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Ithem which tells of higher ob jects of .
life to a human being-than " possume
fat and hominy." er the tristdefecta
bleexternal relations. .There is some
thing which whispers to them that the
body is more than raiment,. and the
freedom of the soul infinitely greater
than the comforts of the body. Like
the test of us, they yearn for freedom,
and having aevieved freedom. though
but for a few days, they welcome the
grave as the alternative to bondage.
But, in ailing this, they have in his
tory some pertinent and illustriou4 ex
amples. The annals of man are filled
with similar incidents. There ale
names that have been rosette(' ft um
tha: mortality which follows all hu
man affairs,- solely on the ground of
such exhibitions as we have seen in
Cincinnati. Nut to mm.tion the thou
sand occurrences in to le barbarian
times—wher!.i fathers and brothers
TI e caso ul the fugitives at CillClll-.
du-;fairing safety- have destroyed
sari is likely to rut ite more questions
those who were most dear t, t hem—
iber those which have been argued so ict us recall one or two from the pages
ably hef re the Court of the United lof mare civilized story. When %-
s ates C. mmissioner. These are in tie idutes wai defeated by Lucullus he
tbeasslves sufficient to art-u•e the, at- ordered the :acritice of his wile and
waiter of every man who is interested
roster to prevent their falling Into the
12 an impartial fir law ; j hands-of the enemy ; aid the writers
bat beyond these is a moral question, i who - narrate the tale are accustomed
airess;ng it-elf to the s:,mpathiesof tO Di l ate upon the act as a proof of the
tlartrt" and noble" beaus. The fur - dignity and grandeur of his soul.
air we shall dist uis ill due time., and. when Vii guijam, summoned by Appiu
therefore, centine our rem' ks fur the Claudius t surrender his diugliter as
•
rrewt to the latter.
a slave, plunges the dagger into her
Our readers are aware that among bosom rather theft yield to the de
-61 slav e s at rested at Cincinnati was maud, the pen of the historian warms
a neither, who pi eferred to put one into eloquence as he describers the
of her children to death rather than it heroic virtue of the Roman father, a n d
should be returned to the gripe of the 1 ; t h e smaginarions of the poets aro
time-catchers. Her case Is a venial k- j kindled into tragic sublimity.rile
one.We Lave heard a great The finest of the Lay. of Rum,
2,41 of the beneficent influences of ; wr itt en by :thcatday, is decidely that
Slavery, and el the wonderful tenacity in which he tells the tale of the hap
with which even the slaves themselves Il ess Viigiui,s ; oue of the moist touch
chug to its-benefits. Every time that I ing and effective of recent tiagedies
I par negio, disappuinted with the is lieu - elect upon -the same pathetic
expetiveces of flee life, or longing for I „eject. We have seen the latter,
tbsiesh-puts of Virginia, returns to
indeed, as enacted up.in the steget,
hit original conditien, the fact is ' melt the eyes • and stir the inm o st
trumpeted to the f :or wind; of heaven. 1 depths of emotion in large audiences,
W e are celled upon to 'admire the ; in whose:-.6'itelderittg syml-ally with
beaatiful efiectsofth e institrtienNitiin Lthe cilia WAN always mingled a Ito k
nee's its very victims to fall iu admiration for the stern hetuism
w ith it , and to titn""ce ti at insane uf the parent. 'Yet in what respect
pLilanthrepy wlich seeks to interferer doe 4 the act of the •Romon Virginiu;
with so luppy a condition.
difiet•hom that ofthe pour s'ave-moth-
But whet hnve such reasoners to er on the banks of the Oht rI • In the
uy of the recent iecidetit iu Ohio I f one case the daughter was claimed as
11.:w do they acceuet for the fact that
a wither, ftesh horn the bless': g; of
bondage, and with all a mother's
and tender:leer—will yet
:haw the kuife act ors the throat oilier
imeicent 1 Rile in preference to restor
g him :o the stater front which she
la-ju-t es: ailed f They will denounce
the deed as a crime—they will ascribe
it to a sadden and hewildeling frenzy
—they will say that the woman was
denseLLA—that she %sea overcome by
panic of fear, aud that she knew not
what she did.
Well, we will admit the clime, and,
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From the N. Y. Tribune
THIS SLAVE 110TB:EIL
grunting the intense exciternei t under
which rlie laluned, ask how it was thi.t
aLe was throwii into such a madness
of feelittc ?. I ISlavery is :.4) agreeable
a rprilition to the slaves: if they are
ti wall nuitured and cared fur under
ilow comes it that this woman was
crazed by the thought of being to
tui urd to it ? How comes it that she
sould forget all the dictat-2s of a mother's
Least, and condemn het child to death
by her own hands, rather than relin
quish the posses:•ion of it to tts pre
'tended owner I How conies it that
bcr companions, who are arrested as
accomplices in this chute of murder,
Fey that they would lather he tried
far theit lives, wit' after wai d rirtrched
to the gallows, than le sent buck to
Kentucky 1 They know what Slave
ry is, and they know what death is,
and, with many. tlait have guile be
fore them in , this world, they cry.
" Death before Slavery."
Our Southern friends who extol the
delights of servitude will have to re
vise their theory, or leave events like
these out oldie account. These-slaves,
it seems to us, are, after all, men, with
all the feelings, instincts and aspira
tions of men. There is something ii
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aslare, under infam it); law of Rome,
trumped up for the ticcikiiin, and the
father. rather than suhiniz_to it. plunj-,
ed his knife in the heart of that dantr,b
ter. In the other case the child ii
claimed as 2 Slack*, under an infamous
law of the Union, ya- , r.ed - in a moment
id fanatickm, and the mother,
ather than )Yelil to it. draw* the knife
across the throat of the child. In the
former, however,.the crime becomes
classic;. history celebrates it ; 'aitists
spread it upon their canvat; poets
embalm the memory of it in undying
lines ; and the world does hit cease
to admire it, while it shudders, a; a
manifestation of the sternness and
graudullr of Roman courage: . But, in
the latter case, where there is even
more . to excuse the criminal aspect of
the transaction, and more to highten
its patl-Atic interest, because the per
petrator is a ‘copian anti a mother, the
p ,or creature is hutlA to prison as a
met deress, either to suffer the penal
ties of the lan , iu that character, or to
be restored to a bondage which the
regards as infinitely worse than death,
Whatever may become of her—and
we trust that the issue will be left to a
Jury (lithe free citizens of Ohio, who
have hearts in their bodies, rather awl
to the tender mercies of thoso who
drove the wretched one to so dreadlul
an alternative—let no one hereafter
talk of the love of slaves fin• their ser
vile condition. A great many of them,
no doubt, who know ne better, arc
contented with their lot, just asu great
many white men here at the North are
satisfied to live in ignorance ; but the
instinct of Froedom is in a majority of
them an irrepressible one, which will
assert itself when it has an Opportuni
ty. How strong and : mighty it . is in
some, we behold in - the incident bo-
DEVOTED ANO,T4E AVD NEWS
COUDERSPOLtT, POTTER COUNTY, MARCH. k 1850.
titre us,.where.the mist powerful dic
tates ofnature and affection were over
come by it, and a mother was made
to imbrue her hands in the blond of
her own offspring lather than con=ent .
to its return t t .the subjection from
which she fondly thought she had de
.livered it forever. Alt no ! "Disgit4c;
thyself as then wilt, Slavery, still'thou
art a bitter drt:u.4ln."
From the Congregation -II llera:d
THE WORE IN VIRGINIA. . ,
CABIN CREEK. Letvii Co.. Ky.
- Doe. ?3,-1855. j
Eighteen )'ears ago George Rye, a
member (.t. the G-qrman Reformed
Church. 11 mechanic of smal).means,
industrious habits, and excellent rep-
utation, a Mau twenty-seven years 4,f
age, prepared a nrilniscript article . of
spate le .gth, tin the sullieet of slavery.
and shoWed it to a fliend,iegneAing
him to haed.it to
. atiother, supposii g
the perusal would be confined to these:
two. But a ''chdrgo wai soon tn tat.i
that Mr. Rye had prep'areq and was
circulating "an incendiary' . document."
Great excitement Collowed ;
was arre,ted, thrown into prisim, told
the matter laid over till.the sitting of
Court. The article intendA fur but
few per6ons, was read to a. crowded
cLua-room ; its meaning and tendency
thoroughly discussed • by lawyers ou
each bide; the who'd linnet. consider-
ed by a jury of men who had, when
challenged .by the prosecution. stated
their belief that the B.ule .€alctioned
slavery ; and the verdict wss "not
guilty."
I was permitted to gee this article.
It condi.miis Slavery in the abstract
and the concrete ; examines the pro
slavery Bible argonten - i and exposes
its fallacies ; and i on the who!e, a
remarkable production.
For eig;iteen years this man - hte:
avowed himself an Abolitionist. aad
has' maintained the right of freeolis-
Ctlibioti. Ytit he Las uot, in thiscon
test. struck a single blow, nor carried
any deadly weapon. May God spare
his life in ISiy years, to du much service
fir Chi ist.
, Were a than now nn iTie ground, he
might do well. The members of the
German Reformed Church, are geae
tally, in that region, Shenandoah,
Paige, and ItockingLarn counties, anti
slavery awn. So are , the United
lirttliren. And [ was gratified ►n sab-
serve the. apparent coasciontiotpuess
; j.eoptv. Tho-e among winen
I was thrown, are of German
Vextlac
tion, and have not iost the bt ability so
charactedstic of that nation. AlLuition
p iid to the uninitig of children
rhea: is a seri-useess an»nr , the yowl. ,
rei pie which gi%•es liniinise of votl
success to an to; nest mon:ter
1 Thu thinking portioupf the c.immti
nity are beginning to feel that some
' thing i 3 wrong. It dtn23 nut SCUM to
them right to hold men in . such a con
j dition 01;4 they cannot worship Gud
ac'coiding to the dictates of th e ir oWn
conscience. Vet the ministers are si
lent, or else, they apologize fn. op
pression. The new pip r.s abu.se and
villity the Abolitionists. The hooks
are expurgated. The politicians rep
reseut Slavery as the bond which holds
the Union together. The fainides
which become enlightened move to the
flee States, and many of them being
to.aule to write, but little is heard (runt
them sa'u tne niere,t personal items.
.13e0des the people de not :cad much.
They must have the living speaker ; a
man who will go from house to house
preaching the Gospel ; a man whose
crowning evidence of divine annoint
ing is the same us was the: of the Ales
'• the poor hear glad ti-
dings."
A LIBERAL SLAVEIIOLDER.-A gen
tleman in Shenandoah county reminded
much of C. M. Clay. He has ;laves
whom he purchased out of compassion,
and expressed his 'willingness to give
them to any-ohe who W:.uld An better
with them than he. He is a gentle
man of-much iuf;irmation and :intelli
gence, yet many •a- Sabbath-school
sclusiat at. the: North, is better infirm-
ed on the Rights of Man. .
Some years' since. he pniehased a
large tract of; land ? `,lnucli of which' he
disposed of to Inechunicsi and others
in lots' of from - three:acres: to sixty.
Before rui•chasing, some 'of these men
were nia, to use the gentleman's own
expression, worth " three-ap.s."
0.1 the whole, that portiOn of \fir;
ginia is an interesting 'field'; half a
dolen schorl teachers could find con
stant employment, mid au tpportunity
ot advancing the cause of righteous,
They would encornter opposi,
tion. number of pupils would
not for a While be near so hirg,e as 'if
the teacher was not an Abolitionist ;
but his infinente . .felt.'; the
respetit and confidence of.the.p.:ople
would after a time be won.; and best
wt.uld be well pleased.
Who will go ? Who will come here,
when the way is opened, and let your
core eip.oulent go to, a new placer
J. S. D. .
QM
Some of the papere-opposed, to the
Congresman from the Clinton dis
trict, are distressing themselves and -
trying to distress others, unnecessari
ly, in reference to him; and, having in
flicte,l self-torture to the utmost ex
tent without any eff,:ct, now cry out
in the al -4ui r souls, EVent .3.1 r.
Pearce resign? From ail appearan
ces, lie will not resign—however Much
it miy horrify his heart-blcednig foes
—su long as there is a Kansas party to
upp.ise ; and in his cuu rse on that
great Question of the D be breathes
the voice of his oin4titueitts, and should
not for a day desert his post.- Yet
thew is a certain 9THEit Pierce at
Washington,. who does 'not represimt
the popular will on. the Great Q,ues
tion, slid who has basely violated the
sacred promises by which he obtained
his seat. Now it is. possible that a
Compromise" might be effected, and
Congressman Pearce may resign if
PreSidant Pierce will, and make way
foi the p.:ople to choose a new'Mein- .
ber, -and Congress to put Speaker
Banks in the NViiite 'Luse. What
say inn up-river Je.remialis to such an
equitable urrangemant, under which
they in gai all sklepo' nights I Pi...tree
for Pear d..:—tit for Ca —surely,
:" a
fair exenange isno rubbery !"—Lcicis
burg Chronicle. •
TIM PRESLDENE ON BiNliB.
O. the 24th ult. President Pierce
sent a M h:awe to Congress declarato
ry of Li, Cu the Kausa:S. ques
tion._ It will he recollected t.tatr iu
his aniiuil Mess . ge he intolu - but -a
casual allusion to it. Thu present
Massage however, gives a cOmplete .
view of his oplitions„ a synopsis of
tvi;ich we clip front the Tribune as
follow:::
SUBSTANCE OF THE MESSAGE
A bc.ut
1. EuiogizeJ the liausas-Nebraska
ME
11. Assails Guy. Reeder as guilty.of
m'aleunduct
111. Alittei the pttoitle of the Free .
State., wit,, tavorett Atiti-Slavery etpi-
gralion L • 11:11P,I16.
IV. A d ants the, " irregularities"
cull/witted t,y the 13.31 dor ICutii.uls iu
the eleLltums ut Kitnoaz., LUC tii to
civak blunt. by tibg tbut they
were apt)/ uved by tiov.
tatists that Lao transter of the
seat ul goveinnient by the -Legisla
ture in deliaLce ut Governor lUeder's
VetU.4lileS nut iuvaiidate the acts ut
taid Legislatute.
VL Itecuguize the election of Whit-•
field as Doiegate,•and ignores . that ut
Iteetler,
V.ll. _ Denounces the Free-State
inovecutlut in Kansas as rebehion, and
goeS in tot dealing - ivith the actors
itierein as tiaitors.
VIII. Proulious to put down the
Lieu-ztdte orgauizatiou by arms it
oecessary.
As:ails those who • circulate
thrt,ugh. the . :Statei aecoatit. of the:
Studer-Rubio outrages in Kansas.
:X:.•Pri,ii:Ses . an Act looking to an
early otgatlizatitiuOl the . State Gov
,
rntiiezit iti -Kansas. •
We and eot"autif:;ised these: 4111-
ions, in.fact we have ceased 6) be t.ur.-
ised at aily nit of perfidy which
Pierce & C.,. hare crirnalitted. may
commit: Tile Etc. Post corrinictits
on this Message no foiltAvs: . .
•112. PIERCE'3B9N33ridZBISOF
The iasils 41116 m.ii•uiug gave vs
an agreeable surprise- We have a
message trim 'Air. - 1- ) ieree on tile
jeci of - the truuli:es in.Kattsa6—port
them, we meue; for though the con
ditiott'efthat territory is • trrsile , the
occusioil.of sepdog it. to ekrire'33.,
the.lawleis iuri,ad uf.the. Alisioniti3us
is left vutnf cp:k.ideration. Welvain-
ed jut such J weisugd us this.to give
IleW ardor and ileiermitration to those
who are nom,' occupied with certain
broad and compreben-ivei plans fur
gFring a character to the western set-
tiements. .1
It is remat kahld that - ws cannot get
Ild of the Ii lows. question. It ride 3
on our shoultleislike the Old Mau of
the Sea, whether we will or not. M.
Pierce at one time would gladly hare
put it ()ht.' of the 'way, - as his annual
message.: sh , ,wed, in which 'he dismiss
ed it with the briefestitnention. and at
the :ape tint! threw Out the threat Of
a war with Eughind, ai a tub to arnu ic
that heavy Whale, tile public. Tint
public occupieditiell awhile with the
war schemes of Mr. Pierce, and did
not seem' to like them
Whi c h we eovied a day or two siocu
from the Charleston _llercury showed
petty eleally that lie had not taken
the ta tic course to get the s.upport of
the South Carolina politicians tor. the
Pre,-idency. Ilealierefore, returns to
the Kalsas - question, and in a smt of
despefation offers nets propsals f'or
the support of the South, in the shape
of a promise to - stand by the Missouri
ans in their tuntiltion of the . govern
ment of Kansas, and enforce the de
testable mditiances which they . pre
tended to coact., at time cannon's
The President finds many thiligi
dune in Kansas which de nut please
hint, but lie . makes a most extta.n•di
nary selectioa for the put pose of ceu•
sure. The calling
,eia cOnvention by
the people to frame a constitution for
Kansas 'as a state, he declared to be
contrary to die public law and the
rule of tight. Fie denies the doct rims
ul popular suverig :ty t7t that applica
tion; the people of Kansa; have uu
light to make a constitution in that
manner. Bat though this convention
had no amiority, and tlnilga tae con
stitution ju-t adopted in Mr.
Pierce's opinion, fur want of the prop
er formalities, aoother bUdy has been
sitting in klausas ‘yliese authority and
whose proceedings he thinks no pos
sible coull vitiste. This I.
is the legislatioy appointed by :tran
gers frolu Missouri. Of this body
Pierce says, that whatever may have
been the infornialitiela of its election,
it was for all practical purpus.ts a laic
ful body." , Infornmities! Winne
did Mr. Pierce lesru Eoglish ? 13f lug
"iag intAi the tell itury armed bwileters
from Misaniri, gilds on their
slitailders, and cannea is their train
stolen from the United States arsenal,
and deicing the voters flour the pulls,
Electing members
elthe Kansas legislature by the votes
personS who lived in Missumi, was
an informality. These ale but :tines;
they du not affect the authority of the
legislature, which has still power, ac
cording; to Mr. Pierce, to pass any law
it-pleases, just Or unjust. If they te
sist au uojust law passed by a legisla
ture never elected.by the people, but
imposed upon them by strangers, it
will be his duty to call nut the United
States,. troops, and shoot them (lowa.
This, he tells them, is •• protecting
them in the lull - enjoyinent of sell
government." The President is. a
-grtat wag 'as well as a great states
man.
In the midst of this ferocious jesting
he. tkes occasion to 'reprimand those
who have, ~ promoted emigration:to .
Kansas With tt view ..of making - it a
free' state. - While he has no censure.
11,r thetnellviTii;inareliedlitto Kanias
with armS'inlireir'ha•ols; and usurped..
the functions of n legislature, ho
da
"nouuces those. who simplyLexerciss
the right i)fpeicefulemig4ation.
armed inioad is well enough. though •
perhaps a 'little informal; a quiet eat•
i L rratiOn is an t uipardonahletiffense.....
What- in;iulet•ce in this! By what.
authority-dues this man, who has pat.
into the executive chair, presume te ,
tell us who may settle.in Kaasat, sod .
% , ilitioluA stay at home--who may
help their neighinws to emigrate, and.
low" may notl What wairant has
he fur occupying the twa Houses with
his denuaciatioui, of times whose only
idense is that they have become lasi
dents of Ka 'Luis, where they have. at
perfect a right tti he as he has to b. 0,
Washington I Did we elect him for
this 1 • '- • .
We have Fpokon of the message as
an opportune one, and yet, if Mr..
Pierce " were uut su proverbial 4
fititGless to his pledges, we should have
some uuiigiviug us to the use *Thick'
tue slave tinily !night • make of it- it
diiviog Lunt to extreme measures.
uruivauee of toe mock legislature
Wuiensat at tee tiawnee Missiou will
never be obeyed; toe pzaalties enact
ed agdinst theOiJeus.lou ut the savory
queztiou Witt in.t. tu ; the
cotz..:es ul 111ut.1. ,Nut never take the
te.t-k,atti f‘n• tut: 6 . upourt of slavery
pleset toed ny the spuriuu's code, and
yet Lucy will vote st tin; elections. l All
tme Littler bum:irons and tyrannical
edicts pruniulguted by that. body Kill
assuredly be disregarded and trudtica
Lu.l,r tout—they euttuut be obeyed by
irecinen. 31r. l'ierce will thou bare
to coasider Waetner be will execute
s '
The --a.itier*
ids tuJa:Ave ut (.I.lton:in tnem upon a
tur whuse light of self-goveru—
meta. 1w indulges ia the dreary joke
ut prutesbi..g such pruluuud respect.
We are certain that he will *not fulfil
his htuudy thtcat
. uthess forced
to Lae ytules.t urgency of this
islavettulders ; and let them reins Aiwa
as \jolt:A/I,ly they may, wu cat scarce
lit lug o.irselve to believe that he will
reutitre u yolt slieh all alt of madam
this mestage will hate
tee eiloct ut e f ticuuragi.ig those why.
meditate uew attacks upoa the rights
aid hhet•Lie . s ut tile static:is ul Kausai.
ThLiPresitleht is u:i their side; We
plottilies theta the asiztuoce of the
goverioneot ; anti thus iticitetl, it will
tp,t t,c z.trange if we soon hear of pre
pal talons for new uut.rage:-. Tho peo-
htu ut the nee Jtutesmust step to
uttw.ien settlers ut liansus pad_ their
ruffian unernies, and give (them the
protection tvaich the goxernment do
mes. - Let the- as,uctations
sinuuthe the pussugu of the emigrant
to that Country; title remove the hank.
billy; of a border lite, be endowed watt
cu.pit4l cotnateosurate to their object.
and tile woiß is done. They will then
be able to duvet the cuursu of--that
vast-stream of emigration which it
continually 116y:icy, to the West They
will then be able to Pour their him.
dreds of thousand.. into tegi.lll6 where
tun champions of slavery.tiepe to ea
tablish tio:ie unhappy inititutien.—
The:/e will overrun Kansas, secure
New Mexico &o• freedom, and occupy
Wczterti texas.
IT was a saying of a great divine.
that he had found inure g oet. in peo
ple called bad. and more bad in iser.-
.ple usually considered good, theater
expected. -
Tai% Merchants of St. Louis are
about tio build au Exchange in ib
EN
A .doctor down South, says there it
nothing to fear float yellow fever. ii
yuvi can keep the pitient afire lout
enough to gat over it. •'
BUY life best agricultural inaplennats.
Soave ono flays that politeness is lika.
an air cushion. There may lie vela
ing in it, but it cases ourjoints woadik
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