VOL: VII TilE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL, yricisim) EVERY TIMILSDAY MORXING. BY ADDISON AVERY. T e rms—lnvariably in Advance : cte copy per annum., $l.OO Village subscribers, ' 125 TERMS OF ADVERTISING. I square, of 12 lines or less, 1 in4er.ion, $f1.50 .... " " 3 in-ertions, 1.50 every suli , equent in-et - lion, :2a Ra!e and figure work, lier ..q., 3 insertions,"3.oo Evert . attloatiptent in,ertion, .sti I coannn, one year, `2, - i.t . ,0 1 c a n al , ix mon.hq, 15.00 Administrators' or Executors' Notices, 2MII :hen, Si e. , , per .racy, ' 1.50 r tn it e ,:ionai Card: no: exceeding eight lines Wet ed for Fii. , per annum. ri ,, mi l e ter; 011 filiKine,s, to secure at ten , o n, altould be . addres , ed (post paid) to the Fable:her. From the Sabbath Recorder THE THREE IRS. JUDSONS. One in the Burman land !la h bnintl an early grave; O'er her .he .ovely Ilup:a tree J graceful branches Iva es. firru!y -he trod the path of life, )leeky the cross ahe bore; Du: pain, ;.nd tear,. and suffering, rzh.d; v.sit her no more. Another fair and gentle one ti.eens ivlzere ‘vi.li t wishes and your fervent - prayers for their de: liverance; only you would neither fight yourselves, nor cau.approve of their fighting for it. You wish them rather to be oppressed, and content yourself with feeding for an hour. from your abundance one hungry, and clothe one naked, and comfort one broken hearted; while you entreat them to submit quietly to oppression, which makes millions hungry, and naked, and broken-hearted for . generations to come. But I say unto you: if sucli. he your religion•, of prayers and of good wishes, it is not„ the religion. of Him who was sent. "to heal the broken-heal ted, to preach deliverance to the captives. and to set at liberty them that are bruised." It is not the religion of Him who left us the lesson, that "though I under stand all mysteries, and all knowledge, and hate all fhith,• so that I could remove mountains, and thong', J staa, all my goods to ,feed the poor, AND nAVr. NOT CHARITY, IT PROFITLITH NOTHING." You say it is written : "Glory to God in the highest, and peace on earth, good will toward man." But I say unto you:, your version of the Gospel is apocryphal. The•text runs thus "Glory to God in the hi , Jlest, and peace on earth to tfood-willing men." ( Gloria in excelsis"Deo, et pax in terra hominibus, bow roluntatis:) Your doetiine of peace at any price, and war at no price," is good will to ill-willing men, and ill-will to good-willing men. . Bear good will to all men, but when you see the wolves devouring sheep after sheep—then if you stand by with indifference, or entrench yourself . be hind Your own comfOrtable security,, or behind your good will toward ail— behind your good wishes and your prayers—and you let the wolves do, and entreat others likewise to do; verily I say unto you, your peace is iniquity, and your religion is • not Christian. • I call on you to be charitable to the just against the unjust,to the oppressed against the oppressors, to the sheep against the wolves—to humanity, in a word, and not to some crowned pirates arid perjurious Murderers. -I call on you to be charitable to your neighbors, the nations. I call on you to love the moral dig nity of. men ; to love not the comfbrts and tranquil pursuits of the -passing moment, but the basting- welfare of your own and of foreign nations. Pat riotism is the noblest. source of civic virtue, and justice the noblest source of political virtue, Christian religion unites this all, because- it is charity. But, '• You may bestow all your gooCis to the poor, and still have no charity," says the LORD. Make despots yield to justice and right, without having theM compelled by force of arms, and ye shall be blessed. But since you cannot do this, preach , not impunable security to ty rants, by decrying. necessary Wars., For" "tleese things mast first come to pass," says the Loan. As long as there is oppression, wars must be, or else the tyrants, delivered from all fear of resistance, would soon reduce all . mankind, by the sword, permanently to the condition ofa herd of cattle and a flock of sheep—nay,.to worse . ; far it is better to be a dumb brute than to be a man, and not to be free. Oppression :and tyranny re moved from earth, then comes to the end of "these things which must come to-pass." Freenations may enter a covenant of arbitration ; tyrants never will, never eau. :They rule by the sword: they mast 'be resisted by the sword, or else . the word peace will be blotted out from the recordS of coming events, and "eternal oppression" substituted for it. • War is a terrible rynedy; but a remedy it is. The fife burns some, but it warms all: The hurricane un roots trees, and 'dashes the ships• to fragments, and buries men in the deep; but it cleanses the earth, and keeps ofrtagnation from the air 'and the sea. :Would you put out the fire, and do wpy with the hurricane'? These things must be. So it is with just and necessary wars. Help to make them advantageous to mankind, but do not shout " Peace!" while thet e is op pression, or else you are guilty ofshout ing " Tyranny!" , I have seen.a but of. William Penn, the founder of the City of Friends, bearing the mate: Pax piaritur hello." "Glory to God in the highest, and paeee on earth to good-willing men!" KOSSITTIT. No. 9.1 Alpha Road, London, Jan. 15. 1:455. BE7SPITTMLE SCENE IN THE ITASSACEM- SETTS LEGISLATURE A Blaveholder and a Fugitive Sian Coufronte d THEIR SPEECHES ABOUT SLAVER} [Correspondence of the,Evening Post.] BOSTON, Feb. 15, .1:t55. The Representatives' Hall was the scene - , - Tait last Tuesday afternoon, of a remarkable spectacle. The occasion was a .hearing„befbre the Committee on Federal Relations, of piaties inter ested in the passage of a personal liberty bill. Mr. Wendell Phillips opened the discussion - in temperate lau. , fuage, and was • followed by two Boston lawyers, who spoke eloquently and to the point. As the last of the3e concluded, the chairthan announced that he was informed that a slaveholder, and owner of fifty slaves, was present, and that they should be glad to extend to him the courtesy of a hearing, if lie desired to say anything:On the subject. Thereupon all eyes , were turned eagerly upon a.thin, swarthy man, of purhaps thirty-five or forty years of age, who arose and stepped forward to the committee's table. He bow e d to the chairman, and commenced in rather a low tone, when the audience, with a simultaneous movement, flocked. towards the speaker, and seated them selves as near 'as possible. He ap peared embartassed, and indeed ac knowledged that he was "kind o' •skeered," (that was his expression.) He began by saying that when he 101 l [loin° he did not - much expect to come to Boston, much lesS to 'find himself spen kin: , to the Legislature of the Stat... He • thanked the committee for the jhilA Le e, and immediately began upon the old story of the happy condition of the slaves. as compared with t-,e poorer classes of the north; stated that his slaves had six pounds-of moat per week, with hominy, rice..&e., and lived about as well as hirnself; that great progress was now making in the religious 'education and ptitileges'of the Slaves; that there were many slave_ preachers, who were allowed to preach "standing side by side. with the missionaries;" that the slaves had no responsibility and ito thought—" we do their thinking fur them." " We cannot Warne you," said he, "for protecting them when they nine among you, (applause.) but there's TM use in agitating the subject of' aboli tion. Things are nut ripe flu-that yet. ,What could you do with the slaves! You don't want them in )lassachusetts; they don't Want them in New York. You had much Netter use the zeal you are spending in this matter, in pro viding a way to keep out the foreign emigrants! (A sop for the Rinow- Nothings.) Now, 1 was born in the free State of Pennsylvania, and raised in Ohio. And half of all the slaves I ever bought, I bought to rescue them from'cruel treatment on other planta tions. *(Hearty - applause.) (So one man has tWenty-five slaves, out of fifty, that have been treated unkindly and cruelly.) ".It is a mistake and a slander to say that slaves are treated Unkindly as a general-- thing.. Now, if 'any of my slaves run away and come to Boston, you are welcome to keep them; but they won't cotne,—they would ant make the exchange. (The old stcry.) But if you want abolition, give me forty per cent. of .the market value of the slaves in the 'United States, and I will free and deliver them all to you. The South, that is, the slaveholders, know . and admit that slavery is . a great evil.- .(Applautud -exclamations of Oh! Oh!) You judge of the slaves by the specimens you see here. But I tell yeti that the;)2 that runs avant the worst ( ! f the and much more to a like effect. When, after having spoken some fifteen minutes, he eon clqded somewhat in the following knits: , "Now, rin some skcered like, and I don't to take up much of your time. ("Go on . , sir, we are hap py to hear you as long as you tlesire," fr m the chairman. "Now, I'm wil ling to int;ct any man single handed on this subject, and I think I can con vince him. -I thank you, Mr. Chair man and gentlemen, lbr The privilege • of addrelling you." "On. his-resuming his seat, the Chair man arose, and said: "There is an uneducated colored man, a fugitive slave, present, who has expressed a wish to answer. the gentleman who has just - spoken.". And in the midst of applause, 'Lewis Hayden, a merchant tidier, well-known in this city, stepped forward. He was neatly and simply dyes-ed. He has a fine bead, inside and out, and he proceeded, as nearly a I can reinernber,ln these terms: "I am happy to have heard the brother who has just spoken, (1 say (brother,! though I suppoSe be don't claim any relationship with me,) latigh.) Ho says the runaway negroes are the worst part of the slaves. You have, most of you, seen Prod:. Douglass and - sa lie others of us, and if we are the worl;t* part, you can foittl some idea what the balance are who remain in slavery. "He says the masters think for the - slaves, and speaks of this as a' blessing to us. Why,---3lr. Chairman, the Se verest flogging I ever laid was for tell-- in ,- my master thought.' Ho had ordered me to do something which _I thought was a mistake, -and I did not do it. He asked me Why I didn't do a-- I was bid. 1 replied that I thought it had better not be done, or to tlizt effect. • He rejoined, 1 'had no busi ness to think,' and -flogged me. Au wifer time 1 omitted to do something whiCh was no prrt of rev duty, and which I was not ordmed to do, and the omission caused seine mischief. • lily ma-ter said, Why didn't you do it l' I replied, didn't think it was to b done.' He rejoined, 'Why didn't you think?' and flogged me. When I think of their mode of dealin with us, I am reminded of the old Irish Man Nvho wanted an excuse .r beating his wife; and, as he was— riding homeward on his old mare, ho said to himself: 'l'll ax- her did she ihcd the old baste, and'if she says no, l'l tell her why didn't ye feed the old c.itter?—and put the sthrap ontil hdr; but maybe she'll say ‘yes, I did her,'-arid I'll say s 'and why in the name did ye feed bed' and I'll Masher fig that.' (A laugh.) The gentleman speaks of the IV: ..ions In ivilegeS, and the gospel we Yes—the mis•iunary and the slave ' priest stand up side by siik, aril say, .Si‘rvants, obey your masters,' and such like gospel is all we hear. But, as. soon as the slave begins to feel him self .sear a man, he want. 4 a free "The gentleman tells us that Amer ica is not responsible for slavery, and pits the blatm., , on the mother country. IMr. Chairman, the gentleman needn't hare told me be ‘v4s born and raised Yankee after that. I should hay,: kliown him. This is always the Yan-, Iwo argument; Jmt it don't sound very NN'ell in his mouth, who was born and rai ed in a fee country, and goes and volunteers into slave-holding, more bhame for him." I have not done full .ju. tice to the excellent reply which this intelligent once-slave made to this ignorant, though, perhaps,kind-lrearted toaster. To be just to the latter, I think he was stung to the quick by the supcTiority of his antagonist, and as it W;udd not do in that presence to ens ' wer him with the overseer's whip, why, he arose hurriedly, went again t) the stand, and invoked the attention of the audience, in a strain of-some rapttiorL to' the fact that Gad-, who nth.; over us all, permit- slavery, and it it wasn't right he wouldn't. (So {god permits the canebrakes of Ala i bama to , ;row—must .the Alabamian, then, not clear them off and build cities thereon ?) "Now,l . Should be willing to meet any white man (great applause and laughter) single-handed on this subject. To be, sure, I'm going. south to-morrow, but then , I'll he glad to meet any one before I go," &c. , - Thus you have substantially and faithfully reported, • the remarkable It mocks commentary; and I will not mar its significance by Idler i•,g any. To look and listen to the Fr-duct of .slavery on a white free l:etn, and of freedom on a colored slave, in the persons of these. two men, was such a sermon as nei ther Whittield.or Parker could have preached. • . B. OUT or JOINT.—Pub di and the Brit ish Bible Society are at loggerheads. "1 . he latter association has offended the sarcastic scribbler, by noting that the Czar of Russia was a friend lo the Bible, because he remitted a duty of about £460 on a shipment of British Bibles. Punch, in a fit of patriotism, exclaims: "Tattoo £sd on the back of, Satan, 'and thez,e men will fall down. on their knees before him!" ,Very complimentary to British piety. . If a small buy be called a lad., ii it proper to can a mgger boy ladder NO. 41.