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4 i tir, we are th friends, not the enemies riertr. But do not ciere the famous Treof Henry Clay, thnt whatever the law de-F10-. w.rrtnertv is property. Not a bit of it. alotte is property which, in earth and in air, can aiiatAtiftnM anil ntoptlmti fkA list rsce.

awt A which cannot he bridged over so that they Between ana mnn mere is a great it i. -1 hivnm mm and thi nairi tViincr .1 ah all the men nve truJ5lcd ft jth th integrity and sacredneM of human Tar down in the history of nations we see out fccbly and diinlv P'np, yet Bnd divinely among the children of Israel, Gr tn Romana, -be Red Sea, at Mara Thermopylte. in Leonidas and his three hun-jTspartsns. the expulsion of the Tnrquitis, in V'gglesof the Oracchi in behalf of the people jrJtrtBi. Brutus and Cato, in Rienri and Tell, in rdnetnl Hampden, in Washington and Lafayette, thousand other benefactors of the race, who rtcry and in son And may we not well ask jf all those immortal spirits, the liftht of whose 'orious txmple streams down upon us, toiled, and fc-red, and died, on the cross, in prison, at the stake, tke(Cftffold, and on the battle-field, that the world reap no mellower harvest than Fugitive S're Act, which require men to prove that they are the property of some trafficker in human flesh a better fruit than Dred Scott decisions, which declare that one race of men has no rights which anoth-g abound to respect? no nobler sentiment than atrocious dogma, becoming the rallying cry of a ftt party, 'which, under the attractive name of popular affirms that the majority have I light to enslave me minority mey cnooser ak Senators at this Board, I ask the young Sfljatt from Berkshire, (Mr.

Sumner,) the 'of whose native manhood have not, I trust, yet been wlioHy stifled, or blinded by the corrupting influence tl party drill I ak my friend from Middlesex, (Mr. Pitch,) whose heart I know throbs with a genuine for the people I ask the Senators from Suffolk, (Metfrt. Slade and Rich) I ask the Senator from Worcester, (Mr. Cook,) who has made himself a nest jon among the Israelites of three thousand years jgonho 6wears complacently by the Pentateuch, nben he can find a text in it which seems to sanction luaisn slavery, and who appears to believe that the terrible penalties denounced against the stealers and ifllers of men were intended to apply mainly, if not solely to the conductors of Underground Railroads Ink all the Democratic Senators here, if this Pop-slir Sovereignty dodge, whose broad mantle is made acover for crime and oppression, is to be regarded as the 'bright consummate flower of Democratic civil-fcitionr Is this the fruit which has grown and matured through the storms of adverse and successful vtr, and the sunshine of peaceful industry and prosperity? Is the grand old Declaration of Independence, under whose inspiring influence the people of this country waged their contest against British rule, this to be tuperseded by the brutal assumption that might makes right They tell us again that we are enemies to law and order. To a certain extent, so far as I am concerned, this is true, but it is only the law which enables the -strong to oppress the weak, the rich the poor, the wise the ignorant which makes justice a mockery, and mercy a crime, and every man either a kidnap per or his victim.

The order we would overthrow is that which reigned in Warsaw when Nicholas, by the lid of his whiskered Pandours and his fierce had placed his foot upon the neck of prostrate tod bleeding Poland, not that written in the decrees of Heaven. The law we would uphold is that Whose home is the heart of God whose voice The choral harmonies whereby The stars through all their spheres rejoice, The rythmic rule of earth and This law is not written upon parchment merely, but bitamped indelibly upon the Constitution of the Universe. And of this, all legitimate human enactments are but'the approximation or the abstract. We are the opponents of law, are we I went the other day over to Charlestown, and stood upon Bunker Bill. I saw there the statue of the youthful martyr, General Warren, who fell so early in the cause of human liberty.

A noble statue, looking up so calmly sad yet so earnestly towards heaven, as if drawing from thence the divine inspiration that deep trust sod faith in God and right, that urged him on to the peril which ended in his martyr grave. Gazing there, it seemed ns if I were transported across the intervening years, and stood on the brow of that hill on the morning of the 17th of June, 1775, and saw pawing before me the second act of the great historical drama of the Revolution. I saw the preparations for the combat. It seemed indeed as if I could almost make a reality of Job Pray in Lionel Lincoln and when the spectators pitched him headlong from Copps Hill, saw him launch his canoe, paddle across the river, and as he ascended the hill to join the could hear him shout Let the Rake bellies tome up to Breed's, the people will teach 'em the I saw the landing of the British troops, their formation into column, their march up the hill, their repulse and' retreat and return, the burning of the village to cover their advance could hear the rapid fusillade of the musketry, and ever and anon, from the surrounding hills and ships in the river, there thundered forth the 'diapason of the I saw the final torming of the breastwork, could hera the clash of Keel, the shout of defiance, the prayer for mercy, tfce yell of mortal agony; saw the fall of Wairen, nd the retreat of the Provincials round the hill and over the neck and, as the smoke of the battle and the burning village cleared away, the dead and the dying that strewed the ground on either side. And the terrible question presented itself then, as it does 'Why is all this? Why this sacrifice of life nd property? Why is man thus made a wolf to ttn? Was it to strengthen, extend, and perpetuate koman slavery, and enable Robert Toombs of Geor-fi to call the roll of his slaves at the foot of the toonnment which posterity would erect to commemorate that victorious defeat Certainly, from what we ee and hear around us, such would seem to have been ft end and aim of it all, and of the seven years' war kieh followed.

They had a great meeting in Faneuil Hall, in December, to save the Union once more to ap-P'y another layer of salt to its decaying frame. certainly does require very frequent appli- uons of the saline element, which can only be ao-uatd for by the supposition that the salt has lost iavor. Well, at that meeting, among many other "stable things, they passed and sent out the following Solution That we hereby denounce, as worthy of ttost unqualified condemnation, every expression fsentimmt, whether public or private, tending to tnuate or apologize for the conductor characters the criminal actors in the late outrages in Virin-. or to make them seem other than the guilty agents tod victims of a fanatical and guilty delusion; and hold thooe, in whatever station, or of whatever whose opinions and exhortations, hereto-uttered, have manifrstly tended to this great 7nK and crime, as fully responsible for it and all evU consequences before God and the ow, Mr. President, did the women of Boston and Vwbere, who, in the log-cabin and hard cider excitement of 1840, were able, by the aid of fashion folly, to complete what patriotism alone could ecomplish, did they suppose that within twen-7 7ers the solid men would gather in Faneuil Hall, instead of calling them blessed, denounce them incendiaries, if not murderers And yet so it is, k'tbat pile of granite is a perpetual sermon In fa-Tor insurrection and blood.

They are responsible, tha Republicans, for the Harper's Ferry inroad ad the judicial murder which have followed, begin 30. II LI BE A OR. 51 ning with the great martyr to truth and freedom, John Brown, and ending, at last, it is to be hoped, for the honor of human nature, wsith the execution of! Stevens and Hazlett. For, as lonjr as that column rM.i iis kict suait 10 neaven, ay, sir.yorerer, while the earliest light of morning gilds it, and parting day lingers and plays on its it shall testify for freedom and for man. The lesson it shall teach will be this: 'Resistance to tyrants is obedience to I have lingered long on this subject.

To me, it is fraught with momentous consequences to us and to posterity. Others may call it fancy legislation. It seems to me any thing but fanciful. It is an ever-present fact staring us in the face, and which in some way must be met and disposed of. Freedom or Slavery, which shall we have The hours of my brief legislative life are drawing rapidly to a close.

I wish that the record I leave behind me shall be in harmony with the professions I make, Man first, everything else With the world, it is too apt to be. everything else first, man afterwards. I believe in- i stitutions were made for man, not man for institutions Every thing else is transient and mutable. The human rsce is immortal. It was but the other day, where now stands this Tri-mountain City, so busy in the accumulation of its material wealth, the axe of the white man first broke the silence of the primeval forests.

How long will it be before this highly artificial and commercial life, which is ready to sacrifice everything for money, shall fade away, and, passing into the currents of history, shall dwell alone in the memory, with Bal-bec, and Palmyra, and Thebes, and Babylon, and all those places where Ruin itself stands styi for lack of work, And Desolation keeps unbroken Sabbath In Bulwer's thrilling but fanciful story of Zanoni, it is related that Megr.our and Zanoni had discovered the secret by which to withstand the influence of decay and death, and had lived without change through the revolutions of countless years. This may be fancy for individuals, but not necessarily for nations and races. And I can see no good reason why the life of a nation may not be as permanent and enduring as the life of the human race. There is but one way in which this can be done, and that is, by the exercise of those virtues and in the performance of those duties which, while they diffuse blessings far and wide to individuals, give strength and stability to the whole. I have spoken, Mr.

President, in the interest of no party, only as that party embodies the principles upon wmcn stand, iror tne sentiments utter, no one is responsible but myself. My appeal is made to the heart and conscience of every man, be he Republican or be he Democrat. I stand here as the representa- .1 TT live oi a portion oi vne xiepuuucan party. xit'ii- ry Wilson once said he was a Democrat of the Democrats. I think I can say I am a Republican of the Republicans.

I am a Republican, and, more than that, I am an abolitionist. And though I may not feci called upon, either here or elsewhere, to enter into a crusade against slavery across the boundary lines of national or municipal law, I still believe religiously in the Declaration of Independence as having its basis in the profoundest instincts and loftiest philosophy of human nature. I shall strive earnestly, as I may have opportunity, for the success of the Republicans in their efforts to obtain the control of the General Government; but the success for which I labor is not that which is to be measured and limited by the acquisition and possession of the spoils and power of office, but it is that which will shed a light upon the path, and guide safely into the haven of peaceful liberty the oppressed of every race and clime. As one means to this end as a beacon-light a veritable 'star on life's tremulous shining far out from every cape and headland along our rocky shores, let us make slavery an impossibility here, by declaring that on this little spot of earth called Massachusetts, if no where else, man shall be free. Mr.

Paeker, of Worcester, said that while he -was as warm an advocate of the rights of the slaves as any other Senator, he could not support the bill, which he considered was in direct violation of his oath of office and the constitution of this State and the United States. He then reviewed the history of slavery and the rendition of fugitive slaves from 1704 to the present time, with much minuteness. He dissented from the opinion of the Senator from Plymouth that we were not bound by pledges made by our fathers. He referred to the historical allusions made by Mr. Whiting, and contended that he was very unfortunate in those he had selected, as they went directly against the idea of preventing the rendition of slaves.

Mr. Parkeb said thnt while he would vote against any nullifying act, he would leave no honorable means untried at the ballot box. He closed his remaiks by expressing the hope that the-bill would be rejected, and that the resolves he had offered would be adopted as a substitute for the report of the committee. Mr. Cole, of Berkshire, opposed the bill, and said that he would not vote for such a bill, considering that to do so would be a violation of his oath, yet he would be willing to use every legitimate means to attain the object sought by moral suasion.

The debate was further continued by Messrs. Hotch-kiss, of Franklin, and Luce, of the Island District, in favor of the bill, when the vote on substituting the bill for the report was taken by yeas and nays, resulting in the refusal to substitute 10 to 22. Mr. Parker, of Worcester, moved to substitute the resolves offered by him for the report of the committee. Mr.

Whitino, of Plymouth, objected to the resolves being substituted, on the ground that the pe titioners had asked for a law to prohibit slave-hunting in Massachusetts, and the committee had reported on this, whereas the resolves were no answer to the petitions. Mr. Parker then withdrew the resolves, and the report of the committee was accepted. A GRATIFYING TESTIMONIAL. Friend Garrisox: It haa afforded me great pleasure to learn that the young men connected with the model House of C.

F. Hovey 33 Summer Street, have just procured, at a cost of about $75, a superb likeness of its late senior partner, our much esteemed friend and co-laborer, Charles F. Hovet, and have presented it to its present proprietors as a slight token of their regard for him who was ever, while living, giving th.m vidonce of his decu interest in tneir wcuare. We understand that the gift was received with a great deal of satb-faction by the gentlemen upon whom it was conferred, and we doubt not that the influence of this honorable act on the part of the donors will bejnoat happy upon both the givera and the recipients. The picture, which is a most beautiful work of art, and almot an impersonation of it esteemed original, is now banging in the counting-room of their House, where, we are informed, any of hi numerous friends will be permitted to see it.

We have gazed upon it to-day with a pleasure which could only be enhanced by being permitted to see its noble subject again animated with life, and actively aiding in the great work, so dear to his heart, of elevating and saving the human race. We hope that the friends of the now immortal Hovey will avail themselves of an early opportunity to see the best likenefs of him which has ever yet been executed, and which we think will be difficult to excel. Jcstitia. Boston, March 27, I860. XjT The portrsit alluded to by our correspondent is indeed marvellously accurate and life-like.

Ed, Lib. TESTIMONIES FROM SCOTLAND. Glasgow, March 9, 1860. Mt Dear Garrmox The enclosed hare been sent to me to be forwarded to you for insertion in the Liberator. Yours, affectionately, GEORGE THOMPSON.

Port Glasgow, March 6, 1860. To As Editor of The Liberator, Botton Sir Herewith I send you a resolution, adopted last night at a public meeting, and trust you will give it a place in your columns. With best wishes for your noble enterprise, I am yours very truly, WM. BIRKMYRE. A public meeting of the inhabitants of Port Glasgow waa held in the parish church on the 5th March, 1860, in reference to the subject of American Slavery Provost William Birxmtbe in the chair when the following resolution was moved by Mr.

Axdrew Glexdixxixo, seconded by William Caird, and unanimously agreed to Resolved, That this meeting express their abhorrence of the system of Slavery as it exists' in the United States of America, and their deep sorrow in contemplation of the fact that it is practised and upheld by the majority of the profes-edly Christian churches of that country and would offer to all who are engaged in the work of promoting its abolition their hearty sympathy, and best wishes for their speedy and entire success. WILLIAM BIRKMYRE, Provott. Greenock, March 7, 1860. To the Editor of The Liberator, Botton Sir I enclose copy of a resolution passed last night at a public meeting. You will oblige by giving it due publicity.

I am yours truly, ANDREW GLENDINNING, Convener of Meeting. At a public meeting of the inhabitants of Greenock, N. convened to consider the subject of American Slavery, it was unanimously Resolved, That the spectacle of four millions of slaves, owned as in a land professedly republican and Christian, should excite the indignation, and call forth the remonstrances, of all who call themselves the lovers of freedom, and the friends of Christianity and this meeting do record the expression of their detestation of the system, their sympathy with the slaves, their condemnation of those by whom they are held in bondage, and their admiration of all in the United States who are laboring to remove from their country its scandal and its curse. The resolution was moved by the Rev. John Guthrie, and seconded by the Rev.

John Forstth, on the understanding that it be forwarded to America for publication. JAMES DUFF, Provost and Chief ilagittrale, Chairman. EXPLANATORY AND DEFENSIVE. New York, March 26, 1860. Editor of The Liberator: Dear Sir In your issue of March 23d, you give a very severe notice of a little work from the pen of Rev.

W. W. Cazalet, on The Human Voice, just published by us. In that notice you say of the book, Its disregard of all rules of punctuation is absolute, and makes a ridiculous jumble of the reading And then you proceed to give specimens. If you had read the book with sufficient care to have learned the object and intent of the author in writing it, we are sure your notice would have been quite different.

The author claims to have discovered a better system of punctuation than the old one, and this work is, in part, designed as an argument in favor of the new system. He expressly aimed, not not only to disregard the old method of punctuation, but to put forth a new method, and to sustain it by argument and by examples. This new method is, of course, a fair subject of criticism but that the author proposes a new method, you seem to have entirely overlooked. Of course, we would not print a work thus violating the rules of punctuation, except it were put forth by the author purposely as a new system, with reasons sustaining its use. If the new system of punctuation is defective, we ask no favor for it but pray spare us as publishers, and our proof reader, from the censure of such ignorance of punctuation as your notice, by implication, lays at our door and oblige Yours, very truly, FOWLER WELLS, (by P.

S. Please read the Preface, in which the author says I am quite aware that the opinions I have advanced are contrary to those generally received. We believe you tolerate new and radical views. F. W.

Replt. The better system of claimed to have been discovered by Mr. Cazalet, is an utter disregard of every rule yet laid down for guidance in writing and printing, and too absurd to deserve the slightest consideration. Its only claim to originality is its folly. LETTER OF We received, a short time since, the following letter of inquiry from an anti-slavery clergyman in a distant town in this Commonwealth: Mr.

Garrison Who is John Madison A man calling himself by this name came to my door, one day last week, and introduced himself as an anti-slavery lecturer. I received him. He said he hailed from New York City had been seven years in the field had -lectured in every county in New York had been frequently through Massachusetts, over the Canadas, I was very busy, and had little time to converse with him, but gave him a note to the trustees of my Church, requesting them to open the house to him. They did so with great cheerfulness. The hour for the lecture came, and I went into the church to hear a.

man who represented himself as a veteran Anti-Slavery lecturer. I heard, and I must indulge the hope that mortals are seldom doomed to suffer from chagrin and mortification as I did under that performance. It was awful. It waa illiterate, silly, and absurd. He made himself and the subject utterly ridiculous.

He is the first Anti-Slavery lecturer who has visited this town for several year. He has injured the cause, and made it difficult for a decent man to get a hearing. What do you know of him? If he is what he claims to be, you must know him welL Please enlighten us. I can assure you that it would be a relief to the friends of Anti-Slavery here to know that he is an impostor. If, however, he is a well-meaning man, but unfortunate, and an object of pity rather than contempt, please write me to that effect, and we will summon patience and fortitude to enable us to bear the disgrace and reproach which this man must everywhere bring upon our cause.

Keflt. We know nothing more of John Madison' than that he seems to be a(strolling adventurer, going from place to place as a professed anti-slavery lecturer, pretending a personal acquaintance with leading Republicans and Abolitionists, and quarter ing himself upon them wherever he can, full of as surance and dogmatism, and utterly incompetent to make a sensible or coherent speech. Indeed, from all we have seen and heard of him, we are charitably in clined to regard him as somewhat demented in mind. and therefore not to be held to the strictest accounts bitity. He appears to have originated at the South He should receive no encouragement whatever in the lecturing field.

Erf. Lib. From the Anti-Slavery Standard of March 24. EXECUTION AND BURIAL OF STEVENS AND HAZLETT. On Friday, the 16th Aaron D.

Stevens and Albert Hazlett, the last of the Harper's Ferry prisoners, were put to death upon the scaffold, at Charles-town, Va. Of "all the despotisms in the world, none is so implacable as the Slave Power of the United States. It knows, neither justice nor mercy in any case where its prerogatives are assailed. Influential pro-slavery men at the North besought Gov. Letcher to pardon Stevens, assuring him that such clemency would promote the interests of the Democratic party, while the execution of the unfortunate prisoner, unnecessary as it was to Southern security, would the flame of anti-slavery excitement in the free States but the appeal was in vain.

Nothing less than the death of every one of those concerned with John Brown in the effort to give liberty to the slaves would satisfy the vindictive spirit of Virginia. THE BURIAL. In accordance with an arrangement made with the prisoners before the day of execution, and with the assent of the Executive of Virginia, the bodies were immediately conveyed to Eagleswood, near Perth Amboy, N. to the house of Mr. Marcus and Mrs.

Rebecca B. Spring, where the funeral services took place on Sunday last. Mr. Aaron Stevens and Mrs. Lydia Pierce, the father and sister of Aaron D.

Ste vens, both of Norwich, Mr. Meech. his uncle, of Griswold, and the Miss Dunbar alluded to in another account of the execution, were present. No relative of Hazlett attended. The Rev.

Hiram P. Arms, of Norwich, pastor of the church of which the father of young Stevens is a member, conducted the religious services. The house of Mr. Spring was crowded by the residents of Eagleswood, (including teachers and scholars connected with the school of Theodore D. Weld,) and by citizens of Perth Amboy.

The services commenced with singing the hymn, Come unto me, and I will give you rest. The Rev. Mr. Arms then read selections from the Scriptures, and made some very pertinent and impressive remarks, suggested by the painful scenes through which the deceased had been called to pass. He said he had known young Stevens only as a boy, at which period of his life he was noted for the promptness and zeal with which he always espoused the cause of the weak and the defenceless.

It was this trait of his character, no doubt, that led him to hate slavery, and made him willing to unite with John Brown in an effort to break the chains of its victims. Mr. Arms having offered an appropriate prayer, Mr. Theodore Tilton, of New York, made an address, in which the topics suggested by the occasion were handled with a power that stirred every heart. Mis.

Rebecca B. Spring then read some very interesting extracts from letters written by Aaron D. Stevens during his incarceration, showing that he considered it an honor to die in the cause of liberty, and that hia last days were cheered by the hope of a blessed immortality. Oliver Johnson made a few remarks, and Mrs. Spring read a hymn that had been a favorite with Stevens, and that he had copied for her just before his death.

Mr. Spring, after remarking that the remains of the deceased were not in a condition to be seen, exhibited a photographic likeness of Stevens, taken only a short time before his execution, and asked those present to judge whether a man whose face presented so many indications of nobleness deserved to die the death of a felon. The exercises were concluded with singing the hymn, Nearer, my God, to The bodies of the dead, followed by nearly all the residents of the place in solemn procession, were then borne to the Eagleswood cemetery, where they were interred side by side, near the graves of James G. Birney and Arnold Buffum. Our readers will observe with satisfaction that Stevens and Hazlett followed the example of John Brown in declining the ministrations of the clerical champion of slavery.

No man-stealing minister was permitted to desecrate their last hours with the mockery of his prayers and exhortations. example, in this respect, was worthy of the cause in which they Buffered, and it cannot fail to exert a salutary influence at the South as well as at the North. Free Negro Bill in Missouri. Some time ago a disgraceful bill was passed by the Legislature of Missouri, excluding free r.ep;roes from the State and vetoed by the Governor. At the present session, it appears, the measure was revived and repassed.

The result of this second effort is found in the following report, which we copy from the St. Louis Republican of the 18th A message from the Governor has been announced and read. In the message he gives his reasons at length for returning the bill without his signature. Among others, he states that he entertains doubts of the constitutionality of the measure, and is of the opinion that it would act prejudicially to the interest sought to be sustained, and that it was uncalled for, and calculated to tend to political After noticing intervening discussion, the report continues: Mr. Ament then renewed his motion to consider the free negro bill and on the question, shall the bill pass, the' objections of the Governor notwithstanding, being put, the ayes and nays were called.

Ayes 53, nays 30. There not being a majority of the whole number of members elected voting in the affirmative, the bill did not pass. I Gov. Stewart, in this instance, has done himself honor, and saved the honor of the State over whose interests he presides and deserves the thanks of all the friends of human rights. Senator Wilson and the Slave Trade.

The Washington correspondence of the New York Herald says Senator Wilson has opened the war in earnest upon the slave trade, and strikes in the right direction. He introduced, to-day, three separate propositions. First, for the construction of five steamers, of a size and armament to suit the African coast, and costing one million of dollars. Second, for reducing the punishment of those convicted of engaging in the slave trade from death to imprisonment for life, as more likely to insure conviction, and rendering shipowners equally liable with officers and crew. Third, a resolution of inquiry as to the expediency of instructing the President to enter into treaty stipulations with foreign nations, for the mutual right of visitation and search of vessels found within two hundred miles of the coast of Africa.

These several propositions Mr. Wilson designs pressing upon Con-gress, and intends, if possible, to secure action upon Abolition of Slavery, In the U. S. Senate, on Tuesday, Mr. Sumner presented the memorial of Samuel May, a distinguished and venerable merchant of Boston, and 400 others, citizens of Boston, praying for the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.

the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, the prohibition of the inter-State slave trade, and the passage of a resolution pledging Congress against the admission of any new slave State into the Union, or i i. i me BL-tuiBiiiuu vi miiy ointe itrrniurj, or ir.e employment of slaves by any agent, contractor, officer cr department of the Federal Government. He moved a reference to the Judicial Committee. Mr. Davis moved that it lay on the table.

Agreed to yeas 30, nays 17. Slavery finally Abolished in Kansas. We stop the press to announce the joyful tidings that the bill Srohibiting slavery in Kansas has just passed both ranches of the Legislative Assembly, by the requisite two-thirds majority over the Governor's veto, and is now the law of the land Six years ago, the Democracy abolished the time-honored ordinance of Freedom, and threw wide open the gates of this beautiful Territory to Slavery. To-day, the People, striding defiantly over the veto of a Democratic Federal Governor, and the votes of a majority of that party, in both branches of the Legislative Assembly, have reestablished he old ordinance of liberty in these words Slavery or involuntary servitude, except for the punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, is and shall be forever prohibited in this Territory This act shall take effect from and after its passage. The victory is at last won.

Now let ns see whether the Democracy in Congress will dare to pass a slave code. Lawrence (Kansas') Republican. A Fugitive Slate Cass. Philadelphia, March 27th, 1860. A young negro named Moses Horner was brought here last night from Harrisburg, on a charge of being a fugitive slave.

He is claimed by Charles T. Butler of Virginia. The case was before the United States District Court, Judge Cadwallader, this morning, but at the request of the fugitive's counsel, it was postponed until this afternoon. Considerable excitement exists among the Abolitionists in regard to the matter. At the hearing of the fugitive slave case this afternoon, George H.

Earle, counsel for the prisoner, objected to the transcript of the proceedings of the Jefferson County Court, the name of the prisoner being spelt in various ways, and there being numerous alterations and erasures. Mr. Brewster, counsel for the owners, produced evidence proving the identity of the slave, aft.r which the hearing adjourned till morning. LorisviLtz. March 27.

A man named Hanson, who wasrecentlv expelled from Berea, Madison county, Ky with G. Fee. returned to Berea, whereupon a committee waited upon him, for the purpose of again ordering him from the county. Hanson, with twenty-five or thirty associates, armed with rifles, fired upon the committee, but without injuring any one. Hanson's party then retreated, and barricaded themselves in a house.

The committee, which is composed of twenty-five or thirty men, are armed with revolvers. A military force has been entered from Lexington, and it is thought the disturbance will soon be quieted. Revolt on Board a Coolib Shit. We are informed that letters have been received fronTCapt. Winsor.

ot amp Viking, of this port, at Hong Kong. Decern- ber 30th, loading Coolies, stating that they had re- 1 volted, but were subdued after firing among them several times, and confining them in the hold for three days. Neto Bedford Standard. WhaCa in the Wind A special despatch to the Charleston Courier states that private advices from the Northern and Eastern States mention the receipt there of large orders for light ordnance and improved small arms, including revolvers and bowie knives. In most -cases they are to be delivered for shipment from the American Gulf the orders comin; from agents cf Spanish and Mexican houses.

In Prussia the Minister of the Interior has ordered that the bastinado, as an instrument of punishment for prisoners, shall be abolished. ST" Mr. Monroe's bill to prevent slaveholding and kidnapping in Ohio, came up for final action in the Senate on the 23d, and was passed by a vote of 20 to 12. Zjf It is proposed in Atlanta, that a subscrip tion be raisel by the females there, for the relief of the white girls and women who are asking for higher wages. The person who makes the proposition offers to contribute one hundred dollars to start with.

VW An elderly gentleman was cowhided by a lady in Union Square, New York, on Sunday evening. She held him tight, whipped, him soundly, slapped his face, and then walked away. Supposed to have been a bloated aristocrat and an injured woman. The widow of the late Rev. Robert Hall died at her residence, near Bristol, England, on the 15th uhgLXhe advanced age of 74.

UP Slave Trade. It is rumored at Savannah that the steamer City of Norfolk, recently plying between that port and New York, has been sold to parlies in the latter city who intend to make alterations to increase her speed, and then send her to Africa for a cargo of negroes, CP Three brothers named Bunker, residing near Des Moines, were hanged in the woods of Tama recently, by a number of persons from whom they had stolen horses. It appears that a Mr. Small, member of the City Council of Des Moines, and Seaman, a constable of Des Moines, were the chief actors in this lawless deed of vengeance. Small and Seaman were arrested, but made their escape from the sheriff.

CP The friends of Judge Bates have given publicity to the statement that he has emancipated his slaves. Says the St. Louis Evening Pott So far from this being the case, it is undeniable that they ran away from him, and he used every means in his power to recapture mem. Over Three Hundred From the com mencement of the hurricane on the night of Oct. 24th last, which swept the coasts of England and Ireland, to the 9th of Novemoer, three hundred and twenty Ave vessels were wrecked, and seven hundred and for ty-eight lives were lost.

The work of destruction was unparalleled in the maritime records of England. CPThe Atlanta (Georgia) Southern Confederacy, an extreme pro-slavery organ, sums up an estimate of Senator Seward's speech, thus: 'On the whole, the late speech of Senator Seward is an able effort, candid. manly, and bold and it will be read with pleasure by his friends, and should be read and pondered on by his political toes. NEW SERIES OP ANTI-SLAVERY TRACTS. We announce with much pleasure the Usue of three new and valuable Anti-Slavery Tracts.

They consist of the freshest and most interesting matter, and we invite to them the attention of all our readers. As they are to be sold at the simple cost, (or less,) we hope that orders for them will be numerous. The series is to be continued, from time to time. The three already published are as follows No. 1.

Correspondence between Lydia Maria Child and Governor Wise and Mrs. Mason, of Vir-28 pp. No. 2. Victor Hugo on American Slavery, with letters of other distinguished individuals, De Tocqueville, Mazzini, Humboldt, Lafayette, 24 pp.

r- No. 8. 4 Account of some of the Principal Slave In surrections during the last two Centuries. By Joshua Coffin. 36 pp.

Plice of the first two of the above, five cents single 50 cts. the dozen $3 50 the hundred. Of No. 3, six cts. single; 60 cents the dozen; $4 the hundred.

CF To be had at the Anti-Slavery Offices, 5 Beek-man street, New York 107 North Fifth street, Philadelphia; and 21 Cornhill, Boston. LcT" The American Anti-Slavert Society has also just published, in a neat pamphlet form, the able and eloquent speech of Theodore Tilton, of New York, in reply to Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, on the American Board of Foreign Missions. Orders for these should be sent to the Secretary's Office, No. 5 Beekman street, New York.

Price, three cents single $2 50 per hundred. READ THIS. The subscriber can now furnish copies of the Photograph of LYDIA MARIA CHILD, with autographic fac simile, executed by Ormsbee, at the low prico of 50 cents. Also, the few remaining Lithographs of JOHN BROWN, at $1.00 each and will receive orders for the handsome Colored Engraving, 20 by 28 inches, of the BOSTON MASSACRE on sheet, gilt frame, $3.50. As the stone on which this design was drawn has been accidentally destroyed, this is a rare chance for purchasing, aa the stock on hand is very limited.

All the above will be mailed safely without additional cost, WILLIAM NELL, Boston, March 12, 1860. 21 Cornhill. fcif Donation to Massachusetts Anti-Slavery So ciety, at Annual Meeting From Richard. Clap, of Dorchester, $10. FAST DAY.

EP OLD COLONY. A regular quarterly meeting of the Old Colony Anti-Slavery Society will be held on Fast Day, April 5th, at Duiburt, in the Universal is Meeting-house, commencing at half-past 10 o'clock. A. which all persons are invited to attend. Members of the Society, and friends of the Anti-Slavery Cause generally, are especially requested to come.

Wm. Llotd Garrison. Charles L. Remond and other speakers are expected to be present. BOURNE SPOONER, President.

Samuel Dyer, Secy. TIT ESSEX COUNTY. A quarterly meeting of the Essex County Anti-Slavery Society will be held at GROYELAND, in the Free Church, commencing Saturday evening, 31st March, at half-past 7 o'clock, and continuing on Sunday, April 1st. Andrew T. Foss, Henry Wright, and Char lxs L.

Remond, will be present. CHARLES L. REMOND, President. Moses Wright, Sec'y. CP WM.

WELLS BROWN will lecture in Hay-denville, on Friday, March. 30 and in Gumming-ton, on Sunday, April 1. SALLIE HOLLEY. an Avnnt nf th Maasa. chuaetta Anti-Slavery Society, will lecture aa fol-lows: East Templeton, Teinpleton, Bald win ville, Sunday, April 1.

Tuesday, S. Thursday, 6. DIED In this city, March 19. Mrs. Mast LC, wife of Deacon Coffin Pitts, aged 62 same day, William, son of James and Ax Flint, aged 10 years.

i- -t In Reading, March 22, of consumption, Va-renus Ai O. D. G. Hartshorn, aged -22 years. DR.

GREAT WORK. The Guilt of Slavery, and the CRIME OF SLAVimOLDING, DEMOSSTRATED FROM THE HEBREW A.VD REEK SCRIPTURES. B7 KEV. GEO. B.

CHXEVEB. D. D. THIS work embrace an examination of all the passages in the Bible on the subject of Slavery and Slaveholding as a sin against God and man. jit contains a thorough analysis of the Mosaic laws of domestic service, as well as of tributary subjection and of the national history in illustration of the law The learned author has spent years of research upon this work, and it is teithout doubt the ablest effort of his life, and the most thorough demolition of all pro-ela-very arguments, based upon the Scriptures of the Old and Xeu Testaments.

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