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LITERARY MISCELLANY.
For the National Km
AH IXCIDKIIT Oil THK SEA 8H0KK
BY MARTHA RUSHKI.I..
Krust iitt iin*
About midway between Saehca'n Head and
Double Beach, tnft-e wt?ll known watering pla
ces on tho Connecticut shore, a small oovo or
oreek laps, like a silver toiiguo, up into tho
mainlaud; and the waters, aH it weary of the
perpetual strife and moaning eeawaid, cling
to the shore in litl le curve* and dent-,
and put out Blender silver arm* airong the
coarse, green sedges cf the marshes, as if fork
ing Tor that inland quiet which it i* their den
tin y never to attain.
It is a quiet hit of water?that small oovo.
net in a Inline of white, wave-ribbed Hand,
backed by a circlet of houses, the groen, r?nk
marsh e*, and a low range of broken upland,
scarcely worthy of the name of hill*, but si.ffi
oieot to shut off all object* landward, save a
blue, hazy l;ne in the distanoo, which indicate*
the outline of the Tatoket range of hill*.
Hut Heaward roll ceaselessly the blue^vavre
of the Sound, and, stretohing along at the dis
tance of from one half mile to some four or live
miles from isbore, aie scattered a dozen or more
islands?
" Moles that dot the dimpled bosom of the sunny
summer sea"?
some, at hrgh water, mere hummock* of roqk
and ?and, overrun by rock pear, a specie* of
cactus, bearing blos*oms of deboate ye"ow, with
here and there a stunted pine; other* long,
low, barren rcaahe* of sand, ca*y of neco**, and
therefore the chosen location* of " fi*h houses,''
with their accompanying reels, great cluni.sy
machine*, which, with the salty, white seine,
stretched over their long arm*, remind one of
giant* ready to do battle with the HtortnB ; and
some few of the larger rock-bound nook* of
greenery, where tbc whortleberry and tbo
raspberry thrive in profusion, and tho whispcr
ing pine* and ancient ban*-wood* shelter, Hum
mer after Hummer, gay parties of pleasure
Meeker*, old and young.
Beyond these, the view is unbroken, rave
when, on a clear, sunny day. tho whore* of
Long Island loom fa;ntly through the distance,
golden, azure, and poarl-buod, like the wall* of
Home enchanted city. Many and many u time,
when a child, have 1 watched these shore* from
the wooded hillside pasture above our old
bomesteml, and thought of the New Jerusalem,
with its wall* of precious ttonts and it* gates
of pearl, where there is no more night.
These few islands are not without their le-?
gendary lore, as every one i* aware who hits
ever been honored with a Beat in tho stern of
an old fisherman's boat, when he pulled off. in
the gray dawn or oening twilight, to vitit hi*
lobster pots, or has shared hi* lunch with one
on the " outer reef," when hunger grew too
keen even for the patience of a fisherman?
legend* of buccaneers and smugglers; and,
sooth to nay, the initials of Captain Kyd, with
the date 1687, cut in the eolid rock on the
island that beam his name, and Bworn to as
autbentio by the "oldest inhabitant," gives
some coloring to tho former, to say nothing of
the great cavity excavated in the rock, and
known aa the famous Captain's ''Punch Bowl."
But, whatever these islands might have been
in former times, they are noted now only as a
pleasant place for pic-nica, and, li st, but by no
means least, as the best ffob'ng ground in the
region; and the above description, we trrtU,
will reeall to moro than one reader the long
Mimmer days when, with Bome silent grim via
HP* old tUherman by his side, he sat in the
rooking bout, and band-over band, drew in L Y
line, with its floundering, fluttering prey, or,
forgetful of hi* sport, lay musing io-the stern of
the boat, until
" The charmed sonnet lingered low adown
In the red West,"
and lent heart and eyo and soul to the wvno,
until life, with its tumoils and bitter striving*
seemed foreign and accidental, and he felt, with
the Lotus Rater*?
" Then in no joy bat calm."
> The hamlet itself is email, and, though, borst
ing a hotel duly graced with verandah and
piaaxtt, almost every hoane in opened in the
summer time, ? 1 a hoarding or lodging bouse,
and in generally well-tilled, not, of course, by
the most faab:ontihl<', but by quiet country j
parties. people of straightened means, with p?'o.
aicHy-looking child-en, *?ont middle-aged gen- 1
tlenien who come there bscaoae their fathers
did before them, who swear at the new-fangled
cookery at the "Head" or "Beach,"' where
they go occadonaJly to dino with a friend
pride themivIn* on knowing the beet fishing
ground, call the old l>oatman by the wubri
quetn which each unually bean in each a place,
and make a great impreswon upon new com
er*, especially Women and children. Add to
these tome do?m of gentlemen from all quar- <
ten", amateur fishermen, genuine lovers ot the I
hook and tine, and you have a aample of the
" company * which most does " congregate" at
the Cove.
' An to the inhabitants proper?they are an
amphibious race, living equally well on land or
water, keen, shrewd observers of character,
not a little given to " taking in " men as well
aa fish, obsequious and obliging enough to
stranger* but notoriously quarrelsome among
themselves
I know not whether animals of amphibi
ous bahits are more iraeoible and belligerent
than others; but the bijio^i of these hamle ?
are invariably given to infirm itios of temper,
and their chief notion of liberty seems to be
the right of " going to law."
Some years ago, it was nty fortune to spend
mae weeks in this place. It was in the linight
of" the sea***!." and the old farm house of onr
landlord, M. Q . was crowded with hoard
ere, who presented th? usual variety of oharin
ter. Am<ttg them were three, who interested
me exceedingly. Two of tluwo were a mother
and daughter?quiet, reserved people, whose
garments of plain, deep mourning, aerved to
confirm the rumor that they were a minister's
widow aud child. The mother looked Hkc
one who )?or>' th?? burden of some nnapoken
grief, and this was in part explained, when
one looked on the small, delicate figure of her
daughter, and noticed the deformity of the
?pine between the ah< alders, which no art of
diWM eon Id wholly conceal. They never nvn
gled with the hoarder* in the common room '
or on the lawn, bnt wandered, hand hi hand,
alone upon the beach, or sat by the onen win
dow* of their room, (whioh was divided from
my own only by a thin pine partition.) read
ing, sometimes the poets, Milton or Words
worth, bat of?erier, from the Bible, the sublime
?trains of David and Isaiah, or the burning
words of Paul. The landlord called the mother
Mrs. Davenport, and the latter addressed the
child aa Bertha, and that was all I knew of
them.
The ether person, whose presence was food
for my bosy mind, was Aanao Vannense, a
gentleman of some th'rty five yearr?at lewtt,
90 1 guessed, but be migl t have had a dozen
yean more or less, for b?s face and figure wero
Met tt that grand, noble almost severe mould,
upm Which Time scents ,o leave no iinptom.
? He proved to he a former acquaintance and
Mkm traveller of my dear charge and young
relative, Waller Aynton. They had met, a
Winter er tww previous, ha Cuba, and now re
newud their acquaintance with pleasure In
deed, Walter wae KMghlud with thia renamtre,
mi a?hnweette hi Me praiaai of his friend
ant wimm reaeoa; tor Wmmnm attached
htmealf la mm party, and t aoun found that, to
Mte aMoMBlMiaMNite Mad varied knowledge of
Ma> if Mte 'llM; m ?died rate ?ehotarly
attainments, habits of deep, original thought
an earnest love for the truth, md th?l rare and
resistless individuality which wins and com
mands at the name time Tendemfsi tqual tit
| a woman's, too, 1 soon felt him to posMM, when
I ho t<Hik my young cousin under his charge,
! and made my office oi nurse almost a sinecure.
Hut with all those rare qualities, combined with
wealth and that personal prosenoo which is
bettsr than beauty, 1 felt that Adrian Van
nt'K o lacked totnelking. I could not watch him
arid Waiter long together, without fooling that
that xh-nder boy-student, with his pale cheek
and sunken eye, pawing so slowly, yet, as my
! heai t told me, ho unruly, away from earth, was
far the richer and wiser of tho two, for Adrian
was an infidel.
Something?1 know not what?hut some
I th-'-.g in his early experience had oome to give
strength and depth to those doubts that sooner
or lator besot such earnest, inquiring natures
as his, and ho had taken refuge in a refined
?|K;cien of materialism. This knowledge was
an inference drawn from a series of incidental
remarks, rather than from any Often statement
of his own ; tor be was no vulgar assert or of
b's creed, no Jesuitical proselyter, bont upon
bringing every one to his viewH.
To Walter Aynton, pain and i.'lness had boon
the angel with which ho had wrestled, like Ja
cob of old, until he had obtained the blunting,
the unspeakable blessing, of perfect faith and
irust in God. Thus it was, in all our conver
sations on lile and lile's ends, that all that ,
seemed dark and intricate and contradictory,
Waller trusted to (?od, certain that in the life
beyond it would all be made clear in the
?' brightnet-s of tho everlasting light." Hut I
could read no corrosfK^nding faith in the dark
eyes of Vannessc?no glow of hope lit up the
calm, stern features of bis grandly-chiseled face.
f>no glorious day, as we sat beneath the
shade trees on tho lawn, Adrian read, in soit,
deep tones, that most mut-ical, most melancholy,
because most hopeless of all Tennyson's pocn ?,
the " Lotus Katetd;" and as be closed he re
peated, more to himself than us, and as if in
answer to some query of his own mind?
" There ia contusion wow than death ;
Trouble ou trouble, i>ain on pain,
Long labor unto aged bro:ith?
Sore lu.sk to heart* worn out with many wars,
And eye,a grown diui with gazing on the pilot stars."
Then added, slowly, u And this is tho sum of
life!"
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THE TWO WE8I.EY8; * OB, THE TWO WEL
LERQT018.
BY ISAAC H. JULIAN.
< no, of the iron frame, and heart of steel?
Tho Destroying Angrl's peerless Minister?
bruited o'er earth by Fame's loud trumpet-peal,
Strode proudly to the gory heights of War;
The other, with a will a* Grin, as bold
A spirit, and a henrt of living llaine.
To gather Christ's lost sheep into bis fold,
To save and bless bis orring species, came
The one prevailed o'er Europe's Conqueror?
The other triumphed over Sin and Death :
Which was tho Hero? Who's the nobler inuli'
Which did the richer legacy bequeath ?
Eternity alone can fully tell,
When the dread Juduk shall part the hsira of Ilearea
and Hell!
* It is something peculiar in the hand of Provi
dence, that the Johu and Charles Wesley family had
the effer of a large ??tatc, but, fearing the temptation
of riches, declined accepting it. The offer was then
made to another Wesley, or Wellesley family, of
which Arthur was the youngost son, and was accept
ed. It was this property and title, inherited by an
j older brother, which brought Arthur into public em
| ployment ao very young I have nevor doubled that
the tulen'4 of John Wesley were equal to those of
Arthur Wellesley, though exercised in a different oc
cupation. But what a change, and what a misfor
tune in the world, if John Wesley had lived the rick
I>uke, in a formal, political religion, without a ser
mon, or a book, or any religious act of his, in the
world Advocate of Peart.
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SLAVEBY MOW EX1BTIBG IK NEBBASEA
In any ordinary care, ( should be very loth
to expose a brother mitsionary; but the case
now Iwforo us in one of no monstrous a charac
ter an to forbid longer silence.
It may not be generally known, that there
is in this Territory an extensive missionary
establishment, under the direction and control
of the Methodist Chnreh South, at which
slaves have long btnx krpt to do the menial ser
vice of Ike mission. These slaves have been
kept here in tiller disregard of the Missouri
Compromise, by which Slavery was forever pro
hibited here.
it would seem, to a c mdid thinker, a diffi
cult matter to conoeivo a groseer inconsistency
than to go forth to preach Christianity to the j
heathen, and to carry slaves along to assist in
'the glorious work. Thus, while they would |
hold up the goe|>cl to the heathen with one j
baud, with the other they bind fast the yoke j
of txmdage on the o<ck of the poor slave
How c*n they show any consistency in such
a monstrous absurdity ? On what grounds
should one portion of the hrman family be
degraded and hcathenixed, to elevate and en
lighten another?
Hat, to oome nearer to the point?Thomas
Johnson, the superintendent of this slavehold
mg mission, by af'mit management, was elect
ed, last fall, a Delegate to Congress from this
Territory, or, rather, was sent to Washington
to attend to matters pertaining to the various
tribes of Indians here, preparatory to selling
their lands and organising a Territorial Gov
ernment. He has been at VVaehington during
the present session of Congras, where he has
been usinsj all his infloepce to secure the pas
sage of Douglas's Nebraska bill; and be has
not scrupled to make unfair statements, to pro
mote bis ends. He is using bis utmost endeav
ors to induce those Indians to sell out their
lands entire?a tb:ng which they are very un
willing to <k>2 and which would be very dis
astrous to their beet interests.
They have emigrated, to make room for the
white man, until they can go no further.
There are no lands suitable for them. Most
of the va?t region between this and the Rooky
Mountains is a barfen desert, and wh< lly un
fit for cultivation These Indians are disposed
to fell all the land they do not need; but they
wish to be allowed to remain here in peaoe
and nuiet, for they know not where to go. Rut
th s Christian mi>?ionftry would send them
away, does he care whither1 It is believed
that he intends to securo to himself a fat por
tion of these poor Indians' lands. And be
would plant Slavery here: yes, hoe introduced
i it here, in violation of the laws of the land
| And jet, we are to believe that he is a minis
ter at tho Gospel of Chriet.
Friends of Freedom! Help! If ye ever
intend to fight for Liberty, bnekle on your ar
mor, for the time is at hand.
Richard Mkndknhall,
Mission Teather.
Friends' Shawnee Mission,
Kanmt Territory, 5th mo. 14, 1854.
At Norfolk, Th<%. Nuney, mate of the sohoo
ner Kllen Barnes, of New Haven, and a negro 1
slave, were remanded for trial on the 15th of \
May, for abducting two slaves from that city, j
| who made their escape, and arrived at Ware
i ham, Massachusetts.
Tho New Y?nrk Times says it ie thought the
number of immigrants arrived in this country
during the past vear could not be less than
half a million, and they have brought a capital
of SIO000,000 with them
Mr. Jambn Elliott if authoriied to receive
and reooipt fur tubcoriptioo* and advortfaciueuU for
the Daily and the Weekly National Era, in Cincin
nati and vicinity.
WASHINGTON, I). C.
FRIDAY, JUNK 2, 1854.
[HF"" Mr. Skward's Speech.?We intend
ed, hut lurgot, to call attention, yesterday, to
the admirable speech of Mr. Sewakd, printed
in our columns, delivered ou the passago of the
Nebraska Bill in the Senate. The Senator
ha? thin advantage over many others?that his
reputation of itself secures consideration for
what ho utters.
WHAT 18 TO BE DONE !?'"1HF. NEED OK THE
TIME."
In auothor column the reader will tind an
article from a very intelligent correspondent,
on the "Need of tho Time." It deserves con
sidoratiou. The writer would interpose no ob
stacle in the way of those who are Reeking to
bring about a guoeral union of the friends of
Freedom, but hit) object evidently is, to
guurd against an inadequate and inefficient
organization of their fot ees.
The perpetuation of the Whig Party neces
sarily involves the maintenance of tho present
Democratic Party?and the continuance of
both, leaves to Frce-Soilers, or Independent
Democrats, no alternative but the preservation
of their organization.
The nucleus of tho Independent Democratic
Party wan formed in 1839-40, and wan then
known aa "the Liberty Party." From that
timo down to the last Presidential election, the
most determined efforts were made to socurc
to the Whig Party tho adhesion of its mem
bers. Its separate action was condemned as a
blunder. Its leaders were charged with play
ing into the hands of tho " Locofocos." It
was asserted that the Whigs were more favor
ably disposed to the Caus-i of Freedom than
the Democrats; aud, therefore, although not
coming quite up to the standard of the Liber
ty men, they had a just claim upon their sup
port. " A half loaf was bettor than no bread."
The true policy was " to choose betweon
evils ;" the right way was to vote for the
men, least opposed to their opinions, who had a
ohance of boiug elected. It was folly to throw
away their votes, without tho slightest prospect
of success; it was wicked, by withholding them
from the Whig Party, to subject it to defeat.
Of. ooui>e, men who plied thorn with argu
ments of this kind, held them rosponsiblo for
the defeat ot Henry Clay, and what was
charged as necessary consequence.1, tho annex
ation of Texas and the Mexican war; and
responsible, too, for tho election of General
Pierce, and whatever consequenoes resulted
from that event.
Steadily the friends of direct political aotion
against the Slave Power, mainta:ned their
ground, through ovil and good report, adding
to their uumbmrs, never changing their princi
ples or policy, although, in obedience to cir
cumstances, they accepted a new name, and in
1848 beoamo known as the Free or Independ
ent Democraoy. They admitted frankly that
in tho Free Sta'ee, thore were more Whigs
than Democrats liberally disposed towards their
views, and inclinod to opposition to Slavory ?
but, they pointed to the facts, that the Party
which is in the attendant in the Federal Gov
ernment, having secured its place by alliance
with the Slave Power, in obedience to that
Power, is peculiarly intolerent towards Anti
Slavery movements; that, from 1836 to 1852,
the Democrats were thus in the e jcendnt,
with .the exception of a few months of power
under General Harrison, and a four yoars' term
from 1848 to 1852; that tho Anti-Slavery poli
cy of the Whigs in the fres States, when out of
power, waB to be attributed largely to the:r
necessities, which constrain an opposition to
ave'' itself of every element of hostility to the
Administrate Party; that similar necessities
developed similar Anti-Slavery proc'ivitios in
the Democratic Party, when it was th-own
out of power and into the opposition, in 1848 ;
and that the Whigs, organized nationally, and
in possession of the Government from 1848 to
1852, were piactically as pro-slavery as their
predecessors?tho surrender of the Wilmot Pro
viso, and tho imposition of the Fugitive Slave
Act, being the most signal achievements of tho
Fi'lmoro Administration.
And they now point to those additional fact*,
that, in the Whig National Convention of 1852,
a majority of dolegate* passed resolutions in fa
?or of the pro-slavery legislation of 1850, affirm
ed its finality, avowed opposition to further
agitation of the Slavery question, and put in
nomination a Presidential candidate who ac
cepted emphatically the po,:ey thus proclaim
ed; and that, subsequently, the Whigs general
ly, in their State Conventions and through their
leading journals, declared arquiescenoo in what
had boen done, and manifested a strong repug.
nance to any kind of movement on the subjcct
of Slaveiy.
We reproduoo these facts, not for the pur
pose of reproaching any Party, not for the pur
pom of placing Whigs or Democrats on their
defence, not to provoke recrimination or stir
op anew tho elements of discord, but to justify
the poliey ol the Independent Democrats, and
demonstrate to all politicians that a union of
the friends of Freedom in the free State*, on the
bans of either the Whig or Democratic organi
zalion, as at present existing, is utterly out of
the question. Maintain theso Parties, and the
tamo reasons which have oonstrainod tho In
dependent Democracy to koep up its separate
organisation, will force the same policy upon
it We never will assent to the compromising
tactics of either, or sustain them.
The fundamental vice of lmth ie oloarly eta
ted by onr correspondent:
. " Kach of the other parties is divided ;nto
two wings?an Anti-Slavery wing and a Pro
Slavery wing. The Pro-Slavery wing of oseh
is composed of slaveholders, who look upon Sla
very as the paramount interest to be regarded
in nil political and legislative action, and non
slavr holders who either feqr Slavery, or are
catelest respecting it, and therefore quite will
ing to do whatever the slaveholders require.
The Anti-Slavery wing of eaeh has acted on
the principle that party unity is the primary
necessity, and that, wh Uever obnoxious platform
may be set up, or whatever olmoxious candidates
nominated, they are to be acquiesced in ami sup
ported, rather than hazard party divisionV
The result m before our eye* Polk, elected
by the Democratic Party, wan upon Mexico,
aud dismembers it, for the purpose of enlarging
the area of Slavery. Fillmore, elected by the
W bigs, abandons the doctrine of the glorioun
Ordinance of 1787, and fastens upon the coun
try an odious aut, which jnst now has brought
a sovereign State to tbe brink of oivil war.
Pierce, cho.?en by the Democratic Party, re
fwuls the Missouri Compromise, and meditates
a war to preveut (Emancipation in Cuba. And
two yearn hence, a Whig President, elected on
tho prinoi^ clearly stated in the foregoing
paragraph, would signaliao bin Administration
by some other outrageous concession to Sla
very.
No, gentlemen; if you chooso to put your
old parties under foot, we will put ours.
Heaven knows we have no fondners for mere
organization; that wo c?re not a straw for the
Independent Democratic party, if its princi
ple* and policy in regard to Slavery bo adopt
ed by the People. We go for a union of the
friends of Freedom, without distinction of par
ty ; drop old nanes, and disregard old issues;
form a real party of Freedom, with no eleuiont
of compromise about it; and we are with you
lUit let us begin right, l^et us ifflt build upou
an old and a worn-out organization. Let ax
have done with trimming, and pultering, and
tinkering, and cunning contrivances of half
way measure*. The cry how is, Repeal! Re
peal of what? The Nebraska and' Kansas
Hill ? Nobody doeires to seo that repealed,
so far as it ombracos tho organisation of the
Territories. Tbe repeal of that section is
meant by, which tho Anti-Slavery restriction
in the Missouri Compromise is declared null
and void. We havo no objection to this; in
deed, it may servo as a very convenient rally
ing cry ; but if that, be all, it is hardly worth
tho labor of attempting a new party. Thero
must be a principle at the bottom of tho now
movement, if it is to bo successful. That prin
ciple must be determined by ascertaining what
are our national responsibilities for Slavery.
Just so far as these extend, our action most
go. Slavery exists within the exclusive juris
diction of the Federal Government is sustain
ed there by its power, aud the Slave Intercut
jiosseBses and controls this Government. For
this state of things, not the slaveholders alone,
not the People of the slave States alone, but
the People of all the States arc responsible.
Our duty is plain: it is, to turn Slavory out of
tbo exclusive jurisdiotion of the Federal Gov
ernment, and roaouo that from the grasp of the
Slave Interest. The rof.of the Missouri
Compormise is but one of the many acts of tho
supremacy we havo allowed to the Slave Power.
IVe must destroy thai supremacy ! That alone
will save this country from bocoming an im
mense Slave Kmpire, dedicated to the propa
gation of Slavery.
Again, wo pay, let ut begin right. There
are three articles which contain tho whole
crood of the Independent Democracy on the
subject of Slavery:
"That the Constitution ' of tho United
States, ordained to form a mora j Tl'eot union,
to OHtahlitih justioo, and nooure the blese'ogs oi'
liberty, exprenly denies to the General Gov
ernment all power Jo deprive any person of
,:fo, liberty, or properly, without duo proee i of
law; and, therefore, the Government, having
no more power to make a Slave than to mako
a King, and no more power to establish Sla
very than to establish Monarchy, shor'd at
once prooeod to relieve i'*elf from all responsi
bility for the er:stence of Slavery, wherever it
jKWewwee oonHtitutional power to legislate for
its extinction.
"That, to the per. :>vor ig and importu,
nate demands of tho Slave Power for more
wlavc State*, new slave Territories, and the
nationalisation of Slavery, our distinct and
final answer is?no more slave States, no slave
Territory, no nationalized Slavery, and no na
tional legislation for the extradition of slaves.
"That Slavery is a sin aga:,ist God and
a crime against man, which no human enaot
ment nor usage can inuke right; and that
Christianity, hrmanity, and patriotism, alike
demand it; abolition.''
Let the Democratic 1'arty, assembled in Na
tional Convention, adopt Ruboantially this
creed, and it becomes the Party of Froodom
From that momont, it will have a right to
claim, and it *1" command, the voto of every
citizen who believes that the need of tho time
is, the abolition of the Slave Power. Let the
Whig Party assembled in National Convention,
tako this ground, and it beoomot the Party of
Freedom, and would deserve, as it would re
ceive, the vote qf every ?:noere opponent of
Slavery. But, this is not to be expected. In fact,
a strong repugnanoe is beginning to prevail in
the puhlio mind, against the bolting of any
raoro National Conventions, to determine plat'
forms and select candidates. Very well?let
the work be done :n tho several States. It is
already begun. As we s*id the other day, Ohio
leads the movemont. The old Whig papers of
that State manifest a spirit of wisdom, lib
erality, and patriotism. They give up old or
ganizations, formulas, and names. They call
for a Party of the People. Laying asido all
pretensions of superior policy in time past, they
aro willing to unite on equal terms with Demo
crats and Independent Democrats, in a com-,
mon movement for tho redemption of the coun
try from the rule of Slavery. Of course, such
Prinoiplos as we havo indicated above, will bo
cordially sustained by snoh a union ; and the
example once fairly net, it mi'l be emulated in
other States. The leat' ng journals in Wiscon
sin and Michigan are already suggesting a
similar movement. Let no narrow prejudices
no blind devotion to mere orgar Nation, inler
fero. We observe that in Mich gan, tho Do
troit Tribune proposes a State Convention of
all opi>onente of Slavery, to meet on tho 17th
of June. Just before tb:s, although unknown
to the ed:tor of that paper, the Central Com
mittee of the Independent or Free Democracy
of Michigan had called a Mass Convention, to
meet on tho 22d of Jun?. Why not mske an
effort for concert ? Lot our friends confer with
those of other Parties, who are in favor of a
combined movement, and let a oa'l bo agreed
upon, which sha'l have no paiiy aspect or
bearing. Lot there be no strife now for pre
eminence?no attempt to magnify the zeal of
one olass of the opponents of Slavery over an
othor.
In New York, there is a tenacity of old party
prejudice, which will present a serious obstacle
to union. A portion of Domocrats clings to
the Administration, and does not seem to enter
tain even the thought of a <J;sorganization of
existing parties. A portion of tho Whigs is
just as impraotioable. The Albany Evrntng
Journal, in an article on the 26th ult., alter
some very just observations on the division!
among the People of the free States, and the
consequent ascendency of the Slavebolding Oli
garchy, extinguishes completely the force ol its
whole article, by tho following paragraph in
conclusion:
" For ourselves, we believe the end of Parties
to be?not, like Armies, to aggrandize one ruler
bi.d dethrone another, nor, like Churches, to
uphold abstract creeds of faith?but to deal
directly * ith the practical issues of their day
and generation. And the only way we havo
ever found to do that, has been by voting for
men that can be elected, and working with par
ties that can beat. So far, we have not found
Freedom practically advanced one stop except
by the Whig Party, with whom we have acted
for yeats. When we find another equallv
right in if5 principles, and more able and will
ing to carry ihem out, we will urge voters to
HO for that one "
That is?Slavery governs this oountry, and
is hurrying it on to ruin, beoause the People of
the Freo States, who in the aggregate consti
tute the great majority of voters, are divided
among Whigs, Democrats, and Independent
Democrat#, thus frittering away all thuir
strength: wo (the Albany Evening Journal)
therefore insist upon the necessity of union
let us all unite, and we sha'l be more than a
match for the Slave Interest, and shall be able
to take possession of the Federal Government?
but, juBt one word in your ear, good peoplo?
you must all join Ike Whig Party, " with which
we hove been allied for yearn! "
The Journal Hhould be moro reasonable and
liberal. Domocrata and Independent Demo
crats think as highly of their respective organ
izations, as the Journal does ot the Wlvg. It
has no right to ask thom to do what it refuses
to consent to. It is not respectful to the masses
of voters, who d ffor from it, to require as a con
dition to their united action, that they should
become Whigs. Let it do as its brethren have
done in Ohio, proclaim itHroadinoKS to drop old
names, old issues, and unite on equal terms
with those who have been callod, Democrats,
and Independents Democrats. Then might wo
expeot an efficient organization of the friends ol
I Freedom in tho Stato of New York?then would
' the voice and actton of that great State be po
tential for Liberty.
I Till tho Journal, and other newspapers like
it, manifest a willingness for an equal union of
tho opponent# of Slavery, they will have to bear
the responsibility of tho divisions that now place
the sceptre in the hands of the Slaveholding
Oligarchy. This will be the moro deplorable,
shall wo not say, reprehensible, because the
Journal plainly avows tho principles ami poli
cy in relation to the Slave Quostion, contended
for by the Independent Democracy. On the
23d rU, it contained a strong editorial, from
which we oopy the following extract:
"We cannot read the future. We cannot
nredict what will be tho con; quenoes of th s
iast and most fatal blow to 'berty. But wo
can see what the duty of 'eomen is, and we
mean it shall be through no fault of ours if it
is leu undone. *
" If tho North is what it olaims to bo, and
what we have, of late, ha I gratifying aasu
ance that it will be, this day ends the era of
compromises. With the band of Repr-aontr
tivos that have nobly resisted the coiismraa
tion of th:i iniquity for Pi standard bearers,
it will declare that there sha'' be no more new
slave States. That there shall be no more slave
Territories. That there shall be no more North
ern Congressmen wilh Southern principles. It
mil seek the immediate colonization of Nebras
ka by those who can yet save it from the imperill
ing curse. It inil take a solemn pledge of the
men it sends to Washington, that their first and
last vote there shall be cast for repeal and free
dom It will send no more fugitives back with
out a U gal trial. It will sweep Slavery out of
every nook and corner where the (reneral Covet h*
merit has jurisdiction, imprison it within its fif
teen States, awl surround it there with triple
bands of steel. It will 1establish justice, promote
tranquillity, and secure the blessings of liberty to
itself and to its posterity1r:s the United
States wi'l do, if thoy havo retained tho spirit
of their fomdeu. If no4, then God help tho
Kopublic, for i*? days are numbered. Such a
gigant:c Confederacy of cr~ne ci it mi .i
<.tlierw;?e becomc, nover existed elsewhere, can
not exist here, and ought not to ei st any
where."
This the United States will do, "if they havo
retained tho spirit of their founders,'' and if
tho Whig and Democratic masses, represented
by such jov dais as the Journal and Atlas of
Albany, tho Tribune and Post of New York,
will now givo up their mutual strife, acknowl
edge the paro"nount importance of the Slavery
imuo, and, rooognising the absolute necessity of
i-lion among tho voters of tho Free States,
cnito in a Party of Froedonr, for the rescue of
the Feder?'. Government IVom the domination
of *So Slave Power. If they w:ll not do this,
then we say, too, " God help the Uepublic, for
its day* aro numbered ! "
An a matter of fact, wo know that there aio
Whv and Democrats in New York ready for
such a union. On the Demooratio side, we
point to Benjamin F. Buti.kr and Preston
Kino?on the Whig side, to the editors of the
New York Tribune, themselves a host. Why
w'-'l not these liberal men, who see clearly the
nocomit es of tho hour, whose oonv.otions of
present duty are stronger than reool'octons of
anciont strife, preparo the way for tuoh a union
in New York as is now in progress in Ohio ?
For our* elves, we care not who are to be tho
leaders, who the men of mark, who, tho stand
ard-bearer*, in this great Party of Freedom,
which ought to l>e formed, and whioh, we for
vontly hope, is in prooess of formation. Let
it throw Compromise! to tho winds, lot it be out
mid out against Slavory, let it demand a'\
that tho Constitution authorises, and tako
nothing less ; let it boldly proclaim its pi-rfOfc
to placo the Fodoral Government on the sido
Liberty, as it is now forced on tho side of Sla
very, and wo shall not slop tj inquire " who
shall bo greatest," or to d sputo about metaphy
seal abstractions and subtleties.
QjF"' Judge A. A. Pbil'ipe, oP thn Marino
Covrt, Now York, w y outer day beaten in the
ntroot, by rnffip.ni) whom his decision* had dir
pleaaod.
John Underoliller, a boy nmo yean old
wan yeeterday committed to prison in New
York, for brrglary. What a pity! what a
shame! N>ne yean old, and with the prieon
stamp upon him.
An air-lino railroad l?etweon New York
and Norfolk in our neatly (BftMMd bj ablo and
influential men in the two oitiee, who have
held a meeting at New York on the auhjeot.
For ths National Bra.
THE HEED 07 THE TIMS.
"The Crawford J Pa) Journal sneaks out
manfully on the suhjeot of Slavery. In the last
??ue, speaking of Benton's spoech, and com
plimenting it for it? dofonce of Freedom, the
editor says: y
" ' The stand of the Whigs of this county, to
discard all compromise or connection with thin
cuise of Slavery, is the only true one. Why,
then, patch up our State and National politics
with temporary expedient*, with equivocal in
cantations, and optative curatives f What is
the wisdom of everlastingly compromising and
allying with an aokuowledgud and fatal ene
my? ?
" 1 hat is what wo have been inquiring for
years. Our neighbor, we are oonfldent, sera
tho right. Why not pursue it? Away with a
party whioh enslaves the mind, and preveuts it
from acting out its noble impulses."
We quote the foregoing from the Courier,
a spirited journal printed at Conneautville, in
Pennsylvania. Its compliment to the Craw
ford Journal is just, and its own sentiments
are right and honorable.
But the same paper oontains the nomination
of Mr. Benton for President, and Mr. Skward
for Vioe President; and we take ooca^io.i, from
this, to call the attention of the friends of
Freedom throughout the country to two or
three suggestions.
1 here are as yot throe great National Par
ties in this country: the Baltimore Democracy,
the Independent Demoeracy, and the Whigs.
Of those partios, tho Independent Democracy is
strongest in tho strongth of its principles, and
is not inferior to either of the others in the in
telligonoo and disinterestedness of its members..
It is numerically tho weakest, but gains rapidly
by accessions from both the other parties.
Eaoh of tho other parties is divided into two
wings?an Anti-Slavery wing and a Pro-Sla
Slavery wing. The Pro-Slavery wing of ea *h
is oomposed of slaveholders who look upon Sla
very as the paramount interest to bo regarded
in all politioal ond legislative action, and non
slaveholders who either fear Slavery or aro
careless respecting it, and therefore quite will
in* to do whatever the slaveholders require.
Tho Anti-Slavery wing of each has acted on
tho principle that party unity is the primary
necessity, and that, whatever obnoxious plat
form may bo sot np or whatevor obnoxious
candidates nominated, they are t*> be acqui
esced in and supported, rather than hasard
party division.
It is perfeotty clear that neither of those par
tios oan oppose an effective resistance to tho
demands of Slavery. There are goad men and
truo uieu in both \ but so long as they act on
the principle that party unity must be pro
served, even at the cost of sacrificing or dispar
aging Anti-Slavery principle, they cannot exer
cise their proper influence.
The theory of the old parties has been tried
many years, and Slavory has been gaining all
tho while. The Independent Democracy is
the only national party whioh has the right
theory, and boldly acts upon it. It seeks to
denationalise Slavery, and to place the influ
ence of the General Government on the aid*
of Freedom. To do this, is to overthrow the
Slave Power in the first place, and in tho next
place to secure the final and not remote aboli
tion of Slavery, through the action of tho State
Governments.
The People have been considering the doc
trines of the Independent Democrats, and they
have been rapidly finding their way into popu
lar rnoeption. Hence tho growth of the par
ty. At the last election, one out of twenty
of the Kleotors of the Union oast their votes
for Hale and Julian. As oompared with the
votes for each of the other tickets, or with votes
oast in slave States or free States, the propor
tion of course would be much larger.
It is remarkable, however, that many Inde
pendent Democrats are prone to look outside
of their own Organisation for men to carry out
their ideas, and, when they find a prominent
man supporting some particular measure
whioh they have at heart, are ready to hail him
as leader, and to talk of him for the highost
offices, without waiting to know whether ho
wishes the support proffered him, or whether
his general position is such as to justify any
expectation that his action will bo such as to
warrant it. The tendenoy of this is to cheap
en Anti-Slavery men in tho estimation of po
litioal leaden, who are induced to believe that
general professions and occasional right action
on particular questions will be sufficient to se
curo their support. All such l*lief tends to
perpetuate old politioal organisations, and to
postpone the triumph of Independent Democ
racy.
Our friend of the Courier probably knows
that Colon*! Bsnton has signified no purpose
of abandoning the old Democratic organ so
tion?while Mr. S?.WAim is known as the roso
lute adherent and partisan of the old Whij;
party. It is idle to suppose that there oan
be a ticket of such names until a dimolu
tion of partios shall take place. To suggest
such a ticket tends to withdraw attontion from
tho real pressing noed of this time, which is
to strengthen and en largo the Independent
Democracy, to consolidate its organisation, and
to energize its action. Let us do this, and let
other parties, and the men of other parties
take oare of themselvos for the present. When
the Anti-Slavery men of both get tired of con
tending with Slavery under the enormous dis
advantages of their existing organisations, and
are ready to unite in one great National Party
of Freedom, against the Sectional Party of
Slavery, the Independent Democracy will not
be slow to join it. Indeed, such a party u>ui
Iks nothing el*> than an Independent Demoe
racy. ?
[tjr* How badly does the 5*nir;grant at New
York need a f-iend! Yosterday, a poor, feeblo
German, wm arrocted for theft. He had stolen
a plate, worth 25 cents, sold it for 8 cents, Rid
bought a loaf of bread and given it to his
wife. His wife wm nought and found, and she
had just become a mother!
Thb Rev. Rumjcll Strketkr, of Boston,
during a miniHry of forty fivo years, has preach
ed 6,230 sermons?an average of 11? each year.
Krckangt.
Ketimating each sermon to make twenty oc
tnto pages, Mrs would give 104,600 pages, or
17ft volumes of 600 pages each. Will not some
publisher purohase the copyright of the whole,
tuid agree to publish them all during the Ad
ministration of President i'ierce?* Come, now' ,
8LAVXBY, IOW KXISTI1G IK JfKBBASKA.
A communication in auother column, from
Richard Mondenhall, a mission teacher resi
ding in Kansas, shows that .Slavery already
exists in that Territory, carried there and fos
tered there by missionaries of the Method-st
Church South, among whom in Mr. Johnson,
who hae made himself quite busy in Washing
ton this session. The statements of Mr. Men
den hall are worthy of the most serious atten
tion.
This Methodist Church South may be re
garded as a mission association for the spread
of Slavery. During the Btruggle in California,
a year or two sinoo, for the introduction of
Slavery, its newspaper organ in that State took
ground against the Anti Slavery opposition to
that movement. And, as it seems by tho fol
lowing paragraph in the National Inftiligtn
ur, the Church has at last expunged from its
discipline its old article about Slavery, thus
renouncing tho creed of the fathers of tho
Churoh.
" Tho (General Conference of tho Methodist
Episcopal Churoh South, in session at Colum
bia, Georgia^ on the 25th ult. expungod from
the Book of Discipline all thore parts which
oondemu the institution of Slavery. The veto
on expunging is said to have been nnanimouH,
w ith a single exception. The general rule, for
bidding ' the purchasing of mon, women, aud
children, with the intention to enslave them,'
and which ha* reference to the African slavo
trade, was retained, though the vote upon the
expurgation, even of this rr'o, was 47 to 54."
That tho missionaries of such a Church
tihould propagato and foster Slavery in Kansas,
or anywhere e'^e, is precisely what might be
expected. ^ ?
MB. 8UMNKK, IN WASHINGTON.
Tho New York Evening Post tb:nks that tiic
majority of tho Southern delegation* would by
aa prompt to resont any outrage on the person
of Mr. Sumner, in Waabingion, at* if he repre
sented tho State of Mit.uHaippi, instead of Man
aachuaetto. Thiy is decidcdly an error, and no
wonder that the Post has fallen into it. As
soon as it is found here that Northern Senator
or tt?preHentativo8 are non combative, or that
they rcprohont oonstituenoicH who would not
sustain a duelist in any public position, they are
apt to be insulted, by Borne of those Southern pro
tectors to whom tho Post wou'd appeal. 'I no
exhibitions of th;9 conduct in tho United States
Sonalo for tho past four months, have been con
stant, and of the numt disgusting character j
and, what adds to the despioability of it, is the
fact that, when resentment and defiance havo
been exhibited, the tone and b3aring of the as
sailants have beeu lowered, and a respectful
demeanor assumed. These are sayings un
pleasant for us to utter, and no doubt unpler.-j
ant for many to hear ; but they are true, as
thousands of witnebjes w:!1 attest, and fa the
record will prove.
Aa for Mr. Somuor, wo havo no fear. Ho
is an adrooat3 of the Cai'*e of Peace, but knows
how to stand by h:s pest; and the good People
of Weibington wi'l uot suffer themselves to bo
d'sgraced by mob-violenco.
A Novel Proposition.?The other morn
ing, as a friend of ours, an old resident hero,
was eating his breakfast, solitary and alone,
attended upon by hia oolorod boy, Billy?in
whooe hearng he has boon in the habit of
reading his morning papers aloud?this boy
became deeply improved ?lth tho lamentable
wants of the Northern States at this crisis, for
men who arc willing to stem the torrent of
abuse be*ped upon Northern men and North
ern prinoiples, in Congress. Said he to our
friend, "Why don't the Northern folks get
aome Southern gentlemen who think as they
think, and then aend 'cm bore to Congress to
speak up to tbeae Southern men ? Don't you
think, sir, that would be a good plan ? for
that's what is wanted here?somebody as w'H
talk up to 'am, and not bo afeardNow, wo
leave this suggestion with our Northern friends.
Billy's idea was to import sumo Southern men
to talk for tho North. *
A Type or our Navy.?The following ex
tracts from a private Uitter, written by a young
man on board the United States sloop-of-war
Albany, are given in the New York Commer
cial Adotrliser:
"Prnsacoi.a, May 21, IR54.
"Wo are muoh in doubt as to our lutnro
course. Nothing certain is known, or w .ll be,
untd some d< finite shape is assumed by our ro<
lat'OM with Spsrn.
" Orr ina:nmnst has beon found so bad that
we havo been obliged to replaoo it, wbioh is a
labor of considerable difficulty, the oonveni
enoes at this yard boing very ' nrited for euoh
an undertaking
"Our captain thinks it not improbable that
we shall lie here dur'ng the approaching sum
mer. If so, our term of service will be mate
rially extended beyond what we expeoted or
desired. I trost not. however, for it almost
auivalent to a sentence of death to one half
r*, to remain here during the sickly season
of July and August. Yellow fever is sure to
set in about those times, or, if not, some other
epidemic. Our sh;p is a very bad plight
for serv.oe, and need's extensive and thorough
repp:rs before she ewld be fitted to ' meet, an
enemy.' "
Disgraceful Procekimhis.?C Rea, editor
of the Lauderdale (Alabama) Kdpnhluan, and
W. -P. Rvans, a lawyer, fought a duel a tew
days ago, in Mississippi. They fought with
rifles, at seventy yards distance. -At the fourth
round, Rea was shot in l?oth thighs, and at tho
same moment, Kvans pantaloons were cut by
a ball near both his knees Rea was the chal
lenged party. His wounds aro not dangerou*.
A letter says. " tboy drank obampagno amica
bly together just before taking their poiiitionH,
and shook hands in friendship soon after Kca
was wounded."
To prepare the Capitol f??r the summer
seosion of Congress will coat a few thousands of
dollars, as we have been assured. Tbia is a
large expenditure, 'r that session i? only to last
from the first Monday in June until the first
Monday in July But the opinion is gaining
here, that so early an adjournment I* a thing
imppoeible. Members, ort going before their
constituents, will prefer showing something
more than the repeal of the Missouri Compro
mise, as the result of their labors during a
wholo session of seven months
Milwaukio has adopted an ordinance an -
thorising the iaauo of SI 00,000 of city I Hindu,
for tho purpose of oompleting the harbor and
dredging the Milwaukie river.