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TUB VOICE OF FREEDOM,
POETRY
The following lines are from the pen of our esteemed
friend John Scoble of England. El.
From the Liberator.
LINES,
Addressed to Mrs. S , in England, by her hus
band, from Demerara, in the year J 836.
Thy memory, like music, steal
Into my heart, and there reveals
Within its dearest, chief recess,
Thine image in its loveliness:
Such as thou wert in virgin prime,
Ere tnuch'd by sorrow or by time;
Model of beauty and of grace,
With Heaven's own imprint on thy face,
Severe in sanctity and truth,
For piety had hallowed youth;
Yet gentle, placable, and mild
In temper as a little child.
Fragrent as flowers wert thou to me,
And wilt, dear love, forever be.
But what though time has touch'd thy brow,
And dimm'd the lustre of its snow;
But what though Sorrow's pointed dart,
Hath sometimes smote thy gentle heart;
Vet thou't more beautiful to me
Than in thy youthful majesty;
Yet thou't more dear than in the hour
When first I felt thy magic power,
I see thee now fill up thy place,
With all a wife's a matron's grace,
With all a Christian's zeal and care
Example lovely as 'tis rare:
And my heart blesseth thee the while
I mars, thy freedom from all guile:
O, may thy children ever prove
As greatly good as thou, my love! S,
TO THE SAME,
On the return of their fourteenth wedding-day in 1836.
Life were a dark and weary pilgrimage,
Uncheer'd, uublest by woman's radiant smile:
'Tis here its toil and tedium to beguile,
And shed a lustre over youth and age.
A woman's love how tender and how do.ir:!
A womun's love how faithful and sincere!
Helpmeet for man, unmurmuring, she bears
His waywardness and folly, and with tears
And looks, more eloquent than speech, reprovos,
Refines and elevates the man she loves!
O best of women! much to thee I owe
A home of bliss, and warm affection's glow;
And, as the treasures of thy heart are mine,
The tribute of my dearest love be thine. S.
AUTUMN.
Sweet Sabbath of the year, ,
When evening lights decay,.
Thy parting steps, methinksl hear,
Steal from the world away.
Along the sunset skies
Their glories melt in shado
And the things we fondly prize,
Seem lovelier as they fade.?
A deep and crimson streak,
The dying leaves disclose; -As
on consumption's waning chee';,.
'Mid ruin, blooms the rose.
Thy sear each vision brings,.
Of beauty in decay ;
Of fair and early faded things,.
Too exquiset to stay;
Of joys that come no more;
Of flowers whose bloom is fled."
Of farewells wept upon the shore;
Of friends estranged or dead ;
Of all that now may seem,.
To memory's teariul eye,'.
The vanish 'd beauty of a dreamy.
O'er which I gaze and sigh.
MISCELLANEOUS
Webster in England.
Our towering countryman is now at the world's
capital and centre, free there alike from the as
saults and flatteries of base party, and' free- from
its operations in his own lofty spirit.. He can act
himself to some extent in London, and they can
give him grand occasion. They have not seen a
bigger man there since the Norman ' conquest, to
go back no farther. He has given them, one
slighttaste of his oratory, at the agricultural dinner,
where 3000 farmers of England sat down together
in the old hall of Oxford. Exter Hall," however;
is the place for him to speak, or would be, if he
were only an abolitionist. If he had only the soul
of liberty in him, there would be the place for him
to eclipse even Brougham, Thompson and Q'Con-
nell, for we feel that? in strength and msjesty of
speecn, our great orator could go beyond them all.
But this he lacks. Politics has laid her paralyz
ing hands upon his heart. He
" Born for the Universe narrowed his mind;
And to parly gave up, what was meant for mankind."
Webster is not a narrow pa rtizan. Far from it.
But he is a statesman and a patriot, and that nar
rows down his eagle spirit to politics and" to coun
try. He cannot say with Garrison, " my coun
try is the world, my countrymen are all mankind."
ebster can speak gloriously on any other sub
juct but emancipation. On that, which is now
the paramount theme among the nations, he is
doomed to utter silence. He has had mighty oc
casions, but let them slip. Once in Faneuil Hall,
when old Mr. Harrison Otis tore down the flagol
humanity where it hung floating abroad over lib
c'ty'sraalPi Webster might have rushed in there
then, like the Black Knight at the passage of Arms
at Ashby; and restored it to its place.. But he
was either false on tho question,, or mistook the
magnitude of the occasion.. Again, when Calr
hour) insulted the world and liberty, by his tyrant
resolution! in that prostituted Senate hall'.. Then
Webster should have spoken out for emancipation.
Ki4ho thought the time had not come, or that the
negro wa.s not a man. Mistaken statesman. It
was the tjdfl tine of his history, and he should have
takn it then "at the flood." It would have "led" him
" on to" glory and immortality, if not to " fortune."
He temporized and was silent, Again he should
hart burst forth, for indignation, if nothing high
er, when Presto'i threatened to assasinate the old
riffht ofsneeeh before the Senate and the country
both of whom sympathize in the threat which made
it meet that Webster should nonce n on me jm,
fmlmrle him to sneak. Now
nnothpr occasion oifcrs. What the world woul
reckon an occasion, and perhaps, for a politician
u ; nn Hp nnver can be an abolitionist. Iiu
ho mnv vet. honorably perhaps with the worl
tnkp sides, at this late day and in England, with
universal emancipation. He is in an anti-slavery
rouotrr away from the spurious reoublic amon
Englishmen. He breathes the atmosphere that
surrounds O'Connell and Thompson, and that vi
brutes with their agitations for liberty. He is
the neigborhood of Brougham and E.xter Hall.
He is hors du combat in the presidential! aren
here, and may see expediency in starting anew
view of the future political strength of anti-slave
ry among his countrymen. How far ahca.tr tha
inav lie, before it shall take a controlling hold of
the land, in his ken, we cannot conjecture, thougl:
he once remarked, wo were told, that the election
of the country would one day and shortly be d
termined by it. If the Presidency were in th
gift ofanti-sla very, & approval with the " property
and standing of the conntry were in its gilt also
(for Webster would not intrigue lor office merely
like Van Burcn or Clay) it would tempt him to
spread his sail to our breezes, and bravely would
he have sailed before them, lor he was bom and
and bred a freeman, and the speech of anti-slave
ry would mrghtily have become his tongue
Inow, at any rate, is his occasion, if ever, now jn
England, where the assembled world would hea
lim. Oh, that he were so circumstanced that.he
could speak for liltrlv ! How it would enflam
O'Connell, to hear him ! and the terrible Brough
am, iiow he would labor to surpass hnnsell to re
lain his supremacy in the eyes of Europe, whic
would be shaken, were W ebster to speak there, i
ns illimitable strength. And the gallant and gor
jeous young Ihompson, he would blaze with en
kindled glory, till the stately American, who knew
lam not here, should darken with shame
his country s mlamy, and deeply reproach him
self, tuat he had not recognised, defended and hon
ored the perilous young stranger in his own land
but it may not be. Webster is a. statesman. II
never can trend the platform of philanthropy. I
is unbecoming a statesman to feel and have sym
paihy. He is too wissand grave to experience ex
citement, unless perhaps the sublime excitement
of politics. Agitation is beneath him, all but ag
ilation of contested election, of the game' for pow
er. Herald of Ircedom.
From the Marion (Ohio) Visiter.
A Disgraceful Occurrence. Tuesday morn
ing last presented a scene of confusion and excite
mcnt never before witnessed in our peacful village
It appears that a negro, well known by our citizens
by the name of Hill, was some tune since taken
up as a runaway slave from Virginia, and lodged
in the jail of this county for trial. On Monday
the day for his trial, we discovered an unusua
number of persons assembled to hear the result
the house was crowded to overflowing. The
witnesses were examined, and counsel heard : the
Judge, however, reserved his decision till the fol
lowing morning.
It being the first day of the sitting of the Court
of Common Pleas, a great mass ot people was as
sembled. At ten o clock, A. the court was
called (the house was literally crowded,) to hear
the decision of the Judge, which occupied at least
40 minutes in delivering, during which, the great
est order prevailed ; but as soon as the Hon. O,
Bowen had finished by declaring the prisoner free
all was conlusion, riot and disorder. As soon as
the decision was ended the pretended owners seiz
ed the prisoner : the bystanders resisted and en
deavored to rescue him, declaring him to be free,
and desiring them to let him run at large, but the
Virginians still maintained their position by force,
and presented pistols, bowie knives, dirks, &c
threatening the lives of all them who would lay
hands on them or the negro, and all this in open
court. Uur citnzens and friends ot the couuty
stood out in. defence of our trampled and insulted
laws which were thus set at defiance.
In this scene of confusion the negro was taken
lown stairs nnd dragged by his captors through
the streets. Those who forced him onward were
armed with pistols, bowie unives and dagc
At this unusual and horrible sight, the populace
became enraged and attacked them with stones
and whatever missies they could get hold of ;
they at length succeeded in getting him into one
of our justice's offices, and there guarded him (as
is stated) for a new trial. Jielore the door ol the
office the excited multitude assembled, demanding
justice and the negro, but all of no avail, the en
trance was guarded with pistols aud bowie knives.
At this time the sheriff arrived and begged to be
heard, and requested the mob to be dispersed, but
this was also ol no etlect. At length the cry lor
the public arms Was made, the nrsennl broken
open, and-the arms omaineu, wnicn presented n
horrible spectacle, iho excited populace under
arms still demanding entrance, which was refused.
All the otders of the sheriff and court to restore
Order seemed to be of no effect. Pistols and bow
ie knives were all the law. .
At lenrrlh one of the associate Judges, (Judge
Anderson) left the bench, aud in defiance of cock
ed pistolsnnd flashing steel, forced his way into
the office, after which others followed,, and burst
open the back door, by which mean3 the negro
made his escape. He had run but a short distance,
when he was overtaken by his pursuer who threat
ened with presented pistol, to shoot him if he did
not stop. At this time a number ot the enraged
multitude fell upon the persuer and knocked him
own ; another who came to his assistance shared
the same fate. The confusion continued until or
ders were given to arrest the rioters. During the
arrest of the rioters, the negro made his escape
and has not since been heard of.
We would further remark that the rioters (we
believe eicht in unmher) were the same day ar
rested, and recognized to appear from day to day,
under bonds of $600 each.
" Ruin and Starvation!"
The following, from the British Emancipator,
tells its own story.
Every fact which presents itself in relation to
the great experiment of negro liberty goes to. con-
radict and stupily the passionate denunciations of
the planters- Five months of the year 1938 were
passed in freedom ; and we have heard nothing
but loud and incessant outcries of deficient labor,
neglected cultivation, ruined estntcs, nnd beggard
proprietors. " 1 he official returns will show, '
said these angry gentlemen, " the justice of our
complaints." Very well. The official returns
for 183S are made out, and we find in the Colo-
nial Gazette the following abstract from them, so
far as relates to the staple imports from the West
India and Mauritas in 1S38, as compared with the
two preceding years :
1S36
Sugar Cwts. 4,099,093
Molasses " 526,535
Rum Galls. 4,870-473
Coffe lbs. 18,922,611
Cotton " 1,734,337
Cocoa " 1,612,301
1837
3,843,866 '
576,097
4,412,971
15,577,956
1,640,427
1.S74.145
183S
4,124,862
637,407
4,642,203
17,639,280
1,528,296
2,119,637
the above
The quantity of sugar included in
figures, imported from each of the principal colo
nies was
Barbadoes
Jamaica
Trinidad
Guiana
Mauritius
1S36
273.42S
1,054,042
312,141
1,077,843
497,302
1837
445713
903,933
295,367
913,38S
537,455
1&3S
473,587
1,053,1S
286,247
635.300
606,019
.Our contemporary observes very justly, that
"there is nothing of these quanties that would in
dicate the progress ofa great social change affect
ing the relative condition of employers and labor
ers." On the contrary, from all that appears here,
it might be supposed that the negroes were" still
apprentices, or even slaves. But most especially
it is to be observed that, in the funny island of
Jamaica, the cultivators of which seem to go by
ihe rule of contrary, and to bellow out their com
plaints just in proportion to their good fortune,
the suar exported in 1S38, exceeds, by nearly
150,000 cwt., the export of 1S37 ! What a vol
ume of commendation is this for the system of
free labor, and the character of ihe emancipated
peasantry !
From the Herald of Freedom.
The African Prisoners,
We are inclined to treat their case as an nboli-
tionist, rather lhan as an inquirer into their liabil-
ties under the rules and regulations of this slave-
holding country called laws. As an abolitionist
we say, defying contradiction, that they ought not
or a moment to be kept under duress. 1 he whole
proceedure against them from king Sharka down
ihrough the dignitaries of Cuba to Andrew Sharka
Judson is all of a piece. It is pro-slavery violence
all of it. This is what we lake notice of. We
shall not trouble ourselves or our readers to so
through the legal authorities or arguments bear
ing on the case ef these imprisoned men. If they
would treat them as they do white men,' we don't
I . I T . Ill I It
so much care-as to tne result. ltieir lives are as
important and no more so, lhan any other equal
number of human beings, of the great multicolor-
eJ and dispersed family. We look to see what
hand slavery has in disposing of them, and to make
what use we can of the whole occurrence against
the infernal institution of slaveholding. And tho'
we feel no small interest in the heroic Cingues,
we don't claim that he have his life and his rights
merely because he is a hero or a master spirit, but
because he is a man. Had he been ever so cow
ardly or ever so imbecile in mind or spirit, we
should be equally strenuous and more so in his be-
hali, for it is the poor and feeble brethren of our
race of whose rights we ought to be most tender.
We are aware that a good deal of enthusiasm
displayed by the pro-slavery press is based upon
any thing rather than justice and a love of the
right. It forgets Cingues' color in admiration of
i t i i i i i
ins valor and nis talent anu personal prowess
lint all this will evaporate by and by, when we
call on it to carry out tne leeling in behalf of three
millions of Cingues' brethren and sisters, who are
now weltering in the slough of slavery in thi
country. Why don't this sympathy rise for them
W ho shall kindle at the wrongs of Cingues and
sneer at the infinitely greater sufferings of the
plantation ? If they hang Cingues, they won
defeat him of the chief object of his rising. He
rose for liberty. He has got that, and if he dies
he dies a freeman. Liberty will be cheaply pur
chased by death. Death is infinitely lighter than
slavery. lie loses his country, his sweet home
hisdearwife and children. His heart Will be
with them
' There where his rude hut by tho" .Viger "Uy.
There were his young baiharians, all nt piny,
And there their" Afrit " mother, 1 la llmir air
Butcher'd to make a" Yankee " holiday."
lint they won t hang him. Weiuc It'iii'lul lhy
won't try him. The sorcrcignti of Culm i,i nm
king application to Van IJuren to deliver up '"IS
stray property. See if he will incur the frown ol
the South, and hazard the bauble of the presidrn
cy by refusing. Try them and acquit nnd treul
them as innocent men, or as mun, tho country
won't dare do, unless in this moment of excite
ment and conquered for the hour hy Cingues' Wil-
mm I ell prowess. How could we look the houth
n the face after it? Abner snid to! AmiIicI, "How
then shall 1 hold up my face to Joab thy brother ?
What will become of the Union ? The South
would get together in the Rotunda at Charleston,
and wiin liaminir speecnes irom uainoun ana
Preston, disolve it into non-entity; They would
stare at the ISorth so fiercely, that it would go in
to dough-faced hysterics. They won't dare ac
quit. And to condemn will be a delicate mat
ter. Counsel are engaged who will be compelled
V their oaths to unfold the whole law, and to
how forth their right of acquittal by our own Ven-
tian justice, and the full reasons ofacquittal will
be recorded and the nation will read it, and the
blood of the murdered Cingues will cry in ears
hat were deaf as the adder to the voice -of Love-
ov s. inev win nardiv dare nan?. Uubawi
relieve the republic. She will ask her imperial sis
ter for her slaves. She will get them. The brave
Cingues crosses the gulf-stream once more, and
hould God not open to his mighty eenius some
second way to victory and liberty, or his unwary
tyrants slacken his chain, so that he might bouud
ndignantly over the vessel s side, and escape them
n the depths of the ocean, they will revenge upon
him the daring effrontery that raised hand against
the divine prerogative of mastery. They won't
attempt to get him to the plantation. They have
o fancy to undertake reducing him, breaking him,
making his Hannibal form handy in the reptile
arnes.. JNo overseer would covet the vtanage-
mant of him. He would as soon hnrness the
Unicorn" to " harrow the vallies after" him.
He would gladly swap Cingues for almost any
pro-slavery editor in the New England states, nnd
pay that boot which is due to that servility of spir
it that would make a slave. No, they would sive
is more docile and submissive companions for
the plantation, but they would make of the gallant
ero a signal example of slaveholder's vengeance
which knows no bounds. Those laughing Afric
girls would be reared to adorn by and by Don Jose
liuez's haram, that young gentleman, who so in
terested the New London editor, and the United
States naval officer. He would undoubtedly re
quite these republican sympathisers, should they
hereafter visit his Cuba plantation, with all sorjs
of hospitality.
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If desirable, we can send you several other certificates of
cures effected by the use of your Pills.
We remain yours, &c.
Cheseuhough & Leonard.
Second Letter from Dr. Eaton, dated Brookfield, Ms.
March Ztf, IS3SJ.
Dr. Phelps Dear Sir Your Pills are in great demand.
I have but a few on hand : no one who has taken them but
are perfectly satisfied with their beneficial effects in remov
ing disease, however long standing. I shall be at Hart
ford about the loth of next month, and I will bring with
me a number ot certiorates frm persons of the first rcs-
pectanimy, oi cures which they have pertormed, some
ten, twelve and of twenty years standing. The one las
mentioned is a Mr. Luther Stowell of South Brookfield
who has had a carious ulcer of a most formidable kind and
has never been one day without bandaging his leg from the
oot to the knee. His certificate I shall bring with me.
Please send me six dozen boxes more, on the receipt of
this, and oblige, Yours, &c.
J. E. Eaton.
CTFor a full account of this most interesting discove
ry, testimonials, mode of operations, &c., see pamphlets,
which may he had gratia of all who sell these Pills.
None are genuine without the written signature of G.
R. Phelps, M. D., sole proprietor, Hartford. Conn.
CAUHON. Hie unprecedented popularity of these
Pills has induced several persons to prefix the name of To
mato Pills to their various preparations, evidently with the
mention of Deceiving those enquiring for 1 helps Tomato
Us. Ihe Public cannot be too cautious to avoid all these
anomalous ' xomato mis ana - extracts ot J omato, nor
too particular to observe that the original and only genuine
Compound Tomato Fills, are signed by the Propricter,
G. Ji. PHELPS, M. D., Hartford, Conn.
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AGENTS.
Brandon, Dr Hale.
Jamaica, L Merrifield, Esq.
Hubbardton, WC Denison.
Norwich, Sylvester Morris.
Hartford, Geo. Udall, Esq.
Tunbridge, Hervev Tracy.
Strafford, W Sanborn, Esq.
Barnet, L P Parks, Esq.
Worrigfotcn.Rev S Robinson
Momsville, L P Poland , Esq.
Cornwall, B t Haskell.
Craftsbury, W J Hastings
Westford, R Farnsworth.
Essex, Dr J W Emery.
Uunderhill, Rev E B Baxter.
Barnard, Rev T Gordon,
East Barnard, W Leonard.
Walden, Perlcy Foster.
Starksboro', Joel Battey.
St. Albans, E L Jones, Esq,
Rutland. R R Thrall, Esq.
Roualton. Bela Hall, C CI
Carter.
Danville, M Carpenter.
Glover, Dr Bates.
St. Johnsbury, Rev J Morse.
Middlcbury, M D Gordon.
Cambridge, Martin Wires. '
Bristl, Joseph Otis.
Hinesburgh, John Allen.
Berkshirt, Rev. Mr. Gleed.
Derby, Dr Richmond.
Perkinsville, W M Guilfori
Brookfield, D Kingsbury Est
Randolph, C Carpenter, Esq'.
East Bethel, E Fowler, Esq.
Waterbury, L Hutchins,Esq
E S Newcomb.
WailsfieXd, Col Skinner.
Moretown, Moses Spofford.
Warren, F A Wright, Esq.
Waterford, R C Benton,Esq
East Roxbury, S Ruggles.
Fcrrisburgh, R T Robinson.
Vergennes, J E Roberts.
ll'estfield, O Winslow, Esq.
Corinth, Insley Dow. i
Willtamstown, J C Farnsm,
Chester, J Stedman, Esq.
Springfield, Noah Safford.
Franklin, Geo S Gale.
Waterville, Moses Fisk, Esq.
Hydepark, Jotham Wilson.
Elmore, Abel Camp,
Hinesburgh, W Dean.
Hut hngton, u A Allen,
Montgomery, 3 Martin.
jLtneoln, Benj Tabor.
Calais, Re. Benj Page. . '
M4owrv, W A Williams.
Pomfrtt, Nathan Snow,
Johnson, Elder Byinfion.,