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LITERARY MISCELLANY.
For the National Kra.
A BKOTHEtt'8 UtCOLLlCTlOHB OF AH OSIY
?an*>.
BY MAHV IRVINO.
CHAP. via.
Three year* had passed siuoe we first uiado
the wilderuese our home; and already, all
around u?, it literally " blossomed as the ruee,
under the hands of flower-loving Eulalie. She
had grown up, healthful and beautiful in body
aa well as in mind, bearing few traoe* of th?'
delicate, drooping bud I had transplanted Iron.
Embury air 1 began to look upou her with
a pang of sell'-reproaoh, knowing that the tune
w?e nigh when I ought no longer to keep her
from the acquisition of those aoooroplishmentH
that are to woman's graceful nature an fra
I'rapoe to the me. But how oould 1 send her
into the world again ? How oould 1 lite with
out her, a hermit in utter solitude ol lb.
Aohain of inoideuts? 1 should say of provi
denoes?worked out for me the answers to
these trying questions.
I have already introduced to you Bruno, the
trustworthy and affectionate playmate and
guardian of my pet. He had a look thatwan
almost human in his intelligent eye; and if all
wearing humanity were faithful and kind an
he, the world would have little to wish for ;
Eulalie loved him, neit to myself and the i
memory of Maiy Hyde. _ I
I had been trying hunter's luck in the wooiIh,
through a long autumn day, with poor sue- ;
oeM, and was sauntering homeward at even
fall, when I was warned, by the rustling ot
bushes, that some animal waH near. W aiting
only long enough to uatoh a faint glimpao ol I
its outline, which strengthened my supposition |
that it was a prairie wolf, I levelled my gun at
the clump of bushes, and tired! 4,
A scream of intense distress rung out on toe i
air at the same instant with a sharp, wailing
howl! 1 bufht through the thicket like a mad- |
""^Tbank God, it is only the dog!'' 1 *a?ped,
catching my sister from the mound where sbo
knelt by her dying favorite.
'? Only the dog!" ' . . .
Reproach and appeal were bleuaed in the
look the child oast upon me. Then, trying to
stifle her sobs, she sunk down by the poor vic
tim, whose limbs were fast stiffening.
Oh, my Bruno?poor Bruno!" |
She parsed her trembling fingers over his
faoe He lifted his head with a last effort, and
tried to liok her hand ; but a film came over
his eye, a tremor over his frame; aud the noble
dog lay lifeless at our feet!
'? Ob brother, you could not help it. was
?11 Eulalie said, as, almost heart broken, she
buried her face in the brown shaggy hide.
Poor Bruno was laid in the grass grown yard
before our . abin. Many a mound that covers
* human form has been bedewed with fewer
tears than his! Eulalie mourned for week*,
as for a brother, and 1 seldom left her long
alone. . ^ ...
One evening, on returning from the village,
I missed her sweet faoe. Supposing that she
had gone to Dams Wilson s, I opened my j
weekly newspaper, and sat down to study the
election returns. The long shadows of the
western maples, falling across I ho broad signet
of the sun upon the floor, aroused me at last
from political speculations to the oonsoiousnesH
of the hour's latenesj. I seixed my hat, and
set out to meet her. Anxiety deepened into
disftaay, when, upon inquiry at Mr. Wilson's, I
found that she had not been there during the
day! I hurried home, with a vague hope to
find her there before me ; but the solemn still
nessof the shadowed, deserted oebin, shook
my frame to the weakness of a child's.
My neighbors, sharing my anxiety, had for
tunately followed me. In a tumult of feelings,
Among which I was only conscious that not a
moment must be lost, I seised my rifle, and
planged into the heart of the woods.
That night, with its terrible question of
44 Life or Daatb " suspended, until day looked
in mercy over the forest tops ? 1 oannot, even
at this day, endure the retrospect of its terTi
ble fancies and fears. None can know them,
who has not, like me, traoked, through the
darkness of a wolf-haunted woodland, a ten
der, idohied obild! Tk
My despairing prayers were heard. The
angels watched my treasure under the dew
drippmg arch of heaven. She was found lying
tm a mossy knoll, at the foot of a gnarled o%k,
m the thickest glade of the forest. Tears lay
tike pearls upon her pale cheeks, and her
hands were yet folded for prayer. Tired Na
ture had wept iteelf to sleep but sbe was safe<?
afe!
Bat suspense was not yet to relinquish it*
grasp of my heart.. The shook ot that night's
exposure, the terror attending it, and the ex
citesseot of the sudden awakening in my arms,
were too moch for the still delioate constitu
tion of the child. Within twenty-four hours,
?he was raving in the delirium of a fever.
The otd physician tA the neighboring vil
lage summoned to her bed side, shook his
head, aa his rough, kind fingers cloned over
tbe small wrist, and fdt the fierce bound of
the fovsr dso& n working at her heart. The
reoas was half filled with women and ohil
dren, from o.b.u* far and near, who had
flocked, full of affeetiooate ouriosity, to look |
upon " the child that had been lost and found.' I
As osaal with intruders into a sick room, they
lingsred idly, as though paralysed?save a
few, who bowtled about with more seal than
koowtedgs.
u Doctor!" cried Nelly Wilson, in her loud,
quiek tooe, twitching his coat-sleeve, " don t
you agree to tansy tea, and a poultice of all
sorts of grass1 When my Jaokey '
- All sorts of botheration! my good woman,' j
retorted the Doctor, in Jim peculiar grumble.
" What upon earth oan a man do in such a
BabelT if yon are the woman of sense I take
yon to be, order of these forty-ind-one good
Samaritans, with their whining babies! "
Netty, who would have made a fine lleld
reanhal, commenced enforcement of his or
den by flourishing her apron and arms m the
. gfcee of a pear, meek little Welsh woman, who
>d not a word of English By this
? pantomime, and her vet more ein
__-gtary, she suon succeeded in " olear
frig the coast and establishing quiet.
?* I'll Stay by the pretty creators to day,
blsaa her! she vociferated, in a loud whis
per slipping into the Doctor s ohair, as he
?rM0 from the bed ttde. " The old man and
the young ooes may as well try their luok for
m0l! ?'
NeUy, though boisterous, was kind-bearted ;
was a comfort to have any human crea
wi to ahare that anaioas watch.
Day alter day, night after night, the child
tat there helpless?sometimes ia a stupor that
was fearfully like death, sometimeo ia a frensy
that hefted all our effort* to soothe
"Too much prmature ktrt, Mr. Lincoln,
Mtid the D.ictor, with hie finger on her horning
forehead. u fti.* weight ?>t curls must ooine
1^1 beaohfttl hair?her glory?my pride!
1 ? La Ujct r, that's what I've l>eea saying
? cried Nelly Wilson, drawing an
- ? - - ' - rvshoars from the pocket
I laid my hand quickly.
Nelly's rough hand
he*' No. if the sac
it should be by no
brvght, tangled meat of
>d Uid aadly away, a?
<>ri
what might prove a relic too sacredly treas
" " You ought not to watoh ulone with the
obild to-night," said the kind physician at. the
fever drew near its crisis. It was a Monday,
and tho duties of " waehing-day " had called
Nelly Wilson lroui her self imposed task ol
11 3 VV^at have 1 to hope for, Doctor ? " 1 ask
ed, with ntrange calmness
u Hope ends only with lift,'' he ?oleiuuly
replied. ,,,
'? Expect the decision before midnight.
?< I'll w>e what 1 can do for you," he added
more choerfully, after a heavy pause. " Thero s
a new comer at our house?from some one of
jour New England nooks; a yonn^ woman
whoui our committee months ago invit?d out
to establish a girl's school among u*. She if.
a gentle creature, if her eye tells tho truth. I
would trust the child in her hands an soon as
iu my own : und / must be m<les away, to
uight Ah ! a Doctor's lot!"
Night came en with muffled tread while 1
sat lay that low bed, with the wasted hand ol ;
the unconscious child in mine. It was one ol
those fearfully oalm periods that often occur :
late in autumn, usually as preludes to some i
wild play of the elements Not a leal moved ?
on tho muplen before the door, nor on their
shadows which had crept, all that long alter
noon, nearer and nearer the curtained bed.
The shadows melted from sight; the trees
themselves and the environing lorest, the prai
rie dimly seen in tho distance, and the bit' of
blue sky overhead, all appeared melting into
the gray mist that wrapped them.
In my weariness und wo, the faculties ol
mind and body seemed suspended, all but a
dreaming, half realiziug of my utter powerless
uess to change the f it? which the hours were
hurrying on. That morbid fatiilisni which
foiuotimes takes possession ol a soul in its hour
of desperation was last mastering me. I felt
mvself one accursed of man and of God; yet a
sullen indifference kept me culm. I lifted my
eye once ag&iu to tho darkening sky ; and lo!
the first, gentlest star of night, the evening
planet looked its mild reproof into my unbe
lieving heart. As if at an electric touch, the-e
detached sentences from the Word ol 1 ruth
and Mercjr Hashed upou my mind : " He tell
eth the number of the stars ' " And the very
hairs of your head are all numbered! "
The rattle of approaching whoels broke up
on my lethargy, leminding mo of Dr. K's
promise. I stepped to the door just as a box
shaped vehicle was driven up by a country boy,
who, with reins in hand? sprung over the wheel,
and proceeded to tie his horse to an upturned
root, leaving his passenger in great doubt .
whether or no she was to exptct his assistance ;
in alighting. 1 lifted the young lady ? such 1 |
judged her to be, although twilight was too
far gone for scrutiny ol featuros ?to tho turf, j
and eaoorted her to the house, leaving her young
gallaut to follow at his leisure. Etiquette is a
stranger in the home of sickneas and sorrow,
and 1 waited for no formal introduction to ac
oust my guost as a friend und helper, welcome (
indeed in that hour ol need.
'? I have come at tho earnest entreaty of Dr.
E., sir," she said, gently. " I only hope I am !
uot too late to be of service to your poor child." I
Strangely familiar was that tone! I struck
a light, and turned to throw its blaze upon tbu
speaker's features, just as she, lifting her riding
veil, disclosed to me the faco of?'' Mary! Miss
Hyde ! Heaven has seut you here !" I impetu
ously exclaimed, grasping her hand with an ;
earnestness that must h( ve startled her. She
raised her eyes, astonished Mad pale; then, cast
ing a bewildered glance around her, crimsoned
to her temple*
"Mr. Lincoln!"she found at last voice to J
utter?" I thought, that is, I heard vou were
still in Iowa. I little dreamed of this, when
Dr. E- told me of the poor child who?but oh,
can it be my Lulie ? "
'? My faded flower! come and look!" I re
plied, mournfully. She stepped to the bedside,
and took the burning hand that lay upon the
cool counterpane.
The noise and light had aroused Eulalie
irom her stupor. Her large glassy eyes wan
dered over the faee of the new oomer, compre
hending only half they gascd upon. A light
flashed into them, and her thin lips parted to ;
a strange, but happy smile.
u Yes : you're here, oousin?sweet Cousin |
Mary! I always said I should find you first
in heaven !"
Without a word, Mary Hyde laid her hand i
upon the forehead of the child, gently lulling
muscles and nerves to rest, by the resistless
magnetism of her glanoe and touon. The i
sparkling eyes drooped; the lids drooped over
them. The lips sunk back into repose. The
little sufferer had fallen asleep. Would sho
ever awake again 1 %
For three hours we watched her. without a
word, almost without a motion. Slower, faint
er came the breath?till at last I bent my ear
close to the pillow, faaring every moment to
listen for it in vain. But it grew peaceful and
regular; and the muslin frill shaken by her
pulse no longer quivered, as it bad done fur
diTI.
?I turned at last to Mary Hyde-. Never onco
wavering from her most wearisome position,
?he had been leaning over that pillow. Her
lips were quivering, and her finger*, now upon
the wrist of the nleeper. trembled nervously.
Her eye* were riveted upon (he white, still
face.
Suddenly, ou the dark nee*, came a Ha*h ' on
the silfence, a startling peal! The la*t thun
der-sfc rm of the year had blown it* trump to
the wind* of the wilderness!
The ohild half unolosed her eye*, so lan
guidly ! but without the glassy stamp of death.
Mary lifted a cordial to her lips. .She tasted,
and sunk back into slomber.
With a long-drawn, yet strongly-re pressed
*igh, the watcher turned from the bed to the
window, as if for freer breath. I laid my hand
upon her arm, and silently, almost sternly,
questioned her eye.
You may thank (wttd / she whispered;
and, dropping her head against the rough
frame of the window, she burst into teara
Blessed team I they were sent to open the
sluices of more than one soul!
Mary! "?I lifted the hand I had taken to
my lips, to my heart?it was one of those in
stants in which spirits live ages' " Have our
hearts ever linen strangers since, my Mary ? "
The storm-wind* rioted in fury around us;
the forest trees rooked like reeds, shrieking a
vain appeal to the pi'ileus tempest. In the
hushes of the thunder-peals, oame up a wild,
hopeless wail, as though the Manitou of the
dying Indian Kommcr were pouring out his
irit on the path of the blast in a death-song
desolation
What had the elements to do with u? in that
hour ? Our fainting flowrr, wan back from
the grasp of death, lay in a sleep too profound
to bi broken by their revelry; and we?the
heart speaks loudest when the lip ia hushed !
Life and (<ove! What more has earth to
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WASHINGTON, D. C.
SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1854.
Some errors in the Tribune's analysis
of tho vote on referring the Nebraska Bill
have been discovered, and wo shall ooirect
them For our Weekly.
A rospeotahln morning paper, which
continue* under tho innocent dcluHion that no
such paper a* tho National AVaexists in Wash
ington, publishes under its tolegiaphio head, j
thin morning. news froui California, published
y enter day ufternoon among the telegraphic
despatched of the Era ? the only difference
being that our uccountH were fuller.
The name paper contained an editorial of
ours, Home time ago, on tho duty of p/ovidiug
an ayjlum or hou^e of correction (or juvenile
offenders; but oare wan tuken that nothing
should appear that might eveu suggest the
soiiroe whence it emanated!
THE 8UGAB MONOPOLY.
Mauy of our exchanges are agitating against
the sugar tax. The Tariff of 1846 imposes a
duty of 30 per cent, on foreign sugar, simply j
for the pur|>ose of securing to a few hundred
planters in Louisiana the privilege of soiling
tho product of their plantations to the Peopla
of the United States at an enormous profit.
The tax is an imposition on millions, for the
sake of enriching a few hundreds. Sugar is
as much a nocet-sary as toa, coffeo, butter.
We ail use it, and in large quantities. The
home outturn oannot supply the demand, at a
reasonable rate. Our Treasary is now over
tlowing?it has become necessary to place
some taxed articles on the free list, and to re
duce the imposts upon others. Sugar, like oof
fee, should be on the free 1st It is an outrage
on the People to compel them to pay a tax of
threo or lour cents to the planter on every
pound they uso. This imposition on the mass
es, this violation of Democratic Principle, is
overlooked, wo believe, by Secretary Guthrie,
in his recommendations for a revision of the
Turiff. The so-called Dcinocratio Party, which
profecses to favor free trade, is equally remiss.
The Free Traders of the South are silent on
the subject, and not a word appears in tho
Baltimore platform about it. Can this be owing
to the faot that the few hundred persons who
enjoy tho benefits of this enormous and oppres
sive monopoly belong to the Aristocracy of Sla- |
very ? If so, it may be well for some of the
Administration papers in the West,-that have
lately been complaining of this grievance, to
hold their peace. They ought to know that
4here is no general rule without an exception,
and that Protootion is always a bad and ruin
ous policy, exoept when required to enrich and
strengthen the Ruling Class.
By the waj, a writer in the Springfield (111.)
Journal shows how these gentlemen flourish
under the protective policy:
" D* Dow's Review for March, 1853. publish
ed at New Orleans, says, that Mr. Wafford, of I
St. Mary, Louisiana, mafle the past Be aeon,
(1853.) on forty acres of land, one hundred and
ninety hogsheads of sugar, of one thousand
pounds each, making nearly* fire thousand
pounds of sugar to the acre The same Review
also says: By referring to the Banner of tho
25th of December, published at Franklin, Louis
iana, it will be seen that many planters in the
vicinity of that town have made upwards of
three hogahpds of sugar, of one thousand
pounds eaoh, to the aore. It further says, that
W. W. Wilkina, E?q., of the parish of St.
James, made the past season forty-eight hogs
heads of sugar on twelve acres ol ground, and
that Col. Preston, of Asoension, averagod three
thousand pounds of sugar per acre on two bun
dred acres of land! That paper also states
that the 'Orange Grove' plantation, a short
distance below Donaldsonville, with only one
hundred and six negroes, old and young, meu,
women, and children, included, which would
givo about sixty or seventy working hands,
made the last season nine hundred hogsheads
of sugar, of one thousand pounds eaoh; and
that Mr. Wilkinr, of the parish ?f St. James
made last aeoson, with sixty hands, nine hun I
dred hogsheads of sugar.
" Those oopious returns show, that* well
managed sugar-planting in Louisiana produc
ed to cach working hand fifteon hogsheads of
sugar, together with the molaases, whioh equal*
fifty gallons to the hogshead of sugar.
'? Krtimating the sugar at four cents per
pound, and the molasses at twenty cents per
galloo, we have seven hundred and fifty dol
lars worth of sugar and molasses, as the pro
duoe of each workiog hand The duty on for
eign sugar and molasses, being thirty per cent
ad valorem, raises the cost of Louisiana sugar
to the consumer an equal amount, and shows
moat clearly that we, the people, the great
consumers and the hard workers, are paying
annually a bounty of about two hundred dob
lars on each working negro engaged in tho su
gar culture"
Our own opinion is, that any attempt to re
peal this sugar tax will be pronounced a viola
tion of the Baltimore platform, and that spirit
of concession and compromise, wtoioh should
character ice the Democracy.
AMKRICA JOINING THK ALLIED P0W8BI
Our minister to Turkey has been doing a
liule more than the polite thing to hie Sultan
ship of Turke*. It wan quite right that Mr.
Spenoe should have brushed up his courtesy
on the oooasion of presenting his credential
He, however, should have confined himself to
the ordinary conventional politeness stereotyped
for f>uch occasion*.
When he had informed the Sultan that
Mussulmanism and Christianity were two dif
ferent things, and told bow liberal and magnan
imous the Lord of the Seraglio was, he should
have stopped. 80 far bo wa? treading on safe
ground, fiat he is not content with informing
tbe Sultan of what he and everybody else knew,
and saying the usual unmeaning nonsense that
no ooe earns about; hot he, forsooth, oommits
all America, horse, foot, and dragoons, to the
cause of Turkey. The address of Mr. Spenoe
ends thus: %
' " In the great struggle in which your Maj
esty is engaged, you hate tbe sympathy and
rood wishes of the whole American nation.
Whilst the policy followed by our Government
impedes all rational intervention in European
questions, it can never prevent us, ae a people,
from demanding of Heaven that the arm, be it
Mussulman or Christian, whieb holds the
, sword in a just cause, be strong. May your
Majesty he suocewfiil in pressrvtng the integ
; rity of ap empire which has often giren refuge
to the exiled sons of liberty of other oanptries
This in the universal desire of tho people of the
United State*."?AT Y. Eve. Post
It is much to be regretted that some gentle
man of mature age, tried abilities, and ample
experience, was not chustui for this delicato
mission. Mr. 8pence is unknown in bis own
country, and has not had much knowledge of
the practical world, e/*ber in -law or politics.
His connexions are all highly respeiftahle?in
deed, we may say '? aristocraticbut, although
these will sometimes seoure a diplomatic ap
pointment, they by no mean# afford a guaran
tee of ability, prudcnce, and usefulness. The
declaratiuns made by Mr. Spcoce to the Sultan
are absurd, and of mischievous tendency, and
the sooner means are taken to correct their im
pression the better. With Russian tyranny and
ambition we can oi course have no sympathy;
but how much can we have with the miserable
and benighted imbecility of the Turkish Em
pire? And, moreover, tho integrity of that
Empire is far from being guarantied by the
Powers allied nominally in the interest of the
Sultan. Their purpose in to lesist the Russian,
not to protect the Turk ; and a partition of the
proteoted Empire, should Russia be repelled, is
altogether ae probable, as its entire absorption,
should Russia be successful.
Mr. Spenoe has yielded too far to his youth
ful impulses?has professed too much?has
proffered too high a price for an especially
cordial welcome to the voluptuous Court of tho
sensual and degraded Mahomedan.
WAHT OF NAVAL PBKPABATION.
" Meanwhile, onr coasts and our commerce
are utterly without protection. In the event
of war with England and France, nut only
would our iumense commerce fall a helpless
prey to the rapacity of the enemy, but desola
tion would be brought home to our doorn.
This is a sad contingency to contemplate, and
the blamo of onr needless exposure rests upon
Congress. The Executive Department of the
Government has done its duty. In an admi
rable report?admirable as well for the wisdom
of its suggestions as for the luminous arrange
ment of its tapios, and the ability of its argu
ments?Secretary Dobbin earnestly recom
mended ah increase of our naval force, both
by reform in its discipline and by positive ad
dition to its material strength. In pursuance
of the policy indicated by the Department, the
ohairman of the Naval Committee in the
Houbo reported a bill for the immediate con
struction of Bix war steamers, but the House
refuses to set on the measure! Was there
ever such stupidity ? Local jealousies and tho
exigencies c>f log-rolling are Baid to be at the
bottom of the matter; but will members never
rise above such'base and narrow considera
tions? Do not the urgent necessities of the
present crisis suggest to them a larger and
purer patriotism than that which regards only
the selfish interests of rival localities? While
Western members are avenging the miscar
riage of their railway grants, the countrjrniay
lose some irrecoverable advantage, or its power
sustain some irreparable wound."?Richmand
(Va.) Enquirer.
It is true, that we have not the force neces
sary to prevent insult to our flag, much lew to
wage a war of aggression. This must be very
distressing to the Enquirer and its friends, who
appear to be anxious for a war with Spain, and
prepared to defy the fleets of Great Britain
and France. That paper some timo since
thought the Neutrality laws should be re
pealed, and the filibusters let loose. Fifty
thousand of the Chivalry of the South, it ex
claimed, were panting for a descent upon Cuba.
Did it never ocour to our sagacious cotempo
rary to inquire, how that panting army of
knight* errant were to get there ? Did they
intend to bridge the ocean, or walk the water, or
ask convoy from the Kritish and French fleet*,
waiting for 'aotive service ? The teal of the
panting chivalry has outrun its ideas.
The Enquirer is about as eminent for its
practical views as the President's "organ,"
which, in the oourse of some speculations on
the subject of war between the United States
and Great Britain and France, has no doubt
at all that a declaration of hostilities by thoee
Powers against us would subvert the Govern
ment of each ; fur, so enamored are the masses
of the French and English people of our insti
tutions, and to devoted are they to the Democ
racy of this country, that they would turn
against their own rulers, and givo us the fra
ternal hng ! No one can question the sound
ness of this original theory, when he considers
that the war would be waged on our part to per
petuate Slavery in Cut>a, and that the masses
of French and English people would sympa
thise with us profoundly in such an enterprise!
Assuming the theory to be oorrcct, Congress
might as well dirfpen*e with the costly prepa
rations recommended by Secretary Dobbin.
If our Government stands so high in the affec
tions of the English and French, that a dec
laration of war by their Governments against
us would be the subversion of their power, in
stead of getting ready a fleet of scrcw pro
pellers, it were better to send out a cargo of
proclamations, to be distributed by Ex-Consul
Saunders, among the masses of England and
Kranoe, whenever their Governments should
commence warlike operations.
The bellioose tone of these journals is ridic
ulous. Nobody is excited, nobody put in bodily
fear. The American People know that then
flag is everywhere respected?that no Euro
pean Power desirM a war with this country?
that England and France prefer our friendship
to our enmity?that they have more to gain
by poaoeful commerce with us than angry con
tention?that they are meditating no aggres
sion upon our rights, and are unequal to the
task of imposing limits upon our legitimate ex
pansion. This feeling is shared by their Rep
resentatives in Congress, and henoo tho indis
position manifostod to act with haste on the
piQposition to increase oar naval armament.
They will not, we presume, neglect this duty,
'but they will tako their own time in attending
to it, without special reference to the soheme*
of our " panting Chivalry."
That our present navy i" insufficient as " a
sea-police/' to nso a very convenient term, we
have no doubt, and the recommendations of
Secretary Dobbin commend themselves to our
judgment. Nhould they ha earned out, they
will give such efficiency to our navy, that, in
the event of a general oonvuJsion in Europe, it
might be able to prevent those irresponsible
acts of aggression upon oar oommeroe, whioh
must inevitably tend to war. But, it is idle to
suppose that, even thus reinforced, It will be
powerful enough to secure success to the
schemes ef Slavery propagandism and conquest
so fondly meditated by the " panting Chiv
alry" ,
" MO MATSBIA1 I1TBBE81 AT STAK1." ,
" 1 believe it is admitted that there is no
mate rial interest at stake , w;,.
Speech of Mr. Everett on the Nebraska Hill.
The opponent* of the Bill to repeal the Mis
Houri Compromise differ from Mr. Everett
The " material interest at Btake " is free labor,
the area of which, by the operation of this Bill,
is to be restricted.
Slave Labor is exhausting, and in always
seeking for virgin soil. The soil of Massachu
setts is a hard one, apd yet the average num
ber of its population to a equare mile is 137 ;
whilo the ratio in Alabama, with it* fertile
Koil and and genial climate, is 15 to a square
mile. And yet, aooording to the weekly Sen
tinel of that State, it lost by emigration, from
October last to February, a period of four
months, an average of 500 every day, or ft
total of 75,000 souls. It estimates the umount
of property carriod out by tlieso emigrants at
$78,670,000.
The Cei.sus shows that the courfe of cnngra
tiou i? not so much from the North to the
South, as from the South to Northern and
Western territory. Ohio, ludiana, Illinois,
Iowa, Missouri, havo been settled largoly by
Southern immigrants.
History shows that where the lerritorylias
not been exempted from Slavery by positive
Congressional enactment, there immigrants
havo continued to hold their slaves, and havo
built up Slave-labor Institutions; and that
whoro there has been such onaotmeut, they
have labored, although unsuccessfully, to break
it down; as was the case in Ohio, Indiana, and
Illinois.
Missouri ranges for the most part in tho
sumo latitudes aa theso States. Its soil and
climate are like theirs. It was not exempted
from Slavery by Congressional enactment, as
they were; and to-day, it has 90,000 slaves,
while they havo none, and only 700,000 white
people, while not one of them has loss than a
million, and Ohio, a smaller State, has twenty
two hundred thousand!
By the Missouri Compromise, Nebraska Ter
ritory, with an area large enough lor a dozen
such States as Ohio, was exempted from Sla
very, and for thirty-throe years it has been sup
posed that States, free and prosperous like Ohio,
were to spring out of it. Southern and North
ern immigrant^, settling it, would bo placed on
an equal footing, enjoy equal rights, and par
ticipate equally in building up free-laboY insti
tutions. No one doubts that such will be tho
result, if tho Missouri Compromise be left un
disturbed.
The Slaveholders, with Mr. Douglas, and a
few.Northern Senators alroady disowned by
their constituents, propose to repeal this Com
promise, and place Nebraska in the same con
dition, as it regards Slavery, as Missouri was
left in?without protection against the inroads
of that system. Under the operation of tho
policy that secured a free population to Ohio,
Indiana, and Illinois, a, free population would
have been secured to Nebraska. Under tho
operation of the policy that has given a slave
population to Missouri, it will become peopled
with Blavcs ; for a large portion of it lies in the
same latitude with Missouri, and is susceptible
of the Fame kind of cultivation. And yet Mr.
Everett coolly tells us that "it is admitted
that there is no material interest at stake ! "
Facts show that he and those who ooncur with
him are mistaken, and that the Party of Sla
vory is not fighting so desperately for a mere
abstraction.
Senator Butler, in a debate which took place
in the Senate, last Monday, pointed out the
way in which Slavery would gradually gain
foothold in the Territory, should tho Compro
mise be repealed ; for to suffer it to Btand, was,
in his judgment, to interpose an insuperable
obstacle to its introduction. Explaining why
he was willing, in this particular case, to dele
gate to tho People of the Territory the right to
govern themselves, he said?
'?I will give these powers In this caMJ be
cause it is prudent and p*opcr. I will give
them to those who, understanding the great
principle of American institutions, mil impress
it upon the statutes of the Territory, until it
Hhall assunie suoh a position as will enable it
to come into the Union as an equal State; but
I am not going to deal so with all other Terri
tories. I will deal so with this, because, if you
trill allow me to say so, I know that Kentucky,
Missouri, Pennsylvania. North Carolina, and,
in part, South Carolina, have mingled their
judgments in the population of Missouri ; and
that will be a judgment which is likely to prevail
in thr laws of these Territories. Sir, the min
gled opinions of the citizens living in and be
yond Missouri will carry out that judgment in
the Territorial laws of these Territories, and I
believe they will be just. There are a great
many from the North who will go into those
Territories. I have seen some of them ; they
are men who are capable, before leaving hotnt,
of lifting themselves above the prejudices whiih
prevail there ; or who have left home with a
view to take a fair position in reference to this
matter."
Which, being interpreted, moans, that Sen
tor Butler votes to give those poople the right
to govern themselves, with an important quali
fication, simply and solely beoause the settlers
there, being composed of Kentnckians, Caro
linians, Missourians, and Northern immi
grants free from prejudieo against Slavery,
will tolerate that system, and pTQtect it by
their lawiy ...
Hore are somo *|?eoulations, also, Irom t.ho
St. I<ouis (Mo.) Republican, a Whig journal,
showing how much influence the advooates of
Slavery attach to the "material interest at
stake:"
?jf Nebraska be made a free Territory, then
will Missouri l>e surronndod on three sules by
free territory, where there will always bo men
and means to assist in the escape of our slaves?
Illinois across the Mississippi, Iowa on the
north, and Nebraska, with no river intervening,
on tho west. In this oondition of things, with
tho emissaries of the Abolitionists around us,
and the facilities to oscapo so -enlarged, this
species of property woula bcoorao ineocuro, if
not valueless, in Missouri."
Again;
"In another aspect, the organ aation of this
Territory is important to the citwens of Mi*
Houri?probably more important to them than
to any others. Thore are hundreds and thou
sands of farmers, and others, in this State, who
have looked forward impatiently to the time
when they oould move with their property into,
and make selections and entries of land in this
Torritory. They entertain a favorable opinion
of the ouuntry, and they will expoct to l>e per
mitted to enter it with their property of every
kind, and oeenpj such portions as may he le-.
gaily acquired. Shall, they be denied thin
right ? Shall they he compelled to remain to
Missoori, and the Oeoaral Ootrernnwnt fiwbid
to th.? the of
Wauael j ^ milk
U tu. <p S
sssrtiLSi or M^n *?
thev Bhall be reduoed *
The Charleston Courier of the 18th ult., baa
no doubt that the toboooo planter*, the *etric
tione being removed, will Boon find their way
into the Territory.
?Do the exceptants to Senator Butler s
ooiifhv ovor uk th.m?lve. wb?t
have earned, if the Nebraska and kansa* bill
had missed without the removal or abolition
of the Missouri line, to which tbo?e regions
have been expressly ^ The SS*
tion and Compromise of 1820 ? Tne *?"?
would undoubtedly have been the ?urrender o
those Territories to the Free-Soilera. Although
we hold it clear that the M.^ur.re-trictmu
is unconstitutional, there are a
who think otherwise, and nothing short ot its
abolition or removal will have th? effect ol
opening those Territories to BlavehoWerfc
"We have reason to believe, from reliable
authority, that, without this measure, a non
slavebolding population would ftt^eocoupy
tho? Territori* ?od tli?
there would have to recede?nay, to give way
to an emigrant horde of Red Republican*,
principle, if not in national origin, full othe
deadliest hostility to Slavery. But,mnovethe
Missouri line and rest.ict.ons and Kansaswe
are well assured, will be
planters, for the production ofwhu,h staple
tho soil and climate are said to be well adapt
ed and Nebraska will almost ncoeBsarify take
52,A d??h.1-4 pomj?l oompfcuon
and local institution's, from Missouri, on which
lfc "^Senator Butler had doserted his South
ern associates, ho may have contributed to
defeat tho bill; but ho would have assumed
the responsibility of dividing the now united
South, and would have achieved, for his oon
stitneuts and the South, 'an Irishman s gam ?
ho would have gained a loss.
u Tho bill, reduoed to its truo character, and
freed from all sophistical confusion, and espc
oiaily from the glomes of men of extreme
views, on either side, is nothing more than all
Territorial bills, under the Constitution of the
United States, except that it removes doubt by
declaratory legislation, by impliedly, it not m
vrcstly, asserting tho supremacy oi the Consti
tution over the unconstiutional Missouri Com
promise and restriction of 1820."
In 1845, tho number of slaveholders in Ken
tucky wob thirty-one thousand and a fracti^a;
the number of slaves ono hundred and ninety
thousand^ showing an average of about six
slaves to each slaveholder. Taking this as a
fair ratio for Missouri, whoso slave-population
is now ninety thousand, more or less, there arc
not quite sixteen thousand slaveholders in that
State, tho entire white population of which is
about seven hundred thousand. Tho great
majority of this population may be considered
adverse to Slavery. Its interests aro unfavor
ably affoett d by it?it would rejoice to see the
State freed from the curse. And yet, sixteen
thousand sjaveholde s dictate public eentimeut
and control the destinies of the State. Kven
Delaware, with a white population ol seventy
live thou8andvand containing but two thousand
slaves, is so far tho vatsal of the Slave Interest
that it cannot relieve itself from the burden,
and rise to the dignity of a free State.
What ia tho let son from these facts ? Throw
open Nebraska to Slavery, and let but one or
two thousand tobacco-planters and hemp
growers, with their slaves, gain foothold in the
Territory, and it will require more effort than
non-slaveholdets have been in the habit of ma
king in such cases, to prevent them from sub
jugating it to slaveholding institutions.
Louisiana.?So it turns out that the Ne
braska resolutions, introduced into the House
of Representatives of the State of Louisiana,
deprecating tho agitation upon the Slavery
queetion, and declaring the Compromtse a
finality, have l>een Unanimously passed by
that body. Thoro has been a wide mistake
made somewhere by the getters-up of this
scheme. It id now indicated that the Presi
dent's interest is contingent upon its success
But this is a mistake. The sagacious Douglas,
wo are confidently assumed, holds the Presi
dent's assumption of responsibility in black
and white! Before tho nominating Conven
tion, the Senator learned wisdom in this par
ticular, and ho teems to ha>e profited by it
in the Nebraska scheme!
Tho lecture of Mrs. Ernestine L. Rose
last evening was well attended, and proved
eminently successful. She is a lady of great
ability and eloquence. The reputation that
preceded her has been more than sustained
She is to lectin e on Tuesday night next, on
Human Right*. , ^
A kind of pa|.or, made from gutta
peroha, has been invented, which is said to l>o
superior to all other kinds for lithographs and
engravings ; but we do not Mieve it. The
bands made of that article, to encirole packa-^
ges of papers, we find to rot and break to pieces
in a year or two.
Thursday's DebateIon,'" the wary boi.
tinel of Southern interest*, says, under hriday h
date:
? Yesterday s debate on Nebraska did not
help tho bill. However clover Mr. Brook^
inridgo's speech may have been, considered
by itself, it did not reconcile the Now
York 'Hards,' who are determined ndt to t e
whipped in by any Administration leader.
Mr. Breckinridge is a very able gentleman,
and his manners, too, are . harming; but, in
(he present temper of the House, coerciou is
impossible, and conciliation urged by overy
motive of prudence and discretion.
This is a groat discovery. Wo may yet
learn what "Ion" moans by " conciliation,'' j
and What tho National Democrat means by j
justice. That the Hards are to bo usod, seems j
to be taken for granted. Tho only question d
doubt relates to whipping in or buying over!
The Nebraska Bii.i.? It is a significant
fact, that whero Judgo Douglas's letter to the
editors of the Importer was most liberally oir
o.ulatod, and where the subject matter of that
letter was most freely discussed, thore have
the Democratic losses been greatest; and it *
)>elievcd by many, that had the discussion and
'agitation been carried gonorally into the inte
rior agricultural towns, the total rout of the
Democratic party would have been inevitable
VVe will not pretend to say how tbjs might
have been, but wo aro entirely satisfied thai
the people of this State, even the Democracy,
will never consent to nor acquieseo in the
measure?and it is perfect fo 1 y to
the passage of Judge Douglass Mil by ten
cress will allay or In any degree quiet the g
tation upon the subject. It is looked upo
a gross vidatioa d a eolefw oowrped,
which the South received a consideration ?'
equivalent thirty yearn ago, and whose share
of the benefit* the North is about to be depriv
ed. However much we may deprecate this
state of feeling, truth compels ua to nay that
such te the fact, nod so int<-m<e and deep-seat
ed is thia feeling, that, in our belief, no man,
however exalted hi* position or hie standing,
can successfully combat it or stand up against
it.?Concord (ft. H.) Recorder.
THE rail ECHOES FROM IBS SOUTH.
from the Richmond Enquirer, March 24.
PRELIMINARY SKIRMISH?THE RESULT.
It is possible that members might desire the
suooess of the bill, and vet vote for its refer
once to the Committee of the Whole. Indeed,
we know that several friends of the bill did
vote with its opponents on this question. Mr.
Cutting, for instance, was the champion of the
proposition lor reference to the Committee of
the Whole, yet be* is known to be in favor of
the repeal of the Missouri restriction. He ob
jects to Borne features of the bill, and, with a
view to a more ample and thorough difcusaion,
suggested its referenoe to the Committee of the
Whole. We do not perceive, then, in what
manner the vote on the reference of the bill is
indicative of its ultimate fate. The advocates
of the repeal of the Missouri restriction must
be very infirm of purpose'Jto abandon all hope
of suooesB in consequenoo of this partial re
pulse.
It must be manifest, however, to every mind,
that a blow inflicted upon the bill at so early
a stage in the struggle, will impair its strength
and diminish the chances of its ultimate suc
cess. The same disaster which dampens the
ardor of the friends of repeal will encourage
and embolden its enemies; and we plainly
foresee a sectional agitation, in comparison
with which every former anti-slavery demon
stration was tame and meaningless. Already
have messages been despatched front Washing
ton to different points in the North, suggesting
immense popular demonstrations of rejoioing
over tho vote in the referenoe of the bill. Im
mediately the work of agitation will begin in
Congress, and the passions of the Northern
populace will be inflamed by daily harangues
in the Capitol. Tho reflex inllucnoe of public
sentiment will Etiinulate the An ti-Slavery ardor
of Northern members, and thus, by a recipro
cal contribution to tlft flame of excitement,
will abolition constituencies and representa
tives contrive to kindle u conflagration tbe like
of which this oountry has never seen. Tbe
cloud, at first no bigger thau a man's hand,
already hangs in portentous bulk on the North
ern horizon. The preparations for a vast or
ganisation of the elements of Abolition are
prosecuted with skill and onergy. The North
is more unanimous than ever before. The re
ligions press and the clergy, heretofore neutral
or siding with the South in seotiopal contests,
have now brought the patBions of sect and su
perstition to feed und spread the flames of ex
oitement.
brom the Richmond Examiner, March 24.
AN EVIL OMEN.
The proceedi ng s of Tuesday last, in tho I louse
of Representatives, excite our deepost concern.
It will be seen that the Nebraska-Kansas bill
that oame down from tho Senate, was referred
to the Committee of the Whole, and not to tho
Committee on Territories. The effect of thia
action is to tako the bill from the control of a
committee which would have promptly ronort
j ed it back to the House, and whose docket is
small, to the Committee of tbe Whole House
pro-occupied with an immense mass of busi
ness, inflated with faotion, sedition, and wind
and we understand, controlled by a rulo, in
flexible as a law of the Medes and Persians
which requires every bill to await its turn upon
the calendar. The aotion of tbe House con
signs tho bill, if this information be true to
months of slumber on the table, and seriously
endangers its final passage. It affords to
Northern agitators the widest latitude for
machination and sedition, and spreads the po
litical horixon with clouds darker and angrier
'J an evor oluoured it before. Such, it seems
to us, miii-t be the inevitable effect of last Tues
day s proceedings; but we shall refrain from
Harsh terms of censure upon the leading axon's
in this proooeding, until more fully advised of
their motive and purpoee.
The grave question has been palliated, avoid
ed, and compromised with, long enough. There
must now be a final sol tlctnent?a clear and
faxed understanding between the South aud
North now, whether the Constitution is or is
not the supreme law. In order to that, there
should, be no eudeavor to smuggle this bid
through it* stages. Let fanaticism do its
worst; and let us understand, once for all
whether the higher law in really stronger at
the North than tbe Constitution. If it is, the
Union must be disced in form as well as
,1 '^domain may pre
IZ\ aV ,tr,nimer8 *"??? showing ?Lr
hands and disclosing their true feelings As
the door has now ben opened for latitudlnoui
dieoussion, the South wUl be euubl#d to learn
her true friends and her real enemies L*t us
have no dodging now. Let the
gross bo prolonged until tho Nebraska I..II is
reached and finally acted upon, ai.U let no
Northern Demoorat with a doughface ?*> per
mitted to escape a vote by consigning the bill
to positions where it cannot 1* reach, d.
brom the Richmond If Aig, Marih 2'1
l'IRRCR'8 CONSTRUCTION OP THE NEBRA8
... , KA BILL. ,
We have nover had much faith in the Briea
diers soundness upon the Slavery q..**tiV>n
?u'V" ^'PP08'*1 t,IRt * man who
Inched slavery," and selected Free-Sr.iWs
, nVT*011 "hjects of Executive bounty
rtf'tl ? r' Rl c."noern the fate
of the peculiar institution. We have never
believed for a moment that Mr. I'ieroe would
turn out to be other than a most worthy and
exemplary disciple of tho Van Burcn school?
Ins antecedents, bin surroundings, and his
oourso ever sinco his olevation to the t'rrsi
denoy, all rejecting a different conclusion. We
were satisfied that the South had nothin/ to
expect from him-that his sympathies ^.re
aNnn the s,de of Free-Soilers and Abolition
ih??and that, sooner or later, ho would exhibit
the cloven foot in such a clear and nnmisUke
aMe manner as to produce conviction even
Wl, r P ?f hl" OWn PartiMan? the
Ninth, of hw eminent unfrustworthiness and
criminal duplicity.
Aooordingly, in confirmation of our suapi
^AlJL * paper published at H.inL
ville, Alabama, a letter from the Hon. Joro
ClemenR, dated at Washington, Feb. 28tl? ad
dressed to a friend in Hontsville, in defence of
HP?n the Nebraska question. In
sham^5 7? Sre mf<,rmod authentic
\ construction the President puts
Nobranka bill; and it wiU be seen,
>? it his construction lie adopted as the true
one, instead of tho South'* gaining a particle
*d*?ntago from tho repeal of the Missouri
restriction, it will effectually lose everything for
which it has ever contended.
We greatly foar that all those Northern
l>. moorats who voted for the Nebraska bill.
equally with the Presidont, mean to eemtend
that thia doctrine of squatter sovereignty is fuU
ly reoognised and established. This will be a
very popular ground to take at the North as
this doctrine has all the virtue of tho Wilmot
I roviso. We shall wait impationtly for the
several interpretations of all the ' Northern al
though, that the Southern
members in the House will look to this
trf'i ??* not """"r <?ta
?d, and their constituents cheated by the r,e.
ognition of any such principle.
J.M.7' C"" ?"? ^ toiimalion of