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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 <n enin ro.tr
The hro..d A..aii ie's iiittows Lit e
Helena's rocky shore.
Burnt - fly her patient ,pir;t bowed
Itenea h 4he eine:Cuing red,
flat she Alan re p a rich tew,‘rd
In the kingdom of our G d.
and one, all weilry, faint and vorn,
1,::5t of that ooli:e
Came hack, •ike No ill', wandering dove,
To die in ;Ili , fair Lard.
Anil lie n'er v. h long toil,ume life,
-11:•(.1
The efili it holy love,
lie too ite4 -ttith the dead.
1!e s!ceps brae: th 'lie rolling waveii
()Nile rc ,, ,nn.firvz
I: :we i ,, r cnie ! a rse , oult
I%;1- beat Brill a/Id floe.
Thry need no ..nu:p , nrej monument
1.. IL:we or re-1;
Their ever live
In e reast
And hrigh•er thraligh c. ch circling age
r.rr•s their high renown;
(,f g..i .er ng right
each hea%enly crown.
N. J.. 1-7,7;
Fr)1:1 i.e Alagaz:ne for Fel)
LIE SENECA
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'1.0! :be poor 111.11 - 11. Nvho , e nittn'ored mind
OD is e:mitl-.L, Oihearsilim in .he wind.
A ,1:0,1 ai , tance below the Indian
0t . C..1d Spring, in ill. , County
:.'•tate of 7.\:,ew \-4)lk,
and ah a mile from the All egan y
River. there i-, a small lake or pond,
I , rand of the waters of au extensive
nur , h. Tho laka is filled ‘vith de
c.iying vegetable matter, and having
ru other outlet, its waters become
:ant and di: colored. Their stonbre
hue ivapre one with the idea that
thuy a,e alm e.t or tplite fathomless.
At tini 811'0.11 , 4C 11 , 11t..-5 larly lie seen
Hutting above the sunnee, and gliding
about in_ vari!als directions. Though
acc“imred scientific
PnliCiph.-, they }Live ever been le
gardcd by th e unlettered ed-man
witb feeings of shier-titions dread.
'Lc ai:t.rigine, have a curious legend
zerniing this stt a.ige
p," which was once related - to me
!y an old copper-coloi ed friend, as
'Ye were at upon a little knoll
;it the t, ember:: ex I remit y of the lake.
hear, have i:a,sed silt t: its narration,
but my memory serves Inc correctly,
.
suhstance was as follows:
3lanv hundred, of ,moons since,
bf,re the pale-Cads were kIIONVII to
the red man, a small tribe of Indians
(lived ppm/ the lumutiinl savannah at
lfrady's•ltecd, about screnty miles
IL, ve the pre,ent city of Pittsburgh.
They were peaculde, industrious, and
sch,id e d byagi iculture, and the sun-
Pic art. of peace, - and not like many .
ol their neighbors, by the shedding of
in hunting and war. They de
lighted in athletic spots, and games
of carious kinds, and Were tufted for
their skill in the feats or dexterity
custom al y among; the Indians. They
ffcluentiv invited the members of
ether tribes to coinlicte w it h them
at their ft afire gatherings. On one
of these 'occasions a sad accident oc
cared, by which a Seneca warrior lost
his life. Thouidi purely an accident,
this affair exasperated his tfriends,
14 110 determined to wreak a fearfl
revenge upon their peaceful neighbors.
Accordingly a band of Senecas
armed themselves fftr the war-path,
rid floating down the majestic Alle
3,ny to the id-lilted , attacked
it with unrelenting fir rv. Au indis
criminate slaughter of old and young,
male and female ensued. Only one
of the tribe, a dark-eyed, beauti ful maiden was saved frorn the general
desuuction. She had been seen and
admired on a previous occasion by a
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young Seneca brave,' who successfully.
exerted himself to bear her away
unhurt from the scene of slaughter.
When the marauding party re
turned, the Indian girl, sorrowful and
weeping, was carried to the northern
home of her captor: In a few days,
she found here f among his friends at
Cold• w.. 0 :ought by every
means in their power to dispel the
clouds which enveloped her brow.
But their efforts were of no avail.
Though she had previously admired
her captor. and longed to share his
fortunes, she now, as the slayer .91 .
her kindred and the desolater alter
home; conceived- for *him the most
intense hatred and disgust. She ear
nestly desired to return to her home—
though she knew that naught but des=
olatiun and loneliness would meet her
sight—and mingle her tears with the
ashes of her loved and lost ones. She
was closely watched, however, mid
for a time it was futile to entertain
any idea of attempting to escape.
But at length,. to her great delight,
a seemingly favorable opportunity
presented itself. The family in which
she lived became engaged_ in making
sugar the sluing after her capture, on
the bank of the little lake. Her cap
tor, who intended soon to claim her
for his wile, had built a light birchen
canoe to float upon its. placid waters,
and they weie in the habit of riding
in this tiOry vessel during the calm
evenings of the early spring. A torch
light at the prow of the boat made
every object visible for many a rod
around them. These little excursions, '
had her heart been there,-would have
been delightful and romantic indeed;
bet ,he cherished a burning desire
for revenge, which she determined to
gratify at the first opportunity..
One murky evening:, while they
were gliding over the lake, and he
was using every artifice to win her
affections and dispel the gloomy feel
"iags which he knew were making her
uunappy, she conceived the idea of
murdering hint, escaping to the oppo
site shore, and making her way home
as best she could. When his back
was turned in paddling the boat, she
raised a stone hatchet which lay at
her feet, and striking him a severe
blew upon his temple, he fell, with.a
dull, heavy sound, into. the yielding
tiers, and sunk to m ise no mute. No
sootier had she begun to congratulate
her-ell - upon the prospect of escape;
than a gingling sound at the bottom
- of the bout, aroused her to the fact
that it was. filling with water. In fall
ing overboard, the body of the mur;-
tiered Indian, by its weight, had in
some nurin:er, broken a hole through
life human of the frail structure,
through which the waters poured with
fearful rapidity. She shrieked for
help, and endeavored to stay the
1 rushing waters with her garments, but
;in Vain. The boat sunk, the light
was extinguished, and the unfortunate
maiden and her lover slept side by
side beneath the darksonae 'waters of
the Indian lake.
SEEM
Many of the old Italians aver, that
frequently in the calm still evenings
of the warmer portions of the year,
the ghosts
,of the unfortanate maiden
and her lover revisit the lonely tarn
where this dreadful tragedy occurred,
and that the scene of their departure
to the spirit land is reenacted with
graphic fidelity. Upon such occasions
they are seen gliding along in a phan
tom canoe, with a torch at the prow.
They near the-center of the. blackened
waters; a scene of apparent confusion
ensues; splashing sounds are heard,
and shrieks, like those . Which come
from the drowning. Soon the light
sinks beneath the surface, and silence
and darkness resume their reign over
the "misty mid-region."
OLEAN, Jan. Ist, 1855.
A great and good man, once speak
ing of politeness, said: I make it a
point of morality never to find fault
with another for his manners; they
may be awkward or graceful, blunt or
polished:' or rustic. I care not
what they are, if the man means well
and acts from honest intentions, with
out eccentricity or affection.' All men
have not the advantage of 'good society,'
as it is called, to school themselves An
all its fantastic rules and ceremonies,
and, if there is any standard of maners,
it -is only founded in reason and good
Sense, and not upon the artificial regu
lations. Manners, like conversation,
slu pe extemporaneous and not
studied. I always suspect a man who
meats me with the sane perpetual
smile upon his face, the same congeer
ing of his body, and the same premed
itated shake of the hand. Give me the
(it may be rough ) grip of 'the hand,
and the care'ess.nod of recognition,
and when occa,ion requires the homely
salutation, How are -you, my old
friend?'
DEVOTED TO THE PRINCIPLES. OF DEMOCRACY, AND THE DISSEMINATION OF . ..MORALITY LITERATURE, AND NEWS
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COUDERSPORT, POTTER COUNTY; PA., MARCH 1, 1855
From the Sunday Times
Loins wissurn *
To the Society of Friends in Great Britain
FitIENDS : You . have
.sent me your
"Christian appeal," pleading peace at
any price, not because you bold - the
present war unnecessary, impolitic,
or directed toward a wrong issue;
but because you hold all war to be
unlawful uuder the gospel dispensa
tion.
I have considered your .article at
tentively: (sear with_ me, for meeting
you with Conscientious sincerity on
your own ground,. by a public answer
- to your public appeal.
The gospel is your- authority. It
is to the Gospel that I appeal against
your false doctrine. I call on ye to
submit to the words of him whoni
you invoke : "When Ye shall hear of
wars and commotions,be not terrified;
for these thimrs musT first came to pass,
but the end is not by-and-by. Nation
•shall rise against nation, and kingdoni
against kingdom."
Thus nail the Lord. Submit to
His decrees.
And. " Think not that I - am come to
send 'peace on earth; I came not to
send peace, but a sword."
Thus says the_Lord, whom ye call
"the Prince of Peace." And His
words are wisdom, Justice and truth—
Freedom on earth, salvation in eter
nity, is the aim to which mankind
is called.. We have a " Father "
in Heaven. A father cannot have
doomed his children to thraldom,
oppression and perdition. To believe
the contrary is blasphemy. But the
end "is not by-and-by." Like as we
see in. geology, that the work of c: e
ation is still going on, hour by hour
incessantly, just so we see a revelation
of His will incessantly propounded in
; history. Know ye of one single peo-.
pie delivered from thraldom. by some
other means than the. sword ? There
els none. and none ever has.been.
:Therefore is it that the Lord .has Said
"these things must first dome to pass."
{ It is,. theretbre, the Lord says, "I
came not to send peace, but . a sword."
Bespect the wad of the Lord ; do
not revolt against the revelation of the
will of our Father in .Heaven.
To allow iniquity to bear the sway
when the sword could have arrested
it—to rivet the chain.s of oppression
over nations by treaties, when the
sword could have severed the chains
a work of iniquity arid, not of
peace.
To plead for immunity to tyrants,
fin. their encroaching upon their neigh
bor's house, or for oppress ink, fileec
ing and and torturing nations, is so
much .as to plead immunity to the
wolves,_for devouring - the sheep.
Does it not strike you that to call
iniquity and oppression by the sweet
name of peace is profanation and
blasphemy!
You preach -"Peace to tyrants, and
good will to oppressors;" -does not
your conscience tell' you that by so
doing you are preaching against the
rights of man, and humanity ?
If the thief breaks into pant house,
and robs you of your silver, do you
give him your gold for the sake of
peace; or do you call on the police
man to bring the thief to judgment,
that he may be -punished and your
property restored?
.Which do you
do? . •
And where is the tribunal to which
oppre;i:ed nations may appeal, against
the crowned robbers of their peace
and happiness, if it be not the sword I
"Every tree that bringeth not forth
good fruit is to be hewn down and
cast into the fire," says the Lord. Is
there a tree worse- than injustice and
tyranny? Yet you plead peace to
the bad tree, that mankind may be
forced to oat its poisonous fruit—op
pression.. .Is that charity?
For yourself, who
.(thanks to Crom
well's sword) have no oppression to
suffer, it is very well to say : "Don't
war; hit us have peace, that we may
in tranquility devote our energies to
the peaceful pursuits of commerce
and industry, and thus continue to
thrive."
But Europe is oppressed. Thrive,
and be blessed. I will not say unto
you, "Lay not,up for yourselves treas
ures upon earth, because ye cannot
serve God and mammon." I will not
say so unto you, because•you are con
spicuous by meek social virtue and by
private charity.. I would only ask
you : Do you mean that your religion
commands you to be charitable only
towards the passing private. sufferings
of men, and forbids you to be charita
ble towards •the lasting and public
sufferings of nations?—of hurhanity?
If such be your religi.m, then bear me
for telling you, that either you are not
Christians, .or your Christianity is like
the prayer of the Pharisees, "sounding
brass and tinkling cymbals.!'
I am full ofdefects and fragilities;
I know it. ,-But I am deeply attached
to the religion of my fathers. There
was a period in my life when I had to
make a choice between danger to-my
life and my-Christian faith. Ido not
boast of the fact. - I *thank our Father.
in Heaven for havinggiven me strength
tobe faithful to Christ. And 1 ear
nestly pray tljat all of you may he
spared the trial. .But I say unto you,
Friends, if I were to learn that Christ
ian 'religion fiffbids me to oppose
wrong---to. devote tziy heart, my arm,
my blood, my life to the deliverance
of nations from thraldom and oppres
sion ; ifit would forbid me to fight for .
their freedom, when there is•no other
means to make them free, 1 would
abjure - the dogmas of Christianity
openly, 'for 1 would hold them .to
be a compound of hypocrisy. -
But, fortunately, that is not the
case. Christian religion is essentially
the religion of charity. Wo to them
who make a 'difference between pri
vate and public charity—who restrict
their love to their next neighbor, and
remain indifferent to the public suffer
ings of their neighbors, the nations.
You may, perhaps, say that you
love them.; tliey have yourbet>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.