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Liberty and Equality TJ n common ftirlrffffci, Cod' rrfe KiftR eliglo n and l,au their defence.
BY -POLAND & BRIGGS.
MONTPELIER, VT., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1845.
VOL, II,. NO. 51.
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Agricultural.
Far tht Green Mountain Freeman.
; The Potatoe Disease.
Messrs. Editors: As the potatoe rot has again
visited us th present year, and, as much has been said
and written upon the subject respecting the cause of i
itj, and as I have never read or heard any cause assign
ed for it that accorded with my views, I thought I
would pen a few brief remarks, which you are at lib
erty to place in your columns, or reject, just as you
. may see fit j , .f;
, v.ii have been informed that some gentleman or gen
tlemen of your village has offered a reward of fifty dol-
. 1-irs to any person who shall discover the real cause of
the rot; but I am not particular about, the reward, at
least until the scientific world shall have decided
whether the view here, taken of the subject is correct
I became satisfied, in my own belief, as to the cause
year ago this harvesting, and waa abont to give my
views to the public, when, on consulting with some
who were skeptical as to the correctness of them, and
being then satisfied that the rot would again visit us
this year, I delayed iill I could make further experi
ments; and having this year made further experiments,
it has resulted I think, to satisfy all who have witness
ed them, that the position here taken is the correct
one.
The cause, or rather causes of the rot, are two, viz:
1st High cultivation, or unnatural habit
2nd. Atmospheric.
Let us, firstly, then, reflect that the potatoe root, as
we are acquainted with it, iB not in its natural state,
but is in a cultivated, improved and bloated, and con
sequently tender, sickly state, and liable to diseases.
perhaps of various kinds. And secondly, let us re
flect, that causes, to produce effect, must always be the
result of combined principles, and that it lias long been
the opinion of men of science, that the cause of the
eweeping sickness which visit our planet, among man.
kind and domesticated animals, lies in the state of the
atmosphere; that the unnatural habits to which they
are subjected or accustomed, improve the constitution
and prepare it for those sweeping maladies when the
atmosphere is in a state to give the finishing stroke;
and I see no cause, physiologically, why the same
parity of reasoning will not as truly apply to cultivated
vegetables, whose babits are unnatural, as it will to
mankind and animals whose habits are unnatural; but
what impurities the atmosphere possesses, at such
times, or what principles are superfluous, or what ones
deficient, is wholly unknown to the writer.
I prepared, the last planting season, a potatoe field,
consisting of about three acres, divided into about three
equal parts, lying Bide by side, in the following way:
The first which I shall describe, was in a state of
. high cultivation, having been plowed and manured for
several years. The second was green-sward, broke
up in the spring, on which I put a middling coat of
manure. The third was green-sward, prepared like the
second, but without any manure, it having had none
. far about ight years, and having been cropped by
mowing through that period of time; and on the whole
I planted potatoes. The first of these was badly ef
fected by the rot; the second, somewhat, but less than
the first; tho third, very slightly, only at the root.
The tops of the whole field were equally effected by the
" igna which precede the rot at the root. This proves,
very conclusively, I think, that the above conclusions
respecting the rot, are correct, and by taking off the
, -richness of soil which has, in the course of time, brot'
the potatoe to its high state of perfection, we can avoid
the rot, or at least some of it, though, in such case, the
crop will be but light; and it is to be remembered that
there is the hereditary principle of disease in the seed
nd atmosphereic causes yet to be overcome.
That one of the principal causes of disease lies in
: the atmosphere, is proved by the fact that the top, or
vine, is first to be effected, and often shows the sign
- of the rot while the root holds out to be free from it.
And again, potatoes most effected are those exposed to
the action of the atmosphere, growing or ly
ing in the earth, or those coming in contact with un
mixed animal or vegetable manure, which keeps the
earth loose and light, lets in the air, which produces
. the animalcule which probably constitutes the rot;
' And further, that all cultivated vegetables, the present
' year, are more or less effected with the same principle.
Newly cleared lands are more inclined to the rot, or
at least, as much so as old, richly manured lands.
Specimens of the rot were always to be seen on such
lands previous to its general appearance in 1843. The
old English whites, as they are called, have always
.shown signs of the rot it being the highest cultivated
variety species we have; the red spots on them be-
' ing the first stages of the rot I know that there
is always prejudice in the public mind to combat in the
discovery of any such philosophical truth. Yet I have
no doubt but in the course of time, sooner or later, the
scientific world will accord with the above taken views
of the subject SIMEON FARNSWORTH.
Walden.Oct'6, 1845.
Since writing the above, I have seen an editorial
from the National Intelligencer, stating that a scienti
fic Frenchman had discovered that the rot in potatoes
Was owing to a vegetable mushroom penetrating the
"potatoe, &c. The searchers after the cause of the rot
' nustake effects for causes.
Anamilcuke, vegetable rmishrooms,maggot, or worm
in the vine, rust, &c, are all effects, or different ap
pearances of disease not the cause of disease : the
results of disorder not the cause of it S. F,
Peace Department.
For the Green Mountain Freeman.
Scraps
of Useful Information,
COURSE TVO. 2.
. ) r.-'. . .
The king of England took from the pockets
rof his lubjects $4,000,000,000 to replace the
Bourbons on the throne of France. The inter
est of this sum, at 5 per cent, would be $200,
000,000 .'annually ; which would go so far to
.place Jesus Christ on the throne of this aliena
ted world, as to support a standing army of 400,
000 missionaries of the Gospel in pagan lands,
and christian lands paganized by systems of
grinding oppression and moral degradation. The
interest of the money thus wrenched from the
partf, lean hands of the toiling people of Great
$raio, would (bui!4 ' 10,000 miles of . railroad
every year : until .the habitable globe were inter.
tf8r"m, VP )'ghways for the nations. The
trnpufli pi ormcipaiji aiviqea, among me jsi,.
" 00bjSia!ta''Qf JGurope, would put
69 into' the hands of every individual!
The debt of the Netherlands, contracted, as
all national debts are, to meet the expenses of
war, past or prospective, amounts to $665,000,
000. To liquidate this debt would require a
tax of three dollars and twelve and a half cents
on' every inhabitant of Europe, and 75 cents on
every individual on the globe. Divided among
the population of Holland, the share or each in
habitant would be $266. The wages of labor
ing men throughout the world probably do not
average 20 cents a day. Then, at that rate,
three thousand three hundred and forty millions
of hard-toiling sons of labor would have to work
one day in order to foot this war-bill of little
Holland !
Let every Englishman read this fact, and look
upon the hungry millions of his countrymen,
and ponder, feel and speak : During the year
1835, one of great commercial prosperity, the
value of all the British and Irish Produce and.
Manufactures exported from the United Kingdom,
was $208,437,980. The appropriations for
the payment of the interest of the British war
debt and for the support of the Army, Navy and
Ordinance, during the current year, amount to
$225,403,500!!! Think of that, all who love
humanity ! The war expenses, in time of peace,
exceeding, by nearly $20,000,000, all that the
human and iron machinery ofthat great kingdom
can produce beyond its home consumption !!!!
But let us end, if we do not begin, at home.
Let us assume the average price of cotton, at all
places of its exportation in the Union, to be 7
1-2 cents per pound. The crop of 1845 is es
timated at 872,000,000 pounds ; worth, at the
above rate, $65,400,000. In 1834, the capi
tal invested in the pioduction of cotton was
$800,000,000, and the value of the whole crop,
$76,000,000, at sixteen cents per pound. It
may then be fair to suppose that $1,000,000,.
000 have been thus invested in 1.845. The ia
terest ot this sum, at six per cent., amounts to
$60,000,000 ; which, being deducted from the
home value of the entire crop, leaves but $5,
400,000, clear profit of the business itself. Now
the appropriation to the U, S. Navy, for the cur
rent year, teas $6,350,789 !!! Let cotton grow.
ers ponder on this fact, and on another of vital
interest to themselves : A war, to prepare for
which, we are absorbing three fourths of the rev
enue of the nation, would annihilate at least half
of their capital now invested in the production
of cotton ; for they would find that $500,000,
000 of their money were invested in stock which
would not bring one cent on the dollar, in time
of war. "In case of war with England," the
function of our glorious little navy and of the
glorious great navy of Great Britain, would be a
mutual effort to destroy the commerce of both
nations, an interest which they own in partner
ship, amounting to $100,000,000 per annum,
of which raw cotton makes an item of $50
000,000 ! So all that our navy would do for
the cotton growers in such a war, would be to
destroy a market for Fifty Millions of Dollars
worth of cotton a year. E. B.
Worcester, Mass. Nov. 25, 1845.
My Country for a Sword.
Sometime ago we appealed to our military
irienas lor an old sword. It any ot thein have
such a tool, that has done the state some service
on training days, and will lend it to us we will
give it a christian name on our anvil. About
the first of January, there is to be a great Anti-
Navery f airjn i anueil Hall , where thousands
of things, bearing each the crown mark of Lib
erty, will be exhibited and sold. Hard, red,
horny fingers, and fingers like twigs of alabaster
ringed with diamonds, are at work for the slave,
and we would have a hand in that business too.
It may be a mere fancy of ours, but we should
affect much to stick the devil end of a sword in
to the fire and shape it into a pruning hook or
horse shoe, and then hang it up inFanueil Hall,
as an evidence of the possibility of welding
Christianity on to Paganism. Burritt.
SCIENTIFIC.
Process of Water Cure.
From Dr. Bulbirnie'i recent Engllib Work.
The Wet-Sheet or Lein-Tuih. This applica
tion is used for the two-fold purpose of increas
ing or diminishing the animal temperature; in
either case it is equally anodyne and antiphlog
istic; soothing aches and iiritation; removing
languor and fatigue; tranquilizing the pulse and
subduing fever. It opens the pores, favors cu
taneous transudation, and aids the elimination
of effete elements and morbid materials. Hence
the intolerable odor sometimes exhaled from the
Bheets; the thick coating of slimy matter with
which they are varnished; the debris smell, and
color of medicines and ointments long before
used deposited in them; and the eruptions that
soon appear upon the skin. The fluids repelled
from the surface by the first chill return with a
brisker circulation; the escape of caloric is pre
vented by the covering; and the moisture of the
sheets is converted into vapor. According to
the delicacy of constitution, and the feebleness
of the reactive power, the temperature of the
water and the weight of the covering must be
increased. The imbibition of water by the
body in this and the other processes is manifest
ed by very unequivocal symptoms. This origin
of the effect in question, in the wet sheet at
least, is a legitimate inference.
The wet sheet is Priessnitz's greatest discove
ry, and far outstrips all other therapeutical im
provements ever maae in tne neaiing art. i nis
is destined to be by-and-bye the universal do
mestic remedy used by mothers and nurses in
the outbreak of all illness; and will supersede
in nine cases in ten, both the employment of
medicine and the attendance of the physician,
With every water-cured person its efficacy will
be an article of faith that no argument will
stagger, and its practice in every emergency a
source of confidence that no authority will baft
He. Henceforth the name of Priessnitz will be
a household-word, and a grateful posterity will
embalm his memory. Few are ihe complainW
in young or old in which this remedy will riot be
hailed as one of the best boons ever given by
Heaven to suffering mortals, This language is
strong, and may be called enthusiastic. But
we appeal to those who hare tested the powers
of the wet-sheet fomentation, whether our meed
of praise is commensurate with its merits. In
weariness and watching in fatigue and cold
in restlessness and anguish in acute diseases
and in chronic ailments in fevers and inflama-
tions in shivered nerves and fretted brain in
worn-out stomachs and palsied bowels in irri
tated skin and broken bones in quelling mor
bid heat and soothing morbid sensibility iii the
quiet routine of home and the bustle of travel
abroad in infancy and in age in , the weak
and in the strong in cottages and in palaces
in courts and in camps in hospitals and in pris
ons in all climates and seasons shivering at
the poles, or scorching in the tropics, in ail the
multiform ilia that flesh is heir to the wet sheet
will be the first remedial resource pi the tick,
and the last earthly refuge of the dying. '
.The wet sheet is applied in the following
way; A very thick blanket is first spread upon
a mattress; a sheet of coarse linen is then
wrung out 'on a pole; this is smoothly spread
over the blanket; the patient then reclines at
full length, and has the sheet wrapped round
him, fitting it closely about the neck, and secure
ly covering the. feet. The blanket is then with
equal care tucked under the neck and shoulders,
the trunk and limbs of one side, and then of the
other. This "packing," which resembles a
compact bale of goods, is then completed by a
load of additional blankets and coverings, or
preferably by a down-feather bed, which is well
tucked in from the neck to the feet. In this
state the patient is allowed to remain from half
an hour to an hour. The first impression is
disagreeable, but it is only for a minute or two;
and is succeeded by a soothing freshness height
ening into a delicious glow; which would end
in perspiration if prolonged. On beiitg unpack
ed from" this envelopment, the patient, takes the
cold or tepid half-bath or full bath, and is well
rubbed in the water by an attendant for a Ignger
or a shorter time, himself assisting in the ope
ration. He then dresses quickly and goes out
to his customary walk and water-drinking.
This process is usually gone through the first
thing in the morning, and commences the daily
routine of treatment. It is repeated or not in
the subsequent parts of the day according as it
is indicated. The sensations of the patient will
often be the monitors for his extrication, and the
inducement for its repetition or cessation. When
the object is to quell fever, the sheet must be
changed every quarter of an hour or half hour,
or as often as may be necessary to bring about a
cool surface. When the due abstraction ofheat
and reduction of fever is effected, the patient is
then put into a slightly tepid bath, and well
rubbed.
If determinations to the head occur during
this process, cold applications to the scalp are to
be constantly renewed as they get warm. If the
feet or legs continue cold too long, they may be
kept out of the envelopment, and wrapped in
flannel.
The fallacy of catching cold from damp beds
was long ago sufficiently exposed by one of the
shrewdest and ablest practitioners of his day,
Dr. Heberden. The soundness of his judg
ment cannot now be questioned, as the innocu
ousness of such exposure is confirmed by all the
facts of Priessnitz's extensive experience, and
by those of his numerous followers.
Temperance.
Who is Guilty?
In a farming town, a day's ride from this city,
there lives a young man who recently, by the
death of his father, came into the possession of
property to the value of fifty thousand dollars.
He has good natural abilities, a fair education,
a lovely and excellent wife, one child, and every
thing which would seem necessary to happiness.
There is one fatal draw-back, however, he loves
liquor, and it is ruining him. His days are spent
with horse-racers, his nights with card-players,
and his constitution and property are rapidly lea
ving him. He knows his danger and feels his
degradation ; he has several times attempted to
stop drinking, and has signed the pledge of To
tal Abstinence, but the drunkard's appetite
gnaws his vitals ; the temptations to intoxication
surround him ; he is lured to the adjacent tav
ern for society or to transact bussiness ; the old
crew get around him, to take one glass and then
the demon possesses and tears him. Recently
his young and beautiful wife waited long in trav
eling dress his return to accompany her on a
long promised visit to tier relatives in tins city
at length her anxiety for him and for her child
conquered her repugnance to enter the haunt of
revelry and ante-chamber of ruin ; she went to
him and timidly begged him to return to their
desolate home. Her answer was abuse and
curses, with a reminder that that was no place
for woman. Alone she returned home, and will
probably remain there till blighted love, despair
and wretchedness shall consign ber to the grave.
Now this miserable husband and father feels
his degradation, and in his sober moments frank
ly confessess it, but says he cunnot help it. The
landlord is a fair man, and deplores the ruin
that is visibly taking place before his eyes, but
he says he cannot help it ; it is his business to
keep tavern and sell folks what refreshments they
want he is licensed to sell liquor, and his cus
tomers will have it. He dare not refuse re
freshments to so influential and respectable a
neighbor and customer as Mr. S. The poor
heart-broken wife Heaven knows she cannot
help it, or she would, even at the cost of her
life. But the People can help it, by enacting
a law like our State's New Excise Law, and
then voting in their several towns that no more
liquor shall be eojd. The cure can be wrought
in just this way, and in no other that we are
aware of. Men of . New Jersey ! will you not
have such a law this winter I Pennsylvania!
New Hampshire.! Michigan I what : say you ?
Legislators of New York 1 we demand equal
justice and equal laws for our City I Act early,
justly, ' decicivelyand you will save- from ruin
thousands of young men like him referred to in
this true statement. Tribunt.
THE FUSE-SIDE.
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A Parable for Little Girls.
Naomi, the young and lovely daughter of Sai-
athiel and Judith, was troubled inspirit, because
at the approaching feast of tiumpets, she would
be compelled to appear in her plain, undyed ste
la, whilst some of her young acquaintances would
appear in blue and purple and fine linen .of
Egypt. Her mother saw the gloom that appear
ed upon the face of the lovely child, and taking
her apart, related to her this parable. A dove
thus made her complaint to the guardian spirit
of the feathered tribe:
. " Kind genius, why is it that the hoarse-voiced
and strutting peacock spreads its gaudy
train to the sun, dazzling the eyes of every be
h''ler with his richly burnished neck and royal
twjwBb, to the astonishment and admiration, of
every passer-by, whilst I, in my plain plumage,
are overlooked and forgotten by all? Thy ways,
kind genius, seem not to be equal towards those
under thy care and protection."
The genius listened to her complaint and
thus replied.
" I will grant thee a train similar in richness
to that of the gaudy bird you seem to envy, and
snail demand ot thee put one condition in re
turn."
"What is that?" eagerly inqu'ued the dove,
overjoyed at the prospect of possessing what
seemed to promise so much happiness.
"It is," said the genius, "that you consent to
surrender all those qualities of meekness, ten
derness, constancy and love, for which thy fam
ily have been distinguished in all time."
" Let me consider," said the dove. " No I
cannot consent to such an exchange. No, not
for all the gaudy plumage, the showy train, of
that viin bird, will I surrender those qualities of
which you speak, the distinguishing features of
my family from time immemorial. I must de
cline, good genius, the conditions you propose."
"Then why complain, dear bird? Has Provi
dence bestowed upon thee qualities which thou
values! more than all the gaudy adornings you
admire? And art thou discontented still?"
A tear started in the eye of the dove at this
mild rebuke of her guardian spirit, and she pro
mised never to complain.
The beautiful girl, who had entered into the
story with deep and tender emotion, raised her
fine blue eyes to meet her mother's , gaze, and,
as they rolled upwards, suffused with penitential
tears, she said in a subdued tone, with a smile
like that assumed by all nature, when the bow
of God appears in the heavens after a storm
" My mother, I think I know what that story
means. Let me be your dove; let m but have
that ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, and I
am satisfied to see others appear in rich and gau
dy apparel."
A Fragmsnt. I saw a pale mourner bend
ing 'over the tomb, and his tears fell fast and of
ten. As he raised his eyes to heaven, he cried:
" My brother! O, my brother!"
A sage passed that way, and said: "For whom
dost thou mourn?"
"One," replied he, "whom I did not suffi
ciently love while living, but whose inestimable
worth I now feel."
" What wouldst thou do if he were restored
to thee?"
The mourner teplied, "that he would never
offend him with an unkind word, but would take
every occasion to show his friendship if he could
but come back to his fond embrace."
"Then waste not thy time in useless grief,"
said ,the sage; "but if thou hast friends go and
cherish the living, remembering that they will
soon be dead also."
What a lesson may be learned from this!
What is most ijf.au tiful ? Is it the vast
and mighty sun, revolving in immensity and giv
ing light and heat to unnumbered worlds around
it? Or in the words of another, "is it when its
rays gild the eastern horizon, after the darkness
of the mghi, and the landscape is adorned with lrjch in mS6( and white untothe harvest. WhowiI1
a thousand shades and colors; when millions of ; flnter ; anJ 1(lbor forChM? whowill give a por
insects awake and bask in .ts rays ; when U'e ;tion t0 who labor? Can any man be the friend
birds awake from their slumbers, and fill the L the oppr081je( who reru8e8) or even nPgiect8j t0 give
groves with their melody ; when the flocks and unt0 Ul0m the bread of jfe whe thoy are ready ,0
herds express their joy in harsher acclamations ; reccive it? It a poor rc)igion that Haith tf, tlie m
when man goeth fjrth to his labor and the
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rejoice on every side." Is it this? Or the moon,
pale empress of the nigl.t as she moves amid
the music of the heavenly spheres along her shi
ning path, pouring "her lustre on spacious cities
and lofty mountains, glimmering on the ocean,
the lakes and rivers, opening a prospect wide as
ii.e eye can reacn, which would otherwise be iu
volveum the deepest trloom ?"
Or is it the mild gentle stars, as, one by one,
they light up their brilliant lamps on high, and
gaze with unnumbered eyes of love, like senti
nels, over a sleeping world, where, perchance,
some lone watcher of the night, with heaven-directed
eye, marks their glorious beauty, and ex
claims, "What is man that thou art mindful of
him, or the sou of man that thou visitest him ?"
Is it the mighty heaving ocean, when its moun
tain billows madly lash the shore, and toss the
foundering ship upon its bosom, till the timbers
part and she sinks far down to coral beds, and
caverns dark; or when, like a sleeping infant, in
calm repose, it mirrors the clear blue sky auove?
.Is it' the tornado, the hurricane, the sweeping
avalanche, or the storm-spirit striding over the
ruins of the foresf, towns and cities; in some
worn,, moss-covered piles, in lofty mountains,
sculptured marble, the breath of fame, the voice
of flowers or the fanning zephyrs?
Is il maul his stately form and noble brow ?
Or woman's voice and love-lit eye? Are these
the most beautiful? If so, who would have
marked their beauty, and of what value would
earth's varied tints and hues have been, had no
ble and God-like mind never been created? Sure:
ly it canuot be in these that the highest beauty
dwells, but in the ever-active, never-dying sou! ;
the vital principle within, t that nought can ever
crush the etherial spark struck . from heavenly
mould, that is destined to lire on, after all these
have perished; after worlds upon worlds have
been blotted from existence, and system upon
sysfm has vanished' away. Lowell Offering.
THE FREEMAN-
Fur the. Green Mountain Freeman.
Canada Mission.
Messrs. Editors: In your paper of Nov. 20th,
you have called our attention to the Canada Mission ;
and I wish to present to the religious public some rea
sons which show the importance of supporting that
mission. And I do hope that the real friends of civil
and religious liberty will not disregard the cry of the
needy. Can they do it in the exercise of supreme love
to Christ5
1. The settlements of the colored people are rapidly
increasing, and may, in a few years, amount to more
than all the inhabitants of the Sandwich Isles.
2. Ttey are easily approached, and speak our own
language. In many cases the missionary field is far
off and the- people speak a strange language; so that
the missionary must encounter many dangers in going
to them, and much time even years must be spent
before he can address them in their own tongue. Not
bo in Western Canada. A few days ride will carry
the missionary to his field of labor; and he. can preach
to his people the day he meets thern.
3. It is a region as healthy as New England ; and
the life of the missionary will not be cut off by strange
and fatal disease. How many valuable lives of men
and women have been prematurely cut ofi" in distant
missionary fields?
4. The expense of supporting missionaries there will
be much less than in distant fields. A missionary fam
ily can be supported in western Canada ns cheap as the
families of settled ministers in New England; whereas
it is believed that, to the families of foreign missiona
ries, a sum more than twice as large is allowed. Al
lowing $10,000 for the home agencies and expenses of
the American Board, $16,700 for native teachers and
assistants, there were gl83,000 to be divided among
170 missionaries and thoir wives, equal to $1,110 to
each family; more than twice as much as our minis
ters have to support their families. There may be
some deductions to reduce this sum a little, but enough
will remain to show that the Board give their mission
aries twice as much as would be requisite for mission
aries in Western Canada, or as settled ministers among
us have to support their families.
5. It is an act of imperious justice; and men should
be just before they are generous. We may show our
generosity by sending the gospel to the colored popu
lation of Asia; but justice donmnds that we seek to re
pair the evils we have brought upon the Africans, by
sending the gospel to those whom we have robbed and
oppressed.
6. A good number of the colored population are
Christians, anxious for schools and instruction, ready to.
take hold with the missioniry and help carry on the
work. They are our brethren in Christ, and have pe
culiar claims upon us. They call upon the churches
I to come over and help them. Can the churches disre
I gard their cry without incurring great guilt?
7. The great sin of slaveholding can have no coun
tenance among the churches formed in Western Can
ada. Alai, that such a sin should be cuuntenanced in
any missionary church!
8. Our own self interest requires, that we carefully
cultivate that field. It lies on our borders, and will
have an influence, for good or for evil, on tim popula
tion around. If the gospel can be maintained among
thern, and the great mass of the colored people brought
under its influence, they will be good citizens and
peaceable neighbors. But leave those accumulating
masses under the influence of ignorance and vice, or
let them fall under the influence of the Catholic priest
hood, and who can calculate the mischief that would
follow?
In the days of Cyprian, some of tho best churches in
the world were in Northern Africa. And why may
not churches, full of faith and love, be raised up in
Western Canada, from those who have fled from the
house of bondage? I doubt whether any other mis
sionary station so promising, can be found on earth.
Why should it be neglected? Devout men and wo
men have entered this field, taken possession of the
land, and began t o work: but they iwed help. Why
should they not have it? Why should not a few thou
sand dollars be given to them, as well as a hundred
thousand sent to Asia? How dwellcth the love of God
in the hearts of those, who will not cheerfully assist
j In KiMMrvinrr tliftaa undid tit P.liriutS Hum i.1 n finld
gry and the naked, "Be ye warmed, and be ye filled,"
but giveth not unto them such things as they need.
ReadeT, is this your religion? Your conduct will de-
i cide that question.
KIAH BAILEY.
To the Point.
The following pungent paragraphs which we
hnd in the Essex Transcr.pt, are from, the pen
of the poet Whittier :
If Texas comes amongst us, let her do so on
terms of equality with ourselves. Why give to
a foreign people rights which Massachusetts has
not ? What right has Texas to demand a rep
resentation of property in Congress, when Mas
sachusetts, one of the "Old Thirteen," has only !
a representation ol men in that body 1
The people of the Free States the great body
of both the political parties, who are necessarily!
uninfluenced by an insane desire of office or of j
money-making speculations in 1 exas land and j
scrip, they, and they alone, should dictate to I
Texas the terms of 'her admission. They should !
speak to thair representatives in a tone too em- j
I phalic to be disregarded:
Welcome to Texas
as a Free State, Eternal Ilostilih to her as a
land of Chains and Slavery." " 1
Thank God! the people are moving. The j
firecrosa of Freedom' is. passing from hand to :
hand from Maine to Ilinois. Remonstrances
against Texas and Slavery, are at this moment
in circulation in every county in the Free States.
The following form of remonstrance is pre-j
seined by the State Committee. Let each one
who' is willing to deyote'an hour to Freedom,
cut it out, paste it at the lop of a blank sheet I
and go forthwith to- all . his neighbors for their j
signatures When a town has been thorough!
canvassed, let the remonstrance be sent to one
,of the most trust-worthy of the free state repre
sentatives at Washington.
Let the work he Hone-nt once. It will not be
too late until the question is actually settled.
Let us bury all party prejudices abandon all
mere party watchwords let the common danger,
unite as brothers all who value the birthright of
their liberties. Whigs, Democrats, and Liberty
men, have we not a common interest in the wel
fate of our country? Let the past, then, with
its sins and errois of commission ' and omission
be forgotten ; let us cease to criminate each oth
er, and in the"natne of God and Humanity do
our duty NOW. ' '
Pro Slavery Bible.
CHAPTER 1.
1. 'He that stealeth a man,' except he has
African blood in him, 'and selleth him, or if ha
be found in his hand,' except the laws forbid
emancipation, 'he shall surely bp put to death.'
2. 'Thou shalt have no other gods before me,'
exctpt when slaveholders enact, that a slate
'owes to his master and to all his family, a re
spect without hounds, and an ahsolute obedience."
See laws of Louisiana.
3. 'For the oppression of the poor, for the
sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the
Lord: I will set him in safety from him that
pufieth at him,' unless he is a slaveholder.
4. 'Deliver the poor and needy; rid them out
of the hand of the wicked,' except some ecclesi
astical body advise you 'wholly to refrain.'
5. 'The Lord executeth righteousness and
judgment for all that are oppressed,' except slaves
and colored people.
6. 'He that despiseth his neighbor,' except he
has a colored skin, 'sinneth.'
7. 'Rob not the poor,' except they are black,
'because he is poor for the Lord will plead
their cause, and spoil the soul of' them that
spoiled 111001',' cicept they are slaveholders.
8. 'Open ttiy mouth for the c'unib,' except
they are slaves: ' plead the cause of the poor
and needv,' only dont desecrate the holy sabbath
by doing so on that day.
9. 'So I returned and considered all the op
pressions tint are done under the sun,' except in
the slaveholding States.
10. 'Relieve the oppressed,' except they are
slaves.
11. 'For they shall cry unto the Lord, be
cause of the oppressor, and he shall send them a
Savior, and he shall de'iver them,' if ibe slave
holders will let him.
12. 'He that despiseth the gain of oppression'
is a great fanatic.
13. 'Cry aloud,' (not against slaveholding,)
'spare not,' (the abolitionists- 'lift nh-v
like a trumpet,
they are in cm be
jrressions and (L
holders.
14. 'Is not Vm ,ir 4twit onosenMo'
loose the bands of wickedness,' when the laws
of the State will let you, 'to undo the heavy bur
dens,' if slaveholders don't oppose it, 'and let
the oppressed go free,' except they are slaves,
'and that ye hieak every yoke,' except it is ibm
peditnt. 15. 'Thus saith the Lord, execute judgment
in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled
out of the hand of the oppressor,' except he is
slaveholder.
16. 'Woe unto him that useth his neighbor's
services without wages,' unless he first makes a
slave of him. .
17. 'Search the Scriptures,' if slaveholders
will let you: not without.
Id. 'What God has joined, let no man put as
suuder,' except slaveholders; they may part hus.
bands and wives at pleasure.
l'J. 'Ye know that they which are accouuted
to rule ovpr the Gentiles, exercise lordship over
them, and their great ones exercise authority
upon them. But so it shall not be among you,'
except you are owners of slaves, or slave drivers.
20. 'Ye devour widow's houses' 'therefore
ye shall receive greater damnation,' except ye
are slaveholders.
21. Let every man have his own wife,' except
he is a slave, ' und every woman her own hus
band,' except she is a slave.
22. 'Wives submit to your own husbands,'
except you are slaves; in that case you must
'submit to any white man,' or yon may 'receive
thirty lushes on' the 'bare back, well ' laid on;
or if you 'shall assault and strike such white
percnr,.' y,,n 'may Do lutefully killed.
23. 'Keep thyself pure,' except you are' a
lave and white men choose to defile you.
, uu , n(lmollim ofJie Lord- except they
21. 'Parents, Li inji up your children in the
are slaves; then bring tliem up tor the market.
2o. 'Children, obey your parents,' unless
slaveholders forbid it.
20. 'Preach the gospel to every creature,
if
slaveholders will let you.
27. 'Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is
liberty,' except where slaveholders choose not to
have any.
o3 .He t)la wi- I10t work neilher si,ai
eatj- U1)ess lle is slaveholder.
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29. 'Honor all men,' except colored people
and nbolitioiwsts. . ' ' '
30. 'Render all men their dues,' slaves ex
cepted.
31. 'Musters give unto your servants mat
which is just and equal," except they are slaves.
32. 'Forbear threatening,' except you. are
tlaveholders, then you could not. keep up your
'domestic inftiturions' without,
.33. 'The law is made for man-steaiers,' and
I10t fr tH)f0 w,0 inherit stolen men, and baby
stealers; for then it would condemn Dr. Capers,
Dr. p;erce 8Ulf Dr. Olin, and those 'patriarchal
slaveholders,' who enslave the babies bom m
tiie;r plantations. ' -
34 iGo (0OW e rich mcn; iowl
for vour . nliserk.& that shall corae upn.yw.-.
Yo ; ,d d iver is. cai)kered; and M rest of
"See law of Kentucky, South Carolina and Geor-
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