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to T5T 4 1 f' fi IS is permitted Mr Editoh jThci following extnjctaftpnb ft I i i NARRATIVE REDERICK DOUGLASS Our antisla very friends will be pleased to' Team thatthe first edition of the Narrative of rederick i Douglas has nearly all been disposed of and that the I author has a cheap edition in progress of publication I which W'U be ready for sale in a few days lj cer tainly will fijnd making a total of what ie raised by the House of Assembly chiefly on the food which the peasant eats and the lumber he purchases during three years of £510589 16s 4d fYou will be delighted to hear that morahty has increased (Hear hear) I have brought over a list of the number of marriages that have been ner 'formed tn Jamaica from April 1841 to April 1844 and it will also show the relative position of the de nominations there The Baptists have recorded marriages jri these four years 8446 the native Baptists those who were there before us 264 the Wesleyan Methodists 5120 the Association Meth 430 the native Methodists 21 the Mora vians 2839 the Presbyterians 2382 the London Missionary Society 351 theCongregationalMis ejonary Society 203 the Roman Catholics 3 the established church 8294 less than the Baptista by nearlyJMO: so that in these few years so soon af ter and you know that the licentiousness before was such ae' could be talkcd there have been registered In opr proper law books 20 marriages (Cheers) XT Bustle a Philosophical and Moral Poem By the most Extraordinary Man of the Age Published by Marsh 25 Cornhill We dohot know" who is the author of this poem though we suspect he is one whois well known in the cause of dietetic and physiological reform but apprehend his object (which! is a good onevix to reprobate' almost ridiculous and unseemly append age worn by many women) will be measurably de eate extravagance and We have nof however any rodm for a critical notice of thewoHri S' Some of its least tobjcctioiiable Stanzas we have placed in our poetical department 1 I roih i Mr? Entron extrnotti from a letter written by a gentleman ofjBristol England South says anl jurt received in this eountiy seem me emU DEATH GEN JACKSON General Jackson expired at the Hermitage on Sun day the 8th inst It is said he retained to the lost his senses and intellect? unclouded and in the Ian guage of pious cant it is added that expired with the utmost calmness' expressing the highest confi dence in a happy immortality through a Redeemer He has been an awful curse and scourge to the coun 1 try arid his death therefore will be any thing but a public calamity But bad as He was there will be i no lack of panegyrists to try to make his career ap pear Illustrious Butin vain in vain 'A hevolent hopes faithful unlo death' Lift up your head amidst the multipHeddifficulties ofyour lathj and put yout jjostiifcHeaigbp eiiiMicipa tion of the slave it will ceaie to pis Go forward then and? faint iwL TW Lord bless thee out of Zion Oh 1 that hft 'may bleao thee indeed and of a truth ear not deaf brother the Jxwd of Hear a4 S' en will thee utadet loVe(theloyeJtoof strangry but of Abrothex)to your Cha pmahi Weld and accept of th same youitolf BcKeve me i 05 otra jft We to call thkiat tention ottr' subscribers to the riew Post Office LaW which is to take'Tffeci will be prohibited fromu sending money sfree of ex? pense to publisbers we respectfully askall those suDSCnDvB who art? mueuiru msu amount of their subsenptions Secondly as our paper to all towns witliihtoirtyipiles ofJBostou jye desire to urge all our friends in those towns to do the Cause good service by procuring additional subScribdrsi thus sending rite each family a weekly MiSsionkty io uttpf tfsvr roix I B4Mtono Chdse ir lyiiis8KXiCOOTVW' AndoverS J'J Haxnilton Middlesex? Bradford Salem s5 Boxford yssLynprts Saugus Danversq i Topsfield Essex Manchester Wenhamvl Georgetown Marble heada kSv NipDEKSKXOU KTr 'J Lexington' A Sto Billerica rv Littleton Sudbury Bedford Lincoln' South Reading A LoweU 1 Tewksburyjft Brighton Medford 4 Burlington Malden Watertown Carlisle Waylaid Natick 5 Cambridge? ti Reading f' Wilmington Sudbury swesttora Sherburn tv Woburnl A MnA ramihgham nd BbmfervilleUl Weston Hoiiistono stonenam s'StR'W fril WJrOROXKCOVKTY iBrairitrcCi fr Brookline i' BellinghamCohasset V4 Canton Dover? 's? nently suggestivc of thoughts appropriate for bur 1 selves at this position 'of our govern ment! reference to Texas Oregon and California one or all is certainly such as may speedily "embroil ns in war with England It is lime to provide that' in' the event of such a war onr beloved Common wealth5 mnyreceive no detri men Every tnie lover 'of Massachusetts should Jook to it tnather honor le kept untarnished in the controversy now pending between this nation and Great Britaiu and in tho war Which may follow The letter speaks ns follows think yon of 'the government are fully determined as to their course Should! the United States government maintain their purpose there it nothing that can be expected but a fierce and bloody It will not be like the Chi nese war that wasmost unpogvlar but if willtbc considered as a waragaibst thi iiin gowEtt trie woRtD that power which Breeds human being" for no other purpose bnt to gratify the? dust the AtkaTv thsa lni i anrf 1 of lifi Under these circumstances should between inis country ana tne unneu duuis is wuuiu be the most popular war everundertaken by this na tion arid none will mourn over it here but those who i seethe abominations of ALL wars and who willsaf fer rather than inflict wrong jj Last week we held public anti war meeting at which I proposed for consideratioa the propriety of presenting petitions to our 'government zThst they would relinquish all claims to the Oregon territory in favor of the aborigines of A meric' to whom 'it right fully belonged that they would also propose to the United States government that they du likewise also that the two governments nobly ignite jp the appointment of joint commissioners who shall residq on the territory and protect the Indians in the peace able possession of the country for ever Tbs could the plan be effected would be a homestead for the poor Indians who have been driven west and whohave no certain dwelling There is a class of people among us whose pat riotism is immediately excited to feverheat by the very mention or war wnn xngianu xuey ciy out at the topof tlieir voices afraid They foam' and fume and bluster they boast of their long line of illustrious ancestors4 and really so over value 'themselves and so undervalue the very re spectable maritime power bn the opposite side as inevitably recall to' memory the? comic sketch which was current some years agoof a bullying boy his features inflamed and' his eyes starting out of his head with rage imhos tile attitude before an elderly cow wiiiclv was quiet ly chewing her cud and shaking his fist it her face with the energetic defiance me now if you dare 1 dare you to do 1 We would by no means interfere with the favora ble opinion entertained by these heroes of hem selves and their country we will even gratify them by the declaration that we are not afraid of Eng land and that we know any 'one whp is but we would respectfully submit both to them'aud to that less valorous and more discreetportion of the community whose sympathy we value more that as it is no imputation upon a courage to say that he fears pestilence and famine so it should be none to say that lie is afraid of war a greater curse to the human race than both combined We fear the evils that must inevitably attend and follow a war with any nation at any time We fear the interruption of sympathy kind feeling anti friendly intercourse between ourselves and other nations we fear the malignant passions which cherished and cultivated by warfare destroy for a time the blessed influence ofthe Gospel and prove with melancholy force the declaration of our Savior that he who hates his fellow mau cannot love God we fear that suspension and reversal of all the rules of morality which war necessarily implies we fear the increased deterioration of the morals of our army and navy and of the numbers of men who would join them for lack of peaceful occupations and of the numbers more who would engage in a abroad the rum oi many ot our merenants aim me suffering of their crews in foreign prisons we fear the wanton and enormous expenditure of our re sources not only without any correspondingbenefit but in the very act of imposing immense burdens and evils upon ourselves we fear the public debt and the increased taxes coming simultaneously with the diminution of the means to meet them we fear the loss of thousands of our hardy seamen and industrious citizens the: maiming and dismem berment of thousands more the sufferings of our fathers husbands and brothers on the bloody deck and the battle field in the cock pit and the hospital and the groaus tears and agonies which these losses and sufferings will occasion in thousands more of tender and loving hearts scattered all over our land and now thoughtlessly happy in the enjoyment of those ties which war would suddenly and violently sunder But the war which thus pregnant with evils it is right and reasonable for us to fear has not yet come It may yet perhaps be averted Our gov ernment reckless and desperate as it is' can go po further than it is permitted by the voice of the peo ple Let the voice of the people then be heard against this war 4 Where are now those voices that in aneuil Hall so indignantly repudiated the idea of New consenting to the annexation of Texas? Where are those who said that the act of annexa tion was the dissolution of the Union Where is he who declared If Texas is annexed to the United States I pledge myself from that moment to spend my life in laboring for the abolition of slavery so help me Let those able honoredand influ ential men now make good their words Let them call upon the people to serid forth from their pri mary assemblies their emphatic and unqualified condemnation of this infamous attempt to strength en and perpetuate slavery Let their eloquence never more needed now arouse' men whofseem slumbering on the brink of a precipice and per? Sude them if possible to lay a firm and tenacious grasp on those rights which the slaveholding pqwer has long been stealthily withdrawing and which she now seems determined to wrench with sudden violence entirely from their hands At least let us not be ruined without an effort Violent diseases demand energetic and radical rem edies? If all wrong needs to be righted we were never more in need of a revolution Let Massachusetts then as of old make the first demonstration in favor of Liberty Let each citizen of this Commonwealth take such a position as shall at once vindicate his own rights and prove that he has ceased to partici pate in the oppression of the slave and that the whole influence of this movement may be palpably brought to bear upon ourtreacherous government that the unjust judge who fears not' God neither regards man be checked by a current of im portunity gradually swelling and increasing 1o an irresistible demand let every man of Massachu setts and every woman too (for the influence of woman never trivial becomes immense and over whelmning when directed to a great moral move ment) sign and promptly and vigorously circulate the following 4 ANTTSL AVERY PEACE PLEDGE We the' underBignedjijcitizeiui of Massachusetts hereby solemnly pledge ourselves notAo countenance or aid the United States Government in'ariy war Which may be occasioned by the' annexation of Texasor in any other war or domestic' designed to strengthen or perpetuate slavery the Liberator is uncommonly the present week The article from the Bos ton Post indicates whether the cry Union with is powerless to alarm the minions'of Slavery When its knavish author rolls up his eyes and exclaims Another openly avowed object isra dissolution of organization called Christian Ctjufches it shows what is the true character organization and must excite a Satanic laugh in pan demonium 1 The article from the YEvnngelist respecting the N'E Convention is hypocritical Im nudent and mendacious to a To The communication of 1 is all in type with several columns of interesting matter1 but which Ve aro obliged Udeftr till next 'fekW? k'? JE Ini the better Wendell PhillipsIaif week the sum of $800 was a misprint for $500 JV kiPLAOE WAHTElL AlqWanted aplricb ih for Samvl an i emancipated slave recently from Louisiana He is 'about 25 years of agej strong imdi'healthy and of good disposition and habits' He la some what deficient in intelligence arid would therefore require little more "than usual kid and oversight on the part of his 5 employer jiWagee not his object A decenthome and good treatment are all tha at patent desired for him JOHN PALREY SS npHE subscriber continues to manufacture Truaaoa 4Ju' of every 'description' at hie residence at the old stand opposite 264 305Washington street Boe ton entrance im Temple Avenue' up stairs All in 3 dividuals can see bim alonp at any titoC'attheahovq place 4 Having had twenty years experience he has afford ed relief to'three thousand persons for 4 the last five years AU may ba assured ot reliet who call and try of his manufacture' He is hbw confident he can give every iridividual relief who may call on The public are cautioned agctoet the many who promise what they cannot perform Having worn the different kinds of Trusses "more or less that have been offered to ihe public for the last twenty years fromdifferent patent manufactories and now continues to wbar those of his own menu facture he is now able to decide after examining the rupture sort Truss ie bestlo adapt to all the cases that occur and he has on band as good True see and will furnish any kind of Trues that can behad 4 IT? 'mariilfacturet as many A wen tv dif ferent kinds of Trusee ainong which exo all the different kinih similar to' fooee the late Mr Beach of this city formerly made snd all otherw ad vertised in 'Boston' "together with the patent elaette 'spring Truss' with spring pads? Trusee withowteteel these 'give relief in all cases ofr upturn sad a large portion produce a perfbet cure They canbe day and night Improved htegn mid0 pivot LTruas Kpmbilical andTrMM fo different ways Trusses withbl andnewket jointsTrusses for ProlspsusAmibyweanng which persons troubled withadescent oftoe reCtum can nda on horse back with perfect eSto and safety ooter also makes Truese for Prolapsus ton Whfoh hayu ianswed in ow pesareshaYe failed fife peusory Trusses Knee Cap and Back Board are aL 5 ways kept on hand? As a matter of convenience and 8 not of speculation the Undersigned will keep on hand the following kinds from other manufoctorum which ithey can have if his does not suit them Hail'd Read's' Spiral Truss Salmon bU and socket patent i Trench Improved rruss jnareman a do also Tfuttee of alt aixes'fqr children Any MA'dbf TrnwforeoMr foi as goop iM 4 OTLadieajWtehHMr ftrjmyM gwiRbo? vreited upon by XVe'acknnwledge the receipt of tfie firsl and sec ond numbers of Cassius NCla paper the 4 True The firmness and de termin ation of Mr Clay are highly cdmrbcHdableJ'iutWedeeply'regret to see that he is ready to Weet tils opponfints'with the bowie knife or pistol as" they may elect Referring to a writer in the Kentucky Observer tries' to the popular fory against the American' tand also to a vile inflammatory tetter of RobertWickliffe Mr Clay kayi7 If then Junius shall single handed fall upon us 3 when alone and take our life and suppress our publications he will be 'guilty of murder If he tfShull conic with numbers to back him he will most find Us fob sustained by' some 'Kentucki ans dare to be free the contest in that event may aspire to the dignity of a civil warin which we shall tie found fighting the cause ot the Constitution and Liberty and they in the cause of Slavery in rebellion agninst both In such a con test Tshall not fear the result':" 4' i 7 That point i Tff 'misery'which makes oppressed man Regardless of hi own life makes him too Lord of his i (Still we are not ifielt of 'bldod and to shew the pacific that we are economical in that precious fluids Lf nothing fight will satisfy this rampantknight of the scalpel we propose that he supercede this projected civil war bythe less heroic but more harmless mode ofthe duel Tf he slay ifS'the press shallstop if we slay him then neVdr shall lancet draw blood Here I must confess make but little show of courage for in with the which' generally prevails among my own gallant countrymen that mob leaders are inevi table cowards' Genuine bravery andjnagnajrimity ever go together and a man of large chivalric soul scorns to take odds aga inst a single foe sulor ultra crepidam Let Junius stick to his liolus there is more death in his niortar than in his sword none but unresisting victims mark his prowess A man outlawed from the social circle by his infamy may well nspire to become a cut throat if fiumbers should ensure him his wonted impunity in the per petration of crime should rather judge Whig? from his hesitating tone to be tame and harmless villain and we can hardly waste indignation enougn to repeat Thou cream faced loon Where gottest thou that goose look Of all men living Robert Wickliffe should be the last to speak of popular vengeance He stands a living but ungrateful monument of the forbearing mercy of the people The victims of incendiary publications have not yet imbrued their hapds iu the blood of this man who for years has not scru pled to aggrandize his political power by the most dangerous insinuations against the lives and proper ty ofthe community The armies of men women and children whom he has robbed by the dishonest iticrarlerv of the men who have seen the beds stripped from sick and helpless women bread from the mouths of crying infancy the plough share run sacrilegiously over the buried ashes of their lathers mothers brothers sisters and children by this in exorable fiend of the law have not come up in mass in their great and remediless woe and thrown his torn limbs to the dogs: yet he stands at the age of seventy advocating violence Let this old man beware! Does he want another family picture spread out upon those walls built up by the tears and blood of the poor and oppressed whose cries for redress and vengeance he confesses shakes him in his guilty home Here the settled gloom which rests upon a houses fore ver dishonored maybeseen Brecken ridge returning after a long exile of patient wrong and unresisting persecution and with one fell blow crushing into the lowest depths of infamy the man whom the sincerest follower of the long suffering Martyr of Judea could no longer look upon and live unavenged Here is Henry Clay of Ashland his friend in utkrt envnrl tho nnlt! AtlO iJIv Uayo U1 VvWy rilivDtllVU vraj vuv i 1 i i of his nice worthy of such a champion from a I private system of licensed piracy on the high seas the flows from a thousand we fear the interruption of our extensive andpros wounds inflicted by the tooth of cruel and remorse Porous commerce the loss of our shipping now 'L nf aiif mnrnhnntu nnIrnP less slander: foremost among the mooanounus wno Ihrust their insatiate muzzles into his very blood is Robert Wickliffe Here is a great and gallant and confiding party who have stood by him good and evil report through a Jong life conferring upon him its repeat ed though undeserved honors' at last in 1844 in the day of its greatest trial he basely deserts and goes off he and his to the enemy and yet he with a face of more than metal dares insult a virtuous community by talking of double dealing in poli ticians Here is a' young and lovely girl raped by a ruffian negro When her imploring and streaming eyes were upturned to him as one of the propounders of the law asking vengeance for the violated purity ofa virgin soul he dared to strike a yet more deadly blow by insinuating that this bumble daughter of the people was a common prostitute How can he talk of a mob at this late day without trembling at the remembrance ofthe popular indignation which had then well nigh executed on him the vengeance which his crimes so richly deserve? When a citizen of ayette was poisoned by that degraded population which he would make perpet ual among us who covertly and insidiously pro cured her pardon of the Executive of the State? And yet he ventures to impute to others the en couragement of rape and poison! Old man re member poor Benning remember Trotter the avenger remember cave and ifyou still thirst for bloodshed and violence the same blade that repelled the assaults of assassin sons once more in self defence is ready to drink of the blood of the hireling horde of sycophants and outlaws of the assassin sire of assassins Much of tliis is in bad taste as well as in a wrong spirit and' may lead to bloody results Certainly it does not harmonize with the following extract from another article from the pen of Mr Clay in the same number of his paper With regard to the Christian religion it is not necessary that I should defend myself farther than by saying that I am not aware that there is any man in Kentucky not a member of any association of Christians who has given so much to the pecu niary support of the church as I have I utterly despise cant upon any subject I be lieve my ideas of God and nature are fixed and I have no desire to change them yet I will say that there is not a precept of the Christian religion which does not meet a deep response in every pow er of my intellect in every sensation of my heart the rewards and consolations it holds out to the poor the long suffering the afflicted the oppressed its sublime sentiments of love forgiveness and self denial its glorious aspirations of perfection know ledge and immorality prove it if not Divine at least our highest conception of Divinity In fine although I am tolerant of the opinions of all men on all subjects I do not hesitate to avow that I have no sympathy whatever with infidelity on the contrary it shall ever be as it always has been one of the objects of my life to persuade men to a loftier appreciation of true Christiunity as the best basis of human happiness true glory liberty and civilization If he be sincere in saying there is not a precept of the Christian religion which does not meet a deep response in every power' of my intellect in every sensation of my heart how can he challenge any per son to fight a duel or talk of bloody resistance to armed assailants See the Sermon on the Mount wh'oLe' We make the followingiextraCU ftom speech of HeV William KnibbMih energetic and couragcous jteptlat Missionary ii the AVesU Ihdief delivered in Exeter Hall London before the Baptist Missionary Society thia last month They relate to Jamaica and will niuktratoiortfc'ef the diffibbltie ith' wkich' the freed tcricdnfehd (hire "whilo theybe thlit thc embarrasament which teem to' spring ftom emancipation their real origin the tyran uyef the wealthy and ruling class Consentaneously with freedom or very Ropn ef teritTbere were two laws passedvhich unless wehad taken timely notice thereof have pressed heuvily Upon the laboring population The one was the Ejqctment act which enabled the for proprietor tp eject the laborer at a no tice without telling him oi wherefore Thd other was trespass law that consigned the poor man to jail if nfter that ejectment he was found upon the In this condition 3C0C00 1m mnn heings werei placed 'nnd we felt it to be our imperative duty to secure from the operation of this law We therefore invited them and urged them as sodn 'ns tlie'y could to obtain a freehold forj themselves to erect their cottages where thO'foot of the tyrant quid not come' (Hear) They set to work with" all their hearte and they purchased through tho length and breadth of the island "within two or three years after' freedom all UIV? IHIUlHlVj VUUIU null IIIUIIV pivyUAVa i pears from tlio'best authority anil I am confidentUthat that authority does not overstate the fact that there 'have been ofthe emancipated classes in Ja mnica ftilly 19000 families that have settled or are noW settling itu freeholds and if you take these 19000 "and multiply them by five it will give you nearly one third of those who once were slaves (cheers) now struggling with the difficulties those purchases involved for though they purchased these lands they were not able to pay the whole hilt like honest men they are trying to pay it 'as fast as they Can 'There nre now in one district' in Jamaica alone comprising 7 parishes 83G5 free cottages entirely or partially built and I can as sure you that as we go through the length and breadth of Jamaica and ask by what names they call some of their villages we are struck with their adaptedness I have the names of forty or fifty free'villages comprising only sevep St James Trnlawuev Hahovcr StZ St Marya St Tliomas'in the Vale and' St One' is 1 called Try all another Happy news another Stand fest: another Harmony another Long looked for comc ut last another August town another Time I and Patience another well another Try and tWi'see another Occasion hall (Laughter and Cheers) When we asked the last man why he gave that name to his abode hirsaid Minister if I had not a great occasion to build it I never should there fore I call it Occasion (Renewed laughter) No sooner had I returned to Jamaica on my last visit the partially or nearly paid for and the little huts which they put up and called Save just a few sticks that they might es 1 cape th? rent that they might otherwise have to than the legislature of Jamaica adopted a new system of tyranny It is necesary to state that in Jamaica we are al most entirely dependant upon a foreign supply for food to eat and so long as the cry shall be heard thatJamaicacannot live unless the inhabitants make sugar and rum so long as her fruitful soil is ex hausted by these articles of export we must find something to eat from other countries the past year 139616 barrels of flour were brought in They came from the United States of America and tne recent tariffhas imposed i on each barrel a tax of 6s the former tax being (Hear hear) Of corn 'meal which is very much consumed by the laboring population and especial ly hy the children there were 32337 barrels impor ted In the time of slavery it was purchased by' the planter to feed his negroes and was then sub ject to a tax of 3d per barrel At the time of free dom when this law was passed when the free peasant had to purchase it the tax was raised to 3s per barrel (cries of Shame Of rice which is consumed and there is no difference in the tariff between slave grown and free grown rice which is consumed very considerably by the people were 14077 bags brought in each weigh I should think about two cwt The tax whenss the slave owner had to feed his slave was one shil ling per cwt It is now 4s per cwt (Cries of Salt fish which is another article ofwifood very generally consumed and of which 150 000 cwt was brought in last year was without any tax at all or a very trifling one not more than 6d tper cwt but it 1ms sheen increased to 2s Pork and especially American pork that which the bet ter classes of peasants use and indeed it is their staple food with which to sweeten their was subjected to a trifling Tax during the time of slavery: they have now raised it on American pork to the tune of 20s4 6d (Renewed cries of '4 They will not allow the free man to wash his hands without taxing the soap to a larger amount than they did before tax on soap was then 4)9d per box now they have made it 2s and when tell you that 30930 boxes were imorted last year isyoti Will Beeliow in this article the free man is made feel it (Hear' hear) to show the animus of these men as soon as the freehold had been purchased there was a de inand for white pine and pitch pine and lumber shingles The tax was taken off or nearly so from and red staves with which puncheons and hogsheads were made 4 and the hoops with which were Before the introduction offree dom the duty on staves was 12s they have kindly reduced it to 2ft tax on wooden hoops was 4s and they have reduced that to Is (Hear hear) The fact'is they use them and the people do not a's'a while upon the white pine and the pitch pine which the individuals wanted to build their houses with that which was 4s before is made into 8s for white Eine and 12s for pitch pine Those who have een in the colonies know full well that if the emancipated laborer wished for a comfortable home instead of thatching he must have shingles al ls "most the whole of which must come from America 'Before freedom the tax on shingles was Is but that has been raised to 4s and 8s (Cheers) Now there is just as much wood in one white oak stqve as there is in two shingles so that on the same 'amount of wood they have taken off 12s and put 2s on and with respect to shingles which wereformerly 1ft they have now put on 4s and 8ft The imports of Shingles have been 7526293 feet of white pine and pitch pine hile of staves imported 3 for the planter there has been 827262 The whole taxes raised on imports principally from the arti cles to which I have referred have been as fol lows letter whichj received fromthe wui corresuonaent nvs lift OS ftuA oi cAkracc the Northern vanen in which be alludei to the misfortune of being owned by a Christian as nextto thatof being a "slaved rentihdedmejUf slaveholdihg hMyaSistei ot ifh eam'visitinglipjiMmingivef'gay Jyersoh was 'suddeniy sand itiiracnlously converted at a camp meeting Insjfealting on the subject of sla ffverf she said that the more shc read hq B'ble the more she was convinced that slavery was a divine in Jatftntion before jghe was conyerted she used to feel very uneasy at times upon the'faatter 'Snt now her enrgly al Here we hf the effect of the preaching of a' pro slavery cl gy their in Vstructiens justice is distorted shackled hu uuuiity Before Joke upon their iivaniin iik ii rwsia UWU UVV teUlite iAUl u1 Jl I jffeftLrMwnftsstAsI) twinafi aa MVIfI nnHWMMItfiQ 2 LllO admonitions of are compeueu to wins more or iew jicijuckuj I a God of ustice a tion on the enslaving of man by his fellow when they get intolhe church they are instructed todistrust and look away fronvthose natural impulses' the of God iffthe 'soul and to dole upon the iciefgy ai "divine messengers Sent for their instruc tion They see that these clergymen holdslaves they hear them defend alaverjr from the Bible and I assert that whatever is" sanctioned by any part of the 'Bible must be right they know that the Northern clergy are in' close fellowship and alliancewith tlfeSouthern and having already' put their trust in man they are prepared to say that what such respectable men do cannot be wrong 1 hey now prqseeutejnetr wickedness with ahold andself justifyingspirftpand that what gleanings of conscience remain may be effectually perverted 'from their appropriate work the clergy teach 'them the 'stupendous falsehood that the privilege of hearing tleirt preaching is an advan tage to the slave which abundantly counterbalances any hardships which bo incident to his Nothing is effectual to the than this and hence the occasional notices we see with marks of admiration following tliein mAlfo re papers thatdeqr brother so and so of our de nomination ha built a chapel and' hired a minister solely for the use of huridred slaves These are the most detestable tyrantsof allfpr they use their as a stalking horse '(as Bunyan expres ses it) to their tyranny Brutalizing as drunkenness is I would (rather be a slave (if lmust be ope) to a drunken master than to' a 'sanctimonious church memberwho kept a preaching "and prayingoverseef in addition to'his flogging one and quoted while thp warm blood streaming from thebaefof ajnan or womanj lacerated by his order and under his in spection the abused words of Scripture that knoweth his will and doeth it? not shall be beaten with many l' KW lE The following excellent epistle is from one who has distinguished himself in England for his zeal and activity in the cuse of Christian Reform We "so licit a continuance of his favors 5 1 e'sZ ft 1 SLAVERY THE CAUSE PEACE I' 'm JJ 10 WATERLoosTREETMohkmearmonk Durham England May 5 1845 Wst Lloyd Mr Dear riend 1 have long been constrained to write to you Your intrepid and benevolent and truly noble efforts to free the captive slave from his galling and terrible bondage have excited my admi ration and secured you my ardent sympathy and "most prayers These' you' have to the full phd never shall I cease to regard you aa'one of thb most faithful friends of our captive brethren I say brethren for am not ashamed to regard the red Ip dian or swarthy Negro as my brother ay my be loved brother Were I in your country I should glo ry in trampling beneath my feet the blood stained partition which has too long separated' the colored man from the white man and in' assertin'g'the right of the slave to every social and national privi lege i have stood on the same platform and supped at the same table a once enthralled but now free sori of Africa and I did it with a cheek that col ored not with no but with do hope you will strenuously assert the dignity of the slave that you will contendfor his claim to equal rights and immediate freedom andthat as hitherto you will consecrate your talents to the glorious cause of universal emancipation Permit me to touch on a topic wliich doubt not has excited some grief and indignation refer to the infamous conduct of the ree Church of Scotland Our mutual and beloved friend Wright Jias sent me his tracts on'the subject and 1 can truly say the inconsistent detestable and anti christiah con 4 duct of that Church has filled me with' shameagony and tears I told Elizabeth Tease that I would pour out my heart to you 'and now I do it If the money received from the American slaveholders be permit i ted to remain in the coffersof the ree Church then willit deserve universal execration Whatlblood money in the treasury of the Lord Horrible horri ble Oh the ministers of that Church' be without churches homes or they ter worship God on the summit ofthe Scottish inoun tanks' and hide in her gloomy glens than partake pf the accursed gains of slavery Let my righthand i forget its cunning if I ever do this I feel no hesita tion in affirming that every member 6f the ree Churchj who sanctions the retention received from! slaveholders perpetrates a'mpstcwick cd act and stands implicated as the supporter of sla very and the Judgment will declare it 5 It has given me much pleasure to hear that have always enjoined: pacific! measures and vehe mently reprobated' violence? 5 or this deserve honor An insurrection among the slaves wouM xe tard theadventof emancipationto most serious ex tent Proclaim therefore that every act of violence is a blow to the cause of abolition Every abolition ist must unfurl the white and bloodless peace if he wishes success to the glorious cause' inwhich he is engaged There is now as you are well aware an angry and warlike spirit between America and England I deeply deplore this Why should Americans and Britons fight? Are we not oII brethren the sanguinary conflict benefit either party jtwill bis disastrous to both Why then should we fight? Peace be still! riend Garrison blow the silver trumpet of blow it long and loud and and exhort your fellow countrymen to desist from their warlike projects i The Lord (as you Will' perceive by the enclosedad vertisement) has constrained me to devote at tention and labor to the Peace cause As I yet a young rpan (many years on tne juvenile sioe ot mj) I have not had: rime tq do mueA but I have reksori to hope that my tracts public lectures conversations preaching thegosjT lecturing on totalabsti nence theJpnnishment VP toting the' vigor energy and flower of my youth and by the grace of God I hope to employ my future years in like manner! Being young poor self edu cated and devoid of "many advantages have: had much to contend with and lately have had much per ecution fo ehdure but having the testimony of a good conscience the bleising of God thojsuport of truth the sympathy licindriesft' careandaithful ad Ik'ak4 "anA owa tn wiw iM myearncst prayer wai ine luring taoa nuy 3 xx '4 10 iHEilTtoy 1r 13 ri i 5 16 1A fJ 4 I Palirfyfa' 21 AT Hochester' 3534 West ia ai turningwill hdT "as he may findtitconxenientWWT Will the Standard please eoy jThe working meuiof that a Maas Meeting will be held ju Station Of the Boston and Lowell Railroad the 4th of July nextr We have but to announce the fact to the Working men to ensure a eB' thusiastic gathering on theoccion i allow themselves with uch a cause as theirs andsuch professions on iheir lips to be out done on thowcore of I the apolitical paxUesXW 8e tbe they have madeT on former occaaiona of selt sacnnce to their If we are' not as multitudinoba a 1 they is that a reason why we snoukr nm ao worn can? Come all who mayand ntake theapproachinj anniversary one that shall be unexampled in "spirit and power since the days of athers Ine i rights of labor demand that not one be taiaain when the roll is calledV 1 U'AWe speakers will be present and address the meeting Iloeton itchburg lyn9 and many other place i Tickets of adipwiion to a repast on lho occasion fifty ce admitUng a gen 7 Uemaruand Editors who are interested in the elevation or the prod ucing classes and rindustrial reform and the ex 'tiriction of slavery and servitude innU'Jheir forma are invited to give the above an insertiou ULtheur and alsoto bepresent at the meeting WWiNDiA WCWNTT: MEETING 7 On the ourth "of July tfie friehds of the' slave will hold an anti slavery meeting in gToye' known as the Miltoq camp ground on Allen Hiu about two miles South East of Brooklyn village and near the bouse of Mr Interesting speakers 'will be in attendance in addition to which the meet ing will be freeAo 11 whether friends or foea whO5 may wish to present thei viewothe great slavery question now shaking the" land 4 ine ground not irw from Danielsonville Depot whence conyeyance can be obtained at all time of the day LUCIAN BURLEIGH' Rec Sec" PLYMOUTH? COUNTY? A 85 SOCI AN meig Old Colony (Plymouth Anti Slayeryl Society their annual meeting at the Univer salist meeUng housein West Scituate on riday thel 4th of July commencing 'o'clock A The Rev Mr! Tomlnsomof Plymouth will deliver an address bn the It is hoped that the friend in the several town "Will exert their influcnce tojnake tbi tneeling cue? ofthe most efficient and interesting ot any ever new In the 7 8 DYER Secretary 1 South AbingtoriJunc 13 1845 fror mertinir on Sundavnexri Juhe 22 at the Abington Town House 'commencing at 2and at5 H' Clapp Jr of Lynn 1 vr A public meeting on the utjecto? Peace wiU be! held at the Odeon on Sunday the 23d Instant at' half past 7 CoueEof PortamouthEiihu Burriti of Worcester Rev MrPeck of Dr W' Channing of Boston and kfteverol other eloquent gentlpihettefroiwh the city end are expected to qddreqp the meeting The discussion it is believed will be ofabigb order) tha meeting will be free and the public pT both sexes are respectfully attend TI Boston Jurie201845 WT theida plef 7 1 quarterly smeeting of the Worbester County (South DivisU ASSocietywill be held at Ux bridge in the Unitarian meeting house on Wednes day and Thursday June 25th and' 26th comtoeheing 10 We havc aaaurances ofthe presence qf rederick Douglass" Charles Lenox Rem ond nnd Wm Lloyd Garrison to assist iri thede libera ions" bf the meet alio hope to see other speakers from abroad All the friends of freedom (including members of ithe Society) are hereby Invited to cheer us with their preface and support 4 LMJTSK Pres i Gab Evans Actonr 4 Radford Kn erntnn Burlington Malden i Charlestown Cambridge Conbord itDracut js HpHistonf fty fs rankliri 'ta Randolph oxboroughj Stoughton tMedfiplds4 sfeSharorfsl's xjijft'u! Weymouth 4Miton A Wrenthanj 7 yNeedhamt Walpole a Abington TJ Hinbver Bridgewater' Hanson Pembroke Bridgewater Hingham' 'Marshfield "Jridgewater Attleboro? Easton to wn? contain populatipn of over 350000 out of which we trust we shall a' large addi tion to the'bubscriptiori'list of In3 this hour of awakening attention tb tbe subject'of slavery whenChurch and State are greatly jostled" especial ly let the pioneer be heard while it has an "R'ew 7offi cial can vas of the votes cast for Governor' of New Hampshire has this result 1 Whole nurnbbr 45 705 Necessary to a choice 22883 2 Anthony Colby has i Dariiel Hoit (Abol) i 5786 UScattering 14 1 sjji? 'v 994 22359 John A Steele (Dem) has 23406 i44 And is elected by a majority of 1047 Gov Steele delivered Address oil the Sth He urges the Legislature not to grant any charters divested of the pririciple of Individual Liability Gov 'recommends the adopftdn of the" Indepen dent Treasury 'He declares himself strongly in fa vor of the annexation' of TCX i lorida Rrst election i In tha State of lorida has resulted in the choice of Wm JX Mosley(Dem) for Governor and David Levy (Dem) for 'Congress There is also a Democratic: majoritjpin bojh branches of the Legislaturewhichi determines the" politics of the' two U7J3 Senators jo be elected by that body sThe Legislature meets 23( of Mormon Trials St 'Louis Republican4 Monday the 2d instant of the trials going on at Carthage Illinois says 1 v' We Sire informed that the' jury iri of the indictments for themurde? of Joe Smith the Mrifmon prophet after an absence bf about thirty minutes re turned a verdict of hotguiltyi The indictirierits for the murder of Hirarm Smith wiU be tried at a special term wliich wili be held after th emircuit is gone It is our painfbl dutytoannouncevthe death of George Joy Homer one of our oldest and most merchants in the 64th year of his age br abbut forty yfears Mr Homer had been in active mercantile Mistness in this city as a partner in the well knowrijfirm of Holme tHoirier Co in Union street and?" during thewhole of that time and the very daywheX he vyras dowmby apoplexy while engaged in writing in his own store he never failed to distribute with a liberal hand his honest and laborious earnings among the aick the poor the unfortunate and friendless toe ignorant and tbeop ok Santa ANNA? The Mexican steam er 'Neptune Captain Parkinson which" touched at "Charleston Thursday last on her voyage from Havana: to this iport bring informationthat1 Gen Sahta Anna lady and family1 exile from Mexico arrived at Harana on inst in the mail steamer Medway from Vera Cruz? They were going A On the ameday Gen Butamente landed at1 Ha vana orchis wakto jriimiilhg Brmail steamer We learn thatsthe fMr? Joseph Durrel formerly of Lee N' found fori Monday after it art a noon jn luyffiuc? jviver near we' had appAfentlylaidin the Water not mare than thirty six hoursi and marks of Violence'were npon the head Mr Dwa aqarpenter and had lately workedtin Chelsea Tho verdict of the jury was in deiteM desperate fight occurred among some Philadel phia ire Companies Sunday? The Good Will Hose Company backed by several hundred rowdies' attacked the airmount Engine Company atafire and after making4 desperate battld for1 some time the latter were forced undef a' volley offire armstand missels to'abandon their Engme 1 The Good Will ffieirMlies took it over kill and after brhisirig mttch as tble 'threw iit overk bank foirtV feet high ripon the rocks leaving it a perfect was a beautiful and costly engine and thecompany willnot letkhe Death of Judge lndiana Republi can announces thefoeath of the Hon Jataes McKfen nan one of thq associate Judges: of Indiana He died at hikreBidence of coniu jMhe 43d year The rumor was brought by a pastenger oh tlie ella yesterday Alton that there was foonsidera ble excitement there in consequence of the Abolition Convention now in session in that city and that fears of a mob were louis Reporter 1 fX man named ton on Tuesday afternoon by the falling of tfio walls of a old brick bdUding in Washington street nearly opposite Central Court" One dr two other persons were injured and severrtjowy wiur tneir lives O' 1aw twz 0 3 BrtUWf braintree: i and will Wart '1842 127821 14 6 J843 1 190250 9 3 1844 192517 12 7.