El
~,r
, .
Thu TOM of Dr, .1, W. WebAtdc. ;Clapp was one ; entered the cellar by trap-
Err t/uf liiiir&r of George W. Park- I do°r ; saw a fresh hole cut in the wall.
man, brfirre, tho , Supreme judicial ' Looking through a hole, saw what seemed
Court. ;to be pieces of flesh, scattered by the wa
. BesroN March 16, 10 A. M. !ter from a sink; being in a rising spot, di-
P.The prisoner, Dr. John A. \y o b s : cr ., rioted Littlefield and an officer to enter
was briught in precisely at i) o'clock. and pass them out. There were five pie.
ife . wore a composed and had a some- ees—questioned tolled Littlefield whether they
what.maltiacholy appearance, but in oth- wve parts of a dissected subject t No!
er respects was much as usual. i: : , Were they in a place where such dissec
'A.few nietnents rifler, c hie(' justice lirtw ted militias should ho T' No!
took his icat.on the bench, accompanied; Was there any other access to that
by Assistant Justices Wilde, l/ewev and vault thou by the bole in tit" privy, turd the
Metcalf. Some time was occupied incal- one just made in the wall ! There was
ling the roll and okrtusing Jurors. mot. While they were there, they heard
The'small gallery wasdenstily crowded lbotsteps in tiro laboratory above, and he
with spectators, but other pa rtsof t hecou rtl SP Ilt tap to ascertain, but he was not there.
room were not crowded, spectators hay- ,00 entering the laboratory, bones, &S.,
ing been admitted' by ticket. Tho g , :n . was immediately discovered in the fur
flemea ol' the bar werc present in full f or c e . nace• Witness immediately dispatched
TO prevent a•crowd the sheriff' had taken:officers to arrest Prof. NA'ebster, at ('am
the precaution to barricade the corridors bridge, was not present when Prof.• Web
and station officers at the outside doors. lster was brought down to the Medical Col
* The counsel for the government is .1. H. , le"e•
Clifford, Esq., Attorney General, assisted : Calvin G. Moore, sworn.—Saw Dr.
by George Bennis, Esq. For the defence, Parktnan in Paul Holland's store, corner
lion. Pliny Merrick arid E. I). Solder. of Vine and Blossom street, on Friday,
Fourteen jurymen have been examined November 23, about ten or twenty min
and there remain forty-two present. : utes before two; saw him purchase sugar.
!
At ten minutes before 10 o'clock, Mr.; Dr. Parkinan went nut immediately after
Clifford moved the min to empannel a i ll _ his purchase by tine Blossom stet dor.—
ry in the case. ', Fixed the titre in his mind the re day o
rifler
Thomas Barry is the only jurymen vet i when search was to be made.
obtained. ! Mrs. Moore, wile of the former witness,
The jury were finally empannelled, at.: testitfrd that on Friday, November 23d,
tor fourteen peremptory challenges, tell o f, she called to her son George,l
w.lO was
Whom were set aside. in the stret about ten minutes to two, to
Mr. Robert J. Bream is the foreman of. go to scho"L
:lir, I,
the jury.
The court refused to excuse Mr. Ben
d ided
jarnin 11. Green who held a deck .
ion adverse to capital punishments, but
not such as would prevent him from find
ing a verdict according to law.
Mr. Clitibrd, the Attorney General con
fined himself to two propositions in this
indictment. First—That Dr. Parkman
was murdered. Second—That Dr Web
ster committed the deed.
Ile dwelt at great length won thesy
points, contending that numerous circum
stances would be found irreconcilenble
with the supposition of Prof. Webster's in
nocence.
On inutirni of the prosecuting attorney,
all the medjeal,Witnesses then retired.
The first witnesscalled for the govern
ment was Mr. Charles M Kingsley, who
testified that he had known Dr. Parkman
sincelB3o; that he traced Dr. Parkman to
the Medical college. The witness then
detailed the account of the searches
through the college with Mr. Littlefield,
the particulars of which have already been
published. .
Patrick McGowen was then called, but
his evidence was unimportant.
Robert G. Shaw, brother-in-law of Dr.
Parkman, testified that hebclievcd that the
hair found belonged to Dr. Parkman, al
though he would not have recognized the
body, if he had not known him to be mis
sing.
The court adjourned; leaving Mr. Shaw
onthe stand.—Daity.Nctes,qf March 20th.
Second Day's Proceedings.—Agreeable
to the instructions of the court, the jury
proceeded to-day, in charge of three con
;stables, specially sworn in for the occa
sion, to view the Medical College, in North
Grove street.
flis Honor, Chief Justice Shaw, in-Am:-
mil the officers to exhibit to them the roo►ns
occupied :by Prof. W. as laboratory, &c.,
tugether with the privy, and the perfora
tion of the central wall made by Little
field, before his discovery of the remains
in the privy vault. His Honor charged
the officers and the counsel to tell the jury
merely what apartments they were shown
without ceruneut.,
The jur,:. were further instructed to pro
ceed to''the Medical College at half past
7 o'clock; 1. M., and return in time to at
tend court by 9 o'clock, when the trial
was, resumed.
The jury by the direction of the c o urt.
this morning examined the medical col
lege, in connexiou with the counsel lbr the
commonwealth and the prisoner, who
were fbrbidden to enter into any a rgu.
mot, but , were permitted thoroughly to
show:And explain the localities. They re.
turned to the court room at about 10
ceelock.
Tuhey was called and sworn
.ir•ln.the meantime the counsel for corn
- rnoowealth produced and exhibited full
..pletris of the various floors of the medical
~college, and a wooden moddle of the
_whole building, about three feet long, ca pa
ble of being dissected so ns to expose all
the.floors and partitions.
Mr. Tukey, a city marshal, was inform
.ed of the-disappearance of I.)r. Park man
on ;the forenooon ofSaturday, November
.24th--,cninmenced search immediately
at the .West end, and at 2 . o'clock, P. M.
the same day directed the entire police of
•.the, city, to
. senrelr.
„Witness was requested to state in gen-
Prat terms about what search was made.—
AnsWer-T4t was as general and thorough
tut the means at the disposal of the city
wguld allow.
Ilea were sent in all directions for 30
An 6.0 similes--an all the •railroads, to all
be towns on the coast,iaeluding those on
• ILeide.sof the, cape.. ~, ,
p•-”r land * ,,and, water, and
and eireu
lks ch•
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George Moore being called and sworn,
testitied th, when Ins mother called him,
he had just cm Dr. Parkman go down
Grove street, toward the Medical Colley.
Dwight Prouty (another boy who was with
theformer) testified to the same thing.
Elias Fuller, sworn, clerk of the West
Boston Iron Foundry, saw Dr. Parkinan
tfrittling up Fruit steee.t.
3,_,-Testiniony only to this point.
The Court room is densely crowded,
dhictly with members of the bar and distin
guished strangers. There is universal
complaint ammg the reporters and quite
justly, that they find it almost impossible
to hear.
1)r. Francis Park wan, brother to the de
ceased, is in attendance and seemed much
affected as the bones found in the furnace
were produced.
Elias Fuller, Albert Puller, and Leon
ard Fuller, proprietors of the West Boston
Iron Foundry, opposite the Medical Col
lege, were sworn, and testified to seeing
Parkman enter the college at the hour
specified by former Nv itn c sse s or within a
few minutes of that time. Two of them
sent to Mr. Littlefield the tools with which
he dug through the wall on Friday, Nov.
30th.
Albert Fuller testified that he saw Dr.
W. come into their room to sign a check
for Mr. Cummings, a blacksmith, on the
Tuesday alter the disappearance of Dr.
Park man.
Paul Holland, grocer, testified that he
saw Dr. Parkinun in his store on the 23d
of November, between one and two in the
afternoon.
Jitbez Pratt, coroner, testified that he
called on Dr. Webster at Lcverett street
jail, in company with Dr. tiny and others.
Prof. Webster, whom he found apparent
ly in great distress; he was much agita
t tted and trembled all over, exclaiming,
"what will become of my poor family I"
Prof. Webster accompanied them to the
college where they broke into various back
rooms and the privy. Bones and pieces
of metal were found in the Ibrnace of
Webster's lowpr laboratory: lie was
much excited when these discoveries were
made.
Dr. Woodbury Strong, sworn—l knew
!I)r. Purkinan well ; was his physician for
some years; saw hire on the 23(1 ot • Nov.;
I went to the college on the next rla
went again on Tuesday, when I saw the
parts °fa human body lying on a board.
The hotly had been opened as no one
would be likely to do it who had seen a
post morlem
,examination. Ile (the wit
ness) had heard it r aid that then , was a
pmforation made by a knife, and he re
solved to examine for himself; this he did,
and found corresponding to the direction
of' the cut what seemed to be the mark of
a very sharp knife indeed to make such a
cut upon a dead body, because the flesh
would have lost its elasticity, and would
yield to mark ; when there is life the•llesh
rather hugs the knife andpermits it to cut,
there was a peculiarityof the body ; it was
narrower across the shoulders than across
the hips; the hotly was very straight up
and down; I have noticed the very same
in the body of Dr. Parkman; I always take
notice of detects in Ibrm,and can judge of
the general form, though not so easy al
the naked form; DE. Parkman Was pecu
liarly fortne6and therelore 1 noticed him
the more.
Dr. Frederick Ainsworth, sworn—l ant
a demonstrator of Anatomy in the Medi
cal College. All subjects must come
through my hands; 1 keep a record of all
anatomical, materials ; my attention was
called to the records at the time of finding
theseremains; I discovered that all the
subjects and materials I ought to have
were accounted for; I then examined the
remains themselves and was satisfied that
they were never sent to me or the college
for dissection. All subjects for,dissection
are injected with fluid in order to keep
them in a state of preservation, : for which
pi,frpose 'a solution of arecuical. acid or
chloride, of zinc, with a,. saturated Bain
tion.of alum and. salt-peter is used. Dr.
, Webster has no connection withthe anat
mical, department My impression is • that
'mien : who cut up these remains,. had
Vorpleel knowledge.
,The person
have
,seen body cut
iplCdoitbt whether. le e,ypr
AA his to do it.
'he; ,proceedings
.
citement growing out of this extraordinary'
trial appears to go on increasing as the
,proceedings Progress. It is the exclusive'
!topic Of conversation everywhere: The
evidence I have sent you so far, will ena
hie you to form some idea of that portion
of the evidence against the accused, which
was suppressed, before the Coroner's In
quest.
The anxiety to get standing. room in
court' you can hardly imagine. Tickets
are issued to certnin privileged Parties,
privilege d by profession, and having busi
ness to be there—the same as to places of
public amusemeht.
All day yesterday the hall was so crow
ded that the atmosphere inside was Aso-'
lutely sickening. It is the'same - this inor-!
ning.
Occasionally the movement of the crowd
towards the doors is so irrepressible, that
the police are overcome. Much confusion
and noise is the consequence. Personal
collisions are also occurring, now & then.
Instances have came to toy knowledge
of high prices being offered for a transfer
of tickets of admission.
Public opinion is already dividing as to
the guilt or innocence of Webster.
The conflicting testimony of the medi
cal witnesses is looked upon as a thrum
blc men of acquittal ;
This morning Prof. IVebster wears a
more dejected appearance, I think, than
he has yet exhibited. lie talks but little
to the persons around hiin, but seems to
keep his attention fixed upon the witnesses.
l'Le trial. I think, will last till Tuesday
or Wednesday next.
Dr. Charles T. Jackson sworn. Chem
, iq by profession; one of those who exam
ined the remains; was called tiaturday P.
IM., Dye. Ist; met Dr. Gay and_Dr: Lewis
!at the Medical Collezei_mad6llie prelimi
nary arrangements for examination. Dr.
Gay and myself' undertook the chemical
part; some boces and the contents of a
small assay furnace were submitted to us;
saw the remains ; did not think they had
been used for anatomical purposes; tho't
that the dissection 'showed sonic anatomi
cal skill because the flesh had been boldly
dissected away from the ribs down to the
cartilage.
The cles'iral had been disarticulated
neatly; there was no hacking about the
thigh; Lave seen the post mrtern report or
Drs. Lewis, Gay and Stone, and do not !
disagree with it; knew Dr. Park man well.
lie was then literally a dry muscular
subject; n strong solution of potash had
been applied to the remains. The deposi
tion in the hands of the counsel is mine ;
all in nm', handwriting, except the title.
'Pile deposition was received by Mr. Be.
mis; it related to the action of potash in!
the remains, and to the remains ibund on!
the staircase; and detailed minutely the!
purposes of the chemical examination into
which the Dr. entered by direction of the I
police. I took the blood vessels 1 had de. I
livered to Dr. Gay.
They were in the identical papers in
which I, gave them to Mr. Richard Cros•
by, a skillful chemist who works in my
laboratory; he had made a previous exam
ination ; I gave the papers to him a com
plete his researches ; he repeated their re.
sults ; the effects of potash is to dissolve the
flesh after a while, it is done quicker with
heat. Question—How long would it take
to dispose of a body in potash. Answer—
It would depend upon circumstances. If
the body were cut up into small pieces,, it
would be done quicker, it would be dofie
by boiling, precisely like making soap.
Q. How much potash would it take to
dissolve such a body ? A. It would prob
ably have weighed one hundred and forty
pounds, and about half that amount of pot
ash would be required to dissolve. it ; less
could destroy the identity. The largest
vessel I saw in the laboratory was a tin
boiler with a coppe r bottom, similar to those
used for washing.
There were dark stains on the stairs
down to the laboratory, and on the side
wall there was a greenish fluid whieh
seemed to have been spattered there by he
ing spilled on the stairs. It was most a
bundant opposite the stairs where the stairs
were the darkest, and towards the bottom
of stairs.
The fluid WEIS examined and proved lo
be nitrate of copper, this is a deliquescent
salt, attracts moisture and remains fluid
fbr a long time. It might have been thin
fluid for several days; it did continue fluid
for several days after we took some of it.
I delivered that part of the examination
to Dr. Jeffrey Wyman as more proper for
microscopic observation ; saw pantaloons
and slippers with blood on them; left Dr.
Wyman to examine them, blood being an
'organism the microscope is the only prop
ler test of it; the microscope is also an es
sential instrument with which to watch the
progress of chemical action on it.
A large Turkish knife, with silver han
dle and sheath, was shown to witness.—
He recognized it as the property of the
prisoner; which he had seen in the labo
ratory in Mason street, when the medical
college was there; it had in it a little whi
ting and oil, as if fresh cleaned; know Dr.
Parkrnan; Ms height was about the same
as his own, which was five feet eleven in
ches. The draft of the furnace in which
the bones were found was sufficient to have
carried off the odor of burning flesh.
Dr. N. C. Keep.--4 Have practiced den
.tistry nearly thirty years; am a neighbor
of Dr. Lewis; have known Dr. George
Parkman since 1822 ; acquaintance, began
when I was a student 'of Dr. John Randal;
have been his family dentist sinco 1825;
I had a block of teeth shOWn me. I did
recognize them as a set ~ o f teeth that I had
made for Dr. Parkinan in 1846—the teeth
:Were handed to the witness=--these are the
same block which were shown to me, and
I recognized. • • :
State how ,17). ''lrkrtuiles ; mouth was.
trelation
~f ^ ti' ,
=EEC
• -, ~.-.
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neeted with these two models were some-;under the curse " of slavery? . Who ever , ..4 - 1 MIZE vick,..viNt4w i elia4a, •,, ...
what peculiar. The first question asked 'complained of the slownessof our progrbes? ' . '. ' ' e.g , ...1t.: , ,... , ,A.1.2.1 ..... A
I '''llt i..1-Ate.;or 1 'll.-;---' In lob I;: ::'
me by Dr. Parknian, when the teeth were
a I ,LiATIr ;
4 , e ' . 7 1 2 3 12, :1t ;
No'one; We know that the slave states ' !PPuP# l O / i ” 15 ,-1650.--.
about to be ordered, was how long will it
progress in the same'ratio with the ' '-,•-•-, C s 'l , ': - -
take then, and the reason why lie asked, do not P i' fi i over your-papi tti rj aB T,i ‘ ,. c , ck ru fin . d ,-,,
in the editorial column an artielb headed '
he said he was at the Medical college go . 1 free states, thus proving itself to be a po-
Union " in which
ing to be opened on a certain day,- whew litical evil,,,without, however, giving any 4ThoDissolutio,ii of file
be should want new teeth, and he did evidence of its beluga moral evil, although the Ongers 'OJ:this!.fee r 1 . : •
tiot! ; u ;ca amtty are
want to order them unless he could' glaringlyforth,t'i • - •
have i innuMetable sins grow out o f slavery, bait e -, 11 1, 11 ~the lugge s ti on
measure, ..
them by that day. That time was rather ~ that the south will. no k)ngt;sUft ra t t t o t h e - --
short. The peeuliaritieti of the mouth I te. wof which, however, mild . be prellented
encrOrtehtnents of: the N kat j -
~ k
0 ' $ mum' tne
made .it a difficult requiringcaSe, as muchby emancipation. But that•slayery has WI 13 S''• A
uniot Proviso pr any Luturet,
old I
skill as could be made. I been a curse to the United States, ",.e in 'restrietinitlie rights of the -p'eva ii ,,• o r t i to
I began as soon as possible, and P a i d a i vain seek for the evidence. Or that it is I sltiVeholdiriir States be adopted.,l4, wo .'
0
large. part tif, thy attention to: it from day t , . . look upon such an act as the W ~61 , , mi i
....
to day;•l saw him frequently while it was a sin against Go d ," tilso needs some sus.
ti n ?
o ti:j i. tn and would
, w 7 ithdp\s 11. ..... ,t h ,or
in progress, and . in consequence of the • taining proofs. slavery' has-eNisted in all
shortness of the time and the close atten- l oges 'of the world, as well among-the Jew! ' ,
I ask what are the encroachine 1,;,,,,
tion to it; I remember that More distinct-l as the Gentile world. It has been prat-' the North•arb inflicting upon th . i o l it - i ii i i i
ly than in ordinary cases
• . speed by some of the most. revered , etois.lWlnt.fa•re' the rightt of fife peopor the
'
I proceeded to take the ordinary impres- .
t and modern times, ma it 00 ' e - k t cO i ng 1 4 414 1* wh l igh , the .!ilmot
sions; the first step was to get a fac simile sinus of ancien
' ' * • rovlto*.ldr.lny !cilium? m0014 , 4 061E1 .
of each jaw, or an impression, which is existed on the earth at the time et the'
so resiriet That they 'S - voil - 1 logic'
the same thing; here he went into a reg- Mission of our Saviour, and it is no Acre, i ( . 0 , it r f ,
as the: wor s t of despptisna '.and wowi th. \
ular lecture on practical dentistry in gen- written as one of the sins he came to hat- draw from the Union? ifillese elk.,
ish from the world. But "a f r i en d t o in t . 'Dents arc that. the !North claims a to
o.
cunt, as well ns in this case, which would
not be understood without the patterns he
- her convictio . I , t
illustrated it, the great irregularity of the nianitY" points to the divineinjunc tion ' '
slavery in arty form, or 'tinder at,: •
left. side of the lower jaw of Dr. P., (wen. "do as you would that others should .do, cumstances is*.a, ; ,'siti e againsit: - .Gpd N'"
1
slimed much trouble in fitting. Both unto yon," and can only a pply it to the: outrage upon iitimariity, ilia, t'if i 4 nio
blocks were back teeth , three blocks of oftheWhy not apply it to : impossible for)tufy itAtion to' ' /
prosper %
case slave.
groaning.under such a cuese,„ u and al
/
teeth were attached toone gold plate ; which
the master? He tells you he is not re
completed the tipper set; there were spi.. ..
. e .,. is the duty of the Nerth Mel of chrish,
: everywhere to cry aloud ' adainst: sup Ii rat springs which enabled the wearer to sponsible for slavery. Ile found Mins ii
' and'nut cease lo cry o
open and close his mouth with less danger, the possessor of slaves, and without ma-1 enormous evil;
of the teeth being displaced than without I king bad worse, he cannot escape from' until the last word witch woulLtoltrat
them. the position ofmaster ; then why taunt him human slavery be stricken from our qat ‘
The teeth were fasts - ned to the plate by ute books. 1 say, if these are• the en'
with the sin of slavery ? Is this "doing
platina pins and not gold ones ; mentions croachments with which the South g
area '
,
that merely as a fact, as he remembered. as you would be done by?" Is this the ,
.grieveo, let them - ;reflect how weal: and
c , roundless are their complaints when 0x... P "
Witness showed the model of the tipper:conduct a b
n brother christion ! But how -
surfaces of the teeth showing their length. l i s i t „i t h t h r , poor African? Itis%vell known posed to the light of Truth, Justice and
exist ,„ Right. And the rights oldie people, what
Owing to an accident which happened I
that ,
to one of the teeth it was necessary tot In their native country they
, . Ore they! 'ro 1101 d their fellow -Man in '
have another made, which made it =es- I tribes like our W ill Indians . , and are vac- .
bandage, even to doom their earn sons and
sary for the witness and his assistant to Using a system of slavery to each other daughters (as the great iiumber of !Mika. •
work all night ; before the medical college much more cruel and degrading than any to slaves abundantly prove) to that curse '
opened we finished the teeth in season, that ever existed in this country—where ' which is worse Than death itself. Strange
and had just thirty minutes to spare. rights these that are restricted iithe North
The court here took a recess. ! they are literally t h e ''servants of set- :
-
' presumes to Ea y a word agailfst the extra.
. i vants"—and who knows but that we, may, spun ol„ . ,
slavery hv law over'otir newly ac:
quired ter: itory. In Hirt it appears to he be ''doing as (undersimilar circumstances) '
we would have others do unto us'' in thus considered au infrilo,rement tip:in South., --
:
; alb viatim their condition! :ern rights to agitate the question at all, 0-
tiler in the Noriti or South. Again, "M I But we cannot now follow our corre- .
have seen no disposition on the part of the
:' spondent any further. It ii an absorbing , Iv o ,
.•irtil to withhold their acts of interfe••
rence in the questiou of slavery.” I pre.' question, and cannot be argued in a sin.:
gle page or two. The day, however, is, slim f
e it would be vain to look or such a'
past by, for northern sentiment to become 1 disposition, and why should %% - e. If sla-
very is a sin, which few pretend to d en y„ ,
poisoned against the south: Our states.:
how thou is it the duty of ,christians la
!
men no longer suffer their % *mews to be preach against every other sin but leave
misunderstood. Very remotly Diorirmi that untouched (for Icor of a dissolution
WEasina, whose declarations more than' of the Uaien.) Will God he cireurnserih
ed,or arc we to revere the Gonstitutioii
any other man, have been quoted by the;
; which was formed tinder very peculiar cit ..
Abolitionists, has conic out in a most man- i cumstances by fallible men and ca i ist ,.:
fill and patriotic denunciation of the Abe- I quentiv liable to contain't ross errors,
litionists and their measures, and justly ! more than we revere the great Judge'er
heaven and earth whose law is eternal awl:
charges them with riveting and binding
tighter the
chains
of
the
slay,. And
not , whose , judgment
.. is just, and whose lath,
binds us as ennstians to d o unto other Irk
lonby this, but he charges in the clearest! we would have them to do onto us: . Ii
and most emphatic language, that the! this the rule among slaycholdem who are
,
North, has wantonly infringed upon the daily exercising despotic power in order,
to keep their slaves in subjection, inflicting
rights of the South, grossly disregarding!
. the most cruel treatment; justified bylaw
and purposely evading the plainest consti
of their own making in we. slave,
tutional injunctions, in their ac t s of aggres- I 1 had no voice, and worse than all, tearini
- 'asunder iiimilies—husbands from %vivef
.
and children from parents anti vice vi.T.4,
—thus virtually dissolvin! , the marriage!
contract for filthy lucre's - sake, and re.
gardless of the ties that bind thinilies to:
gether, doom them to a state of heart-Vro.
ken misery that ends only with their lives:
And are we oldie North living in ticeord.!
ance with the Golden rule! are we doink,
as we would have 0111 M'S (10 fir us if . IVQ,
were the much injured & oppressed bonq r ,.
men while we not only do nut raise'our
voices against the evil, brit condemn and
THE DOLLAR.
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Clearfield, Pa., March h, 19).
KrWe are ulldcr wile wed obliOitions
to lion. A. Cl tioton , of the National I louse
of Representatives, for various public doc
uments.
The Niagazines Tor April, arc before us
as usual.
Godcy's Lady's Book, and Sartain's
Magazine, are running a sort of opposi
tion line, the result of which is that their
subscribers arc decidedly benefittcd. In
trying to excel each other, they only ex
cel themselves.
We insert a conlinunication in another
column, from a subscriber, who calls us
to account for what he conceives to be our
erroneous views on the slavery question.
We do not object to this. If we arc right,
we may thus be the instrument olcorrect
ing the errors of others. And if we are
wrong, we want to be right.
llad we the time, and the room, we
have the vanity to believe, that we could
not only sustain all we have said on this
subject, whether regarded as the editors
of a neutral paper, or as a paper published
in a free State, but that we could correct
many of the errors of our amiable • friend,
if not convert • in tato from the errors
of his ways.
Wit hou t, however, attempting to rnter
into all extended argument to sustain the
correctness of our U. n position, and thus
proc the unsoundness of the position of
our correspondent, we will briefly point
out a few of his errors.
In the first place, then, we will declare
that we arc not the apologists of slavery,
neither politically, or morally; that if it
was a question now to be decided, wheth
er the people of any of the States of this
Union roc c . to have authority under the
Constitution to hold slaves, nothing could
induce us to favor the proposition. But
the question is an entirely different one.
We find slavery existing in half the States
—existing at the time the Union was for.
med—and the institution recognized and
its rights guarantied by the constitution
that binds the whole together. Slavery
under such circumstances can be defended
for various good and wholesome reasons.
Our correspondent asks "what arc the
rights of the people of the Slav e
holding States?" We explained this
point, as we thought, sufficiently clear at
the time. Every southern man feels that
he has just as perfect a right, under the
Constitution, to take his slave and carry
him into any of the territories south of
36 deg. 30 min., as any northern man
has to go there with his horse. And, when
men thus feel and thus bdieva, would they
not look upon that power nallespotic, which
would say to them "yoti shall. not' o there
-L-because yea held slaves, although the.
questjon was settled by our forefathers,
and,tho Constitution which. protects us both,
gives you equal rights with us, . yet it does
not suit our notions of .morality to allow
you to extend the' area ofslavery'."
But,hOW Otti,erresPondent accoutti
for the . measure of prosperity ttophos mar.
'ked, the history, of -our cOutitryi, if during
;a11:. this time she . 'has been "E;waitine
"ai;
one my
‘.."4t4lWith
OUR POSITION.
MEI
hi conclusion, however, it e must re
mind our correspondent that he is grossly
mistaken IT he thinks that the South will
not be driten from the Union for fear of
the consepiences to la•rself—tliat she
could not subsist without the aid and pro
tection of the northern States, &c. We
fear a "friend to humanity" has studied
the statistics of his country to but little ad
' vantage. 01 cotton alone we annually 1
export about sixty millions of dollars'
1 worth—entirely the production of the
South—whilst the aggregate value of all!
other exx)rts, sonic of which arc also the
productitns of slaveholding states, do not
average half that sum. Suppose, then,
instead ci living under one and the same
govcrnnriit, we had a Northern and a
Southern Confederacy, what would be the
consequince. I Why, Unwed of having
our northern cotton Factories supplied
Ifree (f (hall, as now, they would have to
bid against England, tad perhaps under'
the disadvantage of such embittered feel.
.ings as a separation of this Union would
i Le likely to engender. 'Could our manu
facturers stand this? hit this is not all :
The South now consupes a very large
proportion of these fal acs of northern
.
manufacture ; but woul\
she continue to
do so if separated ? or liould she not be
most ady to buy fron England, who
would be thus euabled! to give a higher
i
price for linr raw material) This, how
ever, is amere speculation, and one in
which it s painful to indulge. The
t/
storm tha a few weeks ago threatened
to burst On our hen !s has now we trust,
well-nigh lAA over us without ; doing any
other harm than preparing the political
graves ofillose 'agitators of the country,'
who are nbst at ease when the country
is most inlanger.
A Illys•ry Revealed--The papers of!
Beebested (N. Y.) have been much occu.
1 .
pied latel in discussing Old' cause of cer
tain "my erious' hnockinge," N'vhich aro
alleged t have been, heard at various 1
times by ifferent persons in that city.—
A "Hun r," in the Rochester American, 1
solves tl mystpry by stating that, it has
been t..) 6,n g t ii. (iselSitained , thth at 6o46
"knmltigs". are' canspd by thedeparted
spirits f din FreP! SoilerE rapping on the
"Bu 6 Platfairri."
th é (fa y.
Os' mad ar.
;.7::..
censure those who do, and charire With
naticism the attempts that may be mil
I to spread the truth. There is no far
the South dissolving the Union bcciuse
would be certain death to their pt'cutiutin.
stitution which they are trying to 11)0
with such care, It could not live without - ,
the support of the North. You ask wily,
Because it is in the North that the South
finds a ready market for the greater, re •
of her slave grown cotton, sugar, rice,tet,
bacco, &c., and it is the North who are
bound as long as the• Union remainsett7
tire to shoulder arms in case of an loin:,
rection among the slaves and march tode,
fend this blessed institution—dissolve the
Union and where arc they ? They are,
thrown helpless upon the mercy, ark
slaves whom they have wronged, and they
know it. But the North should not inter
fere, the sin is their own and they will:
have it to answer for. 'But is not the nal
who stands an eye-witness to the perpetik,
tion of a crime and endeavors to (TOO
it, or refuses to britig, it.to the light, etoo
sidered accessary to it and almost
in guilt to the perpetrator. himself. PIO ;
question of slavery is justly,' becoming . ao
of thrilling interest to the people of thd,l,r;
nitod States, and when. We reflect
enormous Weight or guilt 'is attached
we are not surprised that therwhole eatoti
is interested about the '' . fUture . disposal'afit ,
I presume •the" . day is approttOing,,4
May God speed its corning curse
or slairery under- which this coutitri;
so tang groaned andliiiiich bad tn'eyetl',
FS preying Upon the . very vltalset fide G'utf .
on'; Will be quiettY and peacetblly
ed. Then will the ,Sduth, enjoy rights b ! ,
qual to the North and 'there l
cause for encroachments. The:
of liberty will . pour in Om:: the
. out 1.
getlie'r with 'the North,. and btlme,,
country may yet be one of:: the,
arid most prosperdOnatiort'S pn
A' FRIEND TO 'l.ll4Ati 1461 . 1 i t;
RE)rAnKs.—Pcrhaps wo:4iri;
too foF from ,pur . 'csiablished
giving ploco to, the foregoing .cormuuDi‘
tion, for the reason , that thoautlior•did
Olfico us ins 1 1 0§POsion of his iCafita i lil4.
We are'Ofien thus t t I
rca e , 171 gno
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