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THEODOREJT. CREMER.
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POBTrvT.
"To charm the languid hours of solilude. He oft invites her to the Muses lore."
Scotch Songs.
touches of contempt and indignation towards those feeders on the cruinhs that fall frnin olher men's tables, who affect so much sensibility about thc property of the country. If there is in our Slato something improper or dangerous to bo talked or wrillen about, I put it to every true ond manly Ken¬ tuckian, if that thing is not improper and danger¬ ous in its existence among us 1 And if so, is hc who undertakes lo remove the evil the enemy ofhis couniry 1 Or rather, is not that man, who, seeing the wrong, for the sake of popularity, and a narrow self-interest, in opposiiion to Ibc welfare of the great mass of the people, dares not attempt its extinction, a traitor and a coward, and truly deserving ll.c exe¬ cration of his countrymen I I am nol ashamed lo admit that I am the most uncompromising foe of tyranny, wherever displayed: and 1 proudly avow myself the eternal enemy of slavery. Al the same lime, experience-taught charity warns mc to loose none of my sympnthy for the slave-holder, because of hia misfortune or his fault; and while 1 would be just lo the Black, 1 am free to confess, that every feeling of associalion, and instinctive sense of self- elevation, leads me loseek the welfare oflhe VVhhe, whatever may he the consequence of the liberation oflhe African.
Bred among slaves, I regarded them witb indilTer¬ ence ; seeing no tloparturc from morals or economi¬ cal progress in ll.c tenure. The emancipalion move¬ menl about 1830, affected me as it did n.osl peisons al that lime; and 1 felt somo ncw and pleasing e- molions springing up in my bosom, when I resolved
sidents; enacts and repeals laws'with a pelulcnec hou.ghtoul hy the slave sysicm, sends olf one oflhc > goad. Is moro needed !—Tax mc to the verge of and recklessness, more worthy of manly indigna-1 consumers of the manufnclures of the towns; when j sustenance and life, ond make my country free'.— tira7ih;i:i"lhe"i^lialile7oTt;car^c"^f lii'e North— i 'I'" ""'"""'crs art gone, thc mechanic must go also, i 1 call upon all Kentucky lo speak out upon tllis
DT OKORO£ W. BKTHt'ItE, n.n.
O. sing to me tho auid Scotch sangs,
1' the hraid of Scollish longue, The d.inijj my lather loved to hear.
The Bangs my inilher sung, Whfiii ali'j Silt lieside my cradle.
Or . Toonoil mc on hcr knee. An' 1 wnd na' sleep, she sang sao sweet
The auid Scotch sangs lo me.
Yes! ling the auid, the guid auid sang),
Auid Scolia's gentle pride, O' Ihe win.pling hurn, and the sunny brae.
An' the cosio inglc-side ; Sang o' the broom an' heather.
Sang o* the tryaling tree, The lar'rocks lilt and ll.o gowan's blink—
The auid Scotch sangs for mo.
Sing ony o' thc auid Scotch sangs,
Tbe blithesome or ll.c sad; They make mc smile when 1 am wae,
.An' greet when 1 am glad; My heart gacs buck lo auid Scudand,
An' saul tears dim mine c'e, But the Si'otcb hluid leaps in a' my veins.
As ye sing the sunga to me.
Sing on, ting mair o' Ihac auid fangs;
For ever ane can tell O' jov and sorrow i' the past, I
Where incm'iy luves to dwell; Though hair win grey, an' limbs win auid,      [
Unlil thc day I die, I
I'll hIess die Soolli.ih tongue that singa
'The aul.I Scotch songs lo mc. |
'"^     "CASSiUSMVI. CLAY. j
"We think our readers will thank us for giving '. '" " "'•'"''^ S'""'' a"*! ''"¦»<' of ''""'0 were brought them to-day thc manly lelter of Cassius M. Clay | ''""" '" "¦"'" ^y intemperance. 1 had hecn taught lo thc People of K^^ickv. j '" regard Connocticut as a land of wooden nutmegs
Engaged ii^-li^Btise. ho writes and spenks "ud leather pumpkin seeds—yet there was a Innd of like a man imhMHpL holy spidl, and wo find I "•"'li')' wilhout paupers, and a people where no it dimcull to r^^Tthe enlhusiasm which his j'""" """o'"''"''"J "''° <=""'''not wrilc bis name, burning words enkindle, even while referring to I ""'' """^ ">" '""^ '"J '''' bible. These wcrc them. Hia poshion is a glorious one. Tiue lo his | s'"'"S« diings; hut liir more slriuiijo, parsing strange nativo aoil, let who may falter Iherc, true to tho i ™'" '' '"'• K.ntiK'kinns, ifyou shiil! not come lotho great and fundamental doctrines which our Fathers | «"'"'' conclusion to which I wa3 coiupi lletl. that established, true to himself and bis fellow men, he ' '''""'y- "''is'"" nnd educaiion worn the cause ofall Would do in his day whal he may, lo break the fel- ''"¦^'' 'lling.^, nnd the true fouu.hilioi; of individual lera of human thraldom, and elevate Keniucky and ''''. i'uuss and i.i.'.ioi.i.l !;lory. In 1835 1 inlrodu- her Pcople to the full stature of Freedom. The '^^'^ " common school bill inlo the House of Rcpie- prayers and sympalhy of the good far off and near sentatives ofKenlucky; it was lost. In 18J8 1 had will he whh him I I dio  pleasure  of vodng for   the present common
We need not go into dela ils on this subject.— | "chool law, in cominon wilh a greal majorily of my The letter of Mr. Clay will explain his course and ! compeers. Before 1840 1 waa convinced that uni- the policy ofhis friends. If left alone, if not fool- ! versal education in a slave state was impossible!— ishly 01 fanatically interfered wnh out of Ihe Stale, Whilst I now write, the eight hundred thousand w« feel conlident that they will succeed, and ero | dob"™ set aside, from thc procecils of ll.o .sales of long the work of Emancipalion will be commenced   '''" P'^^^'c lands, for common schools, surreplilioi
Yet no relief comes to the einking palient; her hy- pochondrical illusions arc not dispelled; she can¬ not, she will not see that slavery ii the cause of her ruin. Her fields relapse inlo prhiiitivc sterility; ^ her population wastes away ; manufaclurers recede ' market li froin^tho infected border; trntio Innguishes; decay trenches upon hor meogrc accumulations of taste or utility ; gunnt famine stalks into thc shattered por¬ tals of the homestead: the hearth stonc is invaded by n more relentless intruder than the officer of the law; and the castle Ihat may aland hefore the aword, falls by this alow, secret and resistless enemy ; Iho blood of ll.e hody politic is frozen at the core ; a trophy paralyses nil ils limhs; sullen despair begins lo displny itself upnn Ihe caic-worn faces of men; Ihe Heavens Jond ll.e enrlh cry nIoud—thc eternal law of happiness and existence have (liecn tram¬ pled under foot; .and yet with a mosl phiable infat¬ uation, Ihc South slill clings to slavery.
The compelilion of unrequited scrvico, slave la¬ bor, dooms Ihc laboiing white millions of these Slates to poverty ; poverty gives them over to ig¬ norance ; and ignorance ond  poverty  are the fast
A. haa nciuiicd another 1,000 acres of land, hut j subject; let each man com» to thc press in hisown
B. has gone to Ohio with the ^50,000 paid fot it, I name ; Ict u.s hear others—hear nil.    Trusl not lo and the Slalo is thnt much the poorer in tbo aggre-1 those who in private whisi.er approval in your car, giile,     .\.  hun  incieased his oppurcnl means, hut j but denounce the open advocates oflhe same ad- flown lo lands governed  hy wiser I missions.    1 do not profess to bc infallible ; if I am
beads than the land of slavery can boast. Beef' wrong, show mc righl, no man will do more, sulli'r from Fayette, sold this spring in thc cily of New ! '""re for conciliation. 1 lislen to advice, 1 implore Vork, for {SG per hundred, but thc cxprn.se of a car- ! counsel; hut neither denunciation, nor persecution riago was $3 per hundred ; thus, for want of a j sl">" "dence n.c; and so far ns ll.e voice of ono in- hon.c market, which cannot exist in a slave Stain i JiviJual makes up the omnipotence of public wih, thc beef raiser loses one half of llie yearly pro- \ ' ""^i Keniucky shnll l.c free. Let no mon bo slar- eeeds of liisj',irm.    Slavery costs every man in the | "«'' '• » '"«' ^""^ »S0 "Uoi"  men  looked upon sli
communily about tbc samn price—one hiilf and moro of thc proceeds of his labor, as the price of Innd has nlrendy shown !
Political diinieullics thicken around us; war for thc pcrpcluntion of this curse, IbreatcnB us in tho distance; dark clouds of bloodshed, di.solution, and utter ruin, lower on the honzon; the great na-
cry as a mntter of course ; a Ibing of necessity, which wus lo live for centuries. Now, few arc so hardy as lo deny thnl some 20 or 30 years will wit¬ ness Its extinction.
Thc Ume is, in my judgment, yel nearer at band. A space of three counties deep, lying along ll.e ! Ohio river conlains a decided mnjurity of the peo-
tionnl heart lies bleeding in the dust, under Iho rc j I''" of the Slulc, as well as Iho  greater part of iho Icutlcss heel of tl.c slave power!     It requires no : «0'''    *'ow long before slaves there will hc, from ob- vcry quick eye  to sco thnt thc political j.owcr of , ''""^   causes, utterly useless !    Soon, very soon, Kentucky is gone forever, unless sho lak'.'s a ncv   "'" ""'X ''"'^ thcinselves bcanng all thc evils ot high roods to crime and suii'ering. .Aniongthemcru i tick ond revives under the free lahor system.   Hav- I slavery, wilhout any, thc least remuneration.    Docs forlunatc property holders, religion and morality arc | '"S. in truth, no common interest with thc alavebol- j °ny behcvn ihat Ihcy will lamely submil to this in- staggering and dying.    Idlenesa, exlravngance, un-I ding policy ol'thc South, we hear all the evils of :'olerable grievance J    If slavery does not  lumble Ihrifliness and wont of energy precipitate slave bol- j "'c nllinucc, wilhout any of ihc supposed compen- j down of itself, Ihcy will vole it down, for ihcy will dcra inlo frequent  and  unheard of bankruplcirs, ] ""''"S licncllls wbich slavery  confeia upon llic cul-j bavc llio/loiecr, and il will be iheir i'nto'ft<  lodo such as arc unknown in free Slates and well order- ] tivalors of rice, sugnr and cotlon.     The South is | »"'    The rich inlerior counlies of tho State have
in common wilb my lamented brother, lo liberate i cJ -Monarchies.    Tho spirit of uuconlrollcd com-   bcginuinglo bii supplied wilh produce from Stoics j die least need of slave labor of any portion of ll.o ,	
my slaves.    I authorized  him to put my nnme to I mand vitiates our temperaments, and destroys that | "carer lliein in dislance and facilities in transporta-   g'ol-e.    The mounlains aro ruined hy the decreas-   ,^._'   'J,^ "^^^'^'^^ kllh^l   j"t "he n"ext"n\'uthorily' the Emancipation Society, formed about that time in j evenness of temper, and equanimity of soul, which : '""' "'•'" »"". "'"lc she is nlrcady loo poor lo buy   mg population oflho lowlands, and the inabilily to   I'uke the land in di.sjiutc,
aro the sheet anchors of happiness nnd safely in a I'^'O™ ""! "C look for markets almost exclusively to   -""-"-"" i......-..         . ,        ,     .... ,.      .. -	
worl.l of attainable desire  and inexorablo evil j Cincinnnli, nnd Ncw  York,  nnd  Ncw  Oilcans,
Populalion is sparse, and without numbers there is I which last is bul the outlet lo tho olhcr nations.— neither competition nor ihvision of labor, andof   Until Keniucky isprepared to go ull lengths'for
The Public Bye.
What sacrifices are daily made to propilinte lh« public eye, U) dazzle ils scrutinizing glance, to avert its scorn. The proud viclim of poverty, emerging from bis garret, ivhcre, wilh squalid want for hia companion, hc boa a hundred dmcslnslrd of Iho liiucrncss of denth, smoothes tlown his knitted l.r.iw, nnd calls up a ainilc to hia care-worn fealures as ha passes into the atrcet to encounter a crowd hc knows noland lo whom he is unknown. God knows his sorrows, but hc is unwilling that Ihey should bo seen by die public eye. The slaltcrn wife, who moves ahoul her own dwelling in rags and fillh, careless ofhor husband's reproaches or.d indilfercnt to llis tlisgUBl, will spend hours lo adorn herself for a hall, ill hope of winning nn admiring glance from the public eye. Thc hnrd raan, whoso soul ia im¬ pervious to Cbnrily, who coins his wcolth out of broken hrnrls, whose hanker is liuin, and whoso
god is Gold, will do an alms in the market place	
that ho may allracl the public eye. Virtuous wo¬ men, who woul.l shrink from thc whisper of u hbcr- tinc as from thc fungs ofnn aspnn, have at the dic¬ tate of fiishion bared ll.cir bosom to the commoii gaze, an.l courted the licentious glance oflhe pul.lic eye. The Fakirs of the East transpierce their flesh with spcars,or measure tJio lenglh of a river hv successive proalrations, or hold their limhs in ono altitude nnlil they wither flesh an.I marrow, and all that lliey may accm saints to the public eye.— Nny, even thocriminni on the gallows holdsthe tre¬ mendous leap he is ahout to lake from life ond light inlo the inexplornlile abyss, n secondary considera¬ tion lo that of causing Ihc public eye to dilate wilh wonder nt the boldness wilh which hc encounters deolh.—N. Y. 'True Sun.
Tkose who make WAn should no the Fioht-
so—l.ut rulers who crow ao bravely, each on hia
n dunglhll, meetin single combat; and if one
Mercer county. In thc sumo year I went to Yale College, in a free Slate. I was not blind, and there¬ fore aa'V a people living there luxuriously, «n a soil wbich here woultl have been deemed the high road to famine nnd thc olms-housc. A rity of ten or fifteen ihousnnd inhnhitnnls rose up in thc morning, passed through all the busy strife of thc doy, sfii laid down again at nighl, in quiet security, and not a single police oflicer was anywhere to bo seen. Thcic were more than 500 young men congregated from all climes, of various habits and temperaments, in the quick blood of youdi, ond in nll-conqucring passion, and there wns nol found in nil Ihc cily, so fnr aa tlic public were aware, a single womnn so fallen aa Io dcmnnd a less price for hcr love thnn honorable marriage. .\ gray haired judge of seventy years and more, in a lifo timn of service, had pro¬ nounced senltmce of death upon but five criminals
consume dicir products, where slaves abound. The Green River counlry should remember il Pnnilora's box wns opened again ujion mankind, two greater curses aud forerunners of poverty and ruin, ihi
Does this method of settling the diflicullies ap¬ pear barbarous  to  the  roadcrl      Bnl is it nol aa much heller than war as the number engnged in Iho deadly conllict is Icsh I      VVhat is war hut a duel at scale I or, according to Jcfleraun, "Iho
in Old Kentucky.—Cin. Gazelle.
To the People of Uentueky.
Whilst I waa battling in the Norlh, in a triangu¬ lar fight wilh Whigs, Abolilionials and Democrats,
ly appropriated to inlernal iinprovtiments,confirm my conclusion. There is not a cenl in the great Goni- monweolth of Kentucky, appropriated to the edu¬ cation of her people 1 C. A. Wickliffe, in o con¬ vention of teachers in 1840, at Fronkforl, said:—
for the postulate that "what thc law makes proper- j .'If slavery and common schools be imcompaliblc, ty, is properly," and Ihal all good cilizcns should | I say, let slavery perish." The sentiment was met abi.le by Iho law, till they can, in a legal and con- I with tremendous applause. Men of Keniucky, .tilutionul manner, conform il lo their consciendou. | „hat say^you 1 Time haa proved -.hot they oro •lau.la.dol morality; the Southein press was de-I incompatible-not a single slave slate hos succee-
nouncing me as wishing lo employ the army and navy of the Uniicd Slates in the forcible liberation ') of the slaves. Thc many calumnies, insinuations against my fidelity to the lows of the State allegi¬ ance, I shall nol condescend to repel. I say lo those who aro ao insidiously attompdng lo prejudice mc in the confidence of the Whig party, ll.at I shall not palliate or deny; conscious of my own duty to the American people, I have fearlessly discharged il; and OS I never played tho sycophont to nici. for the •ake of oflico, though sacrificing some personal pride in the causo of the political principles of that party, to some portion of which I owe nothing, so in defeat, I have nolhing lo deplore bul tl.e eommon cilamitiea ofthe country.
To Iho peoplo of Kentucky I would humbly sug¬ gest that 1 am a son ofone of Ihe first pioneers of tha West—a mun who, in an obscure wa.v, render¬ ed some service lo his country, bolh in tho council ¦nd in the li. Id; hc waa one ofthe founders ofthe Statu Conslilulion, and his services were not unap¬ preciated by those who have pcrpelunlcd his memo¬ ry, by giving hia name to ono ofthe counties ofthe Commonwealth. 1 speak not uf these thinga in a vain apiril, or from overweening filial afl'eclions, hul Co remind Ihoae men of yesterday, that they were presuming loo much upon popular credulity, ond their own significance, when they set themselves up ¦a the exclusive guardians of the honor and welfare of tho Slale, and undertake to denounce ond ostra¬ cise me us an enemy to the country. Having so.me •mall inleresl in thc aoil. as well as in the good name of the Commonweolth, wilh n.y humility ond love iof equality, I cannol but give utterance to som
necessity, all mechanic arts languish among us.— ! slaverly, she is powerless; not pro-slavery enough I ^'"^'"^^ *nd lolmceo, could not be found!    Kenluek-   unprofilable contest of scchig who will do the oth-
iana, he worthy of your pasi fame—I.a heroes once i cr ll.e most harm;" which inulliplies, instead of re¬ mote.    God has not  designated ll.is most favored I •''""''ng injuries?
l,.n,I In I,n ,.n i„,i ),„„.,:. r  • T. .¦ Iherc IS nnolher thing in Which war is more bar-.
land to be occupied l.j an infcnor race. Iloban ,,„ous Ihun duelling, which is, thut in a duel iho s.tiea mnnlle over us, and moro than Sicilian luxu- princi,lals fight out ll.cir own qunrrcla ; hut in wnr riance is spread beneulh our feci,—Givo linfree hi- \ ''"'y biro others lo kill onc anolher. whohnow little b'jr, nnd wo shall indfid becomo 'Ihc labor of the I ""'' ""'^ less aboul die quarrel. The object of tho „.nrW"    ti„t ,.,1 „,:.'„„. 1    II . ,, I common .i'.ldicr IS pay and plunder, wilh thehccnso
ivorld      Jut what .1 not ?-Mun was nol  created   „ „„,„,,|e „„ all God's l.ws wilh impunity.    Wilh lor the ealing ol Indian meal; but Ihc mind—thc   the ollicer, the object is the exercise of arbilrary soul musl be f^'.l, as well us tho body.    Tl.c samo   power, nnd d.e praise of the vulL'nr. spirit which lod us to thc bnllle field' gloriously lo |      When Alfred the Grenl inslituled thc ordcnl of
illuslroto thc nutionnl name, yet lives in tha hearts i l;"'"'';'.,"'"' " *'"",' "'^"'J!^'"J" the borborous man- _,¦.,„„„,„,      ,1      r   , .,   •   r , , ners of die ago, and much bcUcr thai, those dead y
ol our pcople; ll.cy feci Ihcir falso position; ihi'ir i f,.ut|.s, in which the parUes involved nol only them-
-Agricullure drags along its slow pace with slovenly, for "Ibo chiv.ilry," nor free enough for Ihc/ree, ignoronl, iccklcss labor. Science, literature and ! between two stools sbc flouiidcs on the ground, art arc strangers hero; pools, historians, orlisls and CInisliaiis, moralisls, poliliciiins, and merely Icl- meuhonisUi, ll.c lovers of the idea!, the grent, Ibti | livo laborers feel these bitter truths. Kentucky true and the useful; tbo undring searchers inlo the ; never will unite herself lo the slave empire, born bidden treasures of unwilling naluro, making thc   of Southern disunion ; then Ict hcr ol oncc lead on
winds, ll.e waters, thc palpable and impalpable es¬ sences of Ihings Irihulory to mon : creating grali¬ ficalion for the body, nud giving ucw susccpUbility
the ..an of fn'c.lora. Is the cry of liberly Ic.'is pow¬ erful than slnvcry, tu move thc hearts of men I— Let us Uien hujust and f'ciir nol.   Let us liberate
and  expansion   to  tho soul ; they flourish whcrc i our slaw^a, and muko friends instead of enemies I'or diought and action  aro unlrammeled; ever daring i the cviLday ; for all die signs of the limes proclaim must hc the spirit of genius; ils omnipotence be¬ longs only 10 the free.    A louse and iiindcqualo re.
sped for llic righls of necessiiy follows in the wake of slavery.     Duelling, kiloodshcd and Lynch law
that dijclomcnls of revolution are among us, when tbe crisis comes, if we ore free, all will be sale; if not, no man cuii see the end. Uritish emancipation bus gone beforo us, provi.ling all ihings safe. Tho have Imt security to person. A general demorali- ; [irico of lands in the colonies is admilled on all zalion has corruplod the first minds in tho nation ; | lianj., to have risen iu value, in spi te of all Ihc en¬ iis I.ot contagion has sjircad among tbe whole pco- I cnh-s of freedom, theso arc thc eiernal and undis- plc; licentiousness, crime and bilter hate infest us ¦ puiuhlc proofs of successful reform. The day you at home; repudiation and the forcible propagand- I sirike olf thc bonds of aluvrry, experience and sla- iam of slavery is arraying agninst us the wodd in j tisii.,a prove the prophecy of Thomas Jellcrson, that arms. I appeal to honesty, lo reason, lo nature, j ,1,^ ruiio of the increase of the blacks upon a giv- tliei time nor space, c„ hasis, diminishes, compared will, the increase of slavery; whilst the influx of while iminigralion
nii.olcncy of fulure accomplishment.   This weight must bo removed.    Kentucky must be^frec.
CASSIUS .M.CLAY. LtxisoTox, Ky.,Jan. 1S45.
and to conscience which
nnr fear, nor hutc, nor hope of reward, nor crime, nor pride, nor selfishness, can utterly silence—aro not these things true I    A minule comparison of
swallows up thc grent mnss of ll.e Africnn ruce, in Ihe progress and civilization of ihc more cncrgelic thc free and slave Stales, so often and ably made, '' „|,i,e.    Amulgamaliou of ll.e two races, so allecl- 1 forbear, 1 leave this unwilling and hitler proof lo | ^dij. j,eadcd by some pro-slavery men, is far less ii.
the free than in d.e slave Slules; this all men know
cacb man's observation ond rellcction.
ded, from tho beginning, in the general education of hrr cilizena. Governor Hammond, of Soulh Carolina, says, in his message lo the Legislature— " The free aehool system is a failure—owing lo the fact that it does not suit our people or our govern¬ ment." Experience and renson hove long since proclaimed the same unwelcome fact.
Whilst Mr. Wicklilfe was apeculaling I wns ac¬ ting. By aid of tho law of 183,1, I hoped uhi- mately to emoncipalo the State from ignornnce, pov¬ erty and crime. Kentucky called upon nil her sons, by all thcglonous memories of tho past, by all the fond hopes of the future, to resist ihoso who, by thc repeal of thol law and a relrogade movemcut, would sink her into the everendunng night and " lower deep" of perpetual slavery. Thc lime ot last came when I was lo play tiie selfish time-server for olfice lemporury elevation, or, planting myself upon tho eternal principles of truth, juslico nnd reason, look¬ ing lo conscience, lo poslcrily nnd lo God, to fal| proutlly in their cause. Whal ihough 1 he a ' fuu- alic or an enthusiast' in bidding that slavery is con¬ trnry to theUeclaralion of American Independence; the Conslilution of the United States; the common Inw of our Engliah inheritance; and in violalion of thc laws of nalure and of God—the elfect of il aro beyond all controversy; the inonnmcntnl hnnd of limo in characters of horrible distinctness ; turning
There is however, ono consideraiion which I would urge upon all, because it excludes ull 'funal- icism and enthusiasm.' Keniucky will bc richer in dollars and cents by emoncipation, and slave hold¬ ers tvill be iveallhier by thc change.
I assert, from my own knowletlge. that lands of thesame quality in the free, arc from 100 to 150 per cent, higher in value than in the slave Stales; in some cases probably six hundred per cent, high¬ er! Lands six miles from Cincinnati, in Ohio, I am credibly informed, are worth JGO per acre, whilst in Kentucky, at tbo samo distance from dial city, and of the some quality, they are worth only $10 per acre! Now tl.e slave holders of the Stale are, with rare excepiions, the land holders of the Stale; tl.ey, therefore, ahsolulcly increase li.eir for¬ tune by libornling li.eir slaves, even without coiu-
from observation ; what a litlle tel.i'el'ion wuuld have cnahlcd llieni, a priori, lo have dcleriniued.— Many of Ihc mure fiiilbful and industrious slaves may bc employed by llieir qunndum masiers. whilst tbo idle and vicious must sulfer the consequences of ll.cir folly. Slealing will not incrense, as some argue, bul he diminished, for vigilniice will be more aclive, and puiiisliinent more certnin and severe.— Let candidales be slarled in all the counties in fa¬ vor of u Convenlion, nnd run again and again, till viclory shall perch on the slnndard of the free. Whether emancipalion be remote or immediate, re¬ paid must b. had lo the righls of owners, tho hab¬ ils of tho old, and ll.e general goud feeling of die people. To those who cry out forever whnt shall be done with tho freed slaves, il vvill occur ihut up¬ on this plan, no more will be lel't among us than wo
pensation. Thus if I own 1,000 acres of land in , g]^^ absolutely need, for we havo every reason to Fayette, it is worth $50,000: say I own 12 slaves j supjiosc Ihal many of the opponenla of the move- worth if 5,000, tl.e probable ratio belween land and j ment will leavo us before ils consuinmalion, laking slaves; if my land rise to the value of the free j their slaves witb them; und the Slato ought nol to, State standard, which it muat do, my estate becomes | if sho could, at once deprive herself of iho slave worth (losing  tlic value  of the slaves, $5,000,) ] laborers now here.
!595,000. If it rises to $150 per ncre, threo limes | Then let us, having no regard to the clamors of ils present value, as I most sincerely believe it j thc ullras of tbo North or the South, move on un¬ shaken in our purj.ose, lo thc glorious cud. Shall Bcnsilile men bc forever deluded by thc silly cry of ' abolilionisls;' is this not becoming nol only ridic¬ ulous, but conlemptible I Con you nol sec thol many base demngogues have been crying oul wolf, whilst thry were ploying Ihc traitors lo their porly ond the country for personal elcvntion I Is it not minerals and limber, to say nolhing of the benuly ' ,i,„e that some sense of reluming juslico should rc of hcr Burface—nnd yet Ohio's laxes for 1813 ¦ ,.|ve in your bosoms, antl llial you should ceoso I amounied to $2,301,482 81, whilst Kentucky's lax , ,,,,„„,„,^g „,„^j, „,,„ j„ ,,^f,„i ,,„ „„( ,-„,g,t ,i,eir
would do in twenly yoars after emancipation, tbe mun owning 1,000 acres of land, now worth $50 per acre, would he worth, under the free syslem, $143,000. Now this asserdon is fully proven by fuels open lo ull. Kentucky is thc senior of Ohio, by nearly ono half of the existence of the lalter.— Keniucky is the auperior of Ohio in soil, climate.
Chi-eltt  killed   iit  Ki.T.i:<ias A young
woman iu Vermont married a poor but worlhy mun againsi l.er futhcr's w ish. Hc drove tbem from bis hou.sc, and clo.sed his door nnd heart ngninst ihera. Tl.ey cumo down ncnr Boston went to work and pro.spercd. After many years thc fnlher hud occa¬ sion to eome to Boston. He concluded lo go and see his duughler, expecting a cold reception.
His duughler nnd hcr hushnntl received him most kin.lly mill lovingly. Afler slaying with them awhile, hc <vcnl hack lo Vermont.
One of hia neighbors, hearing whero hc had he eft, asked him how bis daughter imi hcr husband had licaled them.
' 1 never was so treated hefore in my life," said the weeping and broken-hearted father. ' They have broken my heart; they hove killed mc; Idon't feel us Ihough I could liye under it.'
' Whnt did they do lo youl' asked the neighbor. ' Did tbey abuse you !'
' They loved me to dealh nnd killed me with kindness,' eaid he. 'lean never forgive mvseif f'.ir treating socruclly my own dnrling daughter who loved mc so alVeclionnlcly.    I feel aa if I should die
but nil Iheir retainers. 'Ihrn why not ndopt n plan which, hnrbarous and uncbristion aa it is, is nol so bail oa war 1
Bkai-tih-l AiLiitionT.—.\ Iravellcr who spent somo time in Turkey, relates a beautiful parablo which wns told him by n dervis, and which aeeiiin even more bentilibil Ihan Slernc's celebrated figure of tl.e accusing spirit and the recording angel.— Every mnn, sniil the dervi.s, hns two angels, one on his right shoulder nnd one on his lefl. When ho docs nnylhing good, the angel on his right shoul¬ der writes it down und scale il, because what ts once well done is done foievcr. When hc does cvil, the ansci upon his left shoulder wrhcs it down, bul does not senl il. Hc wnils till midnight. If hefore that time the mnn bo'vs down hia htad and exclaims: "GaAC.ous .Allau!—I havk siNKiiii^—ronoivi ME !' ihe nngel rubs it out; hut if nol. at midnight ho seals it, and the ongel on the right shoulder weeps.
jBALorsT A?*n Bustlts.—'Plenscwidow Wim-. ple, ma snya plenae lend her the biggest awoct per- tater you've pot.' 'A sweet potato.' * Ves'ni.'
' Why, aint your ma going Io Mr«. Willopop'» party.' ' Yes'm.'
'Ainl aho ready?'
' Yes'm—all hut her hustle. She hod to bile her'n fordiiiner lodny, and she wanls the pcrtatcr quick, coa she expccls Dr. Possum right away.' ' Dr Pn.«em! Ho going lo call for tho widow to think how 1 grieved the piecious child when I j Fizzle! Tell yoUr ma 1 hav'nt a sweet potoloo irt spurned her from  my door.     Heaven bless them, | ''"J il""?'"'',
ond forgive mc my cruelly and injuslice lo Ihcm."   \     , ThaJ'llrir,,! *ni„„n !    She don't gel tio polatoa V, ho docs nol see in this an infallible cure for '. of mine.    Lel her use corn cobs.'
difllcullica between man and man 7     Thcic is nol 	
a child nor a man on earth, who would nol feel and ' Nunsixo a Baht.—The Bulli.lo Gazelle relates soy that that daughter, Ihouph so deeply wronged and oulriiged hy her angry f.ithcr, did right in trea¬ ting him'ns she did. 'That father wos her enemy but she was not his. Ho haled hcr, while she loved him.
TlIK BiiiiiAL Dat.—VVho does not wish, says Miss Bremer, that a bright sun may beam on their bridal day ! It .seems to us oa if llyinen's torch could nol clearly hurn if it ho not kindlred by the briglit light of the beams of heaven. A secret be¬ lief that Hcnven docs nol look with indllfereiico on our cnrlhly fnte reinnina conslantly in the depths of our hearts and however wo may hc dust nnd uloins, yet wo see, when die elernnl vnult is dimmed liy clouds or shines in splendour, in thia chnnge nlwnys some sympathy, or son.e foreboding whieh concerns us, nnd ohen, very oflon, are nur hopes aud our fears —children of winds nnd clouds.
is only $343,617 CO. Thus showing Obio'ss.ipe- rior productive energy over Keniucky. Ohio has 23 electoral votes to our 13, and outstrips us in nhout the snmo ratio in all thing else. A compari¬ son of the older free and stave .Slates will show a more favorable balance sheet lolhe free Inlioi States; whilst the slave Slales have grenlly iho ndvoiiluge in climnte and soil, lo sny nothing of the vastly greater extent of the territory of the slave stale. Massachusetts produces more in gross manufac-
Ihat dnring the fire in ihnt cily a short time ago, a police ollicor observed a womnn mnking a grenl dis¬ play of hushing an apparent child, whicii she held snugly to her bosom enveloped in a clunk. On he¬ ing questioned hy the oflicer as to what she had there, ahe replied. ' a darling haby, almoal froze;' hut a peep under Ihe cloak delected a fino roll of dry grooda, instead ofthe 'darling bnby.'
5^ The mnn who ia north milliona of dollars and never Ihinks of bestowing any poriion of il upon the starving, drslilute. sulfering poor, ia lilllo ad* vuiilagc lu any communily.
(Tj-An exchange pnper soya Uiatalod of fifteen, wbo sQunters ahout rum-shops, smokes cigars, chews lobncco, driiika nine, or falls m love wilh a lady mueh older than himsell', is ' rolteii he.'bre lipe!'
inlegrily, and who, ihough fallen, do not despair ofthe Kepuhlic.
the dewy heavens into brass, and acathing the inrcs yearly, than all the cotton in the Union sella gl ecu earth wilh sterility and decay. Tbo whole | fur! Lel Louisvillo lock lo CineinnaU, and usk Soulh cries out with anguish ogninst this and that 1 herself how many millions of dollara slavery cosis measure of nalional injury ; implores nnd denoun- | her 1 All our lowns dwindle, and our farmers lose, cc6 in alternale pacri'ily; makes ond unmnkes pre-   in consoquencc, all home markela.     Every farmer
.According lo tho modern Jews, we arc now in thc yearof the world 5004, Ibo church of England Oj- How heiutifully has it been nskcd by an i considers il to he 5848 ; Ihe church of Kome makes eminent writer:—'Is ihcro lo l.e found a gill of ,'!•''M'"rl.l lo he 7044 yenrs old, ord Ihe Seplnagint, heaven more precious, more worlhy our most ar- i 1'422 years.    Prof. Wallace decides for tho tcckon- Waslnngton,   Jcfltrson and Madison, and the   dent graliludc, ihou Ihal of possessing a family,  a j ing of IheSepluaginl.
groat founders oflhc Hepublic aro   my slandard   home, where virtues, kindness, and enjoyments arc 	
I.enrcrs: Liberly and Union is   mv mollo.    Never   ^""y '^^y Rucals, where Iho henrt nnd the eyo aun |     " Am I nol a litlle pale !"   inquired a lady who .,        ,.        ',.      ,      .,,.'..',,    ihemselves in a world of hive, where Ihoughla nro   was rnlhcr abort ond corpulent,  ofa crualy old yel hns a Kentuckiun deserted his country sslnndnrd.   ,i^.,.,y „„,, e„hghiened. where friends not onlv by , baehelor.
and fled lo llio field.    Shall 1 bc the first to prove   y,,„n\ hul hy aelion say lo e.ich other—Thy joy. thy j     " Vou  look like o big tub," wu the blunt re- rccreant the sentiment  whicii sbould ever he up-' sorrow, thy   hope,  thy prayer aro mino !'—/'/n'/a. ; joinder.
permost in the bosoms of thc gallnnt nnd the free, I ^"!/""'"'' _^ „, ',      ',       '. ',        ,
,       , ,    ,        ,.   , ,        i  . rr/" AHi: «Tottv tkat there la a  chap down eaat
when .longer, no inotlcr whclhcr o   the sword, or        ^.^._^^ Affeclion-^An Irishmun, awcoring Ihe I so croaa-eycd that ho courts two  girl, ut onoe. i. moro ilammngdespoli.smthrciilens hia native land. I p^^^,^ ^^^.^/J^ ^^¦^ ,1,,^.^ ^^,_^_ j,_,,^ concluded his | conlradicled 4^ o.ice/Mtg/rfe. —' Think through wlmm \ ufiiduvit: ' And this deponent furlhcr sailh thut the
Thy life bloo.l tracks ils present loke, j unly tii.e of his children who showed ony renl filiul
And Iben strike bomc 1' [ nll'eciioii waa his youii'.'i'.-l ton. I.jry, for he  le.'vcr
1 liavo given my ..Ijvei lieideni for Ihc public , struck him when he ivas doun.'
(Xj'Mr. Is»AAc Prat, forinerly a dealer in Bo»- '. Ion iidverlincd biniiielf d.iis :—
I i'rny, oppoMlc the oid Soulh Chureh."