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oNnsnam:, APRIL 211, 1551,
FRIEND MANN: You will credit this
letter to,''a severe fit of: 'indignation.
brought on by readin g in our rechinontlid
hunker paper', the Herald, an extract
from the Richmond (Va.) Christian
:Rdvorale Wading organ . of the Metho
dist persuasion) upon the interference of
frrgyrrien in political matters. I cannot
Iforb.ar eipreising - myself .somewhat
iltron'gly when such hypocritical pol
troonery is suffered to pass current for'
sanctity, or as in any way to be ascribed
to a laudable and sincere desire to com
ply with add further the sublime ends
of the Gospel of the Master. 0, - it is
wondrous pity that the Church of Chrst,
here in the midst of the nineteenth- cen•
tury. is denied in such strait as to need'
such servants or apologists. When we
look • around upon a 'world, thought by
many to. be, ,stiiding, at a fearful
.1 - ace
towards skepticism and infidelity, shall
we itriter marvel that sects . tremble for
the sustenrnde of their dearly cherished
dogmas? Shall' we censure men for
turning away from the hollow mockeries
.of ecclesiastical mechanism, and striking
boldly out too those paths where a wise
and benifie ent God manifests- his pros
ence in goad deeds at the hands of his
creatures, rather than in words from-the
lips of apostates and shame-faced syco
phants? Shall we ceusure them ? God
forbid !
I will distil from the crude mass the
bitterness and shame of the article in
qtrestien; To do more, would be to im
pose upon the generosity of your read
ers.' I know that good Christians will
hang their heads in mingled shame and
sorrow when they glance over these
extracts ; not that Chr.stianity can stiffer
in the minds of good men thereby, but
that the seamless coat of the Nester
should be degraded by his prolts:ed
worshippers into a curtain to hide the
rottettnss of their faith. God of Hu
m mity ! if this is the d.iing of Chris
tianity's friends, lime terrible must b:th..
opposition of those who are really its
fees. If 'these are the s..mtiments of
good Christians, what must be the setiti
inents of infide's !
The Rev. Edi•or is sp,
clergymen who presumed to exercise
the privilege so dear to freemen—the
right of petition—in reverence to Arnold
Douglas's Nebra4:a ',id. Alluding par
ticularly to the r..mons.rance of the Bos
ton and Chicago clergy, he says :
When in their place, engaged in
their appropriate work, no class of men
in the country is more highly esteemed
than ministers f the Gos;;e1. But when
they turn aside front thetr holy employ
ments, and descend into the arena of
patty political strife, they defile their
mission, and lay their honor in the dust.
Instead of " washing their hands in
innocency," they soil them with Worldly
filth, and stain them with crime against
their country's peace."
And now that this Southern lion of
the tribe of Judas hat breught his spir
itual weapon to a guard, he can surely
parry .a thrust aimed at a mortal part by
an inexperienced hand, A clergyman's
place," atid his "approi,riatenork,"
methinks, are both clearly defined by
Him whom they },rotors to serve. To
heal the sick, to umfoit the afflicted,
and to se e k the means to ameliorate the
condition of their• fellow-creatures. bond
and.fre c—all these are undeniably com I I
-
patible. nay, mvre,—they are positive,
duties, which every man, clergyman or
[option, is bound to discharge. It may
.be . costty pleasartt to sit in one's easy
• chair, or roll in on)j, cushioned carriage,
while one's overseer is perhaps, mangling
the back or a defrnse!ess woman, some
-where on one's broad acres: `And all
this may occur-to, and with, a gentleman
who spot ts. a white neckcloth, and tacks
Um" to his •name. But Idm not
impresed that such clergymen are in
their place, or en2aged in their appro
priate work. I think the Master once
said—" Provide neither gold, nor silver;
. r,or betiss in your purses."' The-latter
artiste 'does not alWays - cirry all the brass
Current now-a-days The last sentence
cf that paragraphic thoroughly sophis
tical. It May be no question with-:mtny
people. why ministers of the Gospel
should not rutty defend Slavery,but help'
io perpetuete it. Indeed; I can see no
. setlk6ti tor: suposing that they do it
without reference to that same "earthly
..filth.,i'"any more . , than- 'otherst.''' 'As to
merintes against their country's peace,"
is doubtful whether thiS same editor
a~eold not isave deribtinced • Christ him
tel. tis n fanatic, whOn he said=-teThink
- DEVOTED T . O THE PRINCIPLES • Or'DEMOORAVY,.AND THE DR
net that I am come to send peace . . on
earth ;4-om come not to send peace,,ktit
a sword..!! There is a time when peace
is not compatible t with the, performance
of duty.,' ; Thus thought the Naste,r,ao
he acted accordingly. Who ,psics . for
peace, when thelmrchasu is -made With
everlasting dishonor.? No. true man. ,
Again
!.they,,riclkly - ,merh the,rehulies ad-
Ministered by .gentlemen. of ,the Sqpitte,
and must blame_thernselves if, hereafter,
they find themselves_ shunned as
.dis
turbers of the public peace,
religion they profess to teach suspected
of having too much,to do with the worl d
that now is, and too, ,little -with, that
which is to come: •My hingdoM is not
of this World," said Christ ; ...if it were,
then . my servants would fight.'
Ay, doubtless, most sapient and:sanc
timonious Editor. Tell us, Reverend
father, did not our kevp . lutionary . pires'
richly Merit the doom of . traitors for
petitioning-, their royal'persecutOr for a
redress of grievances? :- 'Fre fY, thetli&are
'perilous times; fur do not men preStime
to approach the, awful presence of—a
Douglas, with petitions in their-hands I
Ay, do they. Citizens Of...the:model
Republic, ‘fdrbar. Yoit must not tread
on the corns of blossoming royalty,
Bless your simple souls !•you..will- force
" ,, rialeutell of the 'Senate" to send out
proclamations after the fashion of good
King James, commanding that every
plebian gutter blond be traapOrted back
,whence they came,.and never, .prestirne
to enter the presence of. their Royal
Highnesses henceforward. Grand-,in
carnation of religious and political
,five !
dorti--ReverendEditor! If is "fiu'atta
.der•that you think that such religion is
more:than sttspealed of having more to
do with the world that now is, than that
Which is to come. It is exceedingly
doubtful whether there will be found in
the Kingdom of the Master righteous
men to deni,unce their 'lollowers . for
pleading the cause of groaning Human . - -
ity. 0, there is too little of that religion
which works for the good of sdffering
klumanity here, and' too much of that
garbled hy-pocrisy, which would fain
teach men that they can best prepare io'r
the- future by ignoring the present.
Disttirbers of the peace ?" The Mas
ter
whose servant thou art, most Rever:
ild.Efliter, was proscribed as a seditieus .
person ; arid the course of such men as
thou, goes far to protie that there is no'
lack of Pharisees, and jealous
_high.:
pietas, even to day.
" We utter this opinion with profound
humiliation, but with as profound a con- i
viction of its truth and justice. It is
painful to witness such a desecration of
ministerial character, to watch the attre,e
menis et. -r Detter t hings mighfbe expected, engaged in a crusade
against the rights of the South, and trail
ing their priestly garments in the dust
to accomplish objects not mentioned in
their commission, and never dreamed of
in the acts and writings of the Apostles.
These are the evil works that endanger
our glorious federal Union."
It is difficult to deride which predom
inates in the. above extract—insolence,
or. hYpocrisy. "Engaged in a crusade
against the rights of the South !" " Trail
ing their priestly garments in the dust !"
And does this Reverend apostate claim
that South, or 'Nil th, or East, or West,
God has given any man, or any body. of
roc n, the right to , desecrate His tree soil
with slave markets ? To dedicate any
portion of His beautiful - earth to the.
service and behoof of 'red-handed matit-
Mon ? - Away, teacher of falsehood: It
may be that you find it in your. " Corti-
Mission" to teach men submission be:
neat!' the lash, and the, lesson of for
giveness, while innocent children are
wrested front the mother's breast, and
wives and husbands rudely parted for
ever! Ilan this man a wite--zhas he
children—does he love the one, and doe's
he cherish the other? • Would he kis's
the hand•that rudely wrested thtit wile
from his arms, and consigned her to a
fate worse than death—chains and pros
titution ? Would he acknowledge any
man's right to tear his family from him
and consign their souls and bodies to the
tender care and counsel of imbruted
slave-drivers? Would he tarry to ask
if the Apostles countenanced such out
rages before he set out to seek jusfice in
retribution 1 No ! if one drop of man
hood's blood ran in his etris.,, he would
cry for instant justice.
I3ut the Reverend Editdr forgets that
" - priestly gatments"may become stained
with moral filth beyond cleansing, ,as
well' es With political dust,.. His sect
may feel proud of him—; probably ..,they
do. since he ministers to their. inclina
tions; in other Words, he professis to
some! G0d...--but it most be evidelit to
evtirCeidlidid to serve
the south and-its incubus.
.Forgiye - . me , sP9 l fecl t n °
plaiUlY—,justice is cliiincirouttond.tkoth
will Out. , FLINT!.
The wcraln, who undo to ik to scour
the woOd',`tids - giveit it'apOn account of
the' limb price .; of soali, and the scarcity
of •
COUDERSPORT, 'POTTER COUNIV, PA:,.131A117'12, 1854
The ear of Temperanct. :r `
IYuring the mass enecting,op the. 27ih
or April, at this , ptofe, Jim 4. L. 6STIL
VE LL : of
. poyge,ihvillo, yioga county,
Po., was , Called
: on for, , ,a spech t .whoo
he fetid the following, which is 'part,*
an address prepared, for a Temperance
denaoastratiOn. .We have seldotn ls
teded `to any better and therefore solicited
'We 11606 every sub
scriber to:ihe Jotrindl • will read. and
digest.[Ens. JOURNAL.
..
I thank pod, while I cougratulate.yog,
that we s live , in an age and it a country,
when . acid where the , transmission of
thought is facilitated by the education of
the , masses, the freedom of l speeph and
qE the .. press--the multiplication ,of, mail
routes and, post offices, of canals and
steamships, of railroads and ;
rth.,,age when ingenuity is„add.ed to
mercy to prepare eyes for the blind, ears
for...the deaf, feet for, the lame, and speech
for the dumb . ; country where we may
ask for good foe ilipse who will no.azlt
it for theinlves 7 -where we way do for
others what health,and happine.ss,. rea
son and reli.sTori.' the liresent and-the
future, pature and,GOD, demands, should
be done. Hence. nothing is •mbre np
parent• than that we live in . an a , .03 - of
vast, r . c.spo,n.4i/i4ies, and nua country
where we- 7)1 - 1(81 know the claims ilial.
are upon us.
No effort to shun the light, no,attempi
to cast oir, obligation, can avail for any
individual. Light is shiniug, facts are
speaking.; and,, while, we meet_ here,
and otherS meet . = other places to l solicit
light, to court .instruction; and
. ;eitibrace
responsibility in regard to Temperance
and its demands on thp sympathies of
the affectionate andihe 4trang, those who
bate the light, .refine instruction, and
shun responsibility, have it flaceil upon
them. They:live, and living where the
character-wasting, property-destroying,
death..prpdhcing work is going on, they -
must Icnoto ; for where is the family in
which imemperance has not .left,
,its
black murk ? %Vhere-the cheek of the
female, one of the first and best gifts of
God - to man, that has not been bleached
with,bitter, scalding tears, on account of
its work in some cherished object of her
affections? Where, even, the sacred
enclosure which it has not entered and
disgraced ? Indeed, so numerous are
the sources of information respecting the
doings of intemperance,, that he who
sees, or bears, or feels; 110131 Imola, and
nuts( act against it, or be condemned by
Humanity and EIUMaDIIy I S Gon.
I f el Y i ti - e - r . a Ptit e is i r n elf, ,Li ne ' d - o - n - gt — i;• ne d
TerribiVrind-in the bitterness of tihenish
we have previously asked, Shall he
reign ,forever ? Shall he continue to lay
waste the fair works of God ? Shall he
live en, and live forever, in the abodes of
Man—his curse while living, his ruin ih
death ? No; he shall not do it; fdr, 1
thMik God, and congratulate you, in
view of the fact that we live cotempo:
rary with the birth, and stern, positive,
and undehied existence of a Maine Li
•qu'oijLtisv,-a laW that . outlaws the
vending, selling, or using the pernicious
stuff—and a law, .too,' having its birth,
and entering upon its existence when
the spirit of the-age, the-signs of the
times, the love that - man is .taught to
bear to his fellow man arid ,the wants of
-the; world;--each and all proclaim, Let
(It become universal, and let it never die.
• - Alniady. the god of , iritemperance
trembles on .his. throne of skulls. which
he bits:been gathering for ages from the
ranks.of the. yoting; of. the :fair and the
lovely, the middle.aged and the .old,the
poor and the rich, the ignorant and the
learned, the -savage and the civilized,
the lieatheni.abd . .the Christian ; :fo:r he
lcuows .that the explosive element • is
The .:safety•fuze 'Cord,
running -off , into. each State; • Will be
lighieth, and surely:. - the'creeping
streams of fire reach the - . focal .point,
when his death; - his destruction Will be
certain ; cotemporary:with which, there
shall not be left a drunkard - to mianrathe.
event, or„to• sigh for the return of his
fiery spirit. But this event, so desirable
because - of tile. rich burden of blessing
which shall succeed it, is not , yet. 'We
see it in the distance, but still see i as
thelempest-tossed sailor sees the Inme
of his childhood, his own little dweling, ,
the loved forms that inhabit it. We see
it, but it.is seun as yet, as henieit' is
seqs by the Christian—by faith, in live,
by patience.: i
' The - god of intemperance is aii•oh
truder'sira OS' earth; tind'he cnight'r.o be
banished—he has-destroyedla autThient
number of victims to .con%ruot : ard
keep in repair for. hiinself, a throne of
skulls, addhe ought to die; thertfo,
,to would- 13e a vi rtue. - TO do
Ant thing, and : nothing short, is and, has'
ge:n: the object of every semperance
man. or every temperance society, and of
the Order of the Sons of Temperfia.
To do this-they called into Oxisrence'the
lun • of-hope. •tCr. , druhkards in Maine,
whose beams hay. tengtheaed, to Mine
rota, and in whose light two or three oth-
'MOIiAL-lITY. LIT ERAT tlfieAN NiIIVS.
.. _ .
er Stake s w alked= into
silvan ii, while Noiir•Tork l and''Peiin
sylvana are getting -reEtdplo takes , tip
Alniir, pleasing journeyointo;:tho; same
delightful,,regl9n.: . And others jy,ifl :go
and doliketviseokniil,;l - tis
,great family
of 'Btatee shall' rejoice" in the light, MIA
smile , in his beares. Gloribits even't'l
Blessed day ! I verily believe 'there are
Those - here, who s ; hall..live -to see it. ..God
is inlavoof it,; the wiv,esovidows,, and
children of ,Ariinli'aid are
. sek , ing for it;
;lad ih& really good oreverjr [Mine are
latAring - for it, and ii must ccime:: - There
are'eame:that doubt it—somo 'that feiti
it, and others who hatejtk;_but „their
.doults, their
. fears,.'arid their. dislikes
will no t,
c annot; prevent it';'' Come it
'Mu , and collie it will. Avarice, and
inotTerate thinkers, •ttnit is, gentleinen
drunkards, are - the principal lies to its
approach. BM' th'e j cbir ea:cher ie iri
vented- that will Throw ' these "'oil' the
track, and the train Shall be permitted to
roll into - natiOnal'sobriety tvith':licivEllor
lier'Or t esident; Puiti•rr fOr•her c'onatictor j ,
and FlautilA-lo'r her, brakeman:"
,Nliiy
the- speakers and the heare'rs nn this
occasion be • there, ready to greet them
With a glass of cold water. ,
• Front the N. V. Independent
1( '
-In same quarters, itlrwho ciiipoiie the
movement to legalize slavei•y•in' . the ter,.
ritories are• denOunced us aboliiioiiists,
nild.that is , thought- . to'be - -the end of all
There'may - be honest men
--:-•thougli Ire they,are not vei-y
crinidgeou - st—who'are tartlid to be called
by go terrible-a name. Such persons
may, perhaps; find trtaste Of consolation
is 'a passage from the introduction of a
sermon whiCh was preached at New
Haven, on the question of the day, and
which-has heretofore been nNntioned in
our columns. •
"Some persons have thought to dis
credit uhatever may. proceed.from me
on - -the great question of the..day, by
denouncing me as an 'abolLionist.' An.
abolitonist, forsooth ! hat is an aboli
tionist? If the word is to• be •.under
stood.(as'it is understood in some portions
of otrr country).:to mean an incendiary
who would stir up slav e s to minder and
insurrection, and would light the fires.
of devastation for the sake of abolishing
slavery ; or if, in it mitigated sense, it is
to be understood as meauitig one who
holds the peculiar doctrine of the imme
diate abolition of slavery, with the vari
ous corrollaries which that doctrine
involves-01 . e name is applied - to mein
the merest wantonness of
ut ;F " . woc understood in.
R.' --
fro other thalilts legitimate import, it is
not a mime to be ashamed of. If to
`approve. and honor . the act .b . 5, which
shivery was abolished. in. Connecticut,
and the successive acts and , , judicial
decisions by which it ,has been abolished
in su many of the States in which it.,
onceexisted—if to,hold that the institu
'tion and system of slavery, which makes
one humdn being the property or chai - tel
of• another, is always and- everywhere
eSsentially unjust; and ought to be eve
rywhere abolished - by .law—if to abhor
the buying and selling.. of men, women,
and-children, as merchandise—then the
pastors' of these ehurclies,••one and all,
are abolitionists; for (In theie point's we
are not conscious of one shade of diner
ence among us. Nor do we sta'n'd alone
l !in our pesitkirt. We have . notcindeed,
looked abnt to see who will stand by
us;
for we could not but despise our-
selves, if we thought we needed support
against those who think to terrify its by
the cry of ' abolitionism.' his enough
for us to know that truth.and justice are
.with us; that all.the sympathies of hu
manity, and all Christian iirrpuls6s and
! aspirations, are with 'us: that the con -
! scierite of the.worlci is irith - and,
most of -all, that'God is with us. Yet
we may sny, • and we are hound to say
in thieconnection, that we have-no con :
sciou%ness or ' e -ttnd , no suspicion
of any difference` of bPinion 'between
ourselves and those who minister in
churches tither denomivations.
We. say, then,to thosi-whriaesire I.
toreproach_ns, Call, us abolitionists
but do you
: know what.thnt
naine'ineans, and to : wlicirn,it'rightfully
belongs:? Tell . us; if- yon can, - what
man there is, respectecl.in this- commu
nity for his intelligence and moral worth,
.who will hold up..his head and-say he
is not an abolitionist in the only sense
in - Whic:h we are abnlitiOnisi - s. Eury
liresident of 'Yale' College for the last
•seyenty,five years,-Stiles. 'Dwight, the
.venerable man .who still lingers among
us„,in., his:
: retiFemcpt.,,trom . ,the offtcd ',
Which s long adorned, and n ot least
illnstrietii'in the' lionOred line, the pea
'fotind, exaCt,!and:gified scholar Who now
:presidesin..those ancient .hallsinay.
stigmatized with that name (if 4,41.. a'
-stigma) .. as reasonably ,as we can be.
,all,,ps abolitionists if you .will. The.
name net dishonor the saga
'Clotts'Statei'minship of Franklin' f 'iiiir the
judidial.' learning and 'Christan'liatri-,
otisurAit-Jay,. , will not distionor'us: - The
name which was, like et crown of,glory
to the saintly Wilberforpe, and , which
Eff=EMlksigmatmsmoimasmomimJ
• • '
'giVei.inlenort. - :il * ,b,loona-:anci fragrance , to
.the nactilory , of Glarkion and of Granville
Shari), is not a namplor'ney of us Ed 6d
aslidined of.' It is time to have done,
with that 4iighear." l •
„ .
Old Bullion on .E~ecutive In
. teifeieticit. -
The. following extract from Col. Ben-1
ton's great...speech 'on the -Isfebi;ilal
question, is the best rebuke of the Free-1
ident's attempt to: push that odious bill
through in , defiance' of the mill' ofthei
people, that we have seen:
Coo, BENTON' proceeded :—I have l
Said that' this' bill - comes into Congress
under the Adniltiistration of a Frtie State
,President ; .but I do-nbt mean to say. et
insirinate,,by,thatremark, {hat the Pres.
idenpavors the bill.. Ikopiv,,nothin
h'a
of disposition , ;
and
did,' I "'She'd hat disetoie it here.' 'lt
would , be unparliarnentarv c . and a breaCh
Of,the privileges of this House:to,do se,
The President's .opinions can only be
made known• .to us by himself: in a
message ivritipt - k.,-' 4 + that
. wpy it is j
his right,:and often-his duty, to comma:.
niCate • with us. And in that' Way . there
is "no rooni , for • mistake inciting his
opinions ;:. no room for the imputation of
contraclictiary opinions to him ; and is
that ttrafhe. becomes., responsible to the
At'fierican - people” for 'the Opiiiiiins he
may deliver. All othei nodes are ra
bid to.him,..as
. tentling to tin undue and
unconstitutional interference with the
freedorn.of legislation. dt is.tiot bribery
alone attempted upon a member which
constitutes a, breach of the privileges of
this; llonse. It is any attempt to operate
upon a member's vote by any Conside
ration of hope or fear, favor or affection,
prdspect.or reward: ot- dread of punish
ment. This is • parliamentary law, as
old : as English Parliaments, constantly
maintained by the British Ilouse of
Commons; and lately declared in a most
signal manner, :It was during the reign
of our 'old' master, George the Third,
and ,in:4l* famous lase of Mr. Fox's
Fast - India
: A report ivas spread
in Parliament by one of the lords of the
bedchamber, that the King was opposed ,
'to the bill I that he wished it defeated;
and had said that he would consider any
member his enemy who should vote f'ir
it. •The House of , Commons took fire
at this report, and immediately reiolved:
' : o'Tliat- to report -anyaapinicin, or fire
tended opinion, of his ;
an bill / T reat er House of
diliament, ts.,i hili - erime and misde
meanor, derogatory to' the honor of the
Crown, a breaeh of the fundamental
privileges of Parliament, and subversive'
of the Constittitlon of the country.'
This reiolve was 'adopted in a full
House; by a majority of seventy-three
votes, and waS only,declaratory of exist-'
ing Parliamentary law—such as it had
existed from the time that English
counties and boroughs first sent knights
Of the shire and burgesies 'to represent
thetri in the ParliaMent Ilotise. It is
old English..Parliarnentary law, and is so
recorded by Hatsell, and all the writers
on:that law. It is also American law,
as old as our Congress; and as such re
corded .in Jefferson's
: Manual. It is
honest law';and as Such existent in 1
every - honest heart. Sir, the President 1 1
,of•the United States caw send us no 1
opinions,_ except in ..written messages, '
and no, one can
,report his opinions, to i s
, ,
'influence the conduct of memb - ers upon al
'n bill,. Without becoming robnoxilus to w
rthecenstire'which• the British House of if.
Commons - pronounced upon the lord of k
the bed . chambe7, the.case of the King
and the Fox. East India
gor Can the President's Secretaries— I I
his head 'clerks as Mr. Randolph used
to call them—send us their opinions on'
any,-subject' of legislation depending
before' us. s; They can only report and.
that_ .r(wriiiiirr, on the subjects referred
To_them by; law or by a vote of the
- Houses. -Non-interventiiin•is their dtity
in :relation:to:ouelegislatiort; and if they
attempt to,intervene in any of our busi
ness, •I must be allowed, for one, to re
pulse the attempt, and to. express for it
no higher degree of respect than that
Mr. „ Burlth expressed for the opiniohs
'Ora British Lord Chancellor,• delivered
to tlYe House of Commons, in raise in
which he had no concern._ Sir, I .sup•
p'ose I can be alloyed. to repeat on this
floor any degree of comparison or figure
'of, speech which Mr. Burke could use
On the floor of the British House of Com
mans. slie-Was a classic speaker. and,
sbesides:that.author Of a treatise on the
:Sublime and Beautiful though, Ido not
,consider the particular figure:, which I
,have ,to repe l at although just and pic
iurestine 'in to be e. perfect kilos
fitdiori of ealierliranch or, his admired ,
Areatfie: 7h was' in reference to LOH
'Thurlow, who had• iliteivened in some
, iegislaciveiteisioesa,-. contrary to the era
foes:sense of right 'nod decency. Mr.
Burke - repulsed the - intrusive : opinion ,
acid deOlared'ihat 'l4 did . noi care three
•
luttipis of Et donee:lhr it. I say the'
,Eidtne..of-,aitjr opiniottj.which may , *
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apy hill depending *Wm us ; and; ttr.a;
iq any form in which it may. cOmefrom
themwbetbek as a ; atnit or arintegeks,
Still iesi do ; I adnait.the : kight of Inter •
vention our legislative duties in an d
other .class,of intertneddlers, and ..who
tiiighT•tiof be able to, Meddle at allwich
our heOneis, were it not for, ihemitiis:
traticin of our* :botinty. aneali of. the
pubfic*priaters, who get their daily bread:
(aiitlahat buttered on both sides)4by out
daily printing, :and Who ,kequire
Ilatiocratic members" of this hous e;
• •
bilder • the instant penalty of *olitical,
darnnatien, to give in their adh esion to:
yyccy bill whicn they may call Admih . ;
!st ration ; • 'and that nil every change, at •
pay undergo, although' more change
able than
. the 'ninon. For that class of
nitertnedd lers.' .Lhave* no Parlbiaie.nter
latv.'te administer, nor any quotniiotz l
fro!ia 13Urke . ! *to apply, -nothing, 'but
lisle fable to read; the 'value efwhicf
in' all good' fable's, ties in,itsperar,
4Li is in• French, and entitled;
son maitre ;" which, being 'done' iota
if.riglish, signifies " The,,ass aqtl
inqNler,"•liiq runs thus : . • .
" An ass took it into his heed to scare
his master, and put,on a lion's Skin, and.
' stood in the path. And when 'he saw:
his master coming, he commenced roar
tag, as hp thought; bet he only brayed,
linnd the Mester' knew it was his ass;. so
the went up to him with a-cudgel, an&
j beat him nearly to death." •
That is the end .of the fable, aod•tho,
j; moral of has, "a caution to all asses to,
take care how they Undertake !,44
their masters." •
Progres's in Virginia.
1 The Richmond Enquirer,• speaking
lof the recent antt•slavery demonsiration
lat Wheeling, says:
1 "The sentiment of the State is, thin'.
loughly and entirely sound in respect to:
slavery. In these latter times the loan-t
'dation of slavery, as a moral and social
;institution, has been more carefully'ex- -
(trained and discussed than at any pre ,
Timis period, and the result is an almost
universal ! conviction, that the aysierri of
bouthern slavery is fil wise . and just iii
its nature as it i beni,ficent in •itt -
),peration."
ii We agree to that fully, and we Iti4l
i delighted that for once, the Enquirer
trod the Evening Post elm agree !open
it subject about which they have hitherto
so uniformly differed. We sincerely
believe, that "the system of southern
1 ilavery is as wise and just in ita.naturo
as it is benificent in its operation." -
1 Whether the `Ehquirer wilragreni
with us farther in the conviction, that it
i 6 no more wise and just than it is benif
icent in its operation, is a question 'upon
Which we will not venture to express an
opinion, v., till we hear further fret - deur
Virginian contemporary.
IWe admire the hopeful spirit of the
Enquirer, which finds ,So much encour
'agement in the progress of the public
inind in Virginia since her leading suites- •
iiien pronounced -the trafflic in huinan
flesh infamous, since they emancipated
1 t tell-slaves by will because they could
1
o longer hold them conscientiously in
bondage, and publicly declared that GO
hid no attribute which can take sides
With them - in defence of the system
hich the Enquirer characterizes a
scas it is benificent; , '
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No one can doubt, that "the sentiment
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Virginia" must have undergone no
•dinary change since such opinions
,ere entertained by her prominent Men . ;
i not, John Y. Mason would not now
icepy the post once filled by , Thomas
s ifferson ; Judge Bayly would not, be
ie successor of Madison as the leader of
le Virginia delegation in Congress; nor
wiatild John. Tyler have ever received
the same, liberal reward for his public
seirvices which was bestowed upon . the
a Father of his country." ' The magni- _
tUde of this change in the public senti
ment of!Virgiiiin, and in the quality of
h 0 leading men, net one can appreciate
in. re fully than ourselves.
flerodottis gives an account of a grips.
n;',v )rous animal which he. fell in With
in Egypt,- having a -.tair bf tong hbfils
pi!cijecting in fiont of it towards - the
g,!uund, like the coWcetclier of et modern
le'comoiive, and which stuck into the
etiound when the ' animal advanCed.
; The consequence • was that !when it
goized it was obliged to walk backwards.
Slviiry in Virginia - appears to hare
1 oPi!rated like the horns of this strange
phenomenon; and all the progress's/to.
has made in' arriving at new conclosiode
tilion the subject-of slavery, we lear'hiss
been made in the same direction as her
Etyptian ,prototy pi. .
- iThe Ehquirer would give ua to utt,
clrstand, - that the= more careful exent
ination of it the foUndation of .slaveiy
as a. moral and . .aociai institntien," rin
ttiese latter times'? hasled to the change
of!which it speaks. We have no doubt
thnt plavery 'has had' a-controlltrig idly
' gßce in bringi o,g it about, but whether bi
,canse the subject hais_nr has; not been
more fully discussed "in thesis. latter
timear wan when , the foundations' of Kt
political edifice were ltich N is aipacatii*
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