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Provincial Freeman (Toronto and Chatham, ON), 10 Jun 1854, p. 4

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More' than' once, 'she was in' - _ gave him/all but uncontrolled power over her _ throat, 'and' cuts and bruises on her head ; '3 ee erent ets interposed to save / Mm ing displeasure to which he resorted; and | agi Fale Bred mite: power ore ayia _ who did not appreciate her intellect, or the beanty of epic atures As it mas--he, ey aha Seeaatr snipes, 8, Ue ove | h and eager to conceal her Scere prog Sin oa she taboo a ola Grist Mitt, e nit iq /her ; some, to advise patience; somé, reso- | RY H. s'foppagn: | verely 5 took herself to task, while the tears all dark and bare apps ide stfeaih of Lie j y curren only ee tae veeps alotig: | Sweeps alone ; ae a 3 eg are 4 UAtting the flood gates of my heart, .. } siahd Be he mi * itturns the magicewheeb of song, 9 ejyet grinds the ripened harvest brougit of oehagulihe golden field of thought.) { ere: Fut > hace ee Legal Fictions. Ak IIA TS One of ow MRS. UMORTONG |. 1,4 0) 3 The prayers' were made, the benediction given, the bells rang out their lusty epithal- amium, and by the law of. the church and the law of the land, Charlotte and Robert Des- borough were henceforth one--one in inter- est, cue in life. "No chill rights or selfish individuality to sow disunion between them ; no unnatural laws to weaken her devotion by offering'a traitorous asylum against him } but, united by bonds none could break-- divisible for ever---they set their naimes to that form of marriage, which so many have signed in hope, to read over for a long life- 'time of bitterness and despair. Yet what cap be. more beautiful than the idea of an English Lge Aas ' This striet union of in- _ terests--although it does mean the absorp- tion of the woman's whole life in that, of the 'man's--although it does mean the entire an- nihilation of all her rights, individuality, le- gal' existence, and: his" sole recognition by the law--yet how beautiful it is in the ideal! She, netfee My itid ae in the shadow of his strength, upheld by his hand, cherished by his love, losing hersélf, in the large being of her husband: while he, in the vanguard of life, protects her from all evil, and shields Vala her st dang r, and takes on himself thes i the weary toil, the danger and | the struggle. What a delightful picture of sel fis! "ehivalrv, of devotedness, and manly protection ; and what sacrilege to erase so much' poetry froin: the dry code of our | y sath ae Bet ED - on ae nA all newly -married women, she would aave looked: with horror on any proposition mance tenths egal parnt-i liberi would have been desolation to her, and the protection of the laws she would have repu- diated as implyitg a doubt of her busband's faith. She had been' taught to believe in men, and to honor them; and she did not wish to unlearn her lesson. The profound conviction of their superiority formed one of the cardinal points of her social creed; and young hearts are not eager to escape from their anchorage of trust. av ause she was a faithful worshipper ; and if seemed to her but fit, and right, and anteral, that the lower should be subservient will of the higher. For the first few IP went according to the brightness er belief. The newly-bound epic was y 4en in letters of gold and blazoned in the ort test colors of youth, and hope, and love ; + and sue believed! the unread leaves would ~owsaue the story of those already turned » and that the glories of the future would as others, ardent and loving, have be- ; and she awoke like them, when the tlt of knowledge. was between her 3 PD the. 4 ' i i : _ stramed. the grouns at her feet. (> void of the blazoned book was soon bed. dts turned leaves told of love, "agaly ya but love," ra Vi rcatal sympathy to keep alive the pale oshas.., Onithe contrary, quarrels soon' took the Hace of fadin » caresses, and bitter words | & Pp Ade eg eit FURR, fragile bands th 're; bat, with the honey-moon died out 2a éetion which ought to have lived through (1eprohetion of time, suffering, and distress. io,had peen a love-match, but it was an ill- onted match as well; and want of syimpa- 902, deepened into bitterness, and thence fe backward into hatred and disgust. . The husband was a man of violent temper, and -- that burnt like flax in. their 7 te F, assOr held" supreme, views on, marital . privileges. clever, was none. er, was none the less a chattel; and he treated her as such,,. By bitter personal ex- perience, he taught her that the law which as his property, was not always the duty of the strong to. et. the. weak, but might sometimes we RPNye Taraccst , English poe he translated into the right of the tyrant to. oppress the helpless. "From high words the transition to rough deeds and natural. Matters grew grad- ually worse; quarrels became more bitter and more frequent, and personal violences mortal: fear, with marks of» fingers on her her fro violence. -- Jn these quarrels perh é was not wholly blameless. 'Phe ra ssion of a high-spirited girl was not best suited to such a husband's ss imaginative and less feeling, she Be ge LSet a aE ve borne the peculiar mode of show- 2m ee then he was her husband !--the father of her 'to his house. 'his was what the Ecelesi- /} misty darkness of an unhappy. life, can ap- o lives wedded together, one and in- _ Liberty | She was a willing' fe tolthe 'glories\of 'the past.' She be- dead leaves of her young hopes: those passion. | - . ie "p i ae Whose' passion,| with their warmest sympathy ; 'and if the , v.en it was burned out, left no. friendship or | : "the lost sounds of fond phrases; no Wows tresh Hess. piace of) oaaas publicity: eo BRS PD : a 48 = Nec a : Hriends iiterfered, m tiie any thronging about lution; some, to appeal to her wifely love, and others to her woman's dignity ; and she, halting between the two, now consented to pendure, and. now resolyed to resist. So,. things went on ina sad unhinged manner ; outbreaks continually occurring, followed by _promises of reformation and renewed acts of | forgiveness; but no solid peace establish- ment, and no» real' wish to amend. Once pity, and changed her anger, into. sorrow. ; | She thought, too, of her own misdeeds ; mag- nified her own petty. tempers and girlish im- pertinences which had been punished so se- streamed from her dark eyes and steeped the. black hair hanging on her neck, until at last | imagination and repentance weighed down he balance of evil on her own side. And childrenyand ohee her lover! go 'beloved! Ve all have faults, and. we all need pardon, he thought ; and so she forgave him, as she had done before, and returned submissively astical law calls condonation. And by this act of love and mercy, she deprived herself of even the small amount of protection affor- | ed by the law to English wives of the nine- | senth century. 'hey had now three children who made up the sole summertime of her heart. Only those who know what. sunshine the love of -young and innocent children creates in the preciate her love for hers--three bright, noble boys. How she loved then! How. passionately and how tenderly ! Their lisping Kor their sakes she endeavoured to be pa- tient. Her love for them was too strong to be sacrificed even to her outraged woman- hood ; and that she might remain near them, and caress them, and educate them, she bore ber trials now coining fast upon her, with forbearance, if not with silence. But, matters came at last to a climax; though sooner and, on. diferent grounds than might have been expected. She «and her husband parted on a trivia! question of itself, but with grave results: a mere dispute as.to whether the children should accompany their mother on a visit to one of her brothers, who was avowedly (very extraordinary that he should be so, after the married life she had led!) unfriendly to her husband. It was at last decided that they should not, go, and after a bitter struggle. [ar more was in- volved in this question then appears on the 'surface; her right to the inanagement of her sons, even in the most trifling matters, was the real point of contention; the mother was obliged to yield, and she went alone; the children remaining at home with the 'father. 'The day after she left, she received "a message from one of the 'servants that something was wrong at home; for, the children had been taken away, with all their clothes and toys, no one knew where. Ina storm of terror and agony she gave: herself up to the trace, and at last fotind out their hiding place. But without any good result. The woman who had received thein, under the sanction of the father, refused to deliver ; them up to her, and met her prayers and re- monstrances with insults and sarcasins. 'childless, 'to her sister's home in the country ; like a wounded pantier tearing at the lance 'in his. side, a fearful mixture of love and beauty, and rage and despair.* It was well for her that she did return to her sister's house instead of her own home, for, her hus- band, enraged at her persistence in visiting her brother against his consent, ordered the servants to refuse her admittance should she present herself, and "to open the house door only with the chain across it." After balancing between reconciliation and prosecution, a divorce suit was decided on by her husband; expressly undertaken ' because his wife would not return to him." By this suit, he attempted to prove that an | ald friend and patron, to whoin he owed his present position and his former fortune, was the seducer of his wife. But, the case broke down; and the jury, without leaving their box, gave a verdict in favor of the de- fendant: a gentleman of known honor and established reputation. The crowded court rang with cheers, such as it had rarely ech- -oe@d to before, as the verdict was pronounced ; friends in every degree of life, old friends readiness of the world. in general to be kindly honest, and> to-set-right- a proved wrone, could have acted directly upon the aw, or could have. essentially served. her without its aid, she would have had ample 'The feelings may be soothed, but the wionts reiinin. ; -- And now began the most painful part of the sad epic, whose initiatory hymns had glided into a dirge: a dirge for rumed hepes -and wasted youth, for a'heart made desolate, and a home destroyed; » dirge for the of the fond visions of her heart. The. suit was, ended, and the Jaw had. pronounced the accused wife innocent. But | the law also pronounced" the innocent mother without a claim to her own cdildren. They were the father's property absolutely and entirely. He placed them with his sis- ter, a lady who shared his propensity for corporeal punishment; and who flogged the eldest child, a sensitive and delicate boy of six years old, for receiving and reading a. letter from his mother.' "Io impress on his } memory," she said, "that he was not to re- {she left the house, after a long and' angiy | Gop has delegated the care of he scene, during which he, struck ber, and that | | with no gentle hand either ; and she would | »| not return until, heart-breken petitions and. |solemn engagements touched her woman's _make her a certain allowance for life. erto she had mainly supported herself by | , authorship.. After a demur of reducing | She was obliged to return widowed and, -and friends hitherto stranger's, supported her shatiered household goods and the fleetings | s trailed we ttriine down her I devon its strength} long years of battle with years when the mother's soul stood in the dark valley of death where 16 light and no hope were. But the criminal law swept on _ the beaten track, and no.one stopped to ask over whose heart this great car of Jugger- naut passed. The mother--sh. to 'whom neglect this duty for any. seli-advantage | whatsoever; she--a man's wife, and a man's arily dns Lotig years of | proud heart, laden almost | the wild sorrow of her childless life; Jong) hey young-- j, she on whom lie shame and dishonour if she | From Didtent' Hougelidid Werle, Home-Sickaess, Where I am the halls are gilded, Stored with pictures bright and rave; Strains of deep, melodious music __ Float upon the perfumed air; Nothing stirs the dreary silence, Save the melancholy sea. Near the poor and humble cottage, Where I fain would be ! Where I am, the sun is shining, _ And the purple windows glow, Vil theie rich armorial shadows Stain the marble floor below: Faded Autumn leaves are trembling [> On the withered jasmine iree, _ Creeping round the little casement, Where I fain would be! lawful chattel--had no right' to those who | hard to show its cruelty. This misery ficted upon her maternal love will be on dured by no other English mother. Peeuniary matters came in next, as fiv-. ther entanglement of this miserable web.---. ' By the marriage settlements a certain sum of money had been secured to the children: | the principal of which, neither the husbaad | i 4 Where Lam, the days are passing had lain beneath her heart, and drunk of! er See aa map flowers ; ne bk np oats fa BY Swat ss Ce song, and joy, and starry pléasures her life." The law in this respectis changed | CréWn the hep py, smilin gowns: _-~mainly, because this sufferer laboured | Slowly, heavily aud sadly, Time on weary wings must tlee, Marked by pain, and toil, and sorrow, i Where I fain would be! SV here | am, the great and noble Tell me of renown and fame, And the red wine sparkles highest, To do bunor te my name : Far away # pace is vacant, By @ bumble hearth for me, nor his creditors could touch. It belonved | Uying embers dimly show it, \ : seu Where I fain would be! to the children and the mother, emphatically | and exclusively. After many years of o- paration, the husband applied to his wife | 'for her consent to his raising a loan on this. trust-fund for the improvement of his estate. She promised that consent, if ke, on his part, | would execute a deed of separation, and | the allowance she proposed, 'the agreement | was entered into; and she then gave her; consent that a loan should be raised on the | trust-fund for her husband's sole advantage. She received in exchange a deed drawn up sand signed by a lawyer and her husband, se- father. At the same time a legacy of almost tive hundred a year, carefully secured from her husband by every legal hindrance possi- Die, fell to her also from her mother. When her husband knew of this legacy, he wrote to her, telling her that he would not now continue his former allowance, which had been secured, as she believed, by solemn le- _galagreement. She objected to this novel _manner of benetiting by a legacy; and re- fused to entertain the proposition of a reduc- tion. Her husband quietly told her that , she must either consent to his terms, or re- ceive nothing ; when she. urged the agree- ment, hé answered her with the legal poetic i fietion, " that by law, man and wife were each other" exchanged her power over the trust-fund, was a mere worthless piece of paper. | This shameful breach of contract was fol- lowed by another law suit, where judgement was given in open court to the effect not on- ly that the agreement in her behalf, signed by her husband and a legal "witness, was valueless according to that stanza of the mar- ried idyl which proclaims that man and wife are one--not only that she had no claim on the allowance of five hundred a -year--but that her husband could also seize every far- thing of her earnings, and demand. as. his own the copyrights of her works and the sums paid for them. No deed of separation had been executed between them, and no divorce could be sued for by her. Kor, she had once condoned or pardoned her husband and so had shut herself out from the pro- tection of the laws. ' And all this isin the laws; the laws which throw a woman helplessly on the mercy of her husband, make no ways of escape and build no cities of refuge for her, and. delib- erately justity her being cheated and en- trapped. All these are doings' protected and allowed by our, laws---and men stand by and say, "It is useless to complain. © The laws uiust be obeyed. It is dangerous to 'meddle with the laws!" -- 'This isa true -tory; th se who run may read it--have read it more than once, per haps, before now, as an exemplification of some of jhe gravest wrongs of women, and as a proof how much they sometimes need protection even against those whose sworn, office it is to cherish and support them, it is very note-worthy;:indeed, in this country of Great Britain. Surely there is work wait- _ing to be done'in the marital code of Eng- Jand! Surely there are wrongs to be re- dressed a orms to be made that have gone too long unmade! Surely we have here a righteous quarrel with the laws-- more righteous. than many that have ex- cited louder.cries. ~~ A. on! Justice to women. No. fanciful rights, no unreal advantages, no preposterous escape drom womanly. duty, for the restless, 'loud and vain; no mingling of women with the 'bros of political. life, nor opening to. them of careers which nature herself has pronounced them incapable of | following; | no high-flown assertion of equality in kind 7 _but simple justice. The recognition of their | natural rights as mothers, the permission to ¢ them to live by their own honorable indus- | | try, untaxed by the legal right and moral) | wrong af any man to claim us his own that) | ! i for which he has not wrought--reaping where he has not sown, and gathering where has notistrewed, Justice to won.en. 'That is what the phrase means; that Is where the thing is truly wanted; here is an exam- ple of the great injustice done to them, and of their maltreatment, under the eyes of a whole nation, by the law.-- Household Words, Papkr rao Woop.--At the last sitting of the Society d' Encouragement your l'Indus- trie Nationale, of Paris, a paper was read, setting forth @ plan for making paper froin wood. The bark is first taken off the wood, sudthe wood ctitin such @ way as to be easily | made into shavings; the shavings ure then cut very thin; next they are placed in water for ceive letters from her!" 'The yet_ younger one was stripped naked, and chastised with ; a riding whip. Yet the law held' back | these children from their mother's love, and _ gave them to the charge of those who thought their education itty carried on by | such means. 'Time passed, and still the quarrel and: the separation continued. By a small ulteration in this same law of ours-- 'this idol made by our hands, thea 'deified: yand worshipped--she was at length permit- ted to sve her boys. But only at stated times, and at certain' hours, and fa the cold- est manner. It was her husband's privilege i t | ! a lower organization, 'she | to deny her all maternal intercourse with | { | { 'her sons, and hé stretched his privilege to the utmost. No touch of pity djssolved the Iron bars of the law, aud no breath of mercy | warmed the breast of the husband and mas- 'ter. Against the decree of the law, what as the protesting cry of nature? A hol- 1 { y its very B gfe FEES PRIA ERS Ty Reel ee ERY BAGS PET hey u- yeaa pont ic, and . low whistling sonnd among the reeds of 2 Sage. the wood of the trembling poplar, and he pre- six oreight days, then dried, afterwards they | are reduced to the finest powder possible by | means ofa cora mill. The powder is then | tuixed with rags whieh serve te prepare the pulp of papery and the ordinary operation of | paper making is proceeded to. All white wood, | such as the poplar, the lime and the willow, are suitable for the purpose; but the diecoverer Cin Ae ite 8 ity ofthe water lié émploved, that of the lit- tle river Dellar, which rans pear the Mal- house. For the first experiment he employed ig J sented specimens of vaper made from it. The Quebec Gazette says that the records saved from the burning of the Perlinmoant House in January last, were consumed utfthe receit fire, ax well as the whole of the furni- ture which had ben repaired and lately mov- ed to some part of the building. The same e Hith- | one, and therefore could not contract with | The deed for which she had | Ahe suggestion of the wife, as women are Where {am are glorious dreamings, Science, genius, art divine, And the great minds whow all honor, Interchange their thoughts with mine: A lew simple hearts are waiting, Longing, wearying for me, far away, where tears are falling, Where [ fain would be ! Wisere i am, all think me happy, or so well I play my part; None can guess, who smile around me, How far distantis my heart--- Far away, in a poor cottage, Listening to the drearv sea, Where the treasures of my life are, Woheve DL fain would be ! A Strange Story, if True. voices charmed away her griefs, and their 'curing her the stipulated five hundred: a hal eke defas oO ter, Capt. Gibson, Jately returned from the young bright eyes. and eager love made her | pounds a year for life. Three years after, } E e di ee 1; f ' ' ' 2 i oe if 4 : i * c ; TS Ag 7 ' 6 rave) } / = forget that she had ever cause for regret her mother died, and the husband inherited | 429% aS les, read 9 paper hefore the Ame ' ' ' t . ) i y . e aah ye fein eS a ee oe bPpeesy yy AQ ery vs : x 4 5 5 or fear, ~~ yen the life interest of his wife's portion from the | 7°" "eographical Society, on the habits o | the ourang-outang, peopling the descrts of those revions, from which the following is an @X{PAGt: : My statement of the extraordinary pecu- liarittes of these apparently semi-human beings has led to the expression of so much curiosity to. know more of them by some and of scepticism as to the iact of their ex- }istence on the partj of others, that 1 have , deemed it due to myself and to the public | curiosity to give some additional facts along ) with all the corroborative evidence that has {fallen under my observation. pce » While at Mintok, Palembang, and Batavia, ft heard*many remarkable stories. of the perhuman strength of the ourang-outang. I will trespass upon your attention by relat- ing one of the most extraordinaay, at the Same tine one of the best attested, which I heard at Batavia: Lieutenant Shoch, of the Dutch East- India army, was oa a march with a small | detachment of trodps and coolies on the southeastern. coast of Bornéo, He had cn- camped, on one oveasion, during the" noon- day heat, on the banks of one of the small tributaries of the Bangarm ssin. The lieu- tenant had with him hisadomestic esiab- lishment, which ineluded his daughier, a playful and interesting little girl of the age of thirteen. One day, while wandering in the jungle, beyond the prescribed' limits of the camp, and. having, from the oppressive heat. loosened her garments, and thrown them oil, almost io nudity, the beauty of her person excited the notice of an ourang- outany, who sprang upon her and carried her off. Fier piercing screams rang through the forest to the ears of her dozing protect- ors, and roused every man in the camp. The swift, bar'e-footed coolies were fore- most in ypursuit; and now, the cry rings in the agonised father's ears that his daughter is devoured by a binatang--again, that an ourapg-outange has carried her off Ile rushes, half-freazied, with the whole com- pany, to the thicket, from whence the screams proceeded, and there, among the topmost limbs of an enormous banyan, the father beholds his daugter, naked, biceding, and struggling in the grasp of a powerful ourang-outang, who held her tightly, yet easily, with one arm, while he sprang lightly from limb to lieb as if wholly univeum- | bered. oh Sendo BA SOS LEI OS It was in vam to think of shooting the monster, so agile was he. 'The Dyak cool- des, knowing the habits of the ourang-outang, and knowing that he will always plunge. into the nearest stream when hard pressed, began a systera of operations to drive him into the water: they set up a great shout, throwing missiles of all kinds, and agitating the underbrush, while some proceeded to uscend. the tree. By the redoubled exer- tions of the whole company, the mens'er was gradually driven towards the water, yet still holding tightly to the poor girl "At lasé the monster and his victioa were seen on, an outstretching limb, overhanging the stream. The coolles, who are among the expertest swimmers in the world, inme- diately lined the banks-----the soldiers contin- ued tive outeries and throwing of missiles, He clasped his prize move tightly, took a survey, of the water and of his upward- gazing enemies, and then dashed into the flood below. He had hardly touched the water ere fifty resolute swimmers plunged in pursuit; as he rises a dozen human arms 'are stretched out towards him,. He is grasped. Others Jay hold upon the insen- sible git The ourang-outang used both arms to defend himself; and, after bicerat- ia ary ie, 'ing the bodies of some of the coolies with his powerful, nervous claws, finally succeed- ed. ia diving beyond the reach of his pur- suers, ~nd im escaping down: the stream, while the child was restored to the arms of her father and nurses, in whose hands she was ultimately restored 10 consciousness, beaith and strength once more. This sa- rage version of the classic story of Plato and Proserpine, is well anthenticated; and the girl, now a grown-up woman, is hwing ai Amboyna, in the Moluccas. Oue day last week, MrsHorton who res ides about three miles west of Oswogo, saw a ascribes a good deel of his success to the qual-fdarge pine tree fal! directly across the track. She -instantly, laid. down: the baby, called her ousband trom dis jwork and they both ran to the railroad, a distance of some hnndred rods taking an axe with them. But the tree was scund, and not less than two feet in, diameter where it crossed the track, the spot being ata short cerve. in the ro ad, and out ai view from any considerable dis- tance, Worse tham all, the time for the 'rin to pass wae close athand.. Probably at are als! ways best' at expedients, Mr. Horton immc- paper also states that. the Government. have 'mediately took of f his red flannel drawers, tore | taken the Old Wesleyan Chapel in Ann Street, togetiier with the house adjoining, in which ta hold th» next session of Parliament, oy 'them in two, and ran, up the road with one leg ? while his wife rao down with the other. a few migpites th In e mail passenger train ap- \ ' agility, audacity, and especially of the su- | 1 , shall be elected by this. convention, which \ t | i { { f | | | institute the \ © NATIONAL vote who p, i tueke such Bye-Laws as arenee . proper vovernment. # proacied at full speed, when it was arrested by Mrs. Horton standing on the track, waving ) bearing upon the plan cy. the leg of the red flanne} drawers on a tnullén | adopted, by the Conventior The following res lutions, ¥ organization Were 1 4nd are therefore stock. The tree was soon cut and rolled off | appended to the Council's. Constitution. ] the track, with the aid of the passengers, who proceeded on their journey; many lives and | gated to select its var limos doubtless having been saved by this / really kind and noble act of Mrs, Horton.--= power to offer a p f different subjects agreed on by WN: Y.. Courier. RaiwRoaAdD ACCIDENT.-- Yesterday after- noon, the rear cars of the express train from the west, by some means were thrown off the | track, when within about five miles of Lon- don. As such things are, for some reason, kept dark by the company's officials along the line, we have notlearnt the particulars, | C sfblaeess cies ; : We i2 Manual Labor School for the education of up to our going to press, last evening. hear, however, that several were killed, and | ° The locomotive and | © a number wounded. tender arrived in town immediately after | the accident, and returned with several me- dical gentlemen to the scene of disaster. Prototype. sgl Speries pepe - Constitution of the National Council. kor the purpose of improving the char- acter, developing the intelligence, maintain- ing the rights and organizing a Union of the | Colored People of the Free States, the Na- tional Convention does hereby ordain and COUNCIL OF PEOPLE." Art. 1. This Council shall consist of two members from each State, represented in this Convention, to be elected by this Con- vention, and two other members from each State to be elected as follows: On the 14th day of November next, and biennially there- alter, there sball be held in each State, a. Poll, at whit cach colored inhabitant may Fos 0, cents as poll-tax, and each State shail elect, at such election, such | delegates to State Legislatures, twenty in number from each State, at large. The election to be beld at such places and under such Conditions as the public meetings in such localities may determine. The mem- ers ofthe National Council in each State, shall receive, canvass, and declare the result of such vote, 'I'he State Council, thuse elect- ed, shall meet on the first Monday in Janu- THY COLORED ary, i354, and elect additional members to | the National Council. in proportion. of one to five thousand of the colored population of such State; and the members of council thus elected, to take office on the sixth day of July next, and all to hold office during two and yrant petitions and he governe Resolved 'Chat the Council shall be dele- ions Committees. "That the Council shall have reminm for prize essays On Council. neil shall hear d by. the Resolved, _ Resolved, That the said Cou rules of legislative bodies, and their decisions shall be final. mission into this Union, sha i t any State applying for ad- Nee e Union all ue an aiegien such terms, as may hereafter be agreed upon. { H } 5 years from that date; at the end of which time another general election by State council shall take place of meibers 'to con- | stitute their successors in office, in the same numbers as above. "he State council of each State shall have full power over the internal concerns of said State. Art. 2. The members of the 'first council shall designate out of the number, a Presi- dent, a Vice-President, Secretary, 'Treasur- j i { \ er, cotresponding Secretary, and: committee | of five on Manual Labor--a committee of five or) Protective Unions-of five on. Basi- ness Relations----of five on Publications. Art. 3. The committee on, Manual Labor School shall procure funds and organize said Schoul in accordance with the plans adopted by this National Convention, wich such modiiicutions as experience er necessity may dictate to them. 'The committee shall immediately under * 'Tue General Committee of the State of ;' and shall constitute the Board of Trustees ot the Manual Labor School, with full power to select a location in the State desiguated, by the National council, to erect buildings, appoint or dismiss instruczers in the literary or mechanical branches. 'Chere shall be a farm attached to the School. Art. 4, 'Lhe committee on Protective Unions shall institute a Protective Union for the purchase and sale of articles of domestic consumption, and shall unite and aid in the formation of branches anxiliary to their own. Art. 3. The committee on Business Rela- taons, shall establish wn office, in which they shall keep a registry of colored mechanics,arti- zans und business men throughout the Union. | They shall keep a registry of all persons will- | ing to employ colored men in business, to 'teach colored boys mechanical trades, liberal and scientific professions, and farming ; ' amd also, a reyistsy of coloréd men and boys seeking employment or instruction. 'hey shaik also report upon any avenues of business or trade which they.deem inviting to colored capital, skill, or labor. 'Their reports and ad- circulation. They shall receive for sale or exhibition, products of the skill and lebor of | colored people. 4\rt.. 6. 'The. committee on Publication shall collect all facts, statistics ancl statements, ali jaws and historical records anti biographies of the colored people, and all books by colored authors.. 'They shall have for the safe keep- ing of these documents, a Library, with a Reeding Rooin and Musenm. 'Fhe committee shall aiso publish replies to any assaulis, wor- incorporate itself us an- academy - Resolved, That in establishing 4 Ril! veh ouncil for our own special improvement, ang ur children in science, literature and me- i, . F i A tes i hanical arts, this Convention do this, not to fee apy 5) build ourselves up as a.distinet and separate clase in this country, but ws a means to & great end, viz: the equality in. political rights, and in' civil and social privileges with the ext of the American people. Se rea hence qed Sintec ty alae ete EEE PLAN OF THE AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. The undersigned, the Committee on Man- ual Labour School, appointed by the National Council of the colored people, in offering a plan for the organization of the school, beg leave to state, Ist. That the location of the school, which is to be within one hundred miles of the town of Irie, Pennsylvania, will be selected as soon as three thousand dollars are paid in; the schoo! building and work-shop will be commenced as soon as tén thousand dollars are paid in; and the school commenced as soon as fifteen thousand dollars are paid in; and that in no case will a contract be made beyond the sum of money actually paid in. The site of the school will be at least two hundred acres of land; one hundred and fifty of which shall for ever be used as'a farm for agricultural instructions © ~ ee 2nd. In accordance with a vote of the Rochester Convention, the teachers are to be selected for, and pupils admitted into, the school without reference to sex or complexion. | 3d. Special provision will be made to make this, from the beginning, an industrial school for females as well as males; a prom- inent principle of conduct will be to aid in providing for the female sex, methods and means of enjoymg an independent and hon- orable livlihood. Freperick Doucass,|--* Joun D. Peck, | Comuiatice Amos G. Beman, | on Manual JOHN JONES, ( Labour J. D. Bonner, | School. J.McCune SMirH, 1. The title shall be "THe AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL." 2. The foundation fund shail be thirty thousand dollars. 3. 'Cwenty thousand dollars shall be in stock of 2000 shares, at ten dollars per share. 4. Ven thousand dollars shall be in dona- tions to be solicited from the friends of the cause. ms 5, 'Che shares shall be payable, ten per cent. at the tire of subscribing, and len per cent. every first day of July, October, Janu- ary and April thereafter, until the whole is paid in. 6. The School shall be organised and conducted entirely by a board of fifteen irus- tees. : 7. Six of these trustees shall be the Com- mittee on Manual Labour School, appoinied by the National Councilof the People of Color; and nine of the trustees shall be elected by the Stockholders when three thousand dollars shall have been paid in by them, (the stockholders) and annually: there- after. Each share of stock shall count as one vo'« at.all such elections. And stock- holder: inay vote by proxy, on allidavit made and acknowledged before a Commissioner of Deeds. a §. Ja organizing the School the following regulat ious shall be strictly enforced : e. Kor every branch of Literature taught; there shail be ome branch of handicrait also tangtt in the Sekoob 6 Huch pupil shail occupy one half his tire svhen at School, in work at some hiandierait, orion the fariny.-"* c. The handicrafts shall be such that their pro- i ducts will be articles saleable tor cash, or nroney's vertisements to be in papers cf the widest | worth, ata niarket within easy aecessitrom the School. The agent, appointed by the Committee | Frederick Douglass, Esq., shall be empow- ered to rece: = donations and take subscrip- tions for stock, giving a receipt for the latter, signed by himself and Rev. Amos G, Beman, thy of note, made upon the chasacter or con-"! & > j dition of the colored People. Art. 7. Hach committee sbedi have abso- lute coutrol over its special depsrtment.; shall inake its ow by-laws, and in case of any va- cancy occurring, shall fill up the same forth- with subject to the confirmation of the coun cil. iach committee shall meet at least once a month or as often as possible ; shall keep a | minute of all its proceedings, uxecutive and financial, and shall submit.a full statement of the same, with the accounts audited, at, every i regular meeting of the Natiorial council. Art. 8 The National council shall mieet at least one in six months, to receive the reports of the committees, and te consider any new plan for the general good, for which it shall have power, at its option, to appoint a new committee, and shail be empowered to receive and appropriate donations for the carrying out of the objects of the same. At all su¢:h meet- ings, eleven members stall constitute a quo- rum. In case any committee neglect or refuse to send in its report, according to article 8th, then the council shall hawe power to enter the bureau, exatnine the books and papers of such | comunittee ; and in case the committee shall cil shall declare their offices vacant, and ap- point others in their stead. : | Art. 9. En all carcs of the meetings of the National Counei, or the committees, the tra- veling expenses (if any) of the members shall ve paid out of the respective funds. maaan : Art, 10, The council shall immediately es- | tablish a bureau inthe place of its meeting : > andthe same rooms shall, as fi far as possi ble,be | used by the several committoes for their vari- | ous purposes. . 'Ihe council at a moderate salary, who will keep a record of their transactions, and prepare a conceused report of the commictees for publication + wand, also, w registry of the friendsof the causa, Art. 11. The expenses of the council s hal be defrayed by the fees of membership of a ab- societies or councils, to be organ © roy ot. Art. 13, All officers holding funds, sha !l | give securitviin double the be in'their hands. This security to be giver! to the three first officers of the council. amount lkealy tur | Art. d4& The council shall have power to shall havea clerk, | the Secretary of the Committee. As soon as, aud as often as the Agent aforesaid shail veceive two hundred and fifty dollars, either in. subscriptions or donations, he shall pay the sasae over to the Treasurer, John Jones, Esq., of Chicago, who shall deposit the same forthwith, in the Bank of America, Chicago, Il.: the Treasurer. aforesaid, as soon a# he shall receive one thousand dollars, and fo: every thousand dollars thereatter, shall give bonds with two sureties to the President and. Secretary of the National Coune:! of Colored People, for double. the amounts aforesaid, or his services, the Agent shall receiye five per cent. on all stock instalments paid in by him, and ten per ceut. on all donations above two hundred. collars paid in by or through him. 10. The members of the Committee on Manual Labor. School shall also be empow- ered to recerve donations for the same; and they shall transmit all said donations to thé Treasurer, by draft, within ten days aiter receiving the same. They shall also be entitled to five per cent. on all such 'donations paid m by hin. 11, The Treasurer shall publish at: least uttee: -once a fortnight a list of all) the donations persist it its refusal or neglect, then the coun- | and subscriptions of stock received by hiin ; and shall transmit to each donor or stock- holder, a copy of the paper, (#rederich Doug: lass' Paper or Aliened American.) which | shall contain the acknowledgment of their cift or subscription. RE. 'THE GOSPEL TRIBU PROSPECTUS, _ The first number of a monthly paper, to. be known as above indicated, is proposed to be pab- 'fished in Toronto within a few months, and not t ; by t member of only one of the committeas they s- | later than the First day of July, 1854..'The work jn size and appearance, to be atleast equal to the | Missionury Record or Christian Observer; and as much superior to either in style and execution as ' the subseripticn list will warrant. ; ised throug 'h- | ut the States. he membership fee shall be. one cent per week, Art. 12. A member of the couneil shall be. greatest possible extent; hose bounds to the exclusion, if possible, of all | . DISTINCTIVE OBJECT: fo and' to cireumscribe _ other characters, without otherwise disturbing the i i Fl i | \ essary fog their? She Seay vy ep Phe prom ; \ Membership ot existing' Churches; til acknow- ledwed. Christian Charade? shall constitute: the oily passport, at any time, and the perfect je sspor. at all times, to every Communion ana C burch worthy of the Christian name; "that the world may believe" in Christ, even as he prayed) GENERAL OBIECTS:, ; 3 ofan of Religions, Mur * < i tal and social { nip If distinguish vement, tinder the of Divine Revelation, submitting every toye atid measure to the testof Gospel Principles, SUPPORTERS! a The distinctive and general objects of the work are such, as to claim tor it the patronage of al) | clatses of men, excepting those wedded to other pre-requisites of Communion and Church-mem, bership, than acknowledged Christian Characters and here it is recorded with great pleasure tha, the encouragements tendered, thus far, are in Strict accordance with the above genera! claims. ORIGIN AND PROGRESS: "his movement has long been conte For twenty years the subscriber has made thesay | distinctive object of the Gosper Tripune his spe. cial study: examining carefully and personal! the denominational aspect of) Religie ws Socie. tier,--their reciprocal bearings, their mutual relitions, and the nature of their combined ins fluence on the ewangelization ofthe world. Lay : erly, his pesitivn as Publisher, of the Scriprugy 7) Maxvuat, bas probably afforded him the best pox. sitle facilities. .or, personally testing the strengih 9 _ his positions, and for the attainment of certaiy important infermation, but little of which he hay previously been able to obtain. All may rest as. sured, however, that no undue advanta e wil} ever be taken'of the frankness§and candor with which Christians of every name, as well as skep. tics of every class, have freely expressed thei, convictions in the presence of{the 'Travelling Co}. af porteur; the capacity in Which the Publisher is still extending his observations th and the neighboring States, CO-LABORERS: ed worth and of well-k literary ability, are already secured in the. severa|" sections of Canada, and in the Stales of the A. -- merican Union; and arrangements are now ip | progress, lo obtain trom living responsible writere in Britain, important assistance in the develupe. ment of the I'nizguna's Mission. Re 8 TERMS AND NOTICES | The Terms are Oue Dollar per An ¢ vaace,--otherwise Two Dollars; itbeing found that one half of the Subscriptions, not pard'in ad.) vance, are worse than lost. Editors-- friendly hee will render assistance by noticing this Prospectus, All parties willing to aid, may at once-commence _ 'soliciting the names of Subscribers. Two books © --the Scripture and Laconic Manuals--fally git, and the Paper one year, will be forwarded to the, -- person who first sends the names of ten Subscri. -- ¥ ' '3 : he suidapee i te 9 Nady Fe % J iB | ; mplated, é NM ih % rough Canada -- ti eerie tp ty Be howny © ii ire meyad gy num in ad. ft : aoe) iN leather binding, or the Paper one year, to every ~ one who sends ten names. Subscriptions aud aij" other commmunicalions for the Paper to be sent). post-paid, marked Money, (if inclosed) and a dressed, Ropert Dick, Box 41!, TORONTO, sermons and Lectures, promotive of the Tr BuNn's object, Will be delivered by the Publisher © foung compatible with his other duties, live country, and nowhere in the CALL FOR een Mes anb Breviirin :--The time has now fully. do something effectively, and use those, means» adequate lo the attainmentor the great and Jong -- country. ot cutive esuality, of unrestricted rights, composing in fact, an acknowledged wecessary part of the ruling element ot society in which we live. The. policy: necessary, to the preservation of this elemen © ' must be 72 our favor, it ever we expect die enjoy-_ anywhere. Hemisphere, are requested to meet in CLEVE. -- LAND, OHIO; on TUESDAY, the 24th DAY -- CONVENTION, then and there, to consider and-- decid emigration from the Uniied States, ah te No-person will be admitted to a seat im the | Asia, Africa, or Europe--as our object and de--- Canadas. 'This, resuriction' has no reference to. personal preference, or individual enterprise ; but to the great question of national claims to come before the Ooggéntion. fi 19 Igri ny, Ail persons coming to the Convention must bring credentials properly authenticated, or bring verbal assurance to the Committee on Creden- tials+-appointed for,the purpose--of their. deli ; to the incasures and objects set forth in this Call as' the Convention is specifically by and for the. and ne opposition to them will be entertained. --__ - The guestion is not whether our condition can - nade worse. It not, then, there is no part of the . wide-spread universe, where our social and poli- tical condition are not better than here in our nas 2 World as het proscribed on account of color, : Weare thiends, too, and shoulder to shoulder by our brethren, and all our nd ade. | destied cnd-----to do something to meet the actual 'demands ot the present and prospective necessis.) tics of the rising geueration of our people in this, 'T'y do this, We must occupy @ position ; ment, freedom, sovereignty, and equality of rights _ For this purpose, and to this end," then, all colored: menin Javor of emigration out e upoiithe great and iimportant subject of © AvP § el bers; and one of either of the books, in substantial throughout the Province, as frequently as shall:be |. (Signed) _ ROBERT DICK, | Toronto, March 25th, 1854. BA des. -- ~ a ~ , lan ae f Halaes A F i ATIORAL EMIGRATION CONVENTION a COLORED MEN) fe To be. held. in Cléveland, Ohio, on the 24th, and 26th of August, 1854. 25th i" come, when we, as an oppressed people, should -- a £ gee 4 s 4 of the United States, and opposed to the American. | Colonization sheme of leaving the Western _ of AUGUST,. 1854, in a great NATIONAL | ib § Convention, who would intruduce the subject of einigration.to the Eastern Hemisphere--eitner to _ A termination is to consider our claims to the West Indies, Central and South America, and the » friends, of emigration, and NONE OTHERS-- be bettered by emigration, but whether it can be, Kae ita Fs ever will, Stand'! SAG: the bettering of our condition in this country, and-- surrender no rights but with oar last breath ; t as the subject of emigration is of vital importance, and has ever been shunned by all delegated as- » enquiry to, and the carrying uut of' these measures, when this can bedone, to our entire advantage) majority of which are peupled by our brethren, or those identified with usin race, and what is more, destiny, on this Contiaent--ali stand with open, common 'cause, amt share one common fate on the contiven!. AN ogi The Convention will meet without jail, at the time fixed for assembling, as none but.those fa. Vorable to emigration are admissable ; therefore. no other gathering may prevent it. 'Phe number of delegates will not be restricted--except in the town where the Coruvertion may be' held--and there the number will be decided hy the Conven- tion when assembled, thai they inay not too far ex+ ceed the other delegations. df tad behead The time and p.ace tixed fur holding the Con- | vention are ample ; aflording sutticient time, and - a leisure season generally----and as Cleveland is _ now the centre of all directions--a good and fa- vorable opportunity to all who desire to attend.-- -- Theretore, it may reasonably be the greatest _ gathering of the colored people ever before assem ~ bled in a Convention in the United States. Colonizationists are' advised, that mo favers> | scheme, as) we 'have no xyrapathy with enemies of our race. ide All colored men, East, West, North end South, favorable to the measures xct forth inthis, Gall will send im their names "Cpost-paidyto MY R Delany, or Rev. Wim. Webb, Pitsburgh, Pa., that there way be arranged and attached to the Call, five names from each State, oN We inust make an isste, create dnevent, and' establish a position for ourselves. Vy is glorious" tothink off bat far incre glorigdto cerry ont | he wor Wans Webbs stale os "rac, ia MR. Delany, yh Se et thes) enlarge the limits of Communion and} ~Church-Membership, ameng Ciristiens, to the. , Tatelleet LEA Samuel Bruce, . | aa - J.J. Gould Bias, M. 2...) ae Pon Rev, M. M. Clark, i bog | A. Mo Summer, |. | Phy ere Johnson Woodlin, 5 oe > James M,.Whitteld, 4 oH John N. Stk ties quel Bie Ot gilod | i Stanley Matthews... hg id ie rae ; ORAM Weal bes ae yeas elena atil H.-G. Webh, 'Thos. A. Brown, John Jones, L. he dawkins, Samuel Venerable John Williams, A. E. Hawkins, oS. W.. Sanders, Jefferson | Miiler, Rev A, R. Green, Pu. L. Jackson, J. H. Maloney, G. Harper, Jonathan Green, sasthak EL. A. Jackson, eS ee ao BR: Banker, "= ae a PERS v yy Jey Pilisiiirek, Pa, i * Nt ne ee . fae . . : ot Pe | name of suilering humanity to come--to make will besshown to them or their expatriating) friends in all good measures adopted by them for. '. semblages of our people as heretofore tet, We) cannot longer delay, and will not be further' -- baffled ; and deny the right of ovr most sanguine | friend or dearest brother, to prevent an intelligent" as We propose to show in Convention--as the West Indies, Central and South America--the | ry arms and yearning hearts, imporiuning ts in the <a ry | | " eS a

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