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VOL 18.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA, SEPTEMBER 9, 1858.
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'You love another?' father. Listen, 'The child owes an obe- ( or felt, had nothing to do with it. She
A blush covered the cheeks of Blanche dience to its parents which no other con- only had to obey. And this she was do-
up to her temples. Mr. Duboise needed sideration can outweigh,' she repeats. Is ing when she said to Arthur Grey, 'I will
it so? And as she slowly repeats toe sen- De your wife.'
tence, there comes up before her a vision I She yieldcdto the embrace she could not
of a white face, and a feeble hand, and avoid, though his very presence was well
an eye fast closing in death. The face , nigh repulsive to her.
and the hand, and the eye are now only ! So it went abroad that on the coming
to be seen in the picture memory presents Christmas Eve,Blaoch.i Duboise would be
but the pencil of a master painter could tho bride of Arthur'Groy. Many envied
mi
B L A IV C II E ;
OR.
THE FIREMAN'S BRIDE.
. BY W1ILIE E PABOR.
no other replj; but Blanche spoke:
L do,'
lYou doP be replied, startled into as
tonishment. .
Yes father, I do.'
'And who is it, pray?'
Gerard Cole.'
If Mr. Duboise was astonished before,
he was thunderstruck with surprise now.!
The aristocratic merchant lifted up his'
hands in horror at the very thought of'
his daughter condescending even to utter j
the name
not present it more vividly or distinctly.
She is holding as in that terrible hour
the feeble hand of her mother m her
own. She is in an attitude of listening.
Mv child,' she heard it now. as she beard
of such a nobody, mechanic, , ;t thfin. 'ohfiv ranr narenta .' And when
and Qreman, as Gerard Cole. l am gone, he alone will be left to guard
Despite her position, Blanche Duboise ;anrj cherish vou.'
could Dot be amused at the wonder de- Blanche's head falls upon her breast.
piotcd upon the countenance of her father, 1 rc tuere tcars upon t,0 miDiaturo ? If
J as she mentioned the name of the one she 80 thoy betoken the t-truggle going on in
loved. Such a suspicion had never en-tue bosom of the maiden.C The contest is
-would uot have me wed with one whom litercd the uoddle of the wealthy man. .between Love and Duty, and both are
hardly respect, aud for w.iom 1 do not; At last tie lounu ma tongue again. 'powerful.
ifw.I do not. love him, father, and there
fore cannot marry him. oureiy you
she ended, and placed her little loot firm
ly on the floor in the parlor, where she
stood facing her parent.
J Mjovc. Blanche, nonsense. Tbere is
entertain the slightest affection.' "isiancue uuaoise, on-atue tnar, name Which shall oonquer ?
Blanche Duboise bit her pretty lip as a4ain and you are no daughter of mine.! Lower and still lower bends
r ,nd.d. and nlaced her little loot Brm-To think that you could stoop SO low as ' r li.,nf,llf,. Tn tonr nr :idd
even to notice such a pcrsou as this Cole, PUCU S0DS. as only a heart rent by hope . wa3 satisfaction in the demeanor of Ar
U a disgrace to you and your family. ' and fear and past,jon and despair, can e- ' &ir Grey that was all. Thero th(
oi a millionaire m iuvoivoi-n K ,n sop Jw.fnrr. Iipp t.tvn roads. .calmness or uesnair in tue
the head
t
lea sons
her the seeming good fortune for the
bridegroom was one much sought after by
managing mothers and scheming guardi
ans. ; It came, to the ears of Gerard Cole,
and it. astonished bim. It is true, be ex
pected something of the kind and was
, partly prepared for it. But still the blow
' left. However his heart did not fail him,
though he was wretched in the extreme.
At last the eventful evening came.
! The guests were all assembled in the
brilliantly lighted parlors of the dwelling
j of Mr. Duboise. The clergyman was
' present, and soon the dooi opened, ad
mitting tin happy pair. But stay, did
! we enter bappy I We recall it. There
The
daughter
the
attitude of
From The N Y. .Tribune.
It is now the policy of t' e Democratic!
politicians and journalists to belittle the
agitation at the South for the revival, un
der the sauctions of law and public opin
ion, of the African Slave-Trade with our
ports, just as the same politicians would,
ten years ago, have scouted as an aboli
tion lie any suggestion that the Missouri
Restriction would be one day attacked
and overthrown. But in fact the Missou
ri Restriction and our laws declaring the
African Slave-Trade piracy rested on the
same basis, and were upheld by the same
line of argument, and the fall of the for
mer renders that of the latter exceedingly
probable. As to the popular sentiment
in either case, there can bo no doubt that
Hence we. are not surpri-od to find ,in
The Southern Cultivator for August an e
laborata argument in favor of re-opening
the African Slave-Trade, by its editor,
Dr. Daniel Leo, formerly a Whig in Buf
falo and an American editor in Rochester,
N. Y. The Dr. seoms to have got brave
ly over the radicalism of his greener days
and thus expatiates :
"The most striking feotures and appa
rent defeats, in Southern agricultural l3
bor, have their origin not in the nature of
negro Slavery, but in legislative restric
tions and prohibitions, by which this sys
tem of productie industry was tied down
in 1808, and finally made piracy by an
aot of Congross ! It was gratuitously as
sumed by Mr. Jefferson. Dr. Franklin.
the North in 1818, regarded the Missouri an( otacr eminent patriots of the Rsva
with a mechauic and a fireman?
terous!'
Mr. Pursy Duboise thought so: but his
pretty daughter Blanche saw nothing pre
posterous in it. True Gerard Colejwas a
no such a thing now a days. Tbe hum
bujj of undying love and unfading affec
tion has long since exploded. It might
flourish in Acadia, and may be a promi
nent elemeut iu the realm." the poet locates
in tbe air but nothing else. There is no
ihinn- real and substantial iu it. It is all
. o '
bosh and nonscucc. fit only for seutimeu- werc
tal maidens of sixteen, or thereabouts, sacrific
who hare only feen the world through , ayc, life, in -aving the property and
the medium of romances, in which Bour- ;lves of their fellows. Where duty called
cicault swears ho will die for Belinda, j tbem, there they wont, regardless of the
and Belinda vows she can never be cp-! danger and the labor. But besides all
itcd from her devoted Bourcicault. "m. uerarn ooie was no common me-
lie has already won tame as an
Prepos- Qao tje beams of love shine upon: but
1 1
over it hangs a father's curse and a moth- J
rded. The '
disre"a
er's dying invocation
other, tbe hand of duty is outstretched to
lead her on, but love, and hope, and hap-
( fireman, but she thought thafe an honor, , pjne88 sned not tbeir beams upon it. All
instead of a bade of ignominy. They'seems dark, and dpsnl.ntn and droarv.
Blanche notbiuir more.
Hark I-
One ! two ! three I
'What does it mean I. cry the guests,
Restriction with quite as profound and
universal a devotion as now buttresses tbe
Federal prohibition of the Slave-Trade,
while the number at the South who earn
estly desire tbe re-opening of the Slave
Trade is immeasurably greater than ev
er asked for or dreamed of the repeal of
the Missouri interdict of Slavery Exten- ;
sion Drior to Mr. Douglas's move in 1&54. 1
The very reason adduced, even so late as j
by Col. Orr a few days since for South
lution, that the curse of an offended Deity
rested on this .-ystern of labor; and to ful
fill, or at least give the semblance of truth
to this sinister vaticination, tbe five great
powers of Europe, every Administration
from that of Washinton to the present in
clusive, the literature and the clergy of
the civilized wor d, have combined their
beht efforts for the last half century.
''Truth and tho God of truth have a
lone been adequate to defeat tho Auti-
orn appreciation of and gratitude for Mr. ! Slavery purposes of the leading Govern
Douglas's Nebraska measure namely,
1 '
that, if it gave the South no actual terri
tory, it nevertheless removed an iuvidious
ey seems dark, and de.sol.itn. and droarv
a noble body of men; ever ready to n0 you wonder that the tears fall, or that
ice their own health, happiness, case f0DS are uttered 1 Many such a battle
nral
A nf inn Hlmcrir thai vnn chaillC.
1 it
indulge in such an exploded notion ancmor, ana nis genious naa neen ac-
oy men 01 science, ana nis
i 1 1 j 1
lni .h-nowieagea
Mr. Duboise paused to watch the effect ; future was looked forward to with inter-
Blanche paled and grew je3t those wuo laDor to advance the in-
hp sr.oke and then an- teres" ot the human race. lhat her
r 1
as
of his words,
red by turns
swered.
'Did you ever love!1
The question was a home thrust. It
was a moment or two before the reply
came,
'Have you any more ridiculous ques-
If so, I will auswer them
father knew this, Blanche had no doubt.
He had often mentioned the name, but
never daughter's. How he could call
Gerard Cole a 'nobpdy" when conscious
of his genius, Blanche 'could not under
stand. The pride of birth and wealth
had not crushed her heart over with the
'scales that encased the. heart of her fatb-
tious to ask!
in a- luino '
No, father, until you auswer this one, I er, whose only offerings were at the idol's
will ask no other. When you married shrine.
rnv mother, was it for love ot her or the j "er eyes, as yet, had not been dazzled
vnn nn tho
J
lay
of
money she brought to
bridal!1
Mr. Duboise's face flushed with ill-concealed
anger, as he answered,
'Rlanche you are impertinent.'
But tbere came no denial, and Blanche
read in his countenance euough to sub
stantiate the charge her heart had made.
Was tbi'i the cause, hhe thought, of the
early fading away of my loving and be
loved mother! Even uow lean recollect
how agitated she appeared whenever her
husband was in her presence; as if she
felt his cruelty and hhs indifference, tho'
1 . n mm m nn fi m X r TtSrft? I f llnl '
tiv iue siuier oi siauon ana me doisd
land clrcuul:ance of wealth. Hence she
J could not see or feel as her father felt and
law.
'Gerard Cole a 'Dobody,' and why!' she
felt constrained to ask.
'Does he move in the circles in which
you do!'
Blanche confessed he did not.
'Is he rich and respected!'
'Rich he is not, in this world's good?;
but he is rich in genious riches which
fly
by
my
has been fought; and some have triumphed
over duty, autf some have won a victory
over love.
And such a victory as tbe last, is that
of Blanche Duboise's.
Stern-faced Duty banishes the smiling
face of Love.
The conflict is over.
Blanche takes up her pen to write to
Gerard Cole. She dashes away the tears
that will fall, lest they leave upon the pa
per she rites on, tokens of the agony she
feels. When fiui-hed it reads as follows:
'Gerard : I return to you your like
ness and your letters. You will do tbe
same with mine. I bid you farewell, and
may God bless you; but wo can never
meet as wo havo met, or be as we have
been. Do not askwhy. Enough to know
is nothing
Arc
sonic-
and their host quiets them by saying, it distinction, an odious and degrading im-
t 1 t 1 r . - . ..
putation on their "peculiar m-titution
is a far stronger reason for repealing the
anti-Slave-Trade laws than for repealing
the Missouri Restriction. The latter was
in its origin substantially a division of the
but the alarm of
where
True, it is an alarm.
One, two, three !
Again the alarm is struck. Nearer
and nearer comes the sound of tbe engines, unoccupied area of the Union between
and the voices of the firemen ring clear . Free and Slave Labor, and as such was
and distinct abovo the rumbling of the fairly regarded as a Compromise; but
machines. j there is uo pretense of Compromise about
It must be near by,' says one, and tho the laws declaring the importation cf
answercomesinthecry of theservant, 'The slaves an act of piracy for they necessa
hoase is on fire, the house is on fire ' and rily imply that Slavery is per se a wrong
nothing more is heard save the screams ; and an outrage, which Governments are
of the guests, and trampling of feet as bound to forbid, resist and punish. The
they hasten to flee from the burning dwel- stupidest negro iu the rice swamp." of Caro
ling. ' j lina will comprehend instinctively that to
In less time than it takes us to write it, : hang the captain and mates, aud imprisou
the room where the ceromony was to be tbe seamen, of tbe captured slaver just
performed is filled with smoke, and 'avc brought into Charleston by a National
yourself,' is each one's cry as he hurries vessel, and liberate her cargo of Africans,
towards the door. 1 will be to admit that he ought not to be
First to endeavor to escape is tbe cow- held in Slavery.
ardly Arthur Urey. 11
c tumKs not or Under the poiioy ot the rounders ot the
that a sense of that duty demands a sao- , Rlancbe, who has fallen in a swoon to the Republic, the fatal contradiction thus giv
rifice of love, of hope, and of joy, and I floor o; he deems his life too precious en by our anti-Slave-Trade laws to the
do not take to themselves winzs and
away. Respected be may not be
they were not framed in words. But her j those who shine in circles ot tasbion, but
father was uow angry. She saw this. jlJ those who reverence true worth and
Tt added conviction to her suspicions. ! who honor talent, even though found in
Yet it would not do to anger him still
more, by touching upon tbe chord Vhe had
so gently sounded, and which had awa
kened so harsh a response.
Fatherl'
Well, daughter.'
4I did not mean to offend.
Forgive
me.'
mechanic, he is respected
tue rjo-om 01 a
and e?teemed.
Blanche paused. She felt that she had
entered iuto quite a defence for Gerard.
Perhaps in her eagerness to controvert
her father, she had transgressed the
bounds of maidenly modesty. But a mo
ment's thought exonerated her from the
'I will Blanche. But as you love me, cliarge, and site waited whatever reply
do not touch upon tbe subject again.' her father had to make.
And as you love me, "father, do n-jt 'It useless for you to continue in
speak to me of the marriage with Arthur 1 jour strain of communication, Blanche.
have laid the offering upon the altar; not , 10 wflSto it in attempt to save another, : iundamcutal assumption of .Slavery" was
perhaps, with tearless eye, or a heart that i anu" perhaps be lost himself; nor does he by no means so palpable. When Wash
docs not ache; but a stern sense of duty ' cousider himself safe until he is beyond ington, Jefferson, Madison aud their co-
Grey.'
'Nay, now your silly mood comes on a
.gain. But hear me, Blanche. As my
daughter you must do my bidding, and
when I say that on uext Chri.tma- Eve
you will be the bride of Arthur Grey, I
mean what I ay.'
No father, you do not.'
Mr. Duboise, unused to contradiction
in matters of business, was somewhat as
tonished at this retort. He looked
Blanche in the face for a mo
ment. He saw there a Aridity of pur
pose 'which surprised bim. What could
it mean! Usually Blauche had yielded
to all his motives. Why not in thin case!
Did she love anotber! He scouted the i
dea, and yet felt that there was gome
reason as yet uuknown to him that made
Blanche so firmly settled in her obstinacy.
I tell you that you must obey me. Ar
thur Grey ha- spoken to me upon tbe
-ubject, and my decision has been given
bim. lie comes to-night to hear it from
your own lips. See to it, that it conforms
with mine or you go forth to the world
my daughter no longer. Your love for
Gerard Cole is as ridiculous as your ideas
of wealth aud respectability. I will have!
none of it. Understand me for this con
versation already extended beyond rea-
buoyed me up, and tbe billows sorrow do
not wholly overwhelm me.
'Your future will be a glorious one. I
feel it I know it, I am proud of it. Go
on in the path you bavecho.-en, and though
1 dp not ask you to forget me, cease to
think of me other than a brjght star,
whose glory is now forevereclipsed. Have
charity, aud believe that, bad I the sha
ping of my own destiny, this letter would
not be written. But the mould is in oth
er hands than my own, and I yield to a
decree I cannot annul. Blanche.'
Gerard Cole received the letter, the
miniature aud the package. lie read the
letter, and theu cru:hiu" down the ago
ny that settled in his bosom, he comnlied
with her request. Accompanying the Parlor
naCKiit, was a nolo. wjis vrrv hriAt icnaiu
It was as follows :
'Lady Blanche: Necessity knows
no law. I obey your wishes, though in
doing so my heart is crushed. If in the
dark path of duty iu which you have now
entered, there should ever come a sunny
gleam, link it with the name of one who
long loved, and still deeply and sincerely l3t' aD( fr a few moments, an intense
loves yor. 'Ever ! anxiety prevails. Then scorched and
Gerard Cole.' I blackened and begrimmed, he re-appears,
Blanche read it, and crumpled it tight- having in his arms the form of Blanche,
ly in her trembling bands, for a moment She is still unconscious.
I Une long, loud shout of joy, heralded
! the appearance of tho noble man who
I. I : 1 11: . ( . . . rt .
iuu uuruiug uweuing in tne open air. temporaries treated Slavery as an un
The guests are all safe, but where is. doubted evil, aud a flagrant contradiction
Blanche! Mr. Duboise seeks her among to the fundamental basis of our Republic,
those who have escaped, but does not find but nevertheless an evil which Time must
her. In an agony of doubt he meets Mr. be allowed to overcome, they logically for
Grrey and asked him for his bride. But bade the extension of that evil, aud con
Mr. Grey cannot answer. He is only fined it to the soil in which its roots were
conscious that he left Blanche in the room, already firmly imbedded. "Give time,"
when he turned to save his own precious they fairly urged, 'for the principles of A
life. The truth flashes upon the mind of merican Liberty to, work out their legiti
tho distracted father. She is still in the mate results, and Slavery will pass away,
burning dwelling and will inevitable be as serfdom died out as the deer, the Indi
lost. Do you wonder that he rushed up aus,vanih before the steadily advancing
to where a band of gallant firetm-n are foot-steps of civilized man.' This view was
endeavoring to stay the progress of the I grateful to conservatives, and to men of
flames and cries out.
'My child, my child 1
Save ber, and
he is in tbe back
uamo your own
They listen, aud ho that holds the pipe
relinquishes it to tbe hands of another,
and rushes madly iuto the flame-enveloped
dwelling, xcs, madly for the venture is
! one few would make. The horror-struck
witnesses of the noble self-sacrificing deed
. . . . o
say each to the other, he is lot, "be
is
Once
was engra-
son, must never be reuewed
again.
The
duty you owe to your father is one not to
be lightly cast aside. The child owes an
obedieuce to tbe parent which no other
consideration can outweign. Aud 770r
duty is made plain. Remember that you
act in accordance with it!'
Mr. Duboise moved toward the door.
Blauche fell at his feet and cried as she
clasped his hands.
'And is there no other way! Must love
vrill live to see it.
by this conduct?
What do vou mean be sacrificed to duty! Obi father, please,
Have I not ever been aiPause before you consign me to a worse
kind.barent to you!'
'Yes
- 'Havel notindulged youiDjCvery wish?'
'Yes.'
And now when I have your happiness
in view, why are you so contradictory and
60 obstinate?'
'I am neither the one nor the other,
father,' was tbe calm reply.
'But you are when you refuse to be tbe
than living death.
.But Mr. Duboise
and. as he raised her up
I do
released his hands
and bid ber
stand aside, added.
I study your happiness in what
Your life is a bubble that will soon
break. Your duty should make you love
to yield to the wishes of your father, to
whom yon owe life, station, and power.
Blanche Dubois is alone in her' own
bride of a man as rich and respected as room
Arthur Grey.' In her hand is tbe minature of a young
'Arthur Grey is rich; true. He is re- man whose high forehead and clear eyes
8pected-for his richness, nothing more. ( betoken genius and strength of mind.
He .has tbe heart of a stone, and is as On tho table by her side is a package of
much of a man as the untutored savage. letters tied with a blue ribbon.
Nay, he is less than a savage; for an In
dian can love, but he never. Fother, I
cannot marry him.'A
Once, twice, and the third time, Mr.
Duboispaced tbe parlor; as bis daugji
1. r.ii 1, : A i. rPtitn In
.iers wurua iuii upu uio cut.
spoke again..
The minature is the likeness of Gerard
Cole, and the package of letters are those
she has received from him from time to
time.
She is weighing the chances. Will
Then lie Love triumph, or will duty conquet?
1 She is repeating the final words' of her
ere she consigued it to tbe flames
reading was all sufficient. It
ved in memory", never to bo obliterated
The paper soon crumbled to ashes and
as Blauche gazed, hhe said:
And so the flames died out, Oh, fath
erl -oh, mother 1 If you knew how cru
el the fate was to which the act consigns
me, you would not seek my happiness in
this way.'
But the mother could not, and the fath
er would not hear. What had he to do
with such a silly thing as love or affccliotil
To him it was synonymous with all that
was trivial and simple
Arthur Grey is kneeling at tbe feet of
Blanche. He has come to receive her
decision, having already obtained that of
her father. The one wa favorable; the
othor of course must be so too.
Mr. Grey, I consent to be your wife.'
Is it Blanche who hpeaks ? How chan
ged in tone from the Blanche confronting
her father and avowing her love for Ger
ard Cole.
Thanks, Blanche.'
The cold man of the world could say
no more. He may have read in her man
ner much that made him wonder. But if
so be did not express it. Like Mr. Du
boise. love was to him talked of, but nev
er felt. He married, for position noth
ing else. In all tbe circle of his acquain
tance there was no more eligible match
than the ono about to be consummated.
Had tbere been, a Blanche would not
have been asked to be bis bride. She
would bring him influence and wealth,
and he cared little for the heart he trod
upon in order to obtain it. In trutb, ho
was a man after Mr. Duboise's own heart,
and so the father reasoned a most ao- ,
saved the maiden from the the terrible
death to which she seemed doomed.
In a little time she recovered, and then
her father sought her preserver and ask
ed his name aud his reward.
It was Gerard Cole.
. His reward ?
One month later, a new company assem
bled beneath the roof that sheltered
Blanche aud her father.
There had been a now betrothal, and
now there was a huppy bridal. Aud the
one who stood by the side of Blanche was
not Arthur Grey, but the nobody, the
Mechanic, tho Fireman.' Gerard Cole.
N. Y. Atlas.
Corn Crops at the West.
According to the Louisville Courier the
preseutcrop of corn throughout Kentucky,
Indianna, Illinois and Teuuessee, will be
the largest ever grown. The planting
rather late, but the summer has been un
usually favorable, causing tbe crop to
mature rapidly, with no danger of dam
age by the early frost.
The political campaign in Illinois,
is growing very violent. Senator Trum
bull recently charged that Mr. Douglas,
before breaking with the Administration,
was in conspiracy to forac slavery on
Kansas, and Mr. Douglas, having pro
nounced this false, Mr. Trumbull has re
iterated tho charge. Personal feelings
aro evidently becoming much inflamed.
A queer genius being asked why ho did
not attend the funeral of his wife replied
"that he could not leave his shop and
always
that it was always better' to attend to
ceptble son-in-law. What Blanche thought j business before .pleasure." 1 -
tender conscience but large appetitite for
luxury and none at all for labor, who
dreaded future damnation but were loth to
surrender theprcsent profits of slavehold ing
Thu- half a century glided quietly away,
and Louisiana, Florida, Texas, were suc
cessively acquired with Slavery already
established therein, so that pretexts for
acquiescence and downy pillows for deli
cate consciences were still available.
But when the bold step of opening free
territory to Slavery was resolved on, tbe
old apologies, tho old opiates, would no
longer serve. It was necessary now to
affirm that Slavery was cither a positive,
unmixed good, or else an affair of climate
and industrial adaptation, with no moral
character whatever, but to be cherished
or rejected in any State as local reasons
should suggest. Now negro inferiority,
negro subordination as a Divine ordinance
negro development under tho rule and
discipline of white owners and gravitation
toward the lowest barbarism when, left to
themselves, becamo necessary assump
tions, without which the Nebraska policy
could not logically defended. "Popular
Sovereignty' the inalienable right of
each community, each sovereign State, to
make such 'laws as it should deem best
was of course affirmed and built upon.
So far, all went smoothly; but the fa
tal necessity wherewith unbound though
plausible promises tend to damagiug con
clusions could not be evaded. At once,
the earuet and ardent Pro-Slavery zeal
ots, to whom the Presidential aspirauts
had held out Popular Sovereignty as a
bait, jumped at it with hearty zeal, aud
began to make a uso of it uot designed
by its author. "Yes," they said, 'let us
have more Slave Territory; but let us also
have more slaves to render that territory
available. Let us havo Popular Sover
eignty; but let this imply the right to
bring new slaves from Africa into a Slave
State as well as tho right to send our
born slaves into the territories and pre
pare them to become Slave States." What
answer do the champions of the Nebras
ka bill and tha Dred Scott decision make
to this domand ? Or rather, what answer
can they make that will not admit the
rightfulness of fresh importations of slaves
whenever any Statu shall see fit? We
can immagiue none that is not either an
assent, or a denial of the premises on
which they rest their justification of the
Nebraska bill. -! -
ments of the civilized world since thev
pronounced the trade in African negroes a
crime, and affixed thereto the outlawing
and death penalty awarded to pirates.
It was assumed at the close of the Revo
lution that laboring white men were bet
ter than African, whether aves or free,
to develop the agricultural resoarcs of tha
whole continent, and that negroes were a
curse to the country. It was in this spir
it, at a time when twelve of the thirteen
original States held slaves, that the fa
mous Ordiuance of 17b7, introduced into
the Continegtal Congress by Mr. Jeffer
son, was passed, which tbe Free States of
Ohio, Indiana. Illinois. Michigan and Wis
consin have since been formed. Instead
of allowing Southern planters to go into
the markets of the world to purchase no
gro laborers on the best terms they could
find, the supply of these laborers was
rudely cut off, as though to buy a slavo
for agricultural purposes wc3 one of the
worst of crimes This fanatical dictation
has ever kept tbe supply of planting op
eratives at tbe South far below what it
would have been had this great iddustri
al interest been wisely permitted tp regu
late it operations by tbe just and natural
laws of trade. By despotically setting
aside these salutary laws of supply and
demand, our tillage processes ha?e been
carried on to great disadvantage: and one
of-the most obvious effects has been a
continuous effort to make tbe most of a
comparatively little labor by extending
it over too much surface of soil.'"
There are three or four pages of tho
Cultivator in this vein, but we need not
quote them to show the.drift of the arti
cle. We desire only to show that the
purpose of re-opening the Slave-Trade is
seriously entertained by a strong and rap
idly increasing party at the Souths and
that tbe arguments they use cannot be an
swered without self conviction by any lo
gical advocate of the Nebraska bill. Here
is one more passage, with which we must
cloe :
'If to buy or sell the labor of appren
tices" for life is immoral, then it should bo
at once discontinued; but it is not wrong,
the ad vantages .to accrue therefrom should
be not less available in Africa than ,in
Virginia. The Slave Trade is either car
ried altogether too far for. our credit and
and interest, or not far enough to do any
thing like ju-tice to our system of agricul
tural industry. Either give it a fair
chance to live, and prow with the com
merce and influx of Europeans, or clso
carry out the Anti-Slavery policy of tho
fouudcrs of the Republic. The former i
the wiser course of tho two; and it is one
which is mo-it likely to prevail." , j
If that be not as full of cogency n8Aan
egg is of meat we are greatly mistak.cn
How lonj can a majority be expected to
hold out against it in a Slave State, and
especially in a young, thinly-peopled, negro-buying
Slave State ?
Murdoch tho tragedian, had a fight a
day or two ago. on his farm in Cincin
cinuati, with an caglo, which was filibus
tering in his farm yard, and wished to ap
propriate to his own u.je a calf,having first
plucked out the animals eyes. The bird'of
Jove met the hero of the buskin, and, in
the fight the tragedian got worsted and
had to retreat. His son, a lad of nine
years, with the spirit of a yankce boy,
went to bis father's aid, and laid the 'im
perial bird out with a shot from a fowling
piece. He measured six feet two inches
from tip to tip of his wings, and will Jbo
preserved as a memento of Master James'
prowess.
Run away last night, my wifo Bridget
Coole. She has a tight neat body, and
has lot one leg. She was riding behind
the priest of the parish through Fer.moy;
and as we never, was married, I willfpay
no debts she does not contract. She lisps
with oue tooth, and is always talkingj'a
bout fairies, and is of no use but to t. the
owner. .
Phelim Coole, his X markw
Idleness. A hungry wolf is not more
dangerous to a flooksof shuepnor acat8to
at mouse, than an idle man is:to4heuudua
trviof a-neignuornoou. ' ! ws iUH