The Liberator from Boston, Massachusetts • 4

iiH D'MOR 1 the legislature is eecured to every i i tr a 1 bi I HE 'subscriber taken' the'store No 25 I 1 relief diately give I 9t A 5 i i n4' 7 institution much less any right to people on what subject they shall ill i 'iS 7 7 'X: 3' 1 '2 Sv freemen to their public servants ot i io De uuiiw iiierwiujvy hit the recent vote of the legislature New York rejecting the petition of eemenof Madisoivcountv is wan of oower over the people? anti re cratic and dictatorisi an act which no legislative convention or con iy respectful petition though signed wir mwamRa i kt i I ii i 7 The editors of the New York Ob 1 1 be nresent lt sucn a proceeding ce place why do we see'no mention! nan and New Orleans aaners jou tu 1 field battery of six guns foursix two twenty four pound a5 pHE subscriber has taken the'store No JL'V Combill(directly opposite the Rooms) where may be found allitheanti slavery publications of the day iaf the publisher's prices The publication office of the Liberator js ka aa A nlvn Subscriptions solicited for the Liberator toe 4 Emancipator Philanthropist Human Kights riend iif Man Herald of Monthly Record riend 7 I The friends of the subscriber are inform thatne intends to have on hand a general nent of books and stationary which will be soiu nt reasonable prices Orders from the country for ie re adopted people are sovereign end all pow THE BOCIJ BSTEllyNi JK SLAVERY held its annual meeting 19 at THE ABOLITION LECTUBE is Al suistance of a Dialog be tween the Selectmen of Dedham and tuo Ciiium irt the Town Haute March 1836 1 havapetiti6ii of seventy citizens asking the use of the townhouse for a lecture on Slavery by Mr Stanton "Selectman We have heard of your petition be you have the town house for that pur pose "j' i' I am sorry you deny us before you hear our reasons' Tho town has voted that the town house may be used for literary and' scientific lec tures and for other purposes but not for religious meetings provided ten citizens petition for it Yes so I understood it that vote lays the foundation for our petition all who wantthe town hall have it without denial Slavery is a very excitable subject Oh yes and that is the reason why we wish to he ar a lecture on the subject' Congress our own Legislature the Southern States and the whole civilized world seem to be 4 quite excited The newspapers and most of the literary journals of the day contain many highly interesting that is exciting essays on the subject We wish to under stand the merits of thesedisputes If the Select men or any body else arexpposed to such kind of excitement as this they may stay at home and re main in ignorance that will be a complete protec tion against excitement so far as regards them selves 9h ii a But we wish to avoid disturbance What will make disturbance? Notour respectful petition or lecture Rut will not thia at tempt to interrupt free discussion more likely make disturbance? rf' Sele You will be mobbed if you have a lecture on Slavery r' I think this argument or threat a great libel on the town But if you really fear the mob th at "is no' reason for denying us our equalright choose rather tobe put down by the shouts or blows of the than by the fear of the mob especially when a Selectman assigris that as a reason for pre venting free discussion The Selectmen are good men and honest and they do pot intend it but they really do abet and aid the" mob spirit when they mention thd fear of the mob as a reason for their decision 1 i 1 wish peopletwouiuminusineir own business I mind my own business when 1 seek to enlighten my own conscience and diffuse knowl edge that is duty imposed on us by God and the constitution' Do they mind their own business who nnrtllACQant nhAtAClC9 Ifl tJlG WHY? 4 Another Citizen Lam opposed to all kinds of lectures and meetings in the town house these run about lecturers before the Lyceum only want to get our money I think Mr Pierpont disgraced himself by delivering lectures in this hall My neighbor has delivered an opinion which will be deemed rather an innovation of men notions in the nineteenthcentury It is raker a bold doctrine to advance now condemn the Ly ceum the common popularjectures there delivered to censure this most efficacious method of diffusing knowiedgeBut the selectmen I suppose will not be bold enough to go so far at one bound They choose to take a more cautious to stop enquiry on one subject only You may appeal fpm our decision to the next town meeting 0h no the Selectmen are the proper tribunal to decide our petition they are made the executive officers to grant pur prayer I would by no means give the town an opportunity to exercise the Popish jlf we appeal it will be to the good sense of the people to ask them whether they wish to have appliedin this case a principle whichiia tho £nltion iritulcrunco anu per oecutibn Dedham Gazelle 4 A sX! Io Tnx Town House Question is under discussion aoain in our columns to daj sThe refusal of the Selectmen to grant the use of the Hall for an An ti Slavery lecture can excuse but the fear of incurring the displeasuresof the town should a disturbance take place in consequence But this we apprehend no one anticipate? There is a gen eral disposition to hear and calmly judge the mer its of the Slavery question in Dedham We are proverbially a quiet people wjp have no mob lead ers and none we trust who would disgrace them selves by countenancing popular u' 4 JOHN QUINCY vii if freedom of speech ana me right of petition as exercised and asserted by John Quiney Mams late President of the sited States a man eminent for ability knowledge virtue public service and irreproachable private character Have called forth ifrom the Albany Argus a paper claiming to be the organ df that party the Post says but has riever proved is the advocate of largest the following decentgentle manly and liberal exclamation How discreditable is it to the country that the Mas sachusetts madman is permitted not only to outrage all order and decorum in the house but to scatter incen diary evil and excitement throughout the country I Permitted List ye sons of freedom to the la ment of a patent democrat fattening upon the spoils of "a deluded people that a representative of the people should be permitted to think and speak his thoughts in the Congress of the United States! American 1 A Talk of Blood The following affecting scene which took place lately at Bastia tin Cor sica proves that the Vendetta system is at least not universal among the natives of that island A fanner named Bonelb was informed that his only son had been murdered' He arrived in time to receive the last sigh The mur derer was seized and brought to trial and the father was produced as a witness against him On being examined he said I finding my beloved son mortally woufided and his murderer standing by with his hands still reeking with the blood of my only child my first movement was to avenge his death with my twn hands A senti ment of religion however suspended this feeling and bending over my son as he was on the point of expiring I urged him to (pardon the 'murderer as he hoped for mercy from heaven He uttered the word and breathed his last I also pity more than I hate his murderer My son did not deserve his fate but though you may smite the assassin his victim will mot be raisedrom his Notwithstanding this affecting address the culprit was found guilty? land sentenced to hard labor at the hulks for eighteen years Temperance in' all things' We have not seen so strong an argument in favor of temperance in all things as is presented in the Obituary of the Society of for the year ending 1836 Here is an our last number we noticed as a remarkable feature of the obituary that of those i whose deaths were recorded in it an unusual portion had attain ed to advanced age but in ithe present obituary that portion of this class is tstill greater1 Out of rather more than 200 adults (there are 90 persons from 70 to 98 presenting an average of full 80 years of these one fourth are from 78 to98 pre senting an average of full83 years and 10 are from 90 to 98 presenting ran average of full 94 i Bosfon Strange as it may appear in this Athens of America a scoundrel named Graham is lectur ing exclusively "to females of the abolition faith a motlyr collection of white and black on the subject of the duties of women and" to illustrate his views obscene transparencies are presented to tho company exhibiting subjects in a state of nudity for the improvement of nix hearers Twenty six ladies of color and twenty if the white shade have published a card" in defence1 of Graham for his ability in demonstrating on anatomical principles that in the dai all cats are grey WilliamsBown Coi "should avail thomselves of the services of this practical Abolitionist to lecture in this Pittsburg is high praise to be denounced by such a paper as the Manufacturer I ll t' 1 Total Loss or as Americas Pckkt The Liverpool Chronicle lhellth March gives a melancholy account of the wreck' of an American paekit ship oh the Welsh coast on the' 24th ebruary three miles north of Newport (Pembrokeshire) daring almost violent gale' of wind from She had been seen off the coast that morning but the haze of the weather afterwards hid her from sight The next morning thia coast from near Cardi gan to the' western part of Newport Bay was strewed with the pieces of masts bowsprit dock planks chests doming and pieces ef huU plank all confirming that she wasn American built vessel and nearly new the wood being quite 'The signboard had been picked np inpieeei on the top part there was Packet on another piece Thomas? and ba tho third piece fair Now end for Liverpool'sHer name: could not bd ascertained as note soul escaped to toll the mournful tale your brethren whom in the eye of the Diviae law you are bound to love and tojrelieve and you forbear to deliver them that are dtawn Unto death and those that ar? ready toibe slmn and it you say behold we know it not doth not be that pon dereth the heart considef itR and he that kccpetlf thy soul doth not he know it? and shall not he render to man according to hw Recognize the great principles that all men what ever be the color of their skint have by nature equal rights and that it is the immediate right of the slave to have emancipation and the immediate duty of thrmaster to grant it and employ every law ful' means such ns exampip discussion and the diffusion of information for carrying these princi pies into full effect and thefe your national bright ness will be without a spot sand the delight which good men feel in your prosperity will be without ad alloy a We beseech you as fellow Christians regard find act upon the free and spirit of the gospel Loffers the high privileges cf salvation to all classes It opens the gates of teaven to the black "as well as to the white man It tells us thar in Christ Jesus there are neither bon! nor free but that all are one family of which Goc is the head It softens and removes wherever it comes and pours into the wounds of society the healing oil of gladness and joy The Redeemer gopei iy viwuil um shall American Christiana interfere and say Lord not to the sons of Africa The Divire Judge says Love all mep: and shall the! fearers of his name America sav Lord ejemptjhe colored race The blessings of love and mercy descend Jikq the rays of the sun upon alljands and shall the government of the freest people in the world! in terpose an enactment to prevent these bleismgs from falling on the black and degraded children of Hard? Such conduct is assuredly not doing oth ers as you would wish them to do to you Our will clearlv taught in the Bible is thit you love these men give them equal privilege! with yourselves and lead them with you to heaver and it you disregard this will fou exclude vounelves from the family of God Remember the oi' Egypt The cry of the suffering slaves is aseend inw to heaven and is entering into the ears of the Lord ofSabaoth and he who beard the groan'ng of the burdened Israeliteswil hear the sighiig ol your prisoners and display in your land unless speedy repentance prrest his arm the wide wisting judgments of his awful powpr It ia with unsoeaJcable pleasure that we hove heard that numerous societies have been formed among you for the glorious purpose of procuring by constitutional and peaceful means the immedi ate emancipation bl the negroes These societies have our entire 'and cordial approbation and our fervent prayers for their success Their principles appear to us to be accordant with scripture and hu man and the plan ef operations which they have adopted to be that which seems beat calculat ed to gain the end which all the sincere opponents of slavery have in nitmely the freedom of the enslaved We bid these societies God speed we encourage them tevgo forward jjndismayed by difficulties scorn ana danger the demons who compose them are in ourj opinibnj'fhe best and truest friends of America and we warn others against opposing them lest! it be in their case as it was with those Who compelled Moses to flee from Egypt when he interfered with his brethren that they retard for many years the full prosperity happiness and glory of theit country and be oblig 1 ed to implore those very men whom they now de spise to assist in regeuing them from the dreadful evils in which the perpetuating of slavery willun doubtedly involve them Despise not this remonstrance Say not that it comes from a comparatively small and uninflue tial place and that it is the act of those who are adorned neither with rank jiower nor wealth We are however free men and cqn you bear the scorn of thlovor ofJiborty this appeal in behalf of thellnjured negroes comes from the working classes from the inhabitants of a manufacturing district proves that your guilty conduct has excited universal astonishment and called into operation feelings which shall prompt incessant rebukes till ye the bands of wick edness undo the heavy burdens let tfie oppressed go free and break every yoke? ebruary 1837 Here follow signatures OUR THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED in number Well done the beautiful Vale of Leven I TXi A HD el 1 rrmoNstrance ON THE SUBJECT i AMERICAN SLAVERY JEJu the Inhabitants of Dumbarton and the Kale of At a public Meeting held on the second ebmary 1837' in the United Secession Dumbarton or the purpose of hearing a lecture on the subject oft slavery as it exists in the United States of America it wasz unanimously resolved that a Kt monitance on this subject should be prepared and sent to the citizens of America In coinph knee with this motion the followingremenstrance was submitted to another public meeting on the same subject held on the 6th curt in the Rchef Church BonhiH and unanimously appv MM time It WM grd tht Ji 'hoW he signed by persons of both sexes living in Dumbar ton and the Vale of Leven and in this form trans mitted to our American brethren REMONSTRANCE $To thd Citizens if the United States of America wiutnfi ellow Christians I iVTe the undersigned inhabitants of Dumbarton and the Vale of Leven in Scotland address you in the spirit of kindness and brotherly love We dis claim all right to dictate to you to 'interfere with your political institutions or to do anything that is inconsistent with the dignity of freemen and the charity of the gospel Prompted by sympathy for the oppressed and warranted by the right or our common naturewe as one portion of the family of man would affectionately but solemnly remonstrate you as another portion of this family on the guilt infamy and danger practising or counte nancing social slaveryThat period we tryst in the history of civilization has arrived when wars of aggression shall cease and when nations instead of contending by armed forces shall emulate each other in deeds of benevolence and shall reciprocal ly exert the exciting and moulding influence which their attairrmenta in liberty in science in learning and in religioii qualify them to put forth Ours is amoral interference founded on the great princi ples ef humanity the laws df God and the dictates of the an interference which the state of things in your country constrains us to which we you to reciprocate with regard to our and which all (good and benevolent men will respeet Allow us then to lay before you the views which lire entertain with reference to slavery We abhor slavery ins all its forms as a system man corrupts society and provokes God It sears all kindly feelings in the heart of the master brutalizes his nature and assimilates him to a malnant inflicting upon the help kS "uJ eringd wo? It his naturalTights wrests from him his personalla bor and converts him into a chattel and beast of burden thus putting him into condition where by physical necessity he is prevented from discharg ing the high duties of responsible creature It considers men as mere animals devoid of immor tal souls that may be bought and sold and used like cattle and articles of merchandise Other sins are generally individual even despotism is the deed of one or at most of a but slavery is iniquity established by and involves either as agents or abettors all the members of that im munity where it exists It is a flagrant viola tion of the design of social government the grand purpose of which to protect and secure tho persons pro and rights of mankind for the nation in which slavery is sanctioned is Ah association formed on and ruffian principle of one class of human beings degrading permanently another and profiting by their bondage theif toils and their blood It is a system rife with indescribable hor rors the working of which spreads guilt pollution and misery through all parts of the land and causes tU" ym untniBaLHQir uzhaui mmu i 1 1 hearts a cry which there is reason to feari the Di vine Ruler will yet answer in terrible retribution We detest this system wherever it is found and in what form soever Whether the slaves wait' on an Eastern despot or serve the President of a great republic we welcome them as brethren pity their degradation and in the name of insulted and outraged humanity We demand their freedom But slavery assumes its darkest and most loathsome form when it is connected with the in stitutions of a free generous and enlightened peo just as poverty becomes more squalid and dis gusting when it is seen'beside the glare of wealth and grandeur We felt this as applied to Qurselvefe denlored the existence of slavery tn tho British gnih whhh it had brought upon us labored to procure the lib erty of our enslaved fellow subjects and as an evidence of our repentance and sincerity we gave twenty millioMaterling to gain their emancipation It is therefor with feelings of deepest grief and shame that tve learned that there are upwards of two millions wf claves in the United States that I the condition of these in many states is exceeding ly miserable they de not legally enjoy the benefits of marriage and the sweet affinities of fhther husband and brother that they are general ly denied th advantages of education and that property in chan the accursed traffic in human be mgs and all the horrid attendants of slavery are countenanced and perpetuated by the laws of your country We deplbre this system of things on account of the slaves on account of the free citizens and on account ofthe serious injury which it does to the saered cause of liberal principles America is a great and a splendid nation and has been contem plated with the liveliest interest as a magnificent experiment regarding what enlightened and patriot ic men unopposed by prejudices by illiberal cus toms by vested rights and by adverse interests can accomplish for the social welfare and happiness of man Peopled by persons who came from other lands and who cameo with uthem intelligence ex perience and piety your country obtained at the very outset wise and excellent institutions It was a new and peculiar state of tbings that a matured system of laws should be given to a nation at thefirst and as there was nothing in the condition of the people to defeat the operation of foe most ben evolent principles the progress of the experiment' lias been watched with the deepest solicitude The eyes'ofthe sincere lovers of civil and religious lib erty 'have turned to America with intense and anxious gaze they hav prayed that the experi ment might be successful and they have ardently wished that the energies of the social system un restricted by the bncumb of ages might glo riously expand and bear the richest fruits Your exertions were hailed with growing pleasure Your magnificent home societies for diffusing the blessings of education and scriptural knowledge your methods for preventing crime your revivals of religion your efforts in the cause of temperance and your missions of love to the heathen executed with so much energy were all welcomed as proofs that America was destined to instruct tho nations to stimulate the kingdoms of Europe ini the noble career of social improvement and to shower bless inge on the worlds Arguments in favor of liberal principles both civil and ecclesiastical were begin ning to be enforced by confident appeals to Ameri CL We looked to the West and wo saw indeed freedom arrayed in her brightest httiro and adorn ed with all taatis fair and precious butwhenyhe Rreseifrom her glittering seat and held out for the admiration of Europe the charter of American inde pendence we beheld a stain on her brow and a fet ter on her right hand slaves scourged bleeding and dying behind her and that her beautiful robe was spotted with the blood of murdered thousands The friends of despotism rejoiced at the sight and the friends of liberty turned away 'aird wept and silenced and hshamed they retired to mourn over tho guilt and inconsistency bf sinfub men and to lament that the moral influence of America upon the fiktidn should be tbee cruelly destroyed by the existence of domestic slavery These thing ought not to be entreat you a fremen to wipe awjy this foul disgrace and to purify your national institutions by giving immedi ate liberty to the enslaved Adopt without delay measure for opening the doors of their servitude Strike th fetters from every proclaim liber ty through ally our and embrace in the arm of levs your black and colored They keV immortal souls warm affection and ftsenil energies and when blessed with foy will promote and strengthen your social pros penty Be just and consistent' 'Bear not the fymbol of liberty the one handrand th scourge in th 'other Weaken not your influence upon th oldworld bv tolerating longer thi system whichtain the moral beauty and paralyse th strength of your nation Delude iot yourselves with foe idMubvndv of all foe responsibilities of the mcm state that you fir not accountable for foe guilt of American slavery and that it is a matter which concerns th slaveholders alone tional sin Th slaws ar your fsllow the Muxlac frxie expfore 7tdremiieetkwMMNiuere us microscopic eye rs T' These tsbee foaved tke parple' Which with MW atNtb sepplind the whole As here bceechM forth thoae nerves whose me jp with the ooeL CoaviMMog prooGhr whicb si! rembire Te wflrw bis wretcUd phm diviY '9 Sf Embodied sforahp' Whether esrobed ia vapors dark and JX Dr lewfm iificent fly fiiant form 't Through (b prismatic broidery of die sop edw Woadrous alike What flood have swept thybrow' is the boUplungs of thy priotsral wave I Pro whose rroanndous adreot util now Tbob hast not paased aar failed briUsg grim Roar froos Its depths the sou Crsstioa I few aadfall of sorter aro the days OfiaufrooiwemM sprengt Ms life decajra Lika that frail flower which with tho m'i uprise Barbed enfolds with the evening dies constitutional i people '3d That arrn bv vants of the people would have met with a decid edunited universal 'indignant and withering re pulse from lhejligh minded and patriotic republi cans of that day 4th That though these infringements on the rights of the' people 'on the part of their represen tatives and "other officers hnd the ibdifferencejarid apparent willingness of the eoplo sto have it so? indicate a fearful degeneracy int republican prin ciple and a rapid downward coutse to ruin and despotism yet wehail the recent votes in Congress on the receptibri of petitions for the aboli 5 tion of slaver I in the District of Columbia also the subdued apd dolorous tone of the public press and of the annual messages of governors as cheering omdnk not jmly of the Jinal succes6of abolition but Inf the tridmph of republicanism over aristocracy of liberty over slavery of' every kind and' ofthe reinstatement of ourdeclining republic! upon its orig nkl foundation of equal rights equal justice equal protection an equal liberty to all men i Whereas the constitution and laws of the state of New York (secure to every citizen the right of trial by jury while common justice common sense and common! Jaw hold every man innocent till proved guilty by competenttestimony therefore Resolved That those laws providing for the ap prehension arid trial of alleged fugitive slaves on the evidence 'fchieflyof interested claimants deny ing the right b( trial by jury are inconsistent with both the letter nd spirit of our institutions (except slavery) unjust and oppressive in their operations often consigrrtpg free citizens to hopeless bondage and therefore) ought to be amended or repealed 1 1 i shtiAl COLONIZATION SPIRXT Rev write iron Reading a eb 22 Has lectured a Pottstown and held debate with a Mr Powell formerly of also with a Rev Henry Milled of the German Reformed Synod who said that if abolitionists chose to associate' with' 4hey might if they chose But as for him he had irather associate Hith dogs' It is to be feared that foei Rev gentleman will one day have his choice' Whoever goes to heaven will have to associate with the class! of peopte' he despises and whofoGcid does not despise? But 'without are doa doubt there will be colored people emong them also Tq what part of the universe will ne gro haters retire? Will they be accommodated in the next worlfl with a place by themselves Mr Powell in'thecourse of the debate' toprove that the Bibfo sanctions slavery and concluded by declaring that Polonizatioit was the proper remedy 1 mm wvn' ana the Colonization Society against it Ergo Colo nizationism id more benevolent than the Bible i Mr 'Wilson frites from' Brantford eb details further particulars of kbuthern slavery as described by jfugitives in Canada "John Hun ley a preacher in Jefferson county Kentucy at tended the Presbyterian General Assembly as found one of his runaway slaves there! and declared ia the' presence of several gentle men that he didTSSt want as a alave any lon geri 'At Albany he found3another of his fugitives in the capacity of a barber Was shaved bj him' tp be an altered man on the subject of slavery and promised to send the barber free pa p'ers But he went home and sent men catchersu after both thekq who with great difficulty) escaped Many other appalling! facts are related j' riend of Afon I Hard to A correspondent of the Rich mond Telegriph writes from ranklin county Mis souri: We are about to putforth an effort to build a Pres byterian church in Union and now if you know a man of ardent piety of sound doctrine and not an abolitionist 'who might be touched whose heart would yearn over dying men and will name him to us we will make an appeal to him personally' an and yet whose heart would yearn over dying Astonishing What I a man he must bo to have his heart yearn ovdr 1 dying yet see millions of men held asproperty andlimbruted by oppression and not think they ought to oe tree nnu a uiacK owau EvaAgelist rii i VwT fl TT' server in their paper of March 18th make the fo! lowing paluablq hit at the whole race of yelpers about amalgamation So far as dir 'observation has extended gentle men belonging to the highest class of society at the North almost without exception have been in fa vor of conferring upon colored men all i the rightafl and privileges of 4 white citizens The prejudice was spoKen 01 uy ur oeiKiiup iu laheipation in Massachusetts written 0 this is as true no as it was then 5 4 shed citizen of Mississippi who was A 1 Jr A 1 inis citv states mat mere is io oe a 5 MW rsc monaav raaT he himself is bn hia way from Wash 68 a A MnTtlER HEARTv A born firs lope and dearest Ueart I tJtoy heart retired the joy beyood AU thatit yethad fekdr wthfr pleesnrej tboofht that mty Uv nfain mightb tho deep Mdatrotfkn that I felt for thee aithfnt and fond with love beyond thy yars i And antnral piety that leaned Wrong by a harA word anddroly to tears "1 Client of reboke when jnatlyg ven may to be AndinWychrorfal roeli wert then my child I 1 'Hanathw say walks while rnmner day was inf Or by Aeeoech of paie a itter meek Watch the dim ey and kiss the feverwh ebrek tOh boy of such ns thou are eftenest madn III frofile idols like a tender 'flower 3 No strength in all thy freshoesa prone to fede wmLIv to the thunder Ball round the loved thy heart found force to bind And dong like woodbine shaken in we wina Thenrrou iny merry bold in thy flee eaual nroorie SLAVES or eern i being i for merchandize J5? i nktsi th 3dTresbyt man ebtfrch in Rochester Lindley" Moore Prei ident called the meeting to order after which Rc r)Mr Bmith ouerea prayer rayrv Holley Esq de titered an eloqucat address and th following preamble and resolutions were adopted mo in os ma aiAWproi rrii rssi mi er and authority are yested in tfiemand must ema nit from them consequently their representatives are but their organs and servants having no authori ty to do anythi ig not delegated to them and pro scribed by the institution much less any right to dictate to the people on what subject they shall think speak wriie publish or petition and Whereas thu right to petition the hnd both houses of tho legislature is7 secured to every citizen of this state by statute laws nacteibyith sovereign people1 themselves and Whereas th act of petitioning bur legislature is hot to be estec tried th 'cringing of abject subjects begging a fave frum an absolute monarch but the exDression 01 what they wish Resolved 1 1 of the state of one thousand ft 1 ton assumption publican uristft fifty years age ho legislative convention or con gress of representatives wouldhavedared to do in reference to ai respectful petition though signed by a single respectful individual much less ifsigtH ed by one thousand freemen 2d That we esteem all attempts whether in Con gress or in the legislatures of the several states to prevent the reception or to stifle tho receptionof respectful petitions on any subject whatever as'dn constitutioftal illegal End anti republican and dangerous enc rt achmerit upon the liberties sof 1 such attempts made forty or fiftythe representatives the ser against them was spoken of by Dr Belknap in his account of en aheipat ion in Massachusetts written nearly fifty yars ago as a prejudice of the ana we oenei What will Del Stone say Ibid A distingu JEZOVCluajr lil linq nvuivo uiis uvv ww Convention iii Texas on the first'Monday in Maj He adds that ington city' to Texas to attend the deliberatiens and that senators Calhoun and Preston ofthe 0 tjenaie wi is reallv to ta of it in the Td: isville Jour' Texas A nnnnctars anc with all irhple nents for service and 1000 balls shells! and cannister ipresented to' the Republic' of Texas I by MajGen! Chambers arrived in'this I under the chalrge of Major McLeod on the27th in stant They are splendid pieces of Artillery They will be jnTexas in three or four weeks and: the way theiriyfide mouths will talk to the banswill be a caution to all the foes of liberty Louisdille ()t Journal Marche QuBBrh Norfolk Herald asks' the following penmenlqbetaM it constitutional for one State to legislate the notes of another State out of it jurisdiction our doullts Can a law of the tate of Virgin 1 ia prevent a iperchanta butcher bakeror any other citizen within the State from taking payment! for bis commodities in five or ten dollar notes of the State of NortJh Carolina If it canthen the fitate of Virginia may with equal propriety enact that the merchant shall pot take slaves or corn for his mer chandize anl that the butcher shaUbe prohibited from taking 4 he inpayment for his beef or the bakerrom taking the beef Human being 1 With thy wwret tamper and thy spirit free Didst am as restless as a wing glancing of a wild and irrepressible mirth lilrw a young soabsam to th gladdened earth the ing the burst of joy Which sweet from rosy lip resonndetb "7 Thine was the eager spirit ndbght could cloy UM KHIU OCRs irvni wwsvu OSS aee 9 4 MUX "rtC 7 Lurked in the laughter of thy dark blue eye a And thine was many ah art to win and bless The cold and stere to joy and fondness warming The coaxing the frequent soft caress V' The earnest tearful prayer all wrath disarming I rAgsi my "heart a new affection found 7 A thought that lore with thee had Its bound At length THoU earnest thou the last and least Nick namei by thy laughing brotbenr Because a haughty spirit swelled thy breasts And thou didst seek to rule and sway the others Mingling with every playful wile A mimic majesty that made smile Aad oh most like a regal childwert ihou i 7 And eye of resolute and successful scheming curling lip and dauntless it for the strife not for dreaming And proud ths lifting' of thy stately head Aadthe firm bearing of thy conscious tread Different'from both each succeeding claim I that all other love had been fomwearing orthwith admitted equal and the same 3 HIBBARD8 7 Vegetable Anti Bilious amily Pills 50 cento' A LSO Carminative Salve the cure of fel jL Ions biles agues In the breast milk cake ague' in the face' burns scalds sprains bruises rheumatism 1 St ifire sweUings scrofula or evil salt rheum Sold at No 25 High street Charlestown Ms by Jan 21 7JB OWLER fHEACCOMMODATION ERHANENTAND 'tBANSIENT 77 i No 23 BRATTLE BTEEETf The table is suppliejli front the products "of 7 labor Mnrc joRBAiv r' 1 LITERARY ROONS121 WASHINGTON 6TEET BUBLiSHERof I Religious MagaziAe and 7 amily 'Miscellany at $2 per 'Eady's Book and American Lady's Magazine' (with en gravings) at $3 f'iZhnerican Jurist Quarterly And Agent of Magazine Periodicals and Reviews' Professional Scientific and Miscel laneous American and European 777 7 I Clubs and Associations supplied as 'heretofore with any current publications upon liberal terms Jan sat ZTEORGE PUTMAN respectfully informs his 7 yJT friends and the public generally that he has r'emoved from No 2 Bromficld Street ta No 14 fife School the business will be contin ued by the subscribers under 'the firm of Putman arid Clark who will berever happy to wait upon 7 foe'ir customers Un their liner of business They will Keep constantly on imno lor saiet a conipivui assortment of PERUMER of foe best kinds i'' GEO PUTMAN: 71: aCLARK: 'January 21 837? 1 7 0 ORitilNAW LEATHER £7 75 XoiLfB La7k I A PATENT Composition for cleaning nourishing fm preserving and renewing the Color of Leather rendering it softi elastiefand coniplerely tmptnelra ble by the Wet or Water Proof rI '1 'This article has been found not only the cheapest and best i for exposed to heal and tcrfiVDt its use entirely supersedes that of Oil of Ta I low LABORIQUrS BLACKING? A beautiful ar ticle and better tlian ahy'other of iW T3 i wc 5 rf A CARBON CHEMICAL BLACK An entirely new article and is cheeper and require less labor in the polishing than any other Blacking I LIQUID4 INK AND BIACK'AND INK POWDER A superior arti cle warranted as good as any in the market "7THE VEGETABLE EXTRACT (tfor colds sQte throat cgnckgr ras scjjrt feyj I Sold wholesale and retail by Agent WILLIAM Corn Sill a few doors from Court St Boston ovr BOOKS STATIONER as abov March 18 iaotf Tj MEETINGS ON THE SUBJECT AIUEIA CTUlTEilbXs On Thursday evening foe second of this month a public meeting was held in the United Seces sion Church Dumbarton the Rev Mr Somerville in the chair for the purpose of hearing George Thompson Esq the celebrated anti slavery advo cate deliver a lecture on foe subject of slavery as it exists in the United States After the lecture it was moved by th Rev Mr Boyd seconded by the Rev Mr Swan and unanimously agreed to that a remonstrance should be prepared and sent to the citizens of America with the view of in ducing them to adopt immediately measures for securing the1 unfettered emancipation of the two millions and a half of sjaves that exist among them and of 'escouraging those in that land who have in the face of much! obloquy and persecu tion begun 'to advocate th speedy and entire abo lition' of slavery and persevere in the noble work in which they are engaged On the Monday fol lowing another meeting was held in the Relief Church Bonhill the Rev Mr Swan in the chair when Mr Thompson again addressed them At this meeting a remonstrance of considerable length was read by the Rev 'Mr Somerville which was not merely unanimously adopted but which agreed should be signed by the inhabitants of the districv the whole audience holding up their right hands as a proof tha they were prepared to do so This document isin the course of being signed and we have no dObbt that in 'Dumbarton and the Vale of Leven several thousand names wilt be appended to it The most enthusiastic interest was excited in both meetings by the eloquent and affecting state ments of the distinguished lecturer The striking details which he gave with regard to the state of slavery America his powerful appeals in behalf of the injured sons of Africa and the clear and impressive illustration of thegreat principles of universal benovolence and of the duty of en deavoring' by moral persuasion to procure the liberty and Ihappmess of foe inhabitants of every clime were listened to with the liveliest attention and called forth bursts of iarra and rapturous ap plause Iniproofof the deep impression which his first lecture produced lit may be stated that though the evening on which the second meeting took place! was dark and ktormy yet the church was crowded to excess land such was the un abated interest there displayed that though the meeting lasted nearly four hours not single person left the house till! the proceedings were 1 Such meetings are calculated to do immense while they tend to destroy national preju dices and to enlarge our viewe they awaken our sympathies in behalf of oppressed explain the nature of human rights stir up the principles of benevolence bring before us the responsibilities under which we lie to seek the welfare of others and induce us to take a warm interest in the pros perity of all classes of Disregarding the boundaries of nations the conventional arrange ments of society and the hues of the human skin we are taught to regard all men as our brethren and to do what we cawtorpnitigate their sorrows and promote their temporal and spiritual good Were such principles as those which Mr Thomp son so energetically and feelingly inculcates to become prevalent they would prevent nations from engaging would kecure free profitable ana safe commercial Dumbarton 13th ebruary 1837 1 jU Hanover College The Rev John Wither spoon and 1 Dei Gratia) slavehold er of Camden South Carolina has been elected president of foe above institution situated in the stat of Indiana which has in her Constitution fix ed the real reprobation on slavery in every form fe: If tke announcemsnt bad! not been in erintwe would hay said' 7 ILetth Jew AppafiarteliwL777 But now L'fe 7 i s' God intends to destroy he first make Philanthropist Prescriptwn for Croup Wet a piece ef flannel wjth goose loil sprinkle it Scotch and lay it tb breast and lower part of the threat This with onions applied tto the ft will imme fUMV a irMvi tuu iot wra ncwi vs 7 wf But id the heart found room for ALL fe gCfrTbefbUowing description ol" a affection and anxiety is as graphic as it is humorous The transition from the rapturoos to the ludicrous is very natural A PARENTAL ODE TO MY SON AGED THREE' YKW AND IVE MONTHS 1 by Tkomas Boob a Thon pappy nappy elf I (But stop first let me kiss away that tear) Thou tinyimage of (My love poking peas into his ear I zThou merry laughing sprite With spirits feather light 7 by sorrow and by I Thee little tricksy Pack With antic toys so funnily bestruck Light ns the singing bird that wings the air "(The door the door tumble down the stair Thou darling of my sire I (Why 'Yll set his pinafore a fire 1 Thou imp of mirth and joy la dear ebain so strong and bright a link Thera goes my ink) 7 4 Thou cherub bet of earth (it play fellow for fay by moonlight and mirth (That dog will bite if he pulls his tail a Thou human humming bee extracting honey every bloesom in the world that'blows Singing Elysium ever sunny (Another tumble his precious nose Thy father 's pride and hope 77 break the mirror with that skipping rope!) With pure heart newly from mint (Where did he learn that squint 1 Tbou young doihsetio dove 1 7) kayo that Jug off with another shove! aJJV POTiiljpr of the hymenial nest WfeV (Arelhose toratilothes his best 1 Little epitome of man "7 nt a climb upon the table his plan '4? with the beauteous tint of dawning 74 7AZ Th enviable being 7 Nd storms no clouds in thy blue sky foreseeing on 7:7 7fMylfla JohaL 7 7 7rki 1611 bestride the 'tne iniany cakes would alike him sick 3 Wid fimcies buoyant as the thistle down Prompting the aoe grotesque and antic brisk With many a lamb like frisk A snipping at your gown Il 7' "Thon pretty opening rose 7 (Go to your mother child and wipe your nose Balmy and breeding mesic like die south (He really brings my heartfato my mouth resh as the morn and brilliant as tho wi" A window had an iron bar c3 ik Bold as the hawk gentle as the dore tell ye what my love' I cannot write unless sent aboro A port nwdiealstndent) 15 i On ieiteuig the dieeeetion of a human body S3e voeerve uns arondertul ssachme Mark its connection with each Thus furnished by the haad niseis HewfarsurpaaeinghntnanaK! Should ablaet imitator 7 1 i With utmost skill to form like "1 they'ea charm tho'cerions CoM tary with equal wonder strike 1 Tboegb God has called the life hq lent £ach vital function dormant laid The Umov Th Hdtaour cf tn Columbia tft 1 1) Timein alluding to recent transactions Washington potr6tit hid fire atid fary to wit 1 Oh thintr is Certain? affair are drawing to crisis and the day i not far distanttwe think when the South will cut all connexion with th Northern' fanaticlet the consequences be what they inay This certainly will be the TJ The jury infoe case of Rathbun atBuffalocdud7 1 sot agree and were dischargcd 'Any pocr dig 'M who had forced anol for two apd six js islfthe testimony against himwouldhave gone to 5h State Prison but your Robinsons'' and Rath 7 'buns who murder and forge on ia magnificent scale 'lide through the meshes of the law These mock 7 iries of justice are painful and 7Aewfi ryporl Herald 7 Usurious Interest tIn the course of BJRath trial at Batavia one point clearly shown by theTcounsel was that Rafobuti during tnoyeari 1835 expended more than a million of dollars for SHAVES? "'I' fWe regret to record the sudden death of Kirk Boott Esq of Lowell of apoplexy As a token of respect on the part ot hiq follow citizens the 7 stores were closed the bells tolled and business suspended for the day We understand that he died as he was in the act of getting chaise on The number of large failures in New York city with the Josephs rip to Saturday af ternoon last is ninety eight and their liabilities 7 7 more than sixty millions of dollars of which wen 7pfe ty millions' arein townlot speculations This shows tht it is wild and hot regular business that has caused foei present 'distress a Newburyport 7 Legal Decision Case of great practical im 7 portance has lately bben decided bythe Supreme Court of Massachuietta A bond obligating thy signer not to cai ry on any kihflof business as (or example when he sells out to another illegal! and fee void being contrary to "good policy and the public! intetest'f7: Wall 7 I Snow There Was7 cehsideTablc tall of snow 7 6hthc 5th instanti at redericksburgb Va On th 4that Newark enough snowell to make varv tolerable sleighing had it remained on th negro children belongingfo Dr DC Cald well of Logan county Ky were burned to death1 in an out house on the 1 7th init7? htfs The vulgar negro song of Jim Crow is being ar ranged by the London musicians for suprb quad rille and gallopade at IvYisi'u 1 Alexandria Nov IS or 'some past 'nt kind of famine has prevailed here and thc Gorern ment seeks to derive th greatest 'advantage jfronf it Nocornistobe seen in the markets though there is abundance in Upper Egypt but thoGov ernment frill not let it brolight thit it inaybP able to sell damaged corn irismall quantities at drbitant price 'A specimen of human disinter fstednessand pity! CoMPLiMEWTARr Joseph 'M VVhitej of lorida ina recent tetter his constituents re signing pi sea iq Congress have now 7 been here twelve years and 1 sqy in' sincerity that I never served in a Congress so deteriorated in mor pls and politics as the present with some honorable '7 4 exceptions Thereis no topic frhich seems to prompt them to action of any sort except the most degrading of all impulses party spirit and theati rnulus of St Louis MARCH Steamkr bvnk anb loss of Lives The steamers Tiskilwa and Win cousin came in contact in the Illinois river about five miles from the moutlion morning last 7 about half past four and the Tisk jfwa sunk in a few minutesMost of deck 'were drowned 1 arid as the register ia missing 7 they ate unable to say how many ary lost buV12lhey are certain ofj Tbere aro two gold watches and sum of mbnein tho possession 7 ofthe clerk unclaimed which may serve as to the friends of those who are missing? uY 7 i 1" nil I RJf BO Sr i fefe "fe 1 Efe I i I 7.