AA • - not Oluid state for the black; it IS in juritiiiiirilcrafty to the white race; arid that It 'checks the advance of national prosperity; for black slave labor can never he equal to Iree'labnf: What, then is to be dene?• In my Opinion, the southern *States should take , - I,j)e institution into their own hands, and propose in Congress that after the year —, AI black iufants' in their dominion should be koyn free, on condition that the ceritial govern pent compensate the masters of such children, pus/ due proviSimi should he made for :their education in: industrious, moral and re )igions •babits. By offering this plan to the :cconisitteratiottelorlbe [federal] legislature, the 'afar° states gain general odthiratlon— .:they will cut the Goidian knot—stop the for pbrirt-OVitse" which is now - Icveled - agaitst them, .iind ,tbeir - northern friends (or eafeleo.elpportnnity of proving their sin .certtrb chittributin,g their share of dollars . avvirrtle.;3'. gradual emancipation. If you e planjeasible I know you will ad- NSAtce, i,,and I, the sapposed rozega , l7e English !wogutn,sbiillehioyttiesatisfactionofbelieving Otte theifiteertits and privations I have un rrolito tw-what I considered the: cause of "uth"tdd justice, have not been without, fruit. gelieve me ever, dear. —, .Atf Yours sincerely, „ . " AMELIA M. MTAILLY;" -= "Friri the Y N. Evening Post. • d'ile:liestiris of the Slave-Deiv rtd • ers. :'lf moy evidence were needed of the titter folly and impracticability of the po iiikal position of such fossils as Mr. lives, krAVinthrop and their coadjutors, we haitleiri:the address of Mr. Stephens, Georgiar,:delivered at Augusta oil the - 1 2+14Otily; and which Ire published on Slittlidiiv. • FrOm -the beginnin g to the ebtfrft, iii bia.st, of the triumphs of the, Pro-alaitery party, coupled with a confident itatiornatiou of its future strides in the Same , Oeiiras career. Why agitate this 40eittou;of iidaverv,- asks Mr. Winthrop, seernigthat it is already dead? Why, in Old tsame strain, echoes Mr. Rives, dis peit ainatter which has no proper con . Itectliiii with our national politics ? " Its general regulation," the latter adds, "is v admjtted , by all to be exclusively vrithin tliolornain , of state Jaws and state consti tritioini. ;The few questions with regard tiititAlint - Cin come within the province iiffttle'' general government are settled, pnce:for - alliby the Constitution of the 'Milted States, and have received a prae ii3al solution in the natural course of events; which leaves no longer any mo tive'of interest or duty, either to the non- slaveliolding or the slavelioldiug states, coftheir continued agitatitm." ;Ilie.reinarlai of Mr. Stephens are the stffiefent• answer. lie shows not only thit the South regards itself as victorious ittlthe past controversy, that it• not only does` not deem the Matter settled, hut that rallying its forces for new contests add: flew triumphs. Mr. Stephens is not ptiaof the "extreme or hot-beaded men of the , :districl, to which he belongs, but has lather teen- distinguished for the conserv iitiveratid moderate tone of his opinions. WeitiaYilitiw be; looked upon as retir , Ld fr6lll l om;political sphere; the occs.;;lon of htfiliddroskwas‘ a kind of farewell to pub life; and it is to be presumed, that he sp e okas3he observant and intelligent stAlesTaaii*'calmly wt:iches the issues prkentS;ttbd - not as the politician a1ai .1444' • 91 1 ,liffice an . disposed to flatter the pqpnlargeßtiment by which he is au.- .roulided. Sat WaS the substance of his speech ? Ti ri el4te..iloo.r.e4 our adversaries on all tffe 'great ioints' on which we have come illpoptact,.. First, we have secured the . ani*ation Texas, whereby the -addi tioa...of:four slave states to the Union is made:sure ;.secondly, we have established the right of the slaveholder to carry his prpperty into the territories ofthe Union, fred - tibm'flie - interference cif Congress, or the molestation of the people .under any .ridicitlou,s dogma as - to popular sovereign- i ty ;thirdly, we have invaded the Supreme C64 - t - and compelled the judges, by the die in the case of Dred Scott, to assert tri . e . SUperlority of the slave code to the titites . st human nature, and to the pre tstablished. principles of common lata, -- 9014; - by our allies in the North le"have succeeded in soppressing the vlblince - 4 the anti-sinery excitement he and, fifthly, we have, by a steady torlieteymned discussion of the matter, TeVer i sed the opinions of our fathers, and hrdnge the South to the - conviction that th:Ceasla.itug of human beings is not a 44110 nor an evil, but a divine and hene fi:Penk institution. • '.T.l.Tese'ar-e the achievements of the past, a - ,Prdifig.to 3.l.r..S.tephens; these are the principles Which have won the sanction tua4 Sapt . ort of the federal authorities, leg igatj.ye4 executive and judicial; these are the Ste.sulti in which the South should gleiY:,'Stid in the - contemplation of which themthlie,Servants of the South may sing ttipgswatt7Song on the eve of their politi glt;;p4rernent. But the South, he con tinues-, cannot rest satisfied with the pro digions'enccesses which it has already schiqed., ..It may . be well enough for Bli.i*- 7 0bioletc and timid spirits as Mr. Wintlirrip and Mr. Rives to prate V a pessation -of the controversy-and to advise their brethrenof the North to lay aside theii'Weapons• and go -quietly to sleep. The Sol/alas no desire and no occasion ZOtie poonsel. - It cannot stop where it hi: *will not stop where it- is; and the kit y: - droningS of all the political preach werld shall not induce it - to stiniti4r,O.t.ile mere threshold of splendid 1210040.... As well might the allied ar ndesnf.ltaly have cast aside their swords atter the battles of Montebello and Ma ifisteadof pushing their triumphs alga,. the. very - - heart of the historical strongholds of the enemy. -'The scheme for the fUture, then, which Bit.:Steßhens propounds to the South, is this7tiulimited. expansion of slavery over ifetterritory . to the west and southwest ; fg.yi.: . l With her five slave states is not fiCient; Chihuahua and Sonora Must be seized; and whatever piece of profitable ground may remain to be occupied, must ,be reduced to pessession. .It had - now ' been demonstrated that slaveholding • ciety_was the hest form. of the.Soefal state.l The ancient and modern philoiophers, from Aristotle doWn to Jefferson, had been wholly inistaken in their speculations as to the true principles of government: Not until the Divine Providence had reared a human community in which the work was done by the black race, and the fruits Of it enjoyed by the white race, had-any thing like perfection been attained by man in his restless endeavors to improve his condition. The institutions and man- . ners of the . South were. the institutions and manners provided by nature-,.herself, the Higher 'Law of Divine' -Wisdom, an it - was - not for than to quarrel or op pose an authority so exalted. On the contrary, it was the privilege and duty of man to carry out this Higher Law, and make it prevail wherever it could be ap plied. In this noble work, however, accord ing to the fearless logic of Mr. Stephens, the South is fatally crippledby'the want of proper materials. You cannot- colon * new regions unless you have men ; you cannot make new states without peo ple; and you cannot have people for new slave states except they be brought from Africa. The condition precedent of all progress and expansion on the part of the south, then, 6 a larger importation, of Africans, . and Of course, the repeal of all the silly obstacles in the way of law Which the, general government and the universal sentiments of humanity have erected against the traffic in men. It is no longer needful or politic to disouise the fact, and the whole . South shonld unite as one -man in the prosecution of the evil. . This is frank and explicit; the policy of-the South is declared. • Such inen as• Mr. Stephens, men of large experience and caution, who weigh well their words, are not apt to run after will-o'-the-wisps, and when they state what they mean, we may know that it has been deterthined upon. A few of their coadjutors may re- Ina at the course proposed, and bold back till the indications of public sentiment are More unequivocal; but they cannot avert the inevitable course of things. In the general public gatherings of the South, also, its views - may be expressed with. a more calculated vagueness, in Order not to repulse, too peremptorily the. feelings of their humble followers of the North; but it is none the less the settled design the southern pity, which here takes the - 1 name of thc.democratic party, to insist upon the enactment of slave code for the territories, and. the abolition of the laws wLieh brand and thwartrthe slave trade. WEBS INDEPENDENCE' 13.Eild. WAS 11.1.7..NG.=—A. curt esponclent, Who styles him self " Veritas," inquires of us as to the correctness of the story that as soon as . Congress had declared the Independence of the Colonies, on the Fourth of July, 1776, what is known as Indepemlenee Bell' was rung. • He also wishes to' know whether" a blue-eyed boy" stood at the door of the Hall, and cried out, "'Tis done ! 'tis done ! ring, graybeard ! ring 1" as a signal for an enthusiastic old gentle man up in the steeple to proclaim "Lib erty throughout all the land," &C., by ringing the bell. In reply to - our correspondent, we will state : that this very pretty story originat ed with the ingenious Mr. George Lip pard, who cut it out of whole:cloth, along' with some other fantastical embellish ments, which. he - got up hi the name of history. The fact is, -that Independence was declared in 'secret .session, and the important fact of, the consummation of the measure was not made known upon the Fourth to any person outside of Con gress. The Philadelphia papers publish ed. on the fifth were silent upon : the sub ject, and the eelebra'.ion-of the event with ' the ringing of Independence Bell, &e., &c., did not take place until the eighth of the same mouth.—Philadelphia let in, 6itt, 11111 - ta iyiwiaL COCIDEIZSrOTIT, Tiroi‘ll 7 .llg, 21, 1850. T. S. CHASE', EDITOR AND'PUBLISHER. S8:50: FOR 111;DITOR, GENERAL, THOMAS E. - COCHRAN, of York, FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL, • 'IVILLIA.3.I H. KELlkof Berks. The war in Europe is still pro gressing, and the Allies have invested Pesehicra; but no battle has been fought sinee that chronicled in our last. ta- lion. Rufus -Choate, late of Bos ton who recently started to Europe for the benefit of his health, but was unable to ai) farther than lialifam in consequence of his rapid decline, died there on the 13th inst. lie had a national and al most world-wide character for:legal' and political eminence. -;71-. Mrs. Margaret Bailey, widow of the late Dr. Dailey, announce's in a card that the Nati - onal .bra will continue to be published as the only means of support which the family has, and 44 as the rep resentative of free principles at the Na 2 tional Capitol." The friends of the Era • - nOiv more than-aver- should gtve it their aid and support—even though it were.but half as deserving es.it is. CZ”' Goy: Packer has appointed Mr.= James_ Gamble, of Jersey Shore, former ly member of Congress from this District, to the Judgeship rendered- vacant.by the' deatliof Hon. James Burnside. A tele graphic dispatch to the New York papers, from Harrisburg, states that he was pp , pointed ".Presiding Judge of the Su prone Court ! which was made vacaut by the death of Judge Burnside." What reliable correspondents the agents of the New York Associated Press must be ! Judge Burnside was President Judge of ' the XXVtlt'Distriet of this State. Z:Zr We again find on our table, after a long and much - regretted omission, The . M'esleyart, published at Syracuse, N. - 1" th organ of the Wesleyan Methodists in this latitude. It is ably- conducted by Rev. Cyrus Prindle ; assisted by an . able corps, and is a live paper, devoted to re ligion mostly, but paying a just share of attention to secular. news. It is afforded - • at $1.50 per annum. At and near Sundcrlinville, in Hector township, this county, there are a num ber of Wesleyans, •under the pastoral charge of Rev. Francis Strang. They are among our most worthy and influential citizens—enthusiastic in their religious belief, but quiet, orderly and progressive in their social and political deportment. gra'.A. week ago last Friday, Look . Haven . was all a-stir in consequence of the formal• opening of the S. S.; E. B. to that place. The drat train from Philadelphia'arrived that evening, bring ing the mail and the Philadelphia morn ing papers of that day. • 'Three or four, thousand people met the 'train at the pot, headed by the Brass:Band and two: military companies, and a procession was' there formed, taking in the pass.eugers, which paraded the principal FArects, near ly every house but - the Democrat ofilen being illuminatc,ii. Theprocession march ed to the. - notels, and a speech was made by' L. A. Mackey Esq., which was re T sponded to by Ex. (Kansas) Gov. John W. Geary. The Watchman .says the town never looked so beautiful before, and no accidents occurred. ,We wonder if they will get up a cele bration on the arrival of the first train at Shippen ? If they do, count us a passen ger, if we are alive and well. We learn that the grading on the 'Mid dle Division is being rapidly pushed for ward by the energetic contractors, and that the rails on that part of the Western Division between Erie' and Warren, are being laid as fast as the road can be bal. lasted, &c. On our first page will be found a letter from the '.'Hon." Miss. Murray, proposing a plan for the abolition of Slavery. If there is any position that a person of eminence or prominence can 'place himself or herself in that decreases our respect for that person,' it is that of attethpting to conserve a right principle to a wrong practice; and this equivocal position we believe Miss MtLrray has plac ed herself in by the letter referred. to.— The Slavery question'ts indeed national, but•it is only so to the extent that it is an evil requiring the intervention of the national government 'to -abate it. The idea of compensating the individual for the damages arising from the execution of a law which prevents him from com mitting a crime, is certainly a'queer one, to say nothing about its impracticability. Miss Murray may have bc'en, a good dress ing-mud to,. the Queen—she may. have been quite suceessful in clothing her majesty's precious body in silks and jew els to the taste of herself and her syco phant courtiers ;—but we cannot adniit that her attempt. to clothe her pro-slave ry ideas in anti-Slavery uniform and palm them off on the, American public as a philanthropic measure in.respect to slave ry, is anything Ipss.than ridiculous. Hav ing- made herself the subject of ridicule by favoring the evil in her account of her journey through this conntry, she is row endeavoring to make her breach of wo manly delicacy more apparent by increas ing the obloquy of her, former position.- The Frost as a Temperance Agent. We have been trying ever since the sth - of June, to find out what that awful frost was sent for. The last Honesdale Delit.gcrat has cleared up`that question to our entire satisfaction. Itsays In Fayette county in. this State, there are twelve distilleries, Since the last frost, • the owners have been warned .by anonymous letters to• discontinue their business, and leave' the grain to be con sumed by the people, on penalty of hav ing their buildings burned. Two like es tanialiments in the county were lately, destroyed wider similar - threats, - and it is supposed this warning will be heeded." That is good news. If -nothing less se! - yore than a June freeze . Will convince the people of the blighting, .poisoning, dead ening influence of distilleries, then wel come frosts as- the old deacon did the bite eta rattlesnake. . • - • If the objector shall Say there are no distilleries in: this county where whisky is made ; in reply, there are underground places where whisky is sold, and it is just as bad to sell it when ramie,- as it is to take thegrain when it isneeded fait read and convert it into poison to.dyink.. " non up yoUr"SlUeves anal go at ftit.'l • 'We-are a pew race;. we are the ;,crea tures of a new era, no 6 perfectly 'risen, but dawning 'upon tis..l Never yet has mankind stood in the pOsitio - n Which we occupy--.-so full.of • knoWledge, so full'of the.past—of a past'unp*illed in the his tofy of civilization. Th'e art of 'printing, at its origin, re-peopled !the. World : from that hour, man was called to another des tiny,'distinct. from that of his formir gen eration. - A. general' principle 'as' suniecran universal power; and wris assured of a cer tain, if slow result. Wisdom, no longer con - fined. to the cabinet 'of , the scribe, or the cloister of the meek, ceased, to be a mere speculation; it' became . an force, and- \vas dooniedl of -necessity,. to become—a Sovereign. -ruler.. Its Career forms,..a.'variety of epochs : we have ptrsi. ed through many; we tire entering upon one,--not of thought, not of Meditation. - Those who' have prece'ded have thought and medjtated for us t we are enteriiin• t• upon ran epoch in which it-is Our part to apt. • ;The plans of - one i generation arc:loft for the; next to execute. Society travels faster than the law. 'Ve , - should do the work that is ready to Our hands: • Work —cheerful, vigorous, systematic work is the:.-thing now most' needed. So,j let everyblrdy roll up his 'sleeves and g it At:Citall9C. Yes 1 . "Roll up your sleeves and at { it;" friends of, Freedo ; m and Right; --ye who would truly reform the order - oil the world Must "roll up Your sleeves ancl at-it." - Thero'nfay be filth to reinovb be _ fore you can put. your bands upon -the I - jewel— indeed there is an Augean heap to remove almost'inv4riably,.'but we 'must not shrink from the Hope of removing it with our hands. Itl , wilt. yield betimes, and our treasure is- doubly dear - for the work it has cost us. - Republicans, tbe ,:injunotiOn becomes you to.heeci now. Y l ou have a vast labor to perform and you cannot do the work without rolling up ydur sleeves, and put , tins your hands intOhe filth to endeavor to remove it. Ga to; (work for 1860 What hi Lavery The great crime ,#f .American Slavery is so little understood, even by the mass of those who Say th4y are opposed to it, that it is necessary Vito define again. and again the monstrous iniquity. We do not remewber a better defini tion or idea of Slaverythan is contained *in thefollowing extract from the address of Rev. T. W. -llitio.iNsor#T, at the cele bration of the. 4th of July, at Farming ham, Mass.. - We:commend this. dead= hon of Slavery to . 411 the people of this county, and we are (certain it will induce a large-number of them to become still more determined in their opposition to this"seandal of ou4 . country. Said Mr. : Ls. b " The essence 44 the:idea-of liberty is far away still from Multitudes in this com -munity, as if - they had never heard it, They become anti-slavery because others do ; they swell the minority,- then they swell the majority; and even when they claim that they vote anti-slavery .men in to office, they -themselves have never grasped the principleS upon which this truth lids. . I tallied the other day with one of the. most gifted intellects whore I know; a man identified - also with every good word and work ; and,:to my amaze ment, that man, in defining the essence of slavery, defined! it to be one man claim ing' and taking' the earnings of .another, and using them for his-.own benefit, in stead.cif using the for the benefit of the Man who earned ;them. That was his definition of slavtry; I fold him that such. a ,definition- bf slavery would Make himself a slave licilder in five years, if he lived in a slave State and got thkehanee. The - essence of slavery is not in taking another man's eaEnings and using them for your. own - goo4 ; it . is in daring to take another man's earnini,, , s, and using thew at all. " If.a man should go and draw your railroad dividends, and use "them 'as he thought best, lit Would not save him from conviction f'or obtaining • money 'lln d:li false - preteneei that he proves in open court,: that ho used the, money for . your good.- You do not want him .to take it at all, — I he distinction between the best slaveholder and ,ihe. - Worst is trifling, so long as they are both slavehOlders. The wrong is not bathe use to which the prop erty 'Of the slave 'is put, but .in claiming the tight to Rat all. . Once, in Italy, a countryman breii n g-ht into the market place a basket full of young : wolves. - Some one bought one Of the animals, and, pay ing the money, asked the faimpr to pick him out a "good-riaturea" one:. "Take which you please," said he; "they are all wolves? (laughter and . applause). The slaveholder is a slaveholder. Whatever circumstances there maybe in his special case•to make it less'. guilty 3n hire at 1,4 outset, compared vial the man who de liberately, with ; 14ts:eyes-operi, seizes tbe opportunity to ; commit that siri, still,' the essence.of the Wrong is the same. 'The invasion of the right of 'property is the wrong; the use .yoti make of it is trifling in comparison." . , Lita'ar* Notiics: We have. received the 'Cosmopolitan. krt . Jo4i'llal' for June, and besides a largo amount of literary matter; Nre• find in it the - Associalien's planS for the sixth An-_ nual Draining.. .The l!Llgazine is publish ed quarterly at $1 per annum, and single numbers are sold-at 25 cents. Address - C, L. Derby, Actnary of Q. A. A.,. 641: Broadway, "All the Year Rome," 'Dickens' new Weekly, republished in this countrysim ulta-ncoUsfy With its appearance in Lon don by J. I.'merlon Co., New York ; price 0,50 a year,,or 5 cents a number. We receive the numbers regularly. . . The 14inglo difrecan .:11agazine, the pro kluetioii of colored people e - elusively, lies been re, , ceiAi i ecl. for July. -Thomas Hamil ton, Printer, , 48 Beekman.. St., N. Y. Please .Y ipgUlar, , A Word &opal" Independent