through our prepastcrous Heal,
that is not aecordtna to knowledge. I mean, ns ev
ery reader knows, in reference to tho matter of sla
very ; hut NOT AT AM. OS TU AT ALONE. Let all the
pastors and all the churchos pray that tho Holy
liliost may fill all the members with the window
that cometh from ahove; and thon nil will be right.
Ibis is the epitome ot all my prayer for them, to
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tho Oreat Head of tho Church. Wo havo some en
eniics beside tho devil and his anarh : somo that
ought to be at better business! and some whose
titles, offices, and places, might make the simple
ton oasuy mistake them tor trends, iscd. sap. sal.
verb. et. preelerea-nun-nihil."
We infer, from this voice of warning, thnt the
managers of the New School Presbyterian Church
are fearful that the "volcano," which they "cap
pod " w ith so much difficulty somo years ago, is
about to burst forth again and bury them in its
fiery eructations. They have taken caro that the
General Assembly, at this crisis, shall meet in a
slaveholding city, where a foul moral ntmosphoro
will aid them to smother the spirit, of freedom nnd
choko the utterance of tlioso who dosire to cure Iho
Church of hor deadly leprosy. Wo snail see how
well they succeed.
Tub Wiit Spirit in Conoress The lata Con
gress has dono its utmost to cultivate tho war
spirit among tho peoplo. They elevated General
Scott to a Lieutenant Generalship, to tako rank nnd
pay for the same from the timo of ono of his vic
tories in the Mexican War, thus presenting him
with .re know not how many thousands of dollars.
It also passed the Bounty Land Law, which gives.
ICO acres of tho publiu lands to anybody and ev
erybody who has been in nny way connected vith
the military service of the United States since
1700. Or, in case of thoir death, tho same to bo
conferred upon thoir widows nnd minor children.
It is estimated that fifty millions of acres of land
have been given away by Congress, to honor and
foster the Bpir t of war among us. This seed,
thus sown, will not fail to bring foi tli its fruit, in
nn increase of tho military spirit among us in
the toleration by the peoplo of tho onlargomcnt of
the national War Departments in future war and
violence. Why military men should be honored
aoovo all others who profoss to love their country,
we do not know. To us there would have seemed
muuh more propriety In bestowing it upon landless
farmers, who would have rendorsd it produc
tive, and thus bare Imreucd ths wealth of tho
nation.
LET THE UNION GO.
If there is but oni way to preervo
nnd that in mnko you and ni'i sl.ive
tho Union.
why then
let the Union perish rather than our freedom.
Such was tlin reply of Mr. Chaso 'at Rochester
N. Y. to the suggestion thnt if nnti. slavery meas
ures were adopted tho South voulj dissolve the
Union. And fitting was the reply. Yes lot the
Union go, if to maintain it requires that wo should
bo slaves.
EvAS-GF.t.rcAt. Christian Content-ios. -At a
preliminary convention held in Cincinnati, on
j the 13lh inst., the following resolution was adop
ted: I Resolved, T!int it is expedient to call a mect-
ing of Evangelical Christians nf tho United
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- i-onu, ijuijumiiiuiiniuy (ilium aiiiiii.it m
, .,,. , tlllrnfialr -1lsili,.PJn9. what
measures, if any, might to be adopted, to has
ten tho extinction of Slavery in tho United States.
Facts ron the People. Wo sec by tho l.isi Era,
that Dr. Bailey proposes to issuo another volume
of "Fuels fur the People." Its publication to be
monthly and to commenco tho first of May. Its
loading ol jeet is to embody in n cheap anil uonven-
' icnt form for circulation, important anti-slavery
documents, selected from tho columns of the Era.
It will be sent only to c lubs, nt the following rates
per annum, twclvo numbers constituting a vol
ume :
Six copies to one address, $1,00
Fourtcon copies to one address, 2,00
Fifty copies, to one address, 0,00
Wo are glad to seo this project ngatn on foot.
Let light shino upon tho pcoplo from every pos
sible source It can result only in good to the
cause of truth and freedom.
Tns next Congress will consist of 231 members
It is stated that there have already been elected
117 anti-Nebraska men in opposition to tho pros-
lent administration, and six Anti-Nebraska Demo
crats who agree with tho administrate n in nil other
j
particulars. Elections nro stiil to bo held in
Rhode Island and Connecticut. So that if this
statement is corroct thcro will bo a majoritylot ten
or twclvo who nt the time of thoir election were
called Anti-Nobrask i men. li ny they will num
ber, when they are mustered to voto in Washing
ton is quito another thing. Slaveholders will with
tho Presidents devoted aid, find little difficulty in
turning tho majority on to the other side.
Oreoox. For two sveccssivo years now, Oregon
has been begging for admission to the Union. But
Slavery has been tiuablo to steal Cuba, to buy the
Sandwich Islands or make nny new Stato out of
Texas and thus they havo no slave State to match
hor. and thorolore they stavo oil' her admission.
Sho must wait at least one year longer.
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agents nro said to bo in New York, Philad Iphia j
Baltimore, who send men from thoi-o cities to
Montreal, or Halifax, when they nro regularly en
listed in the British army from tho eastern war.
They offer $30, bounty nnd S3 per month after
wards. I'aukeh Pillseihy has been appointed nn agent
of tho American Anti-Slavery Society in England
and Ireland.
SLAVES IMPORTED.
Slaves Imported from South Carolina nnd Vir
ginia. For sale by J. M. E. SHARP,
jati3 tl' 103 Gravior stroet, Now Orleans.
" Imported from South Carolina and Virginia!"
Why not imported from Congo and Guinea? Cm
any one tell us why the importation of slaves from
Congo to Louisana should bo a crimo ranked wilh
piracy nnd punishable with death, while tho m
portation ol'slavcs from i irgmia is publicly adver
tised in the japers? In every respect the African
trade is less evil. The .-laves who am for sale in
the ports of Congo are savage mid heathens, cruel-
'' treated, am:
liable at any moment to violent
arc unquestionably benefited by
"eatli. They
being transported to ChrNtia.i and civilized Amer
ica, even to such Christianity and civilization ns
prevail in tho South. Hut a slave transported
irom the tcinperato and healthy climate, the com
paratively high civilization of Virginia, to tho sul
try and unwholesome ctnclicbls, the sevcro toil and
the half-civilized society of tho South-west.is griev
ously injured. His condition is mado worso in
stead of better. Sa far, therefore, as tho argument
drawn from tiie real or fopposed welfaro of the
slave is concerned, tho African trade has the nd
vantago of tho American. So fur!' i ij. t is con
cerned, they are 'both equally evil. Tim Congo
slaveholder has just as much light to sell his slaves
as tho Virginia slave-holder has to sell his. Per
haps more. For thu Congo gentleman docs not
proless to be a Christian and a democrat, and bis
practice is not inconsistent with his princitdes.
Boston Teleyruph
RUTLAND, MARCH 26.
lion! S. S. Phelps, Ute Unite I States Senator
from ermont, expired at his residenco ut Middle
bury.
At a public meeting in St.Lonis on tho Othinst.,
tho Hon. Thomas II. Benton w as nominated lor the
Presidency.
Tho Anderson Central Texan has a rumor that
Gen. Houston intends to issue a circular on the -1th
of March next announcing himself as un independ
ent candidate for tho Prcsidcn -y.
Washington, March 23.
It is rumored hero to-day that Gov. price, of
New Jersey, w ho was formerly a purser in the
Navy, U ascertained to bo a delau Iter to tho Gov-
eminent to tho amount of seventy thousand
dollars.
In Boston, last wock.RiifusW. Sutor nnd Maeon
B. Allen, colored men. on motiou of B. F. Hal
let Esq., were admitted to pivctiee as couiieellors
nnd attorneys in the Ciuuit Court of the United
Mates.
Temperance is beginning to mako headway in
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vaiiioriuu, w nere it nas uuucrio seemed to ho lor
uotten in the lainentablo prevalence) ol drunkenness
and crime, iho temperance organizations aro fast
extonding themselves through tho State.
The next New Ilampshiro Smiato will contain
hotntiualininistratii.il man. Ten of tho twelve
districts in the Stato have elected Anti-Slavery Sen
ator i in ono, tho Sixtn, there) is no choice -m l I
the Twclth has chosen Jonas D. Sleeper by a s,.,l i
majority. Mr. Sleeper was a membeV ofhe I
t-oiuito, and ol all his colleagues was left ah.no
in that Lrunuh, a monument of a once, mighty
party.
Tho difference between the Amorican and Span-
isu uovornuicnts, with relorenco to the Hon k U'r.
rior affair, uru now arr.vngod. Spain having a-'roo I
to the- view of iho matter tikcn by Mr. Marcy, and
promised to make all tho reparation demanded.
I ho ust alleges that the case would have been dis
posod of before, had not Mr. S mlo with belli no im.
port-ant disputed of the Secretary's from tho know
ledge of the Spanish Government, evidently, as
our cotemporary argue, in order to keep the
quarrel open with it view to his own schnnif4
against Cuba.
Colonization-. Both branches nf the Now Jer
sey Legislature havo concurred in granting five
thousand dollars, in five annual payments, to the
colonization cause. Twouty families are to be sent
out to locate in Uassa county, on St. Paul's, and.
their bouses aro to bo prepared for occupation, im
mediately on reaohing the looaliry. ;
OBITUARY.
DIED Of pulmonary consumption, on the
morning of the Pth hint., Av SiiAftrt.r., in tho
"Gill ye r of her ago.
Iho derated n member of the Sjoioty ofl
Friend-, denominated nieksite;tiiaintaining ft stoad-
Tast aJIicrcnco to correct principle; which was
mado inonrfM.t Un 1.,., I; r.. ..r ...r..tt1A
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ready to lend a hclptng band U tbo l.eedy mid
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DIED In Fort Wayne, Indl.mn, nflcr (t short
and severe illness of Typhoid Pneumonia, nt the
rcfidotito of her father, L.trtta A. Thomas, eldest
nuglitcr of Drs. Owen and Mary F. Thomas ttod
noarly II roars. S!w had been for the past eight
months engaged In learning the Tainting business
with three other girls in tho Standard Offico in
thU City.
During tho short time sho pursue! tho vocation
of her choice, she evinced the unfolding and de
veloping of talent w hich, gave promiso nf a lifo of
usefulness, and impressed her parents and friends
with tho
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nppy assurnt eo that t-ho bnd found the;
place in tho drama of lifo which her taste and
inclination, so well fifed her to oeeonv. And tho'
remembrance cf her cheerful soif-sMriUoe. neees-j
sarity occuring in the prosecution of her business.!
will long cheer tho hearts of her bereave 1 parent.;
win, while they have full belief that her
pated spirit has gone to swell the anthems of praise
with tho angelic-host above, they cannot but feel
that tliey are deprived of the society of a cherish
el d
liter, just nt that interesting period, when
mo was opening to her vow, now associations,
new alms, and purposes, and with tho eye of faith
and hope she beheld the vista of tho luturs nil
bright befuro her.
Yet such is tho uncertainty of nil sublunary en
joyments, and should remind us ever, that wc arc
all hastening to that spirit home, where eternal
progression, shall waft us nearer nnd nearer, tho
presence, of tho Father, nnd that those young peo
ple, whose life is prclonged, may feci tho necessity
of daily preparation for tho event, by cultivating
a spirit i. f lov?, charity, nnd benevolence, which
actuated tho deceased in I, or associations with those
whom sho had social intercourse, these proved that
young ns sho was, sho was not unmindful of the
great duty, of show inj;
our fellow creatures.
tur love to Gr.d, by love to
A FRIEND.
NEW POSTAGE LAW.
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.
APPOINTMENT OFFICE, MARCH 22, 1855.
in ins oiiice a list 01 inn same, stating that tbcv
are held for postage. If not attended to, Mich let
and Llc'.s "lllst u0 returned monthly to the Dead Letter
Sir; Your lulter of tho COth inst. is received.
In answer, I am directed by tho Postmaster Gener
al to in form you
1. Tho act of ;M March, ISjj, making no pro
vi.son lor uii)i iid letters to places within tho United
States, i n tho same or day following f.nd slo b un
paid letter or letters Icing put into a Post-Oliice.
the Piisttnasti-r ilieifMil u-ill nnj m, i,Ui.;........i..
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i 3, lfjj. aforesaid.
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March 3, 1S53.
I nm, respectfully, your obedient servant.
HORATIO KING.
First As-isinnt PostimistcrUencr.il.
Isaac V. Fowler, Postmaster, New York.
Execution- or Two Slaves Ttnnini.E Sce.ve.
The Av.tnt (Louisiana) Covrcur, of the dtli inst..
gives an iiccount nt the execution of thn slaves
Menga and Mclanie, in tho Parish of St. Charles.
on the ilGth ult., for the murder of Mr. . They
tell into tho utmost despair, cried, screamed, ami
pr itcste l their innocence, but refused nil spiritual
aid. M.'li'.nie h id tried to poison hoi-self by equal
ly disgusting and novel means, and failing'in tlui'.
succeeded in bring tho mil. but ( in inir hersell
nearly smothered, and in danger of being burned
to death, had to call for assistance at midnight to
put out thn lire. Sho was obliged to bo carried to
the scaffold morn dead than alive. Mengo refused
at tirst to havo his hads hound, nnd struggled with
tho execuli mir. Tuis lnt is said to bea'keener ol
a grocery store in this jitv, and to havo received
-0O for tho execution.
i.XERCisixo M.Avr.s. vt o observed n, practice
growing into vogue in tins city, during tho past
year, w hich we cannot but think a little rellection
will show to bo exceedingly objectionable and im
politic. Wo allude to tho inarching of slaves
through tho city daily, apparently by way of exer
cise. Considcrato owners would object to having
their servants so paraded, and persons of similar
feelings would take a similar view of tbo act with
out regard to ownership. Tho practice, besides, is
objectionable, as being so very open to misunder
stniidingTnd misrepresentation by many of tho
strangers w hvlsit our city during thu business
season. Wo suggest that it ought to bo abolished.
-Vtio Orleans 1'ieayune.
KANSAS.
We learn from tho Kansas Free Stale of the 3d
inst., that Gov. Reedei has issued his proi lanmlioii.
dunning- tho judicial districts of thn Territory,
mil fixing tho timo for the sitting of tho Courts.
The completo official Census returns of the
Territory shows tl.o population to number 3,030
uiia.uioiD.
A fugitive slave lias boon found in custody of an
Indian by ono limothy Donivan, of Westport. It
iv.is Kiiid tlmt. Donit'iili mm I a flm Tmlitin ilt-iink nml I
then took the negro and roturned him to his owner.
fr which he received a reward of 50. Some days I
attcrwarus, ixuiivan and an other man wero pass
ing thro' tho lii'servution with a final. tity of liouor
when the Indian, with others.destrnved tho liquois
nnd Iook charge ot Ins wagon on tint ground that
I) iisivaii had sold and given away liquor to the
a":",,.,CPS .'"'' I'euaiiy in sues,
. 1" slf fLZ 5 "
mi'tit. It was proved that Donivan h id sold whis-
key to tho Indians, and Judge Leeompto held him
to bail. .'One of the Indians was instigated to ap
prehend Di nivan through revenge, because ho re
fused to givo him part of the reward fur apprehend
ing the fugitive tlavo. Columbian.
I
The Massachusetts LiQt ott Law. Tho Boston
Journal of Wudnci-dny i-peaks of tho liquor bill
which has just passod tho Legislature of Massaehu
se'tJ, as follows :
Tho vole upon tho bill was 23-t in tho affirmative
to -II in thoncgativo. Tho bill will uoubtlnss pass
itsfii n' S'ages in tho Huso withou; opposition, and
after being scut to tho fenito for conoueronce
in some unimportant Amendment, will bocome
a law.
It is sufficiently stringent to suit tho views of
even tho most ultra frier d of prohibitory legisla
tinti and its passago will inaugurate a new era in
temperance legislation, hardly loss important than
that which commenced with tho paasoge of the
original Maine law.
1
j
Sotyyiniy I'noi'tiiEir Shocked ! Miss Rebecca
Donovan, who hns been In Kentucky lately, lec
turing on the subject of tetnpcratico.'hai produce !
ft Creit excitement by kissing ft "nigger" babr.
if tho baby had been her own, nnd sho bad Hold
it by the pound In human shambles of Kentucky,
the poopio would scarcely havo been tnoro shocked
tlmn they pretend ti bo in view of that torrililo
kiss. Even tho newspapers, whilo ncknowlodg
ing tho value of hfr labors in tho temperance
eausi, speak with bitod breath of that ki
f.ire,r!,, j dl , ,, ,lf AhlAhi,
as j it
mism nnd
thn underground railroad 1 Miss f.ncrnti.i Wri'.'ht
another tcinpcranco lecturer, hns also fallen tinder
the ban nf tho rum-loving chivalry t,f Kentucky,
being suspected of entertaining h"ictii:,tl doubts
of tho divinity of slavery. A. S. SUndard.
A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE.
a mM ftW "'J r3 of nr C 'o;".
w,,t!l a ,,,,t Ji,nsnt ia UU "P0001'' ft"'1 tt:1 J"
J0,1 ln"''"-'!,1!'' 1,1 P-. P''""or. an
Cllmnci.!lrn,,,n1V'Jl"r ntrudo ffi,y 8tl"-'k ,,31
,':,n''3 ,"S ' "Cpt M '"n,i fu0t
Pittt.o n. Mf.vsox loft th's neighborhood about
tho first of August list, for Alliance, sinco which
timo no traco can be found of him. From threats
mado previous to bis departure, bis friends nro
fearful ho miy havo met with foul play, as bis tes
timony had excited the ire of a batch of counter-
iviiein, miiu iiii.j ii-en luewou.My ir,e.4iuii in m s
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CUIIIIOi .UII1I3IM1 (I HiClMIS UFO H'.llA lUHVO near
'U'JmJ' AO X-.te. 110 is
i cro wm:u bu",w pastern jo.nts.
Any information concerning tbo man or the
' l,orsn wi" thankfully received by Joseph A.
isiuckhurn, eaicm, CulumLiana county, Oiuo, or
by J. C. Shinn, Borliu Centre, Mahoning county,
Ohio.
Editors, especially in Wostern Now York arc ro
quested to notico tho above.
HYMENEAL.
MARRIED On tho 22d inst., by Matthias
Swaim, Esq., Mr. Ridjway SnnEVE, of Jennings
county, Indiana, to Miss A.v.v Pool, of Maluming
county, Ohio.
Rcctipls for t lie Bugle for I lie week ending Jlaril.
j David J. Bowman, Xenia,
$2,00 3 15
l,00-ol7
C;V520
1.00-503
James Uonlon, v afhlngton.
James Pattison, Green Village,
Lucinda French, Austinburg,
ANNUAL
ANTI-SLAVERY CONVENTION.
IN CINCINNATI. OHIO.
To be held on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
the 25th, 26th and 27th days of April,1855.
nml WomCn t0 "n'la'"1 t"i1, t,'eilti"S 'hem with bar
ed ' ,,!irou8 cruelty, and robb'ng them of every right;
j but forcing men who supooso they aro "frco and
equal." to bo participants in outrages, shameful to
.- in n- i , ,
Ma Christian and Republican peoplo such ns the
Another year, in tho middle of the Nineteenth
Century, has rasfed awnv. nnd is ndded to ll n bis
torv of the nation
And the duty of tho faithful historian will rc
nu i re him to record, that still, nearly a tlxth n.irt
! of the people remains in tho most abject slavery,
i . ci i .
! 1 hat slid tho Slave Power rules paramount in
j the Policy, in tho Religion, and in the Business of
' mo country : and it constantly crows more onnres-
sivo and exacting ; not only driving colored men
"epcai ol tuo .iiissouri compromise, tho passage
of a Fugitivo Slave Act, the plundering of Mexico I
tho Annexation of Texas, and many similar inf.
quitics.
Wo hope and trust that this is not to be always
so !
Therefore we entreat all who adore God, and who
lovo Truth, Justice, and Humanity, to como to.
gether to ounsel, and to dowse peaceful, but effec
tual ways and me-.i.a for the abolition of this no
cursed tyranny.
So that the Republic may, in truth, approach
much nearer to the glorious position of a Model
Government than it has yet attained, and mankind
havo causo to rejoice.
Let us, then, assemble, nnd do what in us
lies' to help arouse tbo nation from its fatal loth
'"Ay-
Distinguished ndvoc.-.tcs of th's great movement,
from various parts of tho country, aro expected to
take part in the Convention. Honest differences
of opinion, as to the host means of accomplishing
tho groat object, may exist ; but in this wo seo no
sufficient reason to hinder Anti-Slavery peoplo of
every grade, sex, or color, fr..m acting zealously
rbgcther against the common evil ; n:ul wo earnest
ly invito tho hearty co-operation of all.
On bahalf of tho Exccutivo Committco of the
Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society of Cincinnati.
C. DONALDSON, Chairman.
COMMITTEE.
Snrak Oli.i Ernst.
Flizulelh T. Coleman,
Andrew II. Ernst,
Mary Deli raw,
John Jolt iflt;
Fdirnrd JJaiuocd,
Chrisinn Donaldson.
lluiry B. Blackwdl,
Mini Mann,
Julia Jlartcnod,
Seth Foxier,
Kcsiut Fmery,
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