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47. BQ STON; FRIDAYy REFUGE OF OPPRESSION. WOMAN'S RlGIirS CONVENTION AT CLEVE LAND. liie louowmg account or tnis Convention is by a Cleveland correspondent of a paper published in Port land, ludicrously styled 4 Zion's Herald, and charac terized by nothing but its trimming policy in regard to the reforms of the age, especially the anti-slavery move ment. The anonymous scribbler deems the Convention to haTe been a farce' yet not wholly a farce, fur there teas much to pain the heart of a Christian' though the ladies, such noble women as Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone, Frances D.

Gage, Antoinette L. Brown, and Ernestine Rose, enjoyed it exceedingly Hear him i tt i uraan rugnts convention is another of the things which indicate that Ohio is a free Mate. It held its sessions for three days, three sessions per day. It was quite orderly, (we in Ohio do n't make disturbances as some people do.) and well attended. The prominent actors on the stage now (naming the women first) are, Rev.

Miss Brown, Mrs. Gage, Mrs. Lucretia Mott, MrsTRose, Mrs. Bloomer, and Miss Lucy Stone and (men.) Win. Garrison, C.

C. Burleigh, Joseph Barker, Stephen Foster, and Hon. J. R. Giddings.

There was, on the part of the ladies, some very pretty schooT-girl declama- tion, and quite a respectable display of fine dress and rich jewelry, while the wearers talked poetically and pathetically of the oppression and wrongs suffered by woman from her brother. As a sensible lady remarked to me, it was hard to make one's self believe that any body was serious in any thing said or done during the Convention. To my jaundiced eyes, it seemed manifest that the ladies were enjoying exceedingly the farce which gave them so fine an opportunity to display themselves to the public, and get their names into the daily papers, and the mouths of the populace. Yet the scene was not wholly a farce, for there was much to pain the heart of the Christian. With scarco-an exception, the men who engaged in the discussions of the Convention to advocate woman's rights, were men already notorious for their shameless abuse of the Church and the ministry, and their hatred to and ridicule of the Bibl.

Some openly avowed their infidelity, and one especially (Barker) distinctly claimed that the movement is an infidel movement, and can only succeed by subverting the authority of the Bible. Rev. Miss Brown was the only one of the speakers whom I heard claim that the movement was a Christian movement nearly all the rest, ladies included, seeming to ignore Christianity altogether. Thus, the house was 1 airly divided against itself Miss Brown claiming that its only foundation was theBible, aad Barker as distinctly declaring that if the Bible be divine, it is without foundation, and must fall. It was painful to see a lady like Miss Brown co-operating with such men as Foster and Garrison and Burleigh and Barker, while it is bo palpable that their only motive for mounting this new hobby is, that it gives them a new means of pouring their hatred of the Bible and of religion into the public ear.

I was present when Miss Brown rehearsed the story of the wrongs inflicted on her at the Temperance Convention at Metropolitan Hall, New York. Doubtless (as thte press generally have said) that was a disgraceful scene, and Miss Brown was ill-treated, but her own narrative made it clear to my lnind that her conduct was as unlady-like and fanatical as that of those who opposed her was un-gentlemanly and unchristian. Garrison followed Miss Brown's narrative by a resolution, such as he knows how to frame, and a speech, in which his hatred of the ministry and the Bible had free opportunity to vent itself, and in which the term 4 clerical mobs' was applied, without sparing, to the members of the New York Convention. Miss Brown is esteemed, by those who know her well, a lady of genuine piety. Alas that she should not bo able to see that such infidels as Garrison and Foster are making her a tool to aid them ia spreading their poison sentiments B.

l3rscRACEjTL! The Woman's Rights Convention, which was recently held at Cleveland, was quite as stormy a any of its predecessors, and ended in rather more of a row. The major part of the leaders were avowed infidels or atheists and, however much the Convention might agree on the abstract question of woman's rights, they were by no means agreed in the matter of blasphemy. Kev. Antoinette Brown and Abby Kelley were at loggerheads on this point and Garrison and a Mr. Nevin got to nose-pulling.

If we must have these p-pulling exhibitions by women, some step should be taken to keep the he feminines out of their conventions, or compel them to appear in pet-, ticoats and bonnjts. New JIaren Register. From the Detroit Free Press. RELIGIOUS ACTION ON THE SLAVERY QUESTION. We stated, some time since, that the Synod (N.

of New York and New Jersey had adopted a resolution on the slavery question, declaring its ag- itati in ecclesiastical bodies as inexpedient and uncalled for. This resolution is as "follows Resolved, without any reference to the action of previous General Assemblies, we believe that, in the present aspect of Divine Providence, the agitation in our Genera! Assemblies, by any portion of the Church, of our relations to slavery in this country, is undesirable and inexpedient. Committing ttiis whole subject, therefore, to th) Governor of Eternal Providence, we commend to our churches to offer increasing prayer for our country in all its bections, an i for our own church in all its interests, Tins resolution is highly gratifying at the present time, when anti-slavery fanatics are using every means to induce the adoption of such an expression of opinion, by the various religious denominations of the North, through their respectivo conferenctis, conventions, assemblies, 4c, as would inevitably have the effect to sunder tho bonds which now unite the various sections of our coun-try in Christian brotherhood, and to destroy the spirit of unity which should prevail among afl the members of the Christian Church, no matter in hat portion of the Union they may be tea ted. "are gild, ia view of theso facts, that the Syntd New iork ami New Jersey has taken the sensible position indieatcd by the above resolution. It hows that it considers the interests of religion to bo of too great importance to bo endangered by being Biued upjwith those of any extraneous doctrine whatever; and that it regards the maintenance of Christian Church as paramount to all other considerations.

We trust that the example of this Synod will be imitated by all the other eccleeiasti-l bodies at the North. THE LIBERATOR. LETTER PROBE. PAB TCTni FILXiSBTJRY. Medina, 12th 1853.

Dear Friend Garrisox Among all my letters since coming to Ohio, I do not recollect that your types have made but a single mistake. Your printers and proof readers could hardly pay themselves a higher compliment for my hurried way of writing, especially when at the West, makes my letters, I fear, hardly worth decyphering. In my last, you read a quotation from Milton, undrest from its rythm. a little wide from the author. You say of the Mother of Death, as she sat prostrate at the gate of It should be, as she sat portress at the gate of that tropical locality.

To sit prostrate is a position peculiar only to American politicians, before their adored mother and goddess, Slavery and to prostrate themselves is not only to bow down to the earth, but to wallow down into it. The apostle describes a class of worshippers whose god is their belly. In this instance, the belly is not the god, but the means or instrument of the worship. The old Hebrew Bhepherds used to sing, let us lift up our eyes and our voices, our hearts ana our nanus unto uou, in sol emn adoration, unr devotees nave another anthem. They say, Let us bow down our bellies, letus root and wallow in the dirt, before the Power that alone can cast us down, or lift us And the loathsome dragon they thus adore, and from whose entrails they have been torn, grins ghastly approval upon them, and makes some of them her presidents and prime ministers; and this baptized, and most Orthodox church of her creating, we must call the United States Government.

And who shall say the deity, tho worship, and the wor shippers, are not all worthy of each other But it is most gratifying to see that McLean and Grier God forbid they be called Judges are overacting their parts. The murderous scenes at Wilkesbarre sent a shudder across the Alleghanies, that shook the waters of the Mississippi. But the decisions and dec larations of tjie bloody ruffian Grier, upon the trials growing out of that tragedy, have eclipsed the acts of the kidnappers and their accomplices, altogether. II is wrath and fury, like fire, have paled the blackness of their guilt into ashy whiteness. Never before had Cal vinism such an argument in favor of its favorite doctrine of Total Depravity.

No monster ever before so shook my faith in the possibility of Universal Sal vation. is it not glorious to find, particularly here in the West, such universal condemnation of those doctrines and decisions decisions without precedent in all the Court Records and Reports of Judge Beelzebub, the prince of It seems as though such screams of horror should stun him into sensibility. But, like his fellow adders, he stopp'eth his ears, and Humanity weeps in sackcloth, sitting in the very ashes of her consumed victims. How glorious and supporting the thought, that above the wrath and wickedness cf man, Eternal Justice sits enthroned, like the shining sun be hind the clouds which wrap the wintry tempest How do our hearts rejoice to know, that, after all, yesterday, to-d to-morrow, and for ever, the Lord God omnipotent retgneth But my intention was to say something about anti- slavery here on the Western Reserve the most anti-slavery part of the country. Two influences alone keep the people from the highest anti-slavery positions first, the hoarse, raven cry of the pulpit about Infi delity, and second, the leading politicians, most of whom are now laboring to conform the morality and philosophy of former Freesoilisra to that of what seems now willing to be known as 4 Progressive Whigistn.

The former of these influences, fortunately, has no power, except over a few, and these generally not of the ighest account. The greater part of the original Free Soil men are really Gerrit Smith men and so avow themselves in early every one of our discussions. But their leaders hold them back, in order to fuse them, as it is called, with the scattered and discouraged fragments of the Whig party. This fusion is to be attended with some confusion for the truly anti-slavery men of the party. who have any eyes to see, are unwilling enough to submit to it- At the recent election, they have been re quired to vote for some of the shabbiest specimens of political humanity that were ever cast in the darkest, rainiest day of creation.

The Free Soil leaders have declared, over and over again, that the Whig party is dead and yet they have dug it up, and married it. They have even required that some of its exhumed members be voted for to fill high offices, who have laid in the grave more days than did Lazarus, and with sim ilar results on surrounding olfactories. The specious cry is, for a reorganization of parties on the platform of progression. The higs might have to advance a step or so from the Baltimore platform, to meet the de mands of their Free Soil spouse but that the Free Sou party itself will advance, or attempt to advance, or pro pose to advance, except backward, like the Hibernian's flea, is out of the question. The bargain seems to be th's They say to the Whigs You are dead we know you are dead we aw you die.

Indeed, we were not only witness of your giving up the ghost, but the cause of it. But now, if you will get up out of your graves. peel off your cerements, shake off your mould, and kin die up souls again beneath your ribs of death, we, who are yet but in embryo, and so about your equals, will unite our fortunes in a common cause, aud divide what we irain. between us. And as neither had aueht to lose, and both, perhaps, something, at least, to hope for, the alliance was concluded all but the conclusion.

That is to come. Free Soilism decently died with Whigism and from the ashes of the two has sprung Free Democracy One of thetm'oa candidates here on the Reserve, de clared ou the stump, just before election, that he would and should go against the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law, if Kent to Congress though for some change in it, he avowed himself willing to vote. Every one of them, so far as I can learn, affirms his willingness to uphold a law that shall give the slave hunter a right to his victim, wherever in the nation he can find him. Like Charles Sumner, they only ask, that in respect to lavery, the government go back to where it stood in the days of Washington of Washington, who, as President of the United States, signed the Fugitive Law of 1793, and, under it, hunted a slave woman himself, alj the way to New Hampshire and this is the 'Party S2: Progression Some of the women here are made of stuff too stern much longer to bear the tethers which custom and law have braided upon them. are zealous fbr the Maine Law, beyond any I have seen.

In Columbus, at an immense gathering for a discussion of its merits, when the question was taken, the house was about equally divided, but every woman in the immense gathering voted in' its favor. At Randolph, on day, the women assembled with the men. They had a ballot-box of their own, and about sixty voted for the Law, and not one against it. And their zeal and fidelity turned the vote of many a man in the same direction. The West is producing a harvest of women, whose sphere cannot be determined for them, but with their own con-sent.

Yours, in faith and patience, PARKER PILLSBURY. LETTER FROM GILES B. STEBBINS. Providexce, R. Nov.

14, 1853. Frieko Garrison: The Liberator is filled with good news from the West and from England touching the progress of our good cause. The same pure love of impartial liberty is growing deeper, more earnest and more active, among those who dwell in the ancient homes of our fathers, and in the land where but yesterday all was a wilder ness. 11ns all helps to create that public sentiment, before which slavery must and will go down, dragging to utter ruin in its fall all that upholds it. You, too, have been in the great WTest, farther than ever before.

I rejoice that you have, both for your sake, and for that of the thousands you have met. It must, it will, give you new strength and cheer, to meet so much of fresh and vigorous feeling as one finds among the Western abolitionists. Of the multitudes who have seen and heard you, many must have had 4he scales drop from their eyes, their prejudices weakened and destroyed, and they made ready to hear and practise the truths of our glorious movement. A Gospel of glad tidings, indeed, to the enslaved of a higher freedom to the poor slaves of sect and party, who never dared think for themselves, and thus win the 4 glorious privilege of being independent. Almost the entire company of lecturers are in the West, too, doing a noble work, I believe for there is a moral soil warm and rich, in which the seeds of truth take root and spring up to bear abundant harvests, even as the grain grows and thrives on the deep mould of the prairies.

On the prairie, too, the old vegetation decays, and whatever was rich or strong therein passes into the new crop, giving it a nobler luxuriance. So it is with our moral harvest field all that is good in the past will pass into newer forms, and yield such fruit as shall meet the wants of the present. We only ask men not to cling to the dead husks which no longer enclose the golden grain. Only Mr. Foss and myself are field hands in the East now.

But the abolitionists are here true and earnest, with a courage and fidel ity which grow stronger by being tried. For the past month, I have been doing what the hindrance of political party meetings and autumnal storms would allow, and a word of home news may not "be amiss, though I have no incidents greatly out of the common course to relate. Commencing a North Bridgewater, some few weeks since, I found the hall engaged for a Free Soil lecture on the New Constitution. Of course, I could have no meeting, and went to hear the lecture. A good audience present, and the speaker threw in now and then a radical anti-slavery sentiment, which, it was very noticeable, met with a hearty response beyond any thing else that was said.

I noticed in this, as well as in several similar addresses, that the Whigs were treated as though they possessed about all the servility and hun-kerish hatred of new good things. It is true, these bad qualities were also attributed to the small part of the Democrats who have not joined the Coalition but the larger portion, who grasp the Baltimore platform with the right hand, and reach out a kind of left-handed reluctant token of fellowship to the Free Soilers, were treated in quite another fashion. One speaker said they united with the Free Soilers as 4 kindred drops mingle into one This is, I suppose, the politics of the peformance where the principle is, I cannot tell. North Bridgewater, judging from its three churches now building, must be a very religious place, and a rivalry seems active in regard to the height of the steeples of said churches. Perhaps the idea of piety, in the minds of those who build them, is like that of a church member a 4 pillar of no mean repute of a church in a large interior town in Massachusetts who, as I was credibly told, being asked if they should erect a high steeple, said, 4 Yes, we must do something for the Lord let us make it twenty feet higher than the old one.

There are, however, some good friends in Bridgewater, notwithstanding the loftiness of its rival spires. I next went to East Stoughton, and spoke to a small audience and thence to Stoughton, where the Hall was again preoccupied, for a Whig meeting, to be addressed by two Boston men, 4 solid in repute and politics, of course. I went to hear, aud found an audience of some five hundred persons, Whigs and othere the latter quite a majority, I judged. This was at the beginning of tho meeting. The speakers took up the subject ably, considering the side they were on, and talked now and then about equality, and all that but, for the most part, their addresses reminded me of a labored discourse by some learned Professor on fossil remains.

The hearers dropped away, lmnd, as the numbers decreased, the faithful who remained kept up good courage by cheers and clappings, as Boys whistle in going by a grave-yard. At the close, the hundred or so that remained gave a loud cheer, and walked, away. -j- I spoke the next evening to some war hundred, principally young men, who stayed until the close, so that, on an average, I outdid the 4 solid men, even in numbers. They had ability enough, but men do like to look forward rather than over their shoulders, at the past glory of a party that has committed suicide, or died of plethora. I went to Canton th next day, and there found a cordial welcome from the friends, and a hospitable home ith A.

M. Chase and wife. In the evening, we had a gathering, not large in numbers, but excellent in qual ity. The people oi taniuo workers in large iron and copper works, with a min gling of cotton and silk, ketones, to give women folks employ. In view of the large number cf ab- sen tees from our meeting-, the lines of Garrick csvme to my mind, which he proposed as the commencement of P11 ung1 P'61 JonSer for t.

1 n. bnt to become the defender of the poor and needy, an Address for the nnenmir of a theatre-in Birniintr- tj -r, nam 4 Ye sons of iron, copper, brass and steel. Who have no heads to think, nor hearts to A mingling of truth and poetry somewhat applicable, I fear. They may think about copper and iron, feel a wish for the gold they sell fbr, but slaves, and Hack men, too -4 it don't pay. A visit to Foxboro', in a drenching rain, meeting a handful of people in the church, who met amid storm and darkness, a cordial word from Mr.

Slade, who is ever ready to give such to the abolitionist a ride to Norton, by the kindness of Mr. Hodges, a good meeting there on Sunday evening in the church of Rev. Mr. curke; ana then tne next wees, storms prevented meetings, except two in uut space will not allow particulars. It must suffice to say, that the next innmntlUvrikn, r.horo th Wo hml.Unw cruwueu wuu in me auuience, w.xu xn Vu- more family, who rendered good service getting up the meeting.

They live on their own soil, in their own i i- uuusra, ors resoiuieiy uay oy uay, sou, si range to say, have no intention of going to Liberia, although of the race for which we are told that pestilential place is the proper home. Mansfield you may set down as in the polar regions. so far as frigidity to anti-slavery goes. At Seekonk are a few earnest friends but for the rest, you may judge of their condition by the fact, that an Orthodox deacon, after my lecture, warmly insisted that in 1840, you were paid large sums by the Whigs, because you induc ed people not to vote against them. Some of his neigh bors, however, knew enough to deny this, and to give you credit as a friend of the slave.

A seeker for moral and mental antiquities might find some rich specimens there among a class by no means small. The past week, storms have prevented two meetings but at Manville I found, to my surprise, an appoint ment made, and had a good audience, through the efforts of two nieces of Oliver Johnson, who are teach ing there. At Mapleville, had two meetings. At Pas- coag, yesterday, found no notice given, and a very se vere storm, lasting until this morning, prevented a meeting. Only a beggarly half dozen were out even at church.

No great desire, either, for a meeting amon li the Free Will Baptists, although the clergyman was friendly. Coming down in the stage to-day, a passenger said he should vote against the amendments of the Rhode Island Constitution soon to be acted on by the people. Others agreed he was right, ami at length I asked what I the amendments were. I can't tell, said he, something about voters, I The fact was, he knew nothing about it, and the rest were in the same predicament. I ventured to suggest that a knowledge of the subject was necessary to right action, but deemed the suggestion as good as thrown away.

That man was a Hunker, no doubt A score of arguments, all good nnrl mnni). would no more reach him than a non-crun I would pierce the hide of a rhinoceros. Had not the incidents of that field been so often reported, it would be pleasant to say a word of my tour in Plymouth county, in October but the abolitionists there are well known by their faith and works. I would like some time, ere long, to say a word about Massachusetts Free Soil, Sua. Yours, truly, G.

B. STEBBINS. ANTI-SLAVERY IN ENGLAND. In the American Baptist, the Rev. Edward Ma- thews, (wno is zeaiousiy ana enecuveiy laoonng in tne anti-slavery field in England, in behalf of the American Baptist Free Mission Society,) reporting progress, in a recent letter, say: A don After lecturing in Monmouthshire, I visited Lon- to attend the Anniversary of West India Eman- cipation, which was held in Crosby Hall, on the i first ot August, xne vnairman oi tne meeting was that devoted lriend and eloquent advocate ot tne slave.

Georee Thompson. late M. P. from the Tower Hamlets, who, after making a very appro- Driate introductory address, introduced to the audience Mr. W.

"Wells Brown. Mr. Brown reviewed the prozress of the anti- slavery reform, and showed that ithe 'prospecta were iiicrcuSijr uuu ui AUv.iv power. Mr; James Miller McKim next addressed the meeting in an extended speech, which was well adanted to remove those prejudices which have been so industriously manufactured and spread abroad to injure the anti-slavery working or some of the a a 3 i most selt-sacrincing, energetic uu ui tne slave-redeemers. ivnen in me unuea oiaies, i always read with deep interest the Pennsylvania Freeman, but how little did I imagine that I should have the pleasure of meeting its (then) editor on tne pia Prof.

some established by custom in America, and of the dan- Sera he had incurred, becaus be had ventured to I thinfc and act ior nimseu, wunoui roga.ru bucu i regency, lour numoie correspunuem gitr, mow, ft very briet address. I I was clad to see on the platform Victor Schoel- cher. who once was a member of the rench I Assembly, and to whom the slaves of tne rench West Indies owe their liberty also L. A. Chamer-1 ovzow, tne oecreuirj tuo ui-1 eicn Anti-Slaverv bociety, who has maoe some noDie efforts in the anti-slavery reform.

Miss Russell norm oi an anu-iavery mceuu- liuuuuu. Allen, of New" York, gave the audience account of the aristocracy of complexion as tamed carelully prepared diatribes against our Uovernnient. aeainst its leadintr members, asainst if. whole nolicv. charging- it with worse than Pu.

waa also present a- mo ujotui, wuw, provose nostiie ieeungs oetween the two countries sister Emily, endeavored to escape from the tyrant- It is the more marvellous, as at this time certain scoundrels at Washington. Both were re-taken, important questions are pending with Great Brit-One laid her down and died the other has obtain- the favorable settlement of hih mn.t Ka ed her liberty, ana is now rejoicine in ifciux.uSiuu. At the close, a resolution thanking the speakers 1 for their interestinz addresses, and in favor of the I Anti-slavery cause, was unanimously adopted, and after a cordial vote of thanks to the Chairman, the meeting aajourneu. i I j- i i On the evening oi uciooer om, a leciureu ia iuo lawn nail. The Rev.

Mr. Heath of Jamaica in the chair. He offered prayer and made an able in- troductory address, lie spose oi ine superiority oi a co no man oi irewum -ji i the bondman alone, but to all others. I then gave ia extended lecture, at the close of wnicn tne loi- owing resolution was adopted unanimously mMt'mr nnlda ulaverv to be the I IKWIfVUi I -1 i i 1 aw of violence, at war aiuce wun ioaiTwsvuiuuiauus, t. rhristianitv.

and the attributes of the I Almighty that it a system of heathenism, which the American Church to its shame kas fostered and defend- I and this meetrntr would tirsre that church to 1 iui ncunriucr wuom iv proiesses xo serve. A collection for the F. M. Society was taken at the door, amounting to 1 6s. As from the crowd ed state of the Hall, a larg number were unable to obtain admittance, I lectured again the next evening to a full audience.

Mr. Blanche in the chair. The above resolution was again adopted. Collec tion 1. TRXBTJTE TO OTJR CO-LABORERS ABROAD.

At the late annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Anti- Slavery Society, James Miixer McKim, (recently re- I turned from England,) in paving a merited tribute to some of our trans-Atlantic coadjutors, for their untir- I ing efforts in aid of the anti-slavery cause, said 4 Then there was George Thompson, whoso name should have been mentioned first, if the order of I precedence bad been determined by intellectual 1 Dower, moral eTreliPnf rr nisintprpRfcAn and Kptia devotion to the anti-slavery cause. Mr. Thompson I is not officially encased in the anti-slavery cause. but 8J dee fieart intere8tod in its Success aml 8troncly is he attached to its cbamnions. that he is ready whenever called upon, in public I -n a.

t. i i ut iu jitHuie, iu uis testimony lo Its principles and to vindicate the character of those whose lives are set for its defence. Then there was Mrs. Fol-len, whose home in London was ever open to anti- slavery conferences, and who herself never missed an apportunity of speaking a good word and doing la good deed for the causewhich in this country sne naa so mucn at neart. Tho same was true of Mrs.

Chapman and her sisters iu the city of Paris. The amount of genuine and effective anti-slavery work done by these zealous and devoted laborers, it would be difficult to Mr. McKim also spoke in stronst terms of the good done by Miss Sarah Push during her residence 1 of nearly two year in England. She had been the means of establishing one or two anti-slavery soci eties, and by her labors, in a variety of ways, had unostentatiously but most effectively aided in bringing about the better state of feeling that now prevails in England, in regard to American abolitionism. Of the disinterested seal and devotion of our British coadjutors, Mr.

McKim felt that he could not speak in too high terms. It would be invidious to mention names, but there were two that stood so conspicuously that were so well known to our friends on this bide of the water, that he conld not rf-press an allusion to them. He referred to J. B. Estlin, of Bristol, and Richard D.

Webb, of Dub lin. The amount of anti-slavery labor performed by these gentlemen, it would be difficult to over-estimate. On them devolved principally the support of the British Anti-Slavery Advocate, that admirably conducted and most useful anti-slavery paper the former bearing the chief expense, and the latter disinterestedly assuming the labors of editor. Others there were who were not a whit behind them in zeal and devotedness. It was a fact that ought to be noticed, that abroad, ns well as in this coun try, the most active abolitionists were, with a few exceptions, to be found among the women.

In Bristol, Leeds, Edinburgh, Belfast, the principal work was periormcd by ladies," and on them every- where the cause seems to depend lor its life and vlfaor From the National Era. THE ADMINISTRATION AND GREAT BRIT AIN. The articles on Foreign Intervention in Cuba.wbich have lately been appearing under the editorial head jn the Washington Union, are not in the usu al Btyle of its editors, and abound in historical al lusions, for which it is impossible to give them credit. The tone and diction of the series are suggestive of the Hon. Caleb Cushing.

ihe author, whoever he is, pretends to have in formation from Havana of the scheme of tripartite intervention, Cuban Africanization. Ac. If this is so. why not submit the original information to the public Let us have positive evidence, not indefi nite rumor. Ao has lurnished Buch informa tion 1 From what tnmrter im it tmtnata Um waa it furnished What is its precise nature! Whj has it been supplied alone to the Union and a few kindred journals 1 And why invest it with so much mystery Jivery one must be struck with the venomous hatred of England pervading these Union arti cles.

No epithet is deemed too severe to apply to her statesmen and the whole policy of her govern ment. She is throughout charged with unscrupu- violence, fraud, perfidy, utter and habitual reckless- ious amomon, auuacious miermeauiing, insolence, new oi au interests Due her own. in a newspa- per, representing no leenngs our. those ot its edi- tor or it8 patrons, all this might be overlooked, or 8et jown to the credit of a coarse, national antip- tKv. tK r-'- in which this violent on 8iaught is made on the with wbich we are at peace.

government of a nation and which buvs of ua and Bella tn ua more than all othnr nati nnu cognized organ of the Administration. Suppose the British government had a similar exponent ajour- nj. known as its organ for communicating with the puDlic, and that from day to day its columns con- Iq faith, with worse than Roman oppression, and laboring to inflame the anti-American prejudices of tne English people, how should we regard conduct 0 utterly at variance witn that courtesy and re spect which should always be observed between na- tions at peace with each other conduct." which could be excused ordv bv the assumption that it wa8 designed to herald, and prepare the way for, open rupture uoes our Administration intend miss Uoes it intend to nrerjare the hearts of the neonle f.ir What does it mean by this systematic attempt to tarded.lt not prevented, by provocation. It is understood that th -nvommant nf ht mnn. try is willing to treat on terma mntnallv advanta.

geous, in regard to reciprocal trade between the United States and her North American eolonies. in ro tne iree navigation oi tne rivers ot. Lair. rence and St. John, the concession of a concurrent rfffht with British anbieeta to the aea fisher ie the shores of the colonies, and to the rem! anion nf the export duty levied in New Brunswick on tim- oer ana inmoer cut wiinra tne limits ot tne United States, and floated down the St.

John for ahinment to American ports. These are great Questions of vaBt importance to the commerce and agriculture of this country, and on the settlement of noma of rhom trurn a rn di.L.aVK extent, mture re- lotions of amity between the two nountnen. Thev afford the administration a fine opportunity foe the 17a Union raitf) TBS 17. 8. C038UH.H0S IS 'A COYEfAXT "WITH DXXTK AST) A3 ACBXTMEST WITH ry Yes it CAiraoT deseed the alaveholdiny; lords of the 8oath prescribed, as a condition of their assent to the Constitution, three special provision to SRCCR TBS ratKTCTTT Of THEIR DOJTIirlOH OTXR TXZXB The first was the bnmaahy, fbr twenty yeans, of preserving the African slave trade the second was thx mruLATioR to scrrkstes Ttrcmii'aianj eji engagement positively prohibited by the law ef God.na delivered from Sinai and, thirdly, the exaction.

itrr to the principles of popular representation, of representation fbr slaves for articles of fnersaandbe, under the name of persons in fact, the oppressor representing the oppressed To call govemmctit thus con stituted a democracy, is to insult the understanding of xnaaUnd. It is doubly tainted with, the- infection riches and slavery. Its reciprocal operation open, the government of the nation is to establish an artificial -1 majority in the slave representation over "that of the free people, in the American Congress ako Tnnuar TO MARK THE PRESERVATION, PROPAGATION A5D PER PIT-' CATIOJf OP SLA TEXT TUB VITAL AX ARIJtATUK) SPIRIT exercise of a- wise- and comprehensive statesmanship, and of doing each service to the great inter esta of the country aa shall be remembered through. all time. Does it expect to succeed in its acgotia-r tions on these important questions, by denouncing the party with whom it is treating, as onscrupu-: lous, selfish, base, insolent and perfidious Do pri- vate gentlemen bully and abuse each other When they are striving to form anftcablo arrangements The conduct of the and of the Adminie-j tration, so far as the Organ speaks its sentiments, can be explained only upon the preaump-.

tion, that in their insane lust for the possession of. Cuba, they have forgotten all other questions, all other interests. Slavery and its peculiar interests are to be cared for, whatever else suffers, cost what maj' CHARACTER OF JERRY. We clip the following from the Bald winsville Gazette: -tw Frtxxd Giliet In a notice of the death of the man Jerry' in last week's Gazette, you say amoncf other comments, that Jerry" was rather a bad boy, having been in, I orison several times for different offences. He earned the cooper's trade in the Onondaga Peni-' tentiarv.

while confined there for some misdemean-1 or, and we understand be followed the trade in' Canada. He had few if any friends in Syracuse," as a man. The excitement which led to his was brought about by opposition to the law. and not by any feeling ot regard for the subject of it. Many will tell us, no doubt, that we should not speak of the dead, except in their praise but it seoms necessary sometimes, as in this case, to speak of those whom wo cannot praise, Jerry" has become a subject of history.

His rescue will be recorded as one of tho events of this age, 'and people ot alter times will pass their, judgment or approval or condemnation of the event which com-" memorates his There are several mistakes in the above extract; (unintentional, of course,) hardly worth correct ing, however, were it not that the whole tenor of the article is calculated to give a wrong and very unfavorable impression as to the real character of '3 Jerry was one of Nature noblemen, with a large soul full of lofty aspirations with a heart overflowing with the kindliest sympathies. He was just such a man as yon, if in danger or distress; would like to meet; for to the full extent or nil ability to serve you, would you have his aid. Generous to a fault, he would, aye, he did devote the earnings of his daily toil to the support of little children, who had no claim but that of our common humanity upon him. Few men have such respect and reverence for the laws of the land as he had. Herculean as he was in bodily strength, yet a child could have led him by the hand to prison, or any where else in the name of Law.

It is true that two or three times he was committed to the Peniten tiary, and it is also true that while the real culprits escaped, poor Jerry suffered as did poor Tray, and for precisely the same reasons. The ofiencea charged against him were simply misdemeanors, such as are often committed by some among us who hold somewhat elevated positions in society. He possessed great intellectual strength also, and while laboring at his vocation rarely let a day casa with out devoting two or three hours to reading. Upon all political subjects, especially, he kept fully posted. His favorite reading was the N.

T. Tri bune, the Si. x. Jventnz trost. and the lAoerator.

As a the few in Syracuse who knew him. were his friends. So far as my knowledge extends. all those for whom he labored were his friends, and could testify to the truth of what I have stated above. He was employed by me, and worked at turning, mainly, for eight or ten months.

Daring that time, he toiled for me and toiled vilh me, sido by side, day after day, and no mean'; malignant, dishonest, or dishonorable act was chargeable to him. He was a working-man, and being a member -of that Great Brotherhood myself, in the name and behalf of the toiling I protest aeainst any attempt to blacken his memory. He had frailties and imperfections -who has not 1 He yielded often to temptation who does not He was a sinner who will cast the first stone at him? Frail, imperfect sinner as he may have been, taken at the worst, his character would not suffer in comparison with thousands who move among ns wearing honors, filling office, and receiving homage from fellow-men. While Jerry was in this breathing world, and while misrepresentations of him were confined to the parlor organs of selfish conservatism, or the gutter organs of the late Whig Administration, there seemed little occasion to refute them -he could Uve them down. But be has passed away, and has become a subject of history.

Then lot history engrave upon her tablets the facts. Bad boy or wicked man, Jerry was not! Wiser, more learned, more pious men men more correct in life and manners than he, have lived bnt a truer hearted, more generous, noble and forgiving soul was never enshrined in human frame, in this generation. C. F. WELLISTON.

Syracuse. Oct. 29. 1853. ti ANTI-SLAVERY OPERATIONS IN BRAZIL.

A Society for the abolition of slavery has been for some time in operation in Brazil and the following extracts from one of the newspapers of the capital will give the grounds for an abolition asylum which has been introduced into the legislature of the Empire by an enlightened and persevering memoer, ana wnicn nas pas sea one ox toe iUAm-bers. -t It is decreed by the General Legislative 'Assem bly of Brazil. It must pass another Home to be come law 1 That all children of slaves, born after the date of this law, shall be free. 2. All those shall be considered tree, who are born in other countries, and come to Brazil after this 3.

Every one who serves, from birth to seven years of age, any of those included in Article or who has to serve so many years, at the end of fourteen years shall be and live as be chooses. i .1 4. Every slave paying fbr his liberty a sum equal to that which he cost his or who shall rain it by honorable or gratuitous title, the master shall be obliged to cive him a free paper, under penalty of article 179 of the Criminal Code. ti 5. Where there is xto stipulated price or fixed value of the slave, it shall be determined by arbitrators, one of whom shall be the public promoter of the town.

--i 7. The crovernment is authorized to eire rrecise regulations for the execution of this law, and also i to form estaons amenta necessary ior cuing io of those born after this date, may be abandoned by the owners of slaves. 8. Opposing laws snd regulations are wwiieu. Passed the (Chamber of Deputies.

May, 1852. Aepu -j S1LVA UIAIARAES, Dep. J..