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r" ^ " * s % * ^ THE NATIONAL ERl G*. BAILEY? ED[T0R ANI) PROPRIET OR; JOHN G. WHITTIER, CORRESPONDING EDITOR. vol. iv.?no. 17. Washington, Thursday. ai?kil -i\ i^a whole no. 17a" ' Thf National Era U Pabllthed Weekly, an KfTfith Mreet, oppaeile O.l.i Fellawt'Hall. TERMS. T wo d >llars per annum, payable tn advance. Advertisement* not exceeding ten lines inserted three times for one dollar; every subsequent insertion, twenty-five cents. All communications to the Era, whether on business of the paper or for publication, should be addressed to G. Bah.ky, Washington, D. C. HUKLl. k B LAN CHARD, PKINTEKS, Sixth ?tr?et, a few door* south of Pennsylvania avinue. THE NATIONAL ERA. W 181IINGTON, APRIL tt, I8M. (COPT ?l?Mf SKCl'ftBD.) THE !>H)THEK-1N-IjAW. a cr r::c jr?r*TE. BV MRS. EMM A d. E. SOtTTUWOETM. BOOK AEi.O.Si U. VI?Continued. On Wednesday morning, Miss Somcrvillc and Anna were sitting out on the piazza. Both were in mourning. Susan was engaged, mechanically, with her everlasting knotting work. Anna was reading to her from Felicia Hcmans's poems They had been left to Susan by Britannia O'Riley, bestowed upon her her whole collection of hooks, casts, and pictures, before leaving the Crags. There were few who rend poj^ry with more appreciation, sympathy, or finer elocution, than Anna. She w;is reading the " Crowning of Corinne at the Capitol," and when she finished? " Kvliant daughter of the nun! Now thy living wreath ia won. Crowned of Home! oh, art thou not Happy tn that ftfurtaus lot f? Happier, happier far than thou, With the ^ Ik she that nukes the humbled hearth, l.ovely hut to out on earth "Head on! I like it," said Susau. "There is the wail of a broken heart in every line she has written." But Anna resolutely closed the book. " This is unhealthy, Miss Susan, this is morbid, in you, in Corinne, and in the poetess whose sweet but enfeebling strains we have just been reading. The heart of this ideal Corinne was destroyed by a conflagration of passion?what then? She had a glorious brain. It was impossible to live in a ruin?what then ? She might have lived in a palace. She had no life in her affections?well! she might have had a glorious life in her intelleot! The soul lives in the heart and in the head?in the affections and in the intellect. A strong soul driven out from its own wounded heart ascends into its brain?and finds a higher if a colder life. It is only in despair, in inaction, that such a spirit suffers long. The stronger the faculties of the soul, the more it suffers in inaction. An idiot will sit all day, and day after day, hnppy in idleness; an intelligent child will be miserable if confined an hour without employment or amusement. An extremely aged person will sit week after week in the same arm-chair, in the same oorner of the same room, pleased and happy ; a young person grows weary if a day's rain confines him to the house. A feet wuV-lnflH nr'tMonpr will linffar <vm* vmm in his cell in a sort of torpid resignation ; a healthy, strong captive struggles and chafes in his fetters. The soul is a sort of prisoner in the body?and the stronger and more healthy it is, the more it chafes and frets, until it finds its life in action?its freedom in action. A young person, full of repressed life, health, and energy?full of strong powers that crave their development?experiences a lassitude, a listlessness, a weariness of life, for which they cannot account, especially when they hesr the season of youth spoken of as the season of joy. Such a yonng person will take to reading or writing sentimental poetry, and grow weaker, ruorc weary, and more useless, every day. Now, sentimental poetry has its mission, but it is to soften the hard?not to liquefy the already soft The cure of such brain-sick youth is not in that. Let any young man or woman tormented by this terrible ennui take my word for it, that the nature of their suffering proves them to possess great powers undeveloped ! Let such seek their vocation, imil pursue it. And this is a sure guide! Let them find out that useful occupation in which they tuke the most pleasure, and then bring all the powers of mind and body to a focus to bear upon that point?to hreak down every obstacle, conquer ever difficulty, and press onward to the end, however distant, however difficult, however seemingly unattainable?for then at least me powera or loe uoui win oc urougui uui iu ?u their glorious life, energy, and joy ! Every one has his talent, and he will suffer in proportion as he lets it rust in hiB heart. And this I lay down :is a rule, without an exception, that no healthy human being?however young, beautiful, loving, and loved, however intellectual, however wealthy, powerful, honored?that no hf.ai.thy human heI NO can he HAPrY WITHOUT labor. LaBOR IS destiny." " I am knotting," smiled Susan, with a sad sarcasm, " yet I do not find in accumulating yards of cotton fringe, and piles of toilet covers and valances, any peculiar pleasure ; nor am 1 sensible of any great happiness in counting these meshes." 'iThat is not labor, Miss Somerville, though it serves to calm your nerves. That is not labor ; it goes on mechanically, almost without your consent . your fingers act as your heart heats, as your lungs breathe, involuntarily. You are strong, and idle, and you want work. Ijihor is Destiny " And how, with your limited knowledge of the world and of books, have you arrived at that conclusion?" "One does not need a library, or a tour round the world, Miss Somerville, to work out some things. All human nature is contained in one small village church?I had almost* said in one small child. All books of ethics and philosophy are contained in one pocket Bible. The Bible, a few histories, and a few poems, have been my library, as you know. The party at Mont Crystal was roy tour of the world. For the rest, Miss -VII. < . . .... uun-u, "mil jr?iu were loving, 1 *U MinkMf. I raw scores of young girls and young men at Mont Crystal, all seeming, at first Bight, bright and h ippy , but all, in proportion to their strength of aoul, deadly weary of the monotonous round of eating, drinking, dressing and flirting. Yet that was said to have been a very delightful party , the young people were said to have snjuysd themselves heartily. I knew better ; they tired of it in three days, and only continued it because nothing better offered by which to employ themselves. No?with all other means and appliancea, toil la nn indispensable requisite .to happiness. As I said everyone has his or her appointed work, and is tormented with restlessness until they have found It. Whet do yon teke most pleasure in doing, Miaa Susan 7 I know?I have studied you, MissHusen. You ers happiest when working for Mhers, without minding whet that work maybe Mies Sosen, you must seek e poeition where yon can spend yonr days la the aervloe of others. If 1 could ekeoee a destiny for you, yoo should be the wlfo ot some wise, calm, stroag, country clergyman, with an ex tensive field of lal>or before him. lint see, Mas 8uaaa 1" aaid eke, suddenly, " while wa are talking, yon are a missing the effect of this beautiful moving panorama of clouds over the Rky and river. The descent from the Crags to the river level is said to be monotonous, because almost destitute of vegetation? but look! it is varied with every form of rock, and every shade of gray. Gold in the sunshine, and bronze in the shade! Every little fragment of stone is gold on the one side and bronze on the other. Now, look at the sky and the river: seethe gilded clouds sailing through the blue ether, and their shadows moving on the waters! See the Isle of Rays, how it sparkles in the sun!" " Yet it is a forsaken and empty house." " Just now, yes; but it beams and scintillates all the Bame. And now raise your eyes to where Mont Crystal towers on the opposite bank, with its white granite walls and rows of crystal windows glancing in the light!" " Yes, but its cold splendor encloses an aged and solitary woman!" "You find gloom in everything to-dny, Miss Susan." I "Ah! Anna, I cannot help it!" > "Hut look a' this picture, that God has hung oat before you! See how the sky smiles in Messing on the earth ami waters ! See how they smile back in love! See how the clouds combine, dissolve, and chunge, with a misty brightness, an ever-varying radiance! Did ever skies beam with more love?did ever enrtfc smile with more gladness than now? Oh! look and listen, and acknowledge God in his works! The halls of the Island Palace are lined with the rarest works of the greatest masters.. Recall that masterpiece of Claude Lorraine, and tell me if it approaches this in value, though that cost a thousand guineas, and could only be purchased by a millionaire; and this is hung out in the sight of all, for nothing! The soul of the artist was in that, but the soul of God is in this! The painter expressed himself there?the Creator reveals himself here! How can you be gloomy, while God is smiling on you through the skies ?" Suddenly Anna grew pale?started as she gazed down the flight of rocks?turned, as by an instinctive impulse, to fly?seated herself again as by a second resolution, and gazed steadily out upon the rocks. * v? hat VU&c. > V juited *-Yi rse 1 Somerville. Anna pointed to where three horsemen were just coming in sight, up the nscent. They approached the house, dismounted, and walked towards Miss Somerville and Anna. Anna grew paler still, trembled?then setting ber teeth, and clenching tightly both hands, with a gesture full of strength of soul, she summoned her physical energies to their post. " Miss Susan Somerville, I presume," said the ( first nmn, lifting his hat to the young lady. " That is my name, sir,"' replied she, rising to receive them. " My name is Power, deputy sheriff of ( county." " Will you come in, Mr Power ?" asked Susan, who heard this announcement with surprise, but not lour. nne was ignorant 01 any c?u?c mh* might have to dread the deputy sheriff. "Thank you, Miss,''he replied, and followed Susan to the sitting-room. " Take a chair, sir." " No, 1 am much obliged to you, Miss," he said, setting his hat and whip down on the table, and rummaging in his pockets for a paper. Susan watched him with increasing perplexity ' Let me see; how many negroes have you on the place. Miss Somerville ?" "1 have no domestics to hire out, sir," replied 8usan, believing that she had now divined the motive of his visit. " How many slaves have you about the house, then. Miss Somerville." " None, sir." " What 1 my dear young lady !" "Sir, I have my foster-parents. George and Harriet, who brought me up. and my foster-sister and companion, Anna, who has always shared my room, my table, and my school They are quadroons. I do not call them slaves." " They were the slaves of the late Major Somerville, however T" " Yes. sir." " And they are yours now." " No, sir! 1 do not for a moment acknowledge any right in myself to hold them My dear grandfather's funeral took plaoe only on yesterday afternoon, and to-morrorr mornimi I go to Richmond to take measures for their emancipation!" said Miss Somerville, in a cold, severe tone?for norr she believed herself in conversation with a would-be purchaser. "Will you? Ah lyes! well! A generous and praiseworthy design on your part, my dear young 1 idy !" said the deputy sheriff, perceiving for the first time that Susan was entirely unsuspicious of the object of his visit. ' Will you, however, let me see these people, my dear Miss SomMulle ?" " Ob, he is the t^^^therer /" thought Susan. " uertainiy, sir,repneu; men, lurmug iw Anna, she said, "Anna, will you call your parents 7" Anna, who had conquwed herself, nnd now stood calm, cold, and impassable, went out to obey. " Is that one of them ?" " Yes, sir!" ' " Tbit girl!" u Yes, sir." , " Why, she is white!" 9 " Very nearly, sir." . Anna now returned to the room with her pa- . rents. Poor George entered from his work-bench, with his white felt hat on his head, and a wisp of tiue-cut flag and his working knife in bis hand. ' lie pulled off his hat at the door, and stood wait- < ing to be spoken to. Harriet stood by him. with ' her hand resting on his arm. Anna went and ' stood by Susan. ' "Your name is George, my man?" asked the deputy sheritl', seating himself at a table, an l ' taking out a pocket apparatus for writing. "Yes, sir.' J "Your age?" asked the sheriff, beginuing to write. 1 " Sixty years, sir," replied George f " And your wife's name is Harriet?" I " Yes, sir." "Her age?" he inquired, continuing to make ' notes. ' " Forty-fire,sir." " That young girl is your daughter ?" " Yes. sir," replied the father, the muscles of his face twitching. "Her natne?age ?" "Anna?aged eighteen," answered the poor fither, in a broken roice, clutching the old white hat conrulsirely. The sheriff now went to the door, and called in the three men who had remained iu the piazza. Two of them entered and remained standing near the door. The third accompanied him to the table "This is Mr Jones, the assessor, MissSomerville." he said, as they passed Susan. "1 thought that you were the assessor, sir," said Susan, simply. " No, Miss," said the deputy, without smiling at her mistake. " Jones " he said, addressing the assessor, " look at that insn and tell me how murh yon think him worth " "How old is he?" "Nixty." "Hum! he looks nearer seeenty; but these muUttoes break down eery early lie looks rery worthless." " Say one hundred snd lifly dollars? " Ye-e-e-s?scarcely that'' " One huudred J" " Well-ll; ye-e-es " I^ook at the woman. What is her value " How old is she ?" " Forty five," she ssys "She looks more like fifty. Pot her at?at Has your wife goal health, my man V' ' Yes, air," sighed George. "Well! there is some work in her yet. Put her at two hundred dollars'1 "Now, then, for the girl; you see what her personal appearance is?eighteen years old , well eduoated, and all that?now, what is her ralue ?' The assessor looked at Anna, and, as his sensual eyes re red all over her girlish figure, gloating on her beauty, he muttered an exclamation? "She is a handsome girl, and it would bo a good spee* to take her to New Orleans She'd bring twelre or fifteen hundred dollars ! " Gentlemen I" said Susan Somsrrills, turning towards them, " You will do me a faror by getting this a miss?sat over as quickly as may ba Set your valuation as high as you plsnss. I do not oars for a few dollars mors or lose of taxation, but 1 4o oare to hare my privacy invaded end my friends hers subjected to this iodignity?the last, ifUplssse Ileaven, that they shall svsr Buffer, for to-morrow I will take measures for their immediate emancipation! Pray, gentlemen, be expeditious?will you ?" " A moment, young lady, a moment! At what do you Yalue the wench, Jones 1" The assessor walked towards Anna, still keeping his brutish eyes meted upon her; and, walking around her as though she had been a horse for sale, he lifted his hand to turn her about, "Death! Hands off my daughter, sir!" exclaimed the hitherto patient George, springing to his child's side. Rut, even before he had reached her. the calmsouled dign.'y of Anna, breathing through every look and altitude, had repulsed him. He returned to the table. "She would bring fifteen hundred or a thousand dollars in New Orleans " " That is not the question : what would she bring htrefn " Gentlemen, I beg of you"?commenced Susan Someryille. "Be patient, young laciy. vv bat is her value her?, Jones 1" "Gentlemen, I insist"?began Susan again, with her cheeks burning and her eyes flashing," I tarn/ that this is arrested. 1 conwuuul you to finish ;oar business and leave us." "One instant. Miss Sotnerville. Well, Jones, her value is7' "Three buo 'red dollars ! " " My dear Anna, can you forgive me, that this outrage is offered you before my face? " " You cannot help it, dear Miss Sotnerville," replied Anno, calmly. "Have you ilone, gentlemen? " indignantly demanded Miss Somerville, as the deputy and the assessor folded up their papers and returned them to their pockets and proceeded to button up their coats, 11 have you done, gentlemen ? " " Miss Sotnerville," began the deputy, " I have now to perform a very painful duty , a simple and short one, however."' "Yes, as short as an execution," muttered George. " Miss Sotnerville. 1 attach this property at the suit of Spier & Co, Grocers, Peakville." Susan started to her feet, clasped her hands, and turned deadly pale, as the truth suddenly struck her. Anna stood still and white. George and Harriet threw themselves in each other's arms, with a cry. "To thk nootts?*Hriggs aud Brown! look to the doors! " shouted the deputy, whom this action Jiail y^^ru.ed.^ryimrirjr Jo J>is feet, The two cohs'tfoies 'sprang toThfc floors' securing them. " Cock your pistols ! " " It Is unnecessary, sir ; we will make no resistance," said George, gently diseugtging the arms of his wife from about his neck. " Oh, my Saviour, my Saviour, have mercy on us!" cried Susan, wringing her hands "Be patient, Miss Susan, dear Miss Susan," said Anna, caressing her " Have you the handcuffs, Jones 1" " Yes ; here they are." "Oh. my God, no! you will never do that!" cried Susan, in anguish. " My dear young lady, if men were turned by the tears of women, we should never do our duty. Give me the fetters. Jones; here, we will secure the two women together, and then the man by himself." And the deputy, taking the fetters, went up to the spot where A una and her mother now stood, locked in each other's arms * " Yotr swam, not t>o it! Away! You shai.i. not no it!" shouted George, bounding between his wife and child and the otticers, and brandishing his knife?all the latent and terrible ferocity of the mixed ni.ooa leaping, like forked lightning, from his eyes. " I have been patient j I would have followed you like a whipped hound follows his master. yon might have handcutfed me, but not them! See, I urn her father; and I will bury this knife in your heart or in hers, sooner than you shall place n fetter on her wrist! " " What! the devil! You d?d mulatto rascal, do you reeist an officer of the law ? " " To TtiK i>katii ! iM^is case." With no more addJKe deputy suddenly raised the end 01 his loaded whip, end brought it down in a sharp And stunning blow upon the head of the gray-haired slave, who dropped in a heap at his feet! With a piercing scream, Susan Somerville sprang forward, and fell upon her face in a deathlike swoon ! Harriet, pale with terror, clung helplessly to her daughter. Anna alone was self-possessed. "Sit down, dear mother, and let me atteud to Miss Susan and father. Or, mother, try toat'eod father, while I get Miss Susan upstairs" And, gently easing her trembling mother down upon a chair, she went to Susan's side, and, lifting her head, and addressing herarlf to one of the men who had taken no part in this violent scene, beyond guarding the doors, aho said? " Will you be so good as to lift this young lady and bring her up stairs with me ? " The man looked at his superior for permission. " Yes. take her along," said the deputy, " It's the devil's own business, an affair of this kind, where there are so many women about." And the officer raised Susan in his arms, and bore her after Anna, who led the way up stairs. Taking advantage ofSusan's swoon, Anna's absence, and George's insensibility, to finish the affair quickly and quietly, the deputy sheriff attached the little old family car', the old family horse, and harnessing 11 up, oouna ueorge ana kid him in the bottom of it; placing Harriet, who willingly accompanied him, by his Hide. Then, leaving a bailiff in charge, the deputy get off for :he county town. They were a mile from the Crags before Susan Jomerville recovered from her swoon. She recovered painfully, with spasmodic twitchlngs? >pened her eyes, groaned, shivered, closed them tgain. Soon re-opening them, she looked around, ind seeing Anna, said? "Anna! Anna! are you there7 Oh, Anna, I 'lave had the mogt dreadful nightmare 1" and lighed heavily again, and covered her eyes with )er hands, as shuddering* convulsed her frame. Then flaring her eyes wide open, she started up n bed, caught both Anna's hands in berown. and (at'd long and searchingly in her facs. Then rroming. "Ob my God 1 It. was no thrum! It sas trw '" fell back sod covered her face with ner hands, in a few minutes, without uncovering her face, she inquired, " Whereare they, Anna?'1 "Gone, Miss Susan."' " I mean your mother and father? " " (lone!n "Oh, my God ! And you Anna? " " I am left here in charge of a bailiff until , some other assistance can be sent to you Perhaps I shall stay all night with you. And now, Miss Susan, yrny and try to calm your mind, for to-morrow you must do something." "What is it, Anna? Oh, suggeat something that I can do, and never fear but that I shall get better, and grow strong enough instantly to do it! It is the kelplrtturm of oor situation that makes me despairing end ill ! " " Then. Miss Susan, you had better write to General Smart-Gordon ; be will assist us, without doubt. Notice will have to be given a certain number of days before any sale is made, and in that time General Stuart-Gordon can be heard from.1' " I will write to-night, Anna" "No, Miss Nusan, you could not hold a pen , to-morrow will l?e quite time enough." " Alas! Anna, what has not ' to-morrow ' cost us already ? It waa to-morrow that I win to have gone tin Richmond to nee ubout doing you juntioe! Ah, Anna! if I had gone to-Jay,jou and your parents might have been saved 1" "Not so. Miss Susan' We were watched ; they would have followed and attached us on the road " " Ah ! if I thought it was inevitable I should not suffer such psugs of remorse , but, oh, I fear it was my delay alone' Vet I never dreamed of an eiecution!" II It mi am inevitable. Miss Susan. V on could not help it. Try to be composed." " You are so composed, Anna! How is it that you are so composed ? " "Ah, Minn Hasan! n misfortune long looked for <loes not startle one when it arrises " " Von expected this long, then V " For more than sit months. Miss Somerville.'* "Ah! why did you not tell me ? " "Yon could not hare averted it; why torment you with it, then. Miss Susan 7" " Then, when i supposed you to be grieving over your own position, you were only dreading this catastrophe 7" "That waa it, Miss Susan" " Oh, my dear Anna! 1 have never done yon justice I" "Try to rest, Miss Susan " A silence ensued. Anna supposed Mies Sonserville to be composing herself to sleep, but presently the low sounds of weoping, under the sheets, atole on her ear. At last? u Anna, are you there yet 7 " murmured Husan. " Yea, Miss Susan." " Go to bed, Anna! Do go to bed. Something must be done, if it be iu thepowerof human tears, and prayers, and persuasions. I will bumble myself to these men, Anna. Oh! if human hearts can be moved by human misery you shall be saved, Anna! n "Ah!" thought Anna, "they will have but one answer to your prayers, Miss Susan?'the law!"' but she said, "Yes, hope Miss Somerville! " And feeling that Susan could not grow quiet unless she herself seemed to rest, Anna lifted Susan's hand, pressed and kissed it, and bade her good night. Susan turned on her pillow. seeming to sleep, but really busying herself with a thousand impossible plans for saving her foster-sister, and redeeming George and Harriet. Anna withdrew to the window to draw the curtain and exclude the moonbeams, that her mistress might sleep more quietly. And she looked out upon the rocks falliug down to the river, the river and the banks floating in a flood of silvery radiance, with the Isle of Rays, glanciug towards the sky in streams of light, like a sheaf of diamond-tipped arrows. She whispered. " Oh! beautiful! My obi father?my gentle moiher ! it is iu tkn n.M.t rvl* f lU.t tLa mr luiviei ui uuu o ucnuuiui ucnwwu umi ?uwr uic I deeds of hate are done! Vet, nnt ?W Intr?let ine ! be just! Let me be patient! Let no pas-ion of i mine distort a local necessity into a deed of hate ! Oh, thou Crucified! who remeraberedst amid the agony of the cross that thy executioners kuew not what they did. and prayed for theui. give me a portion of thine own divine calmness, patience, and justice! Let me remember the position, the education, the prejudices, the undisciplined passions of these men, and do thnn justice! How beautiful, how holy, this night! How sublimely c ilm ! Let no storm arise in my own bosom to desecrate this holy calm !" And oh! a divine peace was let down from Heaven into the depths of her spirit, and her heart was flooded with patience and love, still dilating into a strange joy ! " What is this? oh, angels! what is this? Kvorything. from the centre of my own spirit to the bounds of Creation, seems expanding, brightening and rising ! " A heavenly languor was stealing over her her frame; she bowed her head vpon the windowsill and fell asleep ! ^ U< a_yeol? dreams visited her?the walls of the r >< yi dj#tfwtired^-the hpriron exp mded?the j ^Aia-'nneo S.p?frte heavens' opened?the wiilgs of angels hrightrued the sky?the voices of angels made melodious the air ! Oh, ye sorrowing! make clear the paths of the angels to your souls ! Dismiss anger, fear, and selfishness, that the angels may *nme and minister to you ! "Till sorrow, toushed by li *1 griws bright With more than rapture's ray, As darkness shows ns worlds of light We nertr Raw by day ! " * ******* Ivirly in the morning, Susan Somerville arose, and seeing fho form of Anna reclining on the window-sill, and bathed in the glory of the morning sun, she went up to her, spoke to her, and receiving no reply, touched her, ind started hack with terror?Anna was dead ! ****** ** The physician pronounced h?r death to have proceeded from some orgmin diieaseof the heart. And no one disputed the deciiion of the medical fncnlty The coroner's jury came netrer the truth in their verdict?" A visitation of Hod." |to sic coi?tinukd.| For tke National Kn TO THE HON. DAMKI. WEBSTER. No, n. Pi:ar Sir: Your reflections upon fanatics are ingenious, and, in the main, just. Fanatics, upon a small scale, are especially annoying. They interrupt the current of human opinions, without turning the channel or enlarging its bounds. Rut the evolution of a "single idea," when it lies at the foundations of society and government, is one of the boldest, most useful, and glorious, of human achievements. The great battles of human freedom and true morals hsve been won by just such men as you describe. I need hardly mention examples. Take the human life of Christ himself, fie was a fanatic to the Jews and Gentiles. To the Jews " a stumbling block," to the Greeks " foolishness.'' and to the Romanian Innovator?"turning things upside down." After all, the new ideas which he introduced into the world were few, but of immense importance?underlying the whole fabric of human society and government, fly a subtle analysis of the human heart, he enjtf ciated a rule of conduct which is applicable toW possible emergencies of moral action, " Do unto others as you would others should do unto you." The other idea was the rejection of all physical peace-offerings to God. The doctrine of material sacrifice was worldwide,and pervaded xll nlunaoa of iiooiptv?more fixed and universal in human opinion, perhaps, than any other idea. This he rejected, and restored nature to herself. Teaching that the truo worship of God was the perfecting bin greatest work?man. Enlighten the intellect; purify the aoul; and beautify the body?these are the three bases of all true worship of Ood. And, if so, our fanatical friends, the Northern Abolitionists, are not so narrow in their ideas as one m?y suppose. Slavery is in direct antagonism to the only elements of human civilization nnd progress Are not, then, the great m iss of cavillers at the " onr-ldealsts " themselves to be pitied, who cannot see this great truth! i imagine to myself John C. Calhoun listening to your strictures upon fanatics. Now one, then another, of these " odious agitators." pasa in the memory's review: first lisle, and then G id dings; and then, as you dilute upon the subject, William L. Garrison, the arch-fanatic, appears. He enjoys the sport: you mend your paoe; he is in ecstncies. the " fun grows fast and furious," till, like Tsui O'Shauter. he can contain himself no longer ? "Well done 1'' he cries! " Quid fidet f ile te fabula nnrrutur Daniel Webster denounces fanatics! the greatest of fanatics applauds 1 "Impatient men" there are, no doubt, too. Some of them have been waiting for siity years, and more, for slavery to "die out;" and yet it seems as unwilling to give up the ghost as it did iu I7S7I How much longer must we patiently wail I How long do you think the slaveholders would have ua wait? They are proverbially liberal, sir; leave it to them, and we should be as well ofl as Sheridan's creditors!?" the day after judgment" woulJ be soon enough I I do not see the appositeness of your parallel between the rise of Christianity and the fall of slavery Moral truth is one thing, and political action is another We c innot. compel belief, but we can action. In NiMo's garden, in IM37,your perceptions seined to he somewhat cksxef You would hardly have regarded it as a good reason for setting up slavery in Texas, where Mexico had abolished it, that the Christian religion had been a loug time in existence, and had not yet subjected all the world! "Impatience," if the .South was in good faith making efforts un?t sacrifice* to extinguish slavery, would l?e worthy of denunciation. Hut, when they are doing the very opposite, euch illtimed sympathy will hnrdly l>e set down, hy impartial ruen, as the fruit of an euWrged charity! And moral insensibility in woree than fanaticism ! It may he true that aociety, left to itaelf, in all caeea. may right itself at last. Soil, hy had culture, may in a aingle year wante the accumulation* of centurinel True, centurie* will restore it I Hut ia it the part of wiadom to take the remedy instead of the prevention ? No, air. it ia with regard to government* and morale. Your idea, that moral truth ia not capable of demonstration as the mathematics, in now admitted by the heel thinkers to he founded in error. The method is different, but the result?cntiwdy?ia equally attainable, though the process he more difficult and the data more oomplicited. Jtut what if true? The standard of everr man's action must be at last whs' he believes right. Yoa aeem, however, to follow a learned magistrate, snoh as the great West sometimes boasts: " He was satisfied, from all the evidenoe, that the oomplainent ought to gain bis suit; but, out of a'/wvlante of couiion, he would decide for thedefendant!" Your charity towards Southern Christiana is in part well baaed. There are many, very many, conscientious slaveholders; but thsy ars the " weaker brethren " The leading minds among them are as finished Jesuits and swindling hypocrites as ever wore a black gowa I The regular slave traders ars iafiolUly better men I The opinions of the fathers of the Government were as you say. It was expected that alavtry would u rou oat." Sherman and Madison and others were not willing to allow that man could hare property in man. Those who had just made solemn avowals to the world of ths right of all men to Ufa, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, were ashamed to put the word slavery in the Constitution Washington and others looked forward to an I early extinction of slavery as a fixed fact. All, ' all united in denouncing it as an evil. Some, as a'curse, a wrong, and a sin. Will any man deny, from all the evidence in the premises, that it was a part of" the compromise" that slavery was allowed time merely to ; die with decency ! The Ordinance of 1787, prohibiting slavery north of the Ohio, was coeval with the Constitution. The tiraeof slave.importation was limited ; and the institution itself was I denounced. Now, sir, when so much is said about "good ! faith" and "compromise." might not one who , comprehended the "great mission" of our nation (such is the cant phrase!) have said to the slave propagandists, you are at war with nature? at war with the advance of Christianity?at war with the progress of civilization?at war with our avowed sentiments and the organic law of our Government?at war with the spirit of the national " co-partnership "?at war with " the oora| promises of the Constitution "?at war with every I J La a- V ? 1 ? Ml La I?urc cvmciCDce?;iua uugni 10 op, vum win i>r, " resisted at all hazards, and to the last extremity !" Pardon me I think such a declaration was to | hare been expected from you. Allow me to My it would hare done more even to "preserve the Union" than all your " moderation" and all your "charity." 1 refer you to Governor Hammond as my authority for saying that "moderation," " charity,' and "moral suasion," are, with slaveholders, synonymes with cowardice, impertinence. and " nonsense!" The main cause of the abtndonment of the South of the faith of our fathers is. as you state it, the increase of the cotton crop. Hut this cause has passed north of Mason and Dixon's line, and produced a change of tone in both free and slave Htates. The cause is one thing?the justification is another Your defence of the South is characteristic of the legal profession. What are truth and right in the face of one hundred millions of dollars? That which was a curse a wrong, and a sin. in 1 <87, by one hundred millions of dollars, in 1850, is couverted iuto a blessing, a right, and a religious oharity. As much as I abhor slavery, I abhor the detence more. One strjfys dojrn the libgrtv of the African? ftae'o'bef, mine. One enslaves a people? the other, the human race The one avowedly prostrates only political rights?the other saps the foundations of morals and rivil safety, also. This " political necessity" is the father of murder, of robbem. and all riliirious and irovernrnental tyranny. This is the damnable doctriue upon which was huilt the inquisition, the star chamber, ami the guillotine. . No, sir, that which is a fault in individuals, is a crime in governments. We can guard against the danger of a single assassin, hut a government is irresistible and immortal in its criminal inflictions. The doctrine that individual honesty is compatible with political proflig tcy, or that individual and governmental responsibility are distinct, is one of the boldest sophisms that was ever allowed to linger Among the shallow falsehoods of the past. Retribution follows swift in the footsteps of crime, whether perpetrated by one or a thousand. "Though hand join to hand," the wicked shall not stand. The poisoned chalice of slaveholding propagsndism is already commended to their own lips Their spirit of aggression has awakened a like spirit of resistance. They would have Texas; we will have California ! Yes,sir; though cotton and cotton mili.s pkrish korevkr! The unconstitutional precedent of a simple majority of both Houses taking in slave States, will in turn crush the political power of the South to atoms. Then how long will her God-defying tyranny stand hefore the hot indignation of a world in arms! Respectfully, your obedient servant, Mirth 25, 1850. C. M. Ci.ay. fat the N ettouet Kr* SLAVERY SINFUL 11 ITSELF, AND NON-FELLOWSHIP OFfTHOSK PRACTICING IT THE DUTY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. No. 8. Again, the objector says : " i belipve slavery is sinful, and that the church ought to purify herself from it; hut we anti-slavery men ought to stay in the church, and work to purify it?to get the rest of the members right" We answer: 1. Then God did wrong when he commsnded his people to " conic out from corrupt Rahylon, that ye be not partakers in her sins, and that ye , receive not of her plagues" 3. The history of the church shows that God's policy of coming out from a corrupt church is the correct policy to secure a pure church. Jlencc God called Abraham out from the idolatrous connection in which he was. lie did not stay to purify it. Christ and his followers lived in a corrupt age, and, like the prophets, they offered sacrifice at Jerusalem. AspmM Ihtir religion WtUlkm n national one, anil there iras hut oivs place where nun could ojf.r sacrifice?at Jerusalem. The necessity of ckrkwonuj. onsKRVAjfCF*. made responsibility's differ I nt from the. present. Hut Christ tolil the Samaritan woman, the time wmh coming when men oould offer sacrifice on that mount cverywhere. And when this fulness of time came? the lie of ceremonial observances broken?we find Christ taking the Passover with his disciple* alone. And from that time onward they were, in all respects, separate from the Jewish church. Under the Gospel, God commands, as we hare seen, this policy ; and in this way only has a pure church been maintained. When in the process of time the Christian church became corrupt, a pure church was attainod by a line of secessions, reaching from the Novatians, A i). 2M, to the Donatints; from the Donatists to the I'aulieians; from these to the Alhigenses and Waldenses; from these to the great Protestant secession in the days of Luther and Zuingliu*. Who disputes the duty of the Pitmfstast secession in obedience to the command, " come out from her, my people 7" if the reader does, then he is bound to go back to "the mother church" ? the Roman Catholic church, as that church yet claims. Many branches of the Protestants became corrupt. Wesley attempted reformation in the church; but bis followers saw that duty and norrect policy required them to come out, and they did so So did the Independents and the Puritans, who planted religion in our own country. And the churches now, in their turn, as we hare seen, having Income corrupt?practicing thr sins of mystic Habylon?it is now a duty equally imperative upon the people of God, to come out. The opposite policy has l>een a failure. For sizteeu hundred years, such men as Erasmus, Kenelon, Massilou, and others, have been staying in the church to purify it. Did thsy do it 7 Never I They died where they began, amid corruption Like the sun-fish in stagnant waters, umi'lut death-struggles, they reflected Home beautiful rays, only to be covered l.y tide* of coming corruption How different the Malory of Novatian, Donates, Wickliffe, Luther, Zuinglius, Melancthon, and others, who came out with them: They and their churchea were beacon-Htare, warning of danger on the one hand, and directing to the port of Hafety on the other. These churches came out, chiefly, on account of immoral practices in the old churches, and hence they were called, even in thedayeof the Novations, cvihuri? puritans In our own country, for more than half a century, Christiana have been talking and preaching in the church against slavery, and trying to purify the churches by staying in the churches It is said that our Methodist brethren, in the beginning of their lahora after the Revolution, fasted and prayed over this subject three daya They came to the conclusion, in opposition to the teaching of God, that they would suffer the eatortioner to atay in their communion five years, and that they would preach against it?purge it out by " preaching principles'' What has been the result? Why, their practice neutralized their words, and slavery grew on them every year, until at last It wore out many of them, ami their principles, too. burst their churoh asunder, planted Itself in the dwelling* of thousands of the membership in both di visions, and sealed the lip* of the ministry. Ones it was a vsry common thing to hear Methodist preachers speak againet slavery, in their sermons, in the most unsparing terms N ow, South of Mason and Dixon's line, there are hundred*, pcrhape thousands, who will apologize for, to one who will even mlnoingly speak against it. And in the church North, having vet in slave Statee some twenty thousand slaves in herelutchss, few of her ministers ever say earthing from the pulpit against the iniquity, and if they do it is to " heal ilijtklly the hurt or my people " Yes, so paralyzing havs been the consequences of fellowshipping the iniquity, that even the followers of Weelsy slumber with quiet eon science over the elankiug chains and mangled bodies of the poor bondman, refusing to touch hi* (tallinn yoke with even the tip* of their finger* Soon indifference w.ia converted, in many instances, into scoffing hate and relentless proscription. so that if one dare speak as the founder of the body onoe did, it was at the peril of his ecclesiastical life. A little leaven leavened the whole lump. So with the Presbyterian church They have had, for more than half a century, their talks, their sertnon?, their memorials, and resolutions. They have "preached principles: ' and what have they done? As in the Methodist church, their acts of fellowship neutralited their words, and slavery grew and spread itself over the membership, as far as slatismen and pchticvws would let it. At length a division took place, and from that time to the present, in their collective capacity, and at their highest courts, slavery still finds a shelter Lately some individuals and churches are heginning to come out. Many in the New School body, after the division had hopes that that body ! would purify itself, and thought to remain in the church, and aid in the work Hut, to their mortification. they saw slavery under this banner, too, regularly increasing its slave territory, and multiplying its slaveholding members. At lsst. individuals, presbyteries, and synods, seeing that the policy of staying in the church to purify it is an inefficient policy, have determined to take God's plan of coming out, and have done so M my others are purposing to do the same And unless that Assembly shall speedily fake decisive measures to free herself from slaveholding, she will find, kindled in her midst, a magazine that will bloat her into ten thousand fragments. The same work of secession is now going on in the Methodist church. Many arc now seeing that discipline is impossible, and that the controlling influence Is pro-slavery, and are obeying God by coming out: some as Independent Methodists, others as True Wesleyans, <tc. The work is also going on in the Baptist church. Among the Free Will Raptists.six hundred and sixteen ministers, with their still more numerous churches, hive declared ''that they will su-tnin no rrlation, and perform no act, that will countenance the system, or imj>h/ indifferent', to its multiplied enormities ' They say rurther, that41 slavery is a direct violation of the law of God . and that by refusing to support slavery, its principles, or its advocates, and by trxthholdini; Chrirtuin und church f>llotcshi)> from 'ill i;nilli/ of thr via of rluivry, and by re I momhfttitg thos* in bond* ax hound with thorn,; we Wlgtf '. jMk?u,'vAiv UltwVA ^..III Trt thlS ini'l'iity " 1 hese open separations from slavcholding bodies are doing immense good They are not ouly digging out and holding up truth on the subject of secession, and thereby forming pub ic sentiment and waking public conscience, tint they are encouraging and inducing many others to follow their example; ho that already the old bodies are beginning to look about for their members. Self-preservation begins to look them earnestly in the face. And if these bodies are ever reformed, it will be a hundred fold more by the enlightening, drawing, and driving influence of those who have and shall come out. rather than the stultified preaching of those who stay in. If they are not reformed, they will bury in their fall the few Erasmuses, Kenelons, and Baxters, they may have Notwithstanding the foregoing truths, many, as an argument for staying in the church, say, pervertingly, "a little leaven leavens the whole lump." They mean to assert that thoso who are pure, and have truth on their side, should stay in the church, to pour trnth upon error, and thereby purify the church. We reply? 1 Then God was in error, when he said to his people, u Come out." |to hk coNTtat'tn.] CONGRESS. TIIIRTV-FIRST CONflMSS-FIRST SESSION. SENATE. Weonrshay, A huh, 17, 18f>0. Compromise Committee?A Struggle?A Fracas. A great many anti-slavery petitions were presents! by Messrs. liale, Seward,and Hamlin,and ordered to lie upon the table. After the despatch of the morning business, the Senate took up the special order, being the motion of the Senator from Mississippi to refer the resolutions of Messrs. Bell and Clay to a select committee of thirteen. To this motion, when the Senate adjourned last Thursday, the following amendment was pending: Provider), That nothing in this reference shall be so construed as to nssert or imply the existence of any power whatever in Congress for the abolition by Congress of slavery within the States; nor to authorize the suppression by Congress of the slave trade between the States; nor that Congress ought to abolish slavery in the forts, arsenals, dock yards, and navy yards of the United States; nor that Congress ought to ubolish slavery in the District of Columbia. }This amendment was a modification proposed by Mr. Clay and accepted by Mr. Benton. Meantime, Mr. Clay, having had time to think the matter over, concluded to back out from his rnodiflca tion of Mr. Benton's amendment. ami extricate th? motion of Mr Foote from embarrassment. The reoder will have observed that Mr. Clay hoa abandoned the position which secured him temporary ay input hy at the North, and hue resumed his natural place, ut the head of the slaveholding delegation | Mr. Clay moved to amend the amendment bjr striking out all after the words " Proivlnlt That,' and inserting "the Semite does not deein it necessary to expresa in advance any opinion, or to give any instructions, either general or specific, for the guidance of the committee " Mr. Clay, in submitting bia amendment, said that be deemed the amendmeut of the Senator from Missouri entirely unnecessary. Mr llenton. I accepted the modification proposed by the .Senator from Kentucky in a spirit of compromise?the amendment is really his own?and now he proposes to rub it all out. Why, air, 1 will withdraw tho amendment, and fall hack on my original one. Being withdrawn, the amendment of Mr. Clay went with it. Mr. Benton then renewed his original amendment, to withhold from the consideration of the committee the abolition of slavery in the States, the suppression of the inter State slave trade, the abolition of slavery within the forts, dock yards, and arsenals of the United Slates, the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, and every subject not specially referred to it. Mr. Clay renewed bis amendment us a substitute. Mr. Benton thought the proposed amendment was no amendment at all?the object of an amendment being to mske a resolution or proposition better, but this was an attempt, to bailie the design of his amendment altogether. He said that the great object was speedy action. They had but three days and a half this week. In that time, if they would take up tho Callfoinia bill, thev could dispose of it. But send the subject to this compromise committee, and there would be a delay of two weeks or more. The committee would report perhaps in a few days, but their report would not be taken up in the absence of the six Senators who, by order of the Senate, were to wait upon the remains of Mr Calhoun to Houth Carolina?and they would be absent one or two weeka Mr. Benton, for the purpose of reachiug the California bill at oner, moved to lay the huI.ject , of appointing ? committer on the UM?, hut withdrew it nt the instance of Mr Cley, whoproceed- i cd to urge the appointment of the oomroUteo. j lie charged on Mr. llenton and Ihoee who witb i him op|Kmeil the committee the responsibility of delaying action on California. Let them submit, and they could all then go to work. ' Mr Benton I propoee the point of my objection, if there be any point in it, to hie epecioua t amendment. My objection to it in, that it in an I independent resolve to govern the conduct of the i .Somite It ha* nothing to do with the business < which ie included in the motion. Hut the Hen*- 1 tor from Kentucky makea aproposition. or renewa I one made yeeterday. It is nothing more nor leee I than that a jury should go out with the caae, and i after the Jury baa gone oat with H, the counsel end advooatee may proceed to argue it. We have been eoftioiently advertised of the fact that that jury is to cooelat of the distinguished and leading members of the Nenate. These distinguished and leading gentlemen will go out, and while they are deliberating, why, the remainder?those perhape who would necessarily fall into tho category of led members?may be amusing themselves with discussing the subjeot and presenting their views; and whenever the jury of thirteen shall have made up their verdict, they will oome in, and whoever may happen to be npon hie feet at the moment will heve to take hie seat, and will be out off elect ly where he stood, the delivery of the verdiot putting an end to the whole case he is arguing. 1'hU is rather a new proceeding in the Senate of the United .state* and 1 object to the ideft of eending out a jury with a case, and leaving other ! Senators here to argue it. The Senator from Kentucky, sir, charges roe with occasioning all the delay in the admission of California. And how do I occasion it? By resisting a motion to send this question to a committee. Have I not a right to do that? If 1 have I no right to do it, it is a question of order, which the Chair may decide, and if it is decided that I have no right, I will sit down at once. Hut while I have a parlismentry right to proceed in a certain way, all efforts to deter me from proceeding, by throwing on me the blame of obstructing business. will be of no avail. Bat this is no novelty. We have great examples for throwing the hlarne of being promoters of disturbances upon those who are innoeent. I believe, Mr. President, there were never more professions made in favor of r"*") 1? "* ? ...... I mvit cuwuiiuius Iirinrrou upon peace. nor ever greatersentimentsofdevotion to pence, uttered or professed by any being opon the face of the earth, than were uttered hy him who w is the greatest of warriors?the great Emperor He was always for peace; how, then, catne he to he always in war ? Because, when his armies entered a country, the people would resist, anil that made war, and made him a disturber of the peace he was so anxious to preserve. That is exactly the way the great Emperor got the name of being a disturber of the pence: the people would resist when his armirs entered their country. All that he ashed of them watt to submit; all that he asked was that they should be quiet, and let his armies move over their country. In the same identical manner, Mr President, with a parallelism which has been drawn here somewhat too close for a parody, the Senator from Kentucky charges me with delaying the admission of California, because 1 resist where I h ive a right to resist, and, more than that, where I hold it to he tny duty to resist, an l where I am sustained by sixty years of uninterrupted legislation of thetwo Houses of Congress. Sir. three times Washington, the father of his country, sent in messages for the admission of new States precisely under the same circumstances as those under which President Taylor sent in a message in this case. Tonnesaee, Kentucky, and Vermont, were all admitted rireriselv under these circumstances. and upon the presentation of m^swyres precisely like this ~ f*\^Vtg>>s , ..nates %Av vA6nv\ra hner- T wards under the same circumstances, and by message* of iho Presidents of the times in which those States were admitted ; making eight in the whole, being as near half as eight can be of seventeen I am doing what has been done for sixty years Kvery State that has been admitted for sixty years has been admitted in a bill by itself, except in one single case, and then two were put together in the same bill. Two States applied for admission at the same time, snd had no more right than California now has, for they made their Constitions for themselves without the previous authority of Congress. The Senator from Kentucky undertakes to say that these things will go on, and California will come in sooner, if she is mixed up with all these foreign questions?foreign to her, certainly. Now, he certainly understands what he says 1 do not. The supposition is, that the hill is to go faster when complicated and loaded with all these subjects than it oati go alone There is something in that which is inexplicable to me. 1 kuow there is an idea, which mny be called vernacular, prevalent in some parts of the country, that a horse can pull stronger if he has a weight upon his hack ; and 1 have often seen large packs with two or three bushels of grain upon a horse's back while he was straining every nerve in pnlling a load tip hill. The argument was, that it kept the backbone straight, and enabled him to draw directly against the centre of every joint, j Laughter.] That was done in the case of drawing; hut this is a case of running. I California has to run, and ns it seems to me she has to run the gsuntlet and a long line. I never heard it supposed that a horse ran faster for having a load u|>on his back ; hilt when we come to look at what is proposed to California, we shall find that ghe has not only three hundred pounds upon her back, but we shall have a hundred pounds to tie to each leg. and still a pretty considerable weight to tie to the tail. I should like to sec how California would run with three hundred pounds upon her hack ami a hundred to each leg, and fifty pounds to the tail. I lisve been ocoupied, Mr. President, wholly with the preliminary question of Lying this resolution upon the table, and postponing its consideration for the purpose of taking up the California bill. The question is now as to the delay, the almost indefinite delay, with the chance of eventu ally losing the admission between (ho two Houses Wo have now three full days remaining of thin week, and 1 think, if we proceed, we can in these three days come to a decisive vote on the California bill; and in doing that, wo shall have washed our hands and done our duty ; and It will then he for the f louse of Representatives to do their duty, a thing with which we have nothing to do Mr. Douglas rose to correct a misapprehension of Mr. Clay in respeot to the hill for the admission of California ? Mr. Clay having intimated that it contained no proviaiou for si-curing the title of the United States to the public lands in the new State. Mr. Douglas was proceeding to show that thia w is a great error, when he whs called to order for discusning a subject not pertinent to the question. Mr. Renton moved to lay the subject on the table, for the purpose of taking up the California bill. The yeas and nsys were ordered, and the vote stood: Ykas ? Messrs. Ilaldwin, Renton. Bradbury, thase, Clarke, Corwin, Davis of Massachusetts, Dayton, Dodge of Iowa, Dodge of Wisconsin, Douglas, Fetch, Qrecne, Hale, Hamlin, Jones, Vliller, Norris, I'belps, Seward, Shields, Smith, IValker, and Webster?24. Navs?Messrs Atchison, Radger, Bell, Borand, Bright, Butler, Cass, Clay, Clemens, Davis if Mississippi, Dickinson, Downs, I'oote, Hunter, {.log, Manguin, Mason, Morton, 1'carce, Rusk, tehaslian, Smile. Hpruanoe, Sturgeon, Turuey, Jnderwood, Whitoomh, and Yulec?28. |lt will be remembered that on the motiou of 11 r HntiffluM luMf Thnrmlft v In lav th?? mill ect upon the table, the role (a test vote) stood? reiw Wfl, nays 2H. Tho vote above shows a Wing off of two in the minority Mr. Upham, vho voted yea on Thursday, wan absent to-day. Mr. Sturgeon, who was absent Thursday, voted my to-day. Thursday, Mr. Webster voted nay, o-day, yea. On tho former occasion, Messrs (Vales and Sprtiance of Delaware voted yea; o-day, Mr. Wales did not vote, and Mr. 8prunce voted in the negative. Mr. Cooper of Pennylvania, who canvassed that State during the 'residential contest for Taylor and Free Soil, debouncing slavery in the bitterest terms, knew hat the subject of this Compromise Committee ras coming up Thursday, and left the city, to ,tten I the Clay festival in New York.. He ehnnied the responsibility of voting then, and also o-day. Why Mr. Upham was absent on this iccoslon, we do not know, Nothing but a sickles* disabling a .Senator from being oarried to the ienate can eacuee his absence at such a time. It will he perceived, then, that the minority vas reduced by the desertion of Mr. Spruance of Delaware, the refusal of Mr. Wales to vote, and he absence of Mr. Upham, while it gained Mr. iVebster. Had Messrs. Wales and Sprnanoe naiutsined their ground, and Mr. Upham been n his plsce, the vote would have been a tie; the Vice President would probably have given it in 'avor of Freedom ; and the anhjeot of California vould have been taken up.| The (juration recurring on Mr. Clay's amendnent to Mr. Benton's amendment, Mr. Miller of Mew Jersey aaid that he thought this amendment I Th. - X a a. l_ mi. iu urmr. isa IBICUUIUUI ODIJT IITKW >ut the amendment proposed by the Senator from Missouri, but, if adopted, U dseLures that no furher Instructions oa any other point shall be given Lo the committee. Now, can that be donel If it can, i mistake the rule in regard to a bill. Suppose this amendment Is offered to a bill, and a Senator moves to strike out all of the amendment, and to substitute la lieu thereof a declaration that no farther amendment shall be made to the hill. Can that be dons7 The amendment goes further than the amendment offered by the Senator from Missouri, for it uot only striken out hta amendment, but declares that no farther Instructions shall be given on any other point. Now, by the rules of the Senate, when a r see lotion or bill is under consideration, it may be amended at any time, and we cannot declare by an amendment that no farther amendment shall be mads to the bill. Neither can we declare that no other or l?ss rot am raus ]