Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1858-03-16

              V ; WWWm Til ail i i VOL IV. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO, TUESDAY MOIiNING, MAtt. 10, 1858. NO. If; I''. .'V 1. 1 1 ' For the republican. A VOICE FROM KANSAS. . . Forth, to the contctt rally, V. freemen of til. land, - And strike the base dispoiler, With a sure unerring band. Rlse,nim, If ye inhorlt, , From a lino of noble sires, Sixon blood, and Saxon spirit, Biio, and guard your house bold Mors. From eaoh rocky hill and valley, Sweep away the porjured band, in the name of free Jora rally, To defend your native land. To the winds your flag unfolding, Proudly, let the banners wave, Each, to his motto clinging, ' Equal rights to all we give. ftvrkl a note sweeps o'er the dlstanoo, , ' And w. catch each thrilling strain, For it breathes a tnle of sadness, Of our noble brcthron slain. From each extromo of Kansas Her sons sends forth the ery, We will nover bow to slavery; We are freemen or we dio. The base oppresivo minions Of a baser' ruler try ' To wrench from us our freedom " Granted to us from on high. No faithloy tyrent despot, . With his perjured hireling brain Can drag us from our altars " From froodom? glorious shri no. No, by the blood of brethren. . By their wives'and Orphans' ory Again again wo echo, We aro'freomen or wa di e. To the winds your flag unfolding frondly, lot the banuer wavo; Each to his motto dinging, Equal rilits snAHiKisaAS have. OLD MOSES. To the header.: You have perhaps read the following article in a tract, published by tho-American Tract Society: If so, read it again it is worthy of re-perusal. . h. m. Mr. B r was a merchant in Baltimore ; and did a very heavy business, especially in grain. One morning, as he was passing over the vessels at the wharf, he stopped upon the deck of one, at the stern of which he saw a negro man sitting, whose dejected countenance gave sure indication of distress; and he accosted him with : " Hey, my man, what is the matter with you .this morning?" ' The nogro lifted his eyes, and looking at Mr. B , replied, " Ah, massa,-I'se in great trouble." ....... "What about?" Kase I'se fetched up here to be sold." '"What for? What have you been doing ? Have you been . stealing ? or did you run away? or what?" ' " No, no, massa, none o' dat ; it's becauso I didn't mind the audes." v ' ; . ' What kind of orders ?,' "Well, massn, I tell you. Massa Willum werry strick man, and werry nice man, too, ' and ebeVy body on de place got to mine him ; and I break trew de rule ; but I didn't tend to break de rule ; I forgot mesef, and I got too high," . '' It is for getting drunk, then, is it ? " " Oh no. sah, not dat, nother." . " I can. get no satiation from you. Tell me what are you to bo sold for." "For pray in, sah, .... "For praying! what a strange tale indeed. , Will your master not permit you to pray ? " "Oh yes, he let me pray easy ; but I hollers too loud." ... "And why did you hollow so loud in your ' pTaycr ? " ... "Kasede Spirit comes on mo, and I gits nappy fore I knows it ; den I gone : can't trol Jnesef den : den I knows nothin' bout massa'8 rule ; den I holler if ole Satan hissef come wid all de rules of de "quisition." .: " And do you suppose your master will really sell you for that ? " , "" "Oyes.no help for me now; allde men in de world couldnthclp me now ; kase when Mass W ilium say one ting, he no do an-oder."" What is your name ? " " Moses, sah." , " What is your master's namo ?" " Massa name Colonel Willnm C ." ' " Where does he live ? " " Down on de Easin Shoah." . " Is he a good master ? does he treat you well?" "0 yes, Massa Willum good ; no bettor , massa in de world." "Where is he?" . " Yander he is, jis commin to de wharf." As Mr. B started for the shore, he heard Moses give a heavy sigh, followed by a deep groan. Moses was not at all pleased with tho present phase of affairs. He was strongly impressed with the idea that B was a trador, and wished to buy him. Mr. B - introduced himself to Colonel C , . and said. ' I understand you wish to sell that negro- man yonder on the schooner." . . Colonel C replied that he did. '! What do you ask for him ? " " h I expect to get seven hundred dollars." 41 How old is hi ? " 41 About thirty." ' 41 Is he a good hand ? ' ' 41 Yes sir. he is the best hand on mr place. ' Bern steady honest and industrious. He has been my foreman for the last ten years, and a more trusty negro i never mew. Why do you wish to soli hira 1 " " Because he disobeyed inj orders. I built his quarter within a b undred yards of my own , house ; and I have never rung the boll, night or morning, that his horn did not answer in five minutes. But two years ago he got religion and commenced what ha termed family prayer; that it prayer in his nuartor ev.r . jnight and morning, and when lie began his , prayer, it was impossible to" toll when, he -n would stop, especially if as he termed it, he got hiiripy. Then he would sing and pray ' and h.alaloo for an hour or two together, so ' that you might hoar hira a mile off. And he would pray for me and my wife and children, ' . and all my brothors and sisters, and their children ; and somotiines when we would have - visitors, Mows' prayer would interrupt the ' conversation, and destroy thoeniovmcntof the " i whole conipuiy. Even after 1 had retired I i could not sleep. 1 bore it as long as I could, and then forha.1 his praying so loud any more. Moscl prbinlstd obodienco, but he '.' oon transgressed ; .and my ru'o Is never :o wh'r. but when 1 nesro proves incorrigible I sell him. U I pwdnn d Mim twi'T, V dis 'bcdhiicc iri ' praying 4 iyil; but the. third time I knsa 1 must sell him, or evory negro on the farm wouid disregard my orders." " You spoke of Jfoscs' quarter ; I suppose from that he has a family." " Yes, he has a wife and three children or wife, I suppose he calls her now, for soon after he got religion, he asked ine if they might bo married, and I suppose they wero." " What will you take for her and the chil dren ?" " If you want thm for your own use, I will take seven hundred dollars ; but I shall not sell Moses nor them to go out of the State." " I wish them all for my own use, and will give you tho fourteen hundred dollars." Mr. B and Colonel C then went to B 's store, drew up the writings, and closed the sale, after which they returned to tho vessell and B approaching the negro, who sat with his eves fixed upon the deck, seemingly with the most awful forebodings, said t " Well Moses, I have bought you." Moses made a very low bow, and every muscle in his face worked with emotion, as he replied, "is you massa ? Where is I gwino, massa ? Is I gwine to Goorgy ? " No," said Air. B , " I am a mer chant here in this city ; yonder is my storo: and I have purchased your wife and children too, that you may not bo separated." " Bress God for dat ! And, massa, kin I go to moetin somtimcs ? " " Yes, Moses, you can go to church three times on the Sabbath, and erery night in the week, and vou can pray as often as you choose, and as loud as you choose, and as long as you. choose, and get as happy as you choose : and every time you pray, I want you to pray for me, my wile, and all my children, if you are a good man, your prayers will do us no harm, and we need them very much ; and if you want to you may pray for every body by the name of B in the State of Maryland. It will not injure them." While Mr. B was dealing out these privileges to Moses, the negro's eyes danced in their sockets, and his heart laughed out right for gladness, exposing two rows of as even,. clean Ivories as any African can boast, and his heart's response was " Bress God, bress God all de time, and bress you too, massa 1 Moses neber tink bout he gwino to have all dese commodations; dis make me tink bout Joseph inde Egypt." And aftoa Moses had poured a few blessings on Col. 0 , and bid him a warm adie'i and requested him to give his love and (ears well to his mistress, the children, and all the servant, he followed B to the store, to enter upon the duties of his new office. T if return of the schooner brought to Moses his wife and children. Early the next spring as Mr. B was ono day standing at the storo door, he saw an individual leap upon the wharf from tho deck of a vessell, and walked hurriedly towards the store. Ho soon recognized him as Col. C . They exchanged salutations, and to the Colo nel's inquiry aftor Moses, Mr. B replied that be was up stairs measuring grain, anu invited him to walk up and see him. Soon Mr. B 's attention was arrosted by a confus ed noise above, He listened, and heard un unusual shuttling or feet, some one talking hur-ridly ; and he doturmined to go up and see what was going on. When he reached the head of tho stairs, he was startled by seeing Moses in the middle of the floor, down upon one knee, with his arms around tho Colonel's waist, and talking rapidly, while tne lOionel stood weeping. So soon as the Colonel could sufficiently control his feelings, ho said to Mr. B that he was never able to iree Himself from the influence of Moses' prayers, and that during the past year ho and his wife, and all his children, had bcon converted to uou. Moses responded, Bress trod, massa L ; dough I way hea, I nebor forgit you in my prayers ; I oilers puts de oie massa siao uo new one. Bress God, dis makes Moses tink bout Joseph in de Egypt again." The Colonel then stated to air. B tnat his object in coming to Baltimore was to buy Moses and his family bacic again, ma air B assured him that that was out of Ilia quostion, for he could not part with him ; and be intended to manumit juoses anu nis wiie at forty, and his children at thirty-fivo years of age. Moses was not far wrong in his reierence to Joseph. For whon Joseph was sold into Egypt, God overruled it to his good, and he obtained blessings that were far beyond his expectations, so with Moses, Joseph eventu ally proved the instrument ot saving tne lives of those who sold him ; Moses proved the instrument in God's hands of saving the man's soul who sold him. Old Moses is still living and doing well. He long since obtained his froedoin, and at present occupies a comfortable home of his own; and I supposo sings and prays and shouts to his heart's content. Letter from Robt. J. Walker to the Indiana Anti-Lecompion Meeting. Gov. Walker addressed a long lotter to tho anti-Lecompton Democratic meeting held at Indianopolis on Tuesday. It arrived too late to be read to the meeting, but made its appearance in print, in the Indianopolis Journal of yesterday. It is long, strong and bittor, and disposes of the rumors that he had become reconciled to the President, and was factoring from the defiant position that he was understood to occupy some weeks since. He says of the pledges to see fair play, and have the Lecompton Constitution submitted is a whole to tho whole people of Kansas, that the President and all hit cabinet well knew of them at the time they were made, and that any abandonment of them on his part, after the people had accoptcd thorn and acted upon them, would cover him with infamy and dishonor, and that they shall be redeemed by him if necessary to the latost hour of his ex istence, even to tho shedding of tho last drop of hil blood. He says : " Whatever may be the action of the wavering, the timid or cor rupt, menaces and proscription have no terror for me." Toward the close of his letter he says : Is this the 821 year of our Independence, or is it the first year of American Monarchy, that is now dawning upon us? Let the people-let the masses composing the true Domocracy arouse from their slumbers. Let them break the chains which would fetter their free thought and free, opinion,, and assert their blood bought Tights, and especially the great Indefeasible sovereign right of self-government We have fallen upon evil times.' The libertie oj th Wintry art in danger, Iiot the people in every tow, county and State lise in their' tu ijea'y th rescue. 1 ' ' f" " Fit OH COLUMBUS. Coluhdds March 1st 1858. Fbiend CocunAN : Legislation moves rather tardily. Some 300 bills have been introduced, and only about 60 of them disposed of, New bills are being introduced every day and it would require a man with propeticvis-on to tell when the end will come. The Democrats aro agitating the question of an adjourned session, some iu favor and others opposed to it. In order to get tho sense of the House on the subject, Mr. Andrews offered tho following resolution : Resolved, That it is inexpedient to hold an adjourned session of this Legislature. Several amendments were offered, and considerable discussion elicited on tho subject, which was finally referred to a Committee of five. It seems to ,be the opinion of some of the leading Democrats, that it will be impossible to escape an adjourned session. One thing is very evident, that if all the business that is necessary to bo done for the next two years, shall be completed during tho present session, you may look for an adjournment sometime between this and the 4th of July. " Retrenchment and reform " sounded well last Full. We shall see what its practical workings will bo. Tho majority of tho committee on tho Penitentiary, reported a bill last week, the subject of which is to tako the power to appoint tho officers of the Penitentiary out of the hands of the Governor. Tho first and most essential part of the bill reads as follows : That there shall bo appointed by the Gover nor, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Thos. W. Bartley.and W.B. Woods, Speaker of tho House of Representatives, or a majority of them, fee, then the offices to be filled arc named. Some think it would be better to add to the Board the Lieutenant Governor and James Buchanan. A bill to abolish tho office of Infirmary Director, was discussed with considerable spirit yesterday, but was killed before it came to its third reading, just as it should be. The interest bill is expeetcd to bo taken up in the House to-day or to-morrow. There is but little doubt that a bill to reduce the present rate of interest, will pass the House, but some think it will not get through the Senate.Mr. Danberrie's Military bill came up yesterday. It imposes .a tax not to exceed one-tenth of a mill on all counties in which thero are organized military companies. Query Would it he advisable to suspend the tax for common school libraries on account of the cost (wheih is 1 and 1-10 of a mill) and apply tho same to the support of military companies. Tho conclusion is with mo, that hooks aro worth moro to tho youth of the country than swords, and that the interests of tho great State of Ohio would be as safe in tho hands of persons skilled in books, as it would be in the hands of those skilled in sword and mus ket exercises. Mr. Morse's Sub-Treasury bill was set (or yesterday, but did not come up. Ono of its beauties is, that it provides that th) people shall pay their tax in specie. The bill is a party measure, and will undoubtedly pass in something near its present form. A bill to the same effect that was introduced into the Senate, however, has met with considerable opposition from the Democratic sido of the house. The Senato passed a bill this morning to prohibit matrimony between persons of nearer kin than second cousins. The law to take effect on the first of October, sothatfpersons having contracts of this nature on hand, had better consummate them speedily, lest they may find themselves ere long without the power so to do. Mr. Reese, of Morrow, has introduced a bill into tho House, providing igainst the sale and use of intoxicating liquors as a beverage. The bill is one of considerable length and is intended to take the place of the present liquor law. The bill prohibits the sale of liquors as a beverage entirely, and provides that persons shall be appointed by Township Trustees, or by the Mayor and Council of cities, to sell liquor for medicinal, mechanical and sacramental purposes. An Omnibus bill was reported to the House tho other day, by a special committee recommending the election of additional common pleas Judges in several of tho Judicial dis tricts. The bill takes in the sixth district, and provides for the election of an additional Judge in the subdivision that includes Dela ware, Knox and Licking. Yours, See., C. The Republican In the V. S. Senate.Correspondence of the N. Y. Herald. Washington, Citt. There is a perfect organization of the Repub lican party in th United States Senate. It is composed of the old Republican Senators, Douglas and the other two seceding Demo crats, and two Southern Know Nothings, ma king in all about twenty-five votes of which Douclas is the recognized leader. their numbors, constant attendance, and thorough drilling, will compol the Democratic Senators to as thorough a countor-orzanization, to stricter attention to their duties, and to better attendance at th sessions of the Sonate, or they will be dofeatcd on almost every meas ure, and the Government be embarrassed. Pater. Devotion is the Sole asylum of human frailty, and 'the support heavenly perfectionit is the golden chain of union be tweeu heaven and earth. Bio that has never prayed can never conceive, ahd he that has prayed as h ought cm never forget, how j much is to be gained by prayer. JPr. Fwwy. The Douglas Itcbellloii in Culi-foriiiit.Correspondence of tho N. Y. Pus'. Washington-, March 3, 1858. Mr Buchanan has only sent to the Senate, for confirmation, the name of one person out of the whole batch of California appointments thathomade oneyearago. Mr. Washington, the collector of the port of San Francisco, is the solitary name referred to. The President can afford to trust him because ho has commenced a war upon Brodrick, for opposing Lecompton, in the San Foancisco DailyGlobe.--the L'nion copies one of his articles to-day. All theothor persons appointed by Mr. Buchanan to Fedoral offices in California, are not heard from yet, for reasons not difficult to imagine. This is the rod in pickcl for Brodcr-ick.The following extracts from private lotters were written by leading Demoorats in California to an influential Democrat in this city. They speak for themselves : " Tho remarks of Senator Broderick take like fire. All his friends are rejoicing at his course in endorsing and sustaining Gov. Wul-kor and Douglas in their views upon the great Kansas question. I havo heard many of Mr. Broderick's bitterest enemies acknowledge that they admire his spirit and encgy in defining his position against tho Administration-Our pcoplo like a fearless man, and think that Broderick is on the right track. Ho is indors ed by three-fourths of tho people ia the State, there is not tho slighteft doubt but that his party will carry, by an overwhelming majority, in tho ensuing State Convention for the nomination of Congressmen and Uerk orsu-m-cme Court. It is universally conceded, Scott has no show for being returned to Congress. lie is out of the question. McKibhen will stand a chance to be returned as his action is bailed hero with rejoicing. Another letter says : " This State is Douglas to a certainty. If thero was two Democratic candidates in the field to-day for Governor, or any other office, the Douglas men would trample over all others by their thousand majority, although the Custom House may nianago to subsidize the Legislature and prevent resolutions. " A man who figured somewhat extensively in Washington during the last Congress, in tho Herbert affair, arrived in the last steamer, and was surprised to learn tho number af prominent Buchanan Democrats who had declared for Douglas. Among those who sustain the views of Senator Douglas are ox-Congressmen McDuzall end Lathon, Judge Bryant, former ly of the Supreme Court, Judge Barbour,of the Yuba district, Mr. Speaker Whiteside, for tho present House of Representatives, and numerous others. Xino-tonths of tho Democratio press, formerly in support of Buchanan's administration, are now supporting Douglas, and aro hostile to the Buchanan Kansas policy." A letter from Yroka says : "Tho Union of this plane has corao out in a fearless manner, in advocacy of the policy of Broderick and Douglas. All of Gwin's friends, in this region admit kthe correctness o ,f Wnllcnr'a emiraa in Kansas. Tho denun ciations of Buchahan's course is loud and bitter."These extracts indicate the public sentiment of tho "Star in the West." H. Mr. Toomba on the American Army. In the course of the debate in the U. S. Senate, a few days ago, on the Army bill, a telegraphio report of which was given at the time, Mr. Toombs held the following strong w may safely say, truthful language in reference to the character of all standing arm ies, that of this Republic not excepted : Talk to me about officers of the Army be ing friends of liberty and shooting down oppressors ! Go and unlearn their history for twenty centuries. The Army is no more open to American soldiers than is tho French, even to officers. There you can take the son of a beggar or of a duke, send him to the military schools, and he may reach a marshal's baton ; but except an occasional fraternization or a barricade in the street, he is never anything else, and never has been, but the engine of op pression and despotism. The American soldier will lie the same. He loses his character of American citizen. Their duty is obedience. They are taught it. They know nothing else. They loose their interest iu society. They are not friends of liberty. An army in its es- senco is a despotism. They always have beer, and always will bo the ready instrument of him that is bold and brave enough to seize tho baton and trample public liberty in the dust. In a Slate of Suspension. Thn nnntrv in in the midst ot a groat fi nancial crash, and 1 Bones' has' felt it in a peculiar manner. The other day he called on his barber, and finding tho door shut, knocked loudly for admittance. The knight of the razor put his head out of th window and remarked : " Youhabnouscknockin'dcre ; I'se closed : suspended." " Then hand me out my soots," rctoricu The barber retired, and in a moment on of "Bones." boots was thrown him through tho window. The other, however, was not forthcoming and to "Bones" inquiry as to tho delay, .1 t i . ii- . me narocr vcrjr iuniom , " Dat's all you can hab now. Mr. Bones, I'se only payin' fifty per cent." , .... A little girl was, one night under the starry sky, intently meditating upon tho glo-rirsofthe heavens. At last, looking up to the sky, she said, " Father I have been thinkln; if tho wrong side of heaven is so beautiful what will the right side be." A child, taught that the was made of the dust of the earth, and that God mado her, said, "Mi, has Dad dot any more dust?" ' hv, hild ? " P 'Ci'isOf he hsfi t want a little broihcr." ;3..- : m j . w XII i: KANSAS O.U12STIO. Fhkk Soil vs. Slavs TtnitnoRy. bPEECII OF WTn SEWARD. IN THE U. S. SKXATE. WEDNBSDAY, MARCH 8, 185 8. Mn. President : Eight years ago we slew the Wilmot Proviso iu tho Senate Chamber, and buried it with triumphal demonstrations under the floors of the Capitol. Four years later, we exploded altogether thetimo-hon-ored system of governing tho Territories by Federal rules and regulations, and published and proclaimed in its stead a new gof pel of popular sovereignty, whoso ways, like those of wisdom, were to be ways of pleasantness, and all of whose paths wore supposed to be flowry paths of peace. Nevertheless, the question whothor there shall bo Slavery or no Slavery in tho Territories, is again tho stirring passngo of the day. The restless i'10- vho has burst tho cerements of the gruvo and. striking nancs noro in our vory presence , wun me genue spiru 01 popular sovereignly ; run mad, is seen raging Ireely in our halls, i scattering dismay among the Administration j benches in both Houses of Congress. Thus i an old unwelcome lesson is read to us anew. The question of Slavery in tho Federal Ter- j ritories, which aro the nurseries of future States, independently of all its moral and human elements, involves a dynastic struggle of two antnsonistical systems, tho labor of , slaves and tho labor of freemen, for mastery in the federal Union. One of theso systems partakes of an aristocratic character ; the other is purely Democratic. Each one of the listing States has staked, or it will ultimate ly stake, not only its internal wolfare, but also its influence in the ' Federal councils, on the decision of that contest. Such a struggle I is not to be arrested, quelled, or reconciled, I by temporary expedients or compromises. j But I shall not insist now on so radical a ! measure as tho restoration of the Missouri ; Prohibition. I know how difficult it is for pow-, cr to relinquish a pernicious and suicidal pol-j lcy all at once. W o may attain tho same ro-, tion shall be allowed to take effect, with need-suit in this particular case of Kansas without j fui an(j wise precautions against sudden going back so far. Go back only to the j change and disaster, or be hurried on by vio- nil nceutnnil In 1 fl.rii tin. n-i-niiiiil nf linn, i I :.. 1 1 1 t 1-.; ,. givutiu Baauinv ... iUv. ...w b.vu... v. rr ulnr sovereignty. Happily for the authors of that measure, tho zealous and enere-otic re sistance of ubuses practiced 'under it has so far been effected that popular sovereignty in Kansas may now be made a fac- and Liberty there may bo rescued from danger through its free exercise. Popular sovereignty is an epic of two parts. Part the first presonts t reedom in Kansas lost. .Fart tne i second, if your will so consent to write it, snau do r reeuom in iui;sas regimen, xi j bead is clear, his arm is strong, and his ne-is on this ground that I hail the eminent S n- cessities are fixed. Ho must and will have it. ator from Illinois, (Mr. Douglas,) and his as q'0 seClr8 je na oblige the Government sociates, the distinguished Senator from ! 0f tho United States to obandon intervention Michigan, (Mr. Stuart,) and the youthful, but j i fuvor 0f slave labor and Slave States, and most bravj Senator from CSlifornin, (Mr. c0 backward forty years, and resume the ori- ltroderick.) Tho late Mr. Clay told us that ; Providence has many ways for saving nations. God forbid that I should consent to see Freo-dom wounded, becauso my own lead or even my own agency in saving it should be reject- ed. new I will cheerfully co-operate with those defenders of this sacred cause in Kansas and I will award them all duo praise, when we shall have been successful, for their large share of merit in Us dclivcrnnce. more slaverv not wantkd. But is there just now a real want ol a new j tracteu, ocioro freedom shall enjoy her aU Stato for the employment of sfave labor ? I ; roady assured triumph. I would have it ensue and feel tho need of room for anew State , ded now, and would have the wounds of so-to bo assigned to free labor, for room for such ! ciety bound up and healed. But this can bo a new State almost every year. I think I see dono only in one way. It cannot be done by how it nni.-es. Free whito men abound in this ; country and in Europe, and even in Asia. Economically speaking, their labor a cheap there is a surplus of it. Under improved con ditions of society, lifo grows longer, and men multiply faster. Wars, which sometimes waste them, grow less frequent and costume ol J erritories at the doors ot ton-less destructive. Invention is c o n t i n ' gross, until the people of Kansas, or their ually producing machines and engines, 1 true defenders here, shall bo brought to dis-artifical laborers, crowding them from ' honorablo compromises. It can be done only ono field of indus totry nnothej, ever more j by the simple and direct admission of the three from the Eastern regions of this continent to the West, ever more from theover-crowded Eastern Continent to tho pruiiius and wilderness in our own. But I do not see any such overflowing of tho African slave population in this country, even where it is unresisted. Free labor has been obstructed in Kansas. There aro, nevertheless, 50,000 or 00,. 000 freemen gathered there already gathered there within four years. Slave labor has been frco to importation. Thero are only 100 to 200 slaves there. To settle and occupy a new slave State anywhere, is fan jaw, to depopulate old slavo States. Whence, then are tho supplies of slaves to come, and how ? Only by reviving the African Slave 1 rado. But this is forbidden. Visionaries dream that the prohibition can bo repealed. The idea is insane. A Republic of thirty millions of freemen, with a free whito laboring popula- tion so dense as already to crowd on subsist- lonna, eignt years ago, It is the same 1 mam-ence, to be brought to import negroes from tained on the great occasion of the organiza-Africa to supplant them as cultivators, and so j lion cf Kansus and Nebraska, four years ago to subject themselves to starvation ! Though j Timo and added experience hnvo vindicated Africa is yet unorganized, and unable to pro- it since, and 1 assume it again, to be inain-tect itself, still it has already exchanged, in a ! tained to tho last, with confidence that it will large degrco, its wars to make slaves, and its 1 bo justified ultimately by tho country and by commerco in slaves, for legitimate agriculture the civiiizud world. You may refuso to yield and trade. All European Slates are interest- i it now, and for a short period, but your rol'u-ed in the civilization of that continent, and ! sal will only aniuiato the friends ol Freedom they will not consent that wo shall ar- j with tho courage and the resolution, and pro-rest it. Tho Christian Church cannot be for- duce the union among them, which alone are cod bick two centuries, and bo mi Jo Jo sane- nccraiary on their part to attain the position tion the African Slave Trade a a missionary entcrprize. FRKE LABOn NFEDF.n. Every nation has always seme ruling idea, which, however, changes with the several stages of its development A ruling idea, of the colonies of this continent two hundred years ago, was labor to subdue and reclaim nature. Then African Slavery was seized and employed as an auxiliary, under a seaming necessity. That idea has ceased forever. It has given place to a new one. Aggra idize-mcnt of the nation, not indeed as it once was, to make a small Statu great, but to make a State already great the greatest of all States. It still demands labor, but it is no longer the ignorant labor ot barbarians but labor perfected by knowledge, and skill, anil combination with all the scientific principles of mechanism. It demands, not the labor of slaves, which need be watched and defended, but voluntary . enlightened labor,- stimulated by interest, affection, and ambition. It needs that every man shall own th land he tills; that every head shall bo fit for tho heloiet, and every hand fit for tho sword, and. eyery mind ready and qualified for counsel. ; To attempt to aggrandize a country with ' slaves for its inhabitants, would be to try to make a large body of empire with feeble sinews and empty veins. 1-the fate or evert ffo-slavert rABTV Trtt; DOOM or tlEMOCRACV. fr. President, the fxransinn of tprritnrvtn'siitbiiie. Far fiom virrathtima with hnn make slavo StatM trill only fvl ? t gn' crime becauso it is impracticable, and thero-foro will turn out to bo a stupendous imliecil-itv. A frco Republican Government, like this, notwithstanding till its constitutional checks, cannot long resist and counteract the progress of society. Slavery, wherever, and in whatsoever form it exists, is excoptior.al, local, and short lived. Freedom is the common right, interest, and ultimate destiny of all mankind. All olhur nations havo already abolished, or are about abolUliing Slavery. Does this fact mean nothing ? All parties in this country that have tolerated the extension of Slavery, oxcept one, lias perished for that l error already. That last one the Democrat-1 ic party is hurrying on Irretrievably, toward ! the same Cute. All Administrations that have avowed this pcliry have gone down dishonored for that cause, except the present one. A pit deeper and darker still is opening to receive this Administration, because it sins more deeply than its predecessors. There is a meaning in all theso tacts, which it becomes us to study well. The nation has advanced another stage ; it has reached the point whoro intervention, bv tho Govnrmi.nt sinvr and slave States, will no longer be tolerated. I Free-labor has a last apprehended its rights, I its interests, its power, and its destiny, and is I organizing itself to assume the government of tho Republic. It will henceforth meet you boldly ar.d resolutely hero ; it will meet you j everywhere, in tho Territories or out of them, wherever you may go to extend Slavery. It has driven you back in California and Kansas ; ' it will invade you soon in Delaware, Maryland, ' Virginia, Missouri and Texas. It will meet you in Arizona, in Central America and even in Cuba. The invasion will bo not merely harmless but beneficent, if you yield seasonably to its just and moderate demands. It proved so n Xew York, New -Jersey, I'ei.n- sylvania, and the other Slav States, which have alreadv vialded in that wav to its ad- vances. You may, indeed, get a start under j or near tho tropics, and seem eafo fora time, I but it will be only a short time. Even there I you will found Statos only for freo labor to maintain and occupy. Tho interest of the : white races demands' the ultimate eniancipa-; tion of all men. Whether that consumma- luuee, ia mi lunt rcuiauio ior you 10 ueciuo.- For the failure of your system of slave labor tnrougnout tne itcpuniic, the responsibility will rest not on tho agitators you condemn, or j the political parties you arraign, or even alto- gether on yourselves, but it will be duo to ' the inhorcnt error of tho system itself, and to the error which thrusts it forward to op-pose and resist tho destiny, not more of the ; frican than of tho white races. Tho whito Inan nCeds this continent to labor upon. His ! mili m,,-. 0f Intervention in favor of frio labor and Free Slates. The fill of the castle of San Juan d'Ulloa determined the fate of Mexico, although moro sioces and severe Ditched battles intervened helore the capture of the capital of Aztecs. ; 'i'no defeats you havo encountered in Califor- fornja anij jn Kansas' determined tho fate of the principle for which you have been contend- j !,ng. It is for yourselves, not for us, to decide how long and through what further mortifi- J ) cations and disasters the contest shall be pro- offering further resistance, nor by any evasion or partial surrender, nor by forcing Kansas jnta the Union as a Slave State, against her will, leaving her to cast off slavery afterwards as best sho may : nor by compelling Minnesota and Oregon to wait, and wear tho humiliating infio Utatcs as'Free States, uilhout qualificntion. condition, reservation or compromise, and by the abandonment of all further attempts to exteiul Slavery under the Federal Constitution. You ' have unwisely pushed th controversy so far, that only these brood concessions will now be accepted by the interest of free labor and free States. For myself, I see this fact, perhaps, the more distinctly now, because I havo so long foreseen it. I can, therefore, counsel nothing less than those concessions. I know tho hazards I incur in taking this position. I know how men and parlies, how earnest, and zealous, and bold, may yet fall away from mo as the controversy shall wax warm, and ularms and dangers, now unlooked for, shall stare them in the face ; as men and par ties, equally earnest, bold and zculous, have done in like circumstances belore. licit it is the same position I took in the caso of Cali- "sell simultaneously with the impending oveuniow oi tne existing f ederal Administration and tho constitution of a new and more independent Congress. 1 kxpansion of our territory tub futvrf. OK THK COUNTRY Mr. President, this expansion of th empire of free whit men is to be conducted through the process of admitting new States, and not otherwise. The white man, whether, you consent or not, will make ll S;a' to be admit! I, and he will make thom all free States. We must admit them, and all free ; otherwise, they will become inder sndent and foreign State', constituting a new empire to conlond with us fur the continont. To admit them is a simple, easy, and natural policy. It is not new to us, or to our times. It began with tho voluntary union of the first thirteen. It has continued to go on overriding all resistance ever since. It will go on, until Vie ends of tho continent are tho horde is of our Union. Thus wo become co-laborers with (iur fathers, and even with our posterity throughout many ages. Aflef times, contemplating the whole vast structure.completed and perfeoled will forget the dates and th enuy n I the individualities, of the builder in thoimuo c-t ive generations. It will be one great Kepub he, founded by one body of benefactors. I wonder that ihe Provident of th United Stales uiidervaluni the Kansas question, when it is Til 1 nf (rAnanlinn .A immann mwt.l : in h's dime to lprit it, and to gut rtl of it, I felicitate myself on my humble relation to it. for 1, know that Heaven cannot grant, nor man desire a more favorable Decision to acquire fame, than he enjoys who is engngsd in laying the foundations of a great empire and I know, also, that whilu mankind have often deified benefactors, no nution has ever, yet bestowcJ honor on tho memories of the founders of slavery. -i I have always Iwliavod, Mr. President" that this glorious Fedoral Constitution U ours is adapted to that inevitable expansion of the Jinpire, which I haro mi feotily presented It has been perverted often by luimistuction,' and it has yet U be pervurled many limes-and widely hereaaer ; but it has iiiht-r-iit strength and vigor that will cist off all (Im wubs which the evor-chiii;ing i itoresis of. classes may weave around it. If it fuil us now, it will, however, not be our fault, but because an inevitable crisis, like that of youth or of manhood, is to bo encountered by a constitution proved in that case to be inadequate to trial. I am sure that no patriot, who views the subject as I do, could wik to evad or delay the triul. By dclavs, we could only extend Slavery at the most ,b -oughont the Atlantic regions of tho continent. The rucilio slope is free, and it always must and will be free. The mountain barriers which separate us from that portion of our empire aro quiet enough to divide lis, too widely, posxi-bly, to alienate us too soon. Let us only become all slave-holding States on this side of thoso barriers, while only Free States are organized and porpctuated on theothor side, and then, indued, there will come a division, of the great American family into two nations, cqualy ambitious (or complete control over the continent, and a conflict between them over which tho world will mourn over as tho greatest and last to be retrieved of all lha salauiitics that have ever befallen th human race. Time tu Choke lit in Off. Senator Douglas made a last effort to bring tho testimony regarding the frauds by th Pro-Slavery party in Kansas, before Ihe Senate a few days ago. We give the paragraphs) of his last speech, preceding the garroting process : , The testimony as to Kickapoo is, that, although there had been vast numbers of illegal votes during the day, young Thomas Ewing, son of .the late Secretary of the Interior, voted next to tho last ; only ono man voted after him, according to the testimony; yet tho poll books show some fivo hundred votes added subsequent to his. The certificate was cut off; five hundred names were added; and then the certificate was pasted on after these names. Tho testimony is equally conclusive as to Shawnee, where seven hundred or nine hundred votes wero added. A man by the nam of Bailey, was the last man who voted, according to the testimony. The proof was conclusive that he was the last man who voted; and then they cut off the certificate, put on seven hurdrcd or nine hundred names, and pasted it on again ; and they call that a return.These (acts are well known to th world ; they are proven before tho officers of the law; they are known to Mr. Culhoun, the president of this convention, lie is here in this city under the protection ot the 'resident of the United States, and held by hiscoramission.--f le withholds tho facts and the Senato refuses to permit the information to bo extracted, and we are told that it is none of our business. We are called upon Hore he was choked off thus : The Vice-President. Wilt the Senabtr pause for a moment ? It is the duty of th Chair to call up the special order at this hour. Mr. Douglas. I never knew a debate to b cut off in its midst ; but if that is the rule, I must yield. The Vice Presidant. The rule Ls positive. Tho Chair has cut off debate fifteen or twenty times since the commencement of the session.Mr. Green. I insist upon tho enforcement of tho rule, for I intend to reply to this fully. It was high time to choke him off. 03r A bill has boon introduced in the Vi . ginia Senate, to exempt from distress or levy on slavo. Th list of articles exempted winds up as follows : 1 Bible. 1 prayer book. 1 nigger. This shows that slavery is 'a divine institution.'' ...... . . . . .... The whole numW of DemocuMo members in the present Legislature, is eighty-two. Of this number, only ticenty-two c.Mi'ld lc coaxed, wheedled or hnrraiwed into sir-nin the call for, tho Anti-Ijcouipton straighlimt convention to meet at Columbus, on the lU;h of March. Xewwk A lvtKute. 03" Two erainont men, R. j. Walker and (id. Bancroft, who were member of Prosv dent Polk's Cabinet aro strongly opposed to th lecompton swindle. Walker was Secretary of th Treasury, and Bancroft was Secretary of tlSfcJlavy. ' 03r "And will yo be afihcr tolling mo what kind o' b.isto dyo ye oil this," said a newly arrived Irishman, holding up a- wasp between his thumb and finger. " Oclym urther 1 spake- quick, for he's biting mo I " What ia th difference net woen a young; ftir I and an old hat ? Merely a difference of time- on has feeling, and the other lias (tit. ft5r" Massa lay up truiuiura iu heaven? What for dat ? " said Cull'c. " Ly Vm up where he nebbcrse? 'in no more, nobbcr." (KrMr. Dilloy ot French Creek, Mercer county, P., has been mulettd in $100 for slandering Susan ty:Krlnd, a school mistress who had whippet his daughter. Tr.NF.ssKE Speaks. Resolutions instructing Senators and requesting the Representatives front Tcniiesses to vols ftr th Lecompton Constitution, have been, after discussion, rtjertfil 37 to 33, by th legislature of tl al flat. '- . KT", Th Tribune's ( eorrespondene ;av. i that th Kansas dchata in th Senate will iprohal y rnpnim . moat of th mouih, as , thirty ehbntat fp"'-ho at lst art in jy p , rticn. 1 ll:. . it'.