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My-loose is low ain't small,
llut. 1)011141 n row of trees
I catch the golden fall
Of the stoiset on the trees;
And a stone wall hangins white
With the roses of the May.
NVi re less pleasant to my sight
Than the Ealing of twiny,
From a !wool: a Lcii r drinks,
rti a field of it,s•ore groinai,
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From Notes au 'se State of Virgit,l e , r. 1136
Jefferson on Slavery
There must doubtless be an unhappy
intimacy, on the manners of our people,
produced' by the existence * of Slai•ery
among us. The whole commerce bo
tweect master and slave is a perpetual
exercise of the most boisterous passions,
the %post unremitting despotism on the,
one part, and degrading submission on
the cater. Our children see this, and
loam to imitate it, for man is an imitative
This -timidity is the germ of
all education in him . . Front his cradle
to his grave he is learning, to do what he
sees others do. If a parent could find
no motive, either in his philaiithropy or
his self love, for restraining the intern
perance of passion toward his slave, it
should always be a sufficient one that
his child is present. But generally it is
not sufficient. The parent storms, the
child looks on, catches the lineaments of
wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle
of slays, gives loose rein to his worst
passions, and thus nursed, educated, and
daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but
be szamped by it with odious peculiari
ties. The man must be a prodigy who
can retain his manners and morals unde
proved by such circumstances. And
with what execration should the ,stati•s
man be loaded, who premitting one half
of the citizens thus to trample on the
sights of the oth.•r, transforms those. into
despots, and these into enemies, destroys
the morals of one pan, and the Timor
fitrtrfa of the other. For if a slave can
hare a country in this world, it must be
any other in preference to that in which
tie is born to live and labor for another;
in which he must lock up the faculties
of his nature,contribute as he depends on
his individual endeavois to the advance
mem of the human race, or entail his
PPM miserable condition on the endless
generations proceeding (rom him. With
the morals of the people, their industry
is a.tgo destroyed. For in a warm climate,
woman will labor fot himself who can
make another labor for him. '.lhis is so
true, that of the proprietors of slaves a
v'erY small' piviportiort indeed are ever
seen to labor. find can the liberties of a
nation,be thought secure when we have
temared their only firm basis, a convic
tion in the minds of the people that these
liberties are the gift of God f That they
ire not to be Violated but with his wrath ?
Indeed I tremble for my Country when
refleathat God is just t that his justice
etranot sleep forever ; that considering
Atlarbors, nature and natural meansonly,
a revohition or the wheels of fortune, an
exchange of•situation is arriong, possible
events: that it may.becotne probable by
sapernataral - interference. The Almig,ty
hasep attribute' which can lake sides
with'.us to such'a contest.
ME MM
DEVOTE - 6.T0 TILE PRiNCIpLi§ iil§S oF, MOrtA.Litt. I:II . E.n.AtU,VE, A - 10 'D.I..Y.WS,'
From the 29.4: Tribuit'e
Speech. 4f :a littera%
. . .
The Balton paPeti of yesterday come
to us • filled • with the proceedings Of :al
, great anti-Nebraska
_meeting at Faneuil .
Hall on Thursday night. .0t most of
the speeches we . have already had re
ports by telegraph, but the,' last ,`one
Made, which wasa by the 'venerable. In
-SUFI Cturxcv, is still nets to our readers,
and we note give it place. Mr;iarnsur
being foudly,called'fiar;toe and Said:
Whalright have you to call upini a
man eighty-three years old to address
you ? •Sir,.l belong to other times. [A
voice in the arOWd.said, . No, the ears of
the fathers are_ never deaf to the cres of
the children:3 1. came here, this eireti
ing, not only unasked; but with a deter
, initiation not toSeeak; and, Sir, Whey.'
shall say. will he very short, and it Will
be in a different strain from . tiaythieg
you have heard: I suppose that, 6u
' expect me to say something about,' his
attempt to repeal the Missouri Compro
mise. Not a word, Sir. [Laughter.]
I shall leave that to younger and abler
men—to men who are in \the citrrent - of
the times. • 1 have . been out of it for I
_thirty years; Perhaps yoU expect also
I should say something severe upon the
politicians—the - leaders of the slavehold
ing States. , Sir, 1 have nothing to say
against them. Many of them are great
men,—they are lrue men,—they are
faithful - men,---true to their own inter
ests ; faithful to their,own power. And,
Sir, they understand this to be the last
act in that policy which has been in
operation since- the year 1t332, and 'in
deed from the commencement of the
Government. [Cheers.]. There were
two projects Tram the beginning. The
first was to secure to the slaveholding
States the .power of controlling the Go
vernment at all times ; and have they'
not done it? [Cries of . Yes, yes.']
Have you had but one President in effect,
chosen by the people, that was from the
free States ? The next plan of policy
was-to extend the power- of the slave
holding States, and for that purpose
they bought Louisiana, and for that pur
pose they made war upon Mexico. And,
Sir, what has beenheir success? They
have opened, or if this law passes, they
will have opened all the lands of the
South that are capable of-holding slaves,
to the extension of their power. They
have opened to themselves a market,
and they understand their advantages.,
What is the consequence of opening,
this market ? A gentleman recently
from the South told me that slaves•evere
in such demand, in consequence of the
opening of this country, that he knew of
one family of some ten or tweive-ne
groes—men, women, and children
some of the latter at the breast--and
th e y sold (or $6OO a head, down to the
very child at the woman's breast: A
good, active Slave is worth at this time
SI,SOO, This is the effect of their sys
tem of extension. Now the question is,
how did they get,,this power? I said
they were true and faithful to their
own interests. I wish I could say the
same thing. Sir, of the political' men of
the free States. [Cheers.] Sir, it is
not their strength; but our weakness;
it is not their union, it is our disunibn.
And, Sir, they govern the people of the
North by the distribution of the funds
from the Treasury. They have governed
it, and they will continue to govern it,
until the people themselves shall under
stand what the motives of. their 'leaders •
&re, :and put th'em down by force. Gen
tlemen, I said that this was not .6 rev
thing. in the ytar ISO 7-9, I was -a
Representative from this district in the
Congress of the United States,•and hail
a frequent and close intimacy, and great
opportunity for acquaintance with the
southern views and opinions,. thiongh
the medium of a gentleman whcitvaithe
best representative,on the floor of 'Con
gress of sou' hero feelings and southern
principles. I mean John Randolph. At
that time it was the question concerning
the embargo. Well, Sir, Who viated 'for
the embargo ? Who supported it in this
pelt of • country?_ I.‘ am - sorry.. to
mention it, for .1 have a great lore for
the Democracy of_ tire country; no Juan
more so. hold that I ana s DerriOcret,
myself, and altiays have been. But . no
man could speak with more contempt
than Mr. Randolph did of the leaders of
the Democracy, who were defending the
embargo. I remember. that he said
_to
me once, in relation to a northern 'rnim
ber from the neighboring toWn or Salem,
who had made-a great 'speech in favor of
the embargo—. Why, Sir, is 1)14t gear
tleman a merchant r said I,
and a great merchant,' He is, eh !
Why, Sir: said hr, he seems re me• like
a hog swimming across a- river, and
cutting his own.throat itith-his fare feet.?
ELaug,liter.] On amber occasiort,.when
I told him, It you go. much farther,
Mr. Randolph; with the embargo; there
will bee onion among the People of the
North,' ." said lie; sttaida
(124elember, ,Sir;.X do not agree in :the
wally .. honor the. Dente- .
crate, but I Muir. - iras i wits.) .
Mr. Qa incy; •We or he SOut 'ean gatcl4 - -
." ;Th
GO . 031 - • :3:0, . 1854: \ • ;: .;
late upon the leaders of your Democracy ,
res . we calculate ,
negroes.'
[Great Onghter;] -That, was the thing;
Sir;-that was the feeling, and L ¬
belieie. they - -care. ode farthing at the
Soilth for this;:hr other meetings of the
ri't -like them.; 'to be
sure; but they, feel Inward , ,- , thern as we
should tatvard a boy with monicker - in
the streets; they do n't like the,annuy
nnCes, to be 'in re, • but as 'lb - felr,' they
have - none. The thing is• Cut and dried,,
andif tis not passel!' -- at 'This
Con
gress, it will be done at another, Ao what
we can. An till Laski-10r the
,last time
, I shall speak. Co - my fellow, citizens in
public, ill". ask of the' Pe'dple of the
North; is to consider theirown interests.
8e united, act as ono men; and then, you
can.get . your due control in the affairs of
'ihe nation ; and - You' want no more."
• From the - Phtibng
. The Tender Mercies 'yet Slavery. -
• • An 111mi:brit. i§ now making to give
Congressional sanction to the introduction
of Slavery into territory ; sanctified to
freedom by a compact of over thirty
years' .standing.. As .a sig,nificant'cotn
meat :upon this_ .attempt,_ gives
us a self-proffered illustration of the na
ture of the institution thus sought to be
obtruded upon: , our national domain.
The burning of a negro alive, at Natchez,
fni an act which is always considered
justifiable in a.whies man, is a fair indi
cation of:the nature of Slavery; and in
order to give our readers. an inkling of
its tender mercies, we extract the follow
tug.
account from the Natchez Free
Trader.. The witness is Southern, and
his testimony, certainly, is not biased by
any feeling'of humanity : "
" The negro was taken and chained
to a freei immediately on the banks of
the Mississippi, on what is called Unicih
-Point. Faggots were then collected and
.piledlound him, to which 'he" appeared
quite indifferent. • When the work was
completed, he was asked what he had to
say. fle,then warned all to take exarn- ple by him, and asked the prayers of all
around._ He then called for a drink of
water, which was handed him ; he
drank it and said : ` Nows set fire, 1 am
ready. to go in peace.' The torches
were .lighted nod • placed in the pile,
which was soon ignited. He watched
unmoved the curling flame,‘. that grew
until it began to entwine itself around
and fix upon his body, and'then he sent '
Conti cries of agony, painful to the ear,
begging some one to blow his brains out,
at the same time struggling with almost
superhuman strength; "until the staple
with which the ebein was fastened to
the tree (not . being well secured) drew
out, and he leaped from the burning '
pile. At that moment, the sharp ring
ing of several rifles were heard, and the
body of the negro - fell a corpse on 'the
ground. He was picked up by some
two or three, again thrown into the tire,
and consumed, not a vestige remaining
to show that such a being ever existed. I
Nearly four thousand slaves werecol-I
lected from the plantations'in the neigh- 1
borhood to witness the scene. Numerous
speeches. - Were made by' the magistrates I
and ministers of religion, to the large
concourse of slaves, warning them, and;
telling them that the same fate awaited
'
them if they should . prove rebellious to
their owners:"
Can anything be mote inhuman, more
blood thirsty. more thoroughly demon
iacal than this ? It freezes the blood in
the veins to peruse the details of such
heartless cruelty, and the pen drops from
our hand in the vain attempt to• charac
terize It as it deserves. And yet, it was•
a legitimate effect of Slavery. It vas
an act in which the whole commnnity
joined. Magistrates, clergythen, citizens
all; and women; fbr aught that is said to
the contrary, witnessed and participated
in the scene. Not a word of reproach
or rebuke was spoken but the whole
proCeeding was regarded as a necessary
one, for the protection of Slavery.
. And such is the • - institution which
•President Pierce and Stephen A. Doug
las, the Pivaburg Union and the Pitt.
burg Postr.woutd-Nin • introduce into
Nebraska ! ! In the middle of the nine
teenth century, in the full -light of day,
and in a land - abounding in Bibles, and
Churches, and Common Schools, these
men, calling themselves Democrats, will
ingly lend themselves to the task of
degrading their country, and cursing the
soil of Nebraika by introducing upowk
an institution which roasts men Alive - for
acting uppn the instinct of •sell-defensi , .
Such is the s,harneless mission of those
who support this nefarious Nebraska
movement. Heaven forbid that they
should succeed ! The wrath of offended
Omniscience must sooner or later fall
upon any land capable ,ciEsUch an are- 1
city.
'Let us no`t be told 'th'at this incident
Oce'llered in the far South', and . is'ildt to
be interpreted as . clia'reiteriitic of Slivery
tri'such . sontlieii . 'intitades ai Nebraska.
It is not many . yedri 'since a - negro tias
burnt alive in the city of $l. touis, and
only lot year oh wasiiillerfiri'lh'e"
way ln.the' Ofliftsioprj on the very
=:Eg=I=3MiEMN
borders af Nebr4skl. Ifuntaniaure is
the same everywhere, and so is S l hi'ell•
What has taken, place in the city of
Natchez, is as posAle and us probable
in any othetiatituite. ' "
We Protestants makely great outcry
ftgainst Catholicism, forits.crime in roast
,mg Men to,death: We honor the mem
ory of Rogers, arid 1-luss, and Crammer,
and execrate the nit:n - who and - th e aye
tern which condemned to sticii i'viPain
ous death. What, Om shall American
Protestants say to American Slavery?
Will it.cry out against CartiOlielsm, and
tolerate the 'same
,outrage Slavery ?
Shall Protestant Ministers in. Natcehz
- Stand by and see a fellow Man burnt
alive for an act deeinetl heroic in a Atte
-man, and no word of censure .or distip
-probation follow.? And mit'only so; but
shall these and their coadjutors at the
north and south be permitted to extend
'their man burning system into regiiiiis
'hitherto free, and American Protestantisrit
be silent?, Catholicisin may properly
approve this imitation of its own 'auto
de fe ; but men who shed,tears over the
Protestant martyrs of the past, will
deserve to be ranked as the'rerieSt hypo
crites on the earth.if they lift '',not their
hands to sate Nebraska from a system
which immolates its victims , with more
thorough heartleßsness and cruelt• than
either Catholiciim orlhathenisin.
The Washington Union Mistaken.
The Washington Union denies that
Douglas, in his speech at Chicago in
1850, after the passage,..of the Compro
mise measures, polfe of the 'Missouri
Compromise ns one of thee most glorious
memories of the past. The . Union
quotes from -the report of , his Speech a
passage in which these words do not
appear.
That proves nothing. We found lie,
pas.9cre . from Douglas' speech• in the
Hertford Times, a regular anti abolition
print, strongly, attached to the 4sreSent
administration. It had no temptation to
misreffresent Douglas, and, we fully.
believe,‘quoted his speech fairly, We
copy here the passageand its context
from the Hartford Times:
"One year ago Senator Douglas- and
his . comtnitteeseported a NebraslM bill,
which did not interfere with the :Missouri
Compromise. It passed the Ukase by n
large majority, and Mr. Douglas• himself
affirmed that it would. pass the Senate,
if it could be reached in season. There
was no reason then, even in the mind of
Senator Douglas and his fellow commit=
tee men, for repealingthis measure. In
lboa, - Senator Douglas said, in a speech
made to his constituents in Illinois :
I am prepared to stand or fall by
the American• Union, clinging %vial' the
tenacity of lite to all its glorious memo
ries of the past, and the glorious hopes
of the future, and among those memories
of the past's pronounce the compromise
of 1820 to be one.' "—Eve. Post
Fearful Death of Ovid o:Johnson.
The ndvocates Of temperance may
find v'olumes of argumentsin the rapid
downfall and ultimate 'death. as a va
grant, of °vita F. JonNson Esq., a
man of brilliant intellect who but a few
years since -occupied the position- of
.AttOrney General of Pennsylvania, and
that too with much more than ordinary
credit to himself. He has been for some
months past in IVashing..on City, living
a life of dissipation, and a few evenings
since was picked up in the street, utterly
helpless and miserable, and 'deposited in
the guardhouse as a vagrant. Here he
remained unattended, .and uncared • for
until PridaY evening last when he. was •
,mercifully relieved by death frotn his
manifold' sufferings. ,
Wo knew Ovid. F. Johnson in his
heyday of prosperity and political popu
larity, when as the - life and soul of the
society which he graced he was caressed
and courted by all. Then indeed he
possessed a_ noble, generous heart,the best
impulses of which, however, were dead.
ened and destroyed by that: fell curie of
a large portion of the human . race ; the
Rum fiend I who dragged
'down to a vagrant's grave ! !—Pollaville
Emporium.
•
PROMPT PI.. 7 NISTIMENT:---14 Pmpannel.
jog the late Grand Jury at the Court of
General. Sessions in New York; Judge
Re'ebe deliitord the usual charge, inttle
course of which:he •
Lhave, tittriog the time I have Wen
..on, the bench, learned this unpOrtantfact,
that proMpthess in punishment is pne.of
the great preventailvya of crime.. We
shanld have mutt 4ess in our midst if a
crime committee to:day. cOuld'be Run
ished before . the anti went down, so th:u.
Parties may na,be led' to bOieve tjiat'g
they can otify:get Saii they will, never
be tried. 'I remember, When ~(, was at
the bar, that. t ' . bai link of a Rrisonpy
Was. considered - ,es 'cqUivalent to an AS
cape ; the party was. .not likely to: by,
gunighed for his crime; Xt pbz, ol 4elY
necessary, for'
,due Administration 14 3 f
justc ) e, that cruet s B e.prepatly
PunlAo:4;" ' •
tr=MMEM=MI
The Nebraska , SwitidleShall It be
Consummated I'. t
tio
of tilei:'ctiqie . whiCt.tht 'Slaire Pow - et is
.rilo.tii4,,Fie:avc..n n and Ea . rii) to commit?
. .
The following. from editorial
..„corre
spondence' of the . N. r: Tri,Giza un
masks this scheme, and shMvs it in all
its iio'rriinitto'rtliitiP:- Ikeii.d; arid act:
Snort ars the purposes of the Scitith
gra, 'authors,of the Nebraska bill.
,;L'he
mcasures'whiola have
, be.eo suggested as
a necessary coMplemeht 'to "the' bill 'in
order to 'catry out the vietri or its' south-
Ofiginatots me &Vert 'Before
enumerating them, however,: let it be
borne in mind that, the leading ii)ea of
the 'southern men in . .pushing, thc.,114-
braka.'clii - tzit is to enforce wtiat they
`deceitfully term the dOclrine 'of non in
ter&ention as to Slavery. In their view
the ,Constitution carries S'avery wher
.ever the national..-. flag floats; except
against State restriction. The doctrine
of nen intervention with therli is thus
the doctrine of nationaliiing the institu
tion. In other words they claim that
Slavery must be protected everywhere
and opposed nowhere. 'This , is, tt.e
southern 'idea of nort-ikerventioh.--to
secure the full slay of wßich, the repA I
of the restriction open all the territories
of .the Gdneml Governinent, accent
plished by the Nebraska bill, is only the
first step. For their kind of non inter
,
vention can only be carried out by fol
lowing-, the bill up with ether 'kindred
enactments; Those which have -been
Suggested are as follows :
I. A revisal of the rites of the House,
so as to silence all discussion on' Slavery
in that body. This is but a step more
than was taken in Mr. Adams's time.
The doctrine 'of non-intervention • ern
' braces the dogma of.no discussion
_in
Congress, for this is to interfere with the
institution ; it is intervention.'" '
~.. , . . .
2. To siappress'all pUblieations coin
ing within' the reach of the, National
' Legislature, as in'the District of Colutn•
bits for example, that are hostile to
Slattery. Such .publications MR:if...re
with the inatittitiOn, and thus ' violate We
doctrine of non-intervention. Discus
' sion of and' opposition to- Slavery must
',- be thoroughly stopped at Washiegton.
• 3. The passage, of a law permitting
slaveholders to take their slaves - into the
'free States,. 6:) . remain six •niorths or - a
year, or such time as may'Suit their•,coti
) venience, applying - the Fugitive lirwkto
all escapes of shires so, introduced.
4. To enact a law of libel upon the
principle of the old Alien and Sedition
laws, prohibiting discussion of the quos.
' tion of shivery in the States, and thus
stop agitation, by, fining and imprison
ing the agitators of the North'. Nothing
short of this will satisfy the southern
doCtrine that there must be absolute non
intervention on the part of the fr,;e.
States with ; respect to Slavery.
5. The repeal of the law prohibiting
the African'slave trade. This was dim
ly shadowed forth in Mr. Toombs's
speech, who .declared that the fathers t.f .
the Constitution intended to favor 'and
protect Slavery,, as was shown, by thy
fact that the 'slave trade was secured for
twenty years by an express provision of
the ,Constitutien, and not , prohildiel
i afterward. ' [ifs interference with slave
' 'prohibitthe trade in
; ry,to
the doctrine: of non-intervention requires
the,repeal of the - law against the traffic
f inneeroes. . ,
Is there an} thing in these views as to .
the: designs; of the Southern. authors of
thNebraska bill, tb startle or to excite
- a *ling of: incredulity - among northern"
pe - 4,1e ? There shoUld not be. :Phi*
meOures Will ,all follow the Nebraska
biljtin regular order, should that rnens•
„
uremassaind be '.acquiesced" in. . Any
al4itds
. verdant : tette doubts it. There
is Mzithing in either ineasere half so bad
' as UM surrender of the great North west,
witV its - half miltiert.square miles of
-territory to Slavery. ' •
1 ' a :it said ,that such a series of meas•
' urei,iis these would hire a spirit of rev
oltigoa in "the North ? No more so than
lAi4eissaiTe of the Nebraska bill: Bet
Mit: if th ey._ 'should ? AV hat if the pass
' age lof the Nebraska slit:mid? It is ape
F aille possibilities that the southern pee
-1 fekrates, of• Deugia's and , Pierce 1111'44
lb 11l ''considered. The idea 'or convial
siort,T Ara rfare and disunion, does not
ulairin -them. . They An not object to
either: (live them .the North-west, and
the,,cirb ready for eitherer for all.
,lii
deekwitli 411 the territory
,We'.: of the
MississiPPl for its inheritance, 'Slave - li'
-ivour ruttier ptefer•a dissolution orrice
Jinio. At all - .events, sith.the proposed
Conti est of : the country north of deg.
ti
pi Oft) e. consummated, the southern con
j..—
miers 'would he pthfectly content to
lete free States choose Whether they
Attu "temaiii - in Ad Union under the
dorni i on of . !Slavery, or go 'out isrt&be
,e4attg d to the restricted,dirnits we have
indickted... ' .. "" ,
It !bust bo u 4nfeesed that oi'e VtAins •
liarediem e cleVeloPS' iniefeitinklir; ' We
:hope the northernindoriervof it,; if there
-WI aVY PiAt§i.do _like Sot tic circW3,l4ql
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the officers 012 the.Nationa) Governrberit
and their dependent interests• like it§
looks. J. - S. P.
The Nebinslca 'bill :is: bringing• oat
hopeful indications that there is a Nortk.
Ve, dqyaqt,desire,to see S`ctio.nalittro pre
vail in the governinent of the country.;
but' the trouble' has ken that the - ibolil
ehiiniry lie(iti nothing but Sotithern
-ta-bothing but slavehofding. , and staisef ,
:tient to the slavd. power. The _people
evi k ieritly have, borne ; thip state of thl i nge
till they have naatle up their muds that
"iliey will bear if nolonger. They eeeiim
‘ 9 " he 4ele;l6ed ,that t.heto shall be four
pointsfir 0) coiiipas,s
instead of 'tine as heretofore. ' -1.
. .
-The peorilo all over.the Northern
Staten are moving to protest against
the, surrender of Nebraska to slavery.
before•htis . there been such a dis
position .manifestFd. .disregaid.. party
!fines and. old Tarty . associatipns!as now.
The sentiment of PrtstOn, Nina; in . Ws
letter to (fie Pah - edit Hall meeting, "041
men should be tinited and agree to ?Joie
tugetlierfir the better side and against
the worse, - until an t.lininistration
.1./mtt be elected because it . is fuvarabl,e
to ficedom,!' meets with - a cordial re
sponse from men of all parties,: '
A Convention has been called . to . meet
:u Concord. N. II:, to protest against the
''.'ebraska. bill. The - Augusta :iv con
mitts a call for a Convention against the
Nebntska bill, to-bu held nt Ntigitstia,
'4arch.lst. . IVe uodersinta it.is in con
templation in several of the Congres
sional districts of this State to call Dia
triet Conventions for the 'same purpote.
in the Third 'District they are already
moving in this mauer.
The religious press is nearly
,unaqi
mOus against the scheme of iniquit;
and the pulpit begins to. send forth its
thiindets. The - moral lawyer of an intel-:
ligent people is tieing arottsed, and'we
are not without strong hope that Nebras
ka wits be preserved to freedom. Let
the friends of freedoin take'. courage and
redoutile_their efforts!
This 'is an age pf Progress. The
march of science and the geniw%'`GC
mighty inteVects brine forth great things
daily. We may stand, amazed at !He
discovery of to day; and before to !nor
rotv our adiniratiou is 'taken captive, by
another.
Prominent among these recent dis
coveries is the fact discovered by the
.Voiri3l own Register: that the Com
promise of I8S(.1 virtually repealed"
that of 1820. What a blessing it is for
our neighbor to have discovered this fact
in - time to rally the Democracy. But
would he ever have thought solf Judge
Douglas had not said ; sc.?. .Did :our
neigbor think so at the 'last sessiou;pf
('ongress ? Ile has rilso'discovered that
Slavery will " be extinguished in goad
time." if it is not " interfered with; .and
the history of the country establishes'
the point." This is a great discovery
tco,an t l, it shows that Jefferson was n
great fool for , interfering with it: in the
Northw tern territory in 1787. If be
and his associates had let it go there
and Made Slave States of the whole west
Shivery, would ha much nearer ex•
tinguislied than it is now. The Reg ter
man - , tharefore, is. a much better Dein
ocrat than Jefferson was. FRANK ri
LIN
too, was a great fool, tor he -interfered
with the systeni, and was willfcg - that
Congress should go to dui verger of its
power to 'abolish it. What. a pity the
r gieier did net live at that tirne.to.tell
those:men, of their Sally, and tell them
,u'hatwas the . duty of Democrats.
from this, it settled n';_gr l eait principle,
viz ":"that;nh evil - must never be" inter
feted with," and then it will be extin
guished. "Jitstoyl! proves this, sass
our neighbor._ ~Space .forbids ,us to
pursue the subject further this week.
We propose to show neci week'thntifti
is a little,,ulistaken,bothns regards
_fact
ai Ill'itirry ••/% I :orrtsiotvii, OlipeTranch
'Tuts measure had not .been asked by
ill' Bt,uth:..lt would be disastrous to the
Soinl). 'Phis bill would place a knife It
throat of the'Solv.h. , _Slavery, it was
gc; to territories ; tti ejr
it wild renfain free. Why, then, offer tars
baublevio tfie South t Was theSoutlf
child, to be pleased with a rattle He
came into public. life 'upon the 14.i55r.90
Compromise.. When he same to, CAN
grvss, 30 years ago, it was then col
si,!ered a compact never to bo broken.
Sitice then, great changes' had token
place. Of th e 300 members of Cot
petzs then in attentknee, only three re
mained, Idessrs. Benton; Everett, and
myself. . The others had all disappeargd.
The P.residents. had come and .gene;
the heads. of deeartmentS had alt-:been
changed. It was a solemn reflection."
tsh, , ,, 1 tementber all the friends so jiukesi
[,,;.deer,
k een arouna.nre• fell like learee iu wintry
'weather, - - =
I feet iikti one. 'who trends 'eland gamer...kap
riutotriatll4.o kteti . ,• • • '
Arliose lip!..s are !let!, lese;,
nu liur he dope ed.", • '
—Houston on the
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A North.
Great Discovery.
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