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r - y /u j u k-j THE NATIONAL ERA. ! Q. BAILEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR; JOHN G. W III T T I E R, C O R R E S P 0 N DI N G EDITOR. VOL. IV.?NO. 5. WASHINGTON, THURSDAY. JAMJAKY 31, 1860. WHOLE NO. 161. \ TUf NiIUmI Krm is PablUbr.i Wrrklf, WmlH Wwl, *er?>>lr IMd iVIUwt' IImII, TUMI 1'WO <1 illars per annum payable in advance. AJvertisemeuts cot exceeding tea lines inserted t hroe times for one dollar; every subsequent inser-, tion. twenty-fire cents. All oommunioAtious to the Era, whether on business of the piper or for publication, should be addreused to G. Haii.ky, Washin*1?*, D C BUELL k BLANl'HAKD, PitlN'TKKS. THE NATIONAL ERA. WASHINGTON, JANDAKV xs, Fur the National hr* VIRGINIA. BY S. M JANREY. I have sometimes thought that our good old Commonwealth might be aptly eon.pared to that renowned spinster whom the English are wont to cut the gxsl Queen-Bens, and-front maidenly condition the name of Virginia was derirtd Although rather pugnacious by nature, and especially severe towards those who meddled with I her domestic relations, she had many great and excellent qualities, and was famed for her political sigacity. She had, however, one weakness: when somewhat advanced in life, she fancied that she still possessed the grace of her youth, and delighted iu receiving the grossest adulation. For twenty years previous to her death, she refused to look o mirrnr nnd when suffering with a disease iu her extremities that made it painful to stand, Bhc danced with the French ambassador, in order that he might report to his master the grace and vigor of the English Uueen. Virginia has so long listened to the voice of adulation?it has been so customary to call her ' the mother of statesmen and of heroes," to advert to iite peftou o? uer gr*<n?IU rruu? ? , troeif ,. hen she st?*i prsy-miaeat among ?!- * J States?that iV now requires some courage to hold up a true looking-glass before her, or to point out the symptoms of a disease that impairs her beauty and hastens her decay. It is, however, some consolation to believe that her case is not yet desperate, and that there are many true patriots in the State who have the discernment to perceive and the candor to acknowledge the causes that paralyze her energies and impede her progress. In the eloquent address of Governor MoPowell at the opening of the Education Convention at Hicbmoud, he observed that? "We were satisfied with the shadows of the past, with the crumbling monuments of our renown. We are decoyed by the fascinations that linger around the tombs of the illustrious dead, from the actual labors and important duties of life, until nought remains but our children and our story. Like the prisoner in his cell, amid solitude and gloom, we console ourselves with the preseuoe of our shadow." Is it not time to arouse ourselves from this dreaming lethargy, to awake to a sense of our actual condition, and to endeavor to investigate the causes that have brought dowD our beloved State from the proud preeminence?which has placed her in the fourth rank among the States, und must soon reduce her to the fifth in the Union. For some years past, the Richmond papers have teemed with earnest and able appeals to the people of Virginia, in order to induce an effort to develop her great natural resources. It seems to be admitted on all hands that the eastern part of our State has, for twenty years past, been retrograding In population and wealth, and th:.t a Jeplora- * ble amount of ignorance exists, even among our white inhabitants. In order to stay the progress of decay, and revive our declining fortunes, we have been urged by every consideration of interest and patriotism to attempt the establishment of manufactures, the construction of railroads and canals, and the adoption of a good system of general education. We have been referred to the example of the Northern States, and especially to Massachusetts and New York, to show that manufactures and internal improvements must enrich us. and that a good system of common schools will effectually enlighten. But none of these writers, with the exception of the lamented J. II. Pleasants, have touched upon the true cause of that decay which they so eloquently deplore, and of that ignorance they so earnestly desire to remove. It in true, they sometimes give a hint xnai more is meant than meets the eye, and we may infer that there is a cause which they scarcely dare to name?a cause so obvious that none can mistake it, and so alarming that it can only be breathed in whispers. But why should this mysterious silence he observed in relation to a question of such vast importance as tho existence of slavery in Virginia? a question that the even's of every day force upon our attention, and which must, ere long, claim our consideration, and be openly discussed among us It is well remembered by us all, that in the Legislature of Virginis, during the winter of 1832, this question was fully and sbly discussed with open doors; the evils of domestic slavery, in its effects upon both the master and the slave, upon private interests aud public resources, upon wealth and upon morals, were disclosed in many speeches of surpassing power and eloquence. Among the speakers we remember the honored names of Rives. McDowell, Faulkner, Moore, Rrodman. Marshall, Randolph, and Summers, who depicted in glowing terms the blighting effects of this institution, and urged the necessity of measures being then taken to effect its gradual but certain extinction. Did any injury then result from the open discussion of this question in the city of Richmond, from the publication of those speeches in the newspapers and in pamphlet form, or from the many conversations that were everywhere held concerning it? None whatever. People slept as securely in their beds, walked as safely through the streets, and ramble t as freely through the woods, us though no such discussion was going forward. The slaves in Virginia are not more numerous u.iw than they were then ; the country is in a state of peace, the turmoil of political strife is somewhat abated, and this, perhaps, is as favorable a time to take np tbe examination of the subject as any that is likely to oacur. It is obvious that no important measures can be adopted under a republican government without public discussion , for information must be dssseminated among he people, and they must have their attention turned to the consideration of the measures pronwil iKolr ronr6iu>ntativM tnn Ka mm??*_ pared to act with decision, and carry out their wishes It is to he regretted that this question has heen permitted by the people of Virginia to remain so luug undetermined, for it is well known that her revolution try patriots were very generally in favor of their taking measures to put an end to slavery. A plan was proposed by Judge Tucker in 171*6 ; and in his letter presenting it he says " Should we oot. at the time of our Involution, have loosed their chains and broken their fetters? or, if the difficulties and dangers of such an experiment prohibited the attempt during the convulsions of n revolution, is it not our duty to embrace the first moment of constitutional health and vigor to effectuate so desirable an object, and to remove from us a stigma with which our enemies will never fail to upbraid us, nor our consciences to reproach us T" This was also a favorite measure withJeffer-1 son, and continued to he an object of intense inter.-st to the end of his life How happy bad it been for him, what a charm it would have cast over the evening of his event- j ful life, could he have seen this great measure ' consummated, or even l>egutft before he was call- I ed away by death, and required to take a final leave of Virginia, the object of his wannest affections! His plan of emancipation waa presented by his grandson in the memorable debate of IM'J; hut although eloquently suppprted, It was defeated by a small majority, and since that day the agitation of the subject has not boen renewed in the Legis lature Is It not obvious that the prosperity of the i Htftte would have been greatly promoted if some judicious plan of emancipation had then been | adopted ? More than seventeen yean have ainoe ' L elapsed, and. I' rT?*n n,r,Ht gradual rUn had thro been determined on, *f should now feci itc eff'.rtH. by u new impulse being given to industry in every field of labor. Instead of oar enterprising young men leaving the State to teek their fortunes in the Went, we should witness a crowd of immigrants arriving from other Stales?the wast* places of Old Virginia, iui|w>v*rished by (dare labor, would be filled up and renovated by the skillful toil of the free? rrnl eet nte would rapidly rise in v?lue?commerce would revive?manufacture* would flourish?our vast Water power would be improved?our hidden atorcauf mineral wealth developed?and, what is more than this, the immeasurable intellectual w ealth that lies hidden in the minds of the young would he brought to light by a system of geueral education. Who would not be wiliiug to make some sacrifices to promote these desirable results? What a field of labor is here to call forth the sympathies of the benevolent, sud to excite the energies of aspiring minds ? Virginians are proverbial for their strong attachment to their native State, and in every land where they travel they are proud to avow their nativity. Cannot this irrepieasible feeling, which the writer of this article shares with the rest of his felJow-ollireiiSj be turned into a useful chance], by direc'-Utg our attention calmly and carefully to consider w hat it is that olmtructs the progress of our native State, and then with united energies endeavor to work out the cure by such means as Divine Drovidence has placed in onr power t There is one consideration that should encourage us. It is this: Kvery sincere and wellconsidered effort that is made for the good of our fellow-men. even if not successful at first, will improve the individual character; for man grows by action, his powers are developed by exertion, and be knows not what lie can achieve, nor how much he c m endure, until he is put to the test. In like manner, a State or community that is afflicted and borne down by some great burden, if by ft powerful effort that burden is removed, she finds herself in posse-siun < f energies that she knew not of, she rises with unwonted majesty and power, and she starts forward in acareerof uneiampled prosperity. It has been too much the custom of the young und enterprising citizens of Mastern Virginia to fly from the desolations produced by -slavery, leaving the scenes of their vouth. to seek, for homes in the distant West To these we Would Governor Coles, which may be found in his letter on emancipation, recently published by ri quest of Henry Clay in the Lexington Observer. After staling lu tl mo love oi justice una me love 01 country plead equally the cause of these people," |the sluves.) and it is a moral reproach to us ' that they should have pleaded so long in vain." he closes his letter in these words : " I hope then, my de.ir sir, you will reconcile yourself to your country nud its unfortunate condition; that, on the contrary,you will come forward in the public councils, become the missionary of thiB doctrine truly Christian, insinuate and inculcate it softly, but steadily, through the medium of writing and conversation; associate ot Iters in your labors, and wknt lb* phalanx i< formal, bring on and press the proposition perseveringly until its accomplishment. " It is an encouraging observation, that no good measure vas ever proposed, which, if daily pursued, failed to prevail in the end. We have proof of this in the history of the endeavors in the British Parliament to suppress that very trade which brought this tvil on us. And you will be supported by the religious precept, ; be not wearied j in well-doing.' That your success may be as speedy and complete as it will be honorable and immortal consolation to yourself, I shall as fer? vontly and sincerely pray, as I assure you of my great friendship and respect." Citizens of Virginia! how many are there among you willing to join the Jeffereonian Phalanx, in order to battle valiantly for the right, not with the weapons that destroy meu'a lives, nor yet 1 with keen invective or angry denunciation, but 1 with the more effective weapons of persuasive argument, conciliatory conduct, and consistent examples 1 ??? For the National Kra. WE POET OP THE POOR." It is not seldom the case that while the world is payiug its supposed debt of praise to the prominent and direct instruments of some great reform? the abolition of the slave trade, the reducing of complicated and highly restrictive tariffs, the {(Ositivc enactments that shall do good for the masses, and the negative enactments that destroy what has done and would continue to do harm? while, we any, the world, after long struggling against the heresies of Reform, at last veers routul, ( i by no means uncommon occurrence,) and applauds the men who are in at the death of abuse, or at the birth of improvement; a farthersighted and more exquisite judgment would leave all who receive this applause, and rest smilingly upon some one or two comparatively obscure persons, or, perhaps, ujmn some poverty-marked dwelling, or some unnotiood grave. The men I list first rnun uluivc nrcccdent and fhmnrht in defiance of social or political organisation, always have had a hard task. Luckily, men of such powers are uluioat invariahly enthusiasts, who fly high ahove the heads of the crowd. Khenezcr Klliott, the English "Poet of the I'ogr," the "Corn-Law Ithynier," who died on the first of December last, may be fittingly spoken of after such a reflection as that just uttered. lie was among the earliest of those who denounced the accursed bread tax,"' the Corn Laws, lately in etlVct repenbd by the Hrilish 1'arliauieut. 1 For many years, with unflagging zeal, he poured out argument, sentiment, appeal, and invective, , on this subject. I le never gr< w tired, never de- I sorted his colors, never sheathed his sword, as long as the enemy laughed in pride from the cit- ; adel. In poems which, without being of the first j cla^s of art. posso-ised much beauty, truth, and , passion, be brought a new and powerful weapon i to his aid. Me was of those who gave the start to I that great reform, uud it w ould be idle to say but that his writings have penetrated the popular , mind for years, and that the flowers of bis thought, having turned to seeds, deserve mention among the worthiest causes of the good fruit Hut Klliott's claims to remain awhile In the Waihalla of mankind's memory of the good, spread wider fsr than his opposition to a great and deidly restriction, lie was deeply moved by the wish to improve,elevate, and refiue the poor? to make their burdens less heavy, and the light of their lives less dark. Hear what he says of himself , in one of his own articles: " It is now about forty-six years [being then thirteen years old) since I quarrelled with my j father, because he denied that one Englishman ( could thrash five Frenchmen I lis little preach- ( ing parlor (he preached f.<r love, not monei) was i adorned with aquatint prints of Oliver Cromwell, ] Israel Putnam, John llampdeu. and George Washington, and the gloiions victories of Lex- , ington and Hunker's Hill. The good man (he j was an old Cameronian and born rebel) did not fail to tell me w hat sort of victories these were. ( Still I wss slow to believe that did not win | * * I am fifty-eight years old, and have been ( forty-three a scribbler |since 1797 | * * * * | I do not remember the time when I was not die- | satisfied with the condition of society Without ever envying any man his wealth or power, I have always wondered why the strung oppress the weak" In it not beautiful when a man who has seen sixty years in the selfish bustle of this oon*er*ati*e and formal world can talk so? Must not the well be deep, and waters pure, which nearly the appointed three score and ten of a life-time hare been unable to exhaust, and all the cheats of society and the shams of GoTrrnmmt hare failed to nusaijthropixe in the least? It is erident, too, that there w is no affectation, nothing morbid, about this man, Klliott. Kimplioity was the twin of his sincerity. Listen to th# last lines he wrote?how sweet and unelaboratel He wrote them while upon his death-bad, and left them to his daughters as a pleasant memorial of himself, to lie twined through music in their minds, and thus make him identical with the twilight of the evenings, when the song should be rang, and with the smooth and solemn aweetnena of the Terra, and the thoughts that would naturally follow? S Thy iwitea, sweat Hot In, *>n aa Jew. Meant ?? ? or lata, are Jaar Una; To Muilo I eonlJ bid sdtee, but not to tbaa. < When from my eyes this lifrful tbr?r\g Hu )*wte?l >? ay, no more to bf, Then Mituinn'a primrose Robin'* ??ng. Return to me.'' These verses were intended for the air? ' 'Tie time thin heart shonlJ be uumuvetl." We have tnentiontd that Elliott died on the 1st of Pecemtier, 1H49. lie wub iu ti e sixtyninth year of hi* age, h iving been born in M mIsirough. in Yorkshire, England, in 17M. Ilia father supported a large family ou a entail stipend?the latter being seventy pounds a year, and the former comprising eight children. Ebenexer, j ss a l>oy, was invariably good-natured, hut wits 1 considered stupid, lie could not muster i he com- i noon branches of e<lucation. nor )< aru to work in ] the iron factories where his father wus a clerk, aud some of bis brothers were employed. Hut, | strangely enough, he ' took" to such pursuits as botany aud drawing, and. hardly out of aprons, commended his first poem, which, with many other originul figures, desctiltes something previously unheard of even from poets and romancers, namely. a flock of sheep ruuning away after they were killed by lightning ! As Elliott grew in physical and mental stature, he grew in w hat people now mil ' Radicalism." He wrote a long poem, no doubt a chaotic and utiharmoDious thing, about our American Revolu- I tioii. Hi* first publication was (he " Vernal Walk;" it had some items of solid grain, but a great deal of chaff sud lioinbast. ^Gradually, however, lie let fill the ungraceful parts of his muse's attire, corrected, condensed, and simplified his stylo, and has since written many fine pieces Earnestness, vigor, and love for the poor, are palpable in a majority of these Mliott s l ist years were passed m comroriame circumstances, and ho had noon hi* sixty-eighth 1 birth-day uiur months b. fore hi* death. SPIRIT OF THE I'M. From the Madison County (A'. 1") Journal? Whig pop"IION. \V 11.I.I AM 111' I- It. On our first page will be found the vote iu the House of Representatives on the resolution offered by Mr. Root, an Ohio Free Soiler, providing 'or a Territorial Government over New Mexico, with the Wilmot Proviso ; aUoJ^lr liner's exphir.fng nia vote. We are free to pay thnt the *>mM ?LJ-V ,J: l!r' ic'r~ !zcrd kir resolution appears to ua to have been unfortunate, and is calculated to give the impresaion that he was prompted rather by party policy, than a real de. sire to subserve the interests of Freedom Its effect must be to embarrass the speedy admission of California as a State, by throwing in the way of a bill for thut purpose, a long anil embittered disoustdon on his resolution. Vet we find the Southern members voting >n mats? to lay it on the table, and the Northern members, with h few exceptions, opposing that motion These exception*, we ?re sorry to sny. comprise, beside the invariable doughfaces, three members frotn this State, among whom is the Representative from our own i district I We feel called upon to say, that we believe this > vote was given in op|>ositiou to the views and t wishes of the great mass of his Whig constitu- i ente. t Mr. Duer has douhtloss access to far better and more extensive sources of knowledge with f regard to the wishes of the people of New Mex- c ico, than the public at largo. But from the infonna'ion as yet laid before tbe people, it would I Appear that tbe Conv-ntion of New Mexico, by * an almost unanimous vote, decided in fi?vor of a J Territorial Government, and accordingly elected t their Delegate to Congress As we have before j remarked, the resolution of Mr. Root m iy have ? been ill-timed, ee regards the admission of Cali- < fornia, yet a portion of tbe card of Mr. Duer, f which seems to hint that the question should be g left to the people of New Mexico themselves, ( bears too close a resemblance to the doctrines of ( Cuss's " Nicholson Letter," sgninst which we l?awc *AA IrtiacF and t/\rv narnAwtlv Ci mt nn.l ml fn n yield the least concession at thin late hour. It p has been the nettled principle of the Whigs of r thin State, reiterated in the canvasB of 1S4H nnd 1849, and enunciated with an earnestness and a distinctness too forclTIe to be misunderstood, that it was the urgent duty of Congress to prohibit slavery in the Territories byn positive enactment at the earliest possible moment. Hunger now stares us in the face from Ntw Mexico It is the last stronghold of the Slavery perpctualists; and if by any management notion in Congress on the subject may be postponed or staved off. If will be done. And the acquiescence of a single Whig member from this State in such a course, seems to give to the South an earneat that they may receive "aid and comfort" front the Whigs of New York. It is under these circumstances, and from the ndditionnl fact that Mr l)uer represents the strongest Anti-Slavery district in the North, that we feel it our duty to express our deep regret that he has placed himself in his present position. Prom Iht: Ctnciiintih Dotty Rto/uirrr?A Poiitrrvotive Dtmocro'ic jwper. TUB MM Til AND 1II K KOR1II. The recent outpourings of the Southern memhers of Congress, while the balloting* for Speaker were progressing, and the still more rcoeul Jr. bates in I he Senate, will attra< t the attention of every thinking man in the (Inion The speeches I heinselves will accompli-h more for the progress of Free-Soil ism, than all that lias he n said or done by the peculiar friends of that growing principle in the |iolitics of the free States Hard words and threats arouse opposition, and every citizen of a free State will lie induced to believe that there is more in this questh n of .slavery, politically considered, than lio els the ;je They will lie led to do what, otherwise, they prAhahly would not have done?to think, relied The Representatives of the South, (for a Southerner ulwiys takes especial care to let you know that he is a member from the South.) lose no opjiortunity of offensively thrusting the qiim- w lion of Die " rights" of the South into every de- " lute that can be distorted into such an issue. h' i'hey generally wind up th%ir spe ehes with ' windy threats about the dissolution of the Union. Such threats are worse than idle; their own constituents would repudiate them, if they attempted to reduce them to practice. They do no good, unless to procure a momentary triumph in Hon L l. - I.. ?LUL Ik. I> l_'rcsn. III r<< I p II H I Jlll/ll OHHM , ujr n lltun lur nillllll will get a Speaker, hikI iImih secure the ascendency in Committer*. T.ut for thtH mnnll nnd fmn- " sient gain, what an immense sacrifice in made of '' the kind feelings of the North for the South I We speak iu sober earnest when we say. that 11 the speeches of hot-beuded and injudicious mem- '' hero from the South, on the lloor of Concrete. " have made more alvolitionistH than all the hIkjH- * tion lecturer* of the land. Their constant threats of disunion; their arrogant demands on the good ' nature of the North; (heir unreasonable assump- " lion of rights which do not belong to them, that Ihey may procure a favorable romyromist, have r weakened the affection of their Mends in the " North, and changed their ay mpathy into coolness if not di-gust. It is a bad causa that requires ' iQch advocacy, and by the declarations of ita 11 counsel the South ia Inning ground rapidly in the " judgment of the great jury, the American People. ' new aitting in inquest. The Democracy.acting under the Constitution. *? Mid with a aincere deaire to carry out ita sacred injunetiona, have, on more than one occasion, " placed themselves in the breaches which fanati- " b-iam had made in the guaranteea of that inatru- rl inent. They were willing and determined that the true " rights" of the South ahuuld lie protected from aggreaainn. and have suffered sorely for their generous aid to their Southern brethren And how have these disinterested aets been rereived7 Has the South looked with a friendly " eye on three sacrifices of the Democracy on the ci altar of their common country? Ilea it appre- ? oiatcd and measured these acts, as a brother, or a* . a taskmaster 7 Most certainly the latter. It has cried, give! give! until there ia no more to 1,1 give It has exhausted the friendship and pa- ir lienee of those who have, hitherto, stood by it with unswerving devotion Their generosity has been repaid by ingratitude. Their beat men have beeu sacrificed without hesitation hy the c' heartless selfishness of the South ; and the " p?. p culiar institution'1 can now lewst of as many vie- a tims as any heathen altar. It has immolated its p friends, without remorse or reflection. Those . who bore the olive branch have b**n driven away > with revllings, and a moment * triumph has been T considered hy the South as better than an age of security. W* regret to apeak thus har-bly of those whom we ahoold delight to oall brethren ; but ingrati- p. tude haa a keen edge, end will make us feel. The tl Democracy have endured the scoldings and exior- li tiona of the Sooth until their stock of patience a ia completely exhausted The exactiona of their d would-be taskmasters have become too great to it * longer borne. They must now he taught that io are not their servants, hut their brothers Wo hear much about the "rights" of the | iouth. IIbr no other nection right*? Was this | tepublic formed, cemented, extended, only th?t he South might dictate terms to all the other ections of the Union, and lay down the law by rhich it waatohe governed ? Una the South any icculiur " right,'' other than the one specified in he Constitution, separate and apart front that of ny other section ? We should answer, No! Our fathers found Slavery existing in a portion f the States of the Confederacy. Though they egretled its existence, and deplored the necessity >f its recognition, yet, yielding to the imperious lemands of harmony, they deemed its recoguiion as the lesser of the two ivils They chose he least. Where Slavery did exist, its existence ras recognised ; hut its extension never inet with uvor from those who formed that sacred instruiieut of our lil?erties. Were they alive now. and iitiog in solemn conclave in the Halls of Conrre?s. these impotent threateutrs of di union vould 1 e frowned into silence. What does the South want? ller rights iu he Territories? She has them, ller citizens ire as free to go with their horara, their wagons, heir wives, and their children, as ?he citizens of he North. Will that not satisfy the South? iarftr some peculiar ngnr, winch lt(e North docs' i>?t poasesa. and does not wish to'' lias it the ight to take into the free Territories a species of iroperty, which the free labor of the North retards as a pestilence, and which it knows to he ts natural enemy ? Most certainly not. There s a right stronger than that claimed by the touth?the natural right of ni'>n. It is a right vhich overrides all others. It is omnipotent, rreslstihle It acknowledges an equal right, hut to superior. It goes hand in hand with its equal, mt uot with the slave. It breathe* and lives in be pure air of freedom, but suffocates in the itmosphere of Slavery It asserts only the great irineiple of life, that of self-preservation, when t says that the fertile plains ami siuiling vulleys if our new lands skill lx fax ! If the South ia content with Slavery where it h?w exists, we are All we ask is, that it shall emain where it is. If. in grasping for more, hey shall lose all, the people of the Mouth will uive only themselves'to blame. By their unrealonable demands in Congress and through the tiess. they nre begetting a spirit in the .Vurth, fchich is to lie regretfeil, hut not condemned. \rrogaoce he .w?> )?v firmness if in he conflict hate ia engendered, arrogance has inly itself to blame. In speaking thus, we are confident that we hut ipeak the sentimeut of nineteen-!wentieths of the Itixens of the free States They will yield much, rave yielded much, to the caprice of the South ; nit w hen their most sacred rights are demanded is the sacrifice of peace, they will not yield. Will he South he warned in time ? front llit Ku'limciml (IV/) 117///,'. SOUTHERN CONVENTION. The Enquirer last week threatened to demolsh us It carried its threat into execution, hut. ^coming very justifiably dissatisfied with itsown vork, it promises to do it over again. In the nean time, and before it t h?H have consummated ts cruel design, we beg leave to any a word or wo. The following is the proposition in controversy, is presented by the Select Committee oft be House >f Delegates " Resolved, further. That this General Assembly ?eartily approve the proposed Convention of Southern States, to be held ut Nashville on the irst Monday in June next, and that it will proteed on the ? day of to the election, by oint ballot, of four delegate* to said Convention, ind that the People of Virginia he requested to dect, at the next spring elections, a delegate rom each Congressional district?which dele's tea shall, jointly with those selected by the Jeneral Assembly, represent this State In said 'onvention." This is the proposition which we combat. The rguments urged against it by Mr. Stovall? ;ood Democratic authority, and representing one >f the largest slaveholding constitnencie* in the itate?have not been answered, and they cannot >e answered. We will sum up, in n few word*, our objections o this extraordinary proceeding. First and foremost. The people have not spolen on the subject. Not a primary meeting lrns >een held in a county in the State. They ore he persons who will hsvc to endure the consojui noes, whatever they be. and they arc the only iroper persons to decide upon the measure Secoud. We deny the right of the Legislature o take to themselves the appointment of four of he delegates. There is no authority in the Contitution or laws, or in the expression of public entimeut, which justifies or excuses such an asumption. If delegates are appointed at all, they hould be appointed by the people. The vitsl incrests at stske, to say nothing of the genius of 'eprcseutative republican institutions, require his mode of election. Third. We are opposed to intrusting to any lineteen men in the State the {tower to dissolve he Union, or to pledge the State to any course of onduct they may choose, without having first uscrtsined the wish of the people. It will he seen hat the committee propose no limitations whstver to the powers of the delegates They are leputed w ith full, absolute, and unrestricted powr to do whatsoever they may please, ami bind the date to sustain them Fourth. We Hre opposed to what seems to be favorite feature in this whole scheme, theilfrayvg thi txfunstt. The Governor recommends it, he committee repeats the recommendation, the 'inquirer urges it with the fervor of a man who adjust risen from the enjoyment, and knew how i) appreciate alt I lie sweets of a (at joli rS elf Uer Mississippi nor South Carolina proposed anyhing of thin kind. They would not leave it o h?* inferred. that it wan necessary to pay embers, in order to Heeuro their attendance Ht l>ih Patriotic Convocation. The idea in original filh our disinterested patriot*. Their wholeaouls re devoted to the rights of the South, hut their enerouH outlay of patriotism must he met by a orreapondiiig outlay from the putdie Treasury ! Ve cannot approve this cherished idea, for one eaaon among many, that there la no duration *ed tor the aitting of the Convention. It may ontinue f. >r months, or even year a. There ih 0 restriction in tLe reaolution making the Hpointment. Fifth We are opposed to the Convention it* L"If. in uuy shape, if ita only object he. aa elated y the Kn<|uirer, to make a "solemn appeal" to lie North. W? helleve no good will come from ny auch appeal. We have Uilked enough. We refer action now. Let ua adopt measures which ill gradually, and aa speedily aa can he, hring hout commercial non-intercourse with the North, 'hia course is worthy of our moat serious runsid* ration, irrespective of the aggressions of the Ahlitiouists. I hit, in view of those aggressions, it ecomes a patriotic duty. It ia the only effective 1 medy for the evils we complain of, which occurs ) us. it is aa practicable now, aa it wua in 177-0. Cut whatever ia undertaken, should he underiken by the people themselves. Their hearty pprobation is indiepcneablf to-the sucrcM-of any M*aaure that may he proposed. The ettempt to iinmit Ihem, end their destinies, in advance, to i ?e nhiolute disposal of nineteen men, is anliepuhlican, undemocratic, and can ouly rt*sult in inoord. oonfnaion, and miechlef. Let the whole 1 liter he submitted to the people?end there is ot n true son of the Old Dominion who will not lieerfully abide by their decision. J'lOrn Ihr India Hit Mat* ,V rilut' I. The following article in from the pen of u g> tiruian who. fur many year*, ha* been one the < in*t active ami influential political writer* in the i juntry. It ditcume* a (jtieaHoa of paramount ' it local importance at the | i c*ont moment, an I je view* which it prevent* w? think will be jJlilted to be jiiat by all candid anil reflecting icn. I This article U worthy of the attention of thoae lemb.r* of Conferee* who have recently pro laiincd themnelvet Oisunioiib-L* There it comaratively fewer Aholiliontsli in Indiana, than iu ay other free State, yet the aentimente aipreoted y this writer will bo atliriuatively responded to y uine-tentha of oar people he nrntHKttv or the free trrtTw v., SLAVERY?-THE UKHfM'RATM.' PARTY NORTH AND SOUTH. The ihrory of our Government it that of tautil i olitioal right*?it* j,tactic* it often that of injut- i ce and wrong. The antagonUme of capital and ihor are alwayt buty? one toincreaae Ita amount ad ita power, the other to *et bouadt to ita I nor- I in ate accumulations, and protect itaelf against I a extortions. The employer it suffered to pur- < I chase labor as cheaply as possible, while the la- j borer, in bringing hi* wares to market, in anxious to command the eery highest price. Hence, ns a general rule, when labor is cheap mouey is high, j and w hen money is cheap labor is high. From the efforts of capital to impose unequal burdens j upon labor has arisen the contests in Congress during the last twenty years on discriminating ! I tariffs, a national hank, and all kindred questions The opponents of the l?etnocmtie party, whether marching under the name of Federalism, National Republicanism, or Whigism, in the ft" Stain hare often professed to be profoundly ignorant of the rmson v hy the poor laliorer of the North j should voh irt'h th'1 South*tm sl it'hohlrf; and he has not unfrequeutlyb.cn derided as a doughface. and a supporter of slaveholders, for his party associations llut the rmson of this jtarty alluiuc* is a very plain one. The free laborer, who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, supports pub- j lie measures, and the enactment of laws, w hich, ' in his judgment, must ben. tit labor, that being 1 all he has to bring to market; and the slaveholder. who i.wds the laborers themselves, necessarily becon.es his ally, and in all legislation affecting capital in money, commerce,and manufactures, as antagonist to capital iu labor, votes aud acts w ith him Whenever the questions of tariffs and currency^ have been discussed and acted upon, front the administration of J.fferson to the present moment, the bond of union bet ween the owner of his .>wn labor and the owner of labor iu his slaves has been an alliance for the protection of laltor agaiurt the constant encroachments and extortions of capital The union was natural, aud party organization aud concert necessary to success ; and to this union?this organization and concert between the Northern Democracy and their Southern allies? the country owes the overthrow of the I'nited States Hunk. and all the progress yet ma le towards a just aii<l equal tariff, and other liberal legislation. Hut the ?|uestionof the laborer'sright to he his own master is h very different matter. The free white laborer of the North, while he conscientiously altstuinv from interfering with the rights of his Southern ally, guarantied to him hy the Constitution, insists upon it that slavery is the i creature of sptcial legislation and a local ami State institution, that shall not he extended iuto the free Territories of the common domain where it is not. He regards it as a cur** the country while colonies of Great Hritain, Speto, and F ranee. ./"Mets, and- vw'C C?.LC.,1 upon its non-extension, hy the notion of the General Government, into free territory, whether acquired hy purchase from the Indiana, or hy treaty from Mexico On this point, the l>emoerac"of the free States are ftrrd stars, whose light will guard and protect free soil for the inheritance of generations of free toeu and free labor. To their Southern allies they s.iy : "You must he satisfied that we allowed the Louisiana and the Florida purchases, and the Texas acquisition, to come iuto the Union as slave territory; and that when Cuba desires to come, as such, we will not object, nor seek to disturb her domestic institutions, Hny more than those of Louisiana, Florida, and Texas You need not ask it at our hands, for we will never oouseut that any portion of the existing territory of the Union, or any future acquisition now free, or fiee when acquired, shall become slave territory ; nay, more, ?/ > will Mtrer allow it "We love the Union, purchased hy so many sacrifices of blood and treasure, and cemented together by so many honorable compromises, but we will never disgrace the memory of Jefferson and his associates, who deprecated slavery as the 1 curse of curses, and tolerated its extension only because they could not prevent it, by extending the arm of us hoandants. To its present limits we will confine it, leaving its oontinuanoe or abolition there to the free white population, to dispose of as they may deem proper and right ; and from this position no threats of violence, no threats of the dissolution of the Union, shall drive us. In mere matters of expediency we will make many and large concessions, and sicrifiees of opinion, for the sake of peace, and to cool your hot blood; hut dpttr as the sound of the word Union is to uh, the word LiutuTV isfardearer. These words,that have been, nearly synonymous for sixty years, yon threaten violently to separate; and for what? Not itemise we threaten or even seek to interfere with your local institutions, hut because we will not allow yon to curse the common inheritance, now free, with the evil of slavery. You threaten to dissolve the Union. In y ur cooler moments we do not believe you would dissolve it if you could, and we know you could not if you would. Where would you draw the lines of dissolution, if we would allow of dissolutiou ? Besides, we know as well as you do that your three millions of slaves would not be worth three red cents, were the Union dissolved; or, rather, we should say you know it as well as we do Dissolve the Union?the peculiar inheritance of freedom? the home of the oppressed of all nations?the throne of liberty, and its hope throughout the 1 world because you cannot make California and 1 New Mexico the inheritance of Slavery! You dare not?mint not?cannot?SHALL NOT do ( it." Indiana. ( From thr Clu'lnml Plninilealnr. A MOST I'NMITIUATKI) DOUGHFAt'K. We promised our readers at the commencement of this Congress to keep an eye out, and note the doughfacis from the North. We have a glaring case in a member from our own State, and a Democratic mender, too ; we mean the honorn/rl JOIIN K MILL Kit, from the Mount 1 Vernon district. We find him on every sectional i|uestion doing the dirty trork of a iloimkjud. ami putting his helly a little nearer the ground thin t any other Northern man, in servility to the Sooth, lie is a precious tool in their bauds, and, when * they get through with him as a legislator, w e hope 1 they will take him home with them, and use him r as they do the rest of their slaves. I w e auvisr hii hucu 10 t mi^rarr toouiii. vve ^ like to nee representatives ami their count itueut* living together ,\] r Miller's district ought to I Join General Taylor's plantation, and, like the lattir, he should have a big hell to call his coii- ( stituents together. He represents no portiou ol Ohio or any other free State. When the Ohio delegation were voting for one of their own number, Mr. Potter, for Speaker, and his vote* were being increased by delega- < lion* from moat of the free States, John K. Miller wss voting for Howell Cobb, of Georgia. Fie took ii very active part in the caucus which nominated Cobb, and opposed most strenuously all candidates from the free States. Kor Clerk, lie would vote for a doughface like himself, and for no one else His lout vote which ha* reached u* i* " *olitary and alone" of the w hole North western delegation, cast with the South, and against instructing the Committee on Territories to rejairt to the llouse a bill or bill* providing Territorial Government* for all that part of the territory ceded to u* by a treaty with Mexico, lying emfward of the Sierra Nevada, and prohibiting slavery therein Kvery Democratic member from Ohio voted for it, Mr. Miller ugatnit it. Now, ? what doe* thi* mean? Are the people of bis r district mi different, from the rest, of the Slate a* ( to reijnire on all occasions a contrary representation ? Or i* id because Mr Miller is " wise in hi* ' own conceit?" Certainly there is more hope of ' a fool than of him. f Uiom tfn l)< mocrulic Union?L)- MOffiltU ji'ljn r, IION. IHAHI.fcft I-:. CI.AH It K. In the House of Kepre*ciitative*. on Monday, the .'list ult Mr Root, of Ohio offered the following resolution IIlso!"J, That fhe Committee on Territories be instructed to report to the I louse, with a* little delay a* practicable, a hill or Idlls providing a Territorial Government or Governments for all that purl of the territory ceded to the United Slate* by Mexico, by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, lying east of the Sierra Nevada mountains, and prohibiting Slavery therein On the adoption of this resolution, Mr. limit called the prevlou* <|U?*tion Mr. Stephens, ol (ieorgia * confirmed Slavery propagandist, moved to lay Mr. Root's resolution on the table?on which motion Mr. it .demanded the yeas and usy* The yeas ami n*y* were ordered, and resulted ** f noticed in our paper last week?yeas hd, my* 101. j Among those who voted "aye"on the motion to ^ lay upon the table were M e**rs. Clarke, IJuer, ami ,.f \ ii.L ai. W7 >ii. . i,,,,/ /.in;. t mUl'tl ilr?ni(ly to I If Slut* ri/ Prej'Cil of ikf. fnn'iil * AilmiMultulMH. t Wlm *iy yon Freemen of the North, to thief William l>uer, when he ran for Cogreee in the decidedly anti-olavery diet riot compoeed of the 1 countiee of O/iwegoend Mnlleon. ftofrttnl to l>e ? a Free-Hoiler ?indeed. averted that hie reliability r upon thet ieeue wee ?i//?rier to that of hie oom- t |>elitor, (jenerel Nye, whoee eupport of Free ^ Soil doctrines hea always been of a character entirely above cavil or dispute We have seen the h extent of Mr. Duer's adhereooe to the letter or II the spirit of his pledges thus mails before election No* that he has written himself a Doughface, we hope to are him shielded. by hia future politic tl associates. from the fiery assaults of Mr Meacle? which assaults. from making him at first very hM in the cause of the North, seem, at last, to fcsve effected the additional wonder of leaving hitn extremely cool. Herein Jefferson we all remenilier the extent and the appttrrtif unc-rtiy of Mr Clarke's professions in the sirred cause of freedom, previous to his election to the office he now holds, l'.arely a short year ago. none were so thoroughly, uticonipromisingly, reliably in favor of checking the extension of Slavery ns himself!?none would go *o far to rebuke and chasten an institution which the whole civilited world had denounced as cruel, monstrous, barbarous! lie even feared, considerate soul! that the I'rce-M.iilers might iltroir utrny 'hnr t'ul's hy uuIimx >" the!ton of Mr. Ives? whose opinions, heing littlekuown, might possibly he mi-construed! And such is the end of all his boosted allegiance to Kreidom?such is the extent of the sacrifice h* is willing to make to further the euunriastion of correct doctrines upon the floor of ("on- ! gross. Elected hy % constituency, uine-tenths of of whom are Free-Soilera in principle and feeling, he yet dares to stultify his own convictions of: right sudiciently to cringe and grovel lienestti the cruel lash of his political wasters. What nu?y we uot expect from him hereafter' it-opvkishv itl'l tin i THK MOTHKR-IN-I.AW. ASTORV OK THK IM.tMl ftl tTt, hv mkm. k'mm/t ! ?" mm rilwokih. X V.?f'oNTI.M ? In the very next room to this, hut separated by a wail so thirk as to jirevent tbc passage of the sound of conversation, another confidential iri'erview was held between a parent and child. Mrs Armstrong and Louise were alone in their bedchamber, for Louise had always shared the sleeping apartment of her mother. Mrs. Armstrong had sunk into an easy chair, and Louise had seated herself on u low cushion Kij her note with h.? head resting upon her mother's lap Mrs. Armsi ron$ ? iee-infe" thee nail at mostly a wed .'her marble like features were almost flexible, as here, in the privacy of her bed-chamher, she conversed w ith her daughter, seeking?alas! it whs almost too late?to win the confidence of the ehitd whose innocent revelations of herself hinl beeo repulsed and driven hack, until all her thoughts and feelings were closely, timidly enclosed in brain ?ud heart There was too much fear and dread blended with the love in Louise's idolatry of her moth- I er, to admit of perfect sympathy and confidence Mrs. Armstrong's favorite maxim was, that familiarity breeds contempt," aud so she had ' guarded her strangeness " all but too successfully. Now, as she sut there, with the head of Louise for the first time since infancy laid u|*>n her knees, and while she ran her fingers through the pale hair, she would have given much for an hour of the warm, free, full intercourse of mother and daughter, but the natural How of coutiding affection, repeatedly checkid, congeals at its fount, and is not no easily unloosed by the suuahine of sympathy as the ice-bound waters arc by spring. " My daughter, itappeared tomethat your manner was cold to Louis "Was I wrong, mamma ? Indeed I wished to do right." " You wire wrong, Louise." " I wish I ever knew what to do! Dear mother, ntn 1 not stupid? I try to do well, and am always doing ill. How is that? I was wrong in conversing w ith Louis ou the grounds some w eeks since, and I am wrong in not conversing with him now. I am afraid, mother, that I have a very feeble understanding?buvc I uot V It was just now, in this exigency, that Mrs Armstrong divined the difficulty of making n rational and responsible moral agent of one, out of whom she had crushed all freedom of thought und feeling " My <Iaugh(er !" she replied, in a slightly sul>dued tone, u my (laughter, 'circumstances alter cases.' Miss Armstrong in her own halls must display a courteous hospitality to Mr. NluartGordon as her guest. And," continued the lady, sinking her voice to a still lower and more confidential key, " Loui*? must console Lotus ? must win him from the melancholy that still so darkly colors his conversation and manners?my daughti r P " My dear mother P " You did not reply to me. Understand, Misa Armstrong, that I wish you to he amiuhU to Mr Louis Stuart-Gordon." Louise ho wed her head, in reply " Now, my love, ring the hell for Kate, that she amy come and put your hair in curl." Louise obeyed. This act of commanding a girl to he sympahetic was in perfect keeping with Mrs Armstrong, who did not understand sympathy. Hut n thi course of a few days the astute lady, pereiving that her presence imposed the greatest 1 iimsihle restraint upon the iimnneraof herdmigher, gradually withdrew herself as much as losaihle from her neighborhood, and covertly vatched the progress of her drama. She within w herself and mlo herself, and a dark shadow if gloom, bitterness, ami reserve, settled upon her tountenance. 11 < r soul was an iiiNtsnceof a kinglorn divided ag'iiiist itself. '1'lie destiny site had Ichigued lor lur daughter was oci tain ly approachng Yet, us it drew on and on towards its conluiuoialiou, the cloud darkened Mucker and block r upon the hrow of the mother i XVI i SUSAN NOMKHVII I.K Tb#y eeui'il in ttinn sticms tbeni mint, Tl e worldly friends of terry dsjr. Her mi We w*r iindlniirbtd srid swtst, Htr ronrlr.y w.? frrt snil irsy ; And ysl tf on* (lie other's nsnis III rnius unirusrdel inotnrnl hssrd, | Thr hssrl you ihonutit so r ilil unit turns ( Would flutter like ? o?|itlve bird ?Milnei To the morbidly fastidious nature of l.onls Ituurt Gordon, there was something eitreniely ilnilsive ill the idea of the interference of u bird purly iu bin wooing, eren when that tbird r>rty was hi- father, and woH-wiaher is; his suit. ( landllng, liuwev* r tenderly, brushes the down rom the wing of tbe butterfly, lore. lie found a 1 liffioulty in courting " to order," even tbe girl he ored. " Marry Louise"?he wished no lean, but iow, if he did but speak to her, look at her, he elt hiuiHcIf n ull If il? wale hed with a solicitous HVction, with a lion ioyu^f to hift Milt, it in true, 1 nit ft ill ntilih'il, and bis delicate cupid folded its ring*, tucked Dm bead beneath one, bird fa*hion< ( rid would have compos* d itself to sleep, but that n incident roused and alarmed him This was 1 he assiduous attentions of Willia Lindsay to ,oui?c to Int Louise?hin drlicrrte flower?his ( heltered exotic, whose greatest charm for hiin t mm her rare crystalline purity front the con- I act of the world?from those frequent, so-called, J larmless, hut really debasing flirtations, In which ( be aroma of a girls first affections are apt to be ex- | taled?from those pressures of the hand, glauc- i nga of th" eyes?from those sighs, and tears, and 1 *hiaperrd tones of lore, thai, breathed upon his lower, would huve carried otl its dew and withred its freshiieas for biin You will smile, readir, tint it is a fact that Louis Ntuart-Qordon con[ratulated himself that his little lady-lose hail leither brother nor father to familiarise her with that his morbid delicacy termed coarse oaresaes? lay, that even her mother waetoo cold and proud t> touch the polished brow of tbe girl with er lipe. True, vitality hud been ckdUd within ( er, but it wnn not dead?he could warm her to | ife again?and such a life of lovsl Thene had i I>cen the thought*. wishes. and intentions of Louis Stuart-Gordon Now, however his divinity *? in danger of losing in his eyes some of her delusive glory ; ever clote by her side, stooping to her ear un'i whispering in a low and love-tuned I voice, stood Willis Lindsay. Mow he sped in his wooing it was impossible to tell, from the habitually si.Lined and ipiiet manner of Louise. The life, the sting, of jealousy, is iu unfftatn" Where there is assurance one way or theother the passion may become love and joy or it may Is-rome dejmiror revenge,but it craaestolie /-alou y. Mow dissimilar in unlike nature*, tire the manifeetationa of passion and emotion Mow various, in differ ent subjects, is the pathology of jealousy |D the bounm of Louis Stnari-tiordou. its rise n a t-1. s I sorrowful, rather than sudden or angry. dis|s??. i ing hiin to self-immolation rather than to ven f geance. | " If Iconise my datiiug Loui e, fills away from the affection of her infancy and childho. d. of all her young life?if she has ceased to love me, and has given her hesrt to this happier cousin of hers?why then ?what then 7 Shall I dim her >?y -witir-Tn*' imrwiedge of stiileffTigr? No Louise! That may he demon-love, but it is hot angel love?it is not even hnmsn love No, L.^iis*1 I would not cast the shadow of another cloud up<A that young brow?too overcast nl reody. No. darling Louise' be happy?and God give me some other way of contributing to her happiness I will even enrich that poor. young cou-iu, if his poverty stand in the way of your union uoutne: i win ix> m? unseen prevalence of your happiness. Louiae; hii<I then? and thou!?u ihoit lib, God ! oh God h \hort lib ' So Haying. Lenin Stuart-Gordon. with the thought of the happiness of our being absorbing his mind, went straight to make the n i-ry of mother. There are more mistaken made. more sine corn initted. more wrongs done, hy mere ih.mu),limit ess, than hy ull the evil propensitim :tnd malign passions put together There wm in the eofl seem1 tig fortn. serene countenance. and quiet tone of Mi*s Somervitle. n tnenmerixing influence tb?t poMtined the power ?.(cowwdt^ (he mo*' 1 *wi emotions of th.? most disquieted souls that appronrhtd her I he)</??.. 1 ?;.d and .*?.. f-xrv * n maniac. How healthful was her influence upon the morbidly excitable temperament of Louie Stuart-Gordon; but. oh! at what a fearful price ehe imparted it1 When the diseased woman touehed the bent of the Suvioui'a garineiit, Christ felt "virtue rl'junt from" him The health that healed the nick, the ntrrngth that rained the feeble, ihpmtnl from the Saviour?and how ill and weak it left him in Gethiu mane! How ill ar ' ue .k until "angels ministered unto hiiu, Htrengthening hintIt ia not irreverent to ray that the life of the humblest disciple haM its type in the life of Christ I Gri< t for the losn.of hiamother neparation front I .on inf. r,Him. trih,,m litre, the sickness of adolcscenoe, the maturing and the dbqniet of energies that had not yet found their proper direction, tbe youthful want of love, rather than love it-elf? the-e were the mixed motiveH that first drove Louia to aeek aolace in the company of Susan Homerville?little dreaming that, while he wa? nmui/iK from her, health. Mlrength, and cheerfultie-*, that she w.ts fo?t?-g the same to him Iter hoft manner* were ao soothing to him, how roe/./ lie deem that the pence that wan fal'ing upon Iik nnirita was departing from hrrs > That, in benefiting him. ahe waa growing U> love him; th.it, iu loving hint, ehe waa losing her obi tranquillity, I her independence, aye, for a while the v?ry power 1 of guiiiing her own life And so, d iy after day, thovfhtlisilti he had viaited her, Hat hy her aide, read, oouversed with her, until hianoeiety became n habit, a necessity to hn, in proportion an hia returning cheerfulness rendered hers needless to him. Now. at Mont Crystal, he nought sgiin the society of Susan Somerville an a balm for the deep wounds hi- heart bad received in the Happened defection of Louise, and lie met again the name hweet welcome, the name gentle glancen and Hoft tonen that ever fell, like cooling dew, upon the fever of hin spirits A ml SiiMttii?-Ik.vv fgrftl i( uith K?>r I 'ultn cool, and wise, in hII Wber a flairs, in 'An she was j hut loo blinil. She hrnl sufferid her heart. not ht'nd, Jo interpret the meaning of Louia'sronsliint vinittt?hid Iontarrying?bin corneal glance* and hi* breathless lidtening for her words?anil even hh '/.oe had rewired ihemlrnt manifestations of her lover's regard in all confidence, do Sudan accepted the tacit friendship of Loiiin, translating it?/ore; and ifahe lost her serenity, und grew hurried and agitated, it was, iik yet. rather with hope than with fear It waa under these circumstances that, upon one morning about a week after their arrirul at Mont Crystal, Louis nought the side of Sushii Somerrille. The family had not yet assembled to hreakfaal, and she was the sole occupant of the drawing room She was seated upon that crimson aofa at the extremity of the saloon. Louis entered, slowly sauntering towards her, and took the seat by her side, dropped his head upon hisopiu palms, and murmured? ? "Susan, dear Musnu." " Louis." That was all she said, hut the round, full, melodious tone in which that single won! was breathed might have stilled the tumult of a tempest. "Susan, I have need of thee I have need of thy uifeotion , give it me. Susan. 11 ere ! lay one cool hand oil my brow, the other on my heart? so. Susan, I have neither mother, sister, nor love ; and I do need soine rroman't attention so much?give ine yours, Susan " " Von have my best love?you shall have my hest efTorts to promote your happiness, dear Louis." "Thank you, uiy dearest sister?thank you, 8 it at n AIhh, .Susan y?u will UeMfino mo; I mn growing sentimental, maudlin, mawkish ; I nm beginning to depisc myiflj. .Susan give me the secret of i/our ciieerluliiess?of the cheerfulness of oil the people I ?if around mo. I low in it that they live without n grout love, .Susan I Mow ito they fill up their hrarta 1 Why cannot / <lo so ? f*-4t for the want of good mother wit, good strong common sense, .Suasu. thut I iiu.iin my honrt out heratise it young, pale frail, trembling git I does not return my love 1 Ti ll me Susan" Kunuti Soiuerville hud hoen startled l>y thn commeucruit lit of hut loot speech, hud grown pule rm it progressed, ami at its conclusion she replied, in 11 sinking eoioo? " I do not lit nit uudcrstsml you. dear Louis'' " All, my .infer Hasan ! I love and adore Louise Armstrong, while she hna given her heart to i?nttther; pity mo, Sukhu'' 411 do, I do itulmij' murmured Hiia?n, in a dying lone. " Hut I pity you because you aro Mind ; the does not love any one except her mother." 44 Are you aure of what you aay, Huhi.ii ?" 4< Very sure of it, Louis And now 1 must bid you good morning " A ml ho siying, the girl arose nml left the room Moetiug a servant, ahe requested him to have M.ijor Sumurvillt a hursts saddled und LrougLt around. Susan .Somerville passed on up the stairs, her smooth white cheeks a shade jailer, In r quiet step a degree slower, tier calm voice a tone lower? these were nil the signs the moat acute observer could have dlscovi rid of the darkness, ooldness, J<eolation, that had fallen upon tiie poor girl's life I know that this wotd 41 desolation" is strong -la hackneyed Vet let the reader remember that a lirst disappointment in the aft'eclioux falls upon the young heart like the km-ll of ft doom more terrible than tha denth of I ha body?? spiritual annihilation. To them the driirurtloii of their lota hopes is indeed despair, ' desolation " Thry hare seen the sun fat for tha hi tl iiuii. tu<d have no eiMrienon to tat oh (bant [hat it will rise again. They have se?n vegeln ion blighted by u fir it front?rivarf find brookatii fron-n by a tint winter, and thay harp no knowledge that Mowers will bloom and waters How in a second spring. Ah ! no the darkness it perpetual night, the coldncaa of eternal winter, the agony of an infinite told, seems within inil around them The long, weary years of life, stretching out toward* the future stem too ler ribla to bear heath would he welcome to tha most cowardly during this he?rt-sicknes* So felt Hnaau, aa she punted slowly up the stairs, without a single thought in ber mind, with only the feeling of a horrible nightmare of the spirit weighing ber down. Hbe oould not ?Ai*#,sheoould only tr-l. Hbe could not wonder why the sunlight, Fjlsncing through the window on the stair-land ng, fell gloomily npon her?why the distant shouts of Gertrude Lion's laughter grated harshly upon her ear?why the Mantling of Rritanaia's purple satin dress, bright ringlets, nnd 1 sparkling fttce, a* she bowed and smiled her hasty good morning, in crosaing the upper paaesge, (truck painfully upon her?why all gay sights,