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Correspondent! of The Tribune.
RIGHTS O F C O L O R E D MEN I?f
OREGON, & c ,
The NORTH STAR is published every
Thursday, at No. 25, Buffalo Street,
( Opposite the Arcade.)
WASHINGTON", W e d .
FREDERICK D >U(JLA.SS, EDITOR.
MV/ fl9.
Yuv • :
1 . I with ptoasufte,
TERMS.
am tlui reaches Jfou, that the Senate
Two dollars per annum, always- in advance. No
has given its sanction to a Branch ol
subscription will be received for a less tenn than
the Mint, in your City and also one
six months.
Advertisements not exceeding tea hues inserted
for California. Thi^ is more favorabie
ttoee
Unties for one dollar; every subsequent iuderthan
was generally anticipated. The
;
; on, tvventy-fi>e cents.
whole day was consumed upon this
important subject. But it was a day
The object of the NOKTHSTAR will be to abolish
better .'pent than any other day ofthe
SLAVERY in all its forms aud aspects; advocate
session— perhaps one or two excepted.
UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION; exalt the Standard
For the details I must refer you to
of public morality, promote the moral and intellecyour regular report of proceedings.
tual improvement ol the COLORED P E O P L E ; and
The bill from the Senate providing
hasten the day of FREEDOM to the T H R E E
OOD IS THE FATHER OF US ALL; AND ALL MEN ARE BRETHRENfor the appointment of a SurveyorRIGHT OF IS NO SEX; TRUTH IS OF NO COLOR;
MILLIONS of our enslaved fellow countrymen.
General of the Public Lands in Gregon, and donations of lands to actual
PUBLISHER'S NOTICES.
settlers, elicited an unusually stirring
yC^ All communications relating to the business
matters of the paper, names of subscribers, remitdebate in the House to-day. The partances, & c , should be addressed to FREDERICK
ticular point of dissention was uponth«
DOUGLASS, Editor, Rochester, N. Y.
$3- Agests, and all others sending names, are laws.
Russian merchants ^ gg at Con-Court, so far as it affirmed his rihgt to cemmand the capital, fidelity and skill amendment excluding free colored setGod's,
and
must
be
delivered
faithfully.
There
is
not
a
sensual
vice
requested to be accurate, and to give the Post office,
h l l seize and bear off without legal preces^ necessary to cultivate it with profit by tlers from the lands proposed to be dothe County, and the State. Each Subscriber ia im- which we are taught to abhor, which The Sabbatii 13 eminently the day, and stantinople, the Russitf^aster shall an alleged fugitive, is justly char.^able agents. I' will continu? to depreciate nated.
Mr. Giddings lod off with a
have
the
right
to
pursf^*,
and
to
mediately credited for money received.
slavery does not monstrously engender. the pulpit the place for this solemn act.
gd
$3- Any person sending in payment for four sub- There is not a sin which religion con- It must be a' Gospel of doctrine, oi hunt for and
^ ^JJpp; and ll h« with the collisions that have since taker until the landholdv-s <>•;!! consent to bold .and truthful speech against the
c
a
p
t
u
scribers, to be forwarded to
dd
hunt for and
place in the recapture of fugitives from seil small fragments of their estates tc exclusive poiicy. He alluded, in terms
demns that is not garneredjfand sown, abstract truth; but by no means a gos- cannot be found, t h e i S p r sTTall make service,
have a fifth copy
for oie yyear.
py
and* also with the laws to the poor dk/9M who are willing t> of deserved approbation, to the moral
J All l
d
reaped and sown again, by American pel to disturb him from practical sins! oath that his slave W escaped, in
worth as well as intellectual strengih
paid- All letters and communications must be post slavery. Among freemen, the road ol And we almost believe Lowell to have which case, the Greek* shall pay the remedy injury from illegal seizures, o! work the laud with their own hands.
of Frederick Douglass and Samsel R.
That
process
is
now
going
on
conwhich
the
slave
States
complain.
The
honor lies away from animal passion; stolen his doggerel from the Journal: •*aid master, according former trea- reclamation of slaves in States holding stantly. The colored people are rap- Ward. Having drawn a very striking
LIST OF AGENTS.
ties, two pieces of cloiv^ svery slave
from sensation, towards Conscience, 41 I'm willing a man should go toll'able strong
MASSACHUSETTS.—R.K Wallcut,21,Cornhill,
no slases and hostile to slavery, is ai idly becoming proprietors. It is the portraiture, he then desired to know
Boston; Nathan Johnson, New Bedford; Horatio Hope, Love, and Spiritual Faith. Bu* Agin wrong in the nbstract, for that kind o' wrong thus escaping into Gljt'-*
best
so offensive to the opinions and highest aspiration of most of them to on what principle of justice gentlemen
Is
always
unpopular,
and
never
gets
pitied,
W. Foster, Lowell; Jamea N. Buffum, Lynn; Slavery sharply turns the wretch downGreek slave escape inp Russia, in the
Because
it's
a
crime
.10
one
ever
committed."
feelings
of their people, that slavehold- get a piece of land, say from three to proposed to exclude such men from a
Bourne Spooner, Plymouth ; Cyrus Bradbury, ward and teaches and compels him to
v, and canpossession of stolen ^
participation in these land grants. He
Northampton.
*'r
j'
t
shall
be
i
ers
themselves
must admit that it ought hve acres, which entitles them to vote; referred
ff
the
excellent
editor
of
the
Journal
t
evolve the task of life from such monot be found by his 0
to the free colored population
CONNECTICUT.—Jabez Cogswell, Brookfield.
and with two or three months' labor,
N E W YORK.—Sydney H. Gay, 142, Nassau tives as are common to him with the
as embracing many who were descend•
:<iring
the
cropping
of
the
sugar,
enaStreet; William HarneH, Anti-Slavery Office, 61.
bles them to live in comparative ease ed fronf'the fathers of the nation, inJoseph Post, WeStbury, Queen CJftmly; Man
and independence. On five r.cresthej cluding even Washington himself. He
Harper, Albany, Elias Doty, Macednu; Wit
e>yi raise almost everything they re- •put a "poser" to the Democrats, who
letts Keese, K m , Clinton County; J . F. Plait,
religion most earnestly
delivering up
advocated the exclusive policy, by askquire.
\
PennYan; J. Jeffrey, Geneva; E. L. Platt, Bath.
shelter
ot
the
authority
of
the
United
and
slip
out
into
the
entry
while
wt
fjold, by way of rewat£"
ing \»?Tu v.W. co.i.,Utency, not to say
RHODE ISLAND.—Amarancy Paine.Providence. horts us. To our children labor is
Upon these tracts they raise not on- gratitude, disciples of Jefferson could
Of course, the execution of lhe duty States, there is no danger of collision
PENNSYLVANIA.—J. M. M'Kim, 31, North honorable, because it is God's ordina- were discussing his real sins, and ccim
Americans ly what they require for their own con- conset to keep from Oregon those in
Fifth Street, Philadelphia; Joseph C. Busull, 149. tion of mercy; because it is an educa- back in time to hear our opinion of thus imposed, and the*tunner of exe- or violent interference.
S i . Sixth Street,Do.; B. Bown,Pittsburgh; Wm.
total depravity, and the doctrine ol cuting it, were left 10 the parties are distinguished for ther respect for sumption, but a surplus which they whose veins coursed the blood of
tion;
because
it
is
the
road
alike
to
Whipper, Columbia; Milo A. Townsend, New*
*
severally contracting, j There was no lecral forms, and they will submit, in take to market, usually in small pan- Thomas Jefferson? There was some
health and temperate pleasure; because Original Sin.
Brighton.
.
.
The Pulpit is the Dispensatory of common tribunal for tke adjudication the hope that, no unconstitutional ag- niers upon donkies, or upon their sneering and jeering on the Southern
OHIO.—J. J. Gaines, Cincinnati ; Chares it is the parent of wealth; because by
Hand, Harveysburgh,Clinton Co; Samuel Brookle,
gression or claim will be tolerated. heads. Most every colored proprietor, side, as the Loco side might be called
society—the minister, a physician — of such cases.
N
Salera ; D. Huntingdon, Chardon, Geaup Co.; it the cheerful laborer builds his house,
preaching,
a
prescription
of
medicinal
It is remarkable, that after the lapse But it is a very different thing when a however, has a donkey, which costs with injustice to very few members, all
Hugh Hamilton, Lowellville, Mahoning County; rears his children, and gjves them
stranger,
with
a
band
of
armed
men,
truth
for
heart
evils.
There
is
not
an
J. D. Patterson, Uriiana, hampaign county.
from seven to ten pounds, upon which things considered) while Mr. Giddinga
of nearly nine centuries we find a barthe means of knowledge. By Labor,
MICHIOAN.—Robert Banks, Detroit.
evil which afflicts life, nor a temptation barous stipulation betwjrn two barbar- appears in a free State community, he packs all his property, and under was speaking, but nothing like the deILLINOIS.— Hemy O. Waggoner, Clucpgo; the North has subdued NatutfB, changed
a parsimonious soil to fertility, built proceeding from any course of life, ous nations reproduejuijii the compact and proceeds, without authority or law, the custody ofa woman often, some- gree of that sort of feeling once so
Marshall Hay ward, Richmond, M'Henry Co.
CANADA.—John James Carey, Toronto.
dwellings for almost her wliole popula- which the pulpit should not study. The of union of the most civilized and hu-to seize by violence another stranger, times ofa child, he sends it to town, to common. There was, indeed, a retion, raised the school-hduse, estab- sources of rfght conduct, the hindran- mane republic ofthe nineteenth centu- under : pretence that he is a slave. be converted into money, with which markable and gratifying spirit of toleraWILLIAM B. CLOt'OB, PRINTER.
lished the church, encircled the globe ces, the seductions of business, the in- ry. We are familiar with the provision Know ng neither, and nothing of the he purchases such articles of necessity tion.
relations of the two parties, the people or luxury as his land does not produce
with her ships, and made her books fluences of public life, the maxims of referred to:
Bat this was too tempting an oppor"No person held to labor or service see brute force put forth by one to de- aud he can afford. One of the most
and papers to be as blades of grass society, its customs, its domestic, comand Jeaves of summer for number.— mercial and public institutions; in short, in one State, under irg laws thereof, prive the other of his liberty. Would interesting spectacles to be witnessed tunity, for two or three of the represenBut in the South, as if unredeemed whatever directly or indirectly moulds escaping into another, -shall, in conse- they not be less than men, did they about Kingston, is presented on the tatives ofthe Chivalry to lose. ConFrom the Massachusetts Spy.
from the primal curse, Labor, a badge the human character, is to be studied quence of any law or regulation there- not interpose to see justice done? high-road through which ther maket rad of Louisiana fired a sneering shot
of shame, is the father of misery. The by the minister, and its benefit or its in, be discharged from j-uch-service or State law is resorted to, for the un- people, with their donkies, in the cool at Mr. Giddings's "tast^" &c. He
POLITICS AND THE PULPIT.
labor, but shall be ielivered up on known claimant many be a kidnapper: of the morning, pour into the city from complained that he hair represented
slave labors with no cheer; it is not danger made known from the pulpit.
the back country. They form an al- that the Caucassians were inferior to
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has been the road to respectability; it will honor In this work, it is to deal first and claim of the party to wsom such service the unknown claimed, a free man.
most
faithfully
with
the
evils
of
its
own
No
community,
however
low
in
the
or
labor
my
be
due."
most uninterrupted procession of four the colored men referred to. Mr. Gidhim
with
no
citizen's
trust:
it
brings
no
recently engaged in a controversy with
age,
its
own
country,
its
own
city,
its
scale
of
civilization,
will
endure
the
or
five miles in length, and what strikes dings replied that he had admitted that
The language of tl'if? clause of the
the Journal of Commerce, concerning bread to his family; no grain to his
the whites were quite as good as the
the propriety of introducing the topic garner; no leisure in after days; no own congregation. Wherever men go, Constitution, like the phraseology of open display of violence against an ap- the eye ofa Yankee at once is their blacks! Mr. Conrad opposed the exthe
Pulpit
is
to
follow
them
with
its
parently
unoffending
individual.
Some
perfect
freedom
from
the
articles
above
quoted,
is
that
of
a
of slavery into the pulpit. That paper books nor papers to his children. It
care. Neither clusion of the colored settlers, on the
has lately had its sensibilities wounded opens no school-house door, builds no trne light. Whatever invades its pro- stipulation. No pover is conferred of the Judges of the Supreme Court did poverty nor desire of gain had written gfound that the South wanted to have
by an allusion made by Dr. Lansing to church, rears for him no factory, iays vince—that province is Right, Human- upon Congress by the language of the foresee and predict precisely the con- a line upon their faces, and they could the colored population diffused. What
Daniel Webster's position, and by Mr. no keel, fills no bank, earns no acres. ity, Purity—be it Fashion, Commerce, clause expressly, and we have never sequences that have come to pass. Wei not show less concern at the result of do you suppose he assigned as th©
Beecher's article in the Independent. With sweat, and toil, and ignorance, Politics, they are fearlessly to be met. been able to see how it could be fairly repeat then, that for the collisions that j their trip if they were going to a festi- reason ot this wish? Why, that it was
place in the reclamation of! val. You will readily perceive how
The Journal has therefore conceived a he consumes his life to pour the earn- grasped, aod measured by the word ol implied. It bears thc-n?>pect ofa stipu- have taken place
everywhere admitted to be a curse.
great horror for "Free SoilSermon9," ings into channels from which he does God. Not only may the Pulpit thus lation between the Stdtns, and it would fugitives from justice, the Supreme strong and universal must be the de- Of course, then, he is quite willing to
although it seems to have no objection not drink; into hands that never honor explore Life, but it must, or else prove seem as if it were left for the States Court of the United States, and not the sire of the poor laborers to exchange diffuse a curse! Bayly took the same
to a clergyman's writing a political him, but perpetually rob and o'ten bankrupt to Fidelity. Jt is not to fol- severally to provide measures for car- legislation of the free States, is to be their servile drudgery, at less than a view as Conrad, and contended that
low the camp; but in spiritual things to rying it into effect. Siioh, if we recol- held responsible.
shilling sterling a day, for this life ol
pamphlet in defence of slavery as aided torment.
course of the Territorial Legislalead
the people. It is not to wait till iect aright, was the decision of Chief
Southern men, irrtated by lhe con- comparative ease and independence. the
This
vast
abomination,
which
see
hes
and comforted by Webster. In the
ture of Oregon, in excluding free
Justice
Shaw
of
Massachusetts,
some
foes
are
slain
before
it
raises
its
spear;
sequences
of
the
decision
of
this
Court,
Of
course
it
is
very
hard
to
get
anylast number of the Independent, Mr. and smokes in our midst, which \u enblacks from citizenship, had acted in
Beecher publishes a stirring' article jus- nervating and demoralizing the w.iite nor go asking of political cabals whai years ago, and such wits the opinion of without stopping to ascertain their true thing ahead upon the wages now paid violation ofthe spirit of the luw of their
tifying the introduction of the topic of by the oppression of the black; in it may say, nor cringe to any supercil- many eminent jurists, until the decision cause, have suffered themselves to in Jamaica, and it requires no little organization 0.3 a Territory. In applyslavery, as a moral question, into the which adultery, fornication, and a con- ious men of commerce; but occupy it- of the Supreme Court in the case of become inflamed ajjainst the North, in- self-denial and energy to lay up enough ing the principle of the Anti-Slavery
That decision set aside, and dulge daily in their denunciations of to purohaae one of these properties ordinance, Congress did not anticipate
pulpit, and alao urging it as a duty.— cubinage so awful exist, that, in 'com- self with only this twin thought — how Prijrg.
denied the right of, all t'State legislation the bad iaith of Northern men, andwith; but when they do get one they that
parison to it, a Turkish harem is a best to please God and benefit man.
Ho says in a strain of indignation:
the South would be thus cut off
Therefore, against every line of the on the subject, asserted the exclusive insist upon additional legislation by never part with it except for a larger from an outlet for her redundant free
"Three million men, again&t natural cradle of virgin purity; which every
power of Congress to provide means
law, against every fundamental princi- hour does violence to nature, to the Coward's Ethic's of the Journal of for executing the provision, but asser- Congress, to remedy their supposed I or a better one. The planters call black population in that direction,
ple of our state and national govern- sentiment of justice, and to the embod- Commerce we solemnly protest, and ted, too, the right of the master to seize wrongs, although some of them admit them lazy for indulging in this feeling which he alleged to have always been
ment, are, by law, thrown over the pale iment of that sentiment into national declare a minister made to its pattern his slave wherever Lo wight be found, that to the States? rather than to the of independence; but I never could see the chief obstacle to Emancipation. To
Federal Government, the work of pro- anything in the aversion ofthe negroes hear him talk, one would really have
law: a svstem which, makes a home im- fitter to be sent to the pyramids and
h fugitive
f i i
This is not fit for the Pulpit to mention; possible, a~a inewoiu iuruiiy u* ii/u^u mummiee, than to be 7*1 living n;an ui Hh-nr him hi\rU'^t&ii ' State v,
here to labor which was not sanctioned supposed that the South had assented
viding means for executing the
it 13 allowed, nevertheless, to preach a misnomer as it would be to a stable God among living men, loving them, le
e.rimple of their masters.
i most graciously to tho application of
^V'-.''»^-tUr C« p^Uvvtinn belong*.. OP by the e.vunple
masters"
about China and India! Every year, or sheep-fold; which subsists only by but never fearing them! God be thank- aw.
•
*
. I think the reader* of the Evening ! tho Proviso principle to the Oregon
the
justice
of
theiV
denunciations
antt"
thousands of children are snatched keeping the subject ignorant; which is
free States, fin ing their right the reasonableness of their demands, Post will be surprised when I tell them bill!
that in every age hitherto such o The
denied by the
j
act on the subject
from the parents' bosom, and remorse- obliged to rank and treat the qualities ed,
we may have something to say in our that the number of these s m a ll propripulpits have been found the ally of suf- lighest tribunal of the
But the richest feature of this debato
h country, discon- next.—National Era.
lessly sold everywhither. The Pulpit which our community most esteems— fering
etors is now considerably over 100 000
the champion of the op- inued all such action. Some of them,
was a speech, in particular reply to
is not the place for mentioning such independance, ambition, self-relipnce, pressed.virtue,
and
is
rapidly
increasing.
Their
propAnd in this day, after the no- n view of the decision of the court,
Erora the N. Y. Tribuna.
things, though it be allowed to snatch thirst for knowledge, self-respect—as table examples
erties average, I should think, about Mr. Giddings, by Col. McMullen of
of heroic men, in heroic hat Congress could impose no duty on
most
punishable
crimes
in
the
slave;
a
children from the Ganges, and to
EFFECTS
OF
ABOLITION
IN
three acres.—They have a direct in- Virginia. He was very per.-onal—so
when life itself often paid for fi- State officers, in relation to the matter,
mourn over infanticide in Polynesia!— system whose practice requires what its ages,
JAMAICA.
terest in cultivating th e i r land econ- much so that he was called to order by
the pulpit is to be mined and passed laws f rbidd.,ig their magisEvery year, husbands and wives are laws recognize, that manhood must be delity,
o
omically and intelligently. The prac- the Chairman, (Mr. Strong.) He insapped
by
insincere
friends
and
insidiofficers to issue
torn asunder, Christian or no Chris- subverted—that the slave must be in- ous enemies, and learn to mix the sor- trates and ministerial
We
take
the
following
from
an
able
tice of planning their own labor, en- dulged in a number of those polite
nx
case
°'r ©scup- and interesting letter from Jamaica in couraged by the privilege of reaping lingual missiles, whose points have
tiao; and the Journal of Commerce telligent only for work, and religious did prudence of business with the so- or serve process » ^
brow-beats that pulpit that utters a only to the extent of obedience; a sys- norous and thrice heroic counsels of ng slaves—laws clearly in harmony the Evening Post. The writer it may- Us rewards themselves, exerts the been worn off by his chivalrous preword about such politics when it should tem which, taking away all induce- Christ, then, O my soul, be not thou with said decision, ^ nott ID conflict be seen does not think the main cause most important educational influences, decessors, through frequent use. He
complained of a grievous want of gratirather be busy in expostulating with ments to labor natural to man, is ob- found conspiring with this league ol with the rights of slave claimants. of the decline of the Island to be the which will soon be much
. more appa- tude on the part of Mr. Giddin^s, in
cannibals in Malaya, or snatching dev- liged to enforce it by suffering, or the iniquity! that so, when in that august Some States, too, in consideration of abolition of slavery. His account of rent than they are now.
one thus insulting his constituents, after the
otees from under the wheeb of Jugger- fear.of suffering; which, denying to the day of retribution, God shall deal pun- he fact that, as the Court had asserted the change going on among the black reflects that sixteen years When
ago there favor he did him, some time ago, in
faculties
of
the
soul
a
natural
expresthe
right
ot
slave
Tfnimants
to
seize
naut! Every year, thousands of wopopulation is most satisfactory. It was scarcely
ishment in flaming measure to all hirec o i o r e d proprietor of moving the floor for him, when he apmen are lashed for obstinate virtue; sion, forces the miserable wretch to ling and coward ministers, thou shalt their slaves wherever found, without strikes us that the hundred thousand land upon thefl Island,
and that now pealed to his frinds to make that mocunning
and
craft,
to
lying
and
subterand tens of thousands robbed of what
not go dowr, under double-bolted thun- legal process, the liberties of portions cultivators af their own land are much there are a hundred thousand, it is unn
fuge;
whose
whole
natural
tendency
is
oftherown
free
population
might
be
they never have been taught to prize;
better product of God's earth than as necessary to say that this class ofthe tion. The redoubtable Virginian then
ders, lower than miscreant Sodom, or
to
produce
labor
upon
compulsion,
and
forth into a stream of granput in peril by sinister or mistaken many slaves living at the mercy of an P
and the Journal of Commerce stands
thrice-polluted Gomorrah!
P°P
the priviliges of launched
P ua'ation
t i n appreciate
appre
diloquence, in the midgt of which the
claim, passed laws jecuring to persons owner. The letter begins by stating Iree
poised to cast its javelin at that med- laziness by choice, lying end thieving
l
j
a
D
o
r
a
n
(
a
Iree
l
j
homestead
far
more
hammer fell, leaving as his last words,
dlesome Pulpit that dares speak oi under a sense of justice, and truth and
claimed as slaves tiv right to have the the causes of the present state of the corre act j y t j m n
g
p
the declaration that he "had no doubt
such boundless licentiousness, and send honesty with a feeling of their injus- THE CONGRESS FUGITIVE BjLL. question legally determined whether Island as follows:—
ni
°re especially when it is borne in the negroes referred to by the gentlemmd
it to its more appropriate work of evan- tice: and which, at length, as its worst
they
were
not
free.
And
no
nghtmindmmd
Men
resist
oppression,
or
seek
to
First—The
degradation
of
labor,
in
that seven-tenths of
of these propro men from Ohio were descendants ofthe
gelizing the courtesans of Paris, or the and most damnable result, so subverts escape from it, because they arc men, ed man will pretecd that such laws consequence of the yet comparatively
loose virtue of Italy! and it assures us that instinct of liberty which belongs to endowed with a sense of personal, in- were unconstitutional or violative of recent existence of Negro Slavery up- prietors were begotton in slavery, and first families of Virginia—i. e. the " F .
spent many years of their lives as F. V's!" The gallant Colonel sat
that multitudes are thanking it for such man the world over, that the slave alienable rights, an inextinguishable the rights of slave tfiimantson the Island, which excludes the bondsmen.
a noble stand. Some of those clergy- agrees to his condition, grows fat, andj |Oye of liberty, and the capacity to en- That tho barbarous Russ should be white population from almost every
down, with an evident feeling of selfmen we know. The platforms of our laughs and sings, preferiing slavery joy it. That the victim of slavery permitted in the dark ages to hunt and department of productive industry, and It is very obvious to me that the satisfactisn. It is true there was conBenevolent Societies resound with their with indulgence to eat and drink should flee from its horrors, is no new seize by violence, %the territory of a begets a public opinion calculated to best estates of the Island are to un- siderable laughter; but he approvoices, urging Christianity to go a- enough, to liberty, if he must pay thething; and that the fugitive should find semi-barbarous Empire, any one of its discourage, rather than to promote in- dergo this process of division before its priated this to himself, of course, as
broad: stimulating the church not to price of that liberty by sustained exer- sympathy among those not interested inhabitants, whom 10 might ch° o s e t o dustry among the colored population. real productive capacities can be induced by his wit! I should almost
leave a corner of the globe unsearched, tion;—this huge, infernal system for in perpetuating his enslavement, can claim as his fugitive slave, does not
2 —Nine-tenths of the improved known. Their prices must fall to a regret to disturb his feelings.
nor an evil unredressed. But when the destruction of men, soul and body, excite no surprise among those who surprise us. But the masses have land is owned by absentees—which level with the means of those who culIt is understood that it isMcMulIen's
the speech is ended, the steel is behind must not be mentioned in the pulpit, understand the instincts and laws of emerged from degradation since th«: implies unskillful tillage; an extra ex- tivate them—the laboring population
intention to reply specially to Mr. Haythe Journal of. Commerce to give it lest (he Sabbath be desecrated and the human nature. By the Mosaic code, tenth century. Personal rights are
which being all colored, imports that
three thou- the land is to pas3 from the whites to mond of Wheeling—that he has been
thanks for its noble stand against the peace of the congregation be dis- this sympathy found a sanction for its now deemed sacred, and no guaranties pense on an avearge of
waiting for his speech. So you see
sand dollars a year for attorneys,
right of the Pulpit to say a word about turbed!
manifestations in the law which pro- against their violaion are held to be agents and overseers; great improvi- the colored people before the Island that there is at leasi one "treat" in
home-heathen — about their horrible
We should be glad, accoiuing to the tected the fugitive servant from being too Btringent. The State that would dence in the management ol the prop- can prosper. This I think inevitable, store.
Another important question arose ia
ignorance, bottomless licentiousness, patent method of the Journal, to teach seized by his master, and secured to deny to any person: within its limits erty, and few or no labor-saving im- if it remains a British possession.
It is objected here, that if the estates the course ^ t h e long, exciting, and
and about the mercenary inhumanity men how to act upon Christian princi- him the protection and hospitalities of the writ of habeas orpu3, in order to provements.
which is every week selling their own pies, in their political position, without the community in which he had taken test whether he vas entitled to his 3.—The estates under culture were are so minutely subdivided, the culti- decidedly . disorderly debate on this
Christian brethren, baptised as much 3aying a word about the subject. We refuge. The modern Law of Nations, freedom or not, wculd be wanting in all mortgaged for more than they were vation ofthe great staples sugar cof- Oregon Bill. The detestable serpent
as they, often preachers of the gospel should heartily rejoice if we could in- regarding slavery as a municipal, a the first duty of 1 sovereignty—that worth, when the Emancipation bill fee, and the manufacture of rum, must of Naiiveism shows its head frequently.
like themselves, praying to the same spire Christian honesty in Commerce, merely local institution, does not bind of the just protection of those within its passed. This measure increased the cease, because the works upon sugar It wns resisted by Mr. Sackett of your
Savior, listening to snatches of that without ever discussing men's commer- one State to surrender fugitive slaves jurisdiction.
^
embarrassments ofthe residents, made and coffee estates are very expensive delegation, and others, in a spirit of
same Bible (whoso letters they have cial duties. The Journal evidently from other States. At times, convenNo free State his passed any laws to them the easy prey of their non-resi- and require large capital, and the es-praiseworthy manliness. On the quesnever been permitted to learn) out of knows how this may be done. Will it tions or treaties of extradition have discharge from service or labor person? dent creditors, and left them no means tates must be very large to compensate tion of destruction of Color in grants
which these reverend endorsers of the not bless the world with the secret? It been made between neighboring flp
fugitive from other States where such or capital to conduct the cultivation of for the outlay in that direction. For of land the vote was mainly sectional.
example, a good range of sugar works The exceptions were, for the most part,
Journal of Commerce preach!
has in mind doubtless some Gospel ers, in disregard of the dictates of hu- service or labor may be due, but many the land to any advantage.
It requires DISTANCE, it seems, to that will tree men from evil and not manity, in obedience to reasons ol of the free States have severe enact- 4.—The magnitude of the estates, could not be erected for less than among the Western Loco-Focog!
make a topic right for the Pulpit.— disturb them; that will snatch away State policy. A friend has handed us ments for the prevention and punish- and the principles upon which they $50,000. The proprietor of twenty- Some of these voted openly for the
Send it to Greenland, or to Nootka their sins while they are aslep; some the following translation of an article ment of kidnapping. The man, then, have been cultivated, prevent the free five or fifty acres could not afford to South—others remaining in their seats,
Sound, and you may then practice at chloroform Gospel; some Gospel that in a treaty of peace, entered into in the who seizes in one of these States a circulation of real property, tend to keep such costly buildings for the man- when the process of going through the
the far away target. And the reason will convert the African slave-trader year 902, between Leon Alexandre person whom he chimed as his fugitive accumulate the lands in the hands of a ufacture of his limited atock, much less tellers presented a test of their prediof such discrimination seems to be, without saying a word about the slave- V. Constantino, Greek Emperor at slave does it at his peril. If the person few, to exterminate the middle classes, could the smaller proprietor of three, lections! The vote on the insertion of
that preaching against foreign sin does trade; that will send Bruin and Hill to Constantinople, and Oleg, Regent ol seized be a fugitive from service or or men of little or no capital, and to five or ten acres.
the word "white" stood 78 Yeas to Si
not hurt the feelings nor disturb the the altar and the communion table, Igor, second king of Russia, on the labor within the meaning of the Con- beget a constant and unnatural antagNays from a thin House.
The
answer
to
this
objection
seems
quiet of your congregation; whereas, without saying a word about the slave- occasion of the first invasion of tht stitution, he is sfecure against punish- onism between capital and labqr.
A general and informal understandperfectly obvious, and yet no one here
if the identical evils at home, which pens and their weekly purchase and Greek Empire by the Russians, undei ment; but should it turn out that he has These causes, in my judgement, would seems
j ing was had before the Committee of
to
understand
it.
They
have
we deplore upon the Indus, or along sale of Christian girls and church mem- Oleg.
seized a free person, the law visits him have conducted Jamaica to inevitable only to observe one ofthe most familiar the Whole, as to the resumption ofthe
the Burampootra, are preached about, bers; that, will convert the thief, and
"If a Russian slave take flight, or with its penalty.
ruin, had the tariff laws never been al- principles of economical scienco, and Oregon Land bill at an early day, out
the Journal says that it will risk the by some charm lead him to abhor steal- even if he is carried away by any one It may be said thtt this makes it tered nor the slaves been set at liber- the
whole difficulty is obviated. Let j of which a scene of great confusion
minister's place and bread and butter; ing, without saying a word about theft; under pretence of having been bought perilous for the owners of fugitives to ty.
them
do what is done universa'ly in grew, when the Committee roaa. It
and it plainly tells all Northern minis- jhat will make men intelligent in all his master shall have the right ant assert their just rigWs. Be it so: a But I think I hear you ask, howthr. Nor'hern
States of our Republic— got mixed up with the California questers that if they meddle with such pol- their relations to their fellows, without power to pursue him, and hunt for State is derelict^ duty which does not long is this state of things to continue, separate the functions
the agricultu- tion, which excited not a little jealousy.
itics, they will have their coats rolled saying anything of their duties; that and capture him, wherever he shall be protect its inhabitants against danger or is it to be perpetual? To this I rist from those of th*»of manufacturer,
The Chair having decided that it rein the dirt; and the experience which will turn the heathen from idolatry, found; and any person who shall op to their liberties. |Ven a slaveholder
quired unanimous consent to entertain
and
then
both
departments
of
industry
will
answer
in
brief:
that
it
will
conwe have had of that operation at the from fornication and incest, from infan- pose the master in the execution of bis must admit that it is Jiiore important to
a motion to fix a day, Mr. Giddinga
will
be
better
conducted,
upon
at
least
tinue
until
the
land
gets
iuto
the
hands
hands of the Journal, assures us that ticide and cannibalism, and the whole right, shall be deemed guilty ot violat- protect the liberty of the free, than to
objected, and consequently the House
one-tenth
the
capital
now
required.
the process is full dirty enough. Will retinue of abominations which we name ing this treaty, and be punished ac perpetuate the sUverj of the bondman. of people who are not ashamed to till There is no conceivable reason why adjourned without an understanding
it.
So
long
as
it
is
held
by
English
the Journal tell us how many leagues heathenism, without one word said, ex- cordingly."
The laws of tb^ free States deprive landlords, I think it will continue to central sugar-mills, for example, should on the subject, after all. This closed
off a sin must be before it is prudent cept about the literal " Christ cruciOn occasion ofa second invasion o him of no rights, but are intended to depreciate in value. I eay this with not be established, where the planters its doings and undoings for the week.
and safe for courageous ministers to fied," which the Journal says must be the Greek Empire by the Russians guard every portion of their own peocould take their cane to be ground for The "Spring cleaning" will commence
preach against it?
preached, whether men will hear or another treaty was formed, in 945, ir ple from wrong, and to put him on his all possible respect for them, many of a toll, or (0 sell, for a return ofa giv- to-morrow.
SIGMA.
whom I know, and greatly esteem". It
forbear. It must be preached in its which it was stipulated as follows:
guard
in
the
exercise
of
what
he
or
Our Iaw9 scarcely recognise a crime purity and power, whoever may be ofwill continue to depreciate in their en quantity of sugar, or molasses or
wilt; who loses her patience
"If any slave shall fly from Russia his agent may d«em his rights. The hands, I say, because they will not rum, or money, or whatever might be
against man, save murder and violence fended. It is not man's message, but
may
not
expect
to keep her husband's
truth
is,
the
decision
of
the'Supreme
into
Greece,
or
shall
escape
frora
the
agreed
upon,
ki to it, that U not legal under slave
cultivate it personally, nor can they
heart.
VOL. III. NO. 25.
0 elect tons.
ROCHESTER, N. Y., TMf(tSDAY, JUNE 13, 1850.
WHOLE NO. 129.