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Provinces, not over 3, 000 miles, 10 cts, per half ounce; over 3,000 miles, 15 cts per halt ounce. Prepayment compulsory SATURDAY, 2 SUNDAY, 3January Monday, 4 1869. H. A. (?????), Esq. Newburyport any Friday after Dec. 20 Tuesday, 5 Grace Greenwood 570 New Jersey Avenue Washington Wednesday, 6 January Thursday, 7 1869. D(?) S. S. L. Jones No. 265 Detroit Prof. Stone Ihalamoso Telegraph Friday, 8 Walamoso Mich D. May H. Wilhite Clar(????)s wife and Saturday, 9 Mariana Thompson Canton Theological seminaryJanuary Sunday, 10 1869. Mrs. (?????) Hall Toledo Ohio Monday 11 Tuesday 12 Cambridgeport January Wednesday, 13 1869. Mrs. E. A. G. Willard Chicago Paulina J. Robert Macine Thursday, 14 Wisconsin Friday, 15 WashingtonJanuary Saturday, 16 1869. Mr Carroll 58 White St. N. 7th Mt. Vernon Sunday, 17 Mason W. Wilder Mackies Marion Mrs. Robert Malone Eastport Monday, 18 Miss Maria Odall Eastport Mrs. Mary Brooks Easport January Tuesday, 19 1869. Syracuse Wednesday, 20 Thursday, 21January Friday, 22 1869. Don't say from whom - Mrs SR Portman Bellevue House Mrs. GR Russell Saturday, 23 No. 1 Leurs(???) Square Mrs RG Shaw 44 Beacon St Mrs Wendell Phillips Sunday, 24 Mrs. Maria Weston Chapman Miss Chapman Chauncey St. Warren Weston January Monday, 25 1869. Mrses Weston Waymouth Landing (Edmond & Josiah Quincy) Nash 87 Broad St. Tuesday, 26 Cincinnati State & Merchants House G (?????) (???) Wednesday, 27 Market (/////)January Thursday, 28 1869. Frank B. Fay 46 Wash Rev Wm. B W(?)ght 163 W CAnton Rev Mr & Mrs Laichi(??) Stone(??)ain Ed Atkinson 40 State Rich Hallowell 98 Federal Wm Endicott Jr of CM Hovery (??) Jno M. Horbas (??) Wash. & Court Friday, 29 Mr Parker Jr opp Hallowell's Columbus A Lo. (?)askell 124 Hanover W. Oakes Ames Sears Building Oliver Ames Sears Building Saturday, 30 Wil(??) teacher 52 B(??)din 105_(?)th (?)ridge Ames Newburyport Mass. January Sunday, 31 1869. Subscribe (??)fus F(??)ort i 68 Franklin John HS OSq(???) 65 Hayley St Mrs. Harris 117 H(?)ricoch st. February Monday 1 Wm C Brown 1 Court Square Tuesday, 2 February Wednesday, 3 1869. Dr. (?????) Little 29 Euclid St. Cleveland Ohio Mary E.(?). McClacken Thursday, 4 Bristol Cadriz 50 miles Ohio J. Sh. Wildman 1603 Wallace St. 110 S. Third Philadelphia Friday, 5 Cyrus White Carbin Carr White Carbin & Co Rockville Conn. February Saturday, 6 1869. Hon. S.G. Finnery Sacramento California Send (??)acts Sunday, 7 (???). Booth Woodward Avenue Cir. Henry St. Detroit Mich. Monday, 8 Mrs. S.G. (?)hinney Nurse 170 Adams St. Newark petition February Tuesday, 9 1869. Address the Judiciary Com. of the Rhode Island Legislature on Woman's Suffrage Wednesday, 10 E. F(?) Burr 708 Main St. Hartford Con Thursday, 11 February Friday, 12 1869. Saturday, 13 Sunday, 14February Monday, 15 1869 M (?) (?) Village N.H ? Tuesday, 16 Ex Con. N.E.W.M.A Wednesday, 17 February Thursday, 18 1869 Peters ? Hon. ? Barre Don. ? Friday, 19 Saturday, 20 February Sunday, 21 1869 Jay Chapel Howard Penn write when I can lecture Monday, 22 Tuesday, 23 February Wednesday, 24 1869 Frank N 6 Dearborn Thursday, 25 Mr. T. Tyler Walters Delaware, Ohio Mrs T. Tyler Walter Delaware, Ohio Friday, 26February Saturyda, 27 1869. Sunday, 28 March Monday, 1 March Tuesday, 2 1869. paid F M Wild [?] for Miss A.W. Foley Dayton Ohio Mis Rebecca Beck Wednesday, 3 Jefferson Ashtabala Ohio Thursday, 4March Friday, 5 1869 Saturday, 6 Sunday 7 March Monday 8 1869 Tuesday, 9 Springfield Convention Wednesday, 10March Thursday, 11 1869. Mrs. S. E. Newton Cleveland Ohio Care of H. H. Newton. Friday, 12 Saturday, 13 March Sunday, 14 1869. Dr. Ellen Ferguson Box 277. Richmond, Ind. Miss McDonald MONDAY, 15 Crawfordsville Ind Agnes Cook Richmond Ind. TUESDAY, 16 E. L. Walker Indianapolis Christian 66 AvMarch Wednesday, 17 1869. Thursday, 18 Friday, 19 March Saturday, 20 1869. Sunday, 21 Monday, 22March Tuesday, 23 1869 Wednesday, 24 Thursday, 25 March Friday, 26 1869. Saturday, 27 Sunday, 28March Monday, 29 1869. Tuesday, 30 Joint special [?] of the Mass. Legislature Wednesday, 31 April Thursday, 1 1869. Friday, 2 [illegible] Saturday, 3APRIL SUNDAY, 4 1869 Grantsville Dec. 20 Westend Jan. 17 MONDAY, 5 Mrs. C. A. Whitman Whitman Mrs. C. Sh. Robinson E. Joginer Tuesday, 6 [W???????] APRIL MONDAY, 19 1869 [Workman] [Harrisville Kinsley French] 12 Summers St. [A Folsum & Sons] 77 Summer St TUESDAY, 20 Henry Damron 20 Franklin [Lee d Higginson Slate] Miss Clapp Lewisburg Sy. WEDNESDAY, 21 Mrs. A. A. Heminerway 40 Mt. Vernan Mrs. Charles Flubban 2 Lanisburg Square April Thursday, 22 1869. Boston Sewall Day & Co. Friday, 23 Saturday, 24 April Sunday, 25 1869. Monday, 26 Tuesday, 27April Wednesday, 28 1869. Thursday, 29 Boston Friday, 30 May Saturday, 1 1869. Sunday, 2 Monday, 3May Tuesday, 4 1869 Wednesday, 5 Thursday, 6 May Friday, 7 1869 Saturday. 8 Sunday, 9MAY MONDAY, 10 1869. Mrs. Betty Steelman Cincinnati Ohio 97 & 99 Water St TUESDAY, 11 WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY, THURSDAY, 13 1869. FRIDAY, 14 SATURDAY, 15May Sunday, 16 1869. Lawyer. Sam M. Townsend Tainton Mass Monday, 17 Mrs A.E. Weston Yellow Springs Ohio. Rebecca P. Rice. Yellow Springs Ohio. Tuesday, 18 Mrs Elizabeth Coit Columbus O. May Wednesday, 19 1869. 70 Tuttlend 1.25 Surprs in Bodly 16. 75 Thursday, 20 4.05 75 Mrs. E. T. Coain 113 Jefferson St Dayton O. Friday, 21 Miss R. P. Dean Jefferson Ashtabula Co. OhioMAY SATURDAY, 22 1869. SUNDAY, 23 MONDAY, 24 MAY TUESDAY, 25 1869. N. E. W. S. A. WEDNESDAY, 26 " " " " THURSDAY, 27MAY FRIDAY, 28 1869. 1 - 2nd B[?] T. W. 2-[?] St Johnsbury[?] 3 - 4 St Albans 8 - 9 SATURDAY, 29 Burlington 10 - 11 SUNDAY, 30 MAY MONDAY, 31 1869. E. J. Durant Lebanon N. H. JUNE TUESDAY, 1 Arrange a Meeting of possible on our back from Vt. WEDNESDAY, 2JUNE THURSDAY, 3 1869 Mrs. Moulton No 28 Rutland Square Fremont St HORSE cars get off on Cor of Square 2 house beyond with high steps on left hand side FRIDAY, 4 Phelps E Bcarn Bloomfield, SATURDAY, 5 N J Para 3[??] JUNE [SUNDAY, 5 1869] [Su?????if?t?ory] January 1870 Horfroell, Kinsley & French pd. 3. 12 Summer St. Folsom, 77 Summer St. pd. 3. Henry O. Athen, 36 Franklin St. pd. 3. George Fligginson Esq, #q Brimmen St. pd. 3. Wm. E. Coffin - pd. 3. 103 State St. Franklin King Paid 3. 26 India St. Otis Clapp , 125 Charter St. P Trott 138 Concord St. Paid 3. Boston Subscribers continued [June Wednesday, 9 1869.] George W. Colburn. Paid Cambridge, Mass. 3. Mrs Ebin Smith 1 Alsston St. [pd 8] Thursday, 10 Mrs. James C. Buchlin Providence pd R.I Friday, 11 Mr. Shroton Payne pd. Providence 3.00 June Saturday, 12 1869. Mrs. Mary P.M. Palmer P.d. Providence $3.00 Mr. E.M. Aldrich Providence 2.50 pd Mrs. [Jenip?] Shaw Valley Falls Pd 3.00 Sarah Jane Cushman pd 3.00 Pawtucket R.I. A. [Friend?] 5.00June Tuesday, 15 1869. 6 sheets [6][3][4] 6 4 cases [4][4] hdkfs [17][7] 11 collars [8][3] 13 cuffs [1][2] 2 stockings pr 5 towels napkins [6] 7 Tuesday, 17 June Friday, 18 1869. sheets [1] shirts [2] collars [10] towels [5] cases [5] hdfs [7] stockings napkins sleeves [1] cuffs [1] 2June Monday, 21 1869. Sheets 6 Cases 4 hh ?? 15 ?? 10 Tuesday, 22 ?? 8 ?? 8 shirts 5 Wednesday, 23 ?? ? cuffs 1 June Thursday, 24 1869. Friday, 25 Saturday, 26June Sunday, 27 1869. Mrs. John Goodwin Towanda Pa. songs of the Hutchinsons Monday, 28 Tuesday, 29 June Wednesday, 30 1869. Pd Mrs. T Parker 3.00 1 Exeter Pace Miss C.C. Thayer pd July Thursday, 1. $3.00 80 Clifford St. Boston Hilands Friday, 2JULY SATURDAY, 3 1869. SUNDAY, 4 MONDAY, 5 JULY TUESDAY, 6 1869. WEDNESDAY, 7 THURSDAY, 8JULY FRIDAY, 9 1869. SATURDAY, 10 SUNDAY, 11 JULY MONDAY, 12 1869. TUESDAY, 13 WEDNESDAY, 14July Thursday, 15 1869. Expenses beginning with the New Year Fare self & Alice from Concord 3.50 horse cars [18?] dinner .80 Friday, 16 supper for Alice .35 Cars to W. Newton .40 and back breakfast self & Alice 60 apple for Alice & Bill 10 [h???] car 15 dinner 15 Saturday, 17 Fare to Newburyport 55 for Alice Fare to Hyde Park and back 32 sugar 34 bread .05 ginger root 2.50 July Sunday, 18 1869. Dinner for H. & self .70 bread 20 cream 30 dinner 50 pitcher 50 dinner 50 chicken 75 Monday, 19 bread 17 butter 60 onions 50 peaches 2.00 milk & cream 18 eggs 50 sugar 51 Tuesday, 20 Greens 186 cream 08 crackers 10 dinner 50 dress goods 33.63 " " " 3 00July Wednesday, 21 1869. Food 1.20 cream & milk 25 Thursday, 22 Friday, 23 July Saturday, 24 1869. Sunday, 25 Monday, 26July Tuesday, 27 1869. Wednesday, 28 Thursday, 29 July Friday, 30, 1869. Mrs. S.A. Boyden Box 492 [Brattleboro?] Pd-1.50 begin now- Saturday, 31 August Sunday, 1August Monday, 2 1869. Tuesday, 3 Wednesday, 4 August Thursday, 5 1869. Concord 10.00 Hyde Park 25.00 Friday, 6 Saturday, 7 August Sunday, 8 1869. Monday, 9 Tuesday, 10 August Wednesday, 11 1869 Thursday, 12 Friday, 13AUGUST SATURDAY, 14 1869. SUNDAY, 15 MONDAY, 16 AUGUST TUESDAY, 17 1869. Wash home Mother WEDNESDAY, 18 Beverly old Ms Robinson THURSDAY, 19 Alcott at the taxAugust Friday, 20 1869 Saturday, 21 Sunday, 22 August Monday, 23 1869 Tuesday, 24 Wednesday, 25Sept. Wednesday, 22 1869. D.H Barnes Winchendon Massachusetts Thursday, 23 Miss Bernette H. Williams Mendon Massachusetts Friday, 24SEPT. SATURDAY, 25 1869. SUNDAY, 26 MONDAY, 27 SEPT. TUESDAY, 28 1869. [?Much] like a Reg - Physical force WEDNESDAY, 29 Hester Mavis Negro Boys And [?woman] Vote, THURSDAY, 30 Mrs. Langley's boy Boy must napOCTOBER FRIDAY, 1 1869. Voting in the Church SATURDAY, 2 Baptist in Kansas SUNDAY, 9 particularly want it. OCTOBER MONDAY, 1 1869. Boy educated So. but the girls the same TUESDAY, 5 Child go nite the house WEDNESDAY, 6 Bent over her clothes.October Wednesday, 13 1869 Thursday, 14 Friday, 15 October Saturday, 16 1869 Sunday, 17 Monday, 18OCTOBER TUESDAY, 19 1869. Attending to house Mupin and Romer marriage Expect herself in her work. March Oberlin WEDNESDAY, 20 We draw the furrow success - is respected make money. THURSDAY, 21 we asked for earnings and we got it We asked to make a will - and we have OCTOBER FRIDAY, 22 1869 it with limitations Celreiden - men ashamed. SATURDAY, 23 Oh yes, we can vote we measure our tax we can carry on [bring] business - we can make a will - we can pen. & this for of our children SUNDAY, 24 Mr. Childs work - Miss Alcott, before she could reach her large possibilitiesOCTOBER MONDAY, 25 1869. She had to bridge over the chasam, this separatin her from possession of the golden key, which TUESDAY, 26 Boston Fraternity punishs straight to those, who have wings to use; WEDNESDAY, 27 She did not wait for the state to give her OCTOBER THURSDAY, 28 1869. a farm. or some rich relative to die but she made use of the interest of her FRIDAY, 29 own capital. the wealthth of her own character. It is an old saying SATURDAY, 30 there is no royal road but it would be truer to say all roads areOCTOBER SUNDAY, 31 1869. where honest find wealth for honest uses - and no human being is more truly NOVEMBER MONDAY, 1 crowned than she who takes the desperate chances of her [?] nothing and business is in TUESDAY, 2 her home. but counting nothing mean, or smile out of which she can NOVEMBER WEDNESDAY, 9 1869. build the solid rounds of her life ladder, up which climbing with THURSDAY, 4 steady steps, she shall be able to command the worthiest FRIDAY, 5 use of her best powerNOVEMBER SATURDAY, 6 1869. Never forgive them Eat all the best at the table, gather to SUNDAY, 7 himself all the substantial food and all the dainties, and giving the thin porridge MONDAY, 8 and potatoe peelings to his wife and daughter is an honorable when compared with NOVEMBER TUESDAY, 9 1869. him who enter here in political & legal equality - who obeys no law which he has birch trees & ?? WEDNESDAY, 10 not helped to make or unmake pgs no tax where government THURSDAY, 11 has he has not ?? to regulate collects his earning make a will ??NOVEMBER FRIDAY, 12 1869. ? nobody, ours his children and knows there is no favor SATURDAY, 13 that can take them from him, and then sneers, at or is in = different to, the feet SUNDAY, 14 that his life has no ? rights, about takes ? with NOVEMBER MONDAY, 15 1869. November Thursday, 18 1869 Amount of energy is put in [?] [?] made he forgetNOVEMBER WEDNESDAY, 24 1869. Mrs. Clarke No 29 Huron St Cleveland Sarah Knowles Bolton W. Cleveland THURSDAY, 25 Mrs. Dr. Little 29 Euclid St Cleveland 1088 has help FRIDAY, 26 of a good kind NOVEMBER SATURDAY, 27 1869. SUNDAY, 28 MONDAY, 29November Tuesday, 30 1869 Grand Rapids Mich. December Wednesday, 1 Thursday, 2 December Friday, 3 1869 Saturday, 4 Sunday, 5 DECEMBER SUNDAY, 12 1869. Miss Glives Care of Darling & Gerdon Montrial C E. MONDAY, 13 Geo. W. Smalley Pall. Mall Gasette London TUESDAY, 14 DECEMBER WEDNESDAY, 15 1869. THURSDAY, 16 FRIDAY, 17 Newburg portDECEMBER SATURDAY, 18 1869. SUNDAY, 19 Miss S. W. Whitney paid 18 t E.D.L. In N.E.W.S. MONDAY, 20 Ms Elisa Benister Nashua DECEMBER TUESDAY, 21 1869. New Bedford WEDNESDAY, 22 THURSDAY, 23DECEMBER FRIDAY, 24 1869. Rev. G.B. Green SATURDAY, 25 44 Hawthorne Chelsea SUNDAY, 26 DECEMBER MONDAY, 27 1869. Mrs. C. S. McDonald Crawfordsville Ind. TUESDAY, 28 Mary Grew 116 N. 11st. Philad WEDNESDAY, 29DECEMBER THURSDAY, 30 1869. Miss Abby May 24 Hollis St. Mrs. Howe 20 Bromfield St. FRIDAY, 31 Boston Mrs. Stanton Cedar Hill Tenafly N. J. Montpelier Freeman MEMORANDA. Hampton Hampton Beach Hotels. Eagle 1.50 Boars Head 4.00 Granite House Ocean House 20 cts Miss Lizzie Hoofer Lewiston Maine Dressmaker 681 3d Av. 3d bell Tracy Cutter South Pass Union Co. Ill.MEMORANDA. Mrs. P. A. Hanoford Reading Mass. Rev. Wm. S Haskell Danburys Ct. [Mrs] Miss Anna C. Field 136 Hicks St. Brooklyn Mrs. Mary A. Mitchell Dubuque Iowa MEMORANDA. Rev. Calvin Stebbins Chickopee Mass. Mrs. C. M. Barney 6 Trullins St. Springfield Mass. Mrs. Mary Hassam Springfield Mass Mrs. GordonJas. H. Mc Neeley MEMORANDA. Evansville. In. Sarah Jane Hews Annie's Aunt Thomaston Maine Mrs. [Sarah] Susan J. Tabor Mattapoisett Mass. Joseph Sheldon 22 Exchange Building New Haven House Jack. Square New Brick building MEMORANDA. Miss M.H. Leavitt Cincinnati (Covington) Mrs. J. B. Quimby Cincinnati Mrs. E.W. Guilford Cincinnati Mrs. C M Severance 17 Beacon St Ellen M. Harris Baltimore MarylandMemoranda Dr. Wm. F Channing 67 Congdon St. Providence R bre 69 C. Sh. Whipple 45 Bowdoin St. Boston Russel Locke N. Bethel Maine Mr. L.E. Batcheller 771 Tremont St. Boston Rowland Conner 165 W. Canton st Boston Mass 612 Paxson Mary S Rieb 54 Pa Ave Washington D.C. Rev. Geo. H Vibbert Rockport Mass. Rev. Rob. Collyer 295 Chicago Ave Mrs. Hellen P. Jenkins 224 Allen St BuffaloP.H. Jones 584 Broadway Albany Sarah J. Nowell 15 Inman St Cambridgeport Mass Mr. E. L Lovering Concord N.H. Dr. Butterfield 37 Jefferson St. Syracuse Mary Gage 70 Willow St. J. B. Quincy 231 W. 4 St Cincinnati Francello G. Gillson Woonsocket R.I. H. H B Count Cir sec [Prilo?] [?ors] Evansville Mdno longer be considered as toys and trifflers; but let them come up to the knowledge of the true principles of life and liberty. For the Pioneer THE HARP ON THE WILLOW. O ! the Rumsellers' harps on the willows are hung, When all for temperance unitedly come. The sage who unites with the youth in a bee, Will rejoice that the harp still hangs on the tree. As the sailor again hails the land of his youth, He joyfully greets it with temperate mirth. May the sons of old ocean still ever be free, From the spell of the harp ihat hands on the tree. The matron and maiden in union will smile, When the harp on the willow no more shall beguile. Our youth will rejoice with their hearts full of glee, While the rumseller's harp hangs high on [th] tree. O ! the Rumseller's harp that hangs on [th] tree, Shall cease to beguile from a [temperanc] bee. The enchantmen is broken, the harp is un- such objects of pity what would be our prospects for the next generation? For surely such women as these that spend all their time without any vigerous exercise, can nev- enjoy life in any true sense for which they were created, and the circulation of their blood can only flow sluggishly in the larger vessels of their bodies -- just enough to keep them alive. But they can do the nice thing of cramping their feet, hands, and waist, to about one half of the usual size that it would be in a healthy state. These are the ladies that have to pay an awful penalty, in the derangement of the digestive organs with pains in the head, back, and sides, and other disarrangements too numerous to mention. They will tell you with a sanctified grace, of their delicate health, and yet will pay no attention to the advice of common sense [nd] reason. And public opinion is too [en] found paying their respect and making its politest bow to these infatuated class of women. So long as this is the case, just so long they will continue to distort themselves, and prepare for themselves for an early grave. However beautiful these ladies may appear in the eyes of some persons ---- to me, they only prove at last, a mere cypher, or a shadow that soon passes away. Very few of them will ever be saluted with the endearing name of grandmother. A great change is very much needed in the public taste of our people. A different view of the realities of life must come over the spirit of their dream, or we shall have no more women of strong nerve and healthy bearing. Healthy, strong women, are growing scarce. Sept. 20. Mrs. Observer. FASHIONABLE RUM SELLERS. Spending a week in the city of Providence, gave me an opportunity to glance at the places of the most business part of the city --- and I was not a little surprised as I observed on a sign, (after the Maine Law had passed into effect,) "Best Liquors Sold Here." -- There were, indeed, a crowd of witnesses standing around, that proved the dealers had been doing a great business, and as I gazed upon that place of all sorts of persons, or I should have said fashionable rum drinkers -- and observed many a man standing there, with intellect that seemed rapidly stand up before us in one solid phalanx? Would not even the rumseller lay down his toddy stick, and gaze in utter condemnation, and see himself a wholesale murderer? Mass, Sept. 20th. Mrs. Observer. In Westerly, R. I., the people are about equally divided into Sabbatharians and "other folks,: so that one half of the population are driving their business as usual, while the othe half is engaged in religious worship. Duel. -- The notice contained in the California News, of the hostile meeting between Judge Smith and the Hon. D. C. Broderick, near San Francisco, in which the watch of Mr. B. was shattered, anda fatal wound thereby probably prevented, reminds me of an ingenious remark made by Professor Person, the celebrated greek scholar, of England, when speaking of a similar occurrence in that country: -- "That must be a remarkable watch, for it has kept time from eternity." T. Up for Office! -- It will be seen by the following advertisement from the Norfolk Beacon, of June 21st, that another "distinguished" Union-preserver has been desirous for official station: -- Notice. I am a candidate for the office of Constable on the 24th inst, and will be thankful to receive the support of my fellow-citizens on the day of election. John Caphart. This, we presume, is the same Caphart who so much "distinguished" himself as a witness in the "rescue trials" in this city. Of this compatriot and fellow-witnesses here, Byrnes, Sawin and Mr. Commissioner Curtis, the two former have been already turned out of office, and Byrnes has wisely emigrated to California. Notwithstanding the labored efforts of judge Curtis, in Mr. Wright's late trial, to defend and eulogize the character of Sawin, our Mayor and Aldermen, though they have not the reputation of being very particular, have for very shame's sake, deprived him of his constable's warrant. If Caphart has failed of an election, Mr. Commissioner Curtis may expect his turn to come next.All hail! the woman's Pioneer, Woman's welcome, woman's cheer; Onward, upward, may she soar -- Her standard be "Excelsior!" Woman's rights and woman's wrongs, Shall be the burden of its songs. No wrestle with the power of law. But higher still - "Excelsior!" The weary maiden, in her chamber high, From hour to hour her needles ply. The Pioneer shall see. Oppression linked in every phase, Shall meet the Pioneer's bright gaze, With truth and liberty. The maiden at her rattling looms, Midst noise and dust in weaving rooms, Shall hear the Pioneer's loud cry -- Arise, Excelsior, arise! Shake from thyself the dust of power -- This is thy liberation hour. Thy wrongs shall rend the skies! J. G. C Prov Sept. 17, 1852. From the Liberator Woman's Rights Convention at Syracuse Friend Garrison: -- Your readers have had a brief synopsis of the doings of the recent Woman's Rights Convention at Syracuse. I wish it were possible to trace, on paper, its living spirit. The City Hall was crowded, from first to last, with earnest listeners and active workers. The Convention protracted its sittings through three days, commencing at 9 o'clock, of each evening. Yet, notwithstanding the long sessions and the fee at the door, the interest continued to increase until the hall was so thronged as to give positive physical discomfort, especially in the evening. Rev. Samuel J. May had rendered invaluable service by preparing the way. He had done all that could be done beforehand, to make the Convention worthy of the cause; and when it came together, he was with us co-operating so heartily, that it almost seemed as though he must have felt, in his own person, the crushing pressure of those wicked laws and customs, under which the soul of womanhood for centuries has struggled. Indeed, he know that 'Woman's canse is man's; They rise of sink together, Dwarfed or godlike, bond or free.' his words of cheer and his 'material aid.' -- Other men came voluntarily as helpers. recognizing the movement as one for the good of the radce. Of the 'honorable women' there were 'not a few': Mrs. Mott, Mrs. Rose, Antionette Brown, Paulina W. Davis, E. Oakes Smith, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Nichols, and Mrs. Price. Besides these came others -- new recruits -- Mrs. Gage, of Manlius, Mrs. Jenkins, of Waterloo, both showing careful study, and a comprehensive view of the subject. The largest liberty of discussion was enjoyed subject only to the law of benevolence. You can readily see how, under such circumstances, a cause so holy, with such helpers, should have made the occasion one of the most intense interest. From the ranks of those who, at first avowed themselves enemies, we received donations in money, and, what better, a pledge which came from [t] heart, of active co-operation. Before we left Syracuse, a meeting was called to form a mutual improvement society among the women, who recognise the fact, that 'knowledge is power.' So soon has the good seed taken root! May it yield an abundant harvest. The only opposition we encountered came from two men. By far the larger part of the men present, proved themselves friendly. Mr. J. B. Brigham expressed his dissent from the positions taken, quite decidedly, though in a gentlemanly manner. The audience evidently felt, before the discussion closed, that both his fears and the reason for them had little foundation. The other opposer was the Rev. Junius L. Hatch, who, having obtained the floor, under the pretence of [wish to discuss the Bible position of woman, began by demanding, whether the Convention regarded the Bible as an inspired book! Mrs. Mott replied, that as that question had not been before the Convention, no decision had been expressed in regard to it; still he persisted in his demand. Mrs. Mott again assured him that the Convention was not called to settle theological questions. At once he began to assail our positions, with some show of decency, at first, then ridicule, and at last he descended to use of language so gross, that, in He said he had only three lines but with the quiet dignity nature to her she replied, 'Not another word!' So he yielded to one greater that himself. No one could fail to see, that though he claimed inspiration for the Bible, he knew nothing of that religion, which is first pure. Rev. Mr. Hatch was the only disturber we had, and even he aided indirectly, by showing how very weak is the opposition to our cause. The discussions, with this single exception, were high-toned, worthy of the cause and of the place. Much of its interest was due to our excellent President. The hospitality of the citixens seemed without limit, and to them, too, is the cause deeply indebted. The publishing committee intend to have a full report of the proceedings ready for circulation in a few weeks. Yours, for human good, LUCY STONE. West Brookfield, Sept. 21, 1852.To extend certain rights and privileges to persons who are tax payers but not qualified voters in school districts. 1 Sec. 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the words "qualified voters," as used in chapter 2 fifty-eight of the Revised Statutes of eighteen hundred and forty-six entitled "of primary schools," except 3 in the fifth section thereof, shall be taken and construed to mean and include all and who have resided at least 3 months [?] preceding the election taxable persons residing 4 in the district of the age of twenty-one years. 1 Sec. 2 In all cases where the board of school inspectors of any township, shall form a school district 2 therein, and [there shall not be at least seven free white male citizens in such district] and where no 3 election for school district officers shall be held, and where any school district shall neglect or refuse to elect 4 at the proper time the necessary school district officers it shall be the duty of the township board of school 5 inspectors of the township in which such district is situated, to appoint the officers of such district from among the male persons residing in such district of the age of 21 years who are tax payers thereinGen. Scot used this language: "If I ever, as Gen. Scott, at the head of the armies of the United States, as plain Mr. Scott, deprived of my commission, or as President Scott, if it should please the peo- ple to elevate me to that high station. IF I EVER DO ANYTHING CALCULATED TO IMPAIR THE EFFICACY or THE FUGITIVE SLAVELAW, OR HAVING A TENDENCY TOWARDS ITS REPEAL, THEN WRITE INFAMOUS BEFORE MY NAME, WRITE INFAMOUS AFTER MY NAME, AND KICK ME INTO THE GUTTER." The language was so emphatic, so strong, and made such an impression on me, that I [????????] General Scott's own words. but it may not be unservicable here. Mr. De Leon wrote to know whether the reports in cir- cultion against his Southern character were true. The charge was that he had a Northern character. How he repells the charge, read and learn. "My action and my language in New Hampshire, touching this matter, (slavery) have been at all times and under all circum- stances in entire accordance with my action and language at Washington. My votes in the Senate and House of Representatives were not republished in the Era for the first time. They have been again and again paraded to arouse the pas- sions and prejudices of our people against individually, and against the party with which it has been my pride and pleasure to act. THERE HAS BEEN NO ATTEMPT TO EVADE THE FORCE OF THE RECORD. IT HAS BEEN AT ALL TIMES FREELY ADMITTED, and my position sustained upon grounds satisfactory to may own mind." THE WHITE HOUSE A HOUSE OF PRAYER.--There is no popular sin which the pro-slavery Church of this country will not justify or excuse in the occupant of a high official station, provided only that he is attentive to the outward forms which that Church has prescribed. Sometimes she will canonize an influential man and gloss over the lowest personal vices, in return for an empty and heartless compliment to the power of Chris- tianity, while at the same time she will hurl her ana- themas at the head of a reformer, however pure his life, who will not pronounce her shibboleths. Our popular divines are always running after men in au- thority, and eager to appropriate to the furtherance of their own sectarian plans any marks of external defer- ence for the forms of religion which they may exhibit. We have an example of this in the following paragraph. communicated to the Christian Mirror by " A Pastor," and engerly copied by other religious papers: "I am sure theat many parents will rejoice to konw, on unquestionable authority, that the Presidential Mansion is a house of prayer. Daily social devotions, attended on Sabbath morning by all the inmates of the house, together with the constant recognition of God at table, while they mark the highest household in our land as exempt from the malediction pronounced against those 'families that call not upon the name' of Jeho- vah, may serve to encourage Christians and set a good example to all."3 A man never refuses to [?] in any cause where he has c [?] interest with any body, In [?] trade he [?] on what he believes in politics, he [?] if a man [?] in [?] but marks himself with [?] who will [?] [?] it to [?] with them who [?] [?] [?] [?] from [?] interest Asa L Silley [?] Wm. Clark Wm. O. Gould Lib. [?] Joesph Chase 2 50 4 Our own views on the points discussed in the convention we present under the following prepositions. 1. Slavery is a great moral wrong. The principle of treating a man as a thing is utterly iniquitous, in flagrant violation of the law of love and of all human rights. Those who buy, sell or hold men as things perpetrate this great iniquity. This sin ought to be condemned by the church of Christ and treated as she treats and ought to treat other sins of equal magnitude. 2. Yet it cannot be denied that over this question of the sinfulness of slaveholding there has long rested no small darkness--a darkness caused and promoted by want of thought, or by sophistry, or by perversion of Scripture-- a darkness therefore, for the existence of which, some have been guilty to blame and other are comparatively innocent. We do not assume or admit that the subject itself is obscure, or that the teachings of the sacred scriptures upon it are dubious. But we know that obvious truth may remain unseen and plain truth may be wickedly perverted. 3. A wide margin of difference must exist between those who have much and those who have little light upon the guilt of slavery--a difference which, existing-- God must recognize, and therefore we should. This principle applies both to the slaveholder and to those who sustain him in any way--as for example, by church fellowship. Hence no system of Christian Anti-slavery action can be right which ignores this difference and treats all degrees of guilt alike. 4. It seems to our mind a legitimate and indeed an inevitable corrollary from the above premises that in at least the earlier stages of Christian anti-slavery effort, rebuke and protest are not only admissible, but are the only admissible forms of Christian action. In the order of both nature and scripture, does not rebuke before withdrawal of fellowship? If we would reclaim, is not light on the nature of the sin in question an appropriate and hopeful means? And should it no come earliest and not latest in the order of time? Especially should not light and rebuke be our first resort in all cases where Christian charity legitimately assumes that the sin is attributable more to misconception or darkness of understanding than to a selfish or malignant heart ? To begin by withdrawing fellowship is to begin where we ought to end. It is to use those means first in order which should come last. And not to urge other objections against this perversion, there is danger lest it beget an uncharitable, and unfraternal spirit, first in those who secede, and next, by a reactive repellency, in those who are seceded from. Disciplinary reubuke in any form iswho has recently been visiting the West India Islands. He spent his time while in Jamaica, chiefly at two Scotish Missionary Stations. His remarks on their schools for people of color are valuable as bearing upon questions of the capabilities of race. Having spoken of their Sabbath Schools as engrossing their time for two and a half hours, in part before and in part after the preaching services, and with unabated interest, he proceeds "I afterwards visited the day school, where it is no exaggeration to say that the children are as thoroughly instructed as in most of our common schools at home--and the little negroes appear to be quite as apt scholars. They are taught Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Geography. On Saturday, (before I had visited the school) I was riding over to Newport with a negro boy as my guide, and in answer to my inquiries he told me that he was at school and [?] Fitchburg .25 Postage .05 Washing .60 To Dorcester .35 Boston 1.15 Cab .25 Boues .60 " .37 1/2 Cab .35 ?? & return 1.15 North?? 1.10 Toun?? 1.80 Greater ?? .35 ?? .10 Boston 1.15 19.35If there are such men in the Free Soil party here in New England, I want to know who they are and where they are. Just let me ready this little extract from the Commonwealth, the organ of the party here, as a specimen of New England Free Soil fidelity and honesty. It is in allusion to a great man then just dead. The paper that morning was put in to deepest mourning. No matter what it had said before, it must go into deep mourning. Says the Commonwealth -- 'Mr. Webster has departed this life, calmly, bravely, and piously.' (?) Here one other line of this: 'He has died as a Christian ought to die.' And many devout Free Soilers followed him at the burial. I tell you, that is not the spirit by which [suces?] is secured to any party. -- J. R. Giddings speaks the truth in Ohio -- and goes to Congress. This party speaks and acts what it knows is false in Massachusetts --and, where are its candidates and its success? I tell you, 'that which they sow, they reap.' On the question whether there be any disagreement between the three last candidates as to Constitutional obligations of Slavery, I have only to say this: Mr. Hale never delivered more than two speeches in the Senate, that were printed in pamphlet form, which I had the good fortune to see. One of them was on the 19th of the same month of March in which Daniel Webster delivered his ever-memorable speech which gave the Compromise of 1850 to the nation. [Cheers in the gallery for Daniel Webster.] Well, cheer on; you only remind us of what Alexander Pope says of another man: 'See Cromwell damned to everlasting fame' (loud applause.) Let me now read the extract from Mr. Hale: "We desire action, not out of the Constitution, but in and under it. We desire to see that Constitution carried out as intended by its framers. * * * * And, Sir, we desire to see the Abolition of Slavery throughout the world. "I will not undertake to say how it is to be done; but no notion of this government is desired to effect it. We do not expect that public or political measures are to effect it. But by appealing to the hearts and consciences of men, by bringing home the principles of Christianity and the appeals of humanity to influence men around them, we trust they will be induced to remove or remedy the evil under which the country in this connection now labors. "These opinions, Sir, we entertain, and these hopes we cherish. We ask not the aid of this government to bring it about, for we know that, under the Constitution, you have no power to move in the work." 1. Resolved, That to vote under the Constitution of the United States is to vote for that Constitution, and for every principle and measure therein contained. Whereas, the Constitution provides (1.) that human beings may be represented as property in the government -- (2) that they may be seized and reduced to slavery on each and every foot of territory over which the government holds jurisdiction -- and (3.) that the government may be used to prevent slaves from gaining their liberty by flight or by arms: therefore. 6. That those who thus construe the Constitution, while they remain in the Union, as parts of its governing power, are guilty of treachery to their slaveholding confederates, inasmuch as these were given to understand that instrument as favoring and securing their rights as slaveholders, and inasmuch as they would not have entered into the confederacy, had they ever thought the Constitution was to receive an anti-slavery construction.Going the Whole. -- The New Hampshire Legislature has had before it, resolutions approving President Pierce's administration, and his inaugural. A Free Soiler moved to except from this commendation, the proposition to extend slavery. The granite hearted Democrats voted it down, 68 to 144. So New Hampshire is for slavery extension, clearly and above board. Slavery in the District of Columbia On the 8th inst. after due advertisement in the National Intelligencer, a boy, 15 years of age, was sold at public auction in Washington City. A brief account of which will be found on our first page. The National Era says: "The boy was a good looking lad, and he was knocked off at $750 to a purchaser from Georgia. We presume he has parents living, but the law of slavery recognizes no naural relations. He cried bitterly during the operation, and there seemed to be a consciousness among the spectators that the scene was not fit to be enacted in the capital of the model republic." And pray, what place would be fit for such a transaction? Think of it, fellow citizens of the North. The City of Washington has been built, is sustained and has all its wealth by your governmental union with slaveholders. -- You have so little self-respect, to say nothing of humanity, that you permit such deeds as this to be done on national territory, and in the face of the representatives of all the nations of the earth. It is you citizens of the nominally free states, who have this matter entirely in your own hands. You have a majority in Congress, and if you willed it, that majority would annihilate the traffic, and the ownership of human beings in the District, to-day. That majority may be so stony hearted and inhuman, as to care nothing for the horrors of slavery or the slave traffic. They may be so shameless as to care nothing for national reputation before the world, but they are cringing, crawling sycophants and serviles, who, before resolute and independent minds, would do anything to secure money and power. They see the South firm, resolute and united -- the North vascilating, undecided, yielding and divided, and like all weak, wicked men, they bow to the stronger will. This weeping, fatherless, motherless boy, was sold to a Georgia slave trader by consent of the churches and politicians of the North. That sale was a fraction of the price they pay for union and fraternity with slaveholders, and slave breeders, and slave traders. Dr. Bailey deprecates the action of some Congressmen, whose lacerated humanity induces them to threaten to vote against supplies to the District, while this traffic continues. -- Pray Dr., don't dash out the new-born resolution of these men. Let them cultivate it a little. There is no danger to your supplies on this score. We wish there was. Ardently do we wish there was manhood enough in Congress for such a resolution and for enforcing it. That form this hour, Giddings, and Sumner, and Chase, and Hale, and whoever has humanity enough to avow themselves anti-slaver, would resolve never to vote one red cent for capito extension, or any other improvement, till this infamous system of slave trading and slaveholding was blotted from the District. Compelling those Congressional speculators in human bodies and human minds, who, in the intervals of their bombastic apostrophes to liberty in the Halls of Congress, are seeking out cheap and valuable human stock for their Southern plantations, to go elsewhere for their purchases. Let every slave maid and man brought there for personal convenience or aggrandizement, be pronounced free, the moment they are brought within the District. --- Yes, let Congress impart to at least five square miles of our immense territory, that magic, transforming power which pertains to British soil. Power by its touch to transmute property to humaity -- slavery to freedom. This they they may do without higher law interference. We are not versed in Constitutional law, but to the best of our knowledge, even the Constitution, the great authority for slave catching and slave delivery in the states, has no word to enforce such infamous deeds in the District. Congress has supreme power there, and if northren piety, politics and wealth would say it, there might be one little spot of "free soil" in our vast territory. Free Soilers and all othersmoved to except from this commendation, the proposition to extend slavery. The granite hearted Democrats voted it down, 68 to 114. So New Hampshire is for slavery extension, clearly and above board. Miss Parsons Miss Rose x [?] Stone Sarah Miller J. Mormon x Mrs. Nichols x H.H. Hunt x S.H. [Foster?] x Mrs. Earle x [?] Waite x Mrs. Goodwin Mrs. [?] On the 8th in t, after due advertisement in the National Intelligencer, a boy, 15 years of age, was sold at public auction in Washington City. A brief account of which will be found on our first page. The National Era says; "The boy was a good looking lad, and he was knocked off at $750 to a purchased from Georgia. We presume he has parents living, but the law of slavery recognizes no natural relations. He cried bitterly during the operation, and there seemed to be a consciousness among the spectators that the scene was not fit to be enacted in the capital of the model republic." And pray, what place would be fit for such a transaction? Think of it, fellow citizens of the North. The City of Washington has been built, is sustained and has all its wealth by your governmental union with slaveholders. - You have so little self-respect, to say nothing of humanity, that you permit such deeds as this to be done on national territory, and in the face of the representatives of all the nations of the earth. It is you citizens of the nominally free states, who have this matter entirely in your own hands. You have a majority in Congress, and if you willed it, that majority would annihilate the traffic, and the ownership in human beings in the District, to-day. That majority may be so stony hearted and inhuman, as to care nothing for the horrors of slavery or the slave traffic. They may be so shameless as to care nothing for national reputation before the world, but they are cringing, crawling sycophants and serviles, who, before resolute and independent minds, would do anything to secure money and power. They see th South firm, resolute and united - the North vascilating, undecided, yielding and divided, and like all weak, wicked men, they bow to the stronger will. This weeping, fatherless, motherless boy, was sold to a Georgia slave trader by consent of the churches and politicians of the North. That sale was a fraction of the price they pay for union and fraternity with slaveholders, and slave breeders, and slave traders. Dr. Bailey deprecates the action of some Congressmen, whose lacerated humanity induces them to threaten to vote against supplies to the District, while this traffic continues. - Pray Dr., don't dash out the new-born resolution of these men. Let them cultivate it a little.There is no danger to your present supplies on this score. We wish there was. Ardently do we wish there was manhood, enough in Congress for such a resolution and for enforcing it. That from this hour, Giddings, and Sumner, and Chase, and Hale, and whoever has humanity enough to avow themselves anti- slavery, would resolve never to vote one red cent for capitol extension, or any other improvement, till this infamous system of slave trading and slaveholding was blotted from the District. Compelling those Congressional speculators in human bodies and human minds, who, in the intervals of their bombastic apostrophes to liberty in the Halls of Congress, are seeking out cheap and valuable human stock for their Southern plantations, to go elsewhere for their purchases. Let every slave maid and man brought there for personal convenience or aggrandizement, be pronounced free, the moment they are brought within the District. - Yes, let Congress impart to at least five square miles of our immense territory, that magic, transforming power which pertains to British soil. Power by its touch to transmute property to humanity - slavery to freedom. This they they may do without higher law interference. We are not versed in Constitutional law, but to the best of our knowledge, even the Constitution, the great authority for slave catching and slave delivery in the states, has no word to enforce such infamous deeds in the District. Congress has supreme power there, and if northern piety, politics and wealth would say it, there might be one little spot of "free soil" in our vast territory. Free Soilers and all others seem to have forgotten this point of late. We call upon them to consider and press it again. True, it would be but as the small dust of the ballance compared with what should be done. - Perhaps no slave would be emancipated thereby, but a little patch of soil would be, and that would be something. What would be more, it would be a dawning act of self-respect and resolution, full of hope and promise. True, it would be the first in our history on this subject, and one, therefore, that would make the South to quake and the rest of the world to stare. We end as we began, by saying to the people of the North, You are to do this. If it is not done, you are the responsible and the guilty. - You are responsible for every slave bought or held in slavery. The social power is with you, to abolish it, the constitutional, legislative right is vested in your numerical majority to do it. - Your cowardly, compromising consent to the wrong for the sake of appropriations of one sort or another, is all that prevents. ALLEGED INFIDEL TENDENCIES. The Christian Observer, the N. S. Presbyterian organ of Philadelphia, is out in an attack on Dr. Pomroy, for publishing anti-slavery sentiments in the British Banner, and accuses him of holding opinions which have led some of their advocates into infidelity. The absurdity of this, as applying to all who believe that slaveholding "is sinful, contrary to the Word of God, and not fit to be welcomed in a Christian church," the Christian Press thus shows up in a most glaring light: "To believe that man can have no rightful property in man, that members of Christ's body ought not to be bought and sold like brutes, tends to infidelity. "To believe that a man ought not to be crushed, body and soul, to be excluded from the joys of both worlds, in order to serve the interests, or satisfy the caprice or passion of another, tends to infidelity. "To believe that young females ought not to be sold openly to the highest bidder, for the basest of purposes, without even a mask over the foul transaction, tends to infidelity. "To believe that a man ought not to be hunted and torn by bloodhounds, or shot down like a wild beast, or slain in any manner, to satisfy the vengeance, or maintain the authority of a master or overseer, tends to infidelity. "To believe that an enactment which most palpably perverts the spirit and intent of our Constitution, and violates its letter also, which sets at naught every decision of conscience, outrages every feeling of humanity, which forbids what God commands, and commands what God forbids, has none of the moral sanction of law, and cannot, rightfully, demand the obedience of any, tends to infidelity "If, as this writer declares, such opinions tend to infidelity, then of course the exact opposite of these views will lead a man into the secure haven of New School Presbyterian Orthodoxy. "From such an orthodoxy we pray most earnestly to be delivered." [*Webster has made no change*] 10 From the Free Presbyterian. Asking the Devil to give the Church a Lift. The following is cut from the Presbyteri- an of Philadelphia: "LECTURES.--Senator Foot delivered a lec- ture on the "Perpetuity of the Union," on Monday evening, 30th ult., in the Musical Fund Hall, Philadelphia, for the benefit of the South Presbyterian Church, of which the Rev. Griffth Owen is pastor. Several other distinguished Senators and Representatives are to deliver lec- sures to aid the same Church, during the sea- son." The Senator Foot alluded to is the cele- brated "Hangman Foot," who said publicly in the Senate of the United States, that he would most cheerfully take part with his fel- low Algerines in Mississippi in hanging the Hon. John P. Hale, on the bighest tree in the State, for his sentiments as an anti-slave- ry man. This is the same person also who came into the Senate Chamber last winter, armed with a pistol and other deadly weap- ons, to assassinate Col. Benton ; and might have done the cowardly deed too, had it not been for the interference of his fellow Sena- From the Free Presbyterian. Asking the Devil to give the Church a Lift. There; they could find the track no farther. They offered five hundred dollars to any person that would show where the negroes were, but that was a thing impossible. After holding a long consultation with the friends of the Union, and uttering many curses on the heads of the Free Soilers, they took the road, and formed another plan. They sent a man ahead (one of their company) to the next settlement--a Quaker settlement called the Grampian Hills. He told the folks that G [Ach] had sent him on to take charge of the Nothing [?] popular religion [?] [?] for the world is full of hardship, and what is popular with it must be wrong [* "If, as this writer declares, such opinions tend to infidelity, then [?] exact opposite of these views will lead a man into the secure haven of New School Presbyterian Orthodoxy. "From such an orthodoxy. we pray most earnestly to be delivered."*]11 Slavery is [?] There is no single thing it does not taint [?] school [?] [?] What good will it do the slave- laws of the slave states are not affected Senator Clamen Webster SLAVERY AND THE WORK OF MISSIONS. THE following advertisement is taken from the October numbers of the Religious Herald, published in Richmond, Va. It is a striking illustration of the blinding influence of slaveholding. We append to the notice an extract from the remarks made on it by the editor of the Western Christian. Who wants $35,000 in Property? I AM desirous to spend the balance of my live as a missionary, if the Lord permit, and therefore offer for sale my farm, THE VINEYARD, adjacent to Williamsburg, and containing about 600 acres--well watered, well wooded, and abounding in marl--together with all the crops and stock and utensils thereon. Also, my home and lot in town, fitted up as a boarding establishment, with all the furniture belonging to the same. Also, about forty servants, mostly young and likely, and rapidly increasing in number and value. To a kind master, I would put the whole property at the reduced price of thirty five thousand dollars, and arrange the payments entirely to suit the purchaser, provided the interest be annually paid. SCERVANT JONES.13 [??????] of the time, slavery an[??] every other national crime would come to a speedy end. GEN.PIERCE AND THE RIGHT of PETITION. The New York Evening Post and other journals of the same party ath the North, in order to justify their support of General Pierce for the Presidency and win to him the votes of anti-slavery Democrats, have set up th plea that he voted, when in Con- gress, to respect the Right of Petititon. The Albany Evening Journal (Whig) confronts the Free Soil Democrats with the following rather ugly facts drawn from the records of the U.S. House of Representatives : On Monday, the 26th of December, 1836, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS presented a petition for the abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the district of Columbia. It was moved to lay in on the table. The motion was adopted by a vote of 116 Ayes to 36 Noes. First the list of Noes stands the name of John Quincy Adams, and prominent among the Ayes is the name of FRANKLIN PIERCE! On the 9th of January, 1837, 228 women of South Weymouth asked the privilege of petitioning Crongress in regard to Slavery. Their prayer was refused by a vote of 15o to 50. Among those who voted to grant it was JOHN QUINCY ADAMS ; among those who rejected it was FRANKLIN PIERCE! The next day the enemies of the Right of Petition grew bolder. John W. Davis moved to suspend the rules, in order to pass a reso- lution not to receive any petitions upon the subject of Slavery. It failed, not because there was not a majority for it, but because two-thirds were required, and the vote stood 102 a 78. One of the 78 was JOHN QUINCY [??????] was FRANKLIN 14 "AUCTION.--Monday 10th of April, at the north door of the Court House, Sta. Louis, will be sold for cash, four negro men, aged re- spectively 22, 23, 25, and 39--one woman aged 21 years, with her infant ; one woman aged 70 years, and two girls, aged respec- tively 10 and 19 years. At the same time will be sold on pew in St. George's Chruch. LUCY B. RUSSELL. Adm's. of J. Russell, deceased, Reggin, Aue't." WASHINGTON, May 2, 1852. Remarkable Advertisement -- Bad Chand for Old Fogies--Gen. Houston. The following advertisement appea conc- spicously in the columns of the National Intelligency. For Sale.__An acomplishement and band- some lady's maid. She is just sixteen years of age, was raised in a genteel family in Maryland, and is now proposed to be sold, not for any fault, but simply because the owner has no further use for her. A note directed to C.D., Gadsby's Hotel, will re- ceived prompt attention. The National Intelligencer is an official journal, and one of the most respectable newspapers of any class in the country.-- As an organ, in the same sense, of the govern- [?????] is taken by all representatives of PIERCE. But on the 18th of the same month, Mr. Hawes offered a resolution which was as follows: Resolved, That all petitions, memorials, resolutions, propositions or papers, relating in any way, or to any extent, to the sub- ject of Slavery, or to the abolition of Slavery shall, without being printed or referred, be laid on the table, and NO FURTHER ACTION BE HAD THEREON. The record shows that, previous to its pas- sage, Mr. Adams was among its strongest opponents, and Pierce among its warmenst supporters. It was passed by 129 to 69 ; JOHN QUINCY ADAMS voting No, and FRANKLIN PIERCE voting AYE! Subsequently Gen. Pierce went to the Senate, where, after having witnessed the disastrous effects upon his party of the sys- tematic denial of the Right of Petititon, we belive he did on once occasion, vote to re- ceive an anti-slavery memorial as the surest way of defeating the purpose of the signers. This is the man whom the larger portion of the Free Soil Democracy of 1848 are now supporting for the Presidency! between the hours of 10 and 4 o'clock U.S. Law in the District. - the City of Washington has now a 'Democratic' Mayor - for the first time in a number of years - and he has resolved to signalize his rule by the enforcement of all laws and ordinances he can find in existence against the Colored Race. Accordingly, Isaac N. Corey, admitted to be a most respectable and orderly citizen, was arrested and fined, a few days since, for being in the street after 10 o'clock at night, in disobedience of the following ordinance, passed in 1827: "No free black or mulatto person shall be allowed to go at large through the City of Washington, at a later hour than ten o'clock at night, without a pass from a justice of the peace, or a respectable citizen," &c., &c. Cory appealed from the judgment to the U.S. District Court, Judge Dunlop, who affirmed the decision of the justice on these grounds: "Congress, when they assumed jurisdiction here, in 1801, adopted the laws of Maryland, in which the two races are broadly distinguished. The free colored race is denied the elective franchise; they are excluded from all places of trust and honor; they cannot serve on juries, or be witnesses where a white person is concerned, or serve in the militia, with many other disabilities. In the first charter given to Washington, in 1802, and in all the subsequent charters, they are denied the right of suffrage, and are excluded from all participation in the city government. "The right, in Congress, to confer the power in question is not denied, and for the reasons above given, I think the city ordinance was a lawful exercise of that power; and that the judgment ought to be affirmed with costs." So Cory must suffer in fine and costs, perhaps to the value of all he is worth, for being found in the street of his own city, where he was known and admitted to be a free and peaceful citizen, after ten at night. Just mention his case to the next man who asks you what we in the North have to do with Slavery. - N.Y. Tribune 16 Collections Portland Ma $ 5.00 Portsmouth NH 2.62 Dedham 3.27 Southboro 3.50 Feltonville 2.10 Leominster 2.50 Fitchburg 3.21 Westminster 5.00 Berlin 1.82 Bolton 1.58 Nattboro 1.75 Fitchburg .50 Townsend 1.34 John Clement 1.00 Stoneham 1.92 Neponsit [1.00] Railway Village Milton [1.87] 42.98These societies among the colored people constitute a very remarkable and characteristic feature of their condition. There are now something like two hundred of them regularly organized. The members pay from twenty-five to thirty-seven and a half cents a month, and receive two or three dollars a week in case of sickness. From ten to twenty dollars are generally allowed for funeral expenses. Many of the members belong to two or three different societies at once, and pay and receive accordingly. A very large majority of the adults are connected with some one of these societies; but I do not know exactly the aggregate number. The women have separate societies, of their own, arranged on substantially the same plan as those of the men. By the statisties of 1847, the aggregate annual income of seventy-six of these societies, from which reports had been received, was $16, 814 23; and their permanent invested funds $17,771 83 Six hundred and eighty one families are reported to have been assisted by them in 1847, and the sums furnished to 517 of these families amounted to $7189 86. Their permanent funds were at that time more than seven thousand and seven hundred dollars greater than in 1837; while the annual subscription was some two thousand dollars less. These statistics, of course, include only a part of the societies existing in 1847. As the number of these societies has been constantly increasing, the aggregate amount contributed for the pur[suit] of mutual relief is no doubt greater who only does some [?] this [?] [?] [?] no excuse & 16 Collections Portland Ma $ 5.00 Portsmouth NH 2.62 Dedham 3.27 Southboro 3.50 Feltonville 2.10 Leominster 2.50 Fitchburg 3.21 Westminster 5.00 Berlin 1.82 Bolton 1.58 Nattboro 1.75 Fitchburg .50 Townsend 1.34 John Clement 1.00 Stoneham 1.92 Neponsit [1.00] Railway Village Milton [1.87] 42.98 TRADING IN VOTERS.--The Tribune copies from the Troy Whig, a letter to Governor Seymour, from the " proprietors and pub- lishers of the Roman Guardian," a Catholic paper, at Rome, N. Y., soliciting pecuniary aid to enable therm to more their paper to New York city. After showing the great influence of their paper among the Irish in America, the writers adde: "Therefore, if your Excellency would think proper to help us in this matter, we do hereby pledge ourselves to make The Roman Guardian subservient to your interests at any future cam- paign that you or any of your political friends may be interested in. And no man knows bet- ter than you do the ultimate influence which a paper of this kind (already having a circula- tion of three thousand in this State alone) can away and command among the Irish citizens of this State and country. "Trusting that your Excellency will give this matter your mature consideration, and give us a little material aid, "We remain your devoted servents, "T.J. & B.B. Mahon, "Props. and Pubs. Roman Guardian." When such proposals are openly made to leading officers of the State, what shall measure the secret corruption prevalent in its political parties? How this bargain will suit the Irish voters who are to be bartered for a "little material aid," is for them to prove by their reception of the insulting proposition. We wish it might be such that no political huckster should ever dare a similar attempt. "FUGITIVES FROM LABOUR."__The advocates f[?] the Anti-Slavery character of the Constitution make or think they make, a strong pint in the argumen that that clause of the Constitution, in Sec. 3, Art. 4, relating to 'fugitives from labour' may apply to ap- prentices, and does not necessarily apply to slaves. The argument has, at least, done this good service, that the point will be judicially considered, and the practi- cal meaning of the Constitution come, to be, at lengh, positively decided by the Courts, and all reasonable doubts done anyway with. If it should ever be settled that the article in question does apply to apprentices, the next step may be that it does not apply to slaves, and should the door be once opened to innovations upon the popular construction of the Constitution, it may never be closed again till that instrument is made free from all positive or constructive support of Slavery. We acknowledge that we have not the least hope or expectation of this until Slavery is abolished, or a new Union created, though we should rejoice should we ever find ourselves mistaken. We are glad, however, to see the question raised, and the discussion carried on in the Courts, for good, we believe, will come of that, let the decision be as it may. We wish the Constitution were on the side of the Anti-Slavery Cause ; but if it is not, as we maintain, the sooner that time comes the better, when history, argument and facts shall leave nothing on which to hang a doubt. The question in relation to the rendition of an ap- prentice came up in a Commissioner's Court in this city, last week, and the return claimed under the clause above referred to and the Acts of 1793 and 1850. The result, however, was altogether unfavourable to this construction of the Constitution and the law. So far as this decision has any , it is settled not only that the return of fugitive slaves is provided for by the Constitution, but that Sec. 3, Art. 4, and the acts made in accordance with it, have no reference to apprentices. We copy below the summing-up of this case, from the law reports of the morning papers: U. S. COMMISSIONER'S COURT. Before George W. Morton, U. S. Commissionaer. In the matter of John Van Orden, claimed as an appren- tice, and arrested as a Fugitive from Service and Labour, by John Randall, of New Jersey. This case came up originally before Mr. Commis- sioner Bridgham, on a warrant issued by him. The testimony and arguments were heard by him, but, be- fore a decision, the papers were withdrawn; and, upon a new petition and affidavits, a warrant was issued, re- turnable before me at 11 A. M. on Friday. On this hearing it was agreed by the counsel for the claimant and apprentice, that the testimony taken be- fore Mr. Bridgham should be received as evidence, with liberty to the counsel for the claimant to introduce new and futher testimony as to the escape of the ap- prentice. The counsel for the claimant contends that the words and meaning of Section 3, Art. 4, of the Constitution, and the Acts of 1793 and 1850, may possibly apply to fugitive slaves, but are infinitely more applicable to fugitive apprentices, servants, redemptioners, &c. The statute makes it imperative upon the Commis- sioner to hear and determine cases of this nature in a summary manner. Having been furnished, by the counsel for the claim- ant of the alleged fugitive, with the written evidence and papers, and having taken the additional testimony, of the Messrs. Roosevelts, for the claimant, and those of Mr. W. A. Butler, P. Hamilton, and W. Q. Morton, for the alleged, fugitive, and examined the various authorities cited, an opportunity has been afforded me of examining the subject with some care. The evidence proves that the person claimed as a fu- gitive from service, was an apprentice under voluntary contract by indenture, to learn the making of shoes and came to New York without permission and refused to return. This evidence does not describe a person "held to service or labor," within the meaning of the 3d section 4th article of the Constitution of the United States, and of the acts of Congress passed in 1793 and 1850. The word "person" in the Constitution and in the sense used therein is synonymous with slave, and the whole scope and object of that clause of the instrument, pleation to Fugitive Slaves, exclusive of any and all other description of runaway servants. In 1837, this clause of the Constitution was befor the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of Prigg vs. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the opinion defivered by Mr. Justice Story, and that of all the individual members of the Court, occupying al- most one-third of 16 Peters' Report 611, has rendered it now impossible to hold other than that apprentices are wholly excluded from having been within the in- tention of the framers of the Constitution, and of the acts of Congress passed to carry out the true object of that clause--providing for the recovery of fugitives from justice, and fugitive slaves described as held to service or labour. Mr. Justice Story, also, in his work upon the Consti- tution, when commenting upon the various clauses where slaves are described as persons in respect to their migration, importation, and scale of representa- tions, expresses, in the most unequivocal terms, the the conclusions now recognised. No judical decision appears to have been made directly upon the case of an apprentice, by any Judge of a United States Court. But the decision referred to gives so clear an intima- tion of what are the views of that tribunal, that it would not become a Commissionar to initiate a construc- tion which would in truth be adding "to persons held to service or labour," the words, "including appren- tices and all other servants." The idea that apprentices, &c., were within the meaning of the Constitution, seems to have been taken up at a very recent period, as up to 1837, no vestige of its existence has been found. One or two cases are belived to have occurred within a few years, where Commissioners in other States have delivered up ap- prentices, but the only question there raised, was the validity of the indenture ; and the question now pre- sented was never raised or passed upon. After as careful an investigation of the authorities cited and the able argument of the claimsn's counsel, as the time would allow, the evidence and law of the case, in my judgment, does not warrant a certificate authorizing the claimant to remove the alleged fugitive or person back to the State from which he is said to have fled. The apprentice, John Van Orden, is therefore dis- charged. THE BALTIMORE PLATFORM - The Vote on Mr. Taylor's Resolutions, in Response to the Inaugural! - Who Stand on the Baltimore, Who on the Buffalo Platform? We give below the vote on Thursday, in the Assembly, on the three resolutions proposed by the Hon. D.B. Taylor, of New York, in response to the great doctrines and principles of the Inaugural Address. We analyze the vote, with a view to show not merely who voted for the several resolutions, and who against them, but who dodged the questions, in whole or in part. In all respects, it is the most important party vote which has been cast during the present elongated session of the Legislature. It is all-important as a show of hands among the representatives of "the united democracy of the State." It proclaims unmistakeably that there are among those who professing to have abandoned the Freesoilism and Abolitionism of 1848, still cling to these mischievous and dangerous heresies. It shows that there are those among us pretending to be Democrats, who repudiate and spit upon the great measures of Conciliation and Peace, known as "the Compromise Measures," with which the National Administration stands identified before the American People - and who, sympathizing still with the Free-soil and anti-Slavery sentiment of the North, are ready and eager to unite with the natural enemies of the Democracy, in a crusade againast the constitutional rights of the South and the integrity of the Union, whenever the occasion presents itself. In this point of view, our analysis of the vote will be found instructive, in and out of the State, as well as valuable for present and future reference. The first of Mr. D.B. Taylor's resolutions reads as follows: Resolved: That the State of New-York congratulates her sister States of the Union on the doctrines avowed by President Pierce in his inaugural Address to his countrymen, believing that the doctrines are sound expositions of our duty as one of the powers of the civilized world, and of the duties of the several States to each other under the Constitution of the United States. Those who voted Aye are: Messrs. Alden, Amsbry, Beckwith, Bouton, Case, Champlin, Chamberlain, Crocker, De Hart, J.E. Ely, Emans, Finch, Fulton, A.H. Gardiner, J.K. Gardiner, Gifford, B.T. Gilmore, D. Gilmore, Glover, Green, A.C. Hall, Henderson, Hibbard, Hockox, Howard, Howes, Hutchins, Jackson, Livingston, Loomis, Lounsbury, Marsh, McBurney, Miller, Noble, O'Brien, Odell, O'Keefe, Patterson, Rogers, P.W. Rose, [Searing?] Shaw, L.H. Smith, Russell Smith, S.S. Smith, Spafard, Sprague, St. John, D.B. Taylor, Ten Eyck, Thorne, Van Alstyne, Van Vranken, Webb, [Weeks?], Wedekind, West and Winans - 50. [All Democrats, or elected as such.] Those who voted No are: Messrs. Beman, Burnet, Cary Clapp, Dubois, Ellsworth [temporary Speaker,] Hardin, [Hendre?], Holley, Holmes, Hutchinson, Kennedy, Kneeland, Littlejohn, Lozier, Osborne, Payne, Perkins, Pettengill, J. Reid, A.B. Rose, Sessions, Stewart, W. Taylor, Townsend, Waitcomb - 27. [All Whigs, or elected as such.] The following is a list of the "fugitives" or "dodgers:" Messrs. Blauvelt, Burroughs, Bushnell, Bush, Carpenter, [Cook?] J.N. Ely, Gale, B. Hall, Hastings, Hayden, Ingalls, Kearney, Lawrence, Martin, L. Osgood, Peters, L. Reed, J. Rose, Jr, B. Smith, L. H. Smith, [illegible] The Speaker, Stratton, Temple, Wood. [Whigs in italic, 9. Elected as Democrats, 16. In all 25. Mr. Taylor's second resolution reads thus: Resolved, That the people of the State of New-York coincide with the President in his opinion that "it is not to be disguised that our attitude as a nation, and our position on the globe renders the acquisition of certain possessions not within our jurisdiction, eminently important for our protection, if not in the future essential, for the preservation of the rights of commerce and the peace of the world" - and also with the principle which we all should regard as fundamental, that "the rights, security and repose of this confederacy reject the idea of interference or colonization on this side of the ocean by any foreign power beyond present jurisdiction, as utterly inadmissable." Those who voted Aye, are: Messrs. Alden, Amsbry, Bouton, Case, Champlain, Crocker, De Hart, J.E. Ely, Emans, Fulton, A.H. Gardiner, J.K. Gardiner, Gifford, D. Gilmore, Glover, Green, Henderson, Hibbard, Hickox, Holley, Howard, Howes, Hutchings, Jackson, Livingston, Lounsbury, Marsh, Noble,m O'Brien, Odell, O'Keefe, Patterson, Rogers, P.W. Rose, Searing, Shaw, L.H. Smith, Russell Smith, S.S. Smith, Spafard, Sprague, St. John, D.B. Taylor, Thorne, Van Vranken, Webb, Weeks, Wedekind, kWest, Winans - [50. All elected as Democrats, except one Whig, in italics.] Those who voted "no," are: Messrs. Beman, Burnet, Bush, Cary, Cook, Dubois, Ellsworth, Hardin, Hayden, Hendee, Holmes, Hutchinson, Kennedy, Kneeland, Littlejohn, Loziers, Payne, Persons Pettengill, J. Reid, Sessions, Townsend, Welch, Whitcomb - 24. [All whigs, or elected as such.] The "fugitives" or "dodgers" are: Messrs. Beckwith, Blauvelt, Burroughs, Bushnell, Carpenter, Chamberlain, Clapp I.N. Ely, Finch, Gale, B.T. Gilmore, A.C. Hall, B. Hall, Hastings, Ingalls, Kearney, Lawrence, Loomis, Martin, McBurney, Miller, Osborne, L. Osgood, Perkins, Peters, L. Reed, A.B. Rose, J. Rose, Jr., B. Smith, The Speaker, Stewart, Stratton, W. Taylot, Ten Eyck, Temple, Van Alstyne, Wood. [12 Whigs, in italics, 25 Democrats, or elected as such. In all 37.] Mr. Taylor's third, or test resolution, is as follows: Resolved, That the State of New-York reaffirms the doctrines of the Inaugural, "that involuntary servitude, as it exists in different States of this Confederacy, is recognized by the Constitution - that it stands like any other admitted right, and that the States where it exists are entitled to efficient remedies to enforce the Constitutional provisions" - that "the laws of 1851, commonly called the 'compromise measures,' are strictly Constitutional, and to be unhesitatingly carried into effect - that "the constituted authorities of this Republic are bound to regard the rights of the South in this respect as they would view any other legal and constitutional right - and that the laws to enforce them should be respected and obeyed not with a reluctance encouraged by abstract opinions as to their propriety in a different state of society, but cheerfully, and according to the decisions of the tribunal to which their exposition belongs:" and that the State of New-York pledges her faith to the Union, that every law adopted by the constituted authorities of the United States, including the Fugitive Slave Law, shall be faithfully enforced within the limits of the State. Those who voted Aye, are: Messrs. Alden, Amsbury, Bouton, Burnet, Bush, Case, Carpenter De Hart, Dubois, J.E. Ely, Emans, Fulton, A.H. Gardiner, J.K. Gardiner, Gifford, Glover, Green, Henderson, Hickox, Howard, Howes, Hutchins, Jackson, Livingston, Lounsbury, McBurney, Noble,, O'Brien, Odell, O'Keefe, Rogers, Searing, Shaw, L.H. Smith, Russell Smith, S.S. Smith, Sprague, St. John, D.B. Taylor Thorne, Van Vranken, Webb, Weeks, Wedekind, Wlech, West, Winans [47 - all elected as Democrats, except 4 Whigs in italics. Those who voted No, are: Mossrs Cary, Chamberlain, Cook, Crocker, Ellsworth, Harden, Hayden, Hendee, Holley, Holmes, Hutchinson, Kennedy, Littlejohn, Lozier, Marsh, Payne, Persons, Pettengill, J. Reid, P.W. Rose, Sessions, Townsend, Whitcomb, [23 in all - 19 Whigs, in italic; 4 in roman elected as Democrats. The Fugitives of Dodgers are: Messrs. Beckwith Beman, Blauvelt, Burroughs, Bushnell, Champlain, Clapp,, L.N. Ely, Finch, Gale, B.T. Gilmore, D. Gilmore, A.C. Hall, B. Hall, Hastings, Hibbard, Ingalls, Kearney, Kneeland, Lawrence, Loomis, Martin, Miller, Osborne, L. Osgood, Patterson, Perkins, Peters, L. Reed, A.B. Rose, J. Rose, jr., B. Smith, Spafard, The SPeaker, Stewart, Stratton, W. Taylot, Ten Eyck, Temple Van Alstyne, Wood. [41 in all, 27 elected as Democrats - 14 Whigs in italics. w [illegible] 1.40 Springer 2 26 [illegible] 1 207 4.92 Alice Bridges. J.C. Farnahm Williamstown [Illegible]Middlefield 1,00 Chester Village 25 Becket 81 Hinsdale 87 ½ Lenox 97 ½ Stockbridge ,30 N Marlboro-Southfield ,50 Winsted-Hale 2,62 ½ Naugatuck 1 05 N.J. 1,65 3,37 [1,45] 6 20 Susonin 1,40 Springfield 2 25 Brookfield 1 27 4,92 Alice Bridges. J.C. Farnahan Williamstown Vt. sts Liberator[*Geo. Lowe & McGreay*] [*21*] NATIONAL ANTI- Still there remained a mode of redress. The Constitution provides that "controversies between States, and those arising out of treaties," shall be tried by the United States Courts. In accordance with this provision, Massachusetts and Great Britain sent lawyers to Charleston, not to attack the law, nor to break it - but simply to have it tried. The South Carolinians mobbed one lawyer, and the above paragraph shows how they have disposed of the other. "I do solemnly swear that I will preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United Statss," is the oath taken by the Governor, the Legislature, the Judges and the Sheriffs of the Palmetto State, when they enter upon the duties of their offices. Whereupon the Governor writes a message, and the Legislature pass a law, and the Judges announce it from the bench, and the Sheriffs execute it -- to the effect that when the Constitution of the United States conflicts with the police regulations of South Carolina, it is worthless and of no effect ! And the citizens uphold their rulers by refusing to have it tried, whether they conflict or no ! At the present moment, a Constable of Charleston is a higher dignitary than the President of the United States or the Queen of England. His acts are tacitly admitted to be superior to the faith of the treaties, and to Federal Courts, to Acts of Congress, and to the Constitution itself. Theirs are not. They can do nothing that may not be questioned. He can. –Albany Evening Journal 2 25 15.58 Collections Charlton 2.51 Mr Brockfield 5.00 Baire 5.46 S. Gardner 2.46 A A. Bent 2 00 Sam Bent 1.85 Travais .25 95 48 39 1 82 Greenfield 1.75 East Hampton .67 Southampton 1.20 Montgomery 1.25 Burmington 2.80 Wm. Lawes 1.00 [Hiram Brown Jr. .25 Joseph Pech 25 L. S. Pachard 25 Michael Walsh 25 T. Pachard 25 L. W. Stafford 25 G. P. Stafford 25] 0Mr. Medill. The Ashtabula Sentinel gives the slavery antecedents of the Democratic candidate for Governor with some minuteness. He is certainly a good representative of the Baltimore platform. From the Ashtabula Sentinel. The Gubernatorial Candidate of the Hunker Democracy. Our readers are conscious that slavery and the slave-trade was established, in the District of Columbia and is now sustained by act of Congress. It is our law which upholds that commerce in men, that degradation of mankind. The people of Ohio were altogether unwilling to share in the crime of sustaining it, and they petitioned to Congress for a repeal of the law that authorizes it. To prevent the people from thus respectfully asking a repeal of this enactment at the hands of their servants, the gag rule was adopted by the House of Representatives. This rule provided, that such petitions should not be receive, read or entertained in any manner whatever. Nothing could have been more opposed to every principle of democracy, or to popular rights, than this mode of gagging nothern freemen to uphold southern slavery. On December 14th, 1841, Mr. Adams prerented the petition of sundry citizens of Hamilton County, Ohio, praying a repeal of this obnoxious rule, and respectfully moved to refer it to the committee on rules: Mr. Merriweather, a slaveholder from Georgia moved to lay the motion on the table. This would have been a substantial rejection of the petition. Yet Mr. Medill voted for the motion; but the motion was rejected. The petition came up again for consideration on the 4th of January, 1842, and Mr. Wise, another slaveholder, moved to lay the petition itself on the table, and Mr. Medill again voted with the slaveholders, and against the rights of the people of his own State. On the same day, another petition of the same character came up for consideration, and Mr. Gamble, a slaveholder of Georgia, moved to lay it on the table; and Mr. Medill again voted with the slaveholding despots against the constitutional rights of petition. On the same day Mr. John G. Floyd, a democrat from the State of New York, presented the petition of 361 citizens of that State, asking the repeal of said rule, and Mr. Gamble moved to lay it on the table, and Mr. Medill voted again with the slaveholders against the people. January 6, 1842, Mr. Giddings presented the petition of certain legal voters, in Lenox, Ashtabula county, Ohio, asking Congress to pass laws protecting all such persons as may be constitutionally entitled to their liberty, by going to sea with the consent of their masters, beyond the jurisdiction of the laws of any slave State! Wm. Cost Johnson, a slaveholder of Maryland, objected to receiving the petition and moved to lay the question of reception on the table. Mr. Medill voted with the slaveholders in the affirmative. It would be difficult to conceive a greater insult to the people than such a vote. It was a distinct declaration, that the members of Congress would not receive the petitions of the people, asking them to maintain the liberty of native born Americans who are constitutionally entitled to it. Mr. Giddings, on the same day, presented the petition of a large number of the citizens of Trumble County, Ohio, praying that the "people of the free States may be relieved from all obligations to sustain the institution of Slavery." Mr. Wise, a slaveholder, objected to its reception and move to lay that question on the table. Mr. Medill again voted in the affirmative, saying to the people of Ohio, "You shall not even ask us to relieve you from the crimes and obliquy of slavery and the slave trade. On the same day, Hon. S. J. Andrews presented a remonstrance against stigmatizing petitions on the subject of slavery, or placing them on any different footing from those on other subjects. Mr. Campbell, of South Corolina, a slaveholder, moved that this petition be laid on the table, and Mr. Medill voted in the affirmative with the slaveholders against the people of his own State. On the 18th of January, Mr. Henry of Pa., presented a petiton praying Congress not to impair or limit the constitutitional right of petition. Mr. Campbell of South Carolina moved to lay it on the table, and Mr. Medill again voted with the salveholders against this most reasonable request of the people. Are our people to be thus told that they shall not even ask Congress to relieve them from the disgrace of Slavery? That they shall not ask their servants to protect native born Americans who are constitutionally entitled to their Liberty? Nor for the repeal of the gag-rule which disgraced our nation, and which slaveholders themselves dared not sustain, and which was soon after repealed, and no longer suffered to disgrace Congress? No despot of Europe could have retained his throne, had he have exercised the same Apr 12 1851 To Hayden [?] 1 52 Boston 90 59 79 68 [?] 55 [?] 86 [?] 1.08 [Wa ester?] .40 Pembroke 2.56 Halifax 69 Postage 17 Stoughton .40 S. Braintree 40 11.53 [?] 55 Boston 1 25 [?] This constitutes, so far as we have been able to learn, the sum total of the New School General Assembly's action on the slavery question. To balance this they spent two or three days in discussing the question of whether sprinkling a child's face with water by a Roman Catholic Priest was a valid Christian act, and would be "sufficient" without a resprinklin by some minister of orthodox protestant faith. This NEW SCHOOL GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND SLAVERY. This body has succeeded in keeping the "Vesuvius" "capped" during its long session, notwithstanding the fact that the brother of one of its most able ministers was dragged through the city, into slavery, while they were quietly passing the subject by as one on which it was not necessary that they should "take action." On Thursday of last week Rev. Albert Barnes, on behalf of the Committee on Bills and Overtures, made the following report: The Committee report that overtures and memorials have been before them from the following Presbyteries, to wit -- Hamilton, Long Island, Pennsylvania, Montrose, Watertown, Union, Cortland, Dayton, Indianapolis, Crawfordville, Madison, Elkhart, Keokuk, Peoria and Knox, Salem, Wabash, Athens, and from members of the church of Fremont, Ia., relating to the subject of slavery. In reference to the memorials and overtures, the committees recommend that, inasmuch as we believe that in the present aspect of Divine Providence, the consideration of the subject in this General Assembly is undesirable and inexpedient; and inasmuch as the memorials do not ask for any modification or renewal of the testimony borne by previous Assemblies, in regard to the system and practice of slavery as existing in this country, or for any expression of opinion as to the proper course to be pursued by future Assemblies, therefore this Assembly take no action on the subject. The report was adopted by the Assembly without debate, at which the moderator exclaimed "Laus Deo!" 000176British Seamen speech, after recounting the efforts of the British Consul at Charleston for the protection of Coloured seamen, imprisoned under the law, made the following statement: There could be no doubt but that the proceedings in question had created considerable ill-will in South Carolina; and the Governor of that State had actually declared that had it not been for those proceedings, he would have recommended a modification of the law under which captains of vessels would merely be required to confine any free negroes or persons of colour in their vessels during their stay in the ports of that State. Now he (Lord Beaumont) believed that that would be as great a concession as we could, under present circumstances, expect; for the inhabitants of South Carolina naturally found it necessary to exclude free negroes from their territory while they continued to retain the slave system. He hoped, whoever might be the British Consul in South Carolina in future, that instructions should be given him not to let the subject be neglected; but that he should be requested to use his best endeavours to induce the Legislature of South Carolina to take the initiative in bringing about a more desirable state of things than at present prevailed, in reference to the question to which he had just been calling their lordships' attention (hear, hear). The Earl of Clarendon, who followed Lord Beaumont, was even more explicit. The greatest difficulty, he said, in a way of a satisfactory settlement of the question -- of giving, that is, adequate protection to British seamen who may happen to be coloured -- was the existence of a treaty of Commerce between the two countries. He continue: By that treaty the utmost freedom of commercial intercourse between the two countries had been stipulated for and guaranteed. In addition to that treaty, there was a provision which had reference to the particular laws of each individual State. Under that proviso it was that South Carolina insisted upon the maintenance of the law in its existing state, and he (the Earl of Clarendon) had no hesitation in saying that the question had been referred to different gentlemen who had acted as the law advisers of the Crown, and that the opinion of those gentlemen had been that, however unjustifiable the present law might be, the Government of this country had no right to demand its abrogation, nor to seek for compensation for the injuries which might be inflicted upon her Majesty's subject under its operation. Remonstrances, however, he asserted, had been used, and an appeal had been made to the United States Government, which agreed with her Majesty's Government upon the unconstitutionality and injustice of the law, and remonstrated with the Legislature of South Carolina in regard to it. That remonstrance South Carolina met "by a message so violent in its nature, and by a resolution so angry and defiant, that a stop had been put to the renewal of all interference in the matter upon the part of the United States Government." Nevertheless, the British Minister at Washington continued his protest till he was told "that if England insisted upon the abrogation of the law, the United States Government would have not other course left open to them, except to give notice of the abrogation of the treaty which at present existed." And this threat seems to have been eminently successful, so that hereafter Great Britain will approach South Carolina, not demanding that the rights and persons of her subjects be respected, but in the attitude of a suppliant begging their High Mightinesses at Columbia -- or wherever it is that they hold their Court -- that they will vouchsafe to make the imprisonment of British sailors as light as circumstances will permit, and not sell them into Slavery if it could be conveniently avoided! The Lion, this time, certainly, roars as gently [s] a sucking dove. Cause and Effect Rev. John C. Lord's Sermon preached in Buffalo -- repeated in Washington -- and scattered by Congressmen, by the barrel full, all over the country at the expense of government, has done its work. John C. Lord, -- the Presbyterian Church in Buffalo in league with its Rev. Confederates, -- Commissioners Smith, and kidnapper [Rust?] -- 'like rejoicing in like,' have effected this work. Read the following extract from the sermon, and say if the outrage is not the legitimate fruit of such preaching: "We make no war upon the domestic institutions of the South. Their institutions are not our concern. We do not disturb them; we do not mean to disturb them. To the free colored man we open our doors and churches: but we do not want fugitive slaves. They may be good men -- there is prima facie evidence that they are bad. The are a trouble to us; they corrupt our population, overload our prisons, and one of the benefits of this law is, that they are so rapidly disappearing from the midst of us." Dying Away27 Expenses Danielsonville 1,80 Central ,20 Daysville ,30 Worcester ,80 N. Brookfield ,76 Cummington 1,40 Brookfield 1,55 Postage & travelling ,46 Postage ,86 Gardner 1,95 Milford 1,91 West Brookfield 1,75 Providence and return 2,87 15,81 56.90 19 83 37 77 28 Collections 6,64 Danielsonville Wm. Hume ,25 Daysville 1 70 Pomfret 4 69 [Worcester] [80] Center Village ,50 Cummington ,75 John S. Strafford 2,25 Grant Hatford 1,00 Dia Brown 1,00 Chester Village ,50 Lorina Hinckly ,60 Milford 5,00 Ware Village 2,09 19 19 6 64 19 19 19 83 6,64 13 19 19,83Expenses Carver 2.90 Abington 36 Stoughton 1.03 Boston ,74 Bellingham 95 Brookfield 2,10 Stowe 25 Lunenburg 1,55 Brookfield 1,55 Upton ,65 Brookfield 1,40 N. Bedford 5,52 Hingham ,30 Newburyport 2,12 [Mo???????] 1,48 postage 09 Uxbridge 2.00 Boston 1 15 Plymouth 2,25 28,39 7 Collections Carver O.C.A.S 5,00 Sept. 3 Stoughton South Stoughton ,25 Cochaset 3,02 [?] Ct. 16,01 N. Bedford [10,00] Hingham O.C. 5,00 Benj. Whiting 50 29. 78 75.79 30.55 45.2431 2.62 1.03 1,59 Days Connecticut 8 conventions 1 35 North Brookfield 2 Barre 2 50 Crennington 3_ Check Village 2_ Gardner 3_ Milford 3_ Providence 3 More Village 3 Women's Rights Expense Carrying trunk 37 1/2 Gloucester 85 Boston 85 Carrying trunk 25 Millville 50 Dedham 62 1/2 Manchester 1 30 Beverly 25 Brookfield 2,4032 Women's Right Collection Stroughton - 2,62 Gloucester W Parish 2,62 Aunt Kitty 50 Essex 5.00 C. K. Whipple 5.00 Durham 20,00 Manchester 4 00 Mapleville 4,00 Harrisville 1 00 Milford 17 Valley Falls 2 68 Pawtucket 4 00 Stoneham 4.12 [Cumberland?] 3,85[*33 *] Today in Plymouth for Convention [?imburg] Our [?] Salem Upton THE FREE DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION at Harrisburg, on the 1st and 2d inst., was numerously attended, delegates being present from nearly all the counties of the State. Mr. Wm. B. Thomas, of this city, presided, and in his opening speech urged a thorough organization of the Free Democracy throughout the State. The Convention nominated the following State Ticket for the next election: Wm. M. Stephenson, of Mercer county, Judge of the Supreme Court; Dr. Robert Mitchell, of Indiana county, Canal Commissioner; Nevil B. Craig, of Allegheny county, Auditor General; and Laurence E. Corson, of Montgomery county, Surveyor General. Mrs. Swisshelm was among the celebrities present, and her paper, the Saturday Visitor, was, on motion of Mr. Gordon, unanimously declared the State Journal of the Free Democracy of the State of Pennsylvania. [*Dec. 23 on lt doc.*] [*34*] Jessi Harris Pescoug Lib- 1,25 Elisa Berryman 6 25 Mapleville RI - [*7) 8.00 1.12 10 4.70*] Arnold Pithplace Liz [?] 2,50 [*30 aa40 47,40*] Daniel S Whipple 2,50 Oliver Tracy 2,00 Standard35 Lines Sold Jane Johnson Mapleville R.I. .50 Sevinia Smith 50 Melissa E. Smith ,50 Pauline O. Colwell ,50 Mary M Cooper ,50 Sueline Smith ,50 36 Elisabitt Jones 7 Convention 5 17 L. A. Nason ,50 Seominster Mass. Belinda Gibbs Mapleville 50 Clementine Smith Mapleville 50 Margaret Nacy 50[*37*] Thomas Johnson 2,50 Rebecca B Stilse ,50 Geo. Berryman 50 Wm Grace ,50 [Lavinia Smith ] [1,25] Sib- John A. Smith 2,50 Mapleville M, I. [*38*] Convention [?] Sharp ,50 Bean Hill Norwich Ct.Fort has - [?]. 20 Valley Falls 16&17 Pawtucket 18&19 The little ones of [?] [?] school -- To [?] won't let a man be a citizen if [?] [?] hold slaves The church has paper resolutions My brother(41) [?] [?] 9, 2,25 ----- 11,25 7,91 9,82 7,75 ----- 25,48 11 25 ------ 14,23 Lib (42) Esra [?] 2,50 Uxbridge Geo E. Nillord Stone 2,00 Uxbridge 4,00 [[strike]]4,25[[/strike]] Law [?glessop] 1,25² Uxbridge [[strike]]2,50[/strike]] 7 91 [?] 9 82 -------- 17, 7343 Ellen M. Green Lib 325 Uxbridge 265 90 50 --------- 4,05 P. lib James Mallher Stone Peacedale John Seek Lib Pd $ ,25 44 Wednesday Mar, 10 Head of Mystic Baptist ----------------------------- Thursday Green Manville ------------------------ Friday-Burnett's Corner -------------------------------- Sat Blue of Mystic ----------------------- Sunday Green Manville James Griffin Lib- 2,5645 Expenses Comming Dec 27 2,65 Boston 90 40 Stoneham. ,32½ [Portland 2,00] [Fall River] [return 2,70] Portsmouth 1,42 [Boston 1,50] [Valley Falls 1,25] Boston to Springfield 2,65] [West Brookfield ,90] [Stage home ,50] [Abington 54] [Carver 25] [1 35] ---------- [7,44] (46) Collected Stoneham 1,00 [Fall River 10-] [Portland 10-] [Portsmath 4,] [Pembroke 1,96] [W. Duxbury 1,06] [Carver Gren ,23] [Geo Peterson 1,00] [Easton 1,88] Lib Geo. H. Smith 1,25the act of holding implies [vol] holding proves a will to hold slaves, whatever the motive that prompts it. The church might as reasonably legislate against "voluntary" theft, "voluntary" adultery, or "voluntary" swindling, as "voluntary slaveholding." With this exception, we like the resolutions, though we should have liked them better, if they had declared the determination of the Conference to hold no further fellowship with slaveholders, even though to break such fellowship involved a separation from the General Conference. This would be a proof of earnestness which that Conference would not hastily disregard; but so long as its subordinate bodies will cling to the church, "right or wrong," we must expect that church to purchase the favor of the powerful by sanctifying their sins. If these New England Methodists mean what they say, they must sustain their resolutions with the needed action, and prepare themselves for a stern struggle with slavery in the church. The Conference subsequently passed resolutions in favor of the Maine Law, and resolved to send five delegates to the World's Temperance Convention. THE SLAVE TRAFFIC IN BOSTON. The following advertisement appears prominently in the columns of the Boston Courier, the leading organ of the Webster Whigs of Boston: A RARE CHANCE FOR CAPITALISTS! FOR SALE. The Pulaski House, at Savannah, and Furniture, and a number of PRIME NEGROES, accustomed to Hotel business. The subscriber, desirous to retire [fro si-] ness, offers the above names property [f ale] on accommodating terms. For [parti lars,] apply to the proprietor, on the premises. If not sold previous to the first of June, the House will be offered for rent, to an approved tenant, who will purchase the Furniture, stock of Wines, Liquors, &c. P. WILTBERGER. Savannah, April 19, 1853. This offer of "a rare chance" to the "capitalists" of Boston, proves how Southern slave traders appreciate their former services, and their puritanic virtue. The slave-trader's sending his advertisement to Boston and its publication in the Courier is another step in the path of dishonor deliberately chosen by the "capitalists of Boston," when they sacrificed Thomas Sims to Slavery and Mammon, to purchase Southern trade. That there are "capitalists" there who may accept this "rare chance" for a speculation in "prime negroes" is too probable. N. ENGLAND METHODISM AND SLAVERY. Neither compromises nor adjustments, nor the bulls of political or religious popes have yet silenced the "slavery agitation" in State or Church. The resolutions below, adopted after much discussion by the New England Methodist Conference, on the 2d inst., at Ipswich, Mass., show the progress of the agitation in that section of the country: 1st -- That as a Conference we are as fully and deeply convinced as ever, that all voluntary slaveholding, or the holding of slaves in bondage for the sake of gain, under any circumstances, is a flagrant sin against God and humanity. 2d -- That it is our deliberate and settled opinion, that no more persons guilty of the sin of slaveholding, should be admitted as members into our Church. 3d -- That we are fully persuaded that if a proper discipline were duly administered, or if the spirit even of our present discipline were fully carried out, all voluntary slaveholders would soon be either brought to repentance and reformation of life, or for the sin of slaveholding be expelled from the Church. 4th -- That as there is a difference of opinion, as to whether our discipline, as it now reads, would exclude such persons from our communion, it is the sense of this Conference, that the discipline should be so altered and amended as to include a well defined and clearly expressed rule prohibiting their reception into the communion of the Methodist Episcopal Church. We do not like this qualifying of the condemnation of slaveholding by the term British Unitarians on American Slavery. -- At the Half-yearly Meeting of the "Western Unitarian Christian Union," at Cheltenham, on the 4th ult., the following resolutions were introduced by Mr. J. B. Estlin, of Bristol, and were sustained in a very forcible and eloquent speech by the mover, in which he intelligently reviewed the action and position of American Unitarians upon slavery, giving merited honor the faithful few who have been true to Freedom, and a just reproof to the body whose opposition and apathy they have encountered. The resolutions were further sustained by Rev. S. A. Steinthal and the Chairman (Rev. R. B. Aspland) and passed without dissent. "Resolved, That, at the present period of unexampled interest throughout the civilized world on the important subject of American Slavery, this meeting considers that Unitarian Christians are called upon by their principles and position as a religious body to respond to the solemn appeal of the 'British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society,' and earnestly hopes that at the approaching anniversary of the 'British and Foreign Unitarian Association,' a faithful and Christian exhortation may be addressed to our brethren of a common faith in America, affectionately entreating them, in some way corresponding to their social influence and elevated religious views, to bear their testimony against Slavery, and to use their utmost efforts for its speedy abolition." "Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be sent to the Committee of the British and Foreign Unitarian Association, with a request that they will take such measures for carrying it out as may in their judgment be most efficient." "Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the 'British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society,' with the sincere thanks of this meeting for the timely and valuable address to Christians of all denominations, a document eminently calculated to aid and encourage American Abolitionists in their arduous and unremitting labors, and which it is hoped will, under the Divine blessing, be instrumental in arousing the Christian community to a sense of its duty to the oppressed slave." At a collation at the close of the Annual Meeting of the British and Foreign Unitarian Association, in London on the 18th ult., Mr. Estlin (always watchful and faithful to aid the cause of the slave) introduced the following resolution, sustaining it in an effective speech" "Resolved, That whilst this meeting would cherish the honored names of their brethren in the United States, who have labored earnestly and successfully in the illustration and defence of their common faith, and sincerely desire to draw closer the links of fraternal feeling which bind them together, it cannot but deeply deplore the fearful injury to the cause of pure Christianity from the continuance of Slavery in America, and would affectionately entreat the Unitarian churches of that land, in some way corresponding with their social position and elevated religious principles, to bear their testimony against this great evil." Rev. E. [Ta lbot] seconded the resolution, with judicious remarks in its favor, when it was adopted unanimously, with enthusiasm. [8] 9 y ___ y Hanson 85 45 ___ 130 218 16 3,72 141 07 12 141 ________ ____ ____ 359 28 5,13 25 1,15 2 18 ______ 1 60 1,00 5,38 1 25 87 1/2 ______ _______ 2,18 4,00 4,35 1,41 [1 28] 3,72 103 2 87 _______ 11 Stone 25 3 72 05 3 59 60 1 03 06 2 00 96 1 30 16 ______ 112 11,64 _____ [?] 2 A city Solicitor, ted premises from which ference that I never gave them 'one word, &c. He then goes on to compare my conduct to that of Charles I. of England ; and some of the particulars of the comparison are, that he ' broke the coronation oath,'--- ' gave up his people to merciless inflictions,' -- ' violated the articles of the Petition of Right,' &c. Isn't this atrocious ? 5. I averred that I was consulted with in regard to the law of 1845, which the Legislature believed would secure equal school rights to the colored children of the State, that I approved it, &c. He replies that that sincere word was not ' one word' ; because the Supreme Court subsequently construed the statute away. 6. I said that, in my Reports, I uniformly expounded the law as securing the same rights to the colored children as to the whites; that I labored to make the practice conform to the theory, and when I left the Secretaryship, it had nearly done so. Mr. Phillips replies:-- 'This is an evasion.' And then, in making a pretended quotation from my Tenth Report, he is guilty of a suppression, which, if purposely made, (and, after experience of what he is capable of doing in mutilating quotations, what charity ran suppose it was not ?) is base beyond the power of language to describe. Speaking of Massachusetts, and not of the nation at large[*49*] Expenses Boston to Jaffa 65 " Mystic Conn - 4,00 Postage 13 Stage to Westerly 25 Cars to Kingston 60 Stage " 06 Stage Peacedale 12 ½ N. Andover .15 36.00 810 ________ 4410 1782 ________ 26.28 due 90 50 60 ________ 226JUDGE JAY ON THE TRACT SOCIETY. Judge Jay has addressed a long letter to Mr. Cook of the Tract Society, very forcibly stating his reasons for declining a circular request for a donation. It is an arraignment of that Society before the moral sense of the Christian world, to which we presume it will never make answer; for no answer could it make which would not confess its guilt, and every attempt to excuse that guiltiness would only reveal it more glaringly. Judge Jay's reasons for withholding all support from the Society should, we think, satisfy every honest mind among its present contributors, of the duty of following this example, as a practical testimony against a false and time-serving religion. Not only has the Society neglected and refused to allude to the sin of Slavery, in its own books and tracts, but for fear of the slave-power, it has repeatedly mutilated foreign books by expurgating from them all anti slavery sentiments and thoughts. But we will select some extracts from the letter, that Judge Jay may state his own grounds of action. "It seems your tracts must meet the approbation of all evangelical Christians. If we ask who these are, we shall be told, such as agree in maintaining the Scriptural authority of certain abstract doctrines. But we all know, that these same Christians differ widely on various questions of moral practice. You are not ignorant that evangelical wine and rumsellers, and drinkers, abound both in town and country; and yet your Society is lavish in its censures on them. It condemns the theater and race-course, although not a few believers in the evangelical creed frequent both. You issue publications against dancing, and yet how many sons and daughters mingle in the waltz, in the presence and with the consent of their evangelical parents? You condemn travelling on the Sabbath, yet out Sunday steamboats and rail-cars are not without their evangelical passengers. You do not hesitate to rebuke gambling, yet evangelicals may be found at the card and the billiard table. As far as I can judge, the publications of your Society have been in accordance with the rule you announce on few subjects, except that of human bondage and its attendant atrocities. I know not that in the twenty- seven years of its existence, the Society has published a line intended to touch the conscience of an American slave-breeder or trader. On the contrary, especial care has been taken to EXPUNGE from your reprints every expression that could even imply a censure on our stupendous national iniquity. Very properly your Society has not confined itself to the simple proclamation of Christ and him crucified, but has added practice to faith by assailing sin in its various forms, laboring to convince the sinner of his guilt, and striving to excite him to repentance and reformation. But the sin most rampant in our land - a sin which counts its victims by millions, and its perpetrators, abettors and apologists by millions more - a sin which taints our holy things, enfeebles our churches, corrupts our statesmen, sways our judges, hardens the hearts of our people, blunts their sense of mercy and justice, and which is crowing the ranks of infidelity - this sin may not be mentioned in our fashionable pulpits to "ears polite," nor even alluded to in the multifarious publications of the American Tract Society. * * * You will perhaps say that it is better our Southern brethren should be saved as slave- holders, breeders, and traders than not at all, and therefore you will not touch the subject of slavery, because if you do, you cannot reach them with your tracts, which under God might lead to their conversion and salvation. If this principle be correct, it is of wide application, The Territory of Utah is acquiring a large population and will soon claim admission into the Union. The people are Polygamists, but it is better they should be saved as such than not at all. Hence it becomes the duty of the Society, for fear of offending them, to avoid any allusion to the christian doctrine of marriage, and to "move forward on the simple errand letter, that Judge Jay may state his own grounds of action. "It seems your tracts must meet the approbation of all evangelical Christians. If we ask who these are, we shall be told, such as agree in maintaining the Scriptural authority of certain abstract doctrines. But we all know, that these same Christians differ widely on various questions of moral practice. You are not ignorant that evangelical wine and rumsellers, and drinkers, abound both in town and country; and yet your Society is lavish of its censures on them. It condemns the theater and race-cou se, although not a few believers in the evangelical creed frequent both. You issue publications against dancing, and yet how many sons and daughters mingle in the waltz, in the presence and with the consent of their evangelical parents? You condemn traveling on the Sabbath, yet our Sunday steamboats and rail-cars are not without their evangelical passengers. You do not hesitate to rebuke gambling, yet evangelicals may be found at the card and the billiard table. As far as I can judge, the publications of your Society have been in accordance with the rule you announce on few subjects, except that of human bondage and its attendant atrocities. I know not that in the twenty-seven years of its existence, the Society has published a line intended to touch the conscience of an American slave-breeder or trader. On the contrary, especial care has been taken to expunge from your reprints every expression that could even imply a censure on our stupendous national iniquity. Very properly your Society has not confined itself to the simple proclamation of Christ and him crucified, but has added practice to faith by assailing sin in its various forms, laboring to convince the sinner of his guilt, and striving to excite him to repentance and reformation. But the sin most rampant in our land -- a sin which counts its victims by millions, and its perpetrators, abettors and apologists by millions more -- a sin which taints our holy things, enfeebles our churches, corrupts our statesmen, sways our judges, hardens the hearts of our people, blunts their sense of mercy and justice, and which is crowning the ranks of infidelity -- this sin may not be mentioned in our fashionable pulpits to "ears polite," nor even alluded to in the multifarious publications of the American Tract Society. * * * You will perhaps say that it is better our Southern brethren should be saved as slaveholders, breeders, and traders, than not at all, and therefore you will not touch the subject of slavery, because if you do, you cannot reach them with your tracts, which under God might lead to their conversion and salvation. If this principle be correct, it is of wide application. The Territory of Utah is acquiring a large population and will soon claim admission into the Union. The people are Polygamists, but it is better they should be saved as such than not at all. Hence it becomes the duty of the Society, for fear of offending them, to avoid any allusion to the christian doctrine of marriage, and to "move forward on the simple errand that brought the Saviour into the world, proclaiming Christ and him crucified," and thus rendering the tract useful and acceptable to our Mormon brethren. So, also, as the usefulness of the minister of Christ depends on his message being heard, he ought to preach smooth things, lest by offending his people, by telling them unwelcome truths, he drives them beyond the sound of the Gospel. I believe, Sir, not only that this reasoning is unsound, but that the apprehension on which it is founded is groundless. It is not desired by any that your Institution should be converted into an Anti-Slavery, any more than into an Anti Gambling Tract Society. All that is asked is that this great and influential Christian Association should publicly dissent from the impious claims made by the advocates of American Slavery, that this vast mass of accumulated sin and misery is sanctioned by the God of Mercy and Justice, and allowed by the crucified Redeemer -- in other words, that American Slavery should share in the condemnation you bestow on the "Theater, the Circus and Horse-race." Were you to issue one or two tractt against American Slavery as an evil, will is be seriously contended that thenceforth none of your thousands of publications on other subjects would be allowed to cross the frontiers of the Slave region? "When Uncle Tom's Cabin" is sold and read at the South, is it credible that a few slaveholders can exclude all your millions of pages from the vast Southern region? Can your agents and colporteurs be excluded from fifteen States of this Union, because of the mighty mass of your publications, twenty or thirty pages are directed against the conduct of a few rich men? The apprehension that should the Society be faithful to the calls of duty its efficiency for good would be impaired, is not, in my opinion, consistent with that Christian faith so forcibly inculcated in many of your tracts. For myself, I firmly believe that before long the Society will find its present policy productive not of strength, but of weakness. That policy has given birth to the "American Reform Tract and Book Society." In a late acknowledgement of receipts by this infant institution I observe contributions from no less than eight States. To me it seems obvious that Christians entertaining such contradictory views of the divine attributes of the spirit of the Gospel and of Christian obligation as are involved in the justification and condemnation of American Slavery, cannot much longer hold together in sending missionaries to preach or employing the press to inculcate a religion respecting the fundamental moral principles of which the two parties entertain antagonistic opinions." JUDGE JAY ON THE TRACT SOCIETY. Judge Jay has addressed a long letter to ? very forcibly It's the railway pace that kills. The great charm about a railway accident is that, no matter how many lives are lost, 'no blame is ever attached to any one.' A railway is long, but life is short—and generally the longer a railway, the shorter your life." -JEALOUSY OF PARROTS. - Animals are receiving a great deal of attention. Mrs Lee has published another collection of anecdotes, [*1, 28*] in which she seems to prove tha? there is no passion, no virtue, and no vice of human beings, which cannot be detected in the character of animals. For examples she says: "All animals are jealous ; and [*50*] none more so than parrots. One belonging to a young friend fo mine was miserable when she took charge of a canary for a friend, who was to be absent for some time. From the first moment Poll saw her caress the stranger, she became sulky ; would not speak ; scarcely ate during the first few days, and not only turned her back upon her mistress, but tried to bite her. The canary, one fine sunny morning, was hung up at the window to enjoy the warmth, and in its de light burst forth into one of its sweetest Peacedale R. I. [2 37] John Seek [2 40] Sylvester Robinson [3 00] Samuel Rodman [3 00] [?Gllectisn] [6,17] [16 54] 6,17 207 ---- 8,54 40,10 1782 ---- 22,2251 Expenses Apr. 3d Brookfield Boston 1.90 Cab 25 Tawnton 75 Carying trunk .25 Gardner to Worestr 1.12 At Worestr 1.00 Worestr Woorsochet .65 [Gloucester 1,15] 36 1402 -------- 50,02 Warsochet to Delham ,85 Realham Waterford ,75 Woorsedet to Banheld 25 Cumberlane to Wambt 25 Cumberland to W.areton ,50 Cumberland to Boston 1,40 Reaching ,30 Haverhill ,50 Gloucester 1,15 Boston Manchest ,65 [?] 4,00TROUBLES OF REV. S. IRENAEUS PRIME - Our readers have been apprised of the appointment of Rev. S. I. Prime, editor of the New York Observer, as one of the delegates of the American Bible Society to the May Anniversary of the British and Foreign Bible Society. The prominence of Mr. Prime as a leader of the religious wing of the pro-slavery party in the United States, and his virulent abuse of Abolitionists in general, and Mrs. Stowe in particular being well known in England, have subjected him to trials which, however perplexing to himself, were not unexpected by those who knew the state of feeling and opinion in that country in respect to Slavery, its apologists and defenders. On the first page we have copied from the Independent an article embodying some pungent extracts from an editorial in the London Morning Advertiser, whereof Mr. Prime and his relations to the Anti-Slavery cause and to the British Bible Society were the subject. Our readers will naturally wish to learn what was the effect upon Mr. Prime of this and other similar expressions of British opinion, as to the manner in which he should be received by the English people. The following extract from a most lugubrious editorial in the last New York Observer, throws at least a partial light upon that point: In advance of his arrival, his abolition friends in this country had sent out the important intelligence that he was coming out as a pro-slavery man, and an opponent of Mrs. Stowe and her Uncle Tom's Cabin. In the present excited state of the public mind in Great Britain on the subject of American Slavery in general, and of Uncle Tom in particular, this was enough to ensure him a warm reception. Public meetings were held in honour of his coming, and resolutions adopted, remonstrating against his appearance in Exeter Hall. Auxiliary Societies sent up their protests, and a communication was received by the British and Foreign Bible Society, stating that "a body of men was organized" to take measures to drive him from the platform, if he should appear. All this seemed to him and to his friends exceedingly ridiculous, and particularly malignant, considering the state of his health, which utterly forbade his participating in the excitement of such an occasion. One of the London daily papers, the Morning Advertiser, was particularly fierce in its denunciations of Mr. Prime as a pro-slavery man; and the people of Great Britain were earnestly called upon to prevent him from being heard. It was therefore greatly to be regretted that his feeble health made it necessary for him to decline the public contest to which these attacks invited him, and which he was most anxious to meet. His American friends rallied round him in great numbers, and proposed a public meeting to express their sense of the treatment received, and of the insults offered to their country, but the wisest course seemed to be to let the storm blow over, in the hope that an opportunity would occur to enlighten the public mind on a subject on which it was so profoundly ignorant and so intensely prejudiced. In the intercourse of private life, Mr. Prime was treated with great courtesy; but the friends of the Bible Society were sorely troubled lest his public appearance on their platform should prove the signal for a riot. He sent his credentials to the Bible Society, accompanied by a note saying, that owing to the state of his health, he would not be able to participate in the public exercises of the meeting, to which he received no reply. The Rev. Mr. Cook of the American Tract Society, Rev. Dr. Vermilye of New-York, and Rev. Dr. Nelson of Mass., were all assailed by name, on account of their alleged indifference or hostility to the Anti- Slavery movements in America; but none of these gentlemen had the honour of being posted as opponents of Uncle Tom. This distinction was reserved for another, and it served to make him the mark of the most violent but harmless abuse. The Observer has of course made out as good a story for Mr. Prime as it could. That he kept away from Exeter Hall solely or chiefly on account of his ill health, we do not believe. He would no doubt have gone there eagerly enough if the British and Foreign Bible Society had honoured his credentials and invited him to a seat on the platform. It is a fact worth mentioning, that while the Observer parades his illness as the reason for declining to attend the meeting, Mr. Prime himself, in another part of the paper, writing from Portsmouth, says: "I am again on land, in far better health than when I left my friends on the other side." As he was well enough up to the time of starting from home to keep up his abuse of Abolitionists, and as he got better on the way, we must be excused for suspecting that he had reasons for keeping out of Exeter Hall which the Observer would gladly conceal. The Observer grows affectingly solemn in recounting the trials of its absent editor, and is even apprehensive that poor John Bull is likely to plunge himself into a war with the United States, if his subjects don't stop reading and praising Uncle Tom's Cabin and calling American parsons to account for their pro-slavery offences. Only read: There exists at the present time among the masses of the people of Great Britain a bitter hatred of Americans. The appearance of Uncle Tom's Cabin has created or brought out a deadly hostility to this country. Such feelings of enmity are considered by Abolitionists as indicative of a good work, and it is encouraged; nay, they are doing all they can to make it more violent by way of frowning upon Slavery. Those of high rank in England have also deemed it for their interest to increase the excitement and fan the flame of hostility. Mrs. Stowe's book has been, in their estimation, a perfect god-send to the friends of despotism in Europe. Noble lords and ladies have most freely lent their services to the work of fostering in the minds of the people, and greatly by means of this book, a feeling of intense hatred to a land in which the hereditary and exclusive claims to nobility are not acknowledged. With all the history of the past, and with all the present before us, it would be a stretch of charity to supposed that they are actuated by a pious horror of oppression, and a love of true liberty for all mankind. The thought is rather ludicrous than otherwise. But the course which the British nation is taking at the present time, while it is doing us no harm excepting to bring out the latent enmity of John Bull for his transatlantic cousins, is fraught with danger to themselves. They who have been sowing the wind may ere long reap the whirlwind Bible Society were the subject. Our readers will naturally wish to learn what was the effect upon Mr. Prime of this and other similar expressions of British opinion, as to the manner in which he should be received by the English people. The following extract from a most lugubrious editorial in the last New York Observer, throws at least a partial light upon that point: In advance of his arrival, his abolition friends in this country had sent out the important intelligence that he was coming out as a pro-slavery man, and an opponent of Mrs. Stowe and her Uncle Tom's Cabin. In the present excited state of the public mind in Great Britain on the subject of American Slavery in general, and of Uncle Tom in particular, this was enough to ensure him a warm reception. Public meetings were held in honour of his coming, and resolutions adopted, remonstrating against his appearance in Exeter Hall. Auxiliary Societies sent up their protests, and a communication was received by the British and Foreign Bible Society, stating that "a body of men was organized" to take measures to drive him from the platform, if he should appear. All this seemed to him and to his friends exceedingly ridiculous, and particularly malignant, considering the state of his health, which utterly forbade his participating in the excitement of such an occasion. One of the London daily papers, the Morning Advertiser, was particularly fierce in its denunciations of Mr. Prime as a pro-slavery man; and the people of Great Britain were earnestly called upon to prevent him from being heard. It was therefore greatly to be regretted that his feeble health made it necessary for him to decline the public contest to which these attacks invited him, and which he was most anxious to meet. His American friends rallied round him in great numbers, and proposed a public meeting to express their sense of the treatment received, and of the insults offered to their country, but the wisest course seemed to be to let the storm blow over, in the hope that an opportunity would occur to enlighten the public mind on a subject on which it was so profoundly ignorant and so intensely prejudiced. In the intercourse of private life Mr. Prime was treated with great courtesy; but the friends of the Bible Society were sorely troubled lest his public appearance on their platform should prove the signal for a riot. He sent his credentials to the Bible Society, accompanied by a note saying, that owing to the state of his health, he would not be able to participate in the public exercises of the meeting, to which he received no reply. The Rev. Mr. Cook of the American Tract Society, Rev. Dr. Vermilye of New-York, and Rev. Dr. Nelson of Mass., were all assailed by name, on account of their alleged indifference or hostility to the Anti- Slavery movements in America; but none of these gentlemen had the honour of being posted as opponents of Uncle Tom. This distinction was reserved for another, and it served to make him the mark of the most violent but harmless abuse. The Observer has of course made out as good a story for Mr. Prime as it could. That he kept away from Exeter Hall solely or chiefly on account of his ill health, we do not believe. He would no doubt have gone there eagerly enough if the British and Foreign Bible Society had honoured his credentials and invited him to a seat on the platform. It is a fact worth mentioning, that while the Observer parades his illness as the reason for declining to attend the meeting, Mr. Prime himself, in another part of the paper, writing from Portsmouth, says: "I am again on land, in far better health than when I left my friends on the other side." As he was well enough up to the time of starting from home to keep up his abuse of Abolitionists, and as he got better on the way, we must be excused for suspecting that he had reasons for keeping out of Exeter Hall which the Observer would gladly conceal. The Observer grows affectingly solemn in recounting the trials of its absent editor, and is even apprehensive that poor John Bull is likely to plunge himself into a war with the United States, if his subjects don't stop reading and praising Uncle Tom's Cabin and calling American parsons to account for their pro-slavery offences. Only read: There exists at the present time among the masses of the people of Great Britain a bitter hatred of Americans. The appearance of Uncle Tom's Cabin has created or brought out a deadly hostility to this country. Such feelings of enmity are considered by Abolitionists as indicative of a good work, and it is encouraged; nay, they are doing all they can to make it more violent by way of frowning upon Slavery. Those of high rank in England have also deemed it for their interest to i increase the excitement and fan the flame of hostility. Mrs. Stowe's book has been, in their estimation, a perfect god-send to the friends of despotism in Europe. Noble lords and ladies have most freely lent their services to the work of fostering in the minds of the people, and greatly by means of this book, a feeling of intense hatred to a land in which the hereditary and exclusive claims to nobility are not acknowledged. With all the history of the past, and with all the present before us, it would be a stretch of charity to suppose that they are actuated by a pious horror of oppression, and a love of true liberty for all mankind. The thought is rather ludicrous than otherwise. But the course which the British nation is taking at the present time, while it is doing us no harm excepting to bring out the latent enmity of John Bull for his transatlantic cousins, is fraught with danger to themselves. They who have been sowing the wind may ere long reap the whirlwind as the fruit of their toil. There is danger that an explosion of the pent-up enmity between the two countries may take, and no human wisdom can save us from national collision unless the present agitations abroad are arrested. The danger is not to us, but to England. France is watching for the favourable hour to make war upon her hereditary foe, and the chosen hour of all will be that in which America is alienated from England, and perchance ready to make common cause with her ancient ally. May God arrest such a crisis, but those who are in the best position to know the state of feeling between the two countries have fears for the worst.5 95 ,06 ,88 64 2 87 7.00 1,80 port 3.00 Benj N. Smith 1,00 Essex 2,87 Manchester 2 00 1.90 [Millnill?] 5,00 1 00 33,07 2,37 65 50,02 85 3307 7 175 16,95 140 80 34.07 1 80 1 50 14,02 [*53*] CHRISTIAN DANCING. A good many journals are criticising rather roughly the action of the late New School Presbyterian General Assembly with respect to Dancing and Slavery. The perfect unanimity with which regardless of consequences and fearless of damage to whatever religious or political Union, the Convention condemned Dancing as sinful, is contrasted with its disinclination to touch the subject of Slaveholding, and the topic, reluctant, pointless, gingerly action finally taken by a majority, through fear of Northern secession and in defiance of Southern threats of Nullification. Some of the scoffers irreverently insinuate that, had not most of those represented in the Assembly been too old or too awkward to dance, while nowise disqualified for holding slaves and making a profit out of them, the action of these subjects might have been different. For our own part, we consider the resolve on Dancing adopted by the Assembly quite as vague and unsatisfactory as anything that occurred respecting Slavery. Let us re-quote the anti-dancing resolve and closely consider it: "Resolved, That the fashionable amusement of promiscuous dancing is so entirely unscriptural and eminently and exclusively of that "world which lieth in wickedness," and so wholly inconsistent with the spirit of Christ, and with that propriety of Christian deportment, and that purity of heart which his followers are bound to maintain, as to render it not only improper and injurious for professing Christians either to partake in it or qualify their children for it by teaching them the art; but also to call for the faithful and judicious exercise of discipline on the part of the Church Sessions, when any of the members of their churches have been guilty.' What the Church is Doing. - The respectability and piety of the country has recently had its annual convocations in this country. We have watched them carefully to see what they were doing for humanity. They have given their annual contributions to the Bible, the tract, and the missionary Societies. But in doing this they have ignored the cause of the slave. They have thithed the "mint and annis and cummin," but have omitted the weightier matters of justice and humanity. One of their most marked acts, one that will makes some figure in history, if infamy shall hereafter be worthy of record, was their insolent repulse of one half of the race, in the pure and peaceful effort to redeem the world from intemperance. It will be marked and remembered, too, that they aid it in a style worthy the supporters of a system of woman whipping and of the wholesale system of southern prostitution, and in language befitting the frequenters of the brothel or the slave pen. Some of the ecclesiastical organizations, proper, have also been in session, and have been most appropriately employed, especially the rival hunkers of the Presbyterian church. The Old School in Philadelphia, and the New School in Buffalo. This latter body passed resolutions in favor of colonization - recommending its agents to the benevolence of its church, expressing its sincere regret that France and Brazil, England, Prussia and Belgium, are before us, in recognizing the independence of Liberia. On the important subject of dancing, they bear the following testimony: "Reseolved, That the fashionable amusement [?] promiscuous dancing is so entirely unscriptural and eminently and exclusively that of the "world which lieth in wickedness," and so wholly inconsistent with the spirit of Christ, and with that propriety of Christian deportment and that purity of heart which his followers are bound to maintain, as to render it not only improper and injurious for professing Christians either to partake in it, or qualify their children for it by teaching them the art; but also to call for the faithful and judicious exercise of discipline on the part of church sessions, when any of the members of their churches have been guilty." On the subjects of colonization and dancing there seems to have been the utmost harmony. But on the question of a man's marrying his own niece, there was some diversity. Dr. Cox reported that God had not forbidden the relation, but finally, after some discussion, and a pretty decided expression of the popular press in regard to this incestuous relation, they expressed their condemnation of it. The great agitating question, also, did they not escape. - The discussion was conducted with much warmth - was once gagged down, but finally with threats of disunion from both North and South, it was revived, and resulted in the following report: I. That this body shall reaffirm the doctrine of the second resolution adopted by the General Assembly, convened in Detroit in 1850; and II. That with an express disavowal of any intention to be impertinently inquisitorial, and for the sole purpose of arriving at the truth, so as to correct misapprehension and allay all causeless irritation, a committee be appointed of one from each of the [?] Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, and Virginia, who shall be requested to report to the next General Assembly on the following points: 1. The number of slaveholders in connection with the churches, and the number of slave held by them; 2. The extent to which slaves are held from an unavoidable necessity imposed by the laws of the states, the obligations of guardianship and the demands of humanity. 3. Whether the southern churches regard the sacredness of the marriage relation as it exists among the slaves; whether baptism is only ad- of Dicipline, chap. 1, sec. 3, and should be regarded and treated in the same manner as other offences." It gives,a s out readers will see, all the license that any Presbyterian can ask for slaveholding and church-fellowship. We ought to state that the Assembly also resolved that church members must not travel on Sunday except to and from church, or on some errand of necessity. In the Tribune which has just come to hand, we find the following comment upon this action of the Assembly: "Here is no general foray on all Slaveholders as transgressors nor on Slaveholding as necessarily sinful. The inquiries proposed looked, not to the extinction of Slaveholding in the Church, but rather to the correction of alleged abuses and the conformation of its details to the acknowledged and undeniable principles of Christian morality and Christian duty. The Report is apologetic and soothing with regard to Christian Slaveholding, which is not, like Christian Sabbath-breaking and Christian Dancing, denounced without qualification or circumlocution as and evil, but rather indicated as tending to evil and proffering temptation to abuse. Surely, a Church which provides against the very anomalous case of a man's marrying his niece has a right to inquire whether its members sell each other into the merciless clutches of Lewdness,and break their marriage unions as if they were the causual association of cattle. And as this inquiry into Southern Presbyterian worship must necessarily be entrusted to those most interested in whitening the outside of the sepulcher, there could be no rational doubt that the Report would be as apologetic and tarnishing as truth could possible allow. "We cannot believe, then, that the Southern Presbyterians will be so maladroit as to plead guilty to this tender arraignment by seceding from the Assembly. They can do a great deal better, by acceding to the proposed inquiries and so conducting then that they will amount to nothing, or prove that the worst abuses of Slavery receive no countenance from and reflect no discredit upon the New School Presbyterians of the South. And this, we presume, will be the course, on reflection, adopted.What the Church is Doing. - The respectability and piety of the country has recently had its annual convocations in this country. We have watched them carefully to see what they were doing for humanity. They have given their annual contributions to the Bible, the tract, and the missionary Societies. But in doing so they have ignored the cause of the slave. They have thithed the "mint and annis and cummin," but have omitted the weightier matters of justice and humanity. One of their most marked acts, one that will make some figure in history, if infamy shall hereafter be worthy of record, was their insolent repulse of one half of the race, in the pure and peaceful effort to redeem the world from intemperance. It will be marked and re- remembered, too, that they did it in a style worthy the supporters of a system of woman whipping and of the wholesale system of southern prostitution, and in language befitting the frequenters of the brothel or the slave pen. Some of the ecclesiastical organizations, proper, have also been in session, and have been most appropriately employed, especially the rival hunkers of the Presbyterian church. The Old School in Philadelphia, and the New School in Buffalo. This latter body passed resolutions in favor of colonization - recommending its agents to the benevolence of its church, expressing its sincere regret that France and Brazil, England, Prussia and Belgium are before us, in recognizing the independence of Liberia. On the important subject of dancing, they bear the following testimony: "Resolved, That the fashionable amusement [?} promiscuous dancing is so entirely [?] tural and eminently and exclusively that of the "world which lieth in wickedness," and so wholly inconsistent with the spirit of Christ, and with that propriety of Christian deportment and that purity of heart which his followers are bound to maintain, as to render it not only improper and injurious for professing Christians either to partake in it, or qualify their children for it by teaching them the art; but also to call for the faithful and judicious exercise of dicipline on the part of church sessions, when any of the members of their churches have been guilty." On the subjects of colonization and dancing there seems to have been the utmost harmony. But on the question of a man's marrying his own niece, there was some diversity. Dr. Cox reported that God had not forbidden the relation, but finally, after some discussion, and a pretty decided expression of the popular press in regard to this incestuous relation, they expressed their condemnation of it. The great agitating question, also, did they not escape. The discussion was conducted with much warmth - was once gagged down, but finally with threats of disunion from both North and South, it was revived, and resulted in the following report: I. That this body shall reaffirm the doctrine of the second resolution adopted by the General Assembly, convened in Detroit in 1850; and II. That with an express disavowal of any intention to be impertinently inquisitorial, and for the sole purpose of arriving at the truth, so as to correct misapprehension and allay all causeless irritation, a committee be appointed of one from each of the synods of Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, and Virginia, who shall be requested to report to the next General Assembly on the following points: 1. The number of slaveholders in connection with the churches, and the number of slaves held by them; 2. The extent to which slaves are held from an unavoidable necessity imposed by the laws of the states, the obligations of guardianship and the demands of humanity. 3. Whether the southern churches regard the sacredness of the marriage relation as it exists among the slaves; whether baptism is only administered to the children of the slaves professing Christianity; and in general, to what extent and in what manner provision is made for the religious well-being of the enslaved. III. That this assembly do earnestly exhort and beseech all those in our church who are happily relieved from any personal connection with the institution of slavery, to exercise due patience and forbearance toward their brethren less fortunate than themselves, remembering the embarrassment of their peculiar position, and to cherish for them that fraternal confidence and love to which, as Christian brethren, they are entitled, and which they are the more in need in consequence of the peculiar trials by which they are surrounded. The following is the resolution, adopted at Detroit, which is referred to in the above report: "Resolved, That the holding of our fellow- men in the condition of slavery, except in those cases where it is unavoidable by the laws of the state, the obligations of guardianship or the demands of humanity, is an offence in the proper import of that term as used in the Book [?] and the conformation of its details to the acknowledged and undeniable principles of Christian morality and Christian duty. The Report is apologetic and soothing with regard to Christian Slaveholding, which is not, like Christian Sabbath-breaking and Christian Dancing, denounced without qualification or circumlocution as and evil, but rather indicated as tending to evil and proffering temptation to abuse. Surely, a Church which provides against the very anomalous case of a man's marrying his niece has a right to inquire whether its members sell each other into the merciless clutches of Lewdness, and break their marriage unions as if they were the casual association of cattle. And as this inquiry into Southern Presbyterian worship must necessarily be entrusted to those most interested in whitening the outside of the sepulcher, there could be no rational doubt that the Report would be as apologetic and varnishing as truth could possibly allow. "We cannot believe, then, that the Southern Presbyterians will be so maladroit as to plead guilty to this tender arraignment by seceding from the Assembly. They can do a great deal better, by acceding to the proposed inquiries and so conducting them that they will amount to nothing, or prove that the worst abuses of Slavery receive no countenance from and reflect no discredit upon the New School Presbyterians of the South. And this, we presume, will be the course, on reflection, adopted. [*55*] Rev. N. Adams, D.D., and Rev. Messrs Oviatt and Harris, were appointed the committee to consider and report on the subject of Infant Baptism. The subject of lay representatives as suggested by the overture from Essex North was again taken up and referred to the following committee, to report next year, viz: Rev. Drs. Dimmick, Davis, Sweetser, and Revs. S.G. Buckingham and A.L. Stone. The special committee to whom was referred the subject of the observance of the Sabbath, reported the following resolutions, which were adopted, viz: Resolved, First, That as the sanctification of the Christian Sabbath is one of the firmest safeguards of Society, as well as one of the highest requirements of religion, we as Christians and citizens express our strong disapproval of the transportation of the mail on the Lord's Day; and Second, That we notice with great satisfaction the reported vote of the Stockholders of the New York and New Haven Railroad Company, instructing its Directors not to re-contract with the Post Office Department to carry the U.S. Mail on the Sabbath, and we would express the earnest hope that other Rail Road Corporations would imitate this salutary example. A resolution in reference to the importance of the complete academic education of females, and the need of further State provision for it, was introduced and, after some discussion, was laid on the table, on the ground that, though the object was important, it was inexpedient for this body to take present action upon it. The following Resolution was adopted, viz: Resolved, That a Committee of three be appointed to ascertain the existing facts in reference to the baptism of infants in our churches, inquire after causes of the neglect of infant baptism and present a report at the next meeting of this body. On presentation by the Committee of arrangements the following vote was passed: Voted, that the evening of Tuesday, now unappro [*56*] The following resolutions were presented: Resolved, That in continuing our correspondence with Southern ecclesiastical bodies, this Association so far from expressing any satisfaction with the practice of slaveholding, desire it to be understood, that in connection with other objects, it is for the purpose of bearing their continued and earnest testimony against the sin of slaveholding and exerting their appropriate influence in favor of its speedy removal. Resolved, That while the General Association of Massachusetts entertain a profound regard for our large Publishing Societies, and rejoice in the great good they are accomplishing, they would express an earnest desire that these Societies would not make the subject of slavery an exception in their efforts to rid the world of all iniquity by diffusing throughout it an evangelical literature; but would set forth in their publications the sentiments of our common Christianity on the enormous sin of slavery, with the same freedom and faithfulness with which they exhibit and rebuke all other sins. After an animated discussion, participated in by Revs. J. Taylor, Crawford, James, Webster, T.A. Taylor, Wells and Lawrence, these resolutions were adopted by a very large majority of votes.[57] Expense in N.Y. [?fied] to Syracuse 8,02 Temperance House 1,25 Syracuse [?] ,65 [?] ,50 Auburn 1,25 Seneca Falls 1 60 [?] 3,00 [?] 65 Syracuse , Skaneateles 65 Marcellus ,57 2 82 11 50 10,85 6 15 3 20 15 50 - 50,02 Skulked and Gone! - Rev. S.I. Prime, the old, bitter traducer of the friends of liberty in this country, the co-reviler with Webb of the N.Y. Courier of Kossuth and Mrs. Stowe, and editor of the N.Y. Observer, went over to England by delegation from the American Bible Society to the British and Foreign Bible Society. It had two or three delegates already, but chose to insult the British public by sending this special antagonist of Mrs. Stowe to meet her there. And the result has been most gratifying. While she receives the highest honors which the moral sentiment of England can bestow, this trans-Atlantic Hunker is not allowed a foot on a platform, nor a visibility there. He smelt the storm and skulked, no man knows where! The British press heard of his approach and [?] for his reception thus: "How much our warning voice was needed, is now proved by the fact that we may hourly expect to hear of the arrival on our shores of the Rev. Samuel Prime, editor of the New York Observer - a paper which professes to be conducted in accordance with the principles of the most exalted piety. This man has been, for years, the most systematic and virulent of all the calumniators whom the Abolitionists of America have had to encounter. "But it will not suffice that this Rev. Mr. Prime, the vehement advocate of Slavery, and the systematic slanderer of Mrs. Stowe, and of all who, like that lady, seek to put down the gigantic evil, be excluded from the platforms of our religious meetings. He must be equally excluded from the evangelical pulpits of England." Let the Observer tell the result: "Public meetings were held in honor of his coming, and resolutions adopted, remonstrating against his appearance in Exeter Hall. Auxiliary Societies sent up their protests, and a communication was received by the British and Foreign Bible Society, stating that "a body of men was organized" to take measures to drive him from the platform, if he should appear. * * * * He sent his credentials to the Bible Society, accompanied by a note saying, that owing to the state of his health, (!) he should not be able to participate in the public exercises of the meeting, to which he received no reply. "The Rev. Mr. Cook of the American Tract Society, Rev. Dr. Vermilye of New York, and Rev. Dr. Nelson of Mass., were all assailed by name, on account of their alleged indifference or hostility to the Anti-Slavery movements in America; but none of these gentlemen had the honor of being posted as opponents of Uncle Tom." The Observer foresees war rising between the two countries, but we guess it will not be much of a one. David had quite a cause of war when his "messengers" were sent home half shaved; but we can see no belligerent ground at all in this case, for the redoubtable Mr. Prime skulked and nobody knows what became of him. Hunkers better stay at home. -Portland Inquirer [*58 .60 ,98 91 39 0 0 5 0 5 8 0 0 00*]57 Expense in N.Y. [modified?] to Syracuse 8,02 Temperance House 1,25 Syracuse [?] ,65 [?] ,50. Auburn 1,25 Seneca Falls 3,00 [?] 3,00 [?] 65 Syracuse Skaneateles 65' Marcellus ,57 2 82 11 50 10,85 6 15 3 20 15 50 - 50,02 [*8 50 8 1 9*] Albany Marcellus 2,98 Camillus 4 00 Marcellus 15.00 Amber 10,00[*61*] The Pomeroy [?]co x6 Willard Whitman 1,25[Dear?] Liberator [*62*] Marcellus [?] $1.25 Sam Stewart 1.25 [?] Willard Whitman 1.25 [?] Cor 1-16-16 Submit Eph. 5-21-22-wives [?]- Col. 3, 18 [?]. 13 17 [?] Pet. 1-2-13-ordinance of man [*171-*] 3-1-2 vc. 5-5 Cor-1 7-29 " " 11-7 [?] 1-2-12 suffer not teach Cor 1-14-34 Silence-[?] Mat 23-10 Master [*63*] Avery Wilson x6 Louisa Ledington 6x Marcellus [?] Sarah Mongomery 6x pay Mr. Wallent Curtis Moses x1,25 B.N. Parsons x6. E.W. [?] x6 [?] Baker Amber x6 James Stewart Wallent 1,25 [*64*] Standard 6m pd- [?] Masters Amber Anondaga Au. Chester Moses 6x Bevy. Clark 6x Marcellus- Caleb [?] Jr. 6x Wm. J [Muchan] 6x W,. [?] 6x J. Dalliby 6x E. Talbot 6x C.L. Bennet 6x65 Wed.-Thur Skaneateles Frid-Sat. Baptist meeting Sund. Marcellus Mond Tuesd. 8 -9 Camillers Wed. Thursday 10-10 Syracuse Friday Sat Fulton Sund. Mond. Glen Rivers. Summer hill (Romer) Moravia Kellysville Baldwinsville Henry Morvina [*brother dear*] 66 E. Kingsley & Isiah Willcox Marshall Barret Carvilless ------------------------------------- Alfred Rockwell Marcellus --------------------------- Sidney Smith S. Macellus Mary A. Walker Garden N.Y. ----------------------------- Mrs. Harriet N. Noyes Newbery Vt. ---------------------------- Sam. Stewart Amber -Onondaga ------------------- Persis Sacher Barber Summer Hill --------------------------------- John Stayell Moravia Cayuga ----------------67 J Noresse Chitenango Falls Madison Co O. I. Dorman Verona Horace Perry Locke Wm. Brene N.Y. Morris Obegs Dr. Benedict Skaneateles Dr. Johnathan Kneeland | S. Marcellus ) | Elliston N.Y.) 68 Liberator account with Mr. Wallent for summer 1852 Wm. A. Moot. Ware billings 1.25 G.D. Whitman Weddsport J.M. Peebles - Oswego James Gregg- Pultneyville Wayne co- N.Y Charles P. Walder Re Shuyter Madison Dr. Benedict Sheneottes N.Y Hannah Fuller J.C. French Otisco[n] N.Y. Sarah L. Miller Prose Fen P.O. Del. Co. Pa. Miss Marion Finch Manor Park Rock Ferry Near Liverpool England Anne Knight Chelmsford, Eng. Geo. Santes 34 Regent St Derby - Eng. Mellissa J. Biggs Winchester Randolph Co. PA [*Richmond Wayne Co*] Congregational ministers proposed to [meet] preach against the Mexican was the first Sunday of the year and [?], [?] &c voted it down because the war hero of their churches were ------------------------- The American Board satisfied. S. Carolina ------------------------------------ Margaret Robinson Teacher - Philadelphia69/ Page Hutchinsons His Vol 1. 44 [?] In the early history of Mass. male adultery was not considered a sufficient cause of divorce Montesquicu Pothier & Dr. Taylor insist that a difference ought to be made in the crime of adultery when committed by a man as it is not evidence of such entire depra- vity nor equally injurious in its effects upon public morals good order and the happiness of domes- tic life and that hence prosecu- tions should be against the wife- in the early summer (70) Stewart gone to the dive as all must who create [?] What is [strikeout] Infidelity? slavery and slaveholders are infidels false to principle If the church dies good- ness does not die- Christian Advocate Gorsuch In the wild conflict for life dont [?] It shall be to our credit to be infidels to this religion when the slave is free 71 Our feeble voices are heard, because the Church great voice is silent on the question of Slavery - If indeed a God created soul-sheep days, while Gods children are sold Fritchburg Dea - Make the white church members in slavery - and every body would disfellowship Stuart, Colored regiment Washington Howe - tell it to 72 Hengay's Chief When Jesus was asked who he was, he sent no book or creeds but pointed to his deeds - Mexican War: Protestants complained because more Chaplains were chosen from Episcopalians -willing to furnish[ing] prayers for that human butcher And we dont teach to love the colored people as we love other73 Wm. Bowne Morris Otsego Co If one Mother is able to grasp her deed one hour sooner, by anything I can do, that wealth I would not exchange for all worldly applause or wealth - Liberator 74 [Sylvanus Kinckley Middleboro Martin Leonard Stond 6 M 100 X Bridgeham Wing N. [Cradball] Bradbury Lib. 6. 1.25 X David W. Webster X 1.25] Franklin Race -75 Orson Shipman W. Bridgeham 8-9- Jr ,6 9 L Thossatt 1,80 20 ,20 ----- 1,50 180 ,64 ------- 10,14 Elizabeth Hedge S. Groton Possessed by an idea 76 [Liberater Rockport send Geo. N. Smith 1,25 old James Griffin x 2,50 Wm N. Mehtire Lib Essex x 1,25 Wheeler & Tenney x2,50 Joseph M. Morgan x 2,50 Edward N. Andrews x 2,50 30 250 5 125 -------- 250 150 250 250 --------- 11 2577 Mystic Ct. Henry or Amos Watrous Mystic Bridge Ct. Clark Greenman Poquonoc Ct. Thomas Clark Westerly R. I. Charles Perry He 5 00 2 33 ______ 2 63 Wm. S. Root 78 Coventry Susan Anthony Caleb Shelton Rockport Betsey A Blakley etue skirt. Shame - no clay - Methrin & July - Bullet in car.79 Rev Mr Cleft Stonington Valley Wed. Thursday Westerly Sat. Sund The poor man who [voted?] does good. The thread in the loom Lily- preach the gospel 80 Westerly Elder Berdich Potter Hill The Valley by Stage 6 Jacob Babcock D John Whiffle New London Civilian Halley Stonington Thomas Brown Waterford David Rogers New London Charles Chapman81 14 Sund 15 Mond. 16 Tuesday Groton 17 Wed 18 Thur -------------- 19 Sedyard Genius of Liberty Elisabeth A. Aldrich Box 552 Cincinnati Ohio From Mrs. Mowats, Armand 82 "Call'st thou that marriage which but joins two hands, with iron bonds - that yokes, but not unites two hearts, whose pulses never beat in unison! What to me are natures chance knit ties, to those thou sunderest now? It is the spirits purer, stronger bonds through life's through death. to all eternity - Unchanging help that bind my soul to Armand I know no withered leaflets, falls to earth, no blade of grass bursts from its sheath of green, no grain of sand is swallowed by the wave unnoted by that ruling Providence that guides the Universe Then, while grass , sand and leaf are cared for, shall a mortal doubt the Guardian?83 Old white [?] want [?] paper for [?] [?] " " Sarah's Binnet Med __ Gardner [?] paid Frish 2,27- 112 ½ Old white from kepet Med D Frishs charged Bout Fishs 9 yds gigham 12 ½ 1,12 ½ Bottle Blacking 12½ jug 08 Turpentine ,15 2 Ship letters 48 Half Shod white lead old med Church meeting 18 white sugar ,18 2 lbs cheese 8 lbs sugar 7 cts. lb. 2.1 Lent Bo $200 for Benoid " " $5. L[?]ynde $2 Catharin [Entire page is X through] 84 D. M Sturtevant Nitt Mid[?]] Clark Greenman Greenmanville CT. Henry Watrares Mystic Ct Charles Perry Wosterly R. I. - - Novatic Berry jacob D. Babcock Fenferance Valley Mikes Rose Milliners kingston R. I..[*85*] [Kingston Wed. 18 Olympian 21 22 23 More N. Bridgewater Tuesday 24. Wed 25 West Bridgewater 26 - 27 Train] [Watch her Old White plain med [car?] & [lo?] depot postage] [med to the Society " [Wau?] Woman's meet 12 1/2 " " " 25 " N. Bookfield 87 1/2] [Shoeing horse [?] sugar 7 Brimfied 10 Boi 1,49] [*20 28 ____ 48*] [*86*] Liberater L. H. Beal [2.50] Pembroke Bethia Mann Hanover [2.50] new subscribers [.62.] Elisha Paterson S. [Man?field] [1.25] Tila Belnap " " Joseph Fish " " [2.50] Lewis McLauthlin Pembridge [*90*] [*91*] [*94*] [*92 11 ____ 81*] [*281*] [*____*] [*401*] [*?2*] [*____*] [*1,20*] [*250 125 62 _____ 4,37 12 3 _____ 4,52*] [*4,52 157 ______ 6,09*][*87*] Egiria Francis Jackson Boston Mass 2 Milton F. Bullard North Billingham Mass Charles H. Hovey Boston Mary Perry North Mann Susan M. Nithrell Lynn Ms [*88*] Mrs. E.A. Tuch N. Bridgewater Mrs. Betsey Holmes N. Bridgewater [Nermiate?] White East Bridgewater84 Property in Mass. owned by Womens and taxed Stoneham $40,587 90 Mrs. Mary T. Young Blissfield Mich E. T. Dunbar S. Easton 3 m. L. M. Thayer S. Easton 3 m John E. Lothrop 3 m Cochest - 91 Colonization 9th Ave Daniel Long - 6m. Pascoag R.I. Charles Moulton Beverly [Larkin Wordberg?] Manchester Wheeler & [Tinny?] 92 Women's Rights Warr- West Oct. 1 Warren Thur " 2 N. Brookfild Frid 3 Lynn Sat. 4 Salem Sund 5 " Mond 6 Beverly Tuesday 7 Dedham Thursday 9 Millville 10 Lydia A. Jenkins Waterloo O.S. Wait Beckwell Bond Co. Ill. 93 The fugitive Case at Buffalo - also in Penn- Confined in a garret of a hotel, over night and in the morning hurried back to Slavery - The Rev. Geo. Whipple said that when a [reward] price of $1000. was offered for the best essay on Slavery, the tract society would not publish it - The American Sunday School Union refuses to publish any work on the sinfulness of Slavery, lest as they say, if they refuse to tolerate Slavery, the Missionaries will be driven to other fields What if Christ and his disciples had said the same - The American N.M. A. gives aid to 63 missionaries who [pr] preach to slaveholding Churches and when Mr. Bigelow, a gentleman 94 Horace Bond gentleman of Washington City applied to that soc - to organize a Congregational church, was refused, on the ground that there were other churches in the city which they could attend, while at the same time they were giving aid to the slaveholding churches - Such manifestations can only create infidels - The young man said they said they preferred infidelity with humanity to orthodoxy without it - No voice can plead so eloquently for humanity as his silence, who enslaved, unable to call his soul his own, poor helpless, hopeless,, ignorant and friendless -95 When one refuses to listen to anothers thought on any subject , it is proof that he distrusts what he professes to believe - We have no first of Aug. and no day of independence We will one day have - but they will be ushered in by the toil and sacrifice and may be blood of those who enlist in the needed revolution No stone may record their deeds and no monument be reared to their memory but the result of their sacrifices - a free people will be their proudest memorial - 96 Truths first reception room has always been a manger, and Herods have ever been ready to seek the young childs life to destroy it but an Eye that never slumbers always guards it and its own inherent excellence at last commands the worlds esteem - Gentiles - Mary Marthy Montague He read the [lessons] pages of the past with blinded vision who learns theres no lesson of hope and heart cheer "By this conquer" Constantine Themistocles - Athens So America is not in her forest rivers or her wide territory, or her great ???????, but America is her people, and is great only "97 in the safe guards she builds around individual rights. 18 Fugitives in an old sugar-house in Ohio & with this Methodist helpers Mr. Bride and the Carolina missionaries - gave a trust "the ten Commandments applied to stay to a little white girl sentenced to stand in the pillory one hour receive 20 lashes on his bare back, and be imprisoned one year Coffin in Jamaica. Statute by Rev. Mr. ? on English Baptist [?]. Mr. William [?] of the Cleveland and Central mail [?] Mich. offered to take delegates to Chig. convention at half price 98 Bitterest of the ills Beneath whose load man totters down to death, is that which flocks the regal crown of freedom. from his forhead down and snatches from his powerful hand the scepter & sign of self command. Effacing with the chain and wd. the image and the seal of God till from his nature day by day the many virtues melt away and leave him naked blind and mute, the godlike merging in the brute.99 Liberator - Subscriber Francis Kirth - N Easton [2.50] for his last year's paper Geo S. Paine - Stoughton [2.50]. Warren Lincoln for his Corn [ 2.00] [?R].S. Phillips [2.5'] John j Wagner Standard [ 100] [?F].[?R]. [N?]ooney [ 1.00] Wm. S. Moot 3,00 Horace Reed 2,50 Killingly Ct, 100 Lily Subscribers Frances Downy [?Plymftier] [50] Sarah J.. Simmons Kingston [50] Augurta M. Gilmore Framton [ 50] Catharine G Crane 25 Carri[??] Bacon , 25 Francis [?] [?] ,25101 Lecture at Stoughton Facts. Ellen Croft Boston, it [to?] [Cardif?] But teach -- Methodist whips Government and Church support theory-- May [win?] [handholds?] on quicksands- but it right to the firm center lays its moveless base- 102 We speak truth and let it destroy what it can. Talk against the Golden Rule, and you cant [at?] last commend murder, but you can't make it the common practice. There is no moral [sense?] that takes cognizance of slavery as a sin. The man steals the baby, and goes to the Orthodox, and they take him in [?] 4103 You may place the slave where you please, - you may oppress him as you please - you may dry up to the uttermost the fountains of his feelings, the springs of his thought You may close upon his mind every avenue of knowledge and cloud it over with artificial night -- You may yoke him to your labor as the ox that birth only to work and [????] only to live-- You may do all this and the idea that he was born to the free will survive it all -- It is allied to his hope of immortality -- It is the ethereal part of his nature which slavery cannot reach -- It is the torch lit up on his soul by the hand of Divinity, and never meant to be extinguished by the hand of man -- James M'Dowell's speech in the Va. house of Delegates 1832 104 Wm. Shay Are you republicans? Away Tis blasphemy the word to say you tell of [????] ! Out, for shame your lips contaminated the name How dare you prate of public good your hands besmeared with human blood How dare you lift those hand to heaven and ask, or hope to be forgiven How dare you breathe the corrupted air That wafts to heaven the negros prayer How dare you tread the conscious earth That gave mankind an equal birth and while you thus inflict the lord How dare you say there is a god that will in justice from the skies Hear and avenge his creatures cries Louis [?bass] The noble effort of [?????] to assert her just rights105 Did you ever see the wide wild forests of the West? with here and there a spot cleared, they are like society now with its love of liberty like those dark forests no ray of sunlight has yet entered, but the sound of the axe of the sturdy woodsman will yet make those pitiless wastes Did you ever see how a great stone in a stream makes an opposite turn in the current? It is seen now with the stone of itself but the current strong and full and deep [sets?] right on to the great [ocean?] 106 Nothing equals justice to the slaves The non slaveholder is more guilty than the slaveholder If I could reach the shore of the Pacific I would call more to disobey the laws without standing of [state?] there is no remission I would rather that mercy drops should blot it out. It is not time to fight yet When seed time and harvest [fail?] there will fill in now th [enli????ery], not till then, Hanging witches, and [????s]107 Libertor Anna Wilder Barre She subscribed 4 weeks ago to Louis Barnard of Berlin she neglected to send in her name Fitchburg Agnes A Robinson [5.00[ has one copy discontinued and the other sent to [?] H B Stone [250] Maria C. Richardson [2 50] [????] 183 176 ------ 359 Lyman Allen Pullton [2 50] Riley Smith, Burn [1.00] [???] for his [???] Wm. W. Robinson A. ModlyChancy Phipps Hopkinton Henry Clapp Jr. [?mate] Rev. Mr. Thurston S. Natick. 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