ie ses _ Slavery. 'Why come those sounds of mourning _ Far o'er'the distant seas ? _ Those piercing notes of anguish Borne wildly on the breeze ? Why are those groans ascending Se __ From many a southern clime, - = The Ga of love beseeching, ete 'To avenge their wrong and crime ? _ AB! 'tis the wretched Slave, that 'neath, - The tyrants galling yoke, : Upon the heads of brutal men, _ Such curses doth invoke. _ But men alone in outward form, | Souls blackened, died in sin, _ With demon passion seeking -- The blood of fellow-men. -- Oe. = pegs ec With fiend-like fury binding, nd frail and suffering ones, hellish chains of torture, hen smiling at their moans. Rending, regardless, overy That to their souls is dear, aching their dark minds only, Their master's lash to fear. | t, as some worldly merchandize, The God that formed the owners soul, -- Vis sold in human trade. -- 'Thou dreadful eurse ; oh, slavery ! When will thy influence cease, -- - And in those sun regions reign _ God's universal peace ? - : ry ine Soug Of the Telegraph. . So pehip hy. 0: And clouds were tossing about the sky, _ Journeying over some lone morass, oo ee ee ee eS The song of the Telegraph to hear ;-- Asad and most unearthly strain, -- _. Asharp, low moan, like a soul in pain, © | Rising and falling fitfullyy<<..-- = Like the long wave after a storm at sea. . = = ze thyme.5. Wine eRe DRESS wee had thinking much and wondering long, _ Lo, the golden age is come! - ___ Light has broken o'er the world ! Let the cannon mouth be dumb, _. Let the battle-flag be furled ! God has sent me to the nations, ee _ To unite them, that each man --S ~ Of all future generations. -- a May be cosmopolitan. I, the lightning--the destroyer-- I, the untameable, the proud-- To be harnessed to the wire, ~ T have left my thunder-cloud. _ Harbinger of peace and union, -- =~... Messenger'no more 'of wrath, fo establish sweet communion. Down to earth I take my path. ee With the olive branch extended, -___ Swift T go to every shore; ~ Soon all nations shall be blended 'They shall! learn of war no more. - Peace and progress be forever _ Printed on the hearts of mon, So that future time may never -- See the battle-field again. ~ _ Soon beneath the deep Atlantic, _ _» Far below the swelling wave, _ Will my still small voice be passing" Yo the land that owns a slave. _ Shame, oh shame, that starrv banner ot St yet the stripe disown poe hat great name be degraded h the lash, the chain, the groan ! ye not the world's free traders, Ye yourselves the brave, the free? ise--annihilate this horror, This foul stain of slavery ! _ 'The Assyrian is forgotten, And the old race of the Nile, _ And we stand amid their ruins, -- _ Gazing on-each wondrous pile ; _. And-the glory is departed -- __ From the bright Hellenian shore, _ And though Rome is still in being. Yet the Roman is no more. But Britannia stands forever, Throned upon the eternal seas, Nailed to every mast her banner Floats foreyer on the breeze ; And we laugh at our old quarrels, ____All our foolish deeds of yore ;_ We are older grown and wiser, --S _ We are children now no more. Ce Let America with England _ Hand in hand uphold the " right," Se. their path the path of progress a eirfame shall know no blight ; the noblest nations -- : hathever blest, --__ and and her children, lands of the west ! 'snglish Paper. etsasisiam, A Recent Tour, ~ On the llth of January last we starts _ frontier districts, ind the charge of Elders oe 'St. Catheri hat the servants, landlord, and all ere both polite and kind, the invitation of 'the Rey. Hiram Wil- rent Elder Ryerson, of the Bap- After Mr. R.. had finished his 'y able discourse, we were invited to say a words, which we consented to do, thou oh rdness, in contrast with our pre- t have been apparent to all. th, Brother 'Wilson introduced to Hon. Mr. H. Meritt, His Worship the 1, Mr, Adams, ntlemen of prominen ce. , inthe Town Hall, eee Thavo heard men say that when winds were Where the endless wires of the Telegraph They have stood, and listened and trembled "Lh 'e thought and wondered many a time, at the wire would say could it speak in _ At length have found the Telegraph's song : oe upon a tour of some six weeks time, and _ some 665 miles travel, in the western and atk Hamilton, on 'the 11th of January, a ing-in progress, 'time, retire from busin Hawkins and] of 1, Brown, aided by Elder Garrett. This was n the colored Baptist Church. Arriving at nm the 12th, we were a little say anxious, to see for ourself tate of negro hate in that town. at the St. Catherines Ho use, guest we had the pleasure to be, | d a temperance meeting, addressed | of the Custom House, | vote, to speak again the next evening. The meeting of the 14th was also a large one, and, at the close, a vote of thanks was offered is by Rey. Mr. Ryerson, and carried unani- mously. In company with our excellent friend, Wil , we went to Niagara on the Barr, Sen., Esq. a large assemblage was ready to hear us at the appointed hour. Mr. Barr oceupied the chair with great ability. A | most encouraging meeting was that at Nia- }gara. Returning the same night to St. Ca- | therines, we accepted the invitation of Rey. Mr. Cooke, of the American Presbyterian Church, to preach for him. We spoke, the same day, in the two colored churches, Rey. Mr. Helmseley's and the Baptist. We must confess that we found things | better in St. Catherines than we had feared. so strong, so prevalent nor so unprovoked as we had thought, from what we had heard. Personally, we were treated by persons of all classes as well as we ever were, any where. Our people in St. Catherine's are not the poorest in the town, by a good deal. Many of them own little houses and lots, and enjoy a comfortable maintenance. Mr. J. W. Lind- {sey and Mr. James Harris live as comfort- _| ably as any one needs to live. Each of them has a good team, and they are making as rapid progress, in worldly weal, as the ma- jority of their white fellow-subjects. As much may be said of Mr. J. W. Taylor and others, on whom we did not have time to call. The "Negro Village," of which so much has been said, we expected to find in aswamp or a mud-hole. But the settlement, if such it may be called, is on a street run- one hundred rods of it. The site is good, the property valuable, the part of the town | respectable, and whites live in the most im- mediate vicinity of it. Some foolish actions of our people have given occasion for some prejudice, and there aretoo many who would rather cringe than contend for what law and right entitle them to. It is true too, that there are some natives of the U. S. there, who act the part of fools and knaves towards our people. Having aided in trampling {negroes under foot at home, they seek to engraft. their pro-slavery negro: hate upon British stock. It is also true, that they now -- [and then find a Canadian soft sapling that will bear innoculation; but we are quite con- vinced that when our people shall have done all they ought to do, in St. Catherines, to- wards their own elevation, the whites will be right enough. We had a most tedious, comfortless jour- ney from St. Catherines to London. Our business at the latter place was, to attend the anniversary of the London Anti-Slavery Society. But all the anniversaries had been postponed a week later than we had sup- posed, and that week we must wait. In the meanti ine we held meetings in the vicinity. Bible, Tract, Sabbath Schools, Temperance, and Anti-Slavery Societies. How unlike Yankeedom ! Besides, the same gentlemen who are officers of the other benevolent so- cieties, are officers of this. Again, how un- like Yankeedom. Then again, the Anti- Slavery Anniversary was the most nu- merously attended, and the best patronized of all the anniversaries. Captain Gardner, of the Royal Artillery was on the platform, and he seconded one of the resolutions. The Captain sat side by side with A. B. Jones, Esq., a gentleman as black as ourself. It did look like an European meeting, that anniversary. At the same meeting it was announced, that William Horton, Esq., would address a meeting the following Monday evening, and that, in the afternoon of that day, the agent of the Canadian Anti-Slavery Society would address a meeting of ladies, preparatory to the formation of a Female Anti-Slavery So- ciety. Both meetings were largely attended, and Mr, Horton's debut was most triumphant. ) A most valuable accession to our cause is Mr. H. On the evening of Feb. Ist, we went to Soho, in company with "my excellent host and hostess, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Jones and a few other friends. The meeting was one of the best country meetings we ever attend- ed. Rey. Mr. Turner was in the chair. The people in Soho are doing as well as "ears of Middlesex generally. In Londo their neighbors. blacks are as well off as 3. Jones could, at any "live in tne style of an amateur farmer, and sroperty. in in town would yield an income would support his family. A. T. Jones is protsgs. ing as fast as any other young druggist in that town. Nelson Moss is doing as good a business, as a cordwainer, as any man need do. Moses B. Smith and Henry Garratt, get on, as bakers, equally as well as others | who follow the same business. Energy and. enterprize are all that our people need jn London to enrich themselves. Those now doing well are the artificers of their own for- tunes, so might others be if they choose. We know of no town where a black mechanic or artizan could do better than in London. 'He would find some of the meaner sort of whites there, but they are ss near akin to "nobody as you can imagine. Folks who are folks, in London, are as free from negro hate as any people we eyer saw. We went from London, at the invitation of the Rev. Mr. Dawson, to Chatham, thence e there is a constant increase of the numbers j of our people, and amony ther 15th, where, through the activity of William" The prejudice against our people, was not ning parallel with the main street, and within Bis cacseg OT Ae The London anuivcr sas earn Cotes the best mechanics and artizans in the county of Kent. J. M. Jones stands head and shoulders above any gun-smith west of Lon- don. Thomas Bell, as a builder; J. L. Brown, asa mason; R, Charrily, as a cordwainer; W. Moore, as a chandler; Mr. Smith, as a Dlacksmith, need fear comparison nor com- petition with any of the same crafts in that part of the Province. Then we sce more buildings, new ones, too, than we saw last September, owned by black men. We asked one old man, who ran away from slavery a few years since, what he could get for his He said he had been offered £300; he confessed that it cost him but £30. The advance in the price of property was no greater in that, than in several other instances, in the same town. We spoke property ? brave blacks of Chatham stand by the cause. Buxton, in more points than one, is the model settlement, not only of the colored people, but of Canada. There are 120 families there, and almost every. family is settled on Jand in their own possession. In clearing, building and improving, most com- mendable progress is being made by them. Generally they came in- poor,--they are making their way to independence with zeal and perseverence. They beg no old clothes from the States, they receive none begged by others professedly for Canadians. They lately held a bazaar to raise money to aid They have been there but three years, and they are doing all that any people could do, in the sametime. But the efforts of those settlers to educate them- selves and their children are most praise- In the day-school .you find both children and adults, in some instances, pa- rents and children, earnestly intent upon the acquisition of knowledge. The evening school is attended by parties who walk miles through the forest by torch-light,--but they are determined; they have counted the cost, and they will rest nothing. short of what they desire. In morals the settlement has no superior. There is not a drunkard in' the settlement,--and, if any habitual drink- ing, they keep it to themselves. No person sells--no person is allowed to sell--the ac- cursed stuff The Maine Law is in full force in Buxton. We spoke. twice in Bux- ton, preaching, on Sunday, for Rev. Mr. King, and speaking in a public meeting, Mr. Vest in the chair. The day is not far dis- tant when that settlement will contain 1000 inhabitants, and when the land for wiiich they pay 12s. 6d. per acre, will be worth £6 per acre. : their own poor. worthy. But for our illness we should have gone to Dresden, but must defer our visit thither till some future day. Our tour satisfied us abundantly that the colored people of Ca- nada are progressing more rapidly than ong people in the States tbe tne tiberty" S| joyed acre makes different men of those once crushed and dispirited in the land of chains,--that along with the other poor classes who come here, and improve them- selves. in wealth and status, the black people will also arise, In some cases, very rapidly, but generally slowly, though surely,--that the day is not far distant when we shall put toshame the selfish, systematic charity seekers who go to the States, and some of them to the. South, to beg, partly for fugitives, but chiefly for their own pockets,--that more money has been begged, professedly in be- half of Canadian Blacks, than said blacks ever did, or ever will receive, by a thousand: fold,--that unless persons going to the States, begging for us, are the accredited agents of some duly organized society, with honest, unselfish men at its head, our friends should hold them at arm's length,--that what the recently arrived refugee most needs, is not land-buying societies, not old clothes, not any substitute for labor, but stimulation to self-development. From the Voice of the Fugitive. PENNSYLVANIA 'REEMAN.--We take great delight in all our anti-slavery exchanges. From the noble cause they labor in, their high moral tone, and the general impartiality, with which all questions are treated and discussed in their columns, they are the beacon lights of the American press. From them we receive what little light we possess to guide us on our way. But we are now compelied to notice an exception to this general rule, by the conduet of the Pa. Freeman in relation to the Refugees' Home Socicty.: It has been warped on the side of a mischevious set of factionists, and calumniators, to retail in its columns, their disgraceful slang; and then it has sprung the hammer, (if we may use this expression) in excluding the defence of those who have been vilely assailed. The Freeman com- letter of an unprincipled calumniator, as a worse than all it has suppressed a letter from the Rev. C. C. Foote in reply to its unwor- thy strietures, whilst it gives place to the 'to Buxton. In these two places our peop'e | proceedings of a trifling meeting held by the are making rapid progress. In Chatham | Satellites of this prime mischief maker, in g Westchester Pa. where the same sentiments : were re-echoed, that were uttered by their are some of | prototype here. But we have from time to I menced by publishing some resolutions of a turbulent caucus of ignorant men, led on by designing individual whose duplicity is suf- "at to prove a genealogical descent from nt that beguiled mother Eve, in the aden, ahd after publishing them e rather non-committal re- dup a letter addressed rivate individual in garden o indulged in marks. It then by S. R. Ward to Philadelphia--a letter ¢ ginine mis-state- ments about the Governm@s« ands in this township--and published that [ts world at the same time taking its s the side of the letter. The Rev. C. C. For wrote a reply to the letter of S. R. Ward, which the Freeman published, but it wag so determined to throw its weight against the impartial consideration that its readers might bestow on the merits of the question between Ward and Foote, that it arranged numercial annotations on Foote's letter commenting against it the whole way, and to cap the climax introduced a dirty extract, from the "trustworthy" setéler of the question. But twice in Chatham, and most nobly did the nation like your impudenee to compare your. ings here for the information of our Anti- slavery friends abroad, and there is no ex- cuse for a plea of having been deceived, to be hereafter put in by any one, and we shall hold to a strict account, at the bar of huma- nity, those who oppose one of the greatest benevolent movements of the age, for every thought, word and deed, they have given publicity to against it. S. R. Ward unfor- tunately wandered from his orbit when he raised his yoice against that Soaiety, like the myghty Webster did when he declaimed against the higher law. We do not believe this fall would have happened to him how- ever, if he had not been prevailed upon by evil counsel, spoken by a syren voice, like father Adam was by a similar influence when he fell. Ah yes! it was a fatal stroke to his Judgment, the three wecks preceeding the Annual Meeting of the Refugees' Home So- ciety, that he was in this vicinity enjoying the company of one whose whole conversa- tion then was opposition to the Refugees' Home Society {(¢" Because THE socmTy WOULD NOT GIVE LAND To FREE BORN COLORED PEOPLE, and because one af the editers of this paper against whom she has a personal pique, is an officer in said society. By raising a prejudiced party against that society, and exciting a prejudice against the 'Voice,' it is hoped by those interested, that sufficient interest will be created, to establish a rival paper, of which we have understood Mr. Ward has already signified his willingness to act as editor, and for which efforts are making to eall on the friends ofthe slave in the States for sup- port. We do not object- te the establish- ment of @ rival paper, by citing these facts we are only trotting out to the light of day the underhanded measures by which it is sought to be effected. And we are really surprised that the Freeman--a paper col- leagued with the inpartial Garrison, is found hand in glove with such mean company after being thoroughly advised of the same. We are compeiléd to think that an un- worthy motive--has prompted it thus to set- tle on opposition to the Refugees' Home So- ciety and thereby endeavor to impede bro- and Turvy." poor week. all. must say. out the corn ? land. St UU now conclude this delicate subject fecling that we have done a just though mournful duty, in recalling those- unpleasant recollec- Christianity. 1ONS, Mrs. America answers Muwrs. Bng= land. The Duchess of Sutherland, it is known, with a potent wave of her hand, gathered together, in Stafford House, ladies of birth and gentlemen of station; and, there assem- bled, the Ladies discussed and agreed upon an "affectionate and Christian address to theirsisters of the United States of America," a persuasive appeal to their sympathies and affections to vindicate the domestic power of women, and so to break the chains of the American slave. American sisters were conjured by English sisters assembled in loving sisterhood in' Stafford Palace, to gently wipe out the accursed and cursing blot of slavery defiling their homes, and to charm away the ulcer eating into their social state. Well, sisters of America have an- swered sistars of Stafford House, and how ? Why, as might have been expected: with a "marry come up," and "it's like your impu- dence," style and air. The document how: ever, is not wholly feminine: half-scolding, half-satirical, it wants the trae shrillness of the female organ. _It would be 9 versie pis gO v | Sanmffinent to the sex to believe the answer the pure response of woman. To be sure, it smacks somewhat of Lucy Lockit, pro- voked by the self-asserting virtue and con- jugal truth of Polly Peachum. Why, how now, Madame Flirt ! If you thus must chatter, And are for flinging dirt, Let's try who best can spatter ;. Madam Flirt ! Now as Lucy Locket--on special occa- sions, has been played by a man; so, assum- ing the feminine guise, Jonathan answers for his sisters. The Zacy may wear the mob eap, tucked up gown, and black mittens; but we see the broad bold face of Paul Bed- ford staring from the muslin; and cannot mistake the masculine stride that distends the petticoats. No matter. Let us assume that they are our sisters of the United States who make answer to Christian sisters of England. They not. time fully exposed those disgraceful proceed-| them. Well, Madam, when you have taker.- your costermongers to church, and, perhaps, in your brimming benevolence, have added to every couple a leg of mutton wedding-din- ner,--then tell me to make flesh of one flesh, and bone of one bone, of. my black Topsy Taking breath, Mrs. America next. rolls her eyes towards Glasgow. Scotch sisters: there are 60,000. of them, worn and starved in factories, and at needle-work, on seven or éight shillings a Perhaps, Madam, you never heard of cur Lowell factory girls: although they wrote a book that bas circulated by thousands in your own country, Madam ? Crystal Palace, if you will send a Glasgow factory girl, in all her gaunt, grim penury, we shall be happy to send a Lowell factory girl, in her silk gown, with her parasol and "And, now, Mrs. England, I shall say no more--not another word. But thes I I do ask you, as a woman and a sister, a wife and a mother, to bestir yourself in your own land. You are surrounded by And though you may fling money into the church-plate, especially when a bishop, a ten thousand pounder in the House of Lords, and a peer to boot in House of Lords, holds forth--although you may subscribe to the 'Ark of Flags' lying- in-hospital, and twenty other charitable in- stitutions, where is your charity of daily life? eee Do-you tot "pass" mong your tower classes, tenes a bill against M'Crery and South shall keep them gagged at home your yeriest poor and wretched, as' though they were leprous--blotched with disease? Things of a lower kind drudge, even as oxen were worked to tread Look at home, Mrs. Eng- Go down upon you knees; pray God to make a kind, gentle, loving, Christian woman of you----I don't mean the Christi- anity that goes regularly to Church, with a footman of six fect two in his silk stockings, ther Foote's progress in its vicinity. We carrying the gold-clasped ' Service" but an active, vital, household Christianity. Nota seventh-day Christianity, but a seven days Do all this, Mrs. England, Yes, come, and miserable wretches, animals. made. to and then pay me a visit. bring your cretchet with you; and I shall be very happy to take you over my plan- tations, my farm, my house,--and more than that, to take your sisterly advice in the dis- posal of my niggers. And with a short curtsey, and an icy smile, that would blight a bed of snowdrops, Mrs. America takes leave of Mrs. England. There can be no doubt that there is much truth in what Mrs. America is made to speak. But the moral destitution, the moral black- ness of a thousand English outcasts, do not make five hundred free negroes of so many slaves. Very true isit that we have wretched, : ; wo-begone children in alleys; that we have | /v7ore as they would go if required to draw "illicit" costermongers; that our needle- women have starved, or, at times, anticipated death by a plunge from Waterloo-bridge; that there has been grinding misery in fac- tories: misery unceasing, remorseless as the machinery once set at work. But. all this evil--ail this degrading, crushing woe-- mocking, as with the mockery ofa devil, our professions as a Chiistian people--all this is as nothing to the all-blighting curse and all-encompassing horror of slavery ! . (is something still left--some drop of com- fort, some ray Of Tenta bitterness--this darkness where slavery is We may not snatch one of these alley children from the dirt, and sell it like a young hog; we may not separate frail costermonger Joe from his frail companion Sal. Sal may have a child at her breast, and one or two at what they call a home: yet Joe and Sal are safe from the slave-buyer, and may love on, and quarrel on, and their 'young barbarians " may still dispute with the pigs on the dust-heap--no human flesh- dealer daring to east his blood-bargaining eyes upon them. 7Zhis is something. this something--no small thing, surely, in this human life of ours, whether passed on Stafford velvet pile, or stiflingly breathed in Slush Lane; this something is still the ray of God's own light and justice, however dark, and foul, and wo-begone the place it penetrates Lloyd's Newspaper. Good morning."'-- more to impair the efficiency of the Fugitive Slave Law, than would have been- done, if. a gang of fifty "Jerries" had marched up State street, in broad daylight, on their un- molested road to Canada. : There are enactments that defeat their own ends. Outraging men's natural sense of " Look at your | justice so grossly that every attempt to exe- cute them only inflames popular passion, and raises up enemies against them; they sooner or later make themselves dead letters" in the law. They may be put upon the| 'statute book by force, and kept there by force, but the disgrace to its pages. becomes the only one they are capable of inflicting. Such bids fair to be the fate ofthe Act, of Congress of Sept. 12th, 1850,--Albany Evening Journal. that its trials of the "Rescuers have done To the new ane Kidnappers Indicted. | We find the following paragraph in the Delaware County Republican, of Saturday last, and hope it is true, though we have not seen thenews in any other paper. Perhaps, however it was contained in the West Ches- ter papers of the previous week, which, ow- ing to our recent illness, did not come under our eye. The hit at the Governor will be understood by those who have heard the private history of his agency in the attempt- ed abduction of Richard Neal. -- __The Grand Jury of Chester County, last | Meritt, of Elkton, Maryland, for kidnapping | Rachel Parker. If Governor Bigler should refuse to require them to be given up for trial, we hope some one will make the ap- plication when he is at a social party--as was the case when he granted the requsition for Richard Neal--and that he will so far for- get himself, as to order his Deputy Secretary to issue the writ. e We shall now see whether Governor Big- ler will dare to perform the duty proscribed for him by the laws of the State, or whether he will disregard the action of the grand | jury and the kidnappers to repeat the crime with impunity whenever it may suit their convenience or inclination so to do.-- Penn- sylvania Freeman. Uncle Tom on his Travels (from the New York Tribune.) : Europe has achieved the luxury of a new sensation in the reception and digestion of Mrs. Stowe's great work. Our militia gene- rals on professional tours of observation among the fortresses of Flanders and on the lines of the Adige and Mincio areas much perplexed and annoyed by the Uncle Tom lines of circumvallation or distinguish a lu- nette from an escarpment. Even our Di- plomacy, aghast at the rushing, swelling flood of Uncle Tomism which is now sweeping over the Continent, writes home indignant. re- monstrances against Americans, dise'racing their country by telling any but the other sort of truth about it, and sorrowfully admits that the counterblasts to Uncle Tom, so cla- borately puffed in our Cotton journals, make no more impression on the Christian senti- ment of the Old World than would a popgun broadside on the walls of Gibraltar. Even the labored reskae-of sundry ayiiads of Amo! rican ladies to the Stafford House Appeal | are notoriously felt not to have touched the right spot, whence the necessity realized for perpetually renewing and multiplying them. Unless Mrs. Julia Gardiner Tyler, or some equally ambitious imitator, shall hereafter contrive to outdo all that has yet been done, the verdict of Europe will be all but unani- mous that silence would have served the cause of American Slavery better than any speech elicted by the Duchess's memorial: Meantime, Uncle Tom shines in every feuilleton, rests on every center-table, and faces the foot-lights of every stage: The des- pots and feudal robbers are soothed and grati- fied by the contemplation of a form of injus- tice and 'oppression more flagrant and shame- less than theirown. The owvriers and gam- ins of Paris, chafing under the sense of their own enslavement and degradation, crowd the There Poor And reply by satire. Puckering their mouths, and with a prolonged, laborious, courtsey, they begin by politely begging their Eng- lish sisters to reform their husbands and brothers; wild, reckless unscrupulous dogs, who carry fire and murder into Southern Africa, to Southern Asia, and the Southern Seas. Yes: English sisters- ought to wind their arms about the creatures' necks---detain them from war--snatch their muskets from their grasp, and, with the teapot or anything at hand, deluge their ball-cartridges! Sisters in America will not speak to sis- ters in England of the opium war in China; or of the horrors of Ireland... No: with a truly feminine self-denial they swallow their indignation; put down the rising heart with a strong hand, and proceed with the cata- logue. Sisters in America are so sisterly towards sisters of Stafford House! American sisters next assured their Eng- lish kindred that their land is "filled with slaves--slaves to ignorance, slaves to penury, and slaves to vice." Mrs. America plunges boldly up a London alley, and drags to the light a wretched tatterdemalion child. "Look at it!" she cries to Mrs. England. "Can it read? Can it write? How does it live? Why, like a wild beast in a hole--thorgh not half so sweet. You ought to be ashamed of yourself to own sucha child! Pah! Look at its rags--look at its head--look at its feet--look at its hideous little face, with want, and cunning, and ignorance, all staring from its eyes--its young wolf's eyes! And you, Mr. England, with thousands of such children, you--but I won't be in a passion, certainly not--you to talk of my black slaves --property as carefully looked after and as cleanly kept as your mahogany tables-- every bit! I'll keep my temper, but its tav- quitted. adjourned: white vermin of children--your Jack Shep- wards of six, eight, ten years old, to my fat, glossy, comfortable little Sambos, black as mai ble mad every bit as polished." And thers Irs, America--wiping her fin- gers from the Sagsequence of late contact, and, with a shiver disgust, giving her petticoats a shake--tl&aghe looks abroad in the streets, and sees, on™s authority of Henry Mayhew, whom Mrs. BY sland " will 'not venture to question," no less that --- 000 costermongers, men and women; and "wot one-tenth of those who are coupled, married. " No." says Mrs. America, " the lawfal wed- pag ding ring, that bit of magic, holy gold, which We in tion them neither gives, as you say, 'the sanctity of marriage | to commence with all its joys, rights and obligations'-- | are. The accuse that bit-of gold is unknown-to nine-tenths of | even the Goyernmenaas HL one arn Trials at Albany. : Enoch Reed, (colored) tried for resistance of process, under an act of 1790. ed, not sentenced, Williain H. Salmon, trie of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. Ac d for 'resistance Tra A. Cobb. Ditto. Jury disagreed. John B. Bringham.- Ditto. Such is a brief simmary of the action ta- ken by the United States Court, during the last three weeks, at the City Hall. dozen or so persons stood aceused at the beginning of the term. Three whitemén have been acquitted or left unpunished for the rescue of Jerry, and one black man convict- ed of something else. And the Court stands It must have been sad employment for those who honestly believe that the har- mony of our states depends upon the strin- gent application of this Law, to stand up in the Court-Room and watch the proceedings there, and it must be a still sadder employ- ment to count up their results. eas Look at the Counsel for the Government, wearied out, beaten in every case, dispirited, and going home--knowing that they have spent their best energies and their most: as- tute technicalities all fo rio puirpose--going home without even the satisfaction of know- ing that they have added a straw's weight to their legal reputation--and knowing that their welcome there will be the rejoicing of their neighbors over their defeat. Look at the Defence, ill concealing, or not caring to conceal, their belief that they have triumphed over Court and Counsel, Judge and jurisprudence. Look at the -prisoners, glorying in their misdeeds, anxious not so much for their acquittal as for trial, striving for the notoriety of an indictment, as if it were an honor to have broken the Laws of the United States and a civie reward to be sentenced by one of the Courts. the audience, crowding into the confined Court Room, involuntarily exulting weak points found in the supposed impree- nable Enactment, and every one carrying home with him aJesson in Federal Law. _Look at these things and calculate the amount of "indemnity for the past and se curity for the future" gained by the " peeu Kar institution" during its three weeks cam- em, but to state them as they knew before, and now began to discover, theatres to a marvel at the spectacle of a man bidding at a slave auction for his own wife | or daughter against the coarse and tipsy ruf- fian who has fixed lecherous eyes upon her, and to whose unbridled will the law of the land inéxorably consigns her in case he bids a dollar more for her than will (or can). be given by the competitor who has been mov- ed by the husband's woe to bid in his behalf, "Tf this is Democracy," says gamins du- biously, "the despotism of our head burglar is not so bad after all; if this is Republican purity, our Emperor's lewd and shameless Court is relatively decent. Foul as it is, it has never yet resorted to legal constraint or ; oughtright violence in pursuit of licentions gratification." : acs There can be no doubt that merely the American ame but the cause of Human Freedom has temporarily suffered in Europe by the exposures of Mrs, Stowe's book. If it were understood there that our most fana:. tically slave-holding State (South Carolina) was likewise the most unanimously and jn- tensely, " Demioeratic;' according to our blinding party designations, the marvel and- the revulsion might. be still greater. But this "sickness is not unto death." The free- dom of investigation and discussion which true Democracy affirms but whicli Slavery systematically subverts, will yet dissolve the monstrous fabric of injustice and inevitable vice wheretipon 'our Southern brethren'. in- sist on reposing. In spite of Gag-laws and Cotton prescription, in spite of our drugged Pulpit, fettered Press and debauched Politics, Slavery shall yet silently melt away in the. sunshine of Christian truth and Republican. principle, and ours become in reality, what it now isin name, a Nation of Freemen. Meantime, the devices for counteracting the untoward effect of Uncle Tom in Euro- pean conceptions of Americans are alike nu- nerous and futile. The latest that has at- tracted our notice orginates with with a Vir- ginian, "ardent [for office] asa Southern sun can make him," who particularly sug- gests that President Pierce should fill all the Foreign Embassies of any consequence with | Southerners, to enable them to counteract officially and efliciently, the baleful influence | Convict- Ditto. Some Look at Over of Mrs. Stowe 's work. | Wedo not feel sure that this prescription, if administered, would prove efficacious, Punch, we remember, in the time of the Po- | tato rot, when Prince Albert distributed gra- tuitously among the poor, a pamphlet show-: ing how the disease might be resisted, if not. wholly counteracted, suggested that, in view. to deplore nor | tify at the South in any ease Where Whitag } great way towards removing the i mpreasion- | produced by Mr. Stowe's books: "tse : ,tween the Royal Duke and himself, conse- | among them. Death isso genuine a fact seem advisable to distribute potato } than pamphiets. In the same spirit, we, suggest that sending over slave holders though they were once French Jacobing Ambassadors to convinee Europe that slay, is an eminently humane, beneficent ang j diffusing institution, will not be exactly 4), thing. There is a sound principle of which says 'Secondary evic missible where the primary is : and though Blacks are not permitted lay are interested, there is no such rule known in Europe. We would urge, then, that if ; be desirable to adduce before Europe, Sout ern testimony versus Uncle Tom, ¢! witness to send there would be themselves, That Mr.. Soule, ] Governor Cobb, Mr. Guthrie, 2 slave-holders as General Pie out as Ambassadors, w Slavery isa mild, ber izing institution, is a m also that Europe will be C dict them; but if ani S101 lic sentiment of the Old World is aimed at. let Cuffee and Dinah, Sambo and E hilips Pompey and. Dandy Jim, be sent out as wit nesses. If they, being released from all co straint or undue influence, shall sa they like to be fed, lodged, worke hunted and sold, according to the law rolina and: Mississippi, Europe will be very likely to believe them; but so long a send Soule & Co., to testify in their stea we suspect that the evidence will not goq 'he late Colonel Talbot. (From the Woodstock C. W. American) | Colonel, the Hon. Thomas Talbot was the fourth 'son of Lord Talbot de Malahide, and was born at Malahide Castle on the 19th July, 1770, and consequently died in his 83rd year. In very early life he entered 'the army, and served for a short tine under | the Duke of York in Holland. He soon however, returned to England :--the result it is said of a coolness which occurred be- quent upon some observations made by. the latter on certain amusements of the former, which he thought unbecoming a ee Oificer in face of an enemy. This is report- ed to have been followed by another disap- pointment of a private and delicate nature which induced Col. Talbot to leave Eng- land, and proceeding te Canada in 1791, to accept the post of private secretary to Gene- ral Simeoe, Governor of the Colony. He afterwards received a grant of 5000 acres of land as a Lt. Colonel in the army ; and sub- sequently a further extensive tract, princi- Aldboro', was given him on conditions of settlement; under which Col. came possessed of 150 acres for every fifty acres taken up by a bona fide settler. He, moreover had obtained from Government compensation for war losses and a pension. So that although he encountered great hard- ships, and had done the Province good ser- vice by carrying civilization 'and improve- ment into the wilderness, and had also ool rarity aided 1 dvicuee of the cowry daring the last. American war, it must be admitted that rewards were bestowed with a lavish Member of the Legislative Council of the. Province, where his opinions were looked up to by all parties; in polities he was an attacks from within and without. In his dealings with the settlers, and others in his own tract, he was universally popular,-- always kind and considerate, -he frequently contributed to their comforts and their wants, at personal inconvenience, with his own hand, tice--for many years he remained a. perfect woman-hater, and would admit no females was impatient of intrusion (particularly by. Americans, for whom he seemed to en- manners and deportment of a highly finished ed gentleman, to those whom he thought proper to entertain. He possessed a highly cultivated mind, stored with information and. endued with a retentive memory that. fre- quently created surprise and which he re- tamed to the last. Colonel Talbot was fre- quently visited in his retreat by travellers of distinction, amongst whom maybe named the present Duke of Northumberland, Lords Althorp, Stanley and Wharneliffe; but to the talented and great alone. was not: his~ hospitality confined, and many of his fellow colonists, more particularly of later years, can testify to the bearty welcome that awaited them, when they passed the confines of his' seclusion. Three years before his death 25,000 and 30,000 and also the. estate on which he resided at Port Talhot: the residtis: he left to George Macbeth, Esq., who. lately joined him in this: country from England, and whom he had adopted as his heir. He nuity to the wife of his old servant Geoffrey Hunter, for. whose children he had previous~ ly made provision. . Colonel. Talbot's death, instant, at Lond on, where he had shortly Be- fore taken up his abode, was the result of a paralysis; and his remains were consigned: to the grave at Tyrconnel, im accordance: dence, on the. 9th inst. . "His funeralwas at- tended bya large coneourse-of sorrowing" | friends. Of all his family only two sisters. r Kaye | survive him--Mnrs. Cunliffe Liste and Mrs. Fitzgerald. dag © SSS SS we Sea fie PES E: SS Rervratroy arrur Deara--It is ver Singular how the fact of a man's death seem to give people a truer idea of: his charact whether for good or evil, than they" possessed while he was living and ac that it excludes: falsehoods, or betrays the emptiness; it isa touchstone that proves th invariably find himself atea higher or lower. point than he had formerly: oceupied on the. of the actual needs of the pesantry, it would pally in the Townships of Dunwich and -- Talbot be- -- hand. Col. Talbot was for many years a 4 unbending Tory, and in 1837-38 strenuously supported the Queen's authority against all His eccentricities are sufficieritly well known 4 in the Province to requireno lengthened no- within the precincts of his retirement--he tertain an innate antipathy) though gene-- : rous in his hospitality, and exhibiting the ee re Bh Sir Oe q Colonel Talbot deeded to his nephew Colo- nel Airy, now secretary at the Horse Guards, _ p all the lands he owned in Aldboro', between "Of his property, valued at. £70,000 pounds, made also.a charge of £20 a-year as an an~ which occurred! on the morning of the 5th with his own wish. and near his own resi- gold and dishonors the baser metal. "Could a | the departed, whoever he may be, ima week | after his decease»return, he would almost 4 pis x a Nias ie & % scale of public appreciation. Hawthorne.)