Mt. Vernon Democratic banner (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1853), 1860-01-03

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X.i 1 ... t:v i- ; : i:! knit question? irewnted, nfinbf opon lorer to ice -.-P5werioi;aeien.fii oeiuw, iher, Vnc-tbe pnuAe of iha.BCt of 1 4, IMX- S1 Stilt. 836 ) to proW off aitionrHpri8ioivi, ,nd jniainten com no on chol9, ch Hd re fr. oft fi ve ncily colored -and nVriHfl'tru4;id. as colored fhilire- bf Ihe cotpioo.tj y rId, itihoueb ju ll other' reanetiH tbla. are, V of rirbC eotuled.to ai rot- b the chool art a'pitrt otider that aH fr raction of Vrbita toVh?fTh plaintiff in jitts that hi eJ.ilJren, ibourh'3part f. ipao degent, beinjr mir lba nr hnlf of lood, are, under Ibe U and ihe aiiiform ; it of thia Court, to o gardd aa tckitc. --i f tberefor! ''ntfnfMf excJudd ly 4Le ,.' ; cta in error from the comnH'ii n bo.laf .t brporaied itlact!' of; Logan. Prior -to .! ere wi not any iejtii"e iroviwi n 1 m tbe education of. ant Wt the white ", jo ,b Tsident in the various diatrtcta. Mont of, ; tie fK tioaa statuts-and they are 6i' no : merely naka proiions for theinslrne tljj oLkhe white youth, and exempt the prop-9i ot the Wacks and , rsalattoes from taxation ; U) parpoaes, while some, like the act of 1. 1829, in expreta terras, eaclude klntka .! lattoes from the scboU." The act of V ith, 1848. (2.1 Curwen R. S. 1428.) pro r tbe tint tiin to Ohio for the d oca-colored cbildrep, such, directing tbe a tax fur that pwrpoa apoo tbe proper-jlored persona, the'orjranitatioii of color-: tol district and ibe appropriation of the 7(eied to the support of separate schools red children! if objection Was mde to : it: . ; h 1 mission into white school, hutprobtbi-U--' t' : appIicaliJirofTiiiy part-of iba taxes, lev-Ji v!(; o the properly" of the whites, tor ibe sup-- - Vt C snrh colored, schools, unlrss the whites 7Vund thereto. This law, which wa ery de- liio j'au'i tnefficteot, was repealed in less than "5 "" jafteriu pasaaze, by the act of Feb. IB, ' ; $ l-J, 2d Curweo, R. S. 1465,1 which also pro- tr tbe organix aion ofcolored schools and plete ud eiTeCkire in its details, but tike the - a: repealed, appropriation no other funds fjr ib- support of the colored schools, save tboae iCvltc: d from be, property of colored persons. "I c law of 1149 cott!tnued in force awtilre-I-'rO oy the w of JUrch I4ih, '1833. which C'Mti N-d in a pore liberal and patriotic spirit, r.vt-i-j proriJas for th education of colored thtfi' n and Imposes the. duty of or'jr&nizifii; s;h4)s for them, upon tbe BoMrd pt ion of uie particul ti loc-lii;; but Rtvee to ired yauib their full share n pnijorikm to ti, of (he common schiMjl , fund aiid .10 rentriefs them to ti e iuinerable pittai.t e rd fnm the culorVd I a x. ", paj r rs, Thus 1 out 'what C. J. Hilchcot-k in- 1U Ohto d intimated as the true policy, nhU the and c-jored routh shmjI4 he .placed inupp (chimin, and tbe school fund houli l.e di- Jctween them in proportion to their i.titn-- -; - ' .- 7'' '' ' act of 1833. unlike some of the preced-islation, looks to and makes provision for tu pat ion of ail the children withitr the State children of all races : and shades of I Bat in so doing, diviJes them into two ,' rhien and "colored." and .imposes the of i providing Schools for . both closst S, h uider dinVrent teachers, upon the aanie i of Education. The law then is one f cation and not of exclustuiu All the within ibe prescribed aes, must fall with one class or tbe other. All are to be in- d aod to part ct pate equally in the public nd the share of one cIass, can never be d to the instruction of the other. - It is where the number of colored youth is f a!l io justify the orauiz aion or the con ; aca ol a scbol for colored youth, such luust be temporarily delayed or susptB-ut this is no m re than miht occur with ' jher class aoder similar circumstances. - In ' Jnioing what is to be understood by the bite" and Mcoloredfn as used in this act kj look to the slate of things exitin g at 1 we, the evils complained of aud the reroe fbt to be applied For nearly two Jjeo ; w. blacks and tnuUttoes bad beea Drw-- ttxf: aud degraded race in Ohio. 'Tajf were C"- ird fruai ih elective franchise . aud pro-1 Jium 4 ffta immixraiion and aetUeiuent w lib in ; fieri, except under severe restrkitioua.- were alia excluded ,. from nuctHomoa " it"?:" i aud all meaus cf public iiisttuctton- ciuteJ from serrio; upon juries and de-' r,jriilege of tetif;iD ja cases where s erson was jnrty. "It voulJ be stracjt if sucb astate cf tliicss iaj nctincreai er.t tser&Uoa, tb natsr'.l rc?"-. eft i v racs ta. coaciutnon t: i ftl n:'i t ;n. tetbtr cos- .v.; tv-n in their vein! aod that the Courij inBueneedTB onje degire by Us teVarw Md iamewhel pepa) character- of Hh -fesirictioPX Id2- blacks And mutAtea . iSalf'aocn tiouM Vyti not oelr entitled o eot lection .aod testif in one Coorta of Justice, bat were also ad missibla ibtd thi icBOoW for wbit cbildren.: It is notori-our tlisXtKeie .deciai9nKpMSciny the did" not reeiv6 hibertj approval of the Slate at larje.- Th prejudice Of ages could pol be die-J sipafed b one or more jadicial decisions, and Ibe frequent' suJU" broPhi "to enforce xuck svdi mission evideaca such feeiing on tbe , prt"of youpjj and old.; i - ;. -' :, !;... .'.fioer u'le.'of lbinj: the 'act of 1853 was enacted.! .Three objects seem to have been especially tin view To divide all the yooib pf the State, for edacatianal purpose, into two classes, tin provida("mbre' effectually for the education of bota.classee, aed tp re'qoire bbtb.classee to be separatelv instructed. To which of these classes do the children of the plaintiff in error belong - white" or 4,colofedfw ' They are rt in the ordinary if .they are ttj a. legal ene white.' The demarrer adoivte that they are, in fact, if; not in law. colored children OnTataodard philologist, Webster, fines "colored people" to be ''black peeple Atrieans or their. descendants, mixed or unm;xcd.n Such is also the common understand ing of l he term. A person who has any percept t'ibte admixture of African blood is. generally, called. s colored person, la affixing the epithet "colored," we do pot ordinarily stop to estimate the precise shade, whether light or dark, though where precision is desired, they are aometimes called "light colored" or "durk' colored' as the case may be.. If we look at the evils the law was intended t remedy, wr shall arrive at ibe same result. One of the evils ondonbtedly was. the repuguetice felt by many r the white youths and their: parents to, mingling, , socially and on equal terms, with those who had any perceptible admixture of African blood. This feeUag - or prejudice, if it be one. had been fostered by long years of hostile legislation and social exclusion. The General Assembly, legislating for tbe people as the were, rather than as, perhaps, they ouht to have beep, while providing for the edu cation, and consequent ultimate elevation of a long degraded class, yielded for the ti me to a deep seated prejudice, which could not be eradicated suddenly, if at all. Such an arrangement in tbe present state of public feeling, is far bet ter for both parties. for Ibe colored yoolh, as well aa those entirely white. If those a shade more white than black, were to be forced opon the white youth against their consent, the whole policy of the law would be defeated. . The pre iudice and antagonism of the whites would be aroued; bickerings and contentions become the order of the day and the moral and mental im provement of both classes retarded. It would seem then, from this examination of the law of 1853. and the circumstances under which it was passed, that the wor4s ''white" and "colored" as used in that act, were both used in their ordinary and coma.on acceptation and that any other construction would do ' violence to the legislative intent and perpetuate the very evils that act was intended to remedy. Such was also the con" struction, which the act upon its passage receiv. ed in matrv portions, if not throughout the State. The colored population, whether more or less than mulatto affiliated with the blacks. Schools were organixed and a wholesome- rivalry inaugurated between tbe two classes. But it is clai -red that the word "white" before it was used in the act of 1833, had, by a series of decisions of tb is court, been, held to include all persons, though in-pert of African descent, who are more than half while, and that the Legislature must be presumed to have used it in t hat enlarged eene- Tbe decisions, referred to are I'olly O'ray. p. The State. 4 Ohio,' 11, 333. Wil. liaius. p. Schol Directors, 4c ; Wright R, 579, Lute, v B.kt-r, et il. t Ohn. U. 237. Jeffries, c ' Ank-tiT. ct al., 11 Ohio It 372, and Tbacker, llak. lb 37t. ' ; ; : f The case of Polly Gray arose under tbe lw in force at the time, prohibitiog blacks and inutat- toes from testifying in cases where a white per sen was a rarty. The cases in Wright and in 1 2 Ohio, were pases arising under )he school bfws tu feree prior to 1 843, and the two cases in 1 1th Ohio are cas a where persons, of more than hall ''.'a. a a ta . "' ' while dmkmi, naa Deen debanreU from voting at elections." The opinions are very brief, and in None save the two first da the Court assign any reason for tbe opinion except the authority of the decision ta ton rotiy u ray case. Tbe statutes and tbe constitutional provision as to voters, tin der which the questions rose, are disabling and exclusive ia character, and it is apparent from what Is said, that tbe tendency and effect of the provisions great y influenced the decisions. In the cee of Polly Gray the Court rema& that the statute defines only three classes of persons, whites and Llacka end mulatloes, and say that they are not w illing to mkk a third (lass, nor de fine the deeree'f darkness that should exclude, nd ia the Williams' case they speak of the "hahby meanness" nf taxing them for the sup- port' of common schoolit, and excluding their chUdreo from the benefits; and also say that color ts very tinreliablo, and that it is blood .and pot color that incapacitates.'- Ills obvious that if the statutes in those cas had excluded eoforei per-ons or children, as well as Llatks aod mulatloes diSVreel result would bsve been svttained. As between whites, end tlacke &nd . niuWUoes , they Oiiyut well Ifaait tbe disability t -the aulatto; but if colored bad been tisedj then at! leu' than white, wo uli bava beenfexcluded' .There Te no nargin between htte asd colored; l that, are not wlha are colofeij ,aai ia Irach case, tie Court wuuldbavi ba feuiirel to wLattl-ji in the V,'il::arn casei r Tus-iJ, t corsf'er . c'c?c- well t tf f droBvther word$'.fcIaekVnd rrphratbet od blacel ia oPDOsUion to white, a term which' emll braces all let tbaq pore wbite, oo eucb preiump tloa can fairl or properl riaev '. That tbe Legte- latore 'intended that the woi'd "colored," in tbe law of 1853. should be'ai'lu ordinary and ''popa Jar ftigpifioetioft. i also appareq.t from the fact that In eeettob 5 of the law of 1849 they qoali. I fied and restricted its' signification Tor the purpoJ I Tremoot Temple in. Boston, where so recent of i . . "-;' . :-.' ' '"'.'I., ?1 -.t. nij-o.'.v iTiL. t. .t.. i r . sea or. that act; .pot tu lap law or ijdj, wnicn rei I pealed the la v of , 1 849 and , relates . to colored vouth. thew did not re-enact i the -restriction. I though the necensitj still existed,' if the limited J lion was totepded to apply therefore.- These de- ciaione ia regard to the right of persons, more 1 than half white to testify, and to attend tbe eqnv 1 mon schools, bare bad their day, and accom I plished their purpose, and we do not seek to dis- J turb them. The statutes to which they apIy have been repealed and tbe constrnctiop we place! open the act of 1853 does not conflict with tbem, It is a law of classification and not of exclusion, iotended and designed to placo ia one school all j the white youth, and ia the other, all who have I any visible Uint of African Wood. That the Legislature have the power thus to classify the scholars, even when all are undeniably white, no I one will question. It might, perhaps, have been better if some further arid more definite provi- ion had been made for the education of colored j youtbr in districts in which the number is 60 very ( limited, as it appears to be in the village of Lo- j gan. l bat, however, is a matter lor tne consia-i f . six eralion of the legislature and hot for the judici 1 ary. "'. We dal oot undertake to decide whether the decuiouaas to tbe right to vote under the old constitution above referred to, apply to similar j cases arising under the new.' ' It will be time e-1 nougb to determine their applicability to tbe new I constitution, when tbe question U before vs. I There is no necessary connection between the ( two questions; nor is there such an incongruity j in excluding light mu let toes from the white schools, and permitting them to . participate iu elections, as the counsel for the plaintiff seem tot suDDose. If the law excluded' them altogether. I from the mans of education, it might be some-, what incongruous to permit them to participate ia the elections; but when their education is en joined and the means provided, though in sepe-1 rate schools, no such incongruity can arise. A I minority of the Court then hold that colored I youth of the description stated in the answer of tbe defendants, are not, as of light, entitled to admisaion into the schools, organized and aet a- part under the act of March 14th, 1853, for tbe ( instruction of white youth. Judgment affirmed.! -BxisKKtiporr, C. J., and StrrurF-, J. dissent ed. . ' Mr. Lovej oy's Address. National Hoteu Wasbing6n, D. C, November 25th, 1859. 7b the People of New England. Fkickds akd CuuxTHTttts -Sojourning for ) a few days in this capital of the nation, I witnes- ed on the morning of the last Sabbath a scene which ought to make us all pause for reflection Gov. -.Wise passed - through thie city with five hundred men, armed for war ; not for war as of old against the scalping and afeulking savage ; not to repel the invasion of a foreign foe : but for civil war. It was a Slate arming to repel an )olitical invasion from Its sister States, from whom it and a sly, underhand manner giving no chance ought to expect kindly salutation and the most for self defence. Would it not be well to glori-friendly relations. - These relation have now fy Burnham a a martyr tb an M idea." He has rMi.lu.il -a. ia where, the whole tone and action of the North must be changed, or a sep- araiion of the States is inevitable. The South is indeed excited, as it may be, but it is also fix I ed and determined. Oae side or tbe other must recede,' or a collision, a 'civil war, -streams of I blood and wide-spread desolation most follow. Shall the. work, the lives, the sacrifices of our fathers all have been in vain? Look over this j goodry city from one of its many lofty lowers. - ( Survey its broad streets, the many homes of hap- families from all parts of the land ; look up on the solid grandeur of. the Capitol, the majestic public beilding, all imposing and still pro gressive, snowing mat a mignty nation are nere l laying the foundations pf their greatness. Abroad, and in every direction, tbe, railroads, the rivers, j the cities, the fruitful valley and the teeming I prairie; give evidence, each a the world never j aw, of the fruit of the two hundred year of well directed enterprise. See the thriving bappy J doe not more surely mark the path of the tpr-millions that welcome the morning at tha shores I 09 than moral prostration marks tbe footsteps of the Atlantic, and keep pace with the son,, till his rays fade away in the western ocean. Is tbu inheritance nothing ?hell it be lost ta a day! Let the wonderful, harmoniooa machinery of the Qnion, the work of our fathers and kind Frovi- dence let it once be crushed, and no device, nor art, nor wisdom of man can ever re.tute it to life and action again. Let the word once be beard clashing nere oetore tae statae ei vso- - . . . -a. m a 1 . ington, ana our g'ory pas aepartea. - is neeas no ptopbel, voice to fortell that of these goodly building not one stoae shall be left npon anoth er that shall not be thrown down. . The genius of this' pot will cry from the' air joice in clinging to the white man: a the ivy to and from the firth ; Call, me no. more Wash the oak, a ordinary man would welcome the so-ington, but w.ie Icbabed upoav these deserted ctety of angels. . -' . : - ' t etreets, and Ninefab aod Babylon upon these V Well be may. r,Wi. association with white men columns n ruin." We shall hasten to an na- timely end. .Now, on .whops will thie terrible gailt rest? - Before heaven, and from the deep est convictions of my soul, I s&y on tbe Norjh and first acd cbieSy on tie Slate cf I!a33ica setts.' . LLe will h&ye tne coubie tame ct t'virj rocked tie cra'Ia and bul't the tomb of a greet nation.1.- Tie ITeJe&a- tra te y cf Lzrzriist wl be cor") tVan eclipse! ty tv 3 1. tr,J cf a T ste -iters a rnt'en." Yci vr"l fy V-at Vir- 1 f -Co'i era un'.Jj ex:'.'.;! ti-1 r eqnipped Tith thousand treats to be put ieto tbebapds of a eervile race, ta cul the throats of meo, women, and children ; tor this they always do when Uej, rise, against their masters! and, wbatie- tbe snost appalling act of .all, those blade Fere PMmufactared and sharpened in Ne England, ar"d paid for. at least in part, bycontri ittiioa taken up . m the churtkes. In that tery ne piety oi toe vnu oouiir wiarca iue junior pator) embraced on tbe same platform the bla; nbemy of Balpb . Waldo ; lmerson in that church a year ago last May, John Brown receiv ed a contribution ; from the bands of Christians for the purpose of murder and bloodshed , under the thin veil of " Kansas operation." Now, thej did not know that be would go to Virginia, but they did know that be engaged in murder aud robbery to Kansas ; ana it ta j no worse to murder men in one place than another. Then the aidingbetting, and ; approbation after, the (Tact,, give fearful insignificance to the contribu- lion which preceded it. The Old South Church iu Boston, oider its wise aud devout senior pas tor, has been the central point of conservatism on the snbject of slavery in New England ; and now its junior pastor joins bands with tbe most bi'ter revile rs of the Cburcb end the nation, in order to glorify a murder upon the soil of Vir ginia and in the iiaroe of freedom. This tame John Brown dragged fire men, the heads of families, from their beds and murdered them as ne wouia aogs, oy -toe waysiae ana jet one i a v speaker ssys there are a million hearts with John Brown to-dsy. Why should not the South be excited f why not arm and be readfor a portion of this million of ready invaders? Then, it is notorious that many of the leading papers of the North have but a word Or two- of mawkish con demnation for tbe folly of John Brown, while they print whole columns of sneers and sarcasms for Virginia and the South. This state of things Icon not last. Now, we of the North commit two great mistakes : we meddle when we ought not to, aud we meddle to tbe injury of all parties the slaves, the South, aod the North. Some of you will remember that seven year ago I told you tome very plain and wholesome truth on another subject, which yon repa.id in abuse and coudemnation ; but time, that iefallibie cruciblei has revealed it. I told you then you were sow ing seeds for a plentiful harvest lying and hypoc risy, and now the State of Massachusetts is a laughing stock to the whole nation for having perpetrated, under her own name, and with the seal of the State upon them, the . meanest and most cold-blooded frauds ever put opon record They have put poisoned drug 'into the cup of the weak, the sick, the dying, and then divided the exhessibe profit among potential political partisans: Thediufcages "wre stamped witb tbe infamous sale of iodulgeocies ; but deadly drugs, instead of a wholesome beverage, with a high tariff for the exchange ot the pure juice of grape for nightshade -and hellebore this dose was never administered by one human bting to another till it was done by Uta Christian hand of Massachusetts, and in order to complete a great moral reform. If this is their John the Bptiit, what will bis successor be? I this is le bap tism with water, what; will te tbe melting neat of the fire that is yet to come ? Is not the folly and the guilt of these universal reforms open and manifest, when one of them has culminated in a Burnham and other in' Brown. One cau bardly tell which is the more guilty of the two; probably Buroham baS killed the most person first rate poinU. No man ha ever hown mor "game " in bis disposition: fettered by no ecru pier, bonnd by no law of honor, thing sacred and profane are alike to him ; be would cheat the communion table as quick as the sick bed i when caught be manfully and heroically throws all the blame upon bis subordinate. Why not blend the martyr aud draw tbe portrait of Browu and Burnham together, and then make Tremont Temple echo with the shout, ' These glorieu minds-5-how bright they shine ? " But, back again;' to the point. We have no business with the subject of slavery. It is out of erar border beyond, our iurisdiclion and tbe State that have it are the only proper autboritT to deal with it. There is where the fathers pUced it, aud there the sons should leave it. . Whenever the laws of the moral or physical world are violated a terrible venieeance ensue. The prostration of majestic trees in the forest j Gf abolitionism in the North. Twenty-six years 1 1 heard Gerrit Smith upon the religious platforms I i0 New York. He appeared the most accom- plisbed Christian gentleman in the whole land. He undertook the impottiblela alur what God ..j k-j. .nd Omninotenra wa too atronir for TOo. The mark of bondage is written opon the brow of the African by the finger of Onipoterice engraven.there by the exprience and practice pf four thousand years and it is in rain that the wevea of excitement, which are but; fcr a day, can think to wash out these everlasting lines. Slavery is the Paradise of the black'man t he re- is;tbe only circumstances known in hi history by which be has been raised to a condition above the beastj'thet perish. 0n the ferule soilof hi own, continent, he propagates and rot. V Not 'one patlfcf 'cm!iztion, hot one tensile cf Christian- iXft ...amines .ae'dcusness cf centcnea dark in futures. c"?re Hack in tbe c-.i 'Ich eres Lave wrsj-t eroarl tin :? tiatt'- 1 li Anexic is a r'lr cf j ci?,- .'i t' a l.. Jtf t t -Is cT tW.Vz ' : 1 C condition tat I U race tas Todnd since the ccr'e wa written cpoo the brow of (IIam by the fioer ' of God. ' There to. is delirered from the heathen ism, the cannibalism',' the- human sacricea of his own conn try; there he is Tree froii the repul sive greeting that a waits-Urn at the North; written of, preached about -a "ah equal, constantly treated as an ailed and an inferior. - At the South the theory and the practice agree;. The African' is told that ha belongs, to an inferior race, which is true, and meets his own deepest consciousi ess the lait court of appeal, as philosopher -. tell na, for the evidence of what i true; they ' are told that service and, allegianee are the duty of the black man; protection, and trstructiop the obit-gation of the white roan, - So perfect is this feel ing, so harmonious the social system, grown p under it. tbat when a meteor, a comet appeared in, their horixon ia the person of John Browat he fell at once like a star from Ileavea, and did not disturb, except by hi own murderous arm, the peace of a single , family." or the allegiance and fidelity of a sin trie slave. TLU one fact ought to speak volumes to those who are clamoring for the freedom of the slave. V The instincts of the bondman are wiser than the scheme of theorists. lie ask for so intervention -implore no aid. f " ' " . ' . .- "To be, content bis natural desire" to be the approved servant of his master accomplishes his highest ambition. . I speak of the great mas ses of them. That there are individuals who crave an impossible good something not to be (bund in this world At very likely; but, as a body of people, they are as nearly satisfied a the same number anywhere opon the face of earth. Why should we travail in perpetual pain In their be half? But jou are told that the South are forev er getting the best of it in the National Govern ment, and that the Sonlh ought to be put down- negro or no. negro, white or black. Now pray look at it, consider for a moment, ask the pages of history aud tbej will leach you. For eighty years bare we not bad the best Government on earth, prospered as nation never prospered before; spread abroad, multiplied, and built cities; sub dued the wilderness ; conquered the savage , bricged the rivers: made water and earth, and air and fire, tributary to our wants as no people ever did before? All the time have we not dwelt securely by our own rock or under our own elm? Which of your sons or daughters has been op pressed? which of them has set foot opon a foreign shore aod has not found the American name a shield and protection? And yet, of all the long line of ssge that have presided over the destines of the nation from the Apostle Jeffer son to the Patriarch Buchanan which of them have not New E&glaad men in large numbers, and Massachusetts, as a Slate, a a majority, al- Trffljaraailbf ml and ?T2Uteattrabosta? t Car tti become a disease; is it chronic; is there no medicine that can reach it? Will this madness drive her to a fatal precipice of civil war? Wiih yi tt JefTtfrMn was a Jacobin and an infidel; Madiscn, at whose death John Quincy Adams saids "A spirit went op to Heaven as pure as the Seraphim which be joined," jet he was commanded 'to the Island of Elba or a halter;" Jackson was a tyrant and a nsurper; Van Buren was full of running and deceit; Tyler was a traitor; Mr. Fill more sold himself to the South; Mr Pjerce car ried war and bloodshed into peaceful Territories; and Mr. Buchanan, whose last pulsation of life arill be a wUh and a prayer for the welfare of his whole country he is a border ruffian, and guilty of the blood and crimes of John Brown. Now does history any where picture the act and mo tivee of these men as they are made to appear to you? Have not the very winds and air around yon been poisoned by tbe breath of slander? . : If, in a' matter so grave and important, materi' al considerations, selfish interests, can have any weight, t bey are numerous, urgent and pressing. United, all these harmonixe and assist each oth er. ; Your keels have carried the greater part of the one hundred and sixty millions of bales of cotton furnished by the Sooth daring tb last year. They have drawn supplies of manufactured articles from almost every village ia New England.. How long will they buy of those who contribute spear for the hands of their?slaves? They will not do it, they ought not to do it, and we ought no longer to pot their forbearance to the test. And now, my friends, that most of you are sincere in what jou have done and said on this subject, I have no doubt; but yon aie mia-taken, your zeal is mi?guided and year sympathy tbrowu away. The most enormous wrongs have been com ait ted and the most terrible calamities brought upon communities by honest but mistaken men. ' God punishes men for their follies no less than for their crimes.! The, fire kindled by the band of. the maniac burns as furiously as if set by tbe moat artful incendiary .a Our country divided, this tpot, the central spot of ruin for contending States, have yon ever thought how on that day the sun would be veiled In darkness, and the moon would be changed into blood, and the stars would lese their 'brightness, and the earth would seem to tremble under our feet, and the fields. woold lose all their beauty, and all the ties of nature would be forgotten, aod the whole being of every man or woman that has a soul would 'be absorbed in one convulsive pulsation of anguish? . We should no longer have Washington for -our father, nor the ground around hi grave to be pressed bj- troops of pilgrim feet. There I sorrow a( the grave of a firstborn, an gnish in the house that weep a parent dead. I remember the touching lamentation of tbat ar dent aodimp&sfrloseJ nature, Edmund DarVe, when be mourned aa only Tion, the heir cf Lis hoZTH anl i Tea-, lave a!l heard tie wail of the Cir - cf Iirxct it' tie death cf a rcb-' ti son; tut r.o i.i!i:-r.-T U ever f!; fbr t.3 ; cer r .3 13 I cr -; t iinj f.r ti; 3 tj i h.tj f ft t S x : 3 3t f -I V rap ' cr". J r e v f r Uon,ax. nels of Ovi c.'w&!:r3 a!;r; all ti "tlin- I fsIUkalL.V avi,CLI:Co3, we beseech i V. l.nl Thftn Vast r'n!t. aod this Thy people, which Thou hast mulUplied. T Your obedient servant, ; ; 1 iV;-;y"y-'oiLi ':."v',:--l-- -.':. ;:- . ,: : Strom ter oatt. s The good ship PATHnxDKs, of New York, and bound to Copenhagen, had. entered tbe jSorth Sea, he tiog iet the Strait of Dover two days behind. . ' '. ''' . ' ; ' ' ". " The commander of tbe ship was ayot-n groan, not over eichl-acd-twenty, and hi name was Mac rick LtsTta. He lood by the taffrail, rax ing off npon the horizon to the eastward, ever . .t i J -l l Jk .A c I ana j)noa raising nia ouu aoove uu utiu iu icti if there was any wind stirring, ana asolten cat ins hi eye aloft to see how the caovase hung. As he stood tbu hi matejipproached and spoke lQ" What d'ye think of this. CaptTn ? " I think we're in for a torm, sir," the master replied. And I tell yon what it is, Gn5n," be added, after sweeping the borixon again with his eye, 44 when it coves it wilt be an earnest one. None of your broad Ocean puffs, wiih nothing but water to hatch wind from; but well have it right fresh ftont tomi of those . place where they know how to make things blow. M Then jou think well have a hard one?1 said Griffin. ' ' ' ' " Aye," answered the captain, with almost a shudder, I feel it in my bonee.,' " Iu the meantime, Captain 1 Lester had been watching the tea and sky as before, and he fancied that the signs of the storm were growing more and more palpable every moment, The sun was going down in a thick bank giving ta the whole western horixon a dull, purplish-red, bloody hue, with her and there spot of a darker tinge, like, openings, ttvoogn tne nery Ctoua, looking npon a learlul blackness nentaa. 44 Do yon see ho w strangely it looks off there?" said the captain, raising his finger toward the point where the sun was setting. " Aye," returned Griffin, M have been watching those dark places." And others noticed the urns thing, and spoke of it, too. Seven o'clock came and went. Eight o'clock canie.end the first watch was set. " Don't go below," said the captain, as the men of the last dog-watch left thrir stations. This calm can t last a great while- a on bad better batten down the batches now, while there ia nothinz else to do : for I am sore there will be need of having them dose before the coming of another day Tbe men had had no thoughts of going below, for they could see aod feel ; and they were not wholly iguorant of what-was coming; so they went at work and secured the hatches with thick tarpaulins ; and when this was done those who bad no particular station collected aoout tne whet-l. 'Atiotbfr bonrrapedaway and another. Tea o clocK caroe. ana sun not a oreaio. mo ship lay opon the water like a dead thing, with the ropes, aud block, and 8aiK, ratt ing ana flapping an she was swayed to aud fro by the lasy swell ot the sea. ' What does it mean 7 cried UriUio, aa tne boy struck five bell. Hark!" said the captain, almost instantly M I guess you'll soon see. Did you feel that ? Hal and that?" It was a puff Of wind, and a libt flying of spray ; or, perhaps it was a spit ot ram. " - At ail even is. tbe puff was fell: tail tbe drops of water feli upon other cheeks than Maurice Lester's; and other ears than his heard the dull tnoaniog which came over the tlark waters. So other ears hea d the roar which followed, and other bodies quivered beneath the ' shock of the storm-giant when he came in nis mignt. r ; 1 ' - - , . Are the storm had come. It came with wind and rain, and with an angry heaving of tbe sea. It came with a darknes like Lrebos, and with tbe voice of thunder. The gale eontiaued to ia croaseln fury as the long night passed away,-When tbe morning came the scene -waf one of awful grandeur. The wind was bowling with terrific fury ; and the broad sea was lashed into huge mountains, that fooated, and tombed, and leaped along over the bosom of the deep, seeming exery mocrent ready to whelm and eogolph the frail bark, that struggled within the demon grasp.:..'V ' When Captain Lester bad observed tha signs of the morniog, he feared that the storm would coutinue through the day, and so he told hi men. The sky wore a hue or horror, ami raro was now drifting down, mingling with the iasb Ing sea.' At noon it was still worse.' J ' At length night sgut in again, and not a sign yet of tbe passing away "'cf the storm! . The! frightful howling of the tempest seemed rather to bare increased than abated. The mea gathered upon the qiarter-deck, clinging for support ; to the racks and rails lor the life-lines swayed so much that they were afraid of them gathered as near to the light of the binnacle-lamp aa they could, as though , even from "euch feeble , beams they might 6nd some comfort. - But not all were there. No not al.f Four stoat, true i hearted men had been swrpt away by the storm. ; Near a score were left; but how many shall see the light of another da)? - '- - A nine o'clock Captain Lester went below. He took down a chart of the North Sea, and bsv-iitg spread it pptsn the table,rhe eat down to examine it. He was thes engaged when Mr. Griffin came down; but he did not look up until he bad finished the calculation.' ' How is it?u the mate asked, aa he saw his commander lay down the divider. - I have been making a reckoning, and I find trat we have but Ik tie more eea-room Wfu The e urse we have made since we- wore, has been, as near a I can : calculate, aerth-west-by.wer I, so that we must have bee a driving to words tbe coast of Northumberland. I think, we "have plenty cf mom t. stand on cntU midnight; but we cannot stand on much longer."' If the gale doe not a-bte by that time 1 know net what wer shall dc." The captain started tip from hi chair, and would prcbably hava walked across-' the- cabin, but at that moment a heavy sea raoght the ship, and gave her a pitch forward, which cacse 3 hia to catch his seal a quickly a pos.iiti. Assoon a tie Covi had gone from the drck, and tie vessel hat trci?!el up front. li- icck, I t 1j 1 Inti 1 "j cf id pinion's fce, "en 1 id, ta' a ".e i trecnomos t y cer cr . t II 3 t a a v r ' 2 B' I Live j'nrrc ; frd I . . I rr - ,t u:i lr? eft. ; ; ,.! t: .? -i r.ct crt - ' ;f(i ! ' f -.: '.szi t j c :, - muii-. : v, r . I 1 rj a 3 i.t be now.-; I f:! r c : - ' V ! '.'.;' C wa ca'.!?it..3 'C. i J L v , ; for ey cr-C'-lcr; . tr: i r' t, .: ' z ...:. : cralV'.: I was at tlocl tic?, ia .i- - . . ' I knew tiat-cy rrtru v;:a . . . j v n"h tiil aiv'jI rrieL " I fv: 1 V : ' , ; j . hours' .cfjtrj iac ,t; lli t y L - rt v . . and,' T'th ink; such wcu!J iav L;fa I r c they had kept ct at cbc:3., 1 : m i who cared fur tne, citr e to sea c?, t:. iitt - finally arratged' that I should go ta rca. At! . I prospered proirrea so vreU tL&t, l:a I t - twenty jears vlV e7 CT cT u The tnaa who oroed ue s-.a .Lh I C commanded was esoei .Thc.-f tcs.f Uaiai a . daughter named Carrie esevtf tia ireeicrt purest, and lovLest-ereitsrc tLilTcr'-ractl thi -poor Lfe :.cf e&rlh. -' Tie wjs f.ir jfira Loncger tlan cygtlf; r bet eea i; -i l' C new her and tie vss net liea cc a t': - f .. teea she WM ; woman . in . icttl!ect ei.i prscs thocgb a child in cimplieity cf .lave tad t.rl' dence.'-Mr. .Thornton did oot-fliect tD try suit, so I loved her wiih all : ray eil, ar.1 wsu blessed to know that she loved me in return It baa been arranged that we ticu'.J te I when she was twenty year old, tbat tad Uem oar plan for more than two years, lir.JIlcjLloa having set the bounds himself. . It lacke d two month of the time, and I tad" arranrel ti remain at home nntif we were carted. Cut Thornton bad a beairj ship freiitei f t Cc-: s-hagen, and .her captain was. djicg. He cjJ 1 find no one to take hi place bat me. s nd te as lied me ta go. I coold not refuse) bet 1 ailed that I' might be married first, lit. Thorutc a hook bis head, and' tail no. Dal te tad aiw otber plan which he aid irculi te tetier. Lie had been plaunieg to t visit Copenhsfc, iere he had two brothers tn busiues tiey were ia company with him and he said be weull ule tbe next shi p; and bring Carrie out with tiJ and we hcald be married there. : I Enally ccn--eented to take put the new" ship,"acd iTr. 1 Lcrn-ton with his daoghter, was to meet tae in Cc;ra hsgen, and there we were to be married, and all ' three come home together. . The evening It fere I sailed I spent with, Carrie and when I left tsr I felt that I was leaving my very ii&. WelLB continued Lester, wibin? lis eves. "I went to Copenhagsn: - I -waited a mohth tie I hesrd that the American shh. 'VTUle Ji. with William Ihornton.acd daoffhter cri bad touched at Dover, and that were i:Sa a r. i well when she left. J waited another weei, e.r I then I crossed over to Hsmburr: tat I cci.ll leara nothing 'there. Next Iwent taLca and there I learned enoch to assure ce tit, :1a ship had beenlostr Oo the secoud day af.cr ti leu uover a severe storm bad arisen, at-d sererkl vessels had been reported lost. I sent ray ship borne tn charge . of the mate, and srent four months in searching after the lost oer; tut I coald gain no trace cf them. Not even a jlece of the wreck eould 1 ficd not a mark rttl ship por of one of its ere wl I case hoc v-i J. a sad ind beavy heart," - -'- ilaunce Lester stopped a few cocsecLs. aad bowed his bead upon his hands, for his fiel c rs bad almost, overcome him. In a little wiila, however, he looked op ajain, acd aditi, ia a touching tone, "Ab, my dear friend, yon do not know witi I : have suffered tongue cannot tell it, err cn r wrile Ttr,rTLartlow dtd LrtKk rj Lt e t . . .. j it in the rending of its tenderest cords, and i.n the crushing of all its earthly hopes! Dojt u believe in dreams?' - The male started, not so much at the ci arse-ter of the question, as from the sudden macttr in which it was put. "Well," said Lester, in a lower tone," "I have had m dream - repeated many- timer; but t-erer ha it cotce to me so directly and so viridly as within the past three or four day. Cuni-2toritoH.ii not dead! i I krowahe is nctJ tis has appeared to- me- repeaUd.'y ia a dream, and calls opon tne to save berj . To-cif hi, as 1 f.otdi all alone by the miuen ringing, tryinjj Id ii.tr out into the thick g looinI beard tervciceaa plainly as yon now bear-mine, and tie c.-l. i tt-t for roe to save 'her. Of course witt f.;:.: p-d was mere fancy, though' even, list tf ! i much; I thought Xjsaw her, statdiug i t t i r t opon a huge eea,. with, her arms stretLiii i ploriBgly to wai d me eaw her then, wi;b cy t jts open, as I have often seen her in nay slee;ic dream!' '' , , - ' . . At this point the captain wax cot short inhis speech by the cry of ' LicnT-Hor from tie deck. They hurried op and found. the tnencrcadir forward. v-. . - ... What is itr Lester asked. ; I think it is a-HghV ir,w replied Tajler. "Here, ir.' jnst stand here. Now tors year eye about four points npon the larboard Lew. Wait, now, till she rises. Ua there! tiers? Seel Did yon see it. Ir?" , , Ye he had seen in and he knew it ten, ts a light npon the shore: but- it wax a great way oT. - Be watched until h had reeo it several tm'S, and then he remarked to his mate tiat rt it mast bs a Iijbt houa. The ligh,t was bo! 1 and disiu ct, and evidently at a considers! !j he ght atove the level of ih ses; for, bud it nut been si, it could not have beer, seen at tiat d s taoca.- Ailer aahort eorsultation. darirg mt'iU, reference washed tithe chart of the Nortitun berland C0A4t.it decidrd that this l;.t tntt be opon Dtirton. Toiat. , To the.eonh cf D r-U'O, as theptin knew from j.rni experience, as well as fxota thechirt. there wat afi..- harle-, of eay eairaace. These tu wtr aetlled. ; . ' , As soob as it had been detercslnel ler tie Ifitt was, Captain Lester oaie a'l pt-rs'Ma U'U t-j determiuw bis course cf action. the thing been practicable, he would have.. I.d Lis ship to, but that coold not be done, i'oo-s ert gave it serious thooht. -So it wi d-mi-nei t4it thebip sboald stand on, at Uzsl i.'.. iie tning tarther as cucovertd. - At half-past twelre the "rtV 1. A " .ra't.l Lbs Ci ;' considerably. .The- lLt wn co t j very plainly whenever the ii? rcui. t.-1 tata ana bis oncers tell sure thai t in their calculations. - j t rs i . t . At all events. sail the tzrmr. " . ; cboicelmt tpslacd cn. ttL -' He wa interrupt! Ay a cry t i that made er-rj sali s'.irt w: BxxAxtiI -. E-xjurt&s.". -. - t i r- Captxi Leslsr L: few ciostr,:i 1.3 wsj bad Bvt hi a F':s :.l frr, , . -.t on?; f . r 1 3 c f I' i 1-: v lair tl i Km , r;,r c r ' friUt!"- 'A t !.? Vti r " i ly as ; oBttij tt ai.vl.D s c-i i ; f t'ed t;:.- t . ere t; ;a t .. - w - f is:-, r-a s;. .: . '. w i . . . . - . .. - , r ". I tj t-'-: 3 ti f-: : ' ! f j t ! . r' 7 L ' in t-; s ..I was 1 , . i. e r . . l r thet i: gii'.t e tru, t It-t EV :r i ti Is, ft i. ' - it.. ' -' t ' . i::ri : r-ir.-. "7 I t; '.1 j -j, i .'if.if lib -1 :n r v , I