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134 BOSTON AUGUST 23 1850 it you 3 it I saw well me now kt np! ft JH I ft ud Ji lil WOMAN'S APPEAL BY MISS CAROLINE BACON said we must not speak in public halls Or the noisy crowd move but in silence The burning thoughts within our hearts that rise Should there be kept nor ever to the world ind utterance save in well assorted words As the directed smooth and pliant pen Shall choose That if along our path of life air roses bloom and lovely violets Unthinking we may gather and enjoy Their sweet perfume though in path Only the brambles grow and cruel thorns That the shadow of our household tree Contented we should books and flowers And wabbling birds though in a sister's home No sunshine dwells no sweet heart music cheers There's light upon my way and glad song To me hath been hushed and treasures rich Are mine not stores of wealth or station high Or lofty intellect or knowledge deep Such as the Schools can give for I Have drunk but sparingly at fount And from my earliest days have moved amid The busy scenes of toil and to my hand The needle or the household implement Has more familiar been than book or pen UNERAL MOCKERY IN On Thursday of last week a spectacle of a most humiliating character was witnessed in this ab horrent to the God of justice hateful to all consistent lovers of liberty and reproachful to all those who participated in it We refer of course to the mock funeral of the late President Taylor the military chieftain in a war pronounced by the people of Mas sachusetts to have 1 been waged aggressively uncon stitutionally and for a diabolical object and the unre pentant owner of hundreds of slaves whom he has left in their chains There was a great display and a long procession made up of the Devil's regiments of the numerous companies led on bv Maj lying Artillery which the Mexicans and followed by the Reverend Clergy the Masonic raternity and other orders and associa tions A fulsome oration was pronounced on the occasioij ig aneuil Hall by Josiah Quincy Jr to offset which read what is on our first page I UNION OR REEDOM We learn from the Ripley Bee that on the first hist the anniversary of Westlhdian Emancipation Cassius Clay addressed a large assemblage of the citizens of Brown County convened in a pleasant grove on the Hillborough road about 5 1 2 miles north of Ripley The meeting was a sort of re union or in gathenng of the friends of reedom without distinction of party The number assembled to heat that distingtttshed champion of human rights Clay was estimated at from 3000 to 4000 Aftei the orator had concluded an able speech of mon than two hours in length a series of strong anti slavOry resolutions were unanimously adopted fo the meeting from which we select the followin' expressive one Resolved that we will oppose the pmpngnndism o' Slavery at all times at all places by all honorable means ngninstall odds without compromise anc to the last extremity ACTION THE SENATE The bill to establish a Territorial Government for New Mexico passed to be engrossed in the Senate yesterday without a division A motion had been previously made to insert the Wilmot Proviso but was yeas 20 noes 25 The bill is not to go into operation until the disputed boundary shall have been settled by the concurrent action of the parties interested by the United States and Texas Thus the Senate have passed all but one of the bills incorporated into the Compromise Bill viz: 1 A bill providing a Territorial Government for Utah without any instructions on the subject of slavery 2 A bill for the adjustment of the Texas Boundary 3 A bill for the admission of California into the Union as a State with the Constitution she has adopt ed excluding slavery and with the boundaries speci fied in that instrument 4 A bill providing a Territorial government for New Mexico without any restrictions on the subject of slavery but with the express stipulation that when admitted into the Union she may admit or exclude slavery as she pleases It remains fifthly to pass the ugitive Slave Bill after which it may be said that the Compromise Bill has issed the Senate though by piecemeal The vote on the Utah Bill was ns follows viz: yeas 32 nays 18 Texas Boundary Bill yeas 30 nays 20 Admission of California yeas 33 navs 19 Territorial Government for New Mexico no A 1 Journal of Commerce i PISTOLS AND COEE OR rom the Southern Press Columbia August 12 1850 To the Hon oote Senate Sir I beg leave to call your attention to a few little perversions of truth used by you lately to im part facetiousness to the remarks with which in your capacity of bully buffoon and bore to the Senate you were pleased to honor me I have been waiting to see your report of yourself in the Union but not having been able as yet to obtain it I am obliged to refer to other You attributed to me the solemn declarations (I you may among the compromises to which you are addicted have compromised away wnat nttte ot the quality you ever possessed You bantered a senator from South Carolina with the offer that you would if invited come to Charles ton or Columbia to discuss the questions which have been before the Senate When South Carolina desires instruction in the doctrines of the federal and consolidation school she can send for some statesmen worth listening to Mr Webster for instance who could perform the task with some abihtv But it would not be generous to hold you to your offer You will need to exert all your powers jtych as they are including your acknowledged polluf brass to excuse or palliate to the people of Mississippi the deliberate treachery to your State and to the South so long premeditated by you nnd for a time concealed under the disguise of violent Southern feeling imjielling you tabraw loudly with the Aboli tionists and to bully Col Benton until he turned up on you and out bullied you With the hope that this letter may prove an ac ceptable addition to your curious epistolary collec tion on the subject of the Compromise I have the honor to be Sir Ac MAXCY GREGG Not being quite sure that you will under stand an allusion above I subjoin for your trratifica lion the passage referred to vA? K1 the footman were jabbering rench like two intriguing ducks inn nnd 1 neljeve they talkcd of we for they laughed CONVENTION AT BARRE On Saturday and Sunday last Aug 17th and 18th one of the Hundred Conventions was held in the Town Hall at Barre commencing on Saturday even ing Theodore Loekc was elected to preside on the occasion and Locke Secretary The following resolutions were presented for the consideration of the convention by Wm Lloyd Gar rison of Boston 1 Resolved That for those who are guilty of en slaving or conniving at the enslavement of their fel low creatures of trafficking in human flesh or sanc tioning that traffic directly or indirectly of legal izing robbery cruelty and murder on a scale gigan tic and unparalleled of destroying the marriage in stitution sundering all the sacred relations of life crashing the intellect ahd depraving the soul for such to pretend to worship God to esteem and regard this or any other day as holy to be animated by the spirit of Christ to look down upon others as heretics and infidels to mourn over the existence of heathen ism in foreign lamb is gross infatuation bold effront ery and unequalled hypocrisy 2 Resolved That if it be the mission of Christ to bind up the broken hearted to proclaim liberty to the captive and the opening of the prison to them that are bound to bring redemption and salvation to a lost world then it is as great a solecism to talk of a Christian slave owner as it is to talk of a virtuous profligate a sober drunkard or an honest thief 3 Resolved That the American Church has be rom aught of harm or ill arrived at one of the synagogues of Satan which they entered and there they offered up mock prayers and then departed to their business to swindle en igh from honest labor to pay for the time and mon ey they had squandered in the blasphemous show 58 But Jeremiah went not with them but retiret to his tent and sat him down in the corner thereof for he was sorely afflicted with boils 59 Howbeit his affliction reminded him of (Job and ho did not wonder that Job was called patient for it appeared to him that it would be a comfort to be covered with boils from the crown of his head to tie soles of the feet rather than see immortal men wth priests nnd rulers working iniquity trampling rghteousness under feet and leading the young the ignorant and the simple to destruction 60 And be took up a lamentation saying Woe woe to the Pharisees hypocrites deceivers for yehall yet suffer the fruits of your doings 61 or behold ye have utterly forsaken the Lord your God and have wandered after strange gods whom ye zealously worship even the god of war ye worship more than ye do Him who created heaven and earth 62 Lying and deceit are in your doings ye roll sin as a sweet morsel under your tongues yoursyn agogues are whited sepulchres full of rottenness and dead bones ye have slain your thousands 63 Ye profess to be disciples of the Prince of Peace but your hearts are full of murder ye call yonsselves the children of a God of love while your works prove that ye are tlie seivants of sin 64 Repent ye repent for the kingdom of heav en is at hand salvation has come nigh unto you Christ the light of the world enlighteneth your minds and calleth on you to turn from iniquity and cleave to good 65 Turn ye therefore from the evil of your way's and make straight paths for your feet before your conscience seared as with a red hot iron and ye are left to believe a lie 66 And ye priests ye are like unto salt that hath lost its savor and is tit only to be cast out and trodden under of men 67 Behold ye are stumbling blocks to the pre cious youth therefore repent and turn from your iniquity that ye may be ES The above description of the mock funeral ob sequies at Portland with the wholesome comments thereon by friend Jeremiah Hacker is just as applica ble to the same wicked and hollow performance in Boston last week HENRY WARD BEECHER Correspondence of tlie Hartford Republican Atlantic Ocean July 25 1850 Among my fellow passengers there are some nol antes Henry XV ard Beecher I place first on the listor consder him the choicest pattern of a man and a Christian He goes the trip to England for his hi omy stay a tew weeks The day before he started he had no idea of coming biit made up Ins mind very suddenly He has been very sea sick and at one time the Captain was somewhat concerned for him The passengers all love him You probably remember how last Ma when Garrison and his friends were put down in New York by Bennett and Isaiah Rynders thev adjourned to Brooklyn where they hired and paid for the Lyceum Hall to hold an evening meeting in The meeting was finally held in Henry Ward splendid church A great many wondered how such a thin" came about On my sea voyage I have found out all about and will tell you Ea rly on the morning of the day of that meeting Mr Beecher met the principal trustee of the Lvceum Hall and said to him: VV endell Phillips I believe lectures to night at the Lyceum ri 1 We agreed to let them have the Hall but shah not allow it to be ooened thorn will non mkn i the reply What have they not paid you for And now at the last hour you will break your Pnrrn framniA 1 up awr meetintr ou will consent to do in Brooklyn in a genteeler way what was done in New York said Beecher with his heart on fire Yes replied Mr it is not safe to do other wise replied Beecher you have agreed to let them have the Hal you should stick to your agreement and be men though every timber in the Hall be razed to the ground He at once went to see the leading men of the Garrison party Say said he your defeat in not getting Lyceum Hall but if you do not hear from me in one hour get out 5000 handbills statino that vV endell Phillips will speak in my church to night Circulate them every where I would do thui much if you were atheists and were i for the right of speech Immediately he drew up paper which gave con sent tilit e'idcli Phillips mfoht use the chnrrh in tore a trustee Said he I want you to do me a personal favor sign this Perhaps you like the Ido Oblige me this once and then ask of me a He got consent In this manner he went to every trustee and got their names Then be went to the Mayor of Brooklyn and said Wendell Phillips speaks in my church to night I want you to be present and with a good con stabulary force Let them quietly be scattered over the church and let the first fellow who opens his mouth to interrupt the meeting be marched instantly to jail Let' us teach New York a It shall be as you replied the Mavor The evening came and 20G0 people crowded magnificent church Everything was quiet One of his friends an orthodox deacon took the chair Rev Air Storrs opened the meeting with prayer Wendell Phillips was invited to take the stand At first the audience hissed then partly cheered but the last three quarters of an hour was one storm of deafening cheers Said Beecher never heard a grander or a truer speech on slavery in my life We have vindicated the right of speech a nd also heaped coals of fire upon the heads of the Garrisonians They will see that there are churches that are not afraid to stand by liberty There is such manliness in Beecher that every one likes him who is not a coward and at the same time he is one of the kindest hearted men in the world The slightest pathos will make his soul run over with tears Bartlett THE BLOWS THAT ARE ELT One of the Washington correspondent of The Tribune has expressed in the following paragraphs a truth which has not yet found its way to the per ceptions of multitudes who aspire to the honor of being called Reformers while they shrink from bear ing the cross which fidelity to unpopular truth al ways imposes There was one disclaimer which in my humble judgment flattened speech and that was that he had never discussed slavery ns a moral ques tion He believed it was a political question Mr ilmot will allow me to say that lie has discuss ed slavery morally whether he designed it or not and I will tell him further that had he not done so I for one would not have valued his efforts as I have I would not give a fig for mere political considerations by themselves As much as I differ from the Garrison ians in their theories their moral assaults on slavery have ever made me feel something more than a mere toleration for them It is moral as aults thatare the most needed They alone open the eyes of the Southern and sincere friends of slavery It is a fact in point which is well worthy of notice that the speeches on the great question of the dav which have brought the most hearty responses from residents of the Southern States have not been the milk and ater speeches of the trimmers and semi apologists but the more hearty and thorough speech es of frank and fearless men I could name instance after instance in point coining under my immediate notice having had occasion to put this matter to the test over and over again during the present strug gle It is so now and ever will be so till the end of time while the natural impulses of humanity remain as they are Spectacles their Uses and Abuses Long and Sightedncss and the Pathological conditions mult ing from their irrational employment By Sichel of the aculties of Berlin and IforisTrans latcd by IL Williams ellow Mass Medical 1850Cty' Company wiaIam "u17nognuomti1 pleasure in the translator of the above work one well and long known to them This is our friend WiUiaiwa first instalment wc believe of that debt which Jxml Coko says everyman owes his profession and if un2 professional reader may venture to judge it is a Taij uable contribution to medical literature The subject is certainly one of great and every day importance and rarely if ever treated before The author Si CHEL has the name of the first occulist in the world ani the condensed results of his experience on one of the most important portions of his professional practice must have a value and interest for every' reader We are glad that though trealise is strictly a scientific one still its practical portions are plain enough for the most popular use style of the translation we may add is easy natural and En lh Should Mr Williams be called to lecture before a common audience or find time for a popular tract' we could suggest to him no better subject than the pre sentation of the practical directions of this volume in regard to the care of the eye the treatment of incip ient disease the vigilance necessary when a change is taking place amplified and illustrated of course as such an occasion would permit Theas most cordial wishes for 'success in his professional career ANTI SLAVERY EATTaaw The Committee beg leave to present a few addi i I tional statements to the consideration of such friends as have heretofore assisted us by furnishing tables I from their respective towns' We confidently trust that alf such: will continue their efforts taking no discouragement from tflo cir cumstance that all the articles may not have found a market at the Boston Bazaar 3 heir sale at various country airs has produced an equal amount' of good to the Cause Nor arc we con vinccd of any thing more fully than that the number of sales at any Bazaar is in exact proportion to the number and variety of articles displayed ftVe are careful to mention this because the donations of our irans Atlantic friends have been so generous as create an impression in some minds that it may be wise to diminish pur own labors particularly in those departments of Embroidery and ancy Needle Work in which our contributors of Great Britain so highly exceL This opinion is erroneous' All donations of this kind among ourselvps are as needed and salea ble as ever Useful articles of every kind are highly desirable and we hope that friends from the country towns may furnish larger supplies of Stockings Mit tens etc than heretofore as we have never been able to meet the demand Any donations of materials such as silk cotton linen calico etc will be gratetully received Shy member of the Committee The Liberty Bell will be' published at the openi i ing of the Bazaar and will we trust include 'widcr circle of distinguished writers than ever before We solicit pecuniary donations from ail who have hitherto' given in aid of its publication from all indeed who feel as we do its importance as a most valuable in strumentality 1 Those of our Committee in Europe5 wilt be1 happy to spend any money that may be sent them in the pur chase of such rare foreign articles as are not to be found in our shops Any money for this purpose or for the Liberty Bell may be sent by mail to A 1 Weston Weymouth Mass Li The work before us is so great the laborers com paratively so few that the Committed feel it important to present thus early these few practical suggestions that it may be commenced in good earnest The Congressional Elections The election 'in Suffolk District 01 Monday resulted as follows Samuel A Elliot (Whig endorser of Webster) 2335 Charles Sumner (ree Soil) 473 John Heard (Democratic) 2973 Scattering 21 About one third the vote usually given 1 In the 4th District 'there is no choice as In the 2d District there is alsonochoice (Whig)vhas 3322 votes 218Q John Pierpont (ree U65 Scattering 3X rom North Star ARREST AND IMPRISONMENT WIL LIAM CHAPLIN The announcement that William Chaplin has been arrested and is in prison in the Capital on a charge of assisting slaves to escape from slavery will fhll with stunning effect upon vast numbers of the people of New and New England among whom he has long been distinguished as a talented and devoted advocate of Human Rights We have not yet obtained the particular of this heart sickening affair Enough however is known to assure us that another victim has fallen into the revengeful cruel and remorseless jaws of Slavery and tint that victim is none other than the talented warm hearted and zealous friend of humanity iust named His case comes home to every heart We have seen him heard him and know him and if our brother had been seized at our side by a ferocious tiger we coud not feel more keenly than we now do for Wil ham Chaplin He is charged with a high crime even that of delivering the spoiled out of the hand of the of practically remembering those in i bonds as being bound with doing to others as he would be done unto all high crimes in this Chris tian and Democratic country for which it is almost impossible to nd adequate punishments As to what will be the fate of Mr Chaplin the prospect seems now too dark too fearful to contemplate There fs every reason to believe that he will be made another meal to feed the hungry and blood thirsty revenge of the slaveholding South He is too distinguished a mark to be allowed to escape the inhuman clutches of slavery Yet something ought to be done If money can bail him it should be forthcoming But if this will not do there should be petitions circula ted in all directions remonstrating against his im prisonment on such a charge and the authorities of the District should be waited upon by thousands and respectfully informed that if the prison doors are not thrown open the walls of their infernal slave dungeons shall be stormed The time has come for action It remains to be seen whether there is suffi cient manhood apd heroic love of liberty left at the North to meet the present trying crisis The ground which every right minded man will take in respect to the matter is this that William Chaplin is guilty of no crime that if he assisted slaves to escape as is charged he has but performed a highly meritorious and Christian act and that instead of being branded with the infamy of a slave stealer his name should be made glorious as a man restorer that they alone are inen stealers who hold buy and sell men women and children as property The imprisonment of William Chaplin ought to arouse the dormant energies of every abolitionist 1 in the land It should call forth one simultaneous anil unanimous burst of unconsolable lament and settled indignation Yv iimot wiiti aboiif it tfo i i 1 i imgiit use iiib cmircn in too monstrously cruel and demands something more question for that evening and presented himself be umu umguuui pen cuu express We wish to con suit co operate unde act do something which shall look like saving a noble man from the wofish and bloody prowlers of slavery To tiiis end we shall go nnd do now call upon all in whose hearts there is one spark of human free dom to go to Cazenovia on Wednes lay and Thurs day next We expect to meet there one of the mightiest anti slavery gatherings that ever congregated in the State of Wew York I A REAL HERO Herald says i While the whole country from north to south and east to west was mourning over the calamity which occurred in the decease of General Tavfor and all men were paying tribute to the many excellencies of his a act''r a sto'i ilivine rciojcin in lite oi uh iev Tneodore Parker deliberately as cended his pulpit and made a most deliberate attack on the memory of the late President He denounced him while living as a man of blood and strife that he had no conscience or had abused it that he was no Christian and not a good man that he trafficked in the blood of his brethren that he was a dishonest man and that in his death the nation got rid of a no toriously bad In the view of all the true and the good who love their race and wish well to the world Theodore Par ker has gained more honor in thus independently expressing plain simple truths in the face and eyes of a crazy nation than ever was gained by all the fighting heroes ot the whole universe It requires no small degree of moral courage to prepare a man to stand up in these degenerate times and declare truth as Theodore has and it is a matter of encouragement to know that there is one such I among those who are called ministers of the gospel While most of the Reverends are a set of base cowardly cringing set of knaves forifiver bowing to popular opinion and fawning for public favor like abject slaves it is glorious to see one among them all ho dares to be a man and a free man who dares open his mouth to proclaim the true gospel of Peace and to bear his testimony against war and warriors ami reprove a guilty nation ho are drunk with the refer for convenience to a sort of summing up in the blood of the slain and who feast on the products of report of one of your innumerable and intolerable oppression Long life to Theodore Parker of Bos speeches made on the 3d of August and published ton th Hero who dares with the simple weapons in the Soutliern Press and other'papers)ithatifCon of truth to fice a whole nation of lunatics armed to gress shall undertake to admit California into the the teeth ith the weajxms of human destruction Union at all South Carolina will secede from the While I am writing this the people of Portland and seize upon upon the mouth are dragging about an empty hearse and performinif ot the and blockade the Western States the blasphemous ceremonies of a mock funeral in I made no such declarations The report of my honor of Zachary Taylor their bloodhound apostle speech at Camden which served you for a text con to the Indians the murderer of Mexicans the en tained no such declarations And you ofcnurse Inver of the oppressed Peace to his ashes if they knew perfectly well that you were perverting will now let him rest but if they continue to hawk truth him about we will continue to expose the deformity The report of my speech was prepared without in his character whenever it comes in our way A consulting me bv the Secretary of the at murderer from his youth a slaveholder all his days Camden was never seen by me until after its pnb and a curse to mankind he is not a fit example for lication (which was unexpected to me) and being ouryonth to imitate or honor and yet for aught I brief has encouraged you to use your artifices know he may have been honest and acted according of distortion But the' report in its actual state is to tiie best knowledge he had for God knows men sufficient to convict you of disingenuous practices ive had a slim chance to get correct information as was rendered evident by the correction made by under the priesthood th it has darkened the land for a senator from Missouri of a misstatement into which luc Lun miuuivu yeuia i ornauu i was ure uuai trusting io your version fie Had inadvertently fallen What I did say on these points was in substance rom the Washington Republican I That if California with its pretended constitution THE WASHINGTON SLAVE CASE I anj usurped boundaries should be admitted by Con On Th nrsday night it was known by a portion of gress as a State or should be left in its present the police th Chaplin was about to depart from condition excluding the South from all share of the Washington on that night with some fugitive slaves territory the slaveholding States ought to secede in carnage and the route he was to take was also from the present Confederacy and from a Southern known Accordingly while a good lookout was kept Confederacy That if forced into a war by the in up here in the city C'ipt Goddard with officers Han justice of the North the slaveliolding States might dy Woll ird John Davis and Cox and Messrs John rely on sure elements of success amongst which CookSinithey and Butts took: their position a would be the power by closing the ississippi against little beyond the District line in Maryland near the the commerce of the north western States to bring place of Blair Esq about six miles from the that section to terms and that the injustice practis city Here they quietly waited until half past eleven by the non slaveholding States in attempting to when the sound of a heavy carriage was exclude the South from all share of California and he ml and the voice of the merry driver ho sang to rob Texas of its territory would just ify the eon cheerily as he passed over the road foderacy of the slaveholding States in taking posses Tiiih was the object of their pursuit and hen it sion by force of the whole or of any part of California had come quite up to them (the night being very The Northern man who denounces this as treason irk an 1 cloudy) ipt Goddard dexterously pushed I would meet simply w'ith defiance The serviie a rail fence between the spokes of the hind wheels Southern sycophant who raises the cry provokes in and at the same moment biiiithey and Cox seized the expressioie scorn bridles of the horses An exclamation of surprise By way of apology for undertaking to arraign me from the inmates was instantly followed by the dis before the Senate you asserted (according to a report charge of a pistol by the driver (Chaplin) which as which I find in the Baltimore Clipper) that it seemed is believed sent a bill through the hat of Mr Smith to be rendered necessary by the very particular men ey who field the near horse Gen Chaplin plied his tion I had made of you This is not merely a per wmp fiercely and his fine spirited horses would have version like tlie statements alluded to above but a bounded oft had not the wheels been fabrication of your fancy I did not say a word about Officers Davis and Handy now pulled Gen Chaplin you in my speech that I remember At all events tlie seat I there is not a word about you in the report of it But During this operation the inmates of the carriage perhaps with the instinct of Scrub in the play yon two servant men belonging to the Hon Toombs felt that if I had spoken of you it must have been in and the Hon A Stephens of Georgia respectively terms of contempt were carrying on a severe battle with the besiegers Permit me now sir as you are in the habit of lec around them discharging no less than eleven balls turing senators and citizens in or out of place (but I from revolvers of formidable calibre Nor ere the must retract 1 part of the I do not believe rest of the outsiders idle The mgtit was very dark that yon have ever had sufficient sense of decency to ie half captured driver fought to the last only ceas do it in place) to offer you a very short lecture for ing when the last limb was pinioned and the fear the amendment of your manners of shooting each other rendered the police in a rneas To pervert the language of others into a sense not ure powerless They nevertheless returned shot for intended by them is not regarded as reprehensible shot as long as the firing from witinn was contin in a clown at a circus or a jester over a convivial3d bottle But it is not very becoming to use this trick Atone moment Captain Goddard approached the for effect on the floor of the Senate even in these carriage door and a pistol flashed near enough to his days of senatorial decline when Scrub may be a face to scorch his left eyebrow or this he return senator I have pointed out your perversions of the ed two shots both of which are believed to have ta language in which my speech was reported You ken effect though not mortally One of them lodged wil1 ie proper acknowledgments or not nc i the watch of the fighting negro ho belongs to cording as you may have any regard for truth left Mr Stephens the other made a flesh wound hi the or a8 yu may among the compromises to which you ime negro ick While this was going on one of the besieging par ty stooped to undo the truce chains nnd detach the horses and Mr man having discharged his last shot leaped from die front of the carriage upon tins back and bounded from their midst though not without injury as the blood in his track has evinced He has not yet been caught The capture was now complete and upon ascer taining the extent of the damages all were amazed that so little was done A flesh wound in the arm of Mr Butts a bullet hole through Mr a singed eyebrow on the part of Captain Goddard and a scratched face for Mr Cox are all the disas ters sustained by the captors The captives fared a little Worse General Uhaplin had his head bruised Mr man the two woupds already described and Mr man has not reported himself to the surgeon two captives were yesterday committed to prison by Captain Goddard to await their trials nnd it is understood that in the State of Maryland Gon Chaplin after having atoned to the laws of the Dis trict will be required to answer the charge of a niur derousmssaiilt A mulatto man named Warner Har ris residing in the iist ward was also committed to prison as an aider and abettor in this transaction And yet I am not poor or I haveriendsv the tried and true whose pure Unchanging love to me is wealth untold But there arc friendless and forsaken ones Near and around bleeding hearts that need The balm of gentle loving words to heal And wandering feet that gladly would return To path but lack the strength to rise And if some friendly band be not put forth To lift them up the steep will lower fall Till the waves of sin And misery they hopeless sink for aye In powerless dark despair Nor is this all To this life picture another A breathing tone of bitter ngony "Which deep gUilt hath wrought and doth up hold Cold hearted AvariceLuxury and Pride i Do hold their victims with remorseless grasp Not only binding chains upon the limbs But what is still a more abhorrent deed ettering the the heaven bom soul Striving with all the power of vested Wrong To make it' but a clod a thing of earth calling crime To pity or relieve the suffering ones Or their darkened way to let in light 1 Hark heard ye that sad cry of anguish deep That wafted hither on the Southern breeze Mine car hath caught Heedless perchance deemed Twas but the wind sighing orange groves anning the tall glossv leaf Waving its blossoms fair that like the Southern heart Are scentless void of fragrance or of All fair and beautiful to outward eye But useless as the coarse and tangled weed That doth the gardener vex and with rank growth Suck out the sustenance and overshade The useful plant But list again 1 "Woman that was a sister's voice ye heard 1 Will ye not listen to a plea Young maiden whose sunny roseate way No shadow yet has fallen whose pure heart rom guilt and suffering free is joyous as The uncaged forest think of her fate Will she like you go forth into the world Lennin" upon the trustful arm of one Who shall protect and love and will the wreath Of Honor twined of bright flowers Be placed upon her brow Alas too well Ye know her fate It is an oft told tale That of her wrongs and abject misery Mother within thy home this morn A lovely infant in its cradle nest Resting secure by fond arms guarded come as corrupt pharisaical and impious by its con nection with slaverv ns wn thn Go with AVUHHOH VIIUIUH in the days of Luther by the papal supremacy and is to yon cnbin whcr0 dwclls te be as boldly assailed and as thoroughly repudiated That poor slave mother Only yester night before the redemption of our enslaved countrymen ev baby dear t0 11Cr lleart as thiie can be effected by any moral instrumentalities To thou it was not sweet 4 Resolved That the spirit of liberty being eter turning from the Jabors of the Add rally hostile to the spirit of the interests Yith bod wcaried aad with tortured mind of the one ever clashing with the interests of the meet uPon the threshold of her home it is impossible for them to coalesce hence Her sinless child 80 ful1 of love and truth the American Union is not a Union of freemen and ts arms twine round her neck slaveholders but of those who are essentially des ear ts ow murmured mother mother dear potic and therefore to be execrated assailed and over on bcr car liltc sweet melody thrown Why sits she now so lone and desolate 5 Resolved That the Union is to the people of streaming eyes fixed on that empty pallet this country what the golden calf was to the Israel Powcr hath wrought such change and anguish ites what Juggernaut is the nations of an idol there? substituted for the true God the symbol of false wor as tbc band death Hath she upon ship and open rebellion and to three millions of er dalding icy brow prest the last kiss slaves it is their house of bondage in which they are 'nd neath the turi mound laid it down to rest grinding in hopeless despair lift in a better home where chains bind 6 Resolved That no thia Union was fnrmrj And slaves are freemen all they cet anain has been sustained to the present hour and can be P0 deatb hath not been here But glittering gold prolonged only by the most frightful concessions to the demoniac spirit of slavery in the guilt of which every member of the government and every voter at the ballot box is more or less implicated 7 Resolved That while the promise of God re mains sure that this 4 covenant of shall be an nulled and this 4 agreement with shall not stand And to a cruel care consigned to the it is for the friends of freedom to 0 continue their assaults upon it with increasing dry thy tears Rook to the North I assured of ultimately being crowned with victory 8tal iS tbat shaU throw H5ht 8 Resolved therefore That the anti slavery move thy darkcned wa' 5 not shaft ment is in religion Refob MATI0N in the structure t011 Suffer brutal wronB of this government Revolution ather seen thee look with pride and joy These resolutions were ably illustrated and en Pon tb)' noble son who by thy side forced by Garrison Sephen oster and ac 8rown Uke the young oak erect and tall Samuel May Jr and apparently a very deep irii Pn ai tlle conscious pride pression was made upon the minds of those who were eariy manhood Intellect's bright fire present I Lighting his eye and noble high resolves At the evening service on Sunday a touching poem billing his heart thou stand calmly by entitled 4 written by Miss Caro And see his young arms pinioned his brave heart line Bacon of Barre was read by Locke and lis Crushed ami his spirit broken by rod tened to with almost breathless attention adding oft llatl1 this been ay worse than this I much to the effect of the proceedings A bast thou rebuked the evil doer The commodious town hall was filled with a most Young man is she not doubly dear to thee intelhgent respccttul and interested assembly many The beautiful the fair and gentle one havmg come from neighboring towns and no one Whom thou hast chosen for thy future bride manifesting any dsposHion to controvert any of the Who with thee by the altar soon shall stand arguments or statements of the speakers The occa And pledge her faith with thine sion was encouraging and auspicious in a high degree The crimes and horrors of the slave saystem were ex thou sit idly by hibited in a pathetic and startling manner and the ''rong or insult threatened her Wouldst thou I fearful responsibility which rests upon the people of otventurc station fortune fame ay life the North was also revealed in a very clear Ifoht Torsave that dear one from the grasp A liberal collection was taken up on the occasion I Anddost thou deem that dark browed son to cover the expenses of the convention as not a heart like thine to love or suffer 1 THEODORE LOCKE Pres robbcd of a11 he loveS he heeds it not Locke Sec thou the iron hand of Power That seals his lips doth also chain the sou We were highly gratified with this our first That calm contentedly he bears his lot visit to Barre with the rare beauty of its location Nor dares to think it cruel or unjust uic asie anu neatness displayed its dwellings the demeanor of the people the good attendance at the Convention Special thanks are due to Locke the pastor of the Universalist Society for the interest which he manifested in the success of the Convention and the hospitality he generously extend 1 ru uu in uiiu utiiers ijeiow i wmen aiiusion is maue the official proceeding It is very creditable to the estimable writer of Ed Lib CREDIT TO WHOM ORTOrr' Mx Dear Mr Garrison One of the scries of Anti Slavery Conventions having been appointed to be held at Hubbardston on Sunday the 11th instant one of our friends in that 4 place applied for the use of the Unitarian meeting house for that purpose The request was courteous ly entertained by the pastor of the Society who of fered to submit it to the Society as he did not feel himself authorized to decide the question alone Ha did submit it the it received discussion and was finally decided in favor of granting the use of the house no one voting in the negative It wa understood that the meeting would be attended by Stephen oster nnd myself although when the day arrived Mr oster was rendered unable to leave home by the severe indisposition of his brother I think my dear Sir that this public expression of our thanks on behalf of the anti slavery cause is due to the Hubbardston Society and their Pastor I doubt not that if he had manifested repugnance to dur oc cupancyofthe house our request would not have been granted Truth requires me to state that some objections were made to our friend expected presence but in the final voje they did not appear And I am happy to add that the large majority of the Society and their Pastor (Rev Mr Hill) n9 wcn others attended the anti slavery meeting oh the day appointed Let me also notice here another act of the same kind On Sunday Aug 4 an anti slavery meeting was held at Hopkinton and attended by oster and Burleigh At that place also the Unitarian meeting house was granted for the use of the anti slavery meeting and occupied for that purpose a part of the day Our old associate and friend Sta cy is the present minister of that Society To them too are our thanks due The Convention at Barre on Sunday last as you are aware was held in the Town Hall But I was told that the use of the Universalist meeting house there would unquestionably have been granted if it had been requested but under all the our friends I here (prominent among whom is the pas tor of the Universalist Society) decided that it best to occupy the Town Hall Th TTnlk cictv closed its house Ji 2 a I A wicked selfish and unfeeling heart minister (Rev Locke) generally attended our Hath tempted and crcome I Anti Slavery Convention i And like a brute How obvious is thc reflection' that if the ministers A bale of cotton or a field of cane professedly religious Societies would but take a That treasure that immortal soul manly frank and Christian stand in relation to Sla With ruthless grasp was torn from her their examPle could not fail to have a most And to cruel care ennsi on orl powerful effect upon those whn when judgment is had to the hue and righteousness Till its young limbs should gain the strength to toil Iook to them for instruction and guidance And how great is their guilt and how terrible will be their a shame ii with such a talent in their hands they bury retuse to sound the alarm when the overflowing scourge is in the land and turn a deaf ear to the cries of those upon whom "every conceivable wrong is inflicted by the pretended Christians of the land I have good hope of being to record other instances of liberality and sympathy with our cause like the above With sincere respect Yours SAMUEL MAY Jr Leicester Aug 19' 1850 Ye cannot once believe that thus the slave Has fallen from all ye honor and revr re In one of your own cherished freo born race Will ye then quench upon her altar fires The light of Truth And shall New England blush ri wKrsn n'or A A we give the poem to wave Britannia asks if you do nobly strive In cause and stem tide My country the shelter of thy flag Shall the wronged ones of Europe refuge find And yet thy fettered children plead in vain And shall we shut our eyes on all this wrong Calmly content if we but suffer not Or shall we boldly to the tyrant speak And in the strength lhat Truth doth ever give Siand firm and fearless contempt and scorn Knowing that sin is sin however smoothed" By varnish or by law made just dhall feeble woman lift her voice to plead And for the Right dare brave lhe dread laugh Which scarce the firm philosopher can VY hy should she not Sure if her hand is weak Her heart is strong and true She is know Not eloquent or classic in her speech Like those whose days have past in college And to enrich whose minds the ages past Bring their researches deep and lore profound When the brave eagle that should soar aloft And build his eyrie on tlie mountain cliffs Contented stoops upon the earth to rest Mid meaner birds to make his dwelling place Then will the ground bird and the sparrow rise i And if perchance their flight should be less bold Still may their humbler notes their song of hope The toiling slave yet cheer upon his way Barre (Mass) August 1850 No Union with Slaveholders Il I I WSiW JM 4 'Yr i '4'4 1 i 7 41 Ttjjp R4 IB Ar 1 4 Cj 1 4 I 3 I I I il It! 1 it mt 1 1 I '1 I II I I I ii I I ii Ip I I 1: 4 7 1.