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THE UNION.
BY H. W. LONGFELLOW.
Sail on, O Cnion, strong and great
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hope of future years,
Is banging breathless on thy fate !
We know what Master laid thy keel,
What workman wrought thy ribs of steel;
"Who made each mast, and sail, and rope,
Wht anvils rang, what hammers beat,
la what a forge and what a heat
Were shaped the anchors of thy hope !
Fear not each sudden sound and shock,
'Tis of the wave and not the rock:
'Tis but the flapping of the sail,
And not e rent made by the gale !
In ppite of rock and tempe.-t's roar,
In spite of false lights ou the shore,
Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea !
Our hearts, our hopes, are with thee.
APPEAL OF THE KENTUCKY EXILES.
T6 the People of the United States.
The attention of Christians and all lov
ers of liberty is respectfully called to the
following facts and considerations :
We, the undersigned, residents of Be
rea, Madison County, Ky., on the '23d
day of December, 1859, wore waited up
on by sixty-two of the mo-t wealthy and
influential citizens of the county, who in
formed us that they had been appointed
by the people to remove us from the State;
and that if we were found within it? bor
ders at the expiration of ten days, they
should expel us by force.
We were charged with the violation of
no law, but told that the spread of Anti
Slavery ientiments (which we held) en
dangered their institutions. We were
engaged aa farmers, arti-ans, teachers,
and ministers, maintaining ourselves by
our own industry, (two of us as miuittcrs
receiving a partial support from the A
Bierican Missionary Association), with no
beted teal for any "ism," but endeavor
ing quietly to promote the cause of Christ.
We believed, and did uot hesitate to de
clare when the occasion demanded, that
Slavery was a moral and socio eul, which
it was the duty of all good men to oppose.
We set our-elves agaiut tie spirit of
caste, aud labored to suppress all feelings
of hostility between non slaveholders and
slaveholders, between slaves and taa-ters.
In all things vte sought wi-doai from obove,
and aimed to cxercie that wi-e discretion
which is especially needed by those who
bold unpopular opinions.
By the testimony of slaveholders, many
of whom we reckon among our personal
friends and well-wisher, our presence
and labors had so changed that part of
tbe county, that it had become as noted
for tbe upright conduct of its iuhabitaut-,
at it once bad been for horse-rasing and
intemperance. We bad fouuded a literary
Institution, which was receiving a liberal
patronage from all clashes.
The settlement atBerea was increasing
H.n numbers and importance, wheu at the
news of the Harper's Ferry foray, a wonderful-panic
seized tbe people of the coun
ty, which was increased by printed an
nouncement?, that it had beeu di-corered
that an insurrection was soon to break
oat in Kentucky, that a box of Sbarpe's
rifles, directed to one of our Dumber, had
been intercepted, and by other declara
tion equally false, until a perfect torrent
of rage was stirred up againt our com
munity, already obnoxious beceusc of its
influence in favor freedom. Honorable
men, many of them slaveholders, and the
taass of the people within a few miles of
as, opposed this tide, but were unable to
disinisb it power. Finding themselves
enable to check tbe rage of infuriated
men and that there was no protection for
s by law, although we were uot charged
with the infringement of a single statute,
tbey with perfeet unanimity advised us to
retire for a time, before the storm. Thin
king it tbe part of wisdom to yield to, the
asited request of our friends, whose coun
aels bad the greater weight from tbe fact
that our departure would be to their pe-
caaiary disadvantage, and leuruiug from
various reliable sources that a rabble, be
yond the controls the Committee who
waited upon us, wefe purposing to take
tbe lives of some of us if we remained,
we believed it to be our duty, though in
id-Winter, to leave the county Ac
ordiugjy, we God ourselves to day, with
our wives and little ones, homeless, and
separated from the people with whom we
hoped to live and die.
Under these .circumstances, wo feel con
trained to address to you a few words.
Wo do not desire to stir up your anger a -
gainst our persecutors, for wo feel confi-
dent
nt that tbey know not what they do:
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uur uo we wisu especially to nsu your sym-
tbies in our behalf, but rathor that vou
consider your duty as Christians and pa-
triots, to that multitude of other persona
whoin various ways are the victims of the -
system of Slavery.
There are still out-spoken Aoti Slave-
: ry men and churches in the South, hko
ourselves, unprotected by law. They, as
well as ourselves, have in vain sought tfio
protection of magistrates aud courts, and
are daily liable to banishment, or as th
alternative, to death. Thousands, if not
million, are deprived of the privilege of
free speech on the subject of Slavery, bo-
. r -1.1
cause oi mat ineuous wuicu rest upon
them by reason of the support given to
f , ., nt i j o .
the system by the Church and btatc
, We ak you, if you care for freedom of
speech, or Christ in the person of his poor,
to remove thU ineubu.. which is fast be-
j coming a burden too bcavj to be borne.
! It is a humiliating fact that even yet,
. in the North, some of the largest deuomi-
i nations of ChrUtians are in actual com-
iplicity with this system of outrage and in-
i justice. They give to the iniquity posi-
lion, ana uia it ijiod-speea by ecclesiasti-,
I cal fellowship.
The same is true of the honnmlnnr. .
sociations. If all the churches and asso -
; ciations would treat slaveholding as they
' do other gross immoralities, soon respec-
taole meo would cea-o to defend or prao-
lice the iniquity It would die of disgrace.
Albert Barnes has correct W said : ;'SU-
j very could not live a single day outside
of the church, were it not for the fact that
it lives in the church."
Men at the North, th
thini to do will. Slavprv. Th l.mo
long given character and support to it by
donations and u?sociatious. Lct tbem
bring forth truits meet for repenteuce by
using every righteous means Joritsremo
val. Let no one remain silent. Christ is
j in bonds in the person of bis poor.
South, can use another potent instrumen
men in tue JNortti as well as in tne
tality political action
Let them repeal every enactment that
in any way gives sauction or support to
the HVrteta. Slavery is uot a natural!
state of society. It lives only by statuto
ry. Let this protection be taken awa
and it falls.
Let the Federal Government be put in
to thc bands of tried and true friends of
freedom; then Federal ofiices in the South
will be Glled with men who will aid the
cause of liberty, and give facilities for the
spread of truth aud the administration of
ju-tice
The prestige of Government will be on
the side of freedom, and the incubus of a
Pro Slavery Administration removed from
thousands wbo now are silent because
they see no way of hope. These thou--ands
will then speak out the true impul
ses of their natures Their voice will be
like tbe voice of many water.s and their
movements like mountain avalauekes, ir
resistible. This foreseen fact but increases our de
sire to return aud preach the gospel of
love to all, that tbe people may be saved
from violence. Iu all iUnces whero a
gospel of love has been fully proclaimed,
slavery ha quietly pas.-ed away; but
wherever this gospel has been rejected it
ua none out in blood.
The ell then is not for protection for t'nUa, ttU1 wefllthy 1,3U' ,n ot a
the eolored man alone. That would b Poor aud freudles- tubman. He ap-f-uffioieiit
to enlist thc zeal of all .rood:aled t0 lho Solicitor-General, Juliau
men. But tbe call is tbat you should so ..rtndge, to lay tbe conduct of thes do
act as to give protection to white men al-. l,U(luent officIals beforc tho Grand JurrJ
so; men who have gone there from Free bul lt was ooly to UJ,et w,th a relusal
States to do good, and to tbou-ands of ' iroa that gentleman on the ground that
nBtive citizens who desire protection inlaD ;Dd,ceat against them would also
the freedom of sneecb. and the full exer-,
cise of their con-cienttous conviction-
If then tb lovers of risteoumiess North '
and South, shall at nn Ho th.ir f!tr
ecclesiastically and politically, lot privi-i!D
leges will be secured to us, freedom to
the slave, secury to the master and pros
perity to all
John G. Fee,
J A. R Eogeus,
John Smith,
E T. Haves,
Swinelhurst Life,
Cincinnati, Jan. i,
John G. Hanson,
A G. W. Pauker,
A. II Toney.
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0. E Grifein
1 -OU.
Buying and Selling,
i Tbe following sensible hit will suit our
: latitude, as well a some others, and may
j bo read with profit by ail engaged iu buy-'
aud selling:
"Some nre uot honest in buying or sell-!
ing. The rule if, at all times, to buy as
oheap bs tbey can, and Fell as dear as
they can. This is a wicked rule. We
ofter trade with those wbo do uot know
! tbe worth of the thing bought, or sold. was permitted, then, to return to the bar-j been examined, Col. Qumming addressed
It is cheating tbem to make the best bar- room of the notel, where be presently re-; the Court in a speech, evidently so foar
gain we oau. Sometimes we trade with lated the summons tbat had been served less as to have exercised a strong influ- !
those who are in preat want, and we fix
our own prices, and make tbem too high
if wo sell, or too low if we buy. There
iB a fair price "for every thin". Let that
! be paid or taken for every thing He
j who is just and true, and who loves his
j neighbor as bimself, will oon find out
what a fair prico is. Almost all men
use too mauv word in buying and sel-
ling, and there is almost always a lie
somewbere."
fc...
4Richard ltealf, the Secretary of
State under John Brown's "Provisional
Government," is on bis way to Washing-
too, from Austin, Texas, in charge of tho
Uoited States Senate Coramiltee'fl offi
ccr.
1 ANOTHER SOUTHERN OUTRAGE.
A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS.
t v. t -
. An Irishman Tmnncnnpri anil Homchnrt
-n 'ie Augusta (Ga.) Evening JDis-
jPath of the 2JUh ult., is the following
editorial paragraph :
1 " arr ested.
' A man named James ( rangale, hailing troin
"l,,,n,. s- was arrested by the police,
mm nigni, tor giving vent to Aoonuon senu-
ments, while in a state of intoxication, and is
now in uurance.
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A second edition of this story is pub -
halted in The Charleston (S. 0.) Mercury
of Deo. 31, two days later, and is as fol-
lows :
Vigilnace. Passengers from Augusta
report that an Abolitionist was tarred and
--r---- . Keys auu surrenaerea mem. in tue eve-
f'ed in that city on Friday. His name nju f that day Mr. Olin, a Justice of
is represented to be James Hrangale, recent- , , .. .
jy from Columbia ." the Peace, called upon hira, and inform-
, ....... 1 cd him that Mr. Foster Blodaet, ir. the
Crangale arrived in this city from - M of AugU9ta bad fiod Jn aJffidavit
Charleston on Saturday laet, in the stea-j jost bim wh;ch wm Muffioicnt t0 SWoar
er ISashvillo. His story we have from ; ten H if be had 0 Thid
bl n M. ' wc .tb . " ay be re- foraiidabi0 document, which Mr. Olin
Peatt;d to thc edification of Mr. 0 Conor's bowed hi asserted that he, the Mayor,
countrymen who believe Slavery to be an lhad beeo informed aud beiie'ved tbat the
excellent institution, and who vote thoerrandof Granule at the South was to
VffiQ!riJU0 anU tor tUo mtorma- j
,uu u t,,UBL wmuu.iuSt:ruiiuiBu u
i baje debts to collect on account or under
judgments, at the South.
' Jaues Grangule m by birth an
Irishman, educated to the law, who emi-
f"ted t0 th.w cou"try ho two and a
uu" r u, , , uuuer a ueue!B,- tihVd in aiding and arminj: the "niggers"
l? of earD,u6 livelihood, he made anjat Harperis Ferry; and tbat he, the May- !
opgagement soon after his arrival in this j WM prepared t0 prove these a3Sortions. '
cit
M
e ty to go as ciern in me estaDsument oi
Me-srs. Gray & Purley Dry Good. Mcr-,
chants of Savannah
auu Augusta. iii-jtbe wboie storj waa a falsehood, a fiction
the former place in!from beginning to end; that he had never
ter a brief stay in
tbe employment of Messrs. Gray & Tur-
i lc" he &ent b? tbem t0 the estab,i:?h-,
ment at Augusta, when they refused to ,
; 1VJLU,U u,,m ,u l,M 11
returned to Gavannab, wnere she soon on- j
tamed the place of Deputy Clerk to the
Court, of Ordinary of Chatham County,
Ga. Sinoe that time he has lived quiet-
j1 "obtrusively, and inoffensively, busy
with the duties of his office, and in quail
fying himself to be admitted to the bar.
With the subject of Slavery he never med
dled, and dever in any way, expressed
an opinion in regard to it.
Feeling, however, that he had been un
justly dealt with by Messrs. Gray & Tur
ley, who had induc d him to go to the
South, and had then broken the engage
ment between them without regard to tbe
eonsrquences that might ensue to him, a
stranger and friendle-s in a strange land,
he sued tbem for bis salary under the
contract. The suit was brought in a Jus
tice's Court, and a decision given in his
favor. Appeal was made by Messrs.
Gray & Turley to the Superior Court,
where the decisiou of the Court below was
confirmed, and judgmeut grauted against
the defendants. This end, however, was
not gained without some difficulty. Three
law3'ers successively threw up his case,
after delaying it for several months, and
he at length carried bis suit through, and
brought it to a successful issue by acting
as his own counsel. But even here was
not an end to the legal obstacle in tbe
way of justice. With the judgment in his
hand he went to one after another of the
officers of the law in Savannah, but could
find uone who would execute the duties
of their officf aaiust a well known, influ-
",vu,Te uuu gaiUBt lu nruey& tor me
defendants
Hopeless of r dress in Savannah, Mr.
angaie went to Augusta, trusting tbat
tbat P,ac,e' wbere M-s-rs. Gray & Tur-
ley are holders of property, he should bo
able to find officers who would servo tho
judgment of the Court against them. On
his arrival be went to the United States ,
Hotel, kept by Messrs. Dobey & Mosher,
and took a room. In the course of the
J. F. BouanTON.!evr",D. r V" T"10" "P0D a maD
.. 1.- .1 .... t
: canmg himselt Jonn NeiUy, wbo invited
uim out upon tne siuewniK in trout or tne
hotel, and tbere said to him, that, under
standing him to be an Abolitionist, be,
Neilly, on behalf of the Vigilance Commit
tee, directed him to leave town immcdi-1
ately. Mr. Crangale at once, refused to j
i act on this order. He wan there, ho said, j tue prisoner to nim as' an Abolitionist,!
for the purpose simply of collecting mon-jond ruled out the evidence on the ground ,
ey due him on a judgment of the Supuri- that the trade of Augusta with the North !
or Court, and for nothing else; and that if would be injured should it become kuown
tDJ could prove him to be an Abolition j that such was their method of dealing
iat they were welcome to haig bim. He, with creditors. After tho witnesses had
upon him, and the conversation that en-
uui'd. Thereupon, James Hughes, the
bar-keeper, came forward and stated that
he'kuew that Crangale was au Abolition-
lsl tuat e is information from An-
drew Gray, who said that "Crangale was
a damned Abolitionist and rascal, nnd
ought to be put out of the way." Mr.
Grangalo agaiu denied the allegation,
He understood now, however, tbe source
!8Qd meaning of tbe accusation, for An-
drew Gray is a brother of the senior part-
ner in the bouse of Gray & Turley. .
About 2 o'clock that night, when asleep
in bed, bis room was broken into by
three constables, named Everett, King)
and Ramsay, accompanied by about twen-
ty of thc Vigilance Committee, who ar-.
rested him. They dragged him out of
bed, and, after taking from him his over-
coat and valise, hurried him off to iail.-
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1 - ue next aay ue was watten upon by an
other constable, one Ford, who demand
ed his koys, which ho refused to give up
Ford assured him thutif no abolition doc-
unients wore found in his possession, be
would be discharged; but if the charge a
gainst him should be proved, be would e
bung up at the prison gates by the Viat-
hnco Corauiittco. To jt Jjn refusin
. : t t n j j t fc
.togivoup his keys, Ford assured him,
i woujd be considered as equivalent to a
confession of guilt, and ho should call the
Committee to execute speedy judgment
I TTni i.
but to comply with the demand for the
keys and surrendered them. In the cve-
8tir u aQ in8urrection aajon tbe 8avct
and that be watf doj that b(? hud as.
sertcd tbat tbe ,,avCw wou)d be :Qhtificd
in rising against their masters; tbat the
'peoplo of tbe North wou,d be ;uslified in
putt;nK arms 5nt0 tbe hands of the slaves;
tliat the people of Massachusetts were jus-
Mp Crangale met these assertions with a
flat denUL Ue aaSured Mr 01in .tbat
uM nrl hud vr nrtprrt
timcnts. Mr. Olin thereupon informed
bim tbat bia trial Wouid take plac0 tbe
next day, and advised him to send for and
engage as his counsel Col. Gumming, a
well knowo ,awJer and oue of tbo most
re3iectable and influential citizens of An.
fusta. The advice was taken, and Col.
Cumming applied to. He called that
eveniug, and, after li-tening to jIr. CraD
gale's statement, to his honor be it said,
consented to defend the case.
All this time, it should be remembered,
the prisoner was held under no Ugal pro
ces, but, though confined in the City
Prison, and visited by the officers of tbe
law, wan simply in tbo custody of the
Vigilance Committee. The next morn
ing ho was ordered into court, and on bis
way thither was arrested at the suit of
the State on a charge of ondeaiing to in
cite an insurrection among the slaves, and
was arraigned before Justicei Olin and
Piquet. The statute of the State which
provides the penalty of death for tho
crime with which the prisoner was char
lied was read, when Col. Cumming moved
that the case be carried to the Superior
Court, which would sit tho latter part of
January, and that the pri-oner bo re
manded to take his trial at that time.
He irave as his reasons for this motion
that the present trial was held,4n fact,
by the Vigilance Committee, who alone
constituted the audience, and who would
hang the accused then and there, if tbe
slightest shadow of suspicion could attach
to him. Mr. Granglo himelf, however,
arose and opposed this motion. Strong !
in his own innocence, he wished the trial j
to proceed, and did not fear the result, i
The witnesses woro then called and '
examined They were Charles M'
Calla, John Neilly, Allen Davy, Th on, as
T. Fogarty, and Jame Hughes, the bar
keeper at the United States Hotel: Their
evideuce, however, was only hearsay.
Not one of them knew anything, of his
own knowledge, of the prisoner; not one
of them had ever heard him utter a single
Abolition opinion, or any opinion what
ever, upon the subject of Slavery, and
none of them knew anything about him,
good, bad, or indifferent The only evi
dence of any moment was that of Hughes,
who testified, on a cross-examination, '
that Andrew Gray had pointed out the
prisoner to him as an Abolitionist; aud
that of Neilly, who acknowledged tbat he
had agreed and propo-ed that the prison
er shoul-i be handed without the formali
ty of trial, at the time of hie arrest, upon
the lamp-post opposite the TJuitoti States
Hotel. This admission pttssed even with
out rebuke from the Court. But tho
Court was more vigilant when Hughes
admitted that Gray was pointed out
enoe over the minds of the Court and au-
diencc, and marked by a degree of sound
common sense hitherto unheard of under
such ciroumstancos. He denounced these
Vigilance Committees as self made tribu-
nala, constituting themselves as at once
witnesses and judges, and as actuated by
no higher motive than a determination to
denounce all Northern men of property
as Abolitionists, for tho purpose of ruin-
ing tbem and dividing tho spoils among
themselves. The statute of Georgia pro-
vidiug tho penalty of death for inciting
thc lave to insurrection, be said, on the
other hand, though sovere was none too
much so. It behoovd' tbV South to keep
both Mts eyes and cars open to protect
their property nginst incendiaries. But
tbe innocent, he declared, should not be
accused and subjected to persecution.
Under tho effeet of this speech, and as
no title of evidence could be produced a
gainst Mr. Crangale, the Court had but
one course to pursue, and the prisoner was
acquitted. He was nevertheless condemn
ed to pay the costs of pro-ecution. the
fee of tho Vigilance Committee, who had
arrested bim without legal process, and
the cost ol the imprisonment which he bad
been compelled to suffer, and was reman
ded to jail till payment, was made. On
arriving at the hotol, his coat and vali.e,
wjiich the Committee had taken from him
were produced, but the pocket book cou
turning nearly a hundred dollars, and
wbioh ho had left in his coatpockot, was
not to be found. Again he was .aken to
the Court, whero. be stated the circum
stances to Jubtioe Olin. But that geutle
man refused to believo him. "I have."
be said to the prisoner, ''acquitted you
simply for want of evidence; but I still
believe you are an Abolitionist, a God
d d Abolitionist, and you had better
confess it. You are," he continued, "
fool, a God d d fool. Have uot your
friends told you sol Do you uot know !
it yourself V He then ordered him to o- S
peu his valise, declaring that if any thing '
was found in it to convict bim, there were !
enough of the "boys" pre-ent to string
him up. The prisoner at first refused to
obey this order. The valise, and the keys
he said, bad been out of his posession for
two days; he did not know what might
have been put in the valise, and he did
not oboose to take the chance of being
hanged on such a contingency. On the
threats being repeated, however, he con
sented to open tho valise, which fortu
nately had uot been tampered with, and
where nothing was fouud but his clothing
and some paper.i relative to the debt
which he bad come to Augusta to collect.
Word was then sent to Col. Sueed, the
President of the Vigilance Committee, of
the inability of the prisoner to discharge
the bill of coats, and to demand its pay
ment of hira, as the representative of the
party making the arrest. Col. Sueed re
fused. The Mayor was then sought for
to make the same demand of bim a pros
ecutor, but be could not be found. It
seemed perfectly clear to tbe Justice that
tho bill bad to be paid by somebody, and
as. those from whom it was rightfully due
could not be compelled to, he chose to act
on the principle that possession is nin
points of the law, and hold him responsi
ble whom he had in hi-j power. A new
committal was made out, aud Mr. Cran
gale returned to jail till he could pay tbe
costs of his own false improsoument. Af
ter pufferiug a further confinement of thir
ty three hours, and it beiug evident tbat
there was no relenting on the part of his
persecutors, he wrote to Colonel Cumming
to thank him for his generous services,
and to ask for another interview on his
behalf. Soon after, Mr. Alfred Cumming
appeared at the jail, paid the fees deman
ded, and the prisoner was released. Mr.
Olin bad advised him to be off the mo
ment he was out of jail, as tbere were
"boys enough about," he said, "to string
bim up." As he had every reason to be
lievo io the soundness ot this couusel, he
left immediately, and arrived, as we have
already stated, in this city on Saturday.
Tribune.
How a Countryman was Shaved.
A gawky looking specimen of Sucker
innocence, named Samuel Block, strayed
into an up town barber-shop in St. Lou
is, on Sunday morning, aud after sitting
some time, wa inquired of by one of the
professors of the tonsorial art to know if
be wUbed to be shaved. At the utter
ance of tho Inst word Mr. Block burst in
to a loud guffaw and shook hi ride with
great cacbinatory emotion The gentle
men in the chairs raised up their lathery
faces and stored wildly at an individual
who seomed to be able to get up So hear
ty a demonstration of laughter with such
apparently small cause.
"I have b'.en shaved," blurted out the
Illinosian, and immediately rolapsed in
to immoderate mirth. After he had par
tially recovered, be went on to remark
somewhat in manner aud form following,
to wit: 4 Come over here from Ellnnoy
to sell a load oi tarters, Saturday. Sold
purty soon, and concluded to see tho
burg. Feller on Broadway street with a
Dutch looking face and a blue cap on, it
was a oapital standing picture of an ali
gator which was swallerin' a little nigger,
an' nother little nigger straddle ot his
neck gouging inter tho auimule with a
largo sized bttohet. Tho feller with the
Dutch face said it was probably the great
est cur'osity in tho unknown world au' all
it cost to see this wonderful livin' speci
miut was tho email price of one dime; and
ef you'd beerd thc way be sed ono dime
you'd a most tho't tbat ten cents was u
bont tbe c'ntemtablcst amount of money
tbat could be scared up. So I goes iu
and sees the ailfgatur. There was
a great lot of bully fine watches and
trinkets and things in -a glass .box,
and there was a man who said ho
was tho sole and only solitary, and ex
clusive agent for the best medicine ever
produood, wbioh was tbe great somethin'
or otber Liniment, and a man what
bought a bottil of tho great Americam
remmidy, should have a chance in tho
magnificent gift enterprise So I goes io,
but luck was heavy, and I sent up eight
ringing dollars, and did'nt get a darned
thiu 'oept four brass rings, two tooth pick
ers, two thimbles and a fine tooth comb.
T told the feller bo could ter eterlas
tin1 thunder with bis infernal hartshorn
and soap suds, and walked out, flinging
a ohaw terbacker in the right eye of the
Dutch lookin, chap. Ha, ha, ha, ha!.
I only got up street a little ways,' when
n gentleman dressed for all tbe world
like a storu clerk or a railroad conductor,
comes up to me and shook bans' a-kinf
how Robiuson was. He's all right, a ay a '
I, wonderin' what Robinson the feller
meant. Then the stranger, lookin at his
finger nails, wanted to know ef I'd loan
him my knife a second and a half. So I
pulled out my frog sticker and gin ft to
bim. "Hollow!" says he, lookin' down'
utreat, "there's a man I want to Speak
to, just wait here a minnir," and off he
went like a durt, takin my two dollar
knife with fiim. CoOsarn the sneak"
"After I eat my supper I stroll round
the auction shops till about nine o'clock,
when a critter with a big blue coat'ou,
that did'ut fit him good, asked me' if I
did'nt want to see some spote. "Yea,"
says I, and we went up a pair of stairs to
the Broadway Concert Hall, they call it,
whero they were siugin' and dancin'an
one thing another mixed up with whisky
aud beer. I expect I got rather obfusti
cated, for I fell over on a bench and went
to sleep. When I awoke, by thunder, I
put my hand in my pocket to get a chaw
of terbacker, and my derned, ofd fist went
plumb through. Hello, says I. By
George tbo tarnel scoundrols bad cut a
slit in my breeches and hooked my pock
et book that had SID in it and my plug
of Wirjjinny twist. Ho, ba, ba, ha!
I have been shaved, but I don't mind if
I let one of you take a little scrape, since
tbo landlord loaned me enough to get
home on."
And Mr.'Sarauel Block elevated" bira
elf in a high chair and submitted to an
other "flhavc."
Make the laboring man the slave of one
man instead of thc slave of society, and
he tvould be better off. Two hundred
years of liberty have made AHITE LA
BORERS a pauper banditti Free society
has failed, nnd that which is not free must
be substituted Senator Mason.
The author of the atove is a leading
D
nnocrat. As the Locofoco papers are
fond of quoting sentiments of individuals
as indicative of party, wc suppose the
sarxje rule will make the above good Dem
ocratic doctrine, tbe i&ore especially as
we are told Democracy is the same eve
rywhere. How do you like it, WHITE la
borers of Pennsylvania? Raftsman's
Journal.
inFTbe Territorial Legislature of Ne
braska, on the 3d inst., passed the bill
to abolish Slavory in that Territory. It
is stated that it was expected Gov. Black,
tho Administration Executive of tbe Ter
ritory, would veto it.
Speech Of cassitjs m. clay.
From The Cincinnati Commercial Jan
ary 11th.
An announcement, though from mouth
only, that C. M. Clay would apeak some
where in Frankfort to-night, detained a
larye number of the Democratic State
Convention delegates, and filled thestreets
at an early hour; it was rumored that bo
would be attacked if he persisted in
speaking during the present excitement,
but bejond shutting him out of the Stato
House, no indignities were offered. Ho
said: "Kentuekians, the profoundest of
historians. Gibbon, said that of the vir
tues, courage and sincerity are the great
est; you know that I never speak of ray
courage, and I rogard boasting, as one of
the worst faults of a class of my fellow
citizens, but tbe circum-tanccg of to night
justify me in alluding to tho proverbial
courago of Kentuekians. Relying upon
that courage of yours, I eoma hece to
night, one against a million, it may be.
As I have gone abroad all over this Com
monwealth, it h is born insinuated that aa
John Brown intimidated Virginia, I in
tended to bully all Kentucky, and for
thi reason it would be best to silence me
altogether. Your kuown courage is suf
ficient rebuke to this.
Your women and children have no
fears. There is ono who should be sa
cked from publicity, but I am justified in
holding up this letter from Cash. Clay's
wife, in which she says nothing of my
personal safety. Tbat is of small account
indeed, but she hopes that to-night I will
vindicate the greut cause. I deny tbe
charge that a personal coufliot was intend
ed by the announcement that on the J Oth
of January I would reply to passages of
the inaugural of Gov. Magoffin and tbe
speech of Viae President Breckiuride.
They arc brave aud honorable men, but
they ore fallible. Humble as I am not
so much as allowed tho people's hall to
speak iu I am still a citizen and shall
exercise the rights of one. Whatover ha
been said against me, you believo I think,
what I speak. I am an Einauoipationnt.
He is not dangerous wbo avows his sen
timents. Mr. Clay alluded to tho expulsion of
John G. Fee and some ninrtcen others
from Madison County, and declared Feo
a pure and upright man, though he (Clay)
did not agree with bim in bis assumption
of not being amenable to the laws, aud
bad warned hiai be should not sus
tain him therein. He (Cloy) fought utf
der the Constitution and the laws, but the
a-nt ofhirbing Fee out was lawleasand
unjustifiable. Fee aud bia associates had