I I i -ggVMriljMj ir .... uptct.. m . iMjMnmSulMT ' : - 1 1 n i iM .. '. in Mil i rem- i n In mF limwinw i-Mfimiw;nYvV,WvOTiTtS m,-r.i-i-r" J ni...ii.ii ... i.i. J, . -- -.li... r .i'i j-. i i'T 1fn iaTj- IDcuoteir ia politics, literature, 2lflrintltur, Science, illoralttu, ani cncral 5iitelliQcncc. V0L 18. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. APRIL 28, IS59. -V NO 18. . - ' , - ' ' ' ' ' : - - - - lllb U She'd ' bV Tlietfd'OrC Schot!l J ' TERMS Two dollars per annum in advance-Two dollars and a quarter, half ycarly-nnlt if not paid be TdVc Ihc end of the year, Two dollars and a half. No papers discontinued until all arrearages aio paid, Except at tlieoplion of the Edilot. K? Advertisements af one square (ten lines) or less, tltc or til re c insertions, $1 00. Each additional inser Vion. 23 cents. J.onger ones in proportion. JOB PRINTING. fravinj; n general assortment of large, plain and or namental Type, we are prepared to execute every de ecriptlon of Cards. Circulars, Bill Heads. Notes. Dlank Receipts, Justices. Legal and other JJluiik. ramphlcts. &c prin ted with neatness and despatch, at this office. on roasuiutuc terms TTJpf Tn rl in TPtria Yinirk'oKrm Viiifilpof Prl . The insurrection was soon put down, Speech of Rev. Henry, Blchy. Missionary ftg imagine. Sharp really be- from Barbculocs, at the Anniversary ST. Heved that the British soldiers would not West India Emancipation, at Abmgtoti. act jn Opposjtjon t0 the slaves, in claioi Thc following is an address delivered ing their freedom; ho soon found his at Abington, Mass., July 31 1558, by mistake, however. A large body of mil Rev. Henry Bleby, Wesley an Missionary, litary was ordered to that part of the ia on the occasion of the celebration of o- land. The cominauder-in-chief was a mancipation in the West Indies, in 1834. man who felt as a man ought to feel un it is an overwhelming vindication of the der such circumstances, and sought to do rightfulness nnd policy of that great everything he could to put an end to the measure, and points out with clearness and insurrection by lenient measures, and is candor, all the leading agencies which sued a proclamation, promising that ail preceded and followed tho abolition of who would return to their doty within a slatery in those Islands. Bead it and limited period should be pardoned, that loan it; and rejoice that God is vindica- no notice should be taken of what they tinrf the right. Let pro-slavery, croakers had done, unless they had been guilty of hang thciAieads in shame, and be con- incendiarism, or had committed personal verted- , violence upon the opposite party. Par I ties were sent out with the proclamation I am, perhaps, Mr. Chairman, the on-nd many of the slave, finding that their ly person present who was an eye-witness attoirpl to recover their freedom in this of that event which you have met togeth-, way would be vain, came in, and resum i i i . -ir. :n ed thmr labors unon the estates. or this fine to c.niHiiraiG. iou win stu that I am a very old man, sir; the snows of age have not entirely covered my head; but I am old enough to have been pres ent during that insurrection to which you have referred, and which was one of the principal events which hastened on the crisis of the movement for West India Tnia "RmnTir-irmtinn. and constrained the 1 British government to "let the oppressed - j, . CU tier. It had been customary with the pro-1 slavery press of Grea BntU,n,-and a; very large poiuou u F.B "P to a late hour, under the influence of the i West India body, and of those interested in the maintenance of slavery, it had now oi tne pro-s ; p - " trv. to endeavor to mislead the nias-es by asserting tljat the slaves were better off ml 1 ' , , than they would be in freedom, ' J were perfectly content with their lot. that thev bussed their ohatns, and tbat it was . . ,o ,. . . , . - t. :r -!:,:., in hnt . a lui u iiuu ici i iiibiu uui i ui iuii - . . ' .. , tt . hnTiTiinfiss 01 i'arariisc. xou mav imae- rr . .... ' . , iJ ! inc. tben. wnac sort, oi iceung wouiu ue, , ! i - ! excited in Great Britain, among its: , , , , , n u i churches nd the people gner.l!j. when the startling intellijienee reached tbem, in i , , - - z-,,. . ter. i , , the bemunmg of l.JJ, tnat fifty thousaud , . - t - i i r t j ( . li t it irnnlri ha slaves in the island ot Jamaica raaac an . effort for liberty, had resolved to strike a blow lor freedom, and had Etood up in opposition to their ma law which ueld tbcai in bondage claimed tbeir freedom Sir, the illusion was at onco dispelled, and it was hpcd and felt, throughout the length and breadth of Great Britain, that. the public mind had been imposed upon, and that there existed in the West Indies. amongt the slave, an intense dcire, nay. more than that, a determination to be free. Sir, I happened to be stationed iu tbe iflaod of Jamaica, and in that part of it which was the scene of tliid insurrection. I knew the person with whom the insur rection orig'nated very well; -I marked its progress; I was an eje witness to the cruelties and slaughter by which it was suppressed; and I saw it brought to a tcr-1 :V,: Tl, m-n rrlfl, tvhnm 'tb in. 1 mination. Ihe man witu wnom ine in surrection originated Samuel Sharp, was a slave, and a member of the Bap tist church in Montego Bay. Although It way mcui ewu nut iv muui, vuiu uuu.i., ' J li r 1 was a -very handsome negro, a perlect, model man; and, more than that, he had Inarned to read. He was born tn slave ry, Dut no naa never but he had felt anything of the! bitterness of slavery. no wras born in - I family that treated .him' indulgently; he j was a peti anc;was .brought up as the playmate of the juvenile members, of tbc familv, and bad opportunities of learning to read and .for mental cultivation, to which very .few of his. fellow-slaves had access; and Sharp, above all this, was possessed of a mind worthy of any man, and of o.ratorical powers of no common) order. I have been astonished, 'when sembly, as I did several times while he . J- . .1 -t.- u ! was IU jail, to ecu lue uo.wer wjtu wiiivu, tbe ,m.inds .of his audito'ry. He was a man of no.common'stamp, though a black Man and born in slavery. "Well, 8ir; Sharp "determined to, free himself and tfisfellbw-sTavee.' I do not know whether be was himself' deceived, or whether he knowingly deceived his fellow-conspirators, but he persuaded a large number of them to believe that the Brit ish government had made tbem freo, andj that their owners were keeping them mi slavery in opposition to tho wishes of the! was taken, and ho was the last man put authorities in England. It so happened, to death in consequence of tbat insurrec air, that, just at that time, tho planters; tion. About two thousand were slain; themselves were pursuing a course which' many of whom, of course, in encounters favored Sharp's proceedings directly. with the military, but most of them They were holding meetings through the' were cither shot or hanged in cold blood, length and breadth of the island, protest- I have myself seen not less than nineteen ing against the interference of tho borne of these poor creatures led out in one batch, to be haneed up like dogs. 1 rery inflammatory resolutions, and threat- have known aixty to be led'out from the and tho probability was, that if the Brit eniDg that tboy would transfer their alle- same jail, in tbo course of three days, and isbgovcrnment did not briDgslavery in the Siaoce t0 lbe United Slates, in order that .i .s.i. i . i. ..- :.. iucj migni pcrpeiuaie meir imnvai, m their slaves. bbarp dexterously took advantage of these meetings, and pointed out to the slaves, that if it were not true that the Briti-h government were willing to make tbeni free, there would be no ne cessity for such meetings and such publi cations as these. The consequences was, that about fifty thou-und of these people, at the Christmas bolliday.s, were in iu currcction, and claimed their rights as British subjects, and as free men, refusing tQ gQ tQ work.on atjy termSf cxccpt on tbo payment of their proper wages as free workmen. 'PUn .. ..itsi y m r r nrtnn - i T li f inurrectiou would soon have been put down, and very little loss of life would have ensued, had not the militia of the island, consisting of the planters, who had manifested tbc greatest cowardice when the insurrection broke out, uow re covered their bravery, and subjected those wuo had taken part in it to every .indignity and outrage. and women who came I have seen men anu women wno came in unuer tue proc- , , ? i ii . , ,. ,., . j lho'commander1ia.euief uken out , fc fa . fa jn their hand tiefL nd ,hot dea(J 7 U3ed to gee the gallows filled with insurgents from morn ing to night. I remember, on one occa- mn nltnnhnn tenj rllrfnffl fn an OV. that of tbc principal leaders in the insur- r r reation. A court-martial was eiUin? m ontejro J3ay. and about tweuty or thirty : tjirA niV n rratlnu-d K 'a i hpfin mot(f rin J '.1 l V4 .7 V-f . U gUtl W II k t. 11 .V.k J 1 . I it -i i, r r-. .' i - - 1 1 1 . 1 Kil ilViil, ' . r , ted at once. l1ive men were hanging on .it. aua nvo more. were Deneatn it. and it , . i ... , , . n , ' vrn( ri.n.nrii.) f flonf Y j o tr o man ' , , , . , , ,- . - who had taken a leading partin the msur- i . ? j - .i . . rection, was to be executoa in the next lot. ccutioucr who was a brutal biack , ; . , , . , , man, and one who had escaped the gal- ' ... . , . r , , lows on condition that he should perform j these horrible duties, was leaning against one of tne poets of the callows, eating asters, and .to thel3 eakf.6t,-a piece of salt fi.h in one a in bondace. nndh,l1nd auIdI a P,Cce ?! PUnt.al? ln tbe I other. He was told his victims were ready. (They only allowed the doomed l oues u-nll au hour alter their convictiou to prepare for death.) Bacchus, that was tbe name of the executioner, put down his food upon a projection of the gallows, walked up the ladder, and with the kuife with which he had been eating hi breakfast, severed the cords on which the victims on the gailowa were hanging, aud down tbey fell, one after another, upou tbe heap of dea below. Theu he brought out Bebany and his fellows. I knew him at ouce, though I bad never seen him before, by tho de eU m0del meanor of the man. a Sue, broad-chest- mau, a ycllow-skiuned nogro, as they called him there; but theie rent ed upon his couuteuance an unerv frown. The oiau walked out to meet bis doom I as if be were walking at the bead of a i . . , triumphal r procession. A gentleman stepped up to him and said, "Debany, what is troubling you at a time like this?" latrlT.. !l at at J AM. n n 7 Z A Hit. , A. Maut n rmTkfi. I . n 1 w-w t t li n 1 . an. mouth. They want me to say that the missionaries put us up to it. They know it is a lie." "Well nover mind, said the gentleman; "don't let that trouble you now." Tho frown soon passed off his face, and they were march ed up the platform aud tied up; signal waa given, and the rope was cut. I look- nA nnrl nnlu fmir nf thorn liiin.T nnnn tlin " r - t gaiiows, anu xeuauy was not amung inem. ihe ropo had br.oKen, and he bad iallen " gro.u"a- P'"eu . half strangled, and m a state of him up, weut witness ; " for a moment or two. up, in tbc midst of tbe cr5wd, to bis demeanor. Still, sir, with all these horrors about him, tbe man was undaun ted. I could hear tho whisper of prayer unon bis lins; thero was nothing about a him, of bravado, but every thing that in- dicated the manly c.ourago of couscious he is dvinc in an one who is honorable cause. So it was with Saniue! Sharp. After the insurrections was put dov?n, ouarp put to death. On one occasion, I saw a ( coloniesto a peaceful termination, ft would poor fellow brought into town: his hands soon be qeuuohed in blood, and the slave tied behind him; a court martial was im- would emancipate themselves. That mediately Bummoned, and with scarcely conviction was forced upon the Commit a ehow of evidence that the man had tees of both Houses of Parliament; they done anything in connection with the in- ! reported accordingly, and the doom of urrection, indeed, there was nothing 1 slavery was Sealed. fouud, except that ho was iu the midst Sir, it was my privilege to be in Jamai of a crowd looking on whilst a building ca when hlavcry came to an end, and I was burning, which had been set on fire rejoiced the more to be a witness of its by the insurrectionists, he was convic- extinction, because I bad suffered in corn ted, and led out to be shot. They wero mon with my'brcthren, in connection with it. in such a hurry, that they did not even We were sent out as the instructors of the take the trouble to pass sentence upon slaves and free colored Deonle. We built , him; and when within an hour and a half from the time he was brought into the British people, all over the island, where town, be etood under the gallows, I ever we could, and we were sustained by heard him inquiro, "What are yoo funds contributed by British benevolence, going to do with me?" They had not , as instructors of the negroes. Well, sir, even had the humanity to tell him ho j we were denounced by the planters, from was going to die. The officer stepped up ( the beginning of our efforts, as spies of to him, took up his jacket, which had ( the Anti-Slavery Society. They had a been torn off when he was brought to the gacity enough to discover, at a very ear- spot, threw it over his face, and said, 1 11 V :il C J .. ; ' t?n I "You will find out in a momont.' jljlo i stepped back, the word was given, and tbc man lay there, a bullet through his brain, and another through his heart. I heard one man say to the crowd of slaves standing round, pointing to the hole in the slave's head, "You want your freo dom, do you? Put your finger thero J That is tbe kind of freedom wewill give you, you black devill" This I heard with my own ears. I saw hundreds thus slaughtered in cold blood. Sharp was tbe last brought out to be put to death; and his end was worthy of his character. I had frequent opportunities to converse with him while be was in jail. When I saw so many put to death, I wrote a communication for one of tho island newspapers, with the intention of directing the Governor's at tention to the wholesale slaughter that was going on. It had the effect I intend ed. The Govenor read it, and the next post brought down an order to the au thorities, civil and military, that no fur ther executions should take place for crimes committed, during tho insurrection, without bis own warrant. Thus it hap pened that Samuel Sharp was detained in prison several weeks after he had been tried, and sentence of death pronounced upon him, and I had frequent opportuni ties of convcreinjz witn him. He was a and read tho newspapers, and was in all . -r t j i: respects a superior man 1 asKea nim what it was that induced him to take Tfirf in fliij tTinvumnnf cinnn tin liorl new - " I H 1 14 t. 11 I tJ 11 V . Vr Ul U U L 1 I UUk. 11 W 11 ! UV nr c. e A n a m .i r . Ii nil limine 1 1 1 : t , . ' . J , T ."Sir," said he, "in readinji my Bible. 1 ... ... lound tne white man had no more right f r m n cl n nn r f run f ruin T V o A f r runL'a . c ,l i j t ii a siave of tho white man; and I would .t . i j- u n rather go out and die on that gallows, than livfae a slave .. The J0ung ,badies of , . ., i - i i v i i j the family to which he belonged made J . , r i i i. him a very handsome suit of white cloths, and I saw him march to his death. I heard the remarks which he made when he stood on the platform under the gal lows; and, sir, I could not but drop a tear to see a man like that put to death, whose only crime was, that he made an effort to recover that liberty which is the rieht of every human being, and of which he, in common with his brethern, had been wrongfully and wickedly deprived. The insurrection was put down, and tbe intention which Sharp entertained in connection wilh it was frustrated. His deign was not to do violence to any per son or property, but Eimply to act upon the principle of passive resistance. He argued in this way: "Tbey will put to death ome of us, if we sit down and re fuse to work after Christmas, and we must be content to die for the benefit of the rest. I. for one, am ready to die, in order that the rest may be free. Tbey may put some of us to death, but they caunot bane and shoot us all, and if wo are faithful ooe to another, we mustob- tain our freedom. Samuel Sharp's plan ws defeated in this way: He had not calculated suffi ciently upon tbe impulsive character of the men he .undertook to lead in this movement, upon their not being accus tomed to exercise self-restraint; conse quently, when sonic of them brokb into the store-housosof tbeestatcs,and became intoxicotcd, and then set fire to the buil dings that was regarded as a signal all over the country, and the works and mills were destroyed on two hundred or three hundred estates, Sharp said, "When this occurred, I saw the scheme was defeated. I knew that the whites would slaughter us without mercy, and our freedom be a long while put off." But, sir, although tbc immediate design of Sharp was not accomplished, yet it was ultimately. This very insurrection was one of tho events which hastened the ab olition of slavery in the West Indies. I dare say my friend Mr. Garrison is suffi ciently acquainted with tbo history of those times to remember that in tbe Com mittee appointed by the House of Lords to investigate tbe whole question of sla very, and also tbat iu the Committee op pointed by the House of Commons, the decision on the question of the immediate abolition of nlavcry turned upon this point, "Will it be safe to the planters that slavery bo continued ?" T,wo of my brother missionaries, who weut homo fpr the express purpose of appearing before these Committees, gave it as tbeir opinion thai it would not be safe; tbat these in surrectionary attempts would be repeated churches, assisted by the liberality of the ly period of our labors, that slavery and f Ik a i n ! 1.1 i I , , I uuniiiiauiijr vuum uut loug co-exisi; luai they wero essentially antagonistic, and that the one must ultimately destroy the other. Determined to perpetuateslavery, they resolved to do all they could to get rid of Christianity, and keep their people in heathen darkness; and, consequently, throughout our history we were subjected to the most bitter- persecution; and, sir, just after tho insurreotion to which I have referred, tho whole white people of the island of Jamaica banded themselves to gether in an association which they call ed "Ihe Uolonial Union, the avowed ob ject of which was to drive every instruc tor of the negroes from" the island. Eigh teen of our churches were levelled with "the ground. They dragged the mission aries to prison, get false witnesses to swear against them, treated with brutal violence, and did everything they could to j put an end to our labors. But, as they i were determined to drive us away, we were determined to remain and remain we did. Though our churches lay in ru ins, and wo could not gather a congrega tion, though our societies were scattered, and we wero exposed to all the indignities which the anti-elavery advocates have to suffer now in the South, we stood our ground, and by and by we saw the result of all these thing. We were much dis- : couraged when these events took place. ', When we saw these violent men rampant and triumphant, when we saw our church- . es in ruins, and our congregations scat- tered hither and thither, and ----j 0 our mouths closed for nearly two years together, we were greatly discouraged, and we won- , dered what Divine Providence was work ing out through all these things. By ' and by we began to see what it was. By these means it was that that storm of in- : dignation was raised among tho British . people, that led to the abolition of slave ry. They saw there was no chance even of evangelizing the negroes while slavery existed, and they rose in their might, and tbe British Government was obliged to . yield; and slavery, with all its abomina- ( inations.'its chains and whips, its tortures ' and d.ungeons, was swept away to be known no more in those colonies for ever. , Sir, I was there when Slavery was a- j bolisbed. I saw tho monster die. This j day, twenty-four years ago, I stood up late ! at night, iu oncof tbe churches under my j charge, a very large oburcb, 'and the aisles were crowded, and the gallery stairs j and tho communion place, and the pulpit stairs, were all crowded, and there were thousauds of people round the building, at every open door and window looking j in. l bis was at iu o docs at uigbt, on the 31st day of July. We thought that it was right and propej tbat our Christian people should receive thoir frecdon as a boon from God, and in the bouse of pray er, aud we gathered tbem together in tho church for a midnight service It was my privile to tand up in tbat congrega tion, and "proclaim liberty to the captive, and tho-opening of the prison doors to them that were bound." Sir, oar mouths had been closed about slavery up to that time, We could not quote, without en dangering our lives, a passage tbat bad reference even to spiritual emancipation. Thes'o planters found treason in the Bi ble and sedition in the spiritual hymns of Watts and Wesley, and we wore obliged to bo careful how we used them, and in what connection wc used the word liber ty; because they had a law, the law of "constructive treason," it was called, that doomed any man to doath who mado uso of language tending to excite a desire for liberty among the slaves. You may imagine, then, with what feelings I saw myself emancipated from this thraldom, and free to proclaim liberty to the cap-, tive, and the opening of prison doors to them tbat were bound. I took for my text that night, Leviticus 25; 10 By and by, tbo midnight hour approached. When it waa withithin two or three minutes of the first of August, the day appointed for the liberation ofhe, slaves, I request ed all tbe people to kneel down, as befit ting the solemnity of the hour, and engogo in silent prayer to God. Tbey did so; and, sir, I looked down upon tho silenoe into.br.oken by tho sobs of emotion which it was impossible to repress. By and by tho clock began to strike; it was thekuell of Slayery I , It was tbe stroke which proclaimed lib erty to eight hundred thousand human beings 1 And, sir, what a burst of joy rolled over that mass of people when the clock "struck, and they felt they wero slaves no lodger I They remained on tbeir knees a moment, aqd then I told tbera to rio. They did so; arid, iir, it wai really affecting to sec,' in one corner a ?iioihr vmu uer ntue one, wnom snc nau orougni with her, because there was no one at home to tako caro of it, clasp her baby to her bosom; and there wa an old white'awoy from the parent, nor the wife from headed man, embracing a daughter; and 'the hubnnd, as used to be the case in the here, again, would be a husband coograt-; days of slavery. Although, for' some ulating bis wife in a bimilar way; andjears, this wa prevented by tbe amelio sometliing like confusion was apparent all j rating. measures imroduced by theJBfit over the building. However, wo made al-1 ih Government, before emancipation, yet lowance fortheseseemingimpropriettes be-j i the times of ancient slavery, the' wife cause of the occasion, and by and byall was aud child were sold and separated from still again, and then, sir, I have it here, each other, and from tbc husband and I cannot tell you, so well as you may im aginc, the feelings with which these pco plo, just emerging into freedom, shouted, for they literally shouted, the hymn which I now read to you : "Send the glad tidings o'eri the sea, His chains are broke the slave, is free; . Britannia's justice, wealth and might Have gained the negro's long-lost right! His chains are broko, the Blave is free, This is the Negro's jubilee ! "Hail! blessed and and auspicious day! Dear is thy first bright dawning ray, Which comes, an angel from above, Herald of freedom, joy and love : Thy breezes whisper, "Slaves, be free !" Now is the Negro's jubilee ! "O Thou, whose-favor long was sought, What full deliverance hast thou wrought! The captive's groan has piRrced thine ear, And thou hast wiped the fulliiig'tear. The curse is past, the slave is free! This is the Negro's jubilee! "Our prayers shall now with praise combine, For freedom poured on every clime; For holy freedom, gracious Lord, To join a world in sweet accord : Then freed from sin, from error free, We'll keep a. brighter jubilee ! I hope the time will soon come, when thousands of Christian ministers, with their congregations, throughout the length and breadth of the United States will be able to sing tbat Jubilee Hymn I But, sir, I find that I am trespassing upon the time and patience of the audi ence, and therefore I will hasten to an other subjeot, which I have found, since I bavo been in New England, is regard ed by many persons as of great import ance, namely, The Working of Emanci pation in the British Colonies. I have been told, since I have been here, that emancipation, it is understood, has been a failure. I am prepared to give this ntatement an unqualified contra diction. There is no" sense whatever in which the emancipation of tbe slaves of the British colonies has proved a failure. Sir, emancipation has not proved a fail ure in this sense the people are all free. It has not failed to break tbeir chains and set them free. In that it is no fail ure, but a blessed reality. Tbcn,.6ir, I am told that' the people are wor.se off in freedom than they were in slavery, and in that sense emancipation has proved a failure. But, -ir, it is not true; and I won der, I have often wondered, how any man with common sentje could for a moment entertain such an opinion. Sir, tbe peo ple now, throughout the British colonies, have their own time at their disposal their whole time. This was not tho case ip the days of slavery. The only time they had at their disposal then was one day in two weeks, to cultivate their pro vision ground" and procure the necessa ries of life, and the Sabbath to go to mar ket, and for religious worship, if tbey ohose. That waa all the time the peo ple of Jamaica had at their disposal un der slavery. Their masters did not give thsm food or wages, but they gave tbem a piece of land, it might be two-or three acres,if they could cultivate them, some times four or five, even ten or fifteen miles away from the estate on which they resi ded; and they gave them one day in two' weeks to raise provisions upon this piece of land and that was all, except a'little salt fish now and then, with which to sea son their provisions. Now, sir, the peo ple have all their time; they can spend it to tho best advantage, according to their own judgmont, and according to their viows of their own interest. Then, sir, tho people now have the Sabbath. For merly it was impossible for them to keep holythe Sabbath day; they had to go to market pn that day; aud when their mar ket was over, tbey would bring tbeir bas kets and trays to tho place of worship, and dcoosit them there, having taken somo opportunity to change their apparel, while tbey went into the sanctuary to worship God. That was allthe Sabbath tho negro had. The Sabbath market prevailed over tho whole of tho West In dies, and there was more business done on tbat day than on all tbe other days of the week. All this was brought to an end by emancipation. Jhe negro can; now spend tho whole day with his family in the house of prayer and in the worship of God, according to tho dictates of his conscience. Then, sir, tho negro is free from the liability to tho lash. It is truo, that for some years bofore emancipation, the law limited the master's power of punishment to tho jnfiiction of thirty-nine lashes at one time; but the master had only to take care that-none but slaves were witnesses, and he might inflict three hundred and ninety laahes instead of thirty-nino, with out the slightest apprehension of punish ment, beoauso tbc testimony of a slave could uot. bo received against his master, whatever ho might do. Now. sir, the power of punishineut was taken from tho hands of the master, at the time of eiBBn- cipation, and placed in the hands of tbo fmagUtr ate; re-pon-tt tv to the pu Ire aud I to the government for the man tier iu which ue u?et uis autnoiry. Ihen, Tr, families are no longer liable to bo scattered; the child cannot be -old father, without tho slightest .feclingor compunction, just as now in the Southern Statos of thia Union. All tbi has pars ed away. ) , Then, sir, the negroes have their owa houses. Nearly all the black people in Jamaica are freeholders. They bave their own pieces of land, and their own cottages erected upon tbe land, and there they dwell, under their own vine and fig tree, no man daring to molest or make tbem afraid. Then, they have the disposal of their children. They can send them to school, or takejtbem to work in tbe field, at tbeir pleasure. All these beneficial changes have been wrought by emancipation; and yet we are told that emancipation has failed to , im prove the condition of the colored' race. Sir. it is one of the many falsehoods got up by the pro-slavery party, to blind the eyes of the friends, of humanity in this country, and promote the iuterest of sla very. It is a falsehood, and I denounce it as such. Throughout the British West Iudies, in every island, the condition of the people is incomparably superior, in all respects, to what it wns in slavery. TO BE CONTINUED. Wheat from Europe. This seems a strange perversion of the proper and natural current of trade, but we have advices, by the last steamer, of the shipments of this article to Philadel phia. A lot of eight or niue thousand bushels on its way from Liverpool, is now offered for sale by samples, and will pro bably pay a good freight. Hurrah for Democratic rule I How the country is prospering under it I Importing bread stuffs into nn agricultural country ! Well, that is the latestl We will go on impor ting dry goods, breadstuffs, etc., until the people bave no means to buy, and then we will go smash ! Splendid policy 1 Great couutry I Danger of Educating- Irish Democrats, Iu a manufacturing village near Hart ford, a zealous Democratic schoolmaster devoted bis evenings, for some time be fore the late election, to the instruction of a company of Irishmen, in order to fit them te become Democratic voters. Af ter getting tbem educated up to th re quirements of tbe statute, which requires tbem to be able to read the Constitution, he took them to Hartford and had them naturalized, aud rulied with great confi dence ou their voting "the right ticket." When election day came, however, the schoolmaster was puzzled and mortified to ste nearly all hi.- hopoful pupita- vote the Republican ticket. "'I he causes,' be said, "had turned against him, after be had spent more than a hundred dollars on them." Tho incident shows the 'per ils of education to the Democratic party. A Sickles Case in Madison. We learu from a gentleman from Mad ison, Ind., that the inhabitant of tbat city wore thrown into a state of excitement by a lamentable affair occurring on Satur day night last. It appears that for some time past u citizen engaged in the sadlcry business, has entertained suspicions of tbe virtue of his wife, und resolved to satsfy himself in regard to tbe matter. Accor ingly on Saturday last, be informed, ho informed his family that he should leave in tho evening for Cincinnati. About9 o'clock, however, he returned unexpect edly to his home and found his, worst fears realized, A neighbor of bis who was possessed of considerable means, was tho intruder. Nhe injured couple found the guilty couple in bed, and without an instant's delay, he drew a revolver.- and shot iho seducer dead. He then left tho house and gave himself up to the author ities. Civbinnati Times, April 11. One pleasant Sabbath morning, recent ly, while Henry Ward Beccher wason his way to church, he found the sidewajkoe cupicd by a number of boys, playing bt bles tipou which be stopped short and 'ex claimed "What, boya, playfng marbles on the Sabbath.day ! why you frighten me? ' Upon which a hardeued little pin ner looked up and answered "Frighten- eu, na i wuy in tuo u uuu t-yuu then !" run, L 1 wo uermau nrotners, in ai&oun - .1 -1 11 county, 111 , married. two German sisters. The elder brother fell sicknd'tbe young er brother ran away with tho slok man's wife. The convalescent brother then fol lowed with the other wife, and nowwahta to swap back, but bis own wife, 'who baa tried both, says neither of the brothers is worth having. "I live in Julia's oyes,'' said an affeot dandy, in Coleman's hearing. "I cd I don't wonder it,'' replied Georfie, "for 'I observed he had a aty in ona of them when I saw her last."
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