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VOL. VI. Thi National Era is Pi'ILIihbd Wiiiit, on Sstbntb Strait, opporitb Odd Fallow a Hall. TERMS. Two dollar* per ?onum, payable In advance. AdvertiaetnenlA not eareeding ten linea ftlM-rted three time* <>r one dollar; every aubeequent iuaertion, twenty five Cf til*. All cominuolcatl?u? to the Eha, whether on bualnsat of lite paper or lor publication, should be addressed t<> g. bailky, Waihingtim, D C. ill'eli. St Dlancharu, Printers, Sixth street, a few doors south of Pennsylvania avenue. WASHINGTON, 1). C. For tho National Era. MY BUMMEB WITH DB. SUIGLETABY. Chapter v.?TAc Hill Side. The pause which followed the conversation recorded in our last chapter was broken abruptly by the Skipper. "Hillo!'' he cried, pointing with the glazed hat with which he had boen fanning himself Here away in the Northeast Going down the coast for bettor fishing, I guess.'' "An eagle, as I live!exclaimed the Doctor, folio wine with his cane the direction of the Skipper's hat. "Just see how royally he wheels upward and onward, his 'sail-broad wings' stretched motionless, save an occasional tlap to keep up his impetus. Look ! the circle in which he moves grows narrower; he is a gray cloud in the sky; a point, a mere speck, or dust moat. And now he is clean swallowed up in the distance. The wise man of ojd did well to confess his ignorance of 'the way of an eagle in the air.'" *- ' w.Vuic*- kkcu .-;)w t M ? uptb boeii u fj^viAi?o tint . penman 'They that vf:m ops... me n.ordslitdl1 renew their strength: they shall mount upward as on the wings of an eagle.'" "What think you of this passage?" Baid the Doctor: "'As when a bird hath flown through the air, there is no token of her way to be found; but the light air beaten with the stroke of her wings, and parted by the violent noise and motion thereof, is passed through, and therein afterward no sign of her path can be found.'" "I don't remember the passage," said the Elder. "I dare say not," quoth the Doctor. ' You clergymen take it for granted that no good thing can come from the Nazareth of the Apocrypha. Bnt whore will you find anything iuore beautiful and cheering than these verses, in connection with that which I just cited? "' The hope of the ungodly is like dust that is blown away by the wind: like the thin foam which is driven by the storm: like the smoke which is scattered here and there by the whirlwind ; it passeth away like the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but a day. But the righteous live forevermore; their reward also is with the Lord, and the care of them with the Most High. '"Therefore shall they receive a glorious kingdom and a beautiful crown from the Lord's hand, for with His right hand shall He cover them, and with His arm shall He protect them.'" " That, if I mistake not, is from the Wisdom of Solomon," said the Elder. " It is a striking passage, and there are many such in the uncanonical books." ' Canonical or not," answered the Doctor, "it is God's truth, and Stands in no need of the endorsement of a set of well-meaning but purblind bigots and pedants, who presumed to set metes and bounds to Divine Inspiration, and decide by vote what is God's truth and what is the devil's falsehood. But, speaking of eacles, I never see one of these snifcnf.il nM ?. I ?I?? ? sea-robliers without fancying that he may be the soul of a mad Vikiug of the middle centuries. Depend upon it, that Italian philosopher was not far out of the way in his ingenioua emulations upon the affinities and sympathies existing between certain men and certain animals, and in fancying that he saw feline or canine traits and similitudes in the countenances of his acquaintance.'' " Swedenborg tells us," said I, " that lost human souls, in the spiritual world, as seen by the angels, frequently wear the outward shapes of the lower auimals ; for instance?the gross at*] sensual look like swine, and the cruel and obscene like foul birds of prey, such as hawks and vultures; and that they are entirely unconscious of tho metamorphosis, imagining themselves ' marvellous proper men,' and are quite well satisfied with their company and condition." " Swedenborg! " said the Elder, " was an insane man, or worse." "Perhaps so," said the Doctor, "but there is a great deal of ' method in his madness,' and plain common sense, too. There is one grand and ncautitul idea underlying all his revelation*, or speculation* about the future life It is this: that each spirit chooses its own society, and naturally finds its fitting place and sphere of action?following in the new life, as in tho present, the leading of its prevailing loves and desires?and that hence, none are arbitrarily compelled to be good or evil, happy or miserable. A great law of attraction and gravitation governs the sniritnsl > -- ?v-~ W r ? -V nvu no VUU material univcree; but, in obeying it, the spirit retains in the new life whatever freedom of will it possessed in its first stage of being. But I see the Klder shakes his head, as much an to nay, I am ' wine above what is written,' or at any rate, meddling with matters beyond my comprehension. Our young friend, here,'' he continued, turning to me, ' has the appearance j of a listener, but 1 suspect he is busy with his own reveries, or enjoying the fresh sights and sounds of this fine morning. I doubt whether our discourse has edified him.' " Pardon me,'' said I, "I was indeed listening to another and older oracle." "Well, tell us what you hear,' said the i !><*ior. I "A faint, low murmur, rising and falling on | the w'md Now it comes rolling in upon me wave after wave of sweet, solemn music. There was a grand organ-swell! and now it dies away M into the infinite distance ; hut I still hear it? whether with ear or spirit I know not?the very ghost of sound.*' ' yea,' ?aid the Doctor, "I undeiptand >t it is the voice of the pines yonder?a sort "t morning song of praise to the Giver of Life and Maker of Beauty. My ear is dull, now, md I cannot hear it t>ut I know it is sounding as it did when 1 first climbed up here in the '"".glit June morniiigs of boyhood. And it *ill sound on just the same when the deafhsss < the grave shall settle upoo my fkiling senses Ihd it never occur to you that thia deafhem and blindness to accustomed beauty and bar- i uiuny is one of the saddest thoughts connected with the great change which awaita us ? Have % THE G. BAILEY you not felt, at timet, that our ordinary conceptioriH of Heaven itself, derived from the vague hints and oriental imagery of the Scriptures, are sadly inadequate to our human wants and ho)>ea ? How gladly would we forego the golden streets and gates of pearl, the thrones, temples, and harps, for the sunset lights of our native valleys?the wood-paths, whose moss carpets are woven with violets and wind flowers?the songs of birds, the low of cattle, the hum of bees in the apple-blossom?the sweet, lamiliar voices of human life and Nature ! In the place of strange splendors, and unknown music, should we not welcome rather whatever reminded us of the common sights aud sounds of our old home ? " ' VMl I, ,111'ii u unit fitiiirft Ttiii'tnr " sftiH I Would that we could feel assured of the eternity of all we love." " And have I not an assurance of it at this very moment ? y returned the Doctor. " My outward car fails me, yet I seem to hear as formerly the sound of the wind in the pines. I close iny eyes, and the picture of ray home is still before me; I see the green hillslope and meadows?the white shaft of the village steeple springing up from the midst of maples and elms?the river all afire with sunshine?the broad, dark belt of woodland, and. away lieyond, all the blue level of the ocean And now, by a single eflbrt of will, I can call beforWne a winter picture of the same scene. It is morning as now, but how different! All night has the white meteor fallen, in broad Hake or minutest crystal, the sport and play" - i, t* A s V r-hl- it -pesW wna $' ''' ArtitSyhy'. ...txy., barn and pig-stye, fishing-smacks frozen up at the wharf, ribbed monsters of dismantled hulks scattered along the river-side, all lie transfigured in the white glory and sunshine. The eye, wherever it turns, aches with the cold brilliance, unrelieved save where the blue smoke of morning fires curl lazily up from the Parian roofs, or where the main channel of the river, as yet unfrozen, shows its long winding lino of dark water glistening like a snake in the sun. Thus you perceive that the spirit sees and hoars without the aid of bodily organs ; and why may it not be so hereafter ? Grant but memory to ub, ami we can lone nothing by death. The scenes now passing before us will live in eternal reproduction, created anew at will. Wo assuredly shall not love Heaven the less, that it is separated by no impassable gulf from this fair and goodly earth, and that the pleasant pictures of time linger like sunset clouds along the horizon of eternity. When I was younger, I used to be greatly troubled by the insecure tenure by which my senses held tho beauty and harmony of the outward world. When 1 looked at tho moonlight on the water, or the cloud shadows on the hills, or the sunset sky, with the tall, black tree-boles and waving foliage relieved against it; or when I heard a mellow gush of music from the brown-breasted life-bird in the summer woods, or the merry quaver of the bobolink in the corn-land, the thought of an eternal loss of these familiar sights and sounds would sometimes thrill through me with a sharp and bitter pain. I have reason to thank God that this fear no longer troubles mo. Nothing that is really valuable and pecessary for us can ever be lost. The present will live hereafter ; memory will bridge over the gulf between the two worlds, for only on the condition of their intimate union can we preservo our identity and [tersonal consciousness. Blot out tho memory of this world, and what would Heaven or Hell be to us ? Nothing whatever. Death would be simple annihilation of oar actual selves, and the substitution therefor of a new creation, in which we should have no more interost than in an inhabitant of Jupiter or the fixed stare. The Klder, who had listened silently thus far, not without an occasional and apparently involuntary manifestation of dissent, here interposed. " Pardon me, my dear friend,-' said he, " but I must needs say that I look uj?on speculations of this kind, however ingenious or plausible, as unprofitable, and well nigh presumptuous. For myself, I only know that I am a weak, sinful man, accountable to and cared for by a just and merciful God. What lie has in reserve for me hereafter, I know not, nor ha\e I any warrant to pry into His secrets. I do not l^pw what it is to pass from one life to another; but I humbly hope that when I am sinking in the dark waters, 1 may hear His voice of coinpass.on and encouragement?It is I be not afraid!" " Amen !" said the Skipper, solemnly. " I dare say the Parson is right, in the main," said the Doctor. " Poor creatures, at the l>est, it is safer for us to trust, like children, in the goodness of our Heavenly Father, than to speculate too curiously in respect to the things of future life; and, notwithstanding all 1 have said, I quite agree with good old Bishop Hall: ' It is enough for mo to rest in the hope that I | shall one day see them; in the mean time, let me l>e learnedly ignorant and incuriously devout, silently blessing the jiower and wisdom of my Infinite Creator, who knows how to honor himself by all these unrevealed and glorious subordinations' " Mr. Giddings made aspeech to the fifteenth Anti-Slavery Fair of Pennsylvania, on Thursday evening, the 18th ult. He was introduced to the audience by Rev. William H. Furness, in a happy address Mr. G in the course of hie speech alluded to the fact that during the whole fourteen yearn he had been a member of Congress. he had never heard the Chaplain of the House offer a prayer for the victims of oppression confined in the prisons of the District of Columbia. He said : "Claiming to ho ministers of Him who came to proclaim liberty to the captives and tbe<?pening of the prison to them that wore bound, they utterly excluded the slaves from the circle of their sympathies. On'one occasion, several years ago. just after he had finished an antislavery speech in the House, he was told that somebody wished to see him in the recess On passing out, the Chaplain, Mr. Tustin, introduced him to llev. Dr. Wylic, of Scotland, a delegate to this country from the Free Church. The Doctor thereupon complimented him for the anti-slavery speech which he (Mr. G ) had delivered; in reply to which he said, in the bearing of Mr. Tustin, ' I have to do all the preaching and praying for the slaves in the House, for our Chaplain here, though he prays for everyliody else, never remembers the wretched victims of yonder slave prison.' Dr. Wylie, turning to the Chaplain, with a most expressive glance, asked, ' Brother Tustin, is this true V Mr. T. was very much embarrassed, and could onlv stammer out, "0, we don't think it would be prudent to makq any allusion to the subject ' Mr. Gijjdinfp was also to speak in Laneaeter, Westchester, I'hujoixville, and Norrietowu. * 1 ~sk , EDITOR AND PROPR WASHINGTOI For the National Era. THE DEATH OF THE SLAVE LEWIS In the deep sanctuary of sheltering night, Kept by the angels of the atari serene, The meanest hireling holds his vested right? Mourner, slave, culprit, lose from thought and sight The weight of grief that shall bo, or hath been. Within its walls young lovers tune their strings, And ravished saints breathe adoration deep, But sftftly prayer and song unfold their wings, Lest ev'n the full heart's upward murinurings Too rudoly touch the silver spell of sleep. From out that holy realm of night, a shriek, A* of a soul in Hades, rent the veil Ot silence?then a prophet secuied to speak, To anger roused not, " Turn th' unsmitten oheok ; " But, " Blood for blood," answered the dismal wail. And then I heard a pitoous creature lift His agonizing pleadings, whore he stood Bound, nakod. narked with many a bloody rift, While blows urged out, in torture cries, his shrift To one with drunken fhry in his blood. The brute but flogged the harder for his ory; It gave the horrid sport a keener zest It is appointed ouoe to man to die ; But what the crimo, the agony, say I, Whon twenty murders tear one bleeding breast' | ''They beat him with a broad, flat thong,' 'tis urged, For ail security of life and limb ; Brethren, was He by whom men's sins are purged, Ev'n thus with a broad leather merely acourgod, Why waste our womanish hearts their throbs on him ? Blows rained upon him, till his yielding brain Had fashioned out the tale they wished to lsarn, In dreadful inspiration of bis pain, Thoy left hi^#. gibbet-wise, within his chain, SIr. Jtj'.-'A. *. ' * tr* ' ?"*n to watch Who, as men wvll.'lorsook hirinisory , But while he staid, unless his statsmeut err, Not rest nor healing craved the sufferer, But, " Can you lend me any help to die 7 " Blind Nature has an instinot to bo free, Despair is mighty, though her hands bo tiod, Howe or he bowed the beau and beui inu ana*, (The action has a dark sublimity,) The black man gathered up his strength, and died. They left theo, Lewis, with thy wounds all warui, But when thoy came, to heap thy measure o'er, Free in the fettors hung thy passive form. Oh ' theirs the crime, if in hate's wildest storm. Thy soul, unbidden, sought th' eternal shore. Priests tell us of the guilt of suioide? Let the word pause upon the untriod tongue' They stormed life's oitadcl, ill-fortified, Till the vexed soul Hod, powerless to abide, And Death's pale ilag of truce aloft was flung. Death was thy champion; 'nouth his icy shield Thy rescued body laughod the whip to scorn, While by those wound-mouths, never to be sealed, Thy soul unto the Evor Just appealed, Cried out to God, " Remember what I've borne! " Where stnys avenging Juetico? why compel Our hearts to soek her in th' abyss below ' Shuddering, our eyes glance downwards for a hell, Since Judge and Jury's fiat flatly fell: " A slave the victim ? lot the white man go! " It is no murder, when unsanctioned forco Wastes a poor negro's life boneath the thong In your brave Soath. Where freer law has course, A man who toys too rudely with his horse Is held a culprit, and acquits the wrong. But thero must be a hell, as thou shalt know By all its furies loosed within thy breast Remorse shall feed on thee his hunger alow , Or, art thou for her craving sunk too low, Spectres of fear shall scare thoo from thy rest. The curso of Cain shall hunt thy wandering thought, To frantic haste, to fainting woarinoss. Lookest thou earthward, blood is there unsought; Skyward, the clouds th' avenging hue hare caught, And mock, like crimson monsters, thy distress. Scourging for scourging, but in keener kind, And death for death, but in a living grave, While, from th' uneasy torment of thy mind, Thou slialt behold and envv. Doaco-enshrined. The placid phantom of thy murder'd ulave. Ev'n though thou babblo from tho inyitio book, And taste the aacred symbols of thy crvod. Lot Christ's black brother from the altar look, Faint, faltor, 'noath hi* withering rebuke? Tho bcav'nly food can poison too, at need. I pause, unwilling furthor to rehear** Thy .meed*, or chut the* from God'* clemency. Rather, I'll weop, and wiih the* nothing wore* Than that, returning blowing for thy cur?e, Thy victim * soul may plead with God for thee. Giuliana. The Hi'ngahfan Catholics and Kossuth.?Those who entertain the opinion that all Catholics hold the views of Mishap Hughes in relation to Kossuth and his cause am very much mistaken?to sup|>oso so, would put the Catholics in a false position. It is worthy of remark that eleven of the seventeen Roman Catholic Bishops of Hungary addressed a memorial to the King of Hungary in October, 1848, favorable to the cause of Kossuth. The fivo Bishops who did not sign the address were dotained from the Convention by causes beyond their control, one Bishopric being then vacant. Missouri.?Colonel Benton has issued an address to the Democracy of Jefferson county, Missouri, dated December 13, in reply to an invitation to visit nnd address them Ho recapitulates the causes of the jiolitical troubles in that State at length, which he enumerates us follows: "1. Repudiation of tho Nullification Secession resolutions of 1849. 2. Repudiation of the vote, arid voters, and their backers, for a Whig Senator. 3 Adhesion to the right of instruction within the limits of the Constitution, and according to the will of the people. 4. Adhesion to the Baltimore platform of 1848." In relation to the 4th article, (the Baltimore platform of 1848.) he says: u Tliat riluf(iimi (ionium* the Derm>cratio ground in relation to slavery. The Nullified! wish to engraft upon it a new dogma, which was expressly and almost unanimously rejected by the convention which framed if, namely, That Congress ha* no right to It gist ate upon slavery in the Terntorie*. This doctrine, like all the doctrines of the school to which it belongs, i is of modern invention, and only invented tor I the purpose of multiplying chances to find 1 pretexts to resist (he laws of Congress, and for ! Hying off into that new confederacy which is I to consist wholly of slave States, and to be christened *' The United State* South." The Democracy take the Baltimore platform as it was agreed to?not as it was not agreed tostill less as rejected?and, above all, as attempted to be interpolated by the dregs of the party which made the effort, and so miserably failed in it, at Baltimore." The St. Louis Union, in which we find this address, fully endorses the past and present political conduct of Colonel Benton A corres - -* - hi. nnininn ponaeni 01 wir nuic p>|ioi ft"- ? "f that hut few of those who signalised them selves in opposition to the Democracy of Missouri will ever return to it?" they are a broken wiei which must drop off " He advisee the Democracy to pursue a progressive policy, and eaya, that although the Nullifiers have managed to unseat him (Col. B.) in the Senate, yet " be can beat them in the other , House in August, where he is much needed.'' I noN IETOR; JOHN G. WHJT V, THURSDAY, J AN It is evident that the Democracy of Missouri are unwilling to lose the services of Colonel Benton. He has identified himself with the interests of the State, and no one, we presume, will be surprised to see him returned to the House of Representatives. He is a man of indomitable energy and perseverance, and will make his mark in whatever capacity he may be employed. * I U.\UKLbMUIM AD rnUh'hblllA lis. thirty-second conqrebs-rirst session. 8EHATE. Tuesday, December 30. The Senate did not ait to-day. HOUSE OF BKPKKBEN TATIVE8 Tuesday, December 30. Under the rules of the House, no resolution can bo offered, except on Mondays, unlet* it be received by unanimous consent. Therefore, immediately after the ieumal hud )>een read to-day? Mr. Cartter moved that tlio House resolve itself into Committee of the Whole on tho state of the Union, with a view to proponing the following resolution in Committee, and he Itojted that the House would indulge lum in a single remark. The resolution was read, as follows : Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed by the Chair, to wait ujion Louis Kossuth, tin his arrival in tho capital, and introduce him to tho House of Representatives. Mr. McMullen objected to the introduction of the resolution. Mr. Cartter said that the objection was of no avail, his motion being that the House go into Committee for the purpose of taking up the resolution. ** ?, RrvVv <lf .Virginia, suogeste.l that even y.t, tn, 'Twnil'v- .7j?, ,/%f I wr. y.i. t->? * oiuiuit-eee off fieW r*i?- on* mo j Ante ol '\ne vnu? cv?uM not tWke up' tVui resolution, as it oould only consider such subjects as had besn referred to it. The S|ieaker stated that tkis was a question for the Committee to decide, and not the House. Mr. Cartter demanded the yeas and nays on agreeing to his motion, which were ordered Mr. McMullen, remarking that the House was thin, moved that there bo a call of the House ; which was negatived. The yeas and navs were then taken on the motion to go into Committee, and resulted as follows: Yeas?Messrs. Willis Allen. Allison. John Annleton. William Appletoti. Babcock, Bart lett. Beale, Bissell. Bowie, Bowne, John H. Boyd, Brenton, Brings. Bucll. Bulhy, Joseph Cubic. L. 1). Campbell, Cartter. Chapman, Chastain, Cleveland, Clingmun, Cong?r, George T. Davis, John G. Davis, Dean, Disney, Duty, Durkee, I Eastman, Egerton. Ficklti. Flovd, Fowler, Henry M. Fuller, Thomas J. D. fuller, Gaylord, Gentry, Giddings, (Jilmore,Gonnan,Green. Grow, HuBcall, Hendricks, Horst'ord, John W. Howe. Thomas M. Howe, Hunter, Ingersoll, Ives, John Johnson, Robert W. Johnson, I) T. Jones, George G. King, Preston King. Kuhns. Letcher. Mace, Mann, E. C. Marshall, McDonald, Meacham, Miner, Molony, John Moore. Nabors, Newton, Olds, Peaslee, Penniman. Perkins, Kantoul, Richardson. Riddle. Robin, Robinson, Sackett, Schormerhorn, Scudder, D. L. Seymour, O. S. Soymour, Skelton, Smart. Snow, Jtenjamin Stanton, F. P. Stanton, R. H Stanton. Stratton, Stuart, Sutherland, Sweetser, G W. Thompson, Thurston, Townshend, Tuck, Walbridge, Walsh, Ward, Washburn, Welch, White, Wildrtok, and Yates?104. Nays?Messrs Abercrombie, Aiken, Ashe. Averett, T. H. Bayly, Barrere, Bocock, Bragg, A. G. Brown, E. C. Cabell, Caldwell, Churchwell, Clark, Cobb, Cullum, Dockerv, Edmundson, Ewing, Fitch, Goodenow, Hall, Hamilton, Harj>er, Isham G. Harris, S. W. Harris, Haven, Hebard, Honn, Hillyer, Jackson, Andrew Johnson, James Johnson, G. W. Jones, H. Marshall, I ?i?n m ..llnit Million Morshnnd. Mur iTitirim, iuumum iij *? ??w?7 phy, Orr. Powell. Savage. Scurry. Smith, Stanly, Taylor, Venable. Wallace. VVatkina, and Williams?50. So the motion won agreed to. And tho House wont into Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, (Mr. Jones of Tenneesee in the chair.) [Analysis of tho above vote, via : TEAS. Northern Democrats - - -52 Ditto Whigs - - - 35 Southern Democrats - - 10 Ditto Whigs - - - - 7 104 NATS. Northern Democrats ... 3 Ditto Whigs .... 3 Southern Democrats - - - 29 Ditto Whigs - - . . 11 50 ABSENT. Northern Democrats - - - 32 Ditto Whigs - . . - 17 Southern Democrats - - - 22 Ditto Whigs - . . - 12 83 We havo classified the delegates from the Territories and California as Northern men j On motion of Mr. Cartter, the first subject in order (the resolutions proposing to refer the President's message to tho various committees) was set aside. The Chair then announced, as the next business in order, the joint resolution authorising tho architect of the Capitol to continue in em ploy m en t the mechanic*, laborer*, and other*, engaged upm the two wing* thereof Mr. Cantor moved that thi* *ubject be sot aside. Mr VVal*h hoped the motion would not prevail, but that the Committee would proceed to act upon thi* resolution. The motion to *et aside wa* agreed to?yea* 85, nay* 54. There being no subject now for the consideration of the Committee-? Mr. Cartter HuhmiUed hi* resolution. The Chair decided that, a* the Committee had disp>t>ed of all the business which had l>een referred to it by the House, it wa* now without business. In his opinion, it wa* not competent for the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union to originate husines*, and therefore the resolution of the gentleman from Ohio wa* not in order Mr. Cartter appealed from this decision. Considerable debate then ensued as to the decision of the Chair, when The question wa* taken on the appeal, and the decision of the Chair was overruled?yea* 80, nays 88. Mr. Bayly, of Virginia, raised the question of order, that special committee* oould only he appointed by the Speaker, unle** otherwise ordered bv the House, while the resolution offered bv the irentlemun from Ohio proposed the appointment of A special committee by the cnairman of the Committee of the Whole on tho etate of the Union. It wan therefore not i in order. The C'hair sustained the point of order. i Mr. Cartter said that the reeolution wae de- i ?ipied to operate in the Houae, and he would modify it ao that the Speaker should appoint i the Committee. * Mr. Stephena, of Georgia, deaired to know i w lie the r the reeolution waa now before the j Committee for ooneideration ' i llie Chair replied in the affirmative. < Mr. Stephens aaid that he would object to i the reeolution under the 136 th rule of the l Houee, prescribing that no standing rule or order of the Houae ahall be rescinded or < changed without ooe day's notice being given; i aad he would alao object to it under tlie seven- < teeoth rule, wbioh defined the privileges of the i Hail. The object of the resolution waa to ex- < tend thia privilege to an individual not named I in the rules, and unleae there waa ao infraction 1 of tbeea rule*, the resolution could not be eu- t Urtamed I M I TIER, CORRESPONDS UARY 8, 1852. The Chair concurred with the gentleman from Georgia, and stated that, but for the decision of the House a tew moments ago, he would sustain the point of order Mr. Campbell, of Ohio, mored to amend the resolution by striking out all thereof, and substituting fhe following: Resolved, That so much of the 17th standing rule as provides for the ailiuission of certain G;rsons therein named within the Hall of the ouse of Representatives l>o so modified as to embrace Governor Louis Kossuth, of Hungary ; and that the Spenker of the House bo requested to communicate the same to Governor Kossuth Mr. C. said that he desired to have a resolution adopted similar to the one which was adopted when another distinguished friend of humanity came to this city aliout a year ago. ho alluded to Father Mathew. A resolution was then adopted, similar to the amendment ho had just moved, giving to that distinguished man the privileges of the Hall. Mr Stephens, of Georgia, said that that was done by universal consent. Mr. Campbell hoped that there would be no objection to the adoption of a resolution of this kind now. The Chair decided that the amendment was not in order, lieeause it w as upon a different subject, and proposed to change a standing rule of the House, which required one day's previous notice. Mr. Venablo moved to amend the resolution by inserting in lieu thereof the words, ' that the Speaker be authorized to invite Louis Kossuth to a seat within the bar of the House.'' Mr. Cartter did not desire to enter upon a general discussion of matters collateral to this resolution, uqd he trusted the Committee would not do so As ho observed when he submitted his resolution, he introduced it as a simple, peaceful act of courtesy, already made necessary by the previous action of this House and nation And \vith this view h$ desired that nitierK" * ' ?uw*i, ttrA the ! 'vfi v ";?*' * v \ * > ' ? - ??? jM"- ? ' "f-* - J v - w-k'..a?>.vvt< y 1 >h. uii?iii<?i ri'Duiuuwu, >1 ?. n> uuum? i lie row, " that the said Committee aim) introduce to thin House Colonel Seott Hay no, and such others now in this city as were engaged in the late Cuban expedition, and who were taken prisoners by tko Spanish authorities, aud hate been released." The Chairman ruled the amendment out of order. Mr. Brooks said he intended to vote for the projxwition of the gentleman from North Carolina, [Mr. Venable,] but he desired to accompany his vote with his reasons. He then stated that he had no hesitation in welcoming Kossuth, but he did not mean to commit himself to any interference with the affairs of Europe, or of this continent. He referred to Mr (biddings aud those who act with him in the North, who clamor for the universal liberty of all races, and advised him and them to "attend to their own business ' He said ? When the surges of Abolitionism are rolled up about me, and roar in my ears, I care not, under our form ol Government, to discuss Slavery or AntiSlavery, as a theological or economical nueation?for my simple, constitutional answer is, "Slavery is none of my business, 1 have nothing to do with it. I live under another State Government." But if this Government has a right to interfere with other Governments, and intervention is to be the law, there stand in the rear of me, in the great Empire State, full a million of human beings, who, when the country raises the propagandist standard of universal liberty, will first cry, "Cross the Potomac, strike the chains off from that worst of all Slavery, the chattel Slavery, from this to il. i)n 1V&1V3 i\iu vjiaiiun. Mr. Giddings. I am astonished at the ex. citability of gentlemen on thin Hour. It woulc appear that no subject whatever can bo intro duced here, hut some minds will seise upon it andgi\e it a connection with matters whic) are not legitimately connected with it. Mos heartily do I concur with tho gentleman fron New \ ork (Mr. Brooksl in paying the tribuh of my respect to this distinguished foreigner I shall do it most cheerfully. 1'he act is one simple in its character, and obvious in its tendency. But, sir, what right has the gentleman upon tho present occasion to drag my namo in, and attempt to arraign 1110 before this House and before the nation7 Why attempt to charge ine with a design of involving the nation in war? I have not uttered a word upon this question. 1 sat here in silence, without the remotest idea of mingling in this debate; and had 1 taken upon myself to%ddress the Committee, it would never have entered into my mind to connect this roaoluticn with the question of Slavery, as the gentleman has done, or to connect it with war, as tho gentleman has wantonly accused me of doing. Far, far from niv thoughts would have been such an idea, ami I deny the right of that gentleman or any other, before I have spoken, to an! ticipato the positions which 1 should take, and arraign mo before the House and before tho country for those |H?sitione. Have I ever at any time hesitated to express my views openly, with perfect frankness, on any and on every question that has been presented to this body since 1 have had tho honor of a seat in tins Hall? I appeal with confidence to those who have served with mo, to the country who have road my remarks ami votes on every subject brought beforo us, against this unfounded, this ungenerous charge of tho gentleman. My whole political life hears testimony in contra diction of it Whenever a proper occaaion shall present itself, I shall not hesitate to express my opinion on the subject of pence with other nations, and among all nations, in favor of universal jience. But I cannot be dragged into a discussion of those principles on a subject so unsuitable as that now before us. But what authority had he, or any other gentleman, to oharge mo with inconsistency in relation to my avowed principles of peace7 Certainly from nothing which I have said, nor from any vote which I have ever given. There is something most wanton in his charges. I I surely had not provoked it at his hands. To him I would say, Your charge is unfounded and false ; you have travelled out of your way to assail me; on thorn charges I will meet you most cheerfully at the proper time, or whenever the proper occasion Khali arrive. The gentleman has spoken of popular sentiment, of which he aptiears to stand in great dread I have no suon fears. The popular mind is lighted by the intelligence of the people, and it will mete out justice, and no more than justice, to that gentleman and to myself. However much he may shrink from it, he must meet it The gentleman appears now to tremble in view of the penalty of that ''higher law " written upon the hcajta of men by the linger of God This law he has contemned ana ridiculed. For the subversion of this law, he has sent so many thousands of ' lower lav vrmcms" broadcast throughout the free States. He must, however, meet the penalties of the popu lar will; ho inay- loar und tromWI* and turn pale at it* approach It must come: he cannot avoid tliiM tuyrtme law. before which wo must all bow. It ia already inflicting iu jenalticH upon him, and ere long will consign him to the charnel-house of political apnatatoa. Mr. Chairman, while on the floor I will take occasion to nay that I shall inont cheerfully and most heartily vote for the resolution I wish to tender to, the distinguished Kossuth not merely the homage of my own heurt but I wiah thin House, the representative* of the people, to do it officially, in the name and on liehalf of tho nation. For this reason I wish to ice this reaolution pans, and that speedily. I decline all attempts to drag uie into a discus ion of its merits; they will be appreciated by Lhe people without any aid from us Mr. Richardson could not sec much differ anoe between the original proposition and the amendment of the gentleman from North Carjlina, [Mr. yenabTe.l Neither of them, ho apprehended, committed this House or the sountry to anything. It was for this reason lie wae willing to vote for either of them; but tie was unwilling to go any further. He was inwilling, for one, while willing to extend the lospitalities of nation and of individuals to a sra. IG EDITOR. Kossuth. that ho should commit us to his policy. Mr. Bayly, of Virginia, did not regard the resolution as committing this Government to the doctrine which Kossuth had been attempting to propagate in sjieeeheti which he had been making siuce his arrival on our shores Mr. Marshall, of Kentucky, said that the^ had been told that it was proponed to pans this resolution simply an an act of courtesy to Louis Kossuth, and gentlemen rose here, and said that they did not intend to commit the Government. In his opinion, they could not act as a constituted laxly without committing the Government fo far as laid in their power Mr. Ingersoll had hoi>ed that the House would respond to the wish of the people to extend to the illustrious individual, whose name formed a {tart of the resolution, such a welcome as the friends of liberty had given him wherever he had gone. He wished, however, to be distinctly understood as being op|H>sed to any intervention on the part of this Government in the affairs of Euro|>e. He put himself upon tho platform of non-intervention, but believed that good faith and humanity required the adoption of the resolution of the gentleman from Ohio. Mr. Gentry, alter some preliminary remarks said thai this 1 louse wax now called upon to , * A" IIU u wui iw L?uuis rv?win in, uuu mi only question for them to consider was, that they should be careful to esteem themselves as gentlemen. This courtesy was required at their hands, and they should certainly receive him with all the civilities that arose under existing circumstances.* This resolution ought to have been passed without debate, and in a very quiet way Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, did not view Louis Kossuth as coming to America as the sj>ecial representative of Hungary The principle of which he was the representative was the principle of intervention Had he not made this .. .. . ft. ' tt t| -J -- :4 ?. . arrvtvd intOTW.kWc,.. *?. i' d Siat<6- . need be ? Mr Rantoul desirod that this resolution should pass as originally introduced, not because ho considered Kossuth to be identified with the great cause of European liberty, and worthy of our sympathies, as were all who aro champions of that cause ; nor simply because he stood before the world as the champion of independence, although there was no higher nor holier cause in which man could he engaged, hut because he came here as the representative of a principle almost |teculiar to our institutions?that of State rights. It was this alone which he personified, and which no other man that ever came from the whole world personified This higher claim he had upon his regara. Mr. R. mw in thin Government a symptom of mortality. If this Government should perish, it would perish by the onoourageuiont of central power over the rights of sovereign States What was the reason that liberty had been impossible in Europe ' Simply because they did not do as we have done. It was liecause all the powers of Government were concentrated in 0110 central power, and that jsiwer was of necessity too strong for any effort at liberty to succeed in any way. When ho saw that this danger threatened our country, ho asked himself, oould it be possible that a man who had devoted his life, his energies, his genius, and all the power that God had given him, to the single purpose of defending his country against the central power of the Government, would be refused a welcome by any man who ' sees that the reserved rights of the sovereign i States is the bulwark of our lilsrrtiesT By admitting him here, they would not sanction all . his principles. If so, ho nevor would have I Itoen invited hero For himself, bo would glon . in welcoming to America the great advocate o , American institutions. i Mr. Ewing said that Kossuth was proclaim t ing in this land doctrines, the necessary resul i of which, if they should prevail, would resul 5 in war, or degradation to thiB country in tlx . face of the civilizod world. i Mr. Taylor then obtained the floor, bu yielded to a motion that the Committee rise which being agreed to? The Committee rose and reported progress Mr. Clingman offered the usual resolution te close debate on this subject in half an houi after the Honao shall again go into Committee, and demanded tjio previous question. Mr. Millson moved that when this House adjourns, it adjourn to meet on Friday next; which motion was negatived On motion, the House thou adjourned?yeas 00. nuvH 57 The Iowa True Democrat, published at Mount Plcoaant, in that State, we regret to see, has boon published for tho lout two yearn by its editor, S. L. Howe, at a sacrifice. Thin state of thing* ought not longer to continue VVe truHt the friend* of Freedom in that seotion will nee the necessity of liberally sustaining an organ of our cause in that Stato Mr. Howe's difficulties have been many and severe; and the friends of the cause should take curly and efficient means to givo a substantial support to the True Democrat. Sound policy dictatee that the local press should tie sustained ; and Mr. Howe should not lie permitted to struggle alone with tho difficulties which surround him. * For the National Kra. (copyright sscurkd according to i.aw i IJNCLK TOM'S CABIN: or, LIFE AMONG THE LOWLY. by mrs h. b. stowe. Chapter XXVIII?Continued. She found Marie sitting up in her easy-chair, with Mammy standing ny her. cotnbing her hair. Jane sat on the ground before her, busy in chafing her feet. 'How do you find yourself to day?" said Miss Ophelia A deep a'gh and a closing of the eyos was tl i_ l_ p.._ .1 .1 ** t/iir uiiijr rrpiy, ?uv u fiicmvm, iinti men irmrm nnnwered, " 6h, I don't know, oounin; ! auppoee I'm nil well an I over nhnll bo;" find Mario wiped bor eye* with a cuinbrio handkerchief, bordered with an inch deep of black. "I came/' naid Mine Ophelia, "with 11 nhort, dry cough, Buch an commonly introduced a difficult aubject." '1 came to apeak with you about poor Roaa." Marie'n oyon were o;?en wide enough now, and a flunh rone to her nullow chockd a? nho anawered, aharply, " Well, what about hor V " She la very aorry for her fault." ' She in, in ahe' She'll be norrier liefore I've done with her. I've endured that child'* impudence long enough, and now I'll bring her down?I'll make her lie in the dunt." " Hut could not you puninh her aoma other way?nome way that would bo lenn nhamoful?" "1 mean to ahamo her; that'n juat what I want. She linn all her life preeumed on her delicacy, and her good looka, and her lady-like airn, till nho forgot* who *ho in?and I'll give her one lenaou that will bring her down, I fancy." "Hut, couain, conaider that if you deatroy del icacy and u eeiine of ahanio in a young girl, you deprave her very last," Delicacy!" aaid Marie with a ocornful laugh, "a fine word for aueh im nhe! I'll teach her, with all Iter aire, that ahe'a no better than the raggedeet black wench that walka the atre?u' She'll take no more aire with me." " Vou will anawer to God for eueh cruelty," aid Mum Ophelia, with energy. "Cruelty?I'd like to know what the cruelty ia! 1 wrote ordere for only fifteen iaahea, and told him to put Uiow on lightly. I'm aura there'* no cruelty tnero!" u No cruelty!" aaid Miaa Ophelia. " I'm aure any girl might rather be killed outright." " it might aecm ao to anybody with your feel ft*. w ajjl I iNO. 262 . i I intr hut all tliiw creature m>t ii<u><1 /> it - it'* rv r> ~ ~ the only way they can be kept in order Once let them feel that they are to take any air* about delicacy and all that and they'll run a!l over you, just as my servants always have. I've begun now to bring them under, and 111 have them all to know that I'll send one out to whipped as soon as another, if they don't mind themselves.' said Marie, looking around her decidedly. Jane hung her head and cowered at this, for she felt as if it was particularly directed to her Miss Ophelia sat for it moment, as if she had swallowed some explosive mixture, and were ready to burst Then recollecting the utter usclessness of contention with such a nature, she shut her lips resolutely, gathered herself up, and walked out of the room It was hard to g?> back and tell Rosa that she could do nothing for her; and shortly after, one of the man servants came to sav that her mistress had ordered him to tako Rosa with him to the whipping house, whither she was hurried in spite of her tears and entreaties A few days utter, Tom was standing musing by the balconies, when be was joined bwVd'dnli who since the death of his master hadoeen entirely crest-fallen and disconsolate Aflolph knew that he had always been an object of dislike to Marie, but while his master lived he had paid but little attention to it. Now that ho was gone, he had moved about in daily dread and trembling, not knowing what might befall him next. Marie had held several consultations with hor lawyer: after communicating with St. Clare's brother, it was determin ed to Hell the place and all the servants, except her own personal property, and these she intended to take with her, and go back to her father's plantation. "Do ye know, Tom, that wo've all got to be sold ? " said Adolph " How did you hear that I " said Tuin. ' 1 hid myself behind the curtains when ^ ^ , jSr-w* ' ft' .? - > * 1j at?y y 'is 'V \ J? his arms and Highing heavily "We'll never get another such a master,' said Adolph, apprehensively ; " but I'd rather bo sold than tako my chance under iihshis." Tom turned away ; his heart was full. The hope of lihorty, the thought of distant wife and children, rose up before his patient soul, as to the mariner shipwrecked almost in port rises the vision of the church-spire and loving roofs of his native village, seen over the top of some black wave only tor ono last farewell. Ho drew his arms tightly over his bosom, and choked hack the hitter tears, and tried to pray The poor old soul had such a singular, unaccountable prejudice in favor of liberty, that it w as a hard wrench for him! and the more he said, "Thy will be done,'' the worso he felt! Ho sought Miss Ophelia, who. ever since Eva's death, had treated him with marked end respectful kindness." "Miss Fheely," he said, "mase'r St. Clare tiromised mo my freedom. He told me that he lad begun to take it out for me; and now, porhnps, if Mies Fhoely would he g<s?d enough to speak about it to missis, she would fed like goin on with it, as it was mass'r Sr. Clare's wish.'' "I'll sjwak for you, Tom, aud do iny best,-' said Miss Ophelia; " but, if it depends on Mr*. St. Clare, I can t hope much for you? nevertheless. I will try." This incident occurred a few days after that of Rosa, while Miss Ophelia was busied in preparations to return North. Seriously reflecting within herself she considered that |H)rha]>s she had Hhown too hasty a warmth of language in her former interview i with Marie, and she resolved that alio would s now endeavor to moderate her neal and to r he as conciliatory as possible So the good f soul gathored herself up, and, taking her knitting, resolved to go into Marie's room, he as . agreeable as possible, and nogotiate Tom's t case with all the diplomatic skill of which she t was mistress. 0 She found Marie reclining at length upon a lounge, supporting herself on one elbow by pilt lows, while Jane, who had been out shopping, wan displaying before her certain samples of thin black stuffs. "That will do," said Mario, selecting one; , " only I'm not sure about its being properly mourning." " Laws, missis," said Jane, volubly, " Mrs. General Derbennon wore just this very thing 1 after the General died, last summer ; it makes up lovely!" "What do you think 1" said Marie to Miss Ophelia. "It's a matter of custom. I suppose," said Miss Ophelia. " You can judge about it better than I." "The fact is," Haid Marie, "that I haven't a dress in the world that I can wear, and, as I am going to break up the establishment, and go off nost week, I must decide upon something." " Are you going so soon ? " "Yes. St. Clare's brother has written, and ho and the lawyer think that the servants and furniture had better be put up at auction, srid the place loft with our lawyer " "There's one thing I wanted to speak with yon about," said Miss Ophelia " Augustine Iiromised Tom his liberty, and began the legal i>rrns necessary to it. I hopcyou will use your influence to have it jierfeeted. " Indeed, I shall do no such thing," said Marie, sharply. "Tom is one of the most valuable servants on the place?it couldn't be afforded, any way, Besides, what does ho want of liberty* He's a great deal better off as he is." " But ho does desire it, very earnestly, and his master promised it," said Miss Ophelia "I dare say he does want it," said Marie; "they all want it, just because t\ioy are a discontented set?always wanting what they Haven t got. wow, i m pnneipiea ngainst emancipating, in any ease. Koep a negro under the cure of n master, and he does well enough, and is respectable; but net thein free, and they get la/.v. and won't work, and tako to drinking, and go all down to bo mean, worthless fellows I've seen it tried, hundrods of times It's no favor to sat them free " " But 'IJpin is so steady, industrious, and pious." "Oh, you needn't toll mo; I've seen a hundred like him. He'll do very woll as long as he's taken care of?that's all " "But, then, consider," said iMiss Ophelia. " when ^you set him up for sale, the chances of his getting a bad master." " Oh, that's all humbug,'said Marie; "it isn't one timo in a hundred that a good fellow gets a bad master : jnost muster* are good, for all the talk that is muds. I've lived and grown up here, in the South, and I never yet was aouuaintod with a master that didn't treat his wrvanU well?quite an wall ait in worth while. I don't fool any foaru on that head." " Well," naid Mian Ophelia, energetically, " I know it wan one of the hint wisbe? of your hunhund that Tom ahould have Lis liberty it wan one of the promise* that ho niade to dear little Kva on her death-bed, and I hhould not think you would fuel at liberty todimegurd it." Marie had her face covered with her handkerchief at thia appeal, and begun nobbing and lining her amelling-bottlo with great vehemence. " Kverything goes agninat me," she mid. ' Everybody ia no inconsiderate. I shmldn t have expeeted that you would bring up all thane remembrance* of my troubles to me?it's j o inoonsiderate. But nobody ever does conaider?my triala are ao peculiar ! k'i "o hard, that when I had only one daughter, she should have been taken?and when I had a hunhund that just exactly suited me?end I m ao hard to be suited!?ho should be taken ' And you seem to have so little feeling *>r uie, aud keep bringing it up to mo ao cardtwalv?when you know how it overcomes iae! I suppose you mean well; but it is very inoooaiderate? very' " Aud Marie sobbed and gasped for breath, and & called Mammy to open the window, and to I bring her the camphor-buttle, and to bathe her head aud unhook her dress Aud in the i