R. W. Weaver Proprietoro VOLUME 3. RH£ STIR OF THE NORTH It published every Thursday Morning, by R. W. WEAVER. * OFFICE—Up stairs in the New Brick building on the south tide nf Main street, third square below Market. TERMS :—Two Dollars per annum, if paid Within six months from the time of subscri bin*; two dollars and fifty cents if not paid within the year. No subscription receded for a less period than six months; no discon tinnaace permitted until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the editors. ADVERTISEMENTS not exceeding one square, will be inserted three times for one dollar, and twenty-five cents for each additional insertion A liberal discount will be made to those who ad vertise by the year. From the Philadelphia Herald. AROWTIONWM. . The subject of the Negro race and their preseol poaition, is one of importance ; the question of abolition connected with it, and the insane conduct of abolitionists, are alike matters for the consideration of all thinking men. They strike at the root of all the laws of God and man ; they would upset the con stitulion itself, and have, by their acts, pro dueed more evil among the poor negroes than any good they ever could effect by attempting to put down slavery. We are not the advocate of the principle but it ex ists. and is a part and portion of the great moral laws of the universe, as it is of our own government. The Bible authority is found in the following passage; "And the Lord spake unto Moses in Mount Sinai, saying: Speak unto the children of Israel, aoU say unto litem, both thy bondmen and bondmaids, whioh thou shall have, shall •bo of the heathen that ate around you ; of them shall ye 6uy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover, of the children of the strangers that do so adjourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land; and they shall be your possession ; and ye snail take them as an inheritance for your children after you to inherit them for a possession ; they shall be your bondmen forever. But over your breth ren, the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one above another with rigor." Abolitionists are the foes of he black man. One glance at the wretched condition of those who are free, and of course the e quals of their brethren in every respect, will show in what light these vile hypocrites hold the poor African race. They are vil lains of the blackest dye—trom Theodore Parker down to the miserable wretches who dare up under the fugitive law in our city. To show their vile cant and shallow pretence of being • """ i" our city will plainly prove. A slave, who was claimed by her master after an absence of twenty years, was recently brought be fore the Court by the Commissionarr, under the fugitive slave law. In the minds of all the claims ot the master could not be sus tained. The length of time, difficulty of identifying her, want of sufficient evidence —in fact, every thing was in her favor, and * no one imagined for a moment she ever would go back again into slavery. This was a olear oase. The would be Howards, the men who have a respect for law and or der—and it was wonhy of them, if it had been real, and not mockery—actually step ped torth and oflered the counsel, David Paul Brown, Esq., their checks for thousands of dollars 10 buy her, in case she was— maik—in case she was convicted! Our rea ders are aware that abolitionists teach their tools to rob and plunder the southerner of his property—not buy nor purchase ; they are hypocrites toward raan, law, God and Goapel. The money, the intelligent lawyer told thot*, was not wanted; the woman was cleared. % Now, mark I Two weeks afterward an other slave—a female, one who had boen absent only a twelvemonth—was claimed under the law. She was encienle at the lime, and her husband was a free roan! This was a painful, melancholy case ; it was one cal culated to awaken sympathy in the breasts \ even of abolitionists, for there were numer ous witnesses to prove her identity- Slavery was her portion—nothing but a few hundred dollars oould save her. Even the rich blacke, they who thronged around the court-house, • saw the utter impossibility of her being freed. New, where were the Howards— where were these rich men, who, in a case ot doublf"! offered their tljoqsMde—'wfcew were they ! Afooog the missing. The poor woman, with an unborn ! babe, was carried into slavery, which they j seem to abhor, and not a pocket was opened to relieve her wants! What ia all thia bnt jrtnb, vile hypoeiicy, sotting an example to the Vflrfd of lying and fraud—another and a glaring prelude h crime ami its eonsoqUOn pes. The great arras in the calciß"' lo " abo litionists consists in their persisting in a no tion that the negro is capable of mental and physical improvement. They do nol > *• think, believe it; for if they do, why not make the attempt, even at this Jate period, to effect it 1 If The African possess,™ 'hose attributes ef the purer race of mankind, j. and which make, form and constitute the characteristics of the whites evan among u l )* heathen, no obsins, no bondage, no slavery weald ever have existed. Incapable of self government, not called into action in time of wer, or in council, nor even hinted at ia f onr Declaration of Independence as being a part and portion of tha "people who fight "for WheTty," they have, evar since God spoke ** to Moses on the Mount, been uqdui the ; guardianship end dontiol of thhe white men. j S. v. These am historic' facts, whieh even the WWW Wachguxrfi of the pulpit, Theodore Parker, cannot deny 1 . Crime, therefore—the crime of tguo;ance, riiMs atoong the lower *- Wmptffe FIFE* "* FTFLA jgSjSESff . .. J/ BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 15. 1851. order of the blacks, and is only chriijced among slaves by-just laws. That very free dom, the use of whioh is a misnomer, to ' them is of no earthly use ; it is their abuse of it which drags in and around them all ( those eyiis, miseries and human degrada tions which ignorance and crime ever pro* [ duce. There are a few whose habits and I associations are with the whites, and, alas ! what are the results ! Go ask the blind al leys of the southern section of the city ; go ask the thousand and one groggeries, rum •hops, and low dens of infamy in and around us. See the consequences of suoh associations; see the beauties of abolition ism, and then oenlrest that miserable state of existence, ye straight coated hypocrite*, j who prate about the suffering slaves, with | those in bondage, who are really happy , compared to those we have described. , Look, to, at that class who take no in- , terest in things around them, and who live ] out a dreamy sort of existence under the ( influence of that vile eoropoand of dirf and , poison, lager beer—worse, far worse, than I rye whiskey ;•* mixture to madden and des- ' troy. Thus the mind and body, congenial , in all things, find in such haunts the means i of gratifying low desires, beasliality, and | sink at once into that degradation which be- | comes, in the eyes of man and the law, a i nuisance. There is, however, OJI -' JAGS 0 J |, blacks who aspire io a certain degree of re ipjp'e.b.l.iy; it is that class who eschew, as they would a fiend, a pale faced, canting, abolitionist. These are the industrious blacks, the workers of the earth; men whose habits are formed by association and ape ing the whites in all things; this gives them a certain air of civilised life; they are more domesticated in their habits, and their dwellings present the appearance of imita tive aptitude to real comforts of life. As before remarked, we are not the ad vocates ot slavery, that is its extension I with its present history and intimate con* nection with our constitution, and to protect sTare holders, every good citizen -has much to do. We hare travelled much among the states where slavery exists, but we never witnessed half that misery and wretched ness, drunkeness and beastiality in a slave state that we have witnessed in l! large cities of the north. If we propose to do something for the blacks, let us commence the work at once; not by mixing them up with the whiles, but by reclaiming and dragging them from filth and dirt into Which { hv injudicious ad-. . vice, and examples set by others. LSI its raise them up gently, kindly, and talk reas onably and mildly with them, end endeavor to make them, their families and their { houses comfortable. Let our missionaries attend to the heathen here, and let the really , happy Hindoo alone. Let us endeavor to ] make the negro happy, by weaning him from the vices of his nature and those of association. We have alluded to Theodore Parker, a man calling himself a minister of the Gos pel, a man of God. What he is, who he is, we neither know noroare; bnt the man who could utter from the pulpit such stuff as the following, to the enlightened as well as to the ignorant, should have been hooteJ Irom the building and branded as a liar and X scoundrel. Such a man would, if he had power and influence, revolutionise the land and establish the worst of governments, that of abolitionism, fanaticism and beasti ality. His mind and body are alike, both full of all sorts of vile weeds, which should only be permitted to grow in the jungles on the border of the Ganges. Hear what be says: '' Last Thanksgiving day 1 said it Would be difficult to find a magistrate in Boston to take the odium of sending a fugitive back to slavery. 1 believed, after all, men had Borne conscience, although they talked about' its being a duty to deliver up a man to bondage. \ Pardon me, my countryman, that I rated you too high ! Pardon me, town of Boston, that 1 thought you had boen all bom of mothers I Pardon me, ruffian* who kill for hire, I thought you had some animal nature left, even in your bosoms ! Pardon me, United States Commissioners, Marshals, and the like, I thought you all had some sham*! Pardon me, my hearer*, for suoh a mistake! (Me Commissioner was found to furnish the warrant! Pardon me, I did not know he was a Commissioner; if I had I never would have said it. " Spirits of Tyrants, I look down,lo yon! Shade Of Gain, thou first groat murderer, forgive me that I have forgotten your power, and did not remember that yon were parent of so lone a lino And you my brethren, if hereafter I tell you that there is any nmit of ' meaneas or wickedness which a Yankee : will not jump over, distrust me, and remind . me of this (lay, and T will take it back !" And what does he say t He very forcibly quotes, although he does not give his au thority, from one of our old dramatists.— I I Parker says, he " thought the lawyers had , all been bom of mothers." The drametis! al t luded to says, "we have no mothers, we are all ■" Is not this forci '} ble 1 And yet the Bostonians claimed kin dred lo a feminine beast, and permitted the | insult. Perhaps, after all, the reverend gen , tleman was correct. He persist* in it, how ever, and really thought they had some " animal virtue left." The whole artiole is rio.h in logic, as the language is. refined, mora.', religious solemn! Great country thiel i. Some old bachelor thus