The Liberator from Boston, Massachusetts • 1

ctfiSr CUR COUNTRY IS THE OUR COUNTRYMEN ARE ALL 9 9 IMPRISONMENT COLORED SEAMEN have with penforis who Mf they and Greeks regarded he right to bo a foliar are virions disrfrdei Iv an riotous as they hrive serve in their armies as Ute highest franchise Umt SENATOR SEWARD inc UUllillf 1 itu 1UI I1JL1U aim UAHVB Now sir I might well charge the honorable Sen I reftrc4 the sentiments hich he advanced which 84 recorded against both of opposed to Mr amendment which he (oote) wimr of tlie slave property of I ar ro 50 Cash advanced by Dep jailor 54 89 kll KZ 44 14 when dim and disastrous eclipse over the brilliant speech inoto i 4 ex 4 '8 7 i Jbm' 83 00 50 51 84 3 05 Debate in the Senate on the Amendment of Air Seward to the Slave Trade Bill providing forhe Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia! the district This motion was defeated by 8 yeas to 41 nays Those voting yea were Baldwin Chase Davis of Mass Dodge of Wisconsin Hale Hamlin Seward and AV inthrop Winthrop occupies the' seat that the Massachuset ts Legislature must fill next winter Republican XV GARRISON EDITOR scrupulous demagogue of the genuine rule or ruin stamp He is not willing to abide by the disposition that Congress in accordance with the wishes of the whole country has made of the territorial and other vexed questions but must need introduce another element of discord into the Senate in the shape of a proposition to abolish slavery in the District of Co lumbia by the General Government paying the mas ters the value of their slaves Such a scoring as the fellow got for his factious and unprincipled move from his whig brethren North aS well as South should be a caution to political tricksters like him hereafter He tried to withdraw his plan after it had been debated awhile but the Senate let him preferring to crush it by a nearly unanimous adverse vote Only five Senators including the mover sustained the project all River Demo cratic News 4Esom the Journal of Commerce Mr Editor: The writer of this is profoundly grateful to those men and pipers which hive so large ly contributed to the Tin settlement of those dan gerous questions th it ive so long agitated our be loved country Does it not become New York the greatest of our States to speak out fully and nobly and now I Why not have a primary meeting at the Exchange to morrow and thereafter ns soon as ar rangements can be made a public dinner given to Clay Dickinson oote without dis tinction of party at Castle Garden the expense to be defrayed by subscription and by the sale of tickets or by the public means alone The writer of this if desired will undertake to gather in as subscribers to the dinner the brightest names of our city September WM CHAPLIN The following Resolutions were passed by the Board of Trustees of New York Central College on Thursday the 5th inst: Whereas Win Chaplin our Agent elect to visit Europe in behalf of the interests of this Institution is imprisoned by the Slave Power in Washington city the Capital of this Nation for no other than the alleged reason of his having endeavored to carry out in practice the principles of the Declaration of and of the divine precept to do to others as we would have them do to There fore Resolved That we deeply sympathize with him irt his sufferings honor him for bis self sacrificing spirit lament the loss of Ins labors in the cause of bleeding humanity and regret exceedingly the exist ence of that horrible anomaly in this professedly Christian Republic which iniquity by and now holds a true Christian patriot in Resolved That the above Preamble and Resolution be published in the anti slavery and other papers of uui country and that a copy be sent to our Br Chap lin signed bv the officers of this Board of Trustees STAORD GREEN Pres of Board of Trustees of Cen College Remington Sec'y lighted up a civil war which would have utterly destroyed our political fabric Waking up to the storm in the Inst two weeks laws have been passed hich must advance the adjustment of all trouble The lust rntiil brought us however further good tidings The ugitive Slave Bill has passed both Houses of Congress and will we trust have received the signature of the President before this paper is printed The stringent provisions of this law must have a salutary influence on the future prospects of the country? This tardy act of constitutional justice to the South comes to heal past dissensions Passed as it has been by a commanding majority approved by the South it gives another guarantee to the perpe tuity of the Union The future will tell of no more insolent fugitive slaves Those who have so largely figured with Garrison and Smith and Phillips will in the future have to seek some new asylum and other associates The law just passed indeed brings most effectually the whole power of the government into efficient action for the restoration of al) fugitive slaves Whether they have heretofore fled or shall hereafter fly armed with the power of the law the owner piay pursue his property retake and place it in the custody of the Marshal and then he becomes responsible for its restoration to him In future time it will become the duty of the appointed agents of the United States sustained by the moral ami physical power of the nation to deliver over the fugitive slave to the master in the State which lie may reside Zisfi AM aotuxnra wirst 5Yf! it cannot onhof' aconditforr of their nssmf to tho ConstituUw special prosion as 5 00? 00 10 GLORYING IN THE TRIUMPHS THE SLAVE POWER In the course of his remarks at Washington when called out by the delighted slavocrats to receive their congratulations upon the passage ofrthe Texas bill of abominations the California Bill Daniel Webster gentlemen the last two days have been great days a iynrk has been accomplished which dissipates doubts and alarms puts an end to angry controversies fortifies the Constitution of the coun try and strengthens the bonds of the Union Now is the winter of our discontent Made 'glorious summer And all the clouds that lowered upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean This language fellow citizens is highly poetical but iij my opinion not too strong tor the occasion? The decisions of the popular branch of the Legis lature appear to me to surpass in importance any net of legislation which 1 have known for thirty years A crisis lias come upon tis in which minds have been strangely agitated by notions of separation and disunion Phantoms of new confederacies formed out of the now united body of the old thir teen and the new seventeen have swam before the eyes of some separate State existences have amus ed the visions of others while local controversies have raged with uncommon bitterness and local and partial interests espoused with so much of the exclu sive spirit of partisanship that the hopes of the most confiding appeared sometimes to waver But these causes of apprehension and disquiet these clouds so portentous of disaster are now in the deep bo som of the ocean We ought to be most thankful to Providence that the results of our delib erations: have been so pacific When on to mor sac red morn the sun shall begin to ascend in the east thanks from devout hearts ought to arise with it and fly beyond its orb to that gracious Be ing who has so kindly overruled all things for the preservation and perpetuation of our liberties and our peace Yes gentlemen we shall be thankful indeed that you and I and all of us bear a common name and a common character that we are all United Amer icans that without shame open the books that1 record the deeds of our fathers and can still look upon their graves without Mr rem irks were most enthusiastically received by of course THE UGITIVE SLAVE BILL The passage or this bill by the Senate was an oc casion of deep mortification not only to the friends of the slave but to such Northern citizens as viewed it chiefly in its connection with the honor of the coun try and especially our good repute abroad where our relations to slavery are so grievously and what is more painful so justly stigmatized It was still however to pass the ordeal of the House and the country looked to that body with a hope of its defeat there which was little short of certainty oreign papers too while reviling the nation for the disgrace of its Senate by this most disgraceful act admitted as a reserved mitigation the prospect of its fate in the House But the House has failed to meet the hope of the Country and a profound sentiment of disappointment and national degradation has been spread through the Northern States at least by the announcement that the bill with all its original un mitigated enormity has become a law of the land and that too by Northern votes a Northern majority in the House and a Northern President in the executive chair The Northern men who voted in this majority deserve to be and will be marked men hereafter Among the Christi in citizens at least of Boston there is we believe but one senti ment respecting the conduct of our own Represen tative and th it one of unqualified detestation That such a man should ever be able again to hold up his head with self respect among the people of Boston whose ancient honor and principles he has so atro ciously insulted is incredible This ugitive Slave Bill is certainly the most re markable legislative act of the civilized world in modern time It is long and contrived with the most stringent detail Zion's Herald Received payment LYON jailor Savannah March 14 1850 Barque Europa Owners To Thomas Maxwell Dr or bringing from jail George Johnson (Steward) and Edward Johnson (Cook) Drayage of their clothes Pay't THOS MAXWELL The above bills speak for themselves of the treatment of our colored sailors in the city of Sa vannah as late as last March No wonder South ern gentlemen are sensitive at the exposure of such facts I KID AY OCTOBER 4 MR QUOTATIONS a In times past Mr Webster has acquired no lit tle credit for the aptness of his classical quotations and this aptness does not seem to hive forsaken him now for we read in the Washington papers that on the Saturday evening when called out by the people to receive their congratulations nn the admission of California and the success of the Ten Million Tex as swindle he broke forth in the exultant language of successful villa ny which Shakspeare has put into the mouth of the infamous Duke of Gloucester is the winter of our discontent Made glorious i summer And all the clouds that lowered upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths Our brisued arms hung up for monuments Our stern alarums changed to merry The appropriateness in the mouth ofDaniel Webster of these sentiments of one who murdered one brother strangled the children of another assassinated his former husband and father in and then de stroyed the toadies ivhotn he'had used as the instru ments of his ambitious designs cannot bedispnted A a Kz Rrta rk A I 1H nnn cliz4 Mikia HHI IM WHJV i II 14V Ilf III OUUU1 O1 A III! ill IB vv kJlUUln lilt i lilt as Daniel Webster to smother the progress of free the District of Columbia principles put cnains upon me unus or men' Ron strangle all those generous ideas of which he had once been the advocate and defender merely to gratify miserable ambition could not have found a better character than Richard III to put words in hisinouth: with which to express the exultant feelings of his perverted and' treacherous heart Worcester Spy SLAVERY AND THE SENATE On Wednesday of last week there was nn planation of what Clay and the servile doughfaces mean by a settlement of the Slavery Question It seems to mean that all opposition to slavery must be treated as horrible fanaticism while the slaveholders pre allowed to propose and do what they please On the day named above Air Chase of Ohio pursuant to the notice he had given asked leave to introduce a bill to prohibit Slavery In such cases leave is always granted as a matter of course The rule requires leave to be asked but usage has estab lished that no objection shall be made to the intro duction of a bill Henry Clay however felt moved inspirit to revolu tionize usage He sprang up and objected Mr Cass And others of the same kidney followed him Mr Ch age accordingly withdrew his motion for leave Clay sup7orterhis rude objection by saying question is settled There peace throughout our i Immediately when Mr motion was with drawn Mr Pratt of Maryland arose mid asked leave to introduce a bill of stringent measures against the free blacks and against assisting runaway slaves in the District of Columbia 1 Pratt wanted something still more outrageous than the ugitive Slave Bill He wanted to the 18000 free blacks in the District and make it penitentiary offence to assist runaways Hale rose and objected in speech which was a comical parody of that in which Clay had just objected to Mr more agitation there is peace throughout our borders he hoped aggression would This created a general laugh Now then for the old Omnibus driver hnd hat he means by a settlement of the question: Henry Clay sprang up and supported motion and even went so tar as to claim it as a part of the Omnibus i Henceforth wo suppose every thing the slave holders insist on is to be supported as a piece of that remarkable Omnibus while each and every objector to slavery must look out for the pillory Well we must study this Mr motion prevailed and his bill was taken up Ob this slt very question is settl quite settled you qee! Yes Mr Clayund the rest of them have settled that the slave power has divine right to reign over Congress and govern the country Perluips Hen ry Clay will bettie next President with Cass for Vice President Hangman oote for Secretary of State and Daniel Webster Grand Marshal of the Slave Catchers What unheard of peace there will be all ou borders But alien bill was taken up Hale moved to refer it to the Committee on the District with instructions to report a bill for abolishing slavery in SOUTHERN BLUSTER The Richmond Va Examiner thus announces to its readers that California hasbeen admitted into the Union: The Constitution is no more People of the South you have been bought and sold 1 You have no voice in the government of this country save at the grice of a Northern majority Your rights arc those which the North thinks proper to permit you to retain You1 have been bought and sold A horde of North ern robbers and Southern traitors have divided your garments and will nail you to the cross Avarice and venality Yankee greed and hate and Southern corruption and imbecility have manacled and paralyz ed a powerful and courageous people You are free men no more You are conquered subjugated and enslaved Your lands and the product of your labor are no longer the property of yourselves and your children At best you are the foremen and middle men between the cotton lord and the negro bondsman hi Hie Senate Wednesday Sept 11 Mr Winthrop I perceive Mr President that my use of the word yesterday in rela tion to the amendment proposed by the Senator from New York (Mr Seward) has rankled a little in Ins bosom Sir I would willingly retract that yard willingly acknowledge that whatever the Senator does is wisest virtuousest discreetest eBut my difficulty in doing so nt this moment is in the fict that the honorable Senator himself has formally admitted the charge lie has first pleaded guilty and then has gone into nn argument to prove his in nocence' 'Phe honorable Senator rose this morning and asked leave of the Senate to do what Why sir to withdraw bis amendment because it was out of time because it was because he de sired to do that to day hich I desired to do yester day to give an opportunity for passing the main body of tins bill the two original sections of the bill before he persisted in pressing an amendment which he knew must embarrass if not defeat its passage Well sir I regretted exceedingly that the Senator was not allowed to withdraw his amend ment on that occasion lie had admitted all that I had averred with regard to it and had asked lea veto withdraw it: but the yens and nays having been or dered and one or two objections being made the Senator was obliged to leave it where it was And now forsooth no sooner is this settled than he pro ceeds to argue that it was entirely in season entire ly suitable that there was no objection to it at this time or nt any other time and ihat in using the word yesterday I quite overstepped the proprieties of the occasion Nty more sir the hon orable Senator somewhat stung apparently by my application of this phrase which I certainly regret if it gave him offence proceeds to argue by way of retaliation that I am in favor of this bill as it stands on ur table in quasi committee He charges tnat 1 was opposed to his hill being substi tuted for the original bill with a view of giving the bill as it now stands in committee not yet reported I to the Senate rom the Salem Register IMPRISONMENT COLORED SEAMEN Hon Robert Winthrop deserves especial hon or for the firmness and manliness with winch he has spoken in the Senate on the rights of otircolored sea men He brought a nest about him in the attacks of the who evinced their sensi tiveness by abuse when this subject was mentioned Mr Winthrop can be abundantly sustained on tlie points he introduced nml we mention one case as a specimen io which we should like to call the spe cial attention of the Hon Senator Berrien who was quite indignant to hear Savannah charged with the outrages alluded to We content ourselves with a simple statement of facts On the IGtb of last January the barque Europa Captain Nathaniel Brown sailed from Boston On the iumth day she was dismasted and on the l()th of ebruary put into Savannah in distress On the lOlh iplain rites to his owners in this citv as follows: The authorities of the place have taken from me the steward and cook and placed them in jail for safe keeping ami I have been obliged to hire two others at 75 cts each per The entire ex pense to the owners for jail fees hire of substitutes was between one hundred and fifty and one hundred and sixty dollars We li ive before us the originals of the jail bills and subjoin copies us cu riosities viz Capt Nathaniel Brown and owners of the ship Europa 1850 To Thomas Maxwell Dr eb 7th To carrying to the jail of Chatham coun ty George Johnson (Steward) and Ed ward Johnson (Cook) 50 payment THOS MAXWELL Savannah 14th March 1850 Mes srs Cohen osdick for Birque Europa or fy jii ator with a want of generosity with a want of can dor with a want of justice towards me on this point That Senator knows perfectly well that mv vote is al readv i the Senator from Mary Ijt lt (Mr Pearce) Tint Senator knows perfectly well that throughout mv wrioie course tomress in either i Capitol I have been uniformly opposed to all pro visions or law (me that contained in the last tit most obnoxious of these amendments tor knows perfectly well that it is the original bill as repotted by the distinguished Senator fiom Ken tucky which I intend to support and which I de sired to save by opposing the unreasonable ami in judicious amendment which he has thought proper to propose Sir I shall not yield to the Senator him self in the earnestness of my opposition to the amendments which have been adopted in committee on motion i ie senator irom warv nnr i have been anxiously wanting an opportunity only op ortunitv which can be fairly afforded tuuse utneriu nents sn in oe reported to rue wonate to make th it opposition again tn mifest As however a comparison of the whole bill with the substitute which has been offered by the Senator from New York is now the legitimate subject of consideration I suppose I may be allowed to say a word or two on those amendments Certainly sir I am opposed to the bill as it now stands upon your table if those amendments are tn be persisted in I regard the amendmentwhich authorizes the corpora tions of Georgetown and Washington and the levy Court of Washington county to proscribe exile and drive out of their respective jurisdictions a certain class of freemen for they are culled freemen in the bill itself as utterly unconstitutional and utterly un justifiable Why sir these amendments are of a nature to change the whole character of the measure and this bill in the form in which it stands on your table at this moment is liable to be made the in strument of a policy as odious and oppressive as the very traffic which it originally proposed to suppress Instead of being a bill to abolish the traffic in slaves it seems rather about to be made a bih to create a traffic in freemen for you allow the two city govern ments to do what? To remove io exile to drive out from their respective jurisdiction any free colored persons whom they shall not think fit to have among them and in case any such persons should net exactly comply with certain laws or regulations which may be prescribed on the subject of their residence or removal you authorize these authorities to imprison them at labor and all this on the mere ground of their color all this on account of their complexion Why the very jail the very depot which has been rendered so odious by this domestic traffic im slaves which the Senator from Kentucky desires to sup press may be used for imprisoning these free negroes and turning them into virtual slaves by making them work for the public service against their will and for no fault but that of their skins I therefore cordially unite ith the Senator from New York in his opposi tion to that part of the bill and shall gladly co operate with him in striking it out But his amendment goes further It proposes to strike out the whole bill It proposes to strike out the two original sections by which and by which alone the slave trade can be abolished I repeat again that the Senator in this case risks the substance for the purpose of signalizing himself in a vain attempt to grasp the shadow He knows that at the present session of Congress no bill like that which he proposes can possibly be passed through the two houses But sir even if it should be passed what would be the result? Why if the people of this District as in my judgment I am sorry to say I think they would should vote that slavery should not be abolished in this District at six months notice and upon the precise terms which the Senator proposes then what becomes of the bill for suppress ing the slave trade 1 The Senator perils upon the vote of the people of this District the whole question at issue If the peo ple shall declare against emancipation then we are neither to have slavery abolished not tlie slave trade suppressed Sir for one cannot consent to such a policy Senator may feel justified in declaring that slavery shall not be abolished here unless the people of the District say so But I can go with him in no course which leaves the suppression of theslave trade in any degree contingent upon a popular vote Mr President I would gladly do everything in my nowiT to uromote the interests and true welfare of ct of Columbia I desire to vote tor the two original sections reported by the Senator from Kentucky I desire to save those sections if possible by voting against all other matters which may in terfere with and embarrass their passage But Lean i not violate a great jirinc iple1 cannot establish what I hold to be an unconstitutional discrimination be tween different classes of American freemen in order to subserve a mere local convenience to the MIUllll I SON IJS1TE I Rob art Wallcut General Agent advance remittances are to be1 and all letters1 relating to the pecuniary concerns of the paper arc toi be directed (post paid) to the General Agent ry ive copies will bc sent to one address for nottAUS irpayrftent be made in advance ri If iking less than square in erted three times for 75 one square for $1 00 fcy The Agents the American Massachusetts Pennsylvania and Ohio Anti Slavery Socicties4we au thorisej to receive subscriptions for the Liberator us inancial rancis Jackson Ellis Guay Coking Quincy Samuel PrtitBincii Wrnubul Pil4ifs This Committee responsible only for the financial economy of the not Ibr any of its debts secure the perpctufty ofM lhcirs dominion pyw i he first was tne tmmnnny iur fl Jib second rthe 'Simulation to surrender fugitive sn en i gement positively by the laws of GQlr' om ornai ana wuraiy ine nplesof popular representatmn for articles of merchandise undert5 the name bfpenons To call government thus cod istituted ademocracrisld insult the understsnffing'of mankind It doubly tainted with tho infection of riches arid slavery Its reciprocal operation upon government of the natio'ii Is to establish an artificial' majority in thc slave representation over! that of the free people in tBe 'AIncncim Confcrcss snd to AND SLATERY Ttlfe fTAL AND ANIMATING SPIRIT THE NA TION AL JofcN Quinct A dams i is after It had been as I smpposed oDce disposed ol I will taka the liberty of propounding a UesloL the Senator of Massachusetts 1 bfllicye theRomant nnd tjrreeks refardrd the runit to bo mr UIV UlllVOr Yj could be conferredon a nw and Ir States I thiuk' itentcrs ipto the rightof Now? I ask the Senator if he ever saw a blakmsn carrying arms in Massachusetts "virv lint that under the laws of the United for the laws'of the United paramount on the sub none but whites nrc enrolled in thoMasinchu setts Militia I have an impression however that not indeed id thihse piping times' of pence vbut in 1 the tiitiof war wlien jqnite a boy Hiave seen black 4 soldiersenlisted nnd trained in defence rf the country? in mylown State It an unqnestionable fuctslhat they Were so enlisted and did faithful and ex celient service however it may hate been in 4 the Northern States I can tell the Senator what happened in the Southern States this period I tj believe that 1 shall be boYffe out in saying that mo regiments did better service nt New the black whicht were organized the direction hf General Jncksori himself jafter most glowing appeal to the patriotism nnd honor of i the fiedple of color of that region nd whioh after they cnme'out of the war received therthanks ofr General Jackson in ti proclamation which Has been thought worthy of being inscribed on therpagee of history nd Ml The Senator ha's answered me 'byM saying what'I could hot haye said'eo welfMThe Senator) that by the law of the' United black men are hot allowed to serve in tlie 0 that answers my question precisely' When the con stitution was framed and hed the 1794wbb Apassed the federal government in my opinion dreamedcertainly they never expressed the opinion 4 in their legislativeacts that the black man had the eligibility to become a citizen they Avert I fore not qven allowed enthr the militia or to hold'" commission in the service of the government And 7 if wc look at the old laws in reference to sailors we5 shall find that in the foreign commerce of the lffiurt try none are allowed to become sailors but of the United States or native colored men thus 1 clearly and distinctly discriminating between ditizcrifP of the United States and colored is this discrimination' in llio laws of Unitedfs States I should like to kno'tf what thcYfe is South Carolina or from making aisimihfWw discririiinatiop in their laws? These verydiscrimna tions are recognized and acquiesced in by chusetts herself 1 doubt very much if the Senator ever saw a black'mnn on a jury tlire If do not know whether they are allowed to intermarry with the whites though I believe the Senator from New Hampshire said that in Shis State the black white men and women were regarded aljkei Uaughi ten 7 'a' 4 Ira i Sir these men repudiate Hhe discrimination here when it suits their purpose to assail the South but they preserve itnt home and there degrade the very i persons whom they here elevate) by their voici The black man is put in a much higher scale in their rhetoric than he is by their practice7 I repeatj thiSJ is a discrimination which is recognized by the cont stitution itself and by the old law bf Congress be 7 fore they were tainted by this new spirit of abstract philanthroby in opposition tothe'practical of our ancestors 1 do not therefore regard 'it ns an abuse in South Carolina with these precedents before her and there is no just reason for singling but that State for particular on the sub ject There are local laws in 1 many of the recognising this discrimination to hich might nkvr lude On a former occasion I alluded to the fact thatM a free black man cannot go to Illinois and theyiare If to be prohibited from going to Ohio if one of the provisions proposed to form a part of the new stitution'shall be allowed to go into effect In Con necticut they are not allowed to vote nor nre they I New York nnd I am informed by my colleague as the result of his own observation that in Massachusetts such is the aversian of the white75 to the black man that the voters absolutely drive thein from the polls at an election nnd scorn and spit upon them It is only In' the Senate chamber when it suits the purposes gentlemen'that we 1 hear so much rhetoric on this subject It is rhetoric without the heart sir The jieart is not the source from which it flows fAnd therefore say that when this discrimination is made in the Southern States for their very safety we are nottobe told so emphatically by gentlemen thiit it is an abuse of the I insist sir that they have mo right to make a a citizen in Massachusetts and send him to South Carolina an entirely different po 'W sition frppi that which is conceded to persons oftheu same class there Mr Winthrop As the remarks of thj Senator from South Carolina would seem to intimate soein phnticnlly that there had been no abuses under these Southern laws I beg leave to read to the Senate a letter 1 received a few days ago in regard to the de bate which recently occurred here on this very sub oo CilABLESTOW K' (Mass) Aug 291850? Dear In reading over the remarks a number of honorable Senators on thc 23d' instantfe on the amendment proposed by the Hon John' Davis to be affixed to the ugitive Slave bill I finfl )that Senator Davis of Mississippi challenges any geritle man irt the Sena te or elsewhere to noini out a singloVJ base' the steward of a vessel has" been seizedM from the vessel and carried on shore) am kst6niSh ff ed at so learned a man proposing such a question thathMs I thought every Southern man must be so familiar with Why a few years since it took place' daily in New Orleans Yes hundreds have been taken out ships sixty feet from the soil of Louisiana on thea 'Ay ters of the United States for the river 1 think be longs to the United States and sixty feet for the'ac commodation' of travellers and ships'1' I am a shipmaster and have traded between New Orleans and Liverpool for many years and have aeenSi' cooks stewards and seamen taken handcuffed fromJ many ships by' the harbor masters of each munici 'JJ pality whose duty' it was and have seen them int vs prison afterwards and it is done' now in every in stance of a free colored man'going into' most )porte south of Charleston including that city I will now answer the question from my own ex' perience In 1837 1 commanded a Boston ship and went from Liverpool to Matanzas Toaded for St Pei rf tersburg) Russia and two days out 1 my ship in a hurricane 1 Wh'cn she went down took to my boat and got on board a Charleston brig which was par tially abandoned also Ttook her into the port of 7'1 Charleston against the remonstrances of my' crew Jul especially cook and one a a mulatto belonging to and a' Uative cf by the DunlapOh my arrival bcth cook artdfM steward were taken immediateiy to prison and weri kept there while I was and how much longer I "ri do not knowt 'nor do know whether they were sold tor their expenses or not I went to' the'prison and there 1 saw many other cooks and stewards of ships' then in port and tried to mine released and away but could not It was said that ships would '1 come in in distress if it was allowed for these to go loose on the ground' of their being brought in' as shipwrecked meh tA7 SZ SECESSION OR DISUNION With joyful nccl unntion from Abolitionists and Submissionists comes the news that several of the measures of the Omnibus' differing somewhat detail from their previous character have passed the House of Representatives We have not been fur nished yet with theqiarticulars but we have no doubt they have passed without material modification and we see but one alternative that is Disunion immediately and distinctly We cannot stay in the Union any longer with such dishonorattached to the terms of our remaining It is to sign our death warrant to do so We speak unreservedly: Jet ns cotpo outjrom it The matter has been discussed enough for every one to know that our entire exclu sion as Slave States from all territory now common to the United States has been effected by the pas sim of these odious discriminating bills How can we stay in a confederacy the stronger members of which practice such wrong and insult ii(Kn the weaker and especially when such strong members have derived nearly all of their strength from political subsidies furnished by the weaker? Mr idger said North Carolina was but a colony of the General Government Truly have the Southern States been to all practical purposes colonies to the giving strength to their sinews power to their muscles and furnishing their arteries of trade with thevery elements of their existence nnd health but this is not three fourths of the money spent and four fifths of the blood spilt in the acqui sition of new territory is to be flung in ns an addi tional gratuity to the North without our deriving one benefit Out upon such 'a confedera cy Out upon a Union which binds us to such deg radation which fastens upon us die chains of such a diegriceful vasalage We go for the secession for a moiety of States lif if unly one we will sacrifice every other prospect we may hive and unite our fortunes with her 'and stand by her to die mrom the Rchmond Va) Enquirer TELE UTURE New light bcamr on us is doing its duty Roused nt last to the Imminent danger that impended but lately over and unity of the Stites act after" act has passed tending at least if not accomplishing the work of harmony to the51 Republic' A days hesitationb those in power at Washington would prooaDJy have To Savannah Jail Dr maintenance and fees of George Edward Johnson Stewards Key for 2 $2 50 Rations Jb days at 4 cts per day for 2 Whipping Apprehending ee 51 ileage Advertising in of the 1 aimly Guard House ee ee Blanket ee Johnson Johnson difficulty which has been suggested witltregard to the influx of free negroes into this District why you have the same dealing with them as you nave with who h6're If they Vr represented to be vaq diave all and legal5 remedies comma nd rigainst vice' disorder and' riotousness: If they are' you can them If they nre paupers you can put them to labor' If they are guilty of breaches the peace' crime of any kind you can arrest them on proper evidence and imprison thenemi due conviction your jails and penitentiaries Yon have your houses for them by day and your wntch housesfor them by night And you have or oughtto have the better security of schools and churches for their tre fi formation anil improvement: Whatever you can do for others you can do for them' And sir 1 should like to nsk what clause there is' in the Constitution and what authority there is to be tound anywhere for making distinctions betweetbone class ot freemen and another class of freemen in this country? It has been repeatedly asked here here get anthority for discriminating between different classes of property between slave property and other property I should like to know where get authority for discriminations betweendiflerent classes of persons between different classes of ac know lodged fredmen Where is lhe provision in the Constitution of States? Upon what prin ci pie does such a discrimination rest How is the assumption to be justified that certain class of the free people of these United States shall not enjoy the prerogatives and privileges of freemen to go where they please and live where they please and do what they please subject only to tlie common and equal laws and ordinances of (ho land Sir 1 have said more than I intended to say and quite ns much as 1 desire to say upon this occasion I am still of opinion that there is a good hope of sav ing the bill originally reported by the distinguished Senator from Kentucky for the suppression of the traffic in slaves in tlie District of Columbia or that bill I shall vote I believe it to die a practical and immediate question and one which is capable of being settled now anil at once to the of the hole country I shall therefore vote against all amendments that may tend in my judgment to embarrass or defeat its passage Mr oote succeeded Mr Winthron and exnrrss rArrrnt 4 i 4 I I I 1 '1 I he said entirely nestroyed'in their effect the' speech1 of the previous day He was also surprised at hear ing the Senator from Massachusetts sav that he was' said was to prevent a uYeat and prowinr in the District the taking and carrying away feloniously" citizens of the District I tnoiight Mr inthrop misunderstood the design of ml I 'he amendment which lie (oote) said was merelv That Sena 1 gt'Antiiig to the corporate authorities of the District1' uiv saiuc poweis oi legislation ns are possessed ana exercised in all the slave States of the Union! Mr roote closed oy expressing his utter abhorrence and detestation of Mr amendment' 1 Mr Winthrop Mr President1 shall be very brief in reply to the Senator from Mississippi He has suggested thatthere has been some extraordi ntirv mnurotioA 1 1 i vnvi uuioufn inj uuuieu iu uuy mm iJiy HU 1 I course veslprdnv nnd thnt enmra t1za tho have made here this morning' have thrown a i which he says I delivered before the Senate last evening Now I desire to do the Senator from Mis sissippi tho justice to say that I have never discern ed any difference in him that he never changes that he is the same to day yesterday and every day and that he always seems ready to come in like the chorus in the old Greek tragedy with a note respon sive to every variety of event and emotionto the ed ification of the Senate the admiration of tlie guile ries and no doubt very much to his own personal sat 'faction In the next place sir he intimates that there was some collision between the Senator from New York and myself yesterday and that have apologized for it unworthily to day The Senator is quite misCa 5 ken It was with himself and not with the Senator from New York that I had the collision yesterday That speech which he has done me the honor to cha racterize as so brilliant and triumphant was in reply to his own extraonlinmy and extravagant remark' that the principle maintained here that we had the power to abolish slavery in the District of Colum bia was but the entering wedge which was to rive nsundenvthe bonds of this blessed Union But though the Senator would seem to have overlooked tlie fact that the collision was with himself I am more than half inclined to think from the speech which he has just made that he really has not for gotten it: and that he has only designed to pay off to day a score which he left entirely unpaid and un acknowledged yesterday In the next place sir the Senator says that he hopes: I do not sympathize with the people who come here to commit petit larceny on the property of the South and that he will atleast wait until I declare it my self before he believes that I do Now sir if he will promise to do what he I shall be perfectly satisfied I have never yet declared that sympathy and never shall and therefore the Senator is' bound by his own declaration never to believe me to entertained it 7 One word more sir The Senator ha'salluded to the proposed restrictions about free negroes in this District and he fells us for our example and en couragement that they have just such restridtions inJ the Southern States and that therefore we ought to have them here! VVhysir we all that' they have these restrictions in the Southern States and all know what is the operation of them a few weeks past the abuses that are perpetrated under these laws have been brought afresh to the attention of the Senate! I refer to the law under which our free colored seamen are seized on board ourineftffiant ships and imprisoned their employers deprived qf their services and they themselves made liable' to be sold as slaves We know sir and from bitterest experience that the Southern slave States have these laws and I for one will never vote for any provision like this which gives a virtual sanction to such law and which is to set the example and to establish the precedent herein the very capital' of the Republic of making so odious and oppressive a discrimination between the freemen of color and the freemen 'of another color in a land professing to be a land of equality and liberty 1 After some further remarks by' Mr? ooted the'd'e bate was continued as follows: Air Butler I was very sorry to hear the Senator from Massachusetts again allude and in pretty' strong language too to what he is pleased to term the arising under the police pf some' of the Southern States Sonth Carolina included by which is between: white Mti zens and free negroes Itsohiebow happens that the of Massachusetts and South Caro lina are continually irf controversy yet notwithstand ing I hope we shall continue to maintain our mutual respect for each heretofore thought it entirely unnecessary to'reopenthis inatter again ex at afJ' II ill 1 4 JL JBe A rju Jt rx jnrv i JUU 8VPH 3i Yt OBIB st Yr tr Xw it 1 Ah 1 1 al illiUlf LrT Aav I ILii UIIILJ UU M7L" ZK Vi rSaTiS iLiii A i i vast 'aat i icr i Atarvt 3 4a3i tiuv JB a a 1 sr 1 1 1 a 1 1 jaa A aMi titt ai 4 I th station fo 0 18 5 2 MS? til it.