11 MI C. F. READ & B. It. FRAZIETt,,EDITORS. ?Info eohyt. TERRE COXES At TIM. There comes a time; or soon or tate, When every wortinuldndly spoken, Rebtres with &lithe force of fide, To bear reproof from spirits broken, .. Who Plumber in their mound rut, • Which waking cares no more molest. . Oh ! were the wealth of worlds our own, Welreely would the treasures If eyes that here their last hare'shone, If lips, in endless silence sealed, 1 ' One look of love o'er us might cast. • Night breathe forgiveness to the put. When anger arms the, thoughtless tongue, To wound the feelings of a friend, . Ohl think ere yet his heart he wrung. , in what remorse thy wrath may ent. I; Withhold to-day the words of hate, To-morrow it may be too late ! SONNET TO AN ANKLE This morning, wearied, with the cares of State, We strolled down Pennsylvania's avenue.; Itevohing mighty thoughts within our pate, (Mourning the price of beef, 'twist me . and yen,) When of a sudden, right before our view, A lady gently raised her hoop, and there • I saw an ankle past all-visions fair. 'Tyne: tech a pedestal as Ilebe owns, • At Savery's, whose chaitns, er pumpkin pie, 'Here won the poet Merited's serious eye; sure such a gem cannot be made of bones, • But from some more than heavenly ivory'! Now oft from sleep in frenzied mood I start, That ankle's put its foot Into my.heart. 0401 bittiele. • For the frukpereckni //icizok. SLAVERY'S 113TAGONISIS. "Nature in all bar subtle farces," These words . occur in Mr. Sumner's last great and memorable argument in. the United States Senate, for which he has co signally suffeecd the vengeance of the fell spirit of Slavery.. The substance of the connection in which they are found, is, that " all the elo. ~,tnentary - forces of Nature, whether of matter or mind, Militate against the system of hutrum bondage." And every word of the senten tious passage, it must be confessed, is replete with voluminous meaning. There is a 'Vol. acme of force and meaning; a subtlety of ope *talon, and a certainty of greet imoossible to he fully estimated, existing in this outward form and expression of Nature., in her most internal and subtle economy, in the springs of human action , and the spontaneities of the human ' h eart: reales will, impulse, senti ment, sensibility, opiF rating directly and by every possible mode , of indirection, assault ing, iwzieging, sapping, corroding, corrupting, incessantly working decay; and irresistibly tending to absolute and irret;ievable tion. Xr in the ourperral dis ease invades any- member or et any point, all the energies of the vital economy are a roused to counteract and repel the destroyer, so. in the systeni of Nature, slavery is a con dition so violent and unnatural that it arrays against it 411 the forces of the Moral and ma-' terial world. The inspiration of Nature— the spirit of the hills, the, valleys,, the woods, the waters, the birds, the dowers, thegrores, the fountains, the fields; is a spirit of freedom —Nature in the enchantment of vernal bloom, tketival glories, and autumnal grace and bounty, sere and chastened—the Condition , ed, the 'visible, and the 'related ideal, the dream of imagination. It matters not how gentle, how benignant, is, the influence; if it addresses itself strongly to the seritiment al, - the emotional nature, if it stirwthc burn ing instincts of the soul ; for, although "The &Am the herif:‘, the birdi, the atriam, the breezes, ]thane the heart to nirlosly end lore," 'they awaken itiwant questionings, of justice, _destiny, futurity, retribution. And it is the - dictate and the influence of Nature, as it is the precept cf-rerelaticm,." first pure, then peaceable," Whatever is artistic, testhetic— whatever is ,softly, gently beauteous—what r• ever is beneficent and inspiring, is essentially, necessarily anti Slavery. - So, too, Nature in her wilder aspects and grander operathins. "!here is a pleasure in the Whim weeds ; There is a rapture on the Reidy shore; There is society where none inwntles, the deep sea, sad music in ita roar." ‘`A Maisie in its roar"—Yes, this grand mn isle of the elementct final ever an answering "-lord in the 'human breast, sod especially Nifth the untutored child of Nature, or the child of sorrow : he loves the wild 'musk which she " discaurses "—the mesie of the .driving tempest, the nmsicof shamming Wa terfall, the rolling thunder, and the rattling storm. ile_dwelisin the midst 1;4 it, and ,it dills his bosom lea wild and stormy impul ses, unutterably adverse to the tame, craven spirit of slavery, and which forever make themselves felt in the positive constitutions .of society. Whatever of civil freedom was original ly ;incorporated into the institutions of modern Europe, was born of the tans led mount ains, the waterfalls,_ the fountains and forests, the storms and tempeste,,of old Seythiri.--- 'These and such as these were the inflamer; ,that fanned the character of the mesa who laid bee.iaatitutions and fashioned her polity_ —the independent warriors who followed tie. _standards of Aisne, Attila, Clovis, TheodUric, and others. The history of Switzerland, too, is a striking illustration of the sameTofu' lei. :plea Free and :independent Switzerland, which never yet bowed her neck under the yoke of the oppressor! Through the neer wild grandeur of her mountaiD situstion bas beat with living her- the generraus dame in the bosoms of her hardy peasantry. And Ail= is it everywhere, and at all time; in a igreater or less degree, The society *of ?h -alm is ever'the inspirer of the spirit of beim Nst Turner--didn't be draw his ht apirstion from ail around him ? didn't he read .thel'icssons of seditiotrin the fields, the bra**, rthe groves, the fountiins, the woods, didn't Abe zephyrs whisper. to him, mod didn't the ,storm proclaim ? But there is another nods in which dons ,causes, in connection with others, true a 'air ,more important operation. It is in the leers .enee, the auiversal and all-pervading, infinenvm, of literature, the literature of all age- and philosophy, en incalculable firree, which, like the stone out out of the incemCsia . without bands, is to fill , the whole earth ss the waters .cover the deep. And this immense power Is on the side'of freedom, and" against idsvery, wholly, and entirely, and, necessarily, with out division, subtraction, abatement, or de. duction. - The . Mises refuse all fellowship i c ith the tlehowl of 614,97, They have bad . . . . -' . - • ~ . ~ . • . „ . .. ~ ::,__..,„-..-+---,..-„..-:,..-..;-..-:-.....,;, -,.•:. . . ~• ..- ... , .. .... .. , . . , . . . , . , ..--„ . ...,i, , :0.- , - . .,....,..-,.....--..,::: ! . . . .., ~ dn . .... , „.... " , . ~.. .... ~... .. _.. ~ t p .. .11,...-::::,..'...,,..,,...-,...-.,:.,. : ..,...,....,.-_ . ._...,;.,,,........:, . ~. .... ~ . : . k. - ;. -. ....,. . .. , , ....... , ~ . ..• ... • ... .. .... . , . .. ~ . .. . . .. .. .., . ~ . .. _ .. a feed.with him of old; he is an abomination to theme they never sung the praises of the black led, and they never will ; while they have ever been enamored of the goddess of liberty the Muses, the nymphs, the oreads, the Nagtda,the Nereids,atid the whole celestial sisterhtiod.. The true poet; the poet born, he of creative genius; idealist, novelist, artist, whatever he be called, is one of the forces of the globe. • But his strength consists in this, in the n ,•• ity that ho be true to hil inspi ration—to ' e" h , --, oul of his Divide art," that is, to J. i u ~ an , 4,of ceurse he must be one of the , ' . .e• -;, of, freedom. If he traitori zes here, if ,':- - , uld attempt, he is shorn of the " lock of his strength." Like the wound ed Condor, he but beats the. earth with disa bled and broken pinions, without power . to ascend the heavens... The mipitation of slave ry is the inspiration of malediction—all that there is in it, or about it, of, to, into, or out of,- it. . Only think of a poem, a great litera ry effort, undertaken to sing the beauties and celebrate the praises of slavery! Nor is the Genius of Philosophy less hostile—Phi losophy, the investigation of. things with ref erence to their exact essences and their true relations. , It has for its object to explore the ultimate principles of things; and, of course, in the nature of things, it must be the foe of slavery. -When the veterah sage sits down in the tranquillity of. retreat, without .pas sion or prejudice, to speculate upOn the eter nal obligations of justice, the rights of nature and of man, and the philosophy of the social state•—sociology—his resulteam never enure to the benefit of slavery. One of the Arabian Caliphs, the Muhome tan tyrants of the East, was smitten with a curiosity to become acquainted with Grecian and Roman Philosophy, and to introduce the study of it in hie dominions:. But says the historian, "The influence of Truth and. Rea, son is of an unambiguous character. The philosophers of Athens and. Rome enjoyed the blessings and asserted the rights - of civil and religious freedom. Their moral and po litical writings might have gradually uelock ed the.etters of Eastern despotism, diffused a liberal spirit of inquiry and toleration, and encouraged the 'Arabian sages to suspect that their 04itiph was a tyrant and their prophet an impostor. The instinct of superstition was alarmed by the introduction of even the' abstract sciences "—and of course equallithe instinct'of despotism. . Whatever the past bequeaths to the future, whatever lives - cietrom age to age, whether of poetic Inven tion, philosophic speculation, or historic files, goes to swell the tide that is setting• toward univeriat freedom. The tes timony of bilitory, the ten thousand living, thrilling memories of former times, of what ever character—': No country was-ever visit ed by the influences of liberty, that did not flourish ; like the spring "—and certainly none by the influences of slaeiry, that did not fade and ' wither like the autumn. " Wherever she spoken, her eloquence has been tri umph.int and sublime; wherever she has act ed, her deeds have been heroic." And her Retinas Red doings have ever been the favor ite and fruitful theme of the Muse of history. Whit 'was it that made Greece and Rome so gloriously and immeasurably superior to the other iations of antiquity ; and what has made their story as familiar, wherever the knowledie of letters has existed, as nursery talest ' It was:beesuse they enjoyed in a su perior, degree, though it were but partially, the benefits of - freedom. And, in modern times, what is it that has made England, with in her'narrow insular limits, the seat of em pire and the hive Of commerce—the Arbiter of nations,and the Mistress of the waves?— " At the commencement of the eighteenth century," says Macaulay, " every free consti tution 'in Europe, save one, had gone down ; that of England had weathered the danger and, was riding in full security." 'Here is the secret of her wealth...her derminiou;land her renown.. It is the freedom of her Constitu tion imperfect as it is, vindicated again and again against the efforts of tyrants said usurp era, by the spirit and intelligence of her peo ple, until it is now, undoubtedly, as. Macau lay observes, "riding in full seeuritY." Fur every optising, at least, every successful up tising,; of the human mind against the at tempi of oppression, always results in in creased security—the rights of ;tiers and pee. ple are defined—the theory and praCtice of government is investigated, and comes to be better; understood—new, sareinards are pra. vided 'and permanent influences establiihed. Such, to the English, with respect to their results and influences, in an especial manner were the revolutions of 1648 and 1688; and, with us, the Revolution of '76 ; and, with re spect to the-contest now waging among us between freedom and slavery, scarcely less important—more fundamental in its princi les—the abidin a wreitults wilt equally enure to the benefit 'and . establishment of freedom and human righter, by the examples of noble ness and baseness, the splendid arguments and thrilling appeals, and the general stirring up of the public mind. ' Fifty _years hence; the manly and glolir , e eloquenixi of Sumner, 'and .Seward, and oW eny will bedeelsimed from the " rusty m" in ten sand seteiol rooms, throug ' $ the length and breadth of the land, as now .iii t the orators or the Revolutionary tim As ping the character of the . youth wh are to shape the destinies of the Republic and of the world. ' And the well-read volumes of ter: mould those noble Divines, Beecher, Chee ver, Storrs. Parker, Chapin, whose lips have • been thug:bed with a coal from off theraltat of freedom, will stand upon the bookshelves of *mends of Cimino., hum Maine to Cellar i4, Und from Delaware to Oregon, firing the heart' of Corning geuerailous : uot the least reed 1 smog them will be the sermons in • ithieh they have not shimnedlo declire the whole counsel of Scripture ,upott the subject of *man Wits, and to thunder Its denun dirtiest ming oppmeshst...Thess influences will be immortal, while in I fine brief years ail .this 'l:lnicoasving. twaddle—the sophis tries Imisnamed eugument, and the base and ' reckles, epees to prejudice aud passion-1 • Dow the whole idea in traded the bogus 'i. DeuMeratii leaders.mill . be silent as the grime, kaolin and raid only of a few literary toetk.....ltistorlans, who • will construct, the se ' dlentia.pietareof the 101$ and manners of the time by applying themselves to original sources of lilt ion, And then, too,,shall the work orsetributiot begin. The very men; the iietpre themselves ju this drama, who are seeking to' throttle the 'stir' it of American freedom and to subvert the genius of our in etitutionsostedl be eompetled to (s)-work for its advancement in a manner of which they now; perhaps, little tlreath- Notablo WPM- 66 1FPEEDOM pies of baseness and infamy, by the disgust and hatred which they inspire, are among the most efficient auxiliaries in the cause of truth . and progress. We could almost as ill afford to spare the memory of Arnold from our history as that of Washingum. They both evidently operate strongly in the same direction, tho' each - in a different manner, And thus, too, when the acts and the character of Stephen A. Douglas have been squared under the line and plummet of the impartial historian.— when the NemeSis of history knocks at - the door of his tomb and commands him to come forth to judgment—thus he, too, his history and example, shalt be among the influences which work together for the interests of uni versal freedom. Born and reared under New England influences, is it. any slight treason of which he has been guilty The future' will determine. I read that-- • "Ou the twenty-third day of january,ln the year one thousand eight hundied and fif ty-four—au epoch long to be remembered 7-- e bill was introduced into the Senate for the repeal of thelfissouri Compromise, a time honored and sacred guaranty, resting in the solemn obligations of plighted faith,.by which a vast territory iva.i forever secured to free dom and free labor. The bill was introduced and strenuously supported by Stephen A. Douglas. an• unprincipled and reckless Mitt; cian, upon a pretence, a mere cheat, lizinitnan ly called, in the parlance of the times, Squat ter Sovereignty'--the ostensible reason--, but really, doubtless, from very differeut mo tives. Though ',horn and bred in the - . free States, and representing a : free. State constit uency, Douglas bad become en extensive Slave-owner, and the real motives undoubt edly were a spirit of affiliation with the slave holding.interest, and the unchastened ambi tion of attaining the Chief Magistracy. For, strange as it may seem to us of the present day, - at that time slavery controlled the Re-' public—the Federal Government and all its offices and honors. It had long been the set tled policy of the South to Preserve the nu merical balance of the free and the . slave .States. By the recent sodden and..unerpect ed admission of. California as-s tree State, this balance had been lost. A new State was soon to be formed Out of territory 'included under the guaranty; and the design was—in spired undoubtedly by the fear of losing the control of the Government—the desig n evi dently was to p;event the accession of thein coming State t& the already preponderating scale of fetiodom. and to restore the lost bal ance by securing it to the stile yr e1...0ry. es a counterpoise to the, newly admitted State of California: The bill .was introduced with •out any movement or Voice calling for . it in the country, and—there is reason to believe ,--against the almost unanimous feeling of the free States; and, by . the coinplieity: of a cor rupt eseekiVe and etecutive infiuenoeun 4par ingly - used .with a numerous and despicable school of politicians of those times, popularly caller doughfaces, from their unlimited sub. servienev to the slaveholdiug interest, carried. with indecent hate through both houses of Congress, in the 'nice of prohable cousequen ,S at Nvhich every benevolent and patriotic mind must have revolted. There can be no doubt, at this distance,Or time; that the whole transaction, on the part of itsoriginators• and tts leading advocates, was a most wicked.and criminal conspiracy against freedom and free labor." Such is the verdict which time wilt infalli bly render, and history will record, tipim the character and conduct of these men; and the lesson will be one of great practical utility. But of all the causes that counterwork the institution of slavery, the most pervadin g and potential is its tendency to debase the moral sense of the community in which it, exist*, to bhint, and distort, and pervert all percep tions of the beautilui,The noble, and the true. Slavery was characterized by John Wesley as the "sutra . of all villainies;" and, in one word, this is doubtless the most just and per fect description of it that could be given.— There is not a moral precept, not one, of which it is not in direct derogation. But Its predominant character is that of violence and robbery. It feeds upon crushed+ humanity, and riots in the spoils of human happiness and blasted human hopes. It is a constant school of depravity, or, as Jefferson has it, of the " basest 1 add emphatically,of the most violent—" passions of human nature.". It constantly tends imbrute men, to pre pare them for deeds of darkness, cruelty, and 'blood. The filibustering, duelling, " nigger burnings, nigger-hangings, nigger-muLtila tings,' and abolitionist-lynchings, so common at the South, are its legitimate fruits. And so are the disorders and atrocities in Kansas. We didn't need labiriously compiled , vol umes of evidence, by investigating commit tee', to understand whence they proceeded. To reflecting men the source and the cause are sufficiently palpable a priori. They don' t , come of the emigrant-Aid societies ;or at any rate only as the increased afflictions of the bondmen of Egypt came by the hand of Mo ses and Aaron ; and no honest and intelligent man will pretend that they do. " Vice it a monster of inch frightfal mien That to Lai hated needs but to be seen; But, seen too oft, , Gnaw with her face., , We first endure, then pity, then embrace" At the era of the Revolution, slavery was "simply endured, and painfully, too, it is sp. parent; by Washington, Jefferson, Henry, and all the Southern Fathers, in its then mild er form, and with the prospect of a speedy extinction. It was felt to be grossly incon 'sistent Aith the principles upon which the Revolution proceeded and the R,eproblie was founded, and was universally , expected soon to come to an end ; but s deplorable. change has takeu place; that crying abom ination, the interstate slave trade, bas sprung op ; and each has been the downward modes ty that at the North it-is regiuded with far less aversion, and at the South is now open • ly, and gene rally, and zealously defended, both as utilitarian and moral and religious ground's, as a system of the higiseet practical ta which "one class directs, and the other labors," and as of indefeasible Divine rights Nay, itjuatifies every suormity. To pleat slavery in . Central Americo, year after year, a tniserable raiment* noises atrocious war upon the peaceful ;tad tmolfendiag ink& Hants of the country; upon helpless women and children ; . .and at length, bailed and de." feated, returning home from' wholesale Mrir der, robbery, and devastation, Erin a laud which he has made " red with bood :tad black with desolation; is received with esesFts and processions, public dinners anti addresses-- ovations—every demonstration of applasule and admiration. More than thi *II itiMora blc Senator—a caan 401010 f- ding ard amia- D R MONTROSE, DIURSD" JULY 30, 1857. UOINT Llano ble manners—conly o ne o ra te f oremost statesmen and ripest scholars'of the age—at his post in the Senate chamber, awl for words spoken in debate—ls stricken doses with mur derous blows by a brutal and ceentrdly ruf fian, and—the amazement of the civilized world—throughout the length and breadth of of the entire South, the deed Is received with hideous applause. Who is it that tramples uponKansast--' Can you divine? Who enacted', the bogus , code and who sustains And ean you ea. pect the body of the people to rise above their. laws and their law-raskersl When the legislators themselves are mere ruffians, chat must the constituency be? Socurthininame less. But such is the feeling of blind demo tiou with which our Southern brethren have come to reglad this "sum of all. ',Marries." It is with them the institution of iataitutions-s -the end of all perfection in the social organi zation. 'They devote themselves to the black harlot, ugly to ghastliness as - she Itgrim and haggard; and call her a goddess, radiant with celestial beauty. And can a consOnity in which such monstrous perversities exist, doe r ishl Can.it bold together I ,lies the Author of Nature fixed. eternal distinctions between right and wrong 1 Has be made physical condition; material prosperity, in any-degree to depend on the moral status ofthe commu nity 1 Aud can a system which thus con founds all moral distinctions, nay, which transmutes vice in its most odious forms in to virtue, truth into, falsehood, punt. r Into corruption, and vice versa,—can it si Aire 1 . And, 'besides, it is said, "they that lege the sword shall perish with the sword." Violence begets yiolence. Southern cities already be. gin to require detachments of the Regular Army stationed near them, " to protect them from a portion pf , their own population."— Are not the States upon the Gulf as liable to be " Africa:ll2pol," by and by, as Cuba t is, or as St. Douthlgo wool "Africatnized ' It is a word of their own soining, and what does I it mean 1 It evidently means -potbing less than thts, that they are already greatly fearful that .a conflagration may spread from the neighbor-island to their own habitations. 1 advert 'to one other consideration, and but one, fur I only seek to present a few thoughts out of an inexhaustible subject. It is the aversion, the universal aversion, with which slavery is regarded by every body oat of the community ia• witch it exists, and its lusnaediate influence. It is .a condition so Vl olent and unnatural, that, ter every unsophis ticated mind, to every one not besotted by its UMUOnce avd l'unaslAwriataly And selfishly interested in its existence, it can only pro yoke disgust and hatred. And here I , wish to make a remark- upon that great, humbug cry." Dissolution of the Union, by which so ,1 many silty people have been frghtened, and out of which so much' political cenitril has bees made. Suppose - the Union were dissolved— it is indeed an event of very slight intrinsic prolutbility, hardly of moral possibility—but suppose that it were actually dissolved. sup pose that, to-day, she arcs of freedom and slavery were divided otf from each other, and two separate independent confederacies were funned, *hat would be the consequence?— " No country has ever been visited by the in fluences of Liberty,' that has not fluurished like the Spring.;" and of course our Northern Confederacy, under these influences, might' reasonably be expected to continue to pros per and flourish,-in time to come, as we have done in time past, only more gloriously, firr we should , be rid of the incubus of slavery,—,l And it has beep, confessedly, and is, and seems likely. to be increasingly, a graft weight upon the nation. It is nut merely the clay of Nebuchadnezzar's image,' for that was simply the negation ofstrength. It is a *nighty sore, corrupting the health aud vigor of the whole body—a decaying, dying :member, in which loathsome moral -diseases rankle, end . fester, and send their' deadly virus to eiraate through all the vessels of the body politic.— It may well be questioned whether a liberty loving, labor-hunoring, God-fearing Republic of twenty millions of freemen, anot more de sirable and more effective. tultioually, for all the purposes of defense and of offense, than a doom-smitten dominion of thirty millions of aristocrats, crackers, sand-hitters, and slaves. And, besides, in the event of' a dissolution, we should have the prospect of an invaluable ac quisition to oar population and resources, up on the North. The proposition has already been; made 'in the British Parliament, and re ceived with some degree of favor, to abandon their North American possessions to - their destiny; and, at any rate, they must soon be come free and independent States: in which event, they would at once undoubtedly cos. lesee with us of the North if we were entire ly separated from the-responsibility, the re proach, and the support of slavery. But this can never be while the present Uniol3 lasts and Slavery crass& The British Americans —such is their settled anti-slavery sentiment --will never, and they say they will never, consent to make ' their provinces a hunting ground for shrviseatebers. And, besides, it has already become the settled policy of the South to keep them oat of the Union, for the reason that their accession would at once and forever establish an overwbelmingyreponder ance against her. The existing imenamed re. ciprocity treaty recently negotised under pro-slavery auspices, was evidently framed with a disiet view to prevent anyAnnexatiixt feeling springing up m the 'provinces. But this impediment of slavery removed, and Can sda would come to to as naturally as the mountain nll comes to the ocean; and, instead of a few hundreds of thousands dissolute slave drivers, and a ka millions d'slaVes sad "poor white trash," we should have mime millions of honest, industrious, and intelligent freemen, with lama hearts and strong anus; and our glorious Union, instead of being, as now, the TEIWOISCh of liberty's canoe, would really be " the bons of the ftee, sad the land of the brave "...4 ssateirword of progress, a beacon to light the *Woes to freedom, Impanel l end virtue. Such Might reasonably es. to be the results, to the See States, of I rented o lotion; Bat what would beeoine of the Southern Confederacy, the alsveholdinit Repagiol The permaneney, stability, and , tome ciatary gov ernment must always de.: l 'iurrPoe the degree in which, theoretically practically, it recognizes the doctrine of perfest democratic equality of paw—a 46 men. !rpm say that, under your go tem, all the men born within certain degrees gif lowitade and beyond certain para ll els of latitade, shoill be disfranchised,you have.al ienated s class of men who would otherwise she good citizens. If you say that all the men of thick lips, seraciby completion, and curly hair, shall be deprived of their civil and nat. HWT @LAVEgt?' LIRD WRAC'. ural rights, you have alienated another class of men, and they will be -ready, at the first opportunity, to resort to the standard of the foreign or domestio enemies of the State.=--- Apia, if you say all the men over six .feet high shall be disfranchised, you have estranged still another class; and, finally, if you say all thel,meu under five feet nine inches, you belie embittered a fourth class, and: you haye just three inches left as the basis of your political system, and this is , broader than the beau of 'Southern 'society today, and still liar : rowing, while all beside , is antagonistic, in- sidiotts, and hostile. • coda a governmint impugned by .so many extentsl and internal forces, stand, ufalat such a basis? The Richmond-Enquir er asks, " Could the South maintain herself'?" -They. Could not maintain themselves a quar tern Of a century, probably not half that time. As soon as the first excitement and novelty. of 'dissolution and reconstruction were over; they would be -falling to pieces and coming. beet .to us; State by Slate, as Texas - came to na frem distracted Mexicii; except that they would not; I trust; be filibustered - away.-: They would come voluntarily, but they we'd come undertitanding this one thing, that they come 'not because we couldn't do without them, but because they couldn't do without us. They would ootne. purged of the evil which now makes them, or soon will make them, a dead weight upon the nation. Dis solution would undoubtedly be the . surest and speedjest means of exterminating idave ry, and of ultimately uniting the whole North American Continent in one great and glori ous confederacy of free States. The Union is the support of Slavery. Without it slave -ry could not suasist; and Southern statesmen knovilt. There wilt be no dissolution, ex cept as a dissolution, perhaps, of society from its rotted bands, in some of the Southern Stat&s; or,at any rate, such a measure will - never pro ceed from the South. - 'Southern politicians will doubtless doall they, an by threats, :by violence and intimidation, and perhaps proceed to some extremities, but never the length of dissolving this Union, never, never, never, -unless given up to n strong delusion." It would be-the wildest infatuation in them. The threat, as his been most justly observed, is like the threat of the town's poor to separate from the town ; and if there Were . really any serious danger, it would meet with its most strenuous opposi tion from this very same quarter, Where, for mere - political effect, all this blustering and bullying originates. The slave States once cut off from the countenance and support of the Union, - standing separate and alone, the public sentiment Of . the world would soon write " Ichabod" upon them and their new confederacy. It would be a speckled bird in the. flock-, and they would begin to find themselVes embarrassed with new diffi culties, froin without as well as within :.their way would be hedged up around them. The Diplomacy of the nations would gather them ins net, and put a period to their filibustering operations at once.l Their impunity in the past has doubtless been greatly 'due to the weight of the free and potent North in thescale of Nations. But, once out of the Union, if they were to undertake to pull doviifold Spain's "burning house," or- get up another for t y upon Mexico , a voice would perhaps come to them, ."Hands oft gentlemen," of- very different 'volume and emphaiis from the whimpering of Mexico, or Spain---:-" hands ofl ; if you covet the house and garden of our sister of the peninsula,and you can obtain it by. legitimate purchase,(who would pay the two• hundred millions ?) we . shan't interfere; .but we think it right to se e fair play in this mat ter: you mustn't seek any unjustifiable pre tences of quarrel, for the purpose of plunder •ing her as . yOu did Mexico"—and doubtless the filibusters would bostricka with a great .sense of justice and humanity Straightway. It would be curious, too, to observe the revolution of . public sentiment which would take place here at. the North. For fifty years, either covertly Or openly, slavery has ruled the Republic, honoring whom it would honor, and whom it would, - it has dishonored. Our public may if they were ambitious of office and dititinction, have been compelled. to.win their way by pandering to the South. I No man can hope to rise to any eminent po. sition in the Government, or even attain any small situation of profit, who is not sound on all, slatery'questions, - according. to Southern views of them; who is not entirely, devoted to the interests of the institution, whatever May betide. If any, public num exhibit the least Independence here, he is a marked man ; and of course all our don face politicians make it a primary object to . conciliate this interest which thus dispen the offices and •honore of the Republic. ' exhibit an unlimited suppleness. They,, : always . fel to take upthe last cry - ever it may. be. If the Oligarchy say "com promise measures and finality.," then the doughtaces all cry, " compromise measures and . finality." If the Southern Dictators Change the tune and pitch it to the key of "Squatter Sovereignty," then the do.ughfaces all.throw up their hats, clap their hiunls, sad shout, " Squatter Sovereignty." And so on, as often as the':ehanges are rung touthward. But slavery out of the Union, amnia' longer able to make and unmake Presidents, cabi net and foreign . Ministers, Judges, collectors, 'Postmasters, and the whole army of officials for the whole country, the scene would chive directly. All this proilaver7 twaddle woukl cease, from the moment the Won . were dis solved. There being no longer any one in, terested to whitewash the - - sepulehreand . ex rose enormities--to,.keen up the child:rail— slavery would soon come to be regarded at the North with the just feeling of abhorrence which It naturally inspires, with which - it is now regarded in-England, in Qinada and oth er. countries. The public sentiment would re•aseend in a contrarywise direction, and Inver* in a few years, the whole apace passed over In this long downward tendency of trearly three quarters ea century. " The aougtesca k eqedany,.would let new light right away. They would - see it - Once that the Constitution is decidedly and. clearly an. anti-islivery . docnmcnt ; that it gives Congress unlimited poise?, over the subject in the ter. sitories and all its incidatut; and that by all means it shield be exercised without delay. "What makes all ioetdoni plain and skier . About two hundred pounds • year. - - And what was quite plain Grow dark spin? Two hundred More- • They would un&ntbtedly - pass to the ek-. trenie Gerrit Smith-Spotmer grOttad, that, the adoption of the -Federal Constitution was the abolition of delivery even in the S,tates. The truth is, slavery has - grown, under_ cur t H. N. PAA.zrEit, PUBLISHER:,--VOL. S. NO. 29. sistexu, bemuse it bas grown Covertly, by false issues and pretenCes. It has advanced, because it has advanced' stealthily and maid• iously. It is in itself such an enormity, and especially under aliepublis s in government, so grossly, glaringly inconsistent, that it could never have made progress or even sUb sisted in any other way ; and- it was a strange infatuation in its, - champions to precipitate .this contest by the , repeal of thiteothpromise. It is only another evidence of the debasing and blinding effect which slavery exerts upon generous natures. • They can't understand the feeling with which slavery is naturally regarded by communities which have never been.esposed to its demoralization.' , They don'tinovr that they. are "poor, and misera ble, and wretched,, and blind, and naked," and therefore- rashly and unwittingly expose their hideous nakedness. They may, indeed, abuse temperariittlie public mind' of 'the North; but the tune will come, and certainly cannot be iir,distant„ when it will at least be as fashionable Mind popular to tell • the truth as it is now to disguise it. .Locally and tern = porarily, indeed, local and: temporary causes may continue to produce their efrect. .. - .But the • leaven already works powerfully in other. countries. During the civil - war in Kansas, hist season, foreign travelers were upon that blooci-stained soil, and the story of the outrages and atrocities there commiued, was faithfully and truthfully told by the Eu- . ropean press, more highly colored even than the ." Black Republican lies." In, particular, it it is well known that an eminent, Englis h gentleman and 'scholar corresponded from that region to the London Times, that great regulator of the public sentiment. of England, and, indeed, to a considerable extent, of con tinertid Europe. .The whole dark tale of American Slatery is being told on the other side the water, by the press and by the tors respOr.deace of the mighty, army of emigrants within our bordera r and in Canada and other countries, by the troops of fugitives from the house of bondage. The tale is .being told, and it will bear. Milt.. The , influence will react upon us powerfully from abroad. I ' trust it will not be many Nis before - the principles of international law, an enlightened and liberal publicism, will secure. to every man upon the Lace of the earth not dilly con victed of crime, at least his personal liberty. Thus we may observe, from' a 'few Beiges tions, how all the forces of nature are at war with the very idea of human bondage—the changing seasons, summer and - winter; day ' and . night, light and darks ets„ sue, moon, and stars. The stirs in theirqopurses fought against Sl.sera,so do they against slavery.-- Every night night the north star shines, it guides' 1 some wildered fugitive to the land of British freedom; and adds ,another to the milliOni of -freemen's hearts that throb with iiitenst*. ha tred of the system; while every ray of light that darts seems to illuminate its horrors, every blooming flower, every sparkling dew drop, every filling - raindrop, every ascending. vapor ' . fields, landscape's, tree s , groves, for ests, birds,. beasts, rills, .rivers, 'cascade; lakes, ocean; reeks, hills, valleys, glens, cav erns, mountains, winds, - clouds, • hail. snow, thunder, lightning, , stor .. s, tempests, Nature, the . orderly system . )" things which' we be- . hold'around . us and above us, Cosmos, in all its grandeur and sublimity, in all its wildness and seining disorder, and in all its more apparent beauty, and harinony, and light, and life. "All the . elementery fortes Of Nature, ex ultations, and agorliesouid • man's . immortal mind." " Isidro!'s.". w. - Ancient Rome ex ulted in her freedom; d went forth to break i.:\ the fetters of the nations. The ancient Gre- - chins exulted in their freedom, and "when the whole Eastern world, as: if loosened from its foundations; came pouring like a mighty deluge upon the little states of .Greece,.. her soris : were . united at Marathon, and the tide of.her triumph rolled back upon'the Helles pont." Freemen everywhere exult, and their jubilant shouts ring ominously through the darit'• house of bondage.". "Exultation and egonies." The agonies et. Lucretia and 'Vir.: ginli twice *drove out the' tyrants of Milne, and their pure, glowing blood baptized her soil unto freedom forevermore ; fie the dark ness of the present shalt ere long be with tight from the ancient glory stricken *ibises ; and her inspiration lives in the 'past, ..the present, and the - future. TheAronlei of: the Martyrs aqd Confessors have been the tared of truth and virtue and freedom in ages; and the agonies'of countless victims that, ex-i, pare untimely -under the . unjust and cruel rigors of the system and - by its lasaiss via lences, in this age of railroad; steam presses and electricism, cry out with multitudinous voice against it. - "Exaltations, and agonies, and man's immortal mind:" "Maw's immortal mitid."' "The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged : for among old parch ments or musty, records. They are written, as with a sunbeam in the (Mole volume of human nature, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power." . Slavery 'as out of harmony with' nature, notwithstanding all the disgustful - claptrap. about degrees of latitude, " laws of climate," and " Isothermal lines"—out of harmony with universal Nature, discordant,and, 'erring with. all her economy, and hence -.. -ft- d Nab s . to be.baffied and defeated in i most ri. molly and 'cunningly ~.....- • . schemes:—,- True, by artfully availingittiell . ,thebabusee of kitereces and the basest . . .. 7. • or unpriti-: cipled politicians, it bits seemed to flourish undeuour system, fora time;' but the more yogi extend it the more you increase, its (rag. ibility, end the more you - lack it the more is its 'utter. rottenness appiitent. -' You . may MilitiPly- safrgnards, -cheeks, and takeouts; you nuirbuild enelcasures and-.pile fortifica tions upon fortifiniflomit it it only weakness more weak; The laborions - filbrie is liable. to topple down et any momenkforthe forms which war ntiltr I% . • . e all things, as the subtle emenoni of . sleet Naturwpermeate the tempt**, gl ~ • . A,. sense of Ireakneas and insecurity acme . darkly At) plasma its champions themselves. There is pippareatty upon their' minds • tamales. resdosseset and apprehension, and henceikeir. itripatiesceot cooradiction and their inscibility, iso.nube:. coming.tha dignified placidity of,stataimio and .pbdosophers. Thsukise all tamper uposi the, slightest provocations; tbighou of abolitkei imn throws than into tiaras sine of I hpiro -1 phobian rage.- la this , the - ised Our I .conduct of men conscious, to thesitiiidvee Of. the rectitude of weir opinkPlinerdisiestim and *Lability of their'. vocation I:oitt OtTletrme. ny—simple natural tactsclike. :AIM. gold.. of California, and.: generals..ptiocip)as, universal law; ;Ludy their operations. .a kw, of. which" have been lilted at, might 1 - .)e 04.Mer4443,16 ..-, ;74 =~~ r r; _ €3:. fill pondemt,volinties. The of giant giant,wrongs overtake their perpetrators and abettors, and' return- upon' them in ten thousand Ways and -forms, Which - na human prudence could' foresee , or. prey- t. I said not too much, that there is a v , utrie of force, a - stibtlety of operation, and a • ~ t y of . effect, impossible to be eitimsted. very it doomed to extinction. Peacefully or *wee fully, it must die; Vol u ntarily, "by vulva' emancipation, if 'lti =wins seethe danger tbta Impantho-4 wisely and timely, - they will heed tbs. voles of wassing; or by . dtre and sanguinarT catastrophe, if they will - not. The altmltittlee as Yet remains, all Yet the bow . of peace and promise- rests upon the gathering storm44oud. But•the basis is con tinually narrbeing on the one side, and, the strength .is .constantly. increasing upon the other, and when the suldect race, races rather —imbruted by ages of oppression--sludl have risen to take long-delayed vet:paws upon their oppressors, the -Ces log will be inconceivably more fearful than the "reign of terror," the retribution visited upon the ancient aristocracy of France, as the account to be settled will immeasurably more black and damning. I - darkly, painfiglyinto the bosom of the future there Is a frightful Ind lurid glare of conflagration, ravishing, bleed, carnage, and devastation, dim indeed in its outline, but unmistakable in substantial fact. The men who are endeavoring to subject this continent to the dominion of slavery by _violence and deceit, by the grossest perver- • sions of history, of the Constitution, and of established principles of law, in Cowen; in .- ,the Courts, and before the rople, wgl fitil. But they cannot escape the tawny of the at tempt.. And what will be the depth'of that infamy . 1 Arnold was bons sad reared on: der British allegiance. The new_government which claimed his allegiance was of yoke day—sprung from a revolution. It was tin certain whether the indep end ence of the Col onies could be maintained, and, if maintained - , whether society ..cotdd-be reeceuktructed. The future was dark and doubtful; and, iq . these circumstances, ichen we consideF the inveter- - , icy at the prejudices of education, az least, dome little extenuation maybe 101011 d- Byt what palliation for these . They have - known but one allegiancor.7 W.y have wit: nessed the full splendor of filmdom's morning. They see the glory. that waits the Amu* and, deliberately, with all heir strength, they endeavor to draw the pan of slavery over all the scene; American slavery, an • oppression, a curse upon every' race, class, • and Interest of society, "one hour of which," said Jefferson ' " one hour of which is more intolerable than whole ages of that which our- Fathers rose in rebellion to rep - el.- I tremble' ,fur my country when I remember that God is just, and'that his justice will not always slumber.", Freethinking Jefferson, and tibia,' too, belt remembared,long before the inter state slave trade existed, before,fili" bad become fashionable, or itwtis ed that skier) , was to oveesPitiad the men - :territories of the Republic - anti become the_ ruling, policy of the government. - "Ok Tem pore I Oh Mores!' and what 'emotion had the Roman Orator to exclaim, in comparison; with us? But for this most lamentably de- generated and debauched state 'Of public son- • timent, this moral torpor, this con tagious, benumbing influence ofalayag, these men would todity be brandedi and despised • as the blackest of traitors. - If' we could-but bib* public sentiment upon this eubject hell - up to the standard of the Revolutionary era, - Orb, furious competition_ of slivery velum freedom for the pranession of the - territodee, , with all its black and blasting remach, would not tolerated for another six months;` and these doughface politicians.would be en- - dured in any department of; tier govenummt only till it could le purged of their. presence. The brooding influence of slavery, like a cloud, rests over and darkens the Anteriqua mind. 'Oh, for some moral Seipie tct rally, the broken , forces of our moral poser, and wage exterminating war on these defilers of their country's fame- then Maggo ts that breed in the stench . ;a the putrefaction of slavery. _ • Doyori say that "all this is simpply thorax ing of a fustier • And was Jefferaoh . then a " fanatic 1" sir* Washington " teak r Adams, and lidri l land Haticocit't - "Great Seitio's ghost complains art we are stow, And i i nutiey'sshde walks aaaveu Cd among us I" Has it- come to tidal is it " fatuaalm.to love freedom, and bate slavery Go, trice the fimtsteps—the biood•stained trail Hof the. . Continental Army of." fanatics".over the fro zen earth. Compiate the coat of the Revolt non. Go stand upon Tower Hill : -recount the " fit:with:al" scenes there enacted: List, by the side of the "fanatic," John Hampden, as he rides feebly out of the battle, support ing himself upon his home's mane. bleeding, fainting, dying, forgetful of himself, "fanati cally" ejaculating, with his expi) log breath ? "Save my country . ! save my country r' Weigh the sorrows of the "fanatics'' anew gory and. Italy.- Ask thyself whether, if we. had proved true to the hopes and premises of our early " fimatie" morning, whether free d 4 m's Millenium might not ere this havedawn ed over &rope, and then say, are not lbws the words of truth and soberness, or, rather , is it possible to' etnggerata in word* eon ceptke 7- . The doughfikees may Math* "lor a while; but thuewill coin** these minor* dalbits ate and .deadly , ,dalign. upon ,Ainerlean dom, and histor,y will blast th e w, forever. In the deseending Amadei that will gather up. on their memory se time recedes, they WI finally stand f?rth matchless In thii glory of infamy, the habitition of.their fiarm, .Lad of darkness, as darknest Jog where the ripit is darkne.is." , - , • " Tux Cram itirriLe filTsvm s —The est valley' is the world ii the valley of tie Mississippi; which =tales_ 500,000 square miles. and is OM of moat probifie regkea of the globe. The largeglike irk the world is Lake Suter, 460 miles )eagth. The greatest natursibr ia t the world as that over Cedar ' Creek , !, which attends across a dam BO Aat wide attd 260 feet deep; at the bottota of whisk a creek Bows. terns folknrbligAtoritarial node e is deel, dedly clever and,noOlt. The Aditor has 'gone up the tiger [or q few:daYa. Ail good articles, fiteetiotta:mtuAt l / 2 puns and , typo. graphlewl 'more way bi.attributed to his alk. scenes., 11-order .to give variety and vigot 4 to the = paper, - he wilt rrequeudy leave it for a week or BO; 'Tr is to be hoped that the readers Of this 'journal .will learn to salved , encleivers.".. • •
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