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THE VOICE OF FBE ED O M .
classes in the nation. Liberty lias faded away in
their minds into a lifeless abstraction. The re
public has lost its " vital principle." Republican
ism is dead. It has perished in the hot and Siroc
co breath of slavery. We have to this fact, what
Finkney lacked in his sagacious visions of the fu
ture, " the evidence of our senses." Where
among us do we discover any vestiges of vitality
in this young republic, that 11x1.1, and whose forms
still stand before our eyes ? Who among us now
thinks that " reverence for liberty" or even a de
cent respect far it, or patient endurance of its ap
peals, is essential to republicanism? On whom
amidst our Congress full of patriots, has the free
mantle of Maryland Pinkncy fallen? In the
yhole South on no one. Thomas Morris of the
Senate has been lashed by the cart whip of the
peculiar institution" into a sort of political slave
'insurrection-r-fpr Morris we believe is not yet a
technical abolitionist." Slade and Adams of the
House have made some demonstrations of liberty.
But Slade is stronirlv urced on by the Green
Mountain democracy sequestered where it is in
some of the verdant glens of Vermont, above slave
ry high water mark. Adams has been forced in
to a defence of the abstract right of petition by a
press of personal circumstances by personal ex
perience of the daring insolence of the slave sys
tem, which is bold to light down on the back of ex
presidency itself if it come from a non-slave region.
Slade is no " technical abolitionist" we understand,
Vermonter though he be. And Adams had to
mitigate his assertion of the old right of petition,
by his preposterous salvo that he is against the
immediate termination of slavery in the national
district.
Clay asks the presidency, because he reveren
ces slavery and not liberty. -Van'Buren gets
it again because he has a deeper show of rever
ence than his southern rival. And in this theory
the wily politician isno doubt in earnest. His awe
and homage for slavery are no pretence. What
ever other seeming he may put on, there is no
' seems" here.
And Webster sits mute and toungue-bound,
while liberty is murdered and mangled around him.
Loud as the tempest in defence of the " colossal"
immaterialities of party, he is hush ns fear ,
hush as death, while fair freedom is cloven down
by assassins before his face. Slavery has breath'
ed its death damp upon his mighty northern spirit
Oh they are all subdued and subjugated to the
system.
Go to the stern old Bunker Hill city of Boston
and see how little is left of the spirit of revolution
ary independence there. How deserted is it of
enthusiasm for liberty. That home of the old
na.oes of Otis and Adams the Warrens, the
Hancocks and the Quincys. The press, the pul
pit, the bar, the noble art of healing which once
had its anti-slavery Rushes in the land now all
chop-fallen, dumb or insultingly vassal in spirit.
Old Faneuil Hall echoes to no cry but the cry of
good fat beef along the butcher s stalls of its base
ment and foundation. Boston goes to Faneuil
Hall not to get something for dinner, instead of
gathering there as of old to catch the inspirations
of liberty.
The pride of the Boston bar the Masons, the
Fletchers, the Choates as undisturbed as their
cold dwellings at the loud cry of humanity. Deaf
and insensible to the glorious movements for lib
erty as those rows of towering abodes that frown
in iron trimmed brick and granite down upon the
green and embowered common. The surgeon
Warrens with nothing anti-slavery remaining
but the name slaute " nominis umbra" aristo
cratic beyond the utmost reach of anti-slavery
truth so high up that the wail of the slave can
never mount to their lofty hearing. The Blag
dens, the Winslows, the Frolhingham and the
Malcolms cold, repulsive and gloomy, as their
sombre Bowdoin street temples. The proud gates
of their Park streets and their St. Pauls barred
against anti-slavery as impassably as Beacon steeet
etiquette bars theraggedest plebian from the thres
hold of its good society, or as the granite of State
street bars the intruder from entering to meddle
with the " treasures there laid up on earth." But
humanity finds it an advocate in the obscure and
Harrow precints of Nassau Court, and room
for its convenings in the Chardon Street Chapel.
Honored places. Your obscurity will one day be
forgotten. Herald of Freedom.
Miaistcrs of the Gospel.
Let all who have joined the anti-slavery stan
dard the faithful men, who have encountered the
peculiar hazards of the ministry, at this day, de
clare Irfore their people this stern necessary ruth,
that religion and pro-slavery do no longer walk to
gether. If the times of ignorance on this subject
are ever to be past that they arc past. If to en
slave men to advocate their enslavement to per
seatfe those who plead for their deliverance are
ever to become criminal they are now so and
of a long time riave been so. Let them declare to
their people, with the bold explicitness of Peter,
that God coinmandelh all men every where in the
land, in this behajf, wis to repent.
It is time to preach a practical gospel. It is
time disciples of Christ were taught something
beside abstractions, and taught that they must dif
fer from his enemies in something beside ma
king long prayers and going to the communion
table. Obedience rather than sacrifice ; hear
kening, than the fat of rams. The Millenium
is coming let professors of religion prepare mi
lt, either as instrumentalities in its advancement,
or to get out of the way of its coming, lest the
eternal Car find us lounging on the track.
Let anti-slavery ministers preach to the people
not to the doctors, the judges, the generals and
honorables, the general courts, general conferen
ces, or general musters. They get no hearings
at any of these, or before any of these. If they
address these at all let it not be in hope of being
heard. They speak to a position incompatible
with impartial hearing. The unbought, single
heAted people, the men who drink cold water and
eat their bread by the sweat of their own brow
let anti-slavery appeals be made to them, by the
faithful prophets of the Lord, from pulpit, byway
side and at hre side. When Jurist was on eartti
He preached to the " common people," and they
" heard him gladly." Ho would so preach were
lie among us now. Let His ministers follow His
example. Scribes and pharisees in church and
state are joined to their rpride. Let them alone.
Lo we turn to the " common people," and if they
heed not our plea for liberty, then indeed has God
ordained that we are forsaken people, and has to
wards this our Jericho, other purposes than He
had toward Ninevah. We have faithfully done
wnat we could we nave nid the messengers
with the stalks of flax, aad have nothing more
that we can do but bind the scarlet thread in the
windows nf nnr linnsns nnrl nwnit the cominfT of
the aveinrin(r .Toshiin. And trul v the inhabitants
of the land will faint at his coming. Herald of
Freedom.
THE VOICE OF FREEDOM.
MONTrELIF.lt, SATURDAY, JULY 20, 18:19.
Kcclesiastics.
The General Associations of Connecticut and
Massachusetts, and the General Conference of
Maine bodies representing the Congregational
Churches in those slates have recently held
their several annual meetings. Whether we look
to the proceedings of these bodies, from year to
year, or consider the genera! tone of their period
icals, as indicative of the prevailing sentiment, we
are obliged to admit that the strong-hold of oppo
sition to Abolition is among the congregational
ministers and churches of New England.
We have before us the proceedings of each
convention referred to, so far as they suffered any
action on the subject of slavery.
in the Connecticut Association, the question
came up by a memorial from n minor body. The
question was treated in a mood bordering on lev
ity, and finally shuflled off by a vote to lay the
whole subject on the table.
In the Massachusetts Conference, although re
ports and resolutions relating to the more popular
enterprizes were promptly acted on, the published
proceedings, so far as we have seen, do not even
remotely allude to the claims of two and a half
millions of American heathen.
The General Conference of Maine met at
Brunswick, June 25. A convention of congrega
tional ministers and members was held on the
same day, to consider the subject of slavery. At
this convention, a committee consisting of Rev.
D. Thurston, Dr. Tappan, Prof. Smyth and Rev.
Silas McKean (formerly of Vt.) were appointed
to confer with the editor of the Christian Mirror
respecting his course on the subject of slavery, and
report next year.
The following resolutions, unanimously adop
ted by the Convention, were offered for the action
of the Conference, but in the genuine Athertonian
style, the whole subject was indefinitely postpo
ned, yeas 24, nays 19. The resolutions thus dis
posed of " without being considered, debated, prin
ted or referred," were as follows :
1. Resolved, That the gospel of Christ is a sys
tem full of tender sympathy for the guilty and the
afflicted, and that it is the appropriate and sacred
luty ot the churches, m their associate capacity,
' ta remember them that are in bonds as bound
with thcrn,' to open their mouths for the dumb,1
and to plead the cause of the poor and needy.
2. Resolved, That the practice of slaveholding
in these United States, by which nearly a sixth
part of its population, though like other men made
in God's image, and redeemed by the precious
blood of atonement, and invited by the word and
spirit of God to a participation of the purity, bless
edness and glory of the heavenly inheritance, are
deprived of all their rights as human beings, by
being held and used as articles of property, is a
heinous sin against God and against men; and
that this sin, like all others, ought to be immedi
ately repented of and abandoned.
3. Resolved, That the mental darkness and
moral degradation of our enslaved fellow country
men, their entire subjection to the will of their
masters, the withdrawal of legal protection from
their persons, pvitity, reputation and domestic re
lations, their being debarred from the means of
education, and denied the free exercise of religion,
give them a peculiarly strong claim to the sympa
thies, prayers and elforts of the churches for their
deliverance, that they may be enlightened, purifi
ed and saved.
It remains to be seen whether the General Con
vention of Vermont will 'follow in the footsteps
of its illustrious predecessors.'
It is related of Prof. Stowe, now of Lane Sem
inary, that while making his European tour some
years since, lie lound himself 111 Berlin, Hie duel
city of Prussia. Passing along the street one
morning, his attention was arrested by several
:aricature lithographs at the window of a print-
shop. The professor halted, little thinking he
was about to be introduced to a sketch from life
md manners in America: but so it was. The
picture represented a miserable, wo-be-gone slave,
crouching beneath the uplifted lash of an athletic
iron-hearted soul-driver, while, underneath the
whole was the key explanatory, thus : " A speci
men of Republicanism, recently imported from the
United States." The professor wanted to hide,
lie scud back to his quarters for the balance of the
day. This anecdote was brought to mind bv the
following paragraph, from the pen of a distinguish
ed English writer :
" The United States of America present to the
world one of the most extraordinary spectacles that
can be conceived of by the mind of man. They
are a huge moral and political enigma. We be
hold part of the population priding themselves on
the peculiar freedom of their institutions, and hol
ding the other part in the shackles of slavery.
They are a people who boast that they are pos
sessed of an " admirable system of public schools,
continually spreading into new stales ; hundreds
of academies; 70 or SO colleges ; numerous the
ological and medical schools ; 1,200 newspapers ;
S.000 or 10,000'temperance societies, with a mill
ion and a half of members; 15,000 or 20,000 sun
day schools, with their libraries and a million of
scholars, and taught by 120,000 of the best men
and women among them ; an evangelical minis
try of not less than 11,000 ministers of the gos
pel," and, which the writer omits to add, nearly
three million of slaves ! Alas, that a figure with
so goodly a bust, should terminate in the slimy
folds of ihe serpent."
To ministers of the (Jot-pelt
The Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery
Society, deeply impressed with the im
portance extending the circulation of the Ejian
cipatob, as the principal vehicle of anti-slavery
intelligence unanimously adopted the following
resolution, at n meeting held on the 2d July :
" Ilesolccd, That the Emancipator be offered,
gratuitously, for one year, to every preacher who
will deliver a lecture on slavery, and take up a
collection for this society, in his stated place of la
bor.
The Emancipotor is a large and handsome
sheet, edited with signal ability by Rev. Joshua
Leavitt. The subscription price to single subscri
hers is $2,50. No man who wishes to keep him
self acquainted with the sublimeat moral enter
prize of the age, and which addresses itself to the
moral, religious and political interests and rights
of fifteen millions of immortals, should be without
this paper. We hope that many, very many
preachers in Vermont, who feel hardly able to tax
themselves with the cost of a subscription for the
Emancipator, will avail themselves of the offer of
the committee. We would especially urge our
readers to bring the above resolution to the notice
of all clergymen who would not otherwise belike
ly to be apprized of the offer.
Address S. W. Benedict, 113 Nassau st., N. Y.
Weld's WorkHint to Delegates;
Ten thousand copies of Weld's " Sr.AVEKY as
it is," and as many more of "Jay's View," ought
lo be in the hands of the people of Vermont. Our
State Executive Committee expect soon to send
out a Book Agent, specially charged with the bu
siness of distributing these and other important
publications. But what can one, two or three
agents do towards a thorough distribution as rap
dly as is desirable ? The local societies and in
dividuals should make immediate arrangements
to procure these works as well as the Almanac for
1S10, at the approaching convention at Albany.
No work has issued from the anti-slavery press so
well fitted to do up the business of abolitionizing
the North as that tremendous book by Weld. Let
the delegates to the Albany Convention be prepa
red to make liberal investments. The people are
wailing for Weld's Book.
The papers announce that Mr. Clay has set out
on an excursion to the North intending to visit
the Falls of Niagara and Saratoga Springs. Hope
he may make it convenient to drop in at the anti'
slavery convention at Albany on the 31st. His
neighbor Morris, of Ohio, will probably be theTre
Gov. Ritner of Pennsylvania, and Thaddeus Ste
vens, it is hoped, will also be in attendance. By
the way, we had the pleasure of a brief interview
with the latter, a few days since, while passing on
to Caledonia county. He intends to be at Alba
ny on the 31st, if possible. It is rather remarka
ble, that Van Buren and Clay are to be in the
neighborhood of Albany, (probably at Saratoga)
on the 31st.
" Zion's Walchtower and Baptist Vindicator" is
the name of a neat monthly paper just commen.
ced by Ansel Warren, at Perry, Genesee co. N.
Y. The Watchlower promises to occupy an eta
vated moral position ; it will plead the cause of
the injured and suffering slave, in his physical
mental and moral degradation despoiled of his
earnings, of himself, and of the book of God.
" The want of an untrammclcd organ, to speak out
fully and fearlessly against the abominations of
slavery, and other crying sins, which are deeply
entrenched in the heart of the church, as well as
that of the nation, has long been felt by no incon
siderable portion of the 80,000 Baptists of the Em
pire Slate." Such an organ the new paper prom
ises to be. The taste and talent exhibited in the
first number give ample assurance that the paper
will be a valuable auxiliary in the cause of the
outcast slave.
The Correspondence
On our first page involves questions of vast and
vital interest to the Christian community. After
the lapse of three years, a minister residing near
the " court" of the Chronicle, deliberately attempts
to play Leonard Bacon in Vermont. The spirit
of intolerance shadowed forth in the letter of Mr.
Bliss was not unknown to the Robinsons and
B re waters of another age and country. But we
will not stop to comment on a letter so admirably
answered by one who partakes largely of the spir
it of the Pilgrims. Read the correspondence.
Windsor County. The Windsor County Anti
Slavery Society held a meeting at Felchville on
the 4th of July. The Secretary, Gen. R. Fletch
er, in a letter to the Telegraph, says:
" The exercises were, an address in the morn
ing, and free discussion in the afternoon. About
50 names were added to the constitution, and a
much larger number would have been obtained if
it had been presented at an earlier hour it was
deferred until a large part of the audience had left.
This 1 believe is a very frequent fault, in similar
meetings. But as associated, organized action is
the most effective action, all should be earnestly
solicited to identify themselves with this cause,
and thus stand forth the declared friends of free
dom and justice. The people on this occasion
hstened with deep interest, and seemed ready not
only to hear, but to embrace the truth in the love
of it. This is a striking characteristic of the day.
Our principles are rapidly spreading; our friends
are becoming confirmed as they are enlightened,
and thousands are rallying to pur standard. No
thing seems wanting but faithfulness, unity of ac
tion, and singleness of purpose, to effect a mighty
change in the public mind, and roll on the aboli
tion car to complete triumph."
Noah Safford, Esq. and Gen. Ryland Fletcher
were appointed delegates lo the National Conven
tion to bo held at Albany on the 31st insu
N Tension Agency,
Augustine Clarke, Esq., of this town, has been
appointed Agent of the U. S. Government for
paying pensions in Vermont ; and all the pensions
payable m Vermont are hercaiier to be paid at
Monlpelicr.
Supremo Court,.
In consequence of the illness of Chief Justice
Williams, the hearing in the case of Holmes is
understood to have been postponed from Wednes
day to Saturday (this day.)
Letter from Mr. Sccly.
Castlcton, Glh July, 1SP.0.
Bito. Knatt:
Being detained here a few hours in conse
quence of having lamed my horse, I will give
you a brief sketch of my labors and success, in be
half of the enslaved, since we parted on the 26th
ultimo at the close of our interesting conventional
session at Rutland. I spent the remainder of the
week among the friends of the slave, soliciting do
nations and pledges, and obtained in two half days
about 70 dollars. In this excursion I had some
opportunity to judge of the impression made upon
the public mind by the exercises of our Conven
tion ; and I rejoice in being able to assure our
friends that it was decidedly good, and that the
cause in that section is advancing. Anti-slavery
principles are not only spreading, but at the same
time, taking deeper root in many good and hon
est hearts, and springing forth and bearing fruit.
I went to Brandon Saturday eve, saw Rev. Mr.
Curtis, Congregational clergyman, and found to
my joy that the prospect was fair for obtaining
the privilege of speaking to the people on the Sab
bath, on the exciting subject of the salvation, tem
poral, spiritual and enternal, of three millions of
chattclizcd Americans, took lodging with our
good Bro. Ilolcomb, where I received a call Sab
bath morn from Bro. Curtis and Bro. Thomas,
Baptist clergyman, when the following arrange
ment was made, with apparent cordial unanimous
consent, viz. lhat 1 should preach A. M. lor bro.
Curtis, P. M. for Bro. Thomas, and at 5 o'clock
have a union meeting at the Baptist house, and
plead the cause of God's suffering children in bonds.
The congregations in both houses were large, and
just about equal ; I said enough upon the exciting
subject before the union meeting to let them all
know that I was as much opposed to slavery as any
body, and I have not learned that any one thought
the Sabbath desecrated thereby. At 5 o'clock, all
who had attended had reason to expect that the
peaker would literally " cry aloud" against the
sin of American slavery. The congregation was
large, the attention of all respectful ; the Lord
bless them all, and may his truth be found to have
made a lodgment in every heart, and soon produce
the fruits of righteousness to his glory and praise.
I now went from house to house to receive the
donations and pledges of the friends of humanity
to aid in the prosecution of the holy entcrprize,
which course furnishes the most favorable oppor
tunity for preaching the Heaven-descended doc
trines of immediate emancipation ; or, in other
words, immediate repentance and reformation, and
I can assure our friends that this blessed cause is
not only making a steady, but also rapid onward
march in Brandon ; I find that Bro. Murray's pa
per is very generally read in that vicinity, and it
evidently exerts a powerful influence in purifying
the moral atmosphere on this important subject
Une man told me he never had heard a sermon or
lecture upon slavery until I came there, but had
been an opposer of the anti-slavery enterprise, un
til quite recently he was converted to the faith of
Christ, and this as a matter of course opened his
heart to receive with all readiness the kindred
doctrine of immediate emancipation, and the seed
took root, sprang forth, and bore good fruit he
gave 10 dollars and his wife the same. Another
young man of kindred spirit made a liberal dona
tion, and while subsequently hearing the subject
discoursed, his warn, heart was moved to double
his pledge, and he resolved to do it by denying
himself the use of tobacco, and instantly cast away
the poisonous quid, and as soon as opportunity was
offered performed his vow. Another young con
vert to Christ, (until recently a resident of Cana
da) who had made a liberal pledge, rose and made
some pertinent remarks, and declared in the full
ness of his warm heart that, were he qualified for
the arduous work, he would at once consecrate
lis life to the service of .the enslaved in free Amer
ica, without fee or reward, until they were eleva
ted to their rightful rank of freemen, nnd I trust,!
with the smiles of Providence, his talents may, ere
long, be employed in the service of his Master in
some portion of his great moral harvest-field. On
Thursday, 4th of July, I went with Bro. Ilolcomb,
over the hills to Ilubbardton to attend the juvenile
temperance and sabbath-school celebration, and
truly, this was to me, a rich feast. The meeting
house was crowded, and overflowing, and not less,
probably, than one half were children and youth ;
having formed a procession and marched with mu
sic, to the house, Bro. Ilolcomb gave an excellent
temperance address, which was listened to with
marked attention. After which, the Baptist cler
gyman gave a splendid address, making a touch-
ingallusion to the condition of the oppressed in our
I land, who was followed by the Congregational
clergyman with a most interesting and thrilling
addressto the dear children and youth. And final
ly, the Agent of the Yt. A. S. S. was permillfd
to address this most interesting group of the rising
generation, and exhort them to appreciate and inv
prove their invaluable privileges, contrasting their
condition with three millions of Americans groan
ing under the most cruel servitude il.f. sun vnr
saw. The exercises were commenced with pray
er, and interspersed with excellent singing by the
choir. I never attended a more interesting cele
bration of the 4th of July. I returned and contin
ued my labors through the week, went to Whiting
and preached twice for Bro. Johnson, Baptist
clergyman, on the Sabbath; American Slavery as it
is, and the Gospel, or spirit of Christ, the only rem
edy, were thrown as fully before the people as the
ability of the speaker would admit ; and no one,,
to my knowledge, was driven from the house, or
in the slightest degree grieved or offended. My
dear Bro. made some remarks which were to my
heart as cold water to the weary fainting pilgrim ;
the Lord bless him with an hundred fold reward. '
Returned to Brandon and preached at 5 o'clock,
two miles from village, a full house and interesting
time.
Preached at East Haven Village on Monday,
attended the meeting of the Executive Committee,
at Middlcbury on Tuesday, preached in Goshen
on Wednesday, in Ilubbardton Friday, and went
to Rutland on Saturday, having obtained about 300
dollars in donations and pledges in Brandon, as
evidence of the genuineness of the abolitionism of
that town. Preached on the subject of my agen-.
cy in the Baptist house Sabbath, P. M. and at 5
o'clock in the court house. Good congregations,
and heard no complaint of the desecration of the
Sabbath, or that any man was slandered or abused.
Made some further collections on Monday, and
preached at West Parish at 5 o'clock, and although,
the rain descended in torrents, a good congregation
assembled, and I hope a good impression was made.
Started this morning to attend Association at Ben
son, and being detained, as before mentioned, with
a lame horse, I have improved the time in giving
this sketch of my three weeks' labor. Will send
you a list of contributions soon. If you think this
will encourage our friends, throw it into the Voice.
Yours in the cause of God,
JOAB SEELY, Agt. Vt. A, S. S.
For the Voice of Freedom.1
The N. II. Conference of the 31. E. Church
Closed its session at Sandwich, N. H., on tho
11th inst., having been in session eight days.
A more interesting session we never had. About
one hundred and forty ministers were present.
Much interest was felt for the various enterprizes
in which the Church is engaged all of which,
no doubt, received a new impulse at its session.
The cause of abolition, in particular, triumphed:
beyond the expectation of its most sanguine friends.
It carried all before it. But very few of the prea
chers were disposed to stand aloof from it : and
these few, instead of opposing, or throwing any
obstacle in our way, seemed rather by their looks
and actions to bid us God speed. The abolition
flame burned more and more, and shone brighter
and brighter, from the commencement to the close
of the session. The Bishop, it is true, admonish--ed
us at the close of the session, to beware of the
abolition excitement assuring us that it could d
nothing toward abolishing slavery. That man
could not abolish slavery : that God alone could
do the work ; and if we would see the work ac
complished, to pray much to God. Accordingly,,
the Conference voted unanimously to have a day
of fasting and prayer for this specific purpose. The
last Friday in September was the day fixed upon
to be observed by all our congregations through
out the Conference. They are expected to meet
at their usual places of religious worship on that
day, and unitedly to engage in prayer to Almighty
God, that He would break the iron arm of the op
pressor and let the oppressed go free ; that those
who are now trodden under foot, treated as the?
beasts of the earth, and reckoned as no people,
may be raised up from their low estate, and be
come the people of God enjoying all those privi
leges that are necessary to make them happy hero
and in the world that is to come. A memorial to
the next General Conference, praying for the ab
olition of slavery throughout the Methodist Epis
copal Church, was adopted by the Conference
nearly all voting for it, and none against it ; a few.
only "did not vote at all. Six delegates to the next
General Conference, all true abolitionists, wese
elected. We have three Conferences within the
New-England States-, all of whom have large ma-
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jontics 01 uDomionisis. iney nave an eiecieu
their delegates to the General Conference. They
are allowed one delegate to twenty-one members.
New Hampshire Conference has six, Maine six,
New-England seven, nineteen in all. And they
are all true abolitionists. What will be done by
other Conferences, remains yet to be seen. We
have, however, reason to believe that the cause of
abolition has nothing to fear from the doings of
the next General Conference.
GEORGE PUTNAM.
Middlesex, July 17, 1S39.
A colored man casually employed on board the
Maid'of Orleans, was wounded with a knife and
much beaten on Friday evening. The cause we
learn was his attempting to eat supper with the,
white " hands" on board. N. 0.t Pic.