% Re ee ee eS ae | vather premise, however, that the Czar will find enough (o occupy his attention in more important . Jocalities nearer home, to prevent his sending off a large portion of his best troops on so Quixotic an expedition as the invasion of Canada. The ; proposed alliance, offensive and defensive (for it amounts to that,) between Russia and the United as iueae much it may be to the taste of the Southern despots, provided we may julge of things by their names and of people by their pro- possible, ey oe D. 'THE EMIGRATION CONVENTION. "We "publish 'on our outside the Call for a National Convention of Colored Men, to be held in Cleveland, Ohio, on the 24th, 25th and 26th of August next, It is not, however, to be under- stood, that we consider, the Call as intended to in- clude. Colored men resident in the Provinces. - Indeed, the object of the Convention. would rather indicate that such ought to be excluded. 'That object, so faras we can gather from the Call, ; seems to be, to discuss the propriety and practi ae bility of removing by voluntary emigration the y oppressed _ colored people of the United States: ope free or, enslaved, beyond the reach of their oppressors, We will. not now stop. to 'argue the question. On some future occasion we 1 may possibly express our views upon it some- ¢* whatat length. It may suffice to state generally " t! at we think every man has or ought to have an i exclusive and inalienable right to judge for him, selfin this matter. We say to the slave, You ' havea right to your freedom and to every other t privilege connected with it.and if you cannot secure these in Virginia or Alabama, by all means make your escape, without delay, tosome other locality in God's wide universe, where you will be allowed to enjoy the rights and perform the duties, as "you bear the stamp and impress of manhood. We say, further, to the free colored people of the States, wherever they may be, You are under no necessity or obligation to remain Where you are. It- might, for some peculiar reasons, be desirable that you should remain ; but if an opportunity offers for elevating your- * selves and families in the social scale, by re- > moving to the West Indies, to Canada, or to . Greénland--we care not whither--you are culpa- ble if you do not at once adopt it. Some will urge, and probably do urge, that this is exactly what . your enemies in the States desire. So be it.. Because any enemy unwittingly desires what is foryour. advantage cannot possibly be any rea- son why you should change your course, " Jal. justilia ruat celiem 3? under the full conviction' thatin this matter by doing justice to yourself F first, you best promote the welfare of your race everywhere, and that of the enslaved and oppress- ed in the United States particularly. alt may be: desirable thata li:uited number of colored Canadians should attend this Convention. Ofcourse, according to the terims of the Call, they cannot be admitted as delegates. Ave delegates from each State seems to be all that is contem- plated by the framers of thatducument ; and as it will scarcely be allowed by residents in the Pro- vince that they are as yct,or are likely for the hext five months at Jeast to be annexed to the States, and taken under the fostering protection of the Bagle's claws, it will be somewhat difficul! to assign them a place in the Convention. Besides, as votes will have to be taken on the various topics that come up for diseussion, and a® those 'topies will of course refer in part to the | place (if any) to which the colored people of the United States ought to emigrate, usage and pro- -- prtery. require thatmone but those who are pre- sumed to be the representatives of the persons i tore immediately interested, ought to take an active partin Sasi ty 'i Abe the proceedings. Ds GE ; THE NEBRASKA BILL. This infamous measure has for the present, to all appearance, received its guietus in the House of Representatives, been consigned to that " vasty deep," the Commit- must there take its place oa the calender behind disposed of or set aside before the Nebraska 'Bill can be reached, except. by a suspension of the rules under a two-thirds vote. It appears on an analysis of the vote, that seven Southern mem= gq bers Ww re in fayor of this reference ; while fifteen were absent; thus showing that the South is. by ho means unanimmous for the passage of toe Bill: Iv is doubtless owing to the agitation that has .. been raised throughout the Northern States tha; Douglas and his associates have encountered so sudden and severe a check in their nefarious at- tempt to curse a territory nearly equal in extent to the whole of the free Siates, with the demor- alizing and destructive influence of slavery. It is gratifying to think that the traitor has so quickly ' 1 ved the traitur's reward, without even the thirty pieces of. silver ip consideration of | its infamy: Douglas's hopes for the Presidency are foreve; blasted. However deeply the Democratic party of. the United States may have sunk in officious servility to the slave-power,they dare not so ifsul' | the manhvuod of the North and what remains o _ honorable sentiment in the Free States, as to pre- sent. the name of one so deeply committed to _ slavery. propagandism as Douglas, to the free _ suffrage of the people. Aspirants for office wil! take timely warning from the example thus set before them, and be cautious hereafter how they stake their Yeputation and their hopes upon the chances of success that present themselves in the initiation of measures alike hostile to the true interests of both white and colored, at the same time that they are opposed to the moral sense of the whole civilized world. While those who have been struggling hitherto against mighty odds, and hoping almost ; against hope, will note the defeat of the traitor with joy, and gather from i,. . feesh. courage and fresh hope to cheer them on to _Yenewed exertion. © * ' Dz of ee _Euucr Cresson, Esq., well known as:a_pro- minent Colonizationist, and some time President of the American Colonization Society, died lately in Philadelphia. It is worthy of remark that out of all his vast wealth, he bequeathed only $1000 to the Society with which, during his lifetime he had been so intimately connected. It is to be hoped that at the last he had somewhat repented of his unchristian prejudice, and that as a future opened up before him, in which there is no\com- plexional caste, and no abasement on account of color, his' philanthropy approximated more nearly j 3 the universe-embracing apothegm, "The world / s my country, and all mankind my country "men." D. Riot in New Haven, (Conn.)--On the 18th inst. a serious collision took place between the students of Yale College anda portion of the Sitizens,-in which one of the latter was killed.-- Afterwards. the citizens procured two 'cannon, ~ which they loaded with stones, in the absence of balls and proceeded with them to the College with he intention of using them against the buildin g Ricnray ee fessions; we should proneunce to be simply im- | By avote of 110 to 95, it has | tee of the Whole on the state of the Union, 1. two or three hundred other bills, which must be | }in which the students had. fortified. themselves. The police, however, succeeded in spiking the guns and so for the present preventing further mischief. of ped IN TION bi "Selfreiance is the True Road to ladependence." A number of persons as yet, probably, unac- quainted with the intention to publish this paper, will receive a copy of this issue, by which it is hoped they may be indticed to subscribe; num bers whe have pledged themselves to aid in its support will, in like manner, be reminded of their promises. We do hope that young people and old will help to forward a good work. Canadians are not too well supplied with papers advocating the measures herein set forth, so we are not prepared for the cry in this quarter of "papers enough!" The matter is settled for another paper here. Persons abroad want relia- ble information of Canada, from Canada; that they shall have, if they will speak and act en- couragingly. The advocates of emigration will have an opportunity to compare the facilities of this country, with others on which their attention is now fixed. The lovers of the ridiculous will also be highly entertained, no doubt, when they hear, as they will if they take the paper, of the somersets, maneuvres and antics now in full tide of operation, especially at the " west end." We have now, awaiting fortheoming issues, resolu- tions and counter-resolutions, accounts of meet- ings held and the resolves passed thereat, and of resolutions published, but ol passed at any meet- Ing, for begging and against it, for the Provincial Council and against it, for the United States National Council and against it, and for exclu- sive institutions and against them, all showing that some among colored Canadians, as among all other people, intend to kill, while others try to cure. Canadians, Hast and West, see and speak freely of the importance of the enterpvise, and from them we hopefully. look for patronage. Will not the young particulary, take hold, and cach one engage to do what he can to give charac- ter and efficiency to the paper, by sending on one, two, three or fifty subscribers, as they may be disposed, and also_ by sending articles for publi- cation? We hope they willnot be slow toassume their proper duties, tu relieve the old men of a portion of the labor, never failing, meanwhile, to profit by their counsel. ag SOUTH vs. NORTH. The Charleston Courier, ina late number, re. | Viewing Theodore Parker's Discourse on Slavery and the Nebraska movement, takes the opportunity tu give the North its due in reference to its truck- _ ling subserviency to Southern influence, as under: There are frequent passages, in this strange ex- | hibition of the mad parson, 'which, in the main, | truthfully as well as strongly, detail and depict the | various occasions on which Southern interests | have obtained the mastery in Congress, or, at least | important advantages, which are well worthy. the | consideration of all who erroneously suppose that | the action of the General Government has been | on the whole, adverse to Slavery. he truth is | that our Government, although hostile, in its in- | cipiency, tu domestic Slavery, and starting into | political being with a strong bent towards aboli- tion, yet afterwards so changed its policy that its action tor the most part, and with only fa few ex- ceptions, has fostered the slaveholding interest, and swelled it from six to fifteen States, and from a feeble and sparse population to one of EN MIL- LIONS. In confirmation of these views, the reve- rend declaimer undertook to demonstrate that the idea of Freedom had its * culmination point in time, about 1786," and "in space," at Faneuil Fiall--"for up there," and he pointed to the por- trait of Samuen Apams, "is one of the men who represented that idea; and that only twice, since the Declaration of Independence, had the idea of | Freedom, in Fede al Councils, prevailed against Slavery ;" whereas the Slaveholding interest had triumphed no less than nine times and was about, in the passage of the Nebraska bill, to achieve its tenth' victory. ; In one or more of the foregoing extracts, we have shown how Parson Parker aumires the fidelity of the sons of the South to its interests, in Spite of his loathing and contempt of the South and its slave systein. We now exhibit in con- trast his very flattering portraiture of his che- /vished North, where base cupidity and servile truckling and subserviency to the South almost universally prevail. ANoTHER © SecTiIoNAL" Qvestion.--The Ja. ry published by the Mormon settlement on Beaver I: " li ansti ] " a j 20K peculiar institution" of that peculiar people. We cannot see, as things are in the States, but | that the argument of the Islander is a fair one; | | | | | | | neither can we discern how the abettors of a sys- | f a) . * . tem of universal concubinage can with any show | of decency object to the Mormons because of their | freedom," will be able to clear up this matter to | the satisfaction of their confreres of Utah and | Beaver Island. ; What business has Congress or the United States with the law concerning marriage ? That is a domestic matter of each State, in 'which each is sovereign.--Fifteen of the States allow a large portion of their population, (the slaves,) as many wives as their master please, and as many concu- bines as he can hire, and turn them off when he pleases, and consign them to poverty and destruc- _ tion. In all the States vast numbers are publicly kept as common prostitutes, and neither Congress or any other power has been appealed to. But because the Mormons in Utah have, like the | Puritans in New England, determined to be gov- erned by the laws of God, they must, forsooth, be refused admission into the Union. Does not re- publicanism itself guarantee to Utah the right of _self government ? Have not they the same right to establish polgamy, that Michigan has to pro- hibit it, and establish duality 2. Is the republi- canism of America a reality, or is it a false pre- tence, or a swindle? Nothing can be clearer than that if the people of Utah see fit to institute and practice polygamy, no power on earth can legal- ly prevent them.--The only real difficulty in the matter will arise when those who have been legally. married. in Utah to a = nnmber of wives, choose to go with their wives to reside in» other States. Marriage in all the States is a civil contract, and the general rule is, that if the contract is valid when made, it will be enforced everywhere. But thislrule is not uni- versal. Conflicts are likely to grow up on this -question. In the case of Indians married in their own country, and of a few Turks and Chinese sojourning fora short time in the States, their olygamy has been winked at, and the courts ave not determined the ruleof law in the pre- mises. But itis doubtful whether the same lib- erality will be extended to the Mormons. EpucaTion oF Ipiors.--On the 10th inst. a number of idiots educated in the Asylum of the State of New York, were examined before the State Legislature at Albany, and gave encourag- ing evidence that the care humaenly bestowed upon that truly afilicted portion of the community is well rewarded. Ourneighbor The News of the Week takes the opportunity, when noticing this examination, to remark as follows, in reference to the absence of kindred institutions in Canada: 'We have repeatedly urged on the Canadian government to imitate the example so well sei them by the State of New York in this respect. We trust the next session of the Provincial Par- lament will not be allowed to pass, without having something done in relation thereto, The last census shows, that there are many people so afflicted amongst us, and numbers of whoin al- thougn full grown, are unable to take. care of themselves. For several years back, one might be daily seen wandering about the streets of this city, a disgrace. to our philanthropy. Therefore any measures that might be taken for their bene- if sland, Lake Michigan, thus discourses about the | ( uary number of the Northern Islander, a paper | fit, to be perfect, should not only provide education | for the young, but also an asylum for the old and helpless who have no friends to assist them. A measure of this kind will be most popular. The people will cheerfully pay the expense necessary to carry it out. In proof of this we could inention one township, at least, where the people have voluntarily taxed themselves to defray the expense o supporting a man who js mentally and physically incapacitated from doing sO iim- self, which is highly to the credit of that municl- pality, and a reproach to the Legislature for not, dving the like for the Province generally. GLEANINGS. Tue War. &c.--Great activity and enthusiasm prevail in England and France in making prepar ations for the war, according to the latest ac- counts, and thousands are being sent to the Turk- ish Provinces. Lord Ragland will, itis said, be Commander of the Isnglish forces. In an en- gagement in Asia, near Shafkates, 2000 Russians were killed. --Charlotte K--., a correspondent of #7. Diuglass's Paper, is'particu- larly severe on Oddfellows and Oddfellowship, among Colored Americans. Mr. J. B. Gough was presented with a Silver Water Jug, ata Soiree, held in Tanfield Hall, Edinburgh, as a token of appreciation of services rendered by him to the Temperance cause. A Scotch Society has employed him to lecture for them, for three months, for $1000;so say the papers. A handsome salary that ! --Miss Julia Griffiths, Editor of Autographs for Freedom, writes interesting letters from Wash- ington, D. C., for Frederick Douglass's Paper. gentleman writer, but lady Our Paper.--We are at length enabled to lay before our friends and others, the second number of the Provincial Freeman. It will scarcely be needful to inform those of our readers who are at all conversant with the mysteries of the Printing "Office, that we have had to encounter and over- come all the usual difficulties incident toa new enterprise, besides not a few that may be fairly presumed to be unusual. 'That the paper is as yet, all that it ought to be, either as regards its typographical appearance, or its literary charac- ter,it would be useless to pretend; at the same time we venture to give expression to a confident as- surance thatere many wecks have elapsed, it will be found to have attained to a high, if not to a first rank among the stars that bedeck the fir- mament of literature on our Western Hemis- phere. dD. e ARREST AND RESCUE OF A FUGITIVE SLAVE IN MILWAUKEE, From the Millwaukee Daily Sentinel. The greatest excitement was caused on Satur- day morning by the announcement that a fuat- vive Suave had been arrested about four iiles this side ef Racine, by Deputy U.S. Marshal C. C. Cotton and four other men, one of them named B.S. Garland, the alleged Owner of the lagitive, 'and another, a constable of Racine, in all tive White men ; and brought to this city, and placed, hand.cufed in our jail, The particulars of the transactions are these: The colored man's nameis Joshua Glover,*and is claimed as the runaway slave ot S. B. Garland. of St. Louis county, Missouri. tHe is alleged to have run away in 1852. Glover was in the employ of St. Clair & Rice inaimill near Racine. On 'Friday night, while seated in his shanty, five nen broke open the door suddenly, rashed in upon him and felled him to the ground. They then hand cafted him, took him into a double buggy with nothing on but his pantaloons and shirt, and drove off north, and after having lost the way, at last brought him to MitwauKer Counry Jain. Eere he was lodged ina cell, hand cufed. Our Deputy Jailer, with commendable feelings of humanity, took off the hand cutis, and treated him with care and kind- ness. As soonas the matter gol wind, the greatest excitement prevailed ; a large number flocked tu the jail ; hundreds of men were aroused, and de- clared that he should noi be taken from the city. Lawyers without number were busy at work, searching through the sections of the Fugitive Save Law. The Revised Statutes were opened ina number of Jaw offices to the' chapter on Habeas Corpus, and every thing that could be done within the law, for the release trom custody ot Glover was resorted to. Some man rode through from Racine or hoise back, and gave the first information that our jail contained a fugitive--that one of its cells had been poluted by the blood of a slave. We, with others, went to the jail, and found the fugilive in acell. He was called out into the passage, and Whata sight was there! 'he man was cut in two places on the head; the front of his shirt was soaking and stiff with bis own blood. The man told us that he had been in this State about two years, and that he was at work for the 'polygamy. We trust that Messrs. Badger, Jones | and the other raving would-be " abolitionists of' | persons we have named above, and that they owe him about fifty dollars; and he was silting in bis shanty when the men came in, and one piaced a revolver to his head ; he put up bis hand to push it away, when he was knocked down senseless, and removed tothe waggon. The man or men swore that if he shouted or made the least noise, they would kill him instandy. A habeas corpus was immediately got out be- fure Judge Jenkins, and a civit warrant before Albert Smith, Hsq., Justice of the Peace, for the damages sustained by the unfortunate man. A telegraph sent to Racine for a warrant for the ar- rest of the five men engaged in assaulting him in his shanty. The Court House bell was rung at about 2 P. M., the alarm sounded for the first ward, thou- sands flocked to the Court House square, and around the jail, the excitement being intense. after sometime, the crowd was called to order, by Jas. H. Paine, from the Court House steps, when Gen. E. B. Wolcoot was chosen President, and A. H. Bielfield, Secretary. A committee consisting of four from each ward, was appointed to draft resolutions and pre- sent them to the meeting. The Committee con- sisted of Jas. H. Paine, Wm. Whitnal, John | Furlong, S. M. Booth, and Dr. E. Wunderly. The crowd, which had kept increasing, was then addressed by Byron Paine, Esq., General Paine, S. M. Booth and A. H. Bielfield. Each speaker was loudly cheered. The resolutions were called for and read tothe meeting, and adopted with great cheering. They were as fol- lows : Whereas, A man named Joshua Glover, living in the neighborhood of Racine, had his house broken into, a pistol presented at his head, was knocked' down and badly cut and bruised by Deputy Marshal Charles C. Cotton and Benj. 8. Garland, his pretended owner, before any legal process was served upon him, was tettered and brought by night to this city, and incarcerated in our county jail; and, Whereas, A writ of Habeas Corpus has been issued by Judge Jenkins to Sheritf Page a Deputy Marshal Cotton, commanding them, in the name of this State, to bring the prisoner before him, and show cause why the prisoner should not be releas- ed, which writ has not been yet obeyed; there- fore, Resolved, as citizens of Milwaukee, that'every person has an indefensible right to a fair and im- partial trial by jury on all questions involving persona} liberty. Resolved, That the Writ of Habeas Corpus is the great defence of Freedom, and that we demand for this prisoner, as well as for our own protection, that this sacred Writ shall be obeyed. Resolved, That we pledge ourselves to stand by this prisoner, and do our utmost to secure for him a fair and impartial trial by jury. Soon afier the resolutions had been read and passed, a Vigilance Committee of twenty-five was appointed to watch that the fugitive was not secretly taken away, or tried except in an open manner. We understand that the Committee was instructed to ring the bells, and call the city to their aid in case any attempt should be made to get the fugitive away from the jail. During this morning, a writ of Habeas Corpus, as above mentioned, had been served upon Sheriff Page. He immediately made return that the negro was not in his custody, or under his contro}, but was in custody of the U. S. Marshal and De- puties, under a warrant 'from Judge Miller, of the U.S. Court. Another writ was got up by the negro's counsel, C. K. Watkins, Esq., and put in the Sheriff's hands tu. be served-upon the Marshall and was so served. This was about 5:P.M.- Within a short time, the steamer ar- _rived, bringing about 100 men from Racine, who marched in solid column to the jail, where the { negro still remained in charge of two deputies of the U. S. Marshal. This accession to the num- bers of the crowd added fuel to the flame, and af. ter a short time a demand was made for the man- a refusal being made, an attack was made upon the door with planks, axes, &c. It was broken in, the inner door and wall broken 'through, and the negro taken from his keepers, brought out and placed ina wagon, which was driven at great speed down to Walker's Point Bridge, where he was placed in another carriage and taken Soath, on the way to Racine. The military were called out, but had not gathered when the crisis came, The Sheriff of Racine County was with those who came by the boat. and had warrants for the arrest of the owner, Mr. Garland, and others, for assault and battery. Mr. G. was arrested and taken to J. I. Arnold's office, who acted as his cousel, A writ of habeas corpus was at once js- sued from Judge Miller's Court, and was taken to that office. An understanding was entered jn- to that Mr. Garland should be forthcoming on Monnay (this) morning, and he was left in cns- tody of the U. 8. Marshal, to be produced at that time. CONSTITUTION OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL, For the purpose of improving the char- acter, developing the intelligence, maintain- ing the rivhts and organizing a Union of the Colored People of the Free States, the Na- tional Convention does hereby ordain and institute the "NATIONAL COUNCIL OF 'THE 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 15th day of November next, and bienniaily there- after, there shall be held in each State, a Poll, at which cach colored inhabitant may vote who pays ten cents as poll:tax; and each State shall clect, at such election, such delegates to State Legislatures, twenty in number from cach State, at large. The election to be held at such places and under such? conditions as_ the public meetingsgin such localities may determine. 'The mem- bers of the National Council in cach State, shall receive, canvass, and declare the result of such vote. Lhe State Council, thus elect- ed, shall meet on the first Monday in Janu- ary, 1854, 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 twe years from that date; at the end of which time another general election by State council shall take place of members to con- stitute their successors in office, in the same numbers as above. 'Ihe 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 be elected by this convention, which shall designate out of the number, a Presi- dent, a Vice-President, Secretary, 'lreasur- er, corresponding Secretary, and committee of five on Manual Labor--a committee of five on Protective Unions--of five on Busi- ness Relatioas--of five on Publications. Art. 3. The committee on Manual Labor School shall procure funds and organize suid School in accordance with the plans adopted by this National, Convention, with such modifications as experience or necessity may dictate to them. 'lhe comiittee shall immediately incorporate itself as an academy under "The General Committee of the State of "' and shall constitute the Board of Trustees of 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 Instructors in the literary or mechanical branches. 'There shall be afarm attached to the School. Art. 4. The 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 auxiliary to their own. COLORED Art. 5. The committee on Business Rela- tions, shall establish an office, 1n which they artizans and business men throughout the Union. They shall keep a registry of all persons willing to employ colored men in business, to teach colored boys mechanical trades, liberal and scientific professions, and farming ; and also, a registry of colored men and youth seeking employment or instruc- tion. 'hey shall also report wpon any aven- ues of business or trade which they deem in- viting to colored capital, skill or labor. Their reports and advertisements to be in papers of the widest circulation. They shall receive for sale or exhibition products of the skili and labor of colored people Art. 6. The' committee on Publication shall collect all facts, statistics and statements, all laws and historical records and biogra- phies of the colored people, and ali books by colored authors. 'hey shall have for the safe keeping of these documents, a Library, with ja Reading Room and Museum. 'Ihe committee shall also publish replies to any assaults, worthy of note, made upon the cha- racter or condition of the colored People. Art. 7, Each committee shall have abso- Jute control over its special department ; shall make its own 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. ach committee shall meet at least once a month or as often as possible ; shall keep a minute of all its proceedings, executive and financial, and shall submit a full statement of the same, with the accounts audited, at every regular meeting of the National council. Art. 8. The National council shall meet at least once in six months, to receive the reports of the committees, and to consider any new plan for the general good, for which it shall have power, at its option, to appoint a new committee, and shall be empowered to receive and appropriate donations for the carrying out of the objects of the same. At all such meet- ings, eleven members shall constitute a quo- rum. In case any committee neglect or refuse to send in its report, according to article 8th, then the council shall have power to enter the bureau, examine the books and papers of such committee ; and in case the committee shall persist in its refusal or neglect, then theconn- cil shall declare their offices vacant, and ap- point others in their stead. Art. 9. In all cases of the meetings of the National Council, or the committees, the tra- veling expenses (if any) of the members shall be paid out of the respective funds, | Art. 10. The council shall immediately es- tablish a bureau in the place of its meeting : and the same rooms shail, as far as possible,be used by the several committees for their vari- ous purposes. 'I'he council shall havea clerk, at u moderate salary, whorwill keep a record of their transactions, and prepare a condensed report of the committees for publication; and, also, @ registry of the friends of the cause. Art. 11. The expenses of the counsel shall be defrayed by the fees of nembership of sub- societies ar councils, to be organized through- out the States. 'The membership fee shall be one cent per week. Art. 12. A member of the council shall be member of only one of the committees there- of, Art. 13. All officers holding funda, shal: , shall keep a registry of colored mechanics, | give security in double the. amount likely to. be intheir hands. This security to be given to the three first officers of the council. Art. 14. The council shall have power to make such By-Laws as are necessary for their proper government. [The following resolutions having direct bear ing upon the plan of organization were adopt- ed by the Convention and are therefore append- ed to the Council's Constitution. ] tesoived, 'That the Council shall be delegated to select its various Committees, Resolved, That the Council shall have power toofier @ premium fur prize essays on different subjects agreed om by Council. Resolved, That the said Council shall hear and grant petitions, and be governed by the rules of legislative bodies, and their decisions shall be final. Resolved, That any State applying for admis- sion into this Union, shall be admitted on such terms as mmay herealter be agreed upon. Resolved, 'Phat in establishing a National Council for oar own special improvement, and a Manual Labor School for the education of our children in science, literature and mechanical aris, this Convention do this, not to build ourselves up asa distinct and separate class in this country, but as a means«to a great end, viz: the equality in political rights, aud iu civil and social privil- eges with the resi of the American people. PRIVATEERING, (From the London Times.) With the heroism, the glory, and the triumphs of war, tuere come alsu its scandals, ils excesses, and iis ho:rors. It is impossible but that it should be a season of license, in which the worst passions invade, like vultures, the sad field of honor, and, like robbers, snatch a spoil from the Victinis of wreck or conflagration. lt is unhap- pily within the receolieciion of our older' readers that, under the name ol privateering, legalised piracy was once accounted an honorable protes- sion, aud Chiisian gentlemen, sitling at the dinner-table, or returning from church, agreed to send out armed ships with letters ol marque, to prey on the peaceful commerce of the seas, Lt Was, of Course, a matter of painful necessity to stop the commerce oi the foe, avd our men of war had the same warrant and justification for the capture of his mercbantmen as 01 his armed ves- sels. "This was dove in the wey of public and honorable warlare by the command, not merely the permission, of the gonstituted authority. But over and above this, as a measure of retaliation, and as an auxiliary mode ol offence, we allowed anybody who liked the bloody trade, to turn pirate for awhile, to roam over the sea with a crew of cut-throats, and seize any merchant-vessel under the hostile flag, all for the purely seliish consider- ation of booty, 'The thing was so old, so common, so customary and familiar, that few saw any harm im it. Perhaps the best way of satisfying even the unscrupuivus that there is harm in it, and that the whole proceeding is barbarous and brutal.in the extreme, will appear by supposing a parallel in land wartare. Wohatit the Duke ot Wellington, on crossing the Pyrennees, had brought with him a swarm of Spanish guerillas, and given them written licenses to plunder the peacetul inhabitants of France, and murder all those who resisted their exactions? The very idea is monstrous and incredibie. Yet this is pre- cisely what was done upon the ocean throughout the whole war. To seize and appropriate a wag- gonload of merchandise, and shoot the waggoner and lis associates dead ubun the spot if they chose to protect their employer's property, would have been thought simple robbery aud murder. 'Lo seize the same merchandise after its shipment, and to murder the same guardians performing the oifice of supercargo ur seamen, Was not only thought right, it was dune every day; and many excellent, honorable, and religious persons made their fortunes by the practice with as little annoy- ance to their moral instincts as if they had grown potatoes or made cotton twist. 'There was indeed some little risk about it, seeing that a privateer sometimes "caught a Tartar" in the shape of a inan of war. This degree ol risk was considered to place the enterprise rather beyoud the reach of prudent tradesman, and to reserve it as the luxury of those who had a few thousand pounds to spare, and souls of proportionate magnanimily. So, to fit out a privateer was thought as injudicious in a small dealer, or a man with large demands on his income, as it would be in the present age to go cut ot one's depth in a railway speculation or a time bargain in the funds. 'Lhe man who risked his all ina privateer which had the ill luck to fall into the enemy's hands, simply waddled off like the "lame duck" of the Stock luexchange. So far, he lost the respect of his feliow citizens. That the miscreants he had bired had murdered some score of French fishermen or sailors, and had half of them been killedin their turn was @ matter of indifference. Lord John Russell's answer to Sir Wiliam Clay's question last night, gives us some hope that naval warfare will be gradually. purified of those scandals which have hitherto so wnreasona- ably distinguished it from its sister operations by land. The question referred indeed primarily to the case of certain Russian ships, with British cargoes, now on the sea with 'lurkish firmans, and with subsequent protection trom the British Governmeut against its own men of war. Sir W. Ciay wished to know whether the French Government could be induced also lo respect thes? vessels, T'o this question no distinet and positive answer could be given, but Lord. John Russell promised the best offices of the British Government. 'This of course does not go very far, as it refers only to the case of certain vessels of which a list has already been given to Govern- ment, and the cargoes of Which are British. But the question suggests a further enquiry as to the whole practice of interference with the ordinary operations of commerce. What is there in the element that should make so great a diff-rence between the morality of naval and military war- fare? When we enter a hostile territory it is true that we do interfere with agriculture and commerce, but ouly just so far as is necessary for strictly military purposes. We seize cattle, ve- hicles, food for man and beast, firewood, boats, and every thing that our armies may require for their maintenance, or for carrying on the war. We force labour; we levy contributions from towns, and inflict heavy penalties im ease of refu- sal; we break up roads, level suburbs, destroy plantations, inundate low grounds, stop the chan- nels of rivers and the mouths of ports, remove buoys and beacons, and confiscate the property of} those who attempt to force a blockade. We evea go so far as to lay waste a country in the face of a pursuing foe, or® to stop an anticipated advance. All this is very dreadful bat justified by the stern code of war, which, though stern is also humane, seeing that ho amount of mere material property ean be weighed in ihe balance with the lives of men--those men our own soldiers, fighting for us and our cause. Bot all that we have described and enumerated ebove is short of wanton destruc- tion, and also of mere robbery. 'The dranken private cannot be restrained from plunder; Lut the general in coinmand cannot seize the contents of the private warehouses and shops of a conquer- ed city, and sell them for the benefit of the British government or of his own army. No substantial reason can be aileged why the rule should not apply to naval commerce, and way the ships of the enemy are to be seized and appropriated wherever they are, whatever their cargo, and whithersoever bound. Zo stop commerce 13 one thing, to plunder another. It may not, indeed, be easy to say how we may do one thing without the other; as, if we are to stop ships at sea, and take possession of them, simply asa measure of defenee, we mast. also repay ourselves for the cost of the operation. But one thing is very clear--an end must shortly be put to the practice of piracy in form of Jaw. Let us at once refuse to grant let- ters of marque, and disallow them in the case o the foe. Let us at once recognize no such thing as a privateer as distinguished from a pirate and hang both indiscriminately as svon as they fall into our hands. The war now impending will probably give us a good deal of work in this way. The Mediter- ranean has always been infested with pirates from the age of Homer to the present day; and the subjects of His Majesty King Otho are as much given to rcbbery by sea and by land as they ever: were. These are the people we have to fear. here will never be wanting Greeks of the plient old school to take letters of marque from the Emperor of Russia, and with that war- rant they are not very likely to distinguish nicely between a merchantman of one nation and a merchantman of another, so as both be equally well laden and equally ill armed, Should His Greek Majesty's subjects join the war in tais vil- lainous capacity, we trust that our men of war will be instructed to give them the same summary justice that Sir James Brooke gave the people he supposed, whether rightly or not, to be'pirates on the coast of Borneo. The shortest way will be the best, and we shall think very ill of our eap- tains if they have not effectually suppressed 'piracy or privateering--it matters not for the } } So ay COTULLIUE UE ware © name--in the Mediterranean, before the first twelvemonth of the war is passed: Should' it be found that the so called privateers take refuge in the ports of Greece, or that armaments are fitting out at those ports with the manifest intention of pursuing that bloody game, it will be necessary to talkie some decided steps with those ports, so as, to secure them from being put to this use for the future. \ 'EUROPEAN NEWS. The Latest. i New Yorr, March 2th. Last night the " Pacific" from Liverpool, about 1 p,m. on Wednesday Sth, arrived at 1-2, The Steamer " America" arrived out on the 7th: The position of affairs is quite unvhang- | ed. The Greek insurrection was almost checked. S The United States Minister had presented his credentials to the Sultan, assuring that digni- tary of the sympathy of the United States: The British Chancellor of Exchequer proposes to double the income tax, and the E'rench Minis- ter to borrow 250,000,000 tiances to meet the ex- penses of the war. Preparations are going on in England. The first division of the feet will sail ina day or two, ; The French Government advertises for 100 ships to embark at Versailles with stores. Lord Londondéry is dead. More difficulties had occured at Prescott, with the operatives. Dickinson & Co., of Glasgow, have abilities £200,000. : Mr. Soule is in high favor with the Queen of Spain. The Spanish insurrection is suppres-. sed. Austria suill slightly wavers, and Prussia re- frains from announcing what course she will pursue. The London Morning Herald of Wednesday the 8th, in third edition, reports that Iwalafat had fallen, and that the Garrison had been mussaered. The news had created great excitement, but its truth was doubted. \Marsetiles, Murch Tih---CGorn has risen two hectolitres, in consequence of Russia having pro- hibited the exportation of grain from Odessa and the Sea of Azoph. London, ith.--Frost, Williams and Jones, the | chartists, are pardoned Paris, March, 7th, 1854.--The loan of 000 francs passed unanimously. Madrid, March 2nd, \834.--Vague rumors are rife of a misunderstanding between England and Spain, which will probably result in the recall of M. Isturitz. Turin, March \st, 1854.--France and England are said to have decided to prevent any movement in ltaly. ~} H failed--li- 250,000,- NICHOLAS AND NAPOLEON, REPLY OF THE CZAR, TO THE RMPEROR S AUTO- GRAPH LETVLR, We announced yesteriay that the Emperor hal reezived a reply froin St. Petersbureh. In this letter to the Emp ror, tue Czir diseus- ses the condilioas OF arrany 213 Mt Waica were pro- posed to him, and declares that he cunaot cnter into any h. gotiation, except upon the basis which he has already made known, This reply leaves no chance opm for a paci- fic solution, and rane: must be prepared. to maintain, by the most off:nsive ticasures, the catlse for which the porsevocring exorious of dip- lowacy hav: been unable to sceure tu? vietocy. While, th:refor,he undertakes to deien!, with Oral pelerzy, lie rents of Livk jy, the lsuperor reckous Oi ta patiovistn of ths countty, On the cose alliane: wit Higlal amd with the sym- pathies of the Gover vuents of Gernany, Those Goveram tots have.cv! s intiy.dectared that they wishtd as resvlulcly as ourselves to} maintain the balance? of Huropsan power and to | cause the intep a ines ant iitegrity of the Otto- | Pian Empire to: be respecteit. Nor has any other question ever entered dato this discussion. : Our attention is 'uifecuct towards "Austria, | whose position Galls tioon b-rto play an active aud important part On the present vecasion. Bat Austria has always. declarcd herself with great firmness in iavor of those polats watch were laid down in th: protocol oF the Vienna conlerence, dated December the Si: We hive every coufilenceinthe trnstworthy- ness anu ¢hivalvous character of the young Hm- peror of Amstria, aad We find, besides, a guaran- tee for the disposition of his covernment in the interests of his p-ople--futerests which are iden- | tical with our own. ey Under the ¢ neral circumstances of European polities, Trance strong ia her lovel and disinter- ested intentions, has notaing to-fear from the impendinsstrugyle. She knows, besides, that she may rely on the enorgy, as well as the wisdom of the Emperor.--Paris ADuitewr. Appointments to Office. DECAETARY'S OPPICE, Quebee, 2ith February, 1854. . His Excellency the Administrator of the srov- ernment has been pleased tv make the following appommlments, VIZ. t-- John Jirkland, of Puslinch, Tsquire, to be Registrar of the Surrogate Court of the County of Wellington, in place of Anthony Stephens, Esquire, resigned, Francis Blenherhassett Greene, of Port Hope, Esquire, Attorney-at-Law, to be a Notary Public in Upper Canada. SrCRETARY S OFFICE, Quebec, 3rd, March, 1854. His Excellericy the Administrator ot the Goy- ernment has been pleased 'to appoint Ralph B. Jonhson, Exg., of Montreal, jointly with Simeon Lelievre, of Quebec, and William L. Felton, of Sherbrooke, Esquire, to be Commissions to inquire into the conduct of the Police Authorities on the occasion of a Riot, which took place in the City of Quebee, on the Sixth of June last, and further to inquire into the state of the Polive of the said City. : SECRETARY'S OFFICK, Quebec, 4th March, 1854, His Excellency the Administrator of the Goy- ernment has been pleased to make the following ment of the T'rrBUNE -yance,--otherwise Two Dollars; itbeing found ~~ not paidinad- *% | paper, «ad give receipts for the same. only passport, at any time, and th © perfect sspor at all times, to every emacs ie nd Church worthy of the Christian name; "that the world may believe" in Christ, even as he prayed. 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All may rest as- sured, however, that no undue advantage will ever be taken of the frankness and candor with which Christians of every name, as well as skep- -- tice of every class, have freely expressed their convictions in the presence of the Travelling Col- porteur; the capacity in which Pees sain is still extending his observations through Canada and the neighboring States. roe CO-LABORERS : Of distinguished worth and of well-khown literary ability, are already secured in the several sections of Canada, and in the States of the A- merican Union; and arrangements .are now in- progress, to obtain from living responsi ee ge in Britain, important assistance in the dey lupe- gs: Mission: (stair GF TERMS AND NOTICES: 7")? are One Dollar per Annum 5 Te in ad- % The Terms that one half of the Subscriptions, not paid in ad- -- vance, are worse than lost. Editors--fmendly-- will render assistance by noticing this Prospectus, © All parties willing to aid, may ai once commence -- soliciting the names of Subscribers. Two books -- --the Scripture and Laconic Manuals fu) ly gilt, and the Paper one year, will be forwarded to the person who first sends the names of 'ten Subscri- bers; and one of either of the books, in substantial leather binding, or the Paper one fear lp ener i one who sends ten names. and Subscriptions val. other commiunicalions for the Paper to be sent post-paid, marked Money, (if inclosed) and. ad -- dressed, Rozert Dick, Box 411, TORON boos 0... BUNE'S object, will be delivered by the. ublishe tiroughout the Province as feats his ee ibe found compatible with his other duties, (Signed) ~ ROBERT DICK Toronto, March 25th, 1854. fed Bote Sermons and Lectures, promotive of. the "RE ee Publisher, PROSPECTUS ' or t dosh The Prosinctal SHaxeemamte » 5 Gree Saar REV. 8, BR. WARD, EDITOR. «yy. REV, ALEX, M ARTHUR, cor, pe The Provincial Freeman will be devoted, to. Anti-Slavery, Temperance and General Litera- ture. The organ of no particular Political Party, it will open its columns to thé views of mem of different political opinions, reserving the right, as 'an independent Journal, of full expression onal questions or projects affecting the people imiapo litical way; and reserving, also, the "right to ex ue press emphatic condemnation of all projects, hay ing for their objectin a great or remote deg ree, the subversion of the principles of the British Constitution, or of British rule in the"Provinces. Not committed to the views of any religious sect exclusively, it will carefully observe the rights of every sect, at the same,time that a reser- vation shall be made in favor of an existing dif ference of opinion, as to the views or actions of the sects respectively. oe ~ * As an advertising medium, as a vehicle o1 1n formation on Agriculture,--and as, an enemy to vice in any and every conceivable form, and a promoter of good morals, it shall be made worthy of the patronage of the public. ee M. A: SHADD, Publishing Agent, ¥ Office, 5, City Buildings, King Street, Hast Toronto. Jia any ad _ --- - ier LECTURES, sieve Pe gia RUE EEC ie : The Rev. J. B. Smrru, will, by Divine permis sion preach and lecture on Slavery, lntemperanee and) kindred subjects, as follows: work At St. Catherines' ~~ =" 2 "Hamilton -- - - CP EQ O REE | *Southwoldsi + 82 o: <sBdst ines" April Ist, Qndpand Srdy 9.9 aa ay cant -Londvun the' - oi eo gaidanb The friends of the cause in the above will make suitable arrangements for the m Toronto, March 20th, 1854, It will be seen by the above that? Rav. J. E 'Smith, Missionary of the Me Will Pant Denomination, will show Visit the West ¢ business relating teMls mission, &c, Weho, friends and foes-"Mll turn out largely to hear him Mr. Smith «ll also receive subscriptions for th ah! ae 3 z appointments, viz. : The Hon. William H. Blake, " .pamusl B, Harrisoncand 5. The Rev. Egertion Ryerson. D, D, 1 be Com- | missioners te ex reise the Visitotial Cowers, with regard. to Upper Canada College and Royal Grammar School, and to ingfire into the State of discipline of that Tnxftution, the system of Teaching adopted thev™m, and the general Man- ag ment the eof, : Jaspar Muryay, of the City of Qube, Gentle- man, to be @ Landing Waiter and Seacher in Her Miyesy's Customs. ---- IMPERIAL APPOINTMENTS IN THE COLONIES. The Queen has been pleas to appoint Her- cules George Robert Robinson. Iesq.. to be Presi- dent and senior member of. the Council of the | Island of Montserret. Her Mijesty has also been pleased to appoint Sephen Rice and George Birtiie, Esqs., to be members of the Executive Conneil; and Joseph Hensly. Esq., to be a member of the Legislative Council, of Prince Edward's Island. Her Majesty has further been pleased to ap- point Alfred J. Duncome and William Hamilton, Esqs., to be members of the Legislative Council of the Turks and Caicos Islands. Power or Spirit,--Facts are obstinate before the understanding, and will not yield up the moral they contaih. Matter places itself in antagonism to intellect, and remains cold and dead. but sub- ject. both to the living rays of the spirit, and es- sence comes forth--fluidity begins. THE GOSPEL TRIBUNE. PROSPECTUS. The first number of a monthly paper, to be known as above indicated, is propos:d to be pub- lished in Toronto within a few months. and not. later than the First day of July, 1854. 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