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YOL. I. NO. XIX.

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I,IST OF AGENTS.Massachusetts.—-R. F. Walcatt,2l,Carohill,

Boston; Nathan Jolt ison. New Bedford; lloratio \\.

Foster, Inwall; James X. Biiffiim, Lynn; fJeorjeEvan*, Worcester ; Bourne Spooner, Plymouth;

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Rhode Ist. ami. —Atnaranrv Paine, Providence.I*Kvs syi.v am a.—J. M. M’Kin,31, North Fifth

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Ohio.—Christian Dottal Ison, Cinrimuiti; C,. \V.A’siter, Ditto; Valentine Nicholson, llai'Veyslmr»h,Warren Con itv; Sa mtel Brooke, Salem.

M touto .a s.—R iliert Banks, Detroit.I vinam a.—Joel I*. Davi*, Economy, Wavue Co.

Selections.

From Parker’s Letter mi Slavery,

CONCEITS lON.

Fei.low-Citizens of America:You sec some of the effects of sla-

very in your land. It costs you millions,of d tllars each year. If there hadibcen no slaves in America for fortylyears, it is within hounds to say, yourannual earnings would be three hun-dred million dollars more than now. Ifhas cost you also millions of men. Butfor this curse, Virginia had bccii as*populous as New York, as rich inwealth and intelligence; without thisShe free men of the South must haveincreased as rapidly as in the North,.nod at this day, perhaps five-and-twenty million men w >uld rejoice attheir welfare in the United States.—Slavery retards Industry in all itsforms; the Education of the people inall its forms, intellectual moral and re-ligious. It hinders the application ofthose great political ideas of America;hinJcrs the development of mankind,the organization of the rights of manin a worthy slate, society or church.—Such effect* are the Divine sentenceagainst the cause thereof.

It is not for me to. point out the re-medy for the evil, and show how it canbe applied; that is the work for thosemen you dignify with place and power.I pretend not to give you counsel here,only to tell the warning truth. Willyou say, that in the free Slates alsothere is oppression, ignorance, andwant and crime? ’Tin true, llut anexcuse, specious and popular, for itscontinuation, is this: that the evils otslavery are so much worse, men willnot meddle with the less till the greateris removed. Men are so wonted tothis monstrous wrong, they cannot seethe little wrongs with which modernsociety is full; evils which are littleonly when compared to that. Whenthis shame of the nation is wiped off,it will be easy, seeing more clearly, toredress the minor ills ot ignorance,want crime. But there is onebright thing connected with this wrong.I mean the heroism which wars againstit with pure hands; historic times haveseen no chivalry so heroic.

Not long ago, Europe and the whole{Christian world rung with indignationat the outrage said to he offered by theRussian government to some Polishnuns who were torn from their homes,driven from place to place, brutallybeaten, and vexed with continual tor-ments. Be the story false or true, theears of men tingled at the tale. Butnot one of the nuns was sold. Thosewrongs committed against a few de-fenceless women are doubled, treblediu America, and here continually ap-plied to thousands of American women.I bis is no iiction; a plain fact, and no-torious; but whose ears tingle? Is itworse to übusc a few white women iuRussia, than a nation of black womenin America? Is that worse for a Euro-pean than this for the democratic re-publicans of America? The truth mustbe spoken; the voice of the bondman’sblood cries out to God against us; Jiisjustice shall make reply. How canAmerica ask mercy, who has neverahowu it there?

Civilization extends everywhere: theRussian aud the Hotentot feel its influ-ence. Christian men send the Bible toevery island in the Pacific sea. Plentybecomes general; famine but rare.—The arts advance, the useful, the beau-tiful,,with rapid steps. Machines beginto dispense with human drudgeryComforts get distributed through, theirinfluence, more widely than ancientbenefactors dared to dream. What*«rc luxuries to our fathers, attainable

only by the rich, now find their way tthe humble home. War—the old demon which once possessed each etroo|nation, making it deaf and blind, buyet exceeding tierce, so that no feebleone could pass near and be safe—Wais losing his hold of the human racethe Devil getting cast out by the tingeof God. The nay of Peace begins tidawn upon mankind, wandering soin darkness, and watching for thahappy star. Science, Letters, Religionbreak down the barriers betwixt mat

and man, ’twixt class and class. Tinobstacles which severed nations oncf

now join them. Trade mediates be-tween land and land—the gold enteringwhere steel could never force its way,New powers are developed to hastenthe humanizing work; they post o’etland and ocean without rest, or serveour bidding while they stand and wait.The very lightning cornea down, iscaught, and made the errand-boy of thenations. Steamships are shooting acrossthe ocean, weaving East and West inone united web. The soldier yields tothe merchant. The man-child of theold world, young but strong, carriesbread to his father in the hour of need.The ambassadors of Science, lettersand arts, come from the Old World toreside near the court of the New, tell-ing truth for the common welfare of all.The Genius of America sends also itsfirst fruits and a scion of its own greentree, a token of future blessings, to theparent land. These thiugs help thegreat synthesis of the human race, thereign of peace on earth, of good-willamongst all men.

Everywhere in the old world thepoor, the ignorant, the oppressed, getlooked after as never before. The heroof force is falling behind the times; thehero of thought, of love, is felt to de-serve the homage of mankind. ThePope of Rome himself essays the re-formation of Italy; the King of Den-mark sets free the slaves in his domin-ions, East and West; the Russian Em-peror liberates his serfs from the milderbondage of the Sclavonian race; hisbrother monarch ofTuikeywill haveno slave-market in the Mahometan me-tropolis, no shambles there for humanflesh; the Bey of Tunis cannot hear aslave; it grieves his Islamitish heart,swarthy African though he be.

Vet amid all this continual advance,America, the tirst of the foremost na-tions to proclaim, equality and humanrights inborn with all; the first con-fessedly to form a State on Nature’sLaw America restores barbarism;will hold slaves. More despotic thanRussia, more barbarous thanlaid of Barbary, she establishes feroci-ty by federal law softeriog Ienough amongst the weak and poor inthe cities of the free laborious North.England has her misery patent to the;eye, und Ireland her looped and win-dowed raggedness, her lean and brutalwant. So it is everywhere; there issadness amid all the splendors of mo-dern science and civilization, thoughfar less than ever before. But amidstthe ills of Christendom, the saddestand most ghastly spectacle on earthis American slavery. The misery ofthe old world grows less and less; themonster-vice of America, to make it-self more awful yet, must drag yourcamion to invade new lauds.

I have addressed you as citizens,members of the State. I cannot forgetthat you are men; are members of thegreat brotherhood of man,the one and blessed God, whose equallove has only made to bless us all, whowill not softer wrong to pass withoutits due. Think of the nation’s deed,done continually and afresh. God shallhear the voice of your brother’s blood,long crying from the ground; His Jus-tice asks you even uow, America,whereis thy brother? This is the answerwhich America must give: “Lo, he isthere in the rice swainps'df the South,in her fields teeming with cotton andthe luxuriant cane. He was weak andI seized him; naked and I bound him;ignorant, poor and savage, and I over-:mastered him. I laid on his feebler'shoulders my grievous yoke. I havechained him with my fetters; beat himwith my whip. Other tyrants had do-minion over him, but my finger wasthicker than their loins. I have brandedthe mark of my power, with red-hotiron, upon his human flesh. I am fedwith his toil; fat, voluptuous on hissweat, and tears, and blood. I stole thefather, stole also the sons, and set themto toil; his wife and daughters are a Ipleasant spoil to me. Behold thechildren also of thy servant and hishandmaidens —sons swarthier thantheir sire. Askest Thou for the Afri-can? I found him a barbarian. I havemade him a beast. Lo, there thou hftrtwhat is thine.”

That Voice shall speak again:“America, why dost thou use himthus—thine equal, born with rights the isame as thine?” ;

America may answer :“Lord I!knew not that the negro had a right to*

treedom. I rejoiced to eat the labors ofthe slave; my great men, North andSouth, they told me slavery was nowrong; 1 knew no better, but believedtheir word tor they are great, O Lord,and excellent.” V

The same Voice may answer yetagain, quoting the nation’s earliest and*most patriotic words: ‘“Allmen are!created equal, and endowed by theirCreator with unalienable rights —theright to life, to liberty, and the pursuitof happiness.’ America, what furtherfalsehood wilt thou speak ? ”

The Nation may reply again: “TrueLord, ail that is writtea in the nation’screed, writ by my greatest spirits intheir greatest bour.#

But since then,why, holy men have come and told mein thy name that slavery was good'was right; Thou thyself didst once

establish it oa earth, and He who spoketbjr wards, spoka naught against thisthing. 1 have believed these men, forthe/ are hoi/ men, O Lord, and excel-lent.

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Then nnv the judge of all theearth take down the Gospel from thepulpit's desk, and read these few plainwords; “Thou shah love the Lord thyGod with alt thy heart ; and thou shahlove thy neighbor Us thyself Whatso-ever y« would that others should do toyou, do also even so to them. ”

further might be speak, and say:“While the poor Mussulman, whomthou call'st Pagan and shuts’t oat fromHeaven—sets free all men, how muchmore art thou thyself condemned; yea,by the Bible which thou sendee! to theoutcasts of the world? ”

Across the Stage ofTime the nationspass in the solemn pomp or their his-torical procession; what kingly formssweep by, leading the nations of thepast, the present age! Let them pass—their mingled good and ill. A greatpeople now comes forth, the newest-born of nations, the latest hope of man-kind, the heir of sixty centuries— thebridegroom of the virgin West. Firstcome those Pilgrims, few and far be-tween, who knelt on the sands of awilderness, whose depth they knew not,nor yet its prophecy, who meeklytrusting in

atheir God, in want and war,

but wanting not in faith„laid with theirprayers the deep foundation of the sfateand church. Then follow more majes-tic men, bringing great truths for allmankind, seized from the heaven ofthought, or caught, ground-lightning,rushing from the earth; and on theirbanners have they writ these words:Equality and inborn rights. Thencomes the one with venerable face,whoruled alike the Senate and the Camp,and at whose feet the attendantyears spread garlands, laurel-wreaths,calling him First in War, and Frst inpeace, and first in his Country’s Heart,as it in his. Then follow men bear-ing tho first fruits of our toil, the wealthof sea and land, the labors of the loom,the stores of commerce and the arts.—A happy people comes, some with shutBibles in their hands, some with thenation's laws, some uttering thosemighty truths which God has writ onman, and men have copied into goldenwords. Then comes, to close this longhistoric pomp,—the panorama of theworld—the Negro Slave, bought, brand-ed, beat.

I remain your fellow-citizen andfriend,

'THEODORE PARKER.Boston, Dec. 22, 1847. **•

§ uPrejudice against color! Pray tell

us ir/i«< color? Black? brown? coppercolor? yellow? tawny? or olive? Nat-ive Americans ofall these colors every-where experience hourly indignities atthe hands of persons claiming to bewhite. Now, is all this for color'ssake ? If so, which of these colo'rs ex-cites such commotion in those sallow-skinned Americans who call themselveswhite? Is it black? When did theybegin to be so horrified at black? Wasit before black stocks came into fashion?black coats? black vests? Mack hats?black walking canes? black reticules?black umbrellas? black-walnut tables?black ebony picture frames and sculp-tural decorations? black eyes, hair andwhiskers ? bright black shoes, and glos-sy black horses? How this Americancolorphobia would have lashed itselfinto a foam at the sight of the celebratedblack goddess Diana, of Ephesus! howit would have gnashed upon the oldstatue, and hacked away at it out ofsheer spite at its color! What exem-plary havoc it would have made of themost celebrated statues of antiquity.Forsooth they were black! their colorwould have been their doom. Thesehalf-white Americans owe the geniusof sculpture a great grudge. She hasso often crossed their path in the hatedcolor, it would (are hard with her ifshewere to fall into their clutches. Bythe way, it would be well for Marshalland other European sculptors to keepa keen look-out upon all Americansvisiting their collections. Americancolorphobia would be untrue to itselfif it did not pitch battle with everyblack statue and bust that came inits way in going the rounds. Ablack Apollo, whatever the symmetryof his proportions, the majesty of hisattitude, or the divinity of his air, wouldmeet with great good fortune if it es-caped mutilation at its hands, or at leastdefilement from its spittle. Ifall foreignartists, whose collections are visited byAmericans, would fence off a corner oftheir galleries for a “negro pew/' andstraightway colonize in thither everyspecimen of ancient and modern artthat is chisgelled or cast in black, itwould be a wise precaution. The onlytolerable substitute for such coloniza-tion would be plenty of wkiteuxuh, whichwould avail little as a peace-offering tobrother Jonathan unless freshly put on:in that case a thick coat of it mightsufficiently placate bis outraged senseof propriety to rescue the finest modelsof art form American Lynch-law: butit would not he bast to presume too for,for colorphobia has no lucid intervals,Uufits on all the time. The anti-blockfeeling, being “a law ofnature, " wuthave want; and ml— H be provided,wherever it gone, with a sort of porta-ble Liberia to scrape the offensivecolor info it twitches and jerks in con-vulsions directly. But stop—this pnti«black passion Ul we are told, “a lawof nature,” and not to be trifled with”Prejudice against color” “a law o!nature!” Forsooth! What a sinneiagainst mmfare old Homer was? Hegees off In oertneiee is his description,Zr «.« t. d.l: ?. -

Ol mo ¦smew- wowpins, praises intii

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THE NORTH STAR.wght is of wo sex—troth is of no coum-ood is the father of os all, and all we are brethren.

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ROCHESTER, N. Y„ FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1848.

» beauty, calls them the favorites of thei gods, and represents all the ancientr divinities as selecting than from all the- nations ef the world as their intimate

coMopameM, the objecUUf their pecu-• lmr complacency. IfHomer had o«iys been indoctrinated into this “lav efi nature,” he would never have insulted" his deities bjr representing them ast making negroes their ctesen associates.* What impious trifling with this sacredi“law** was perpetrated by the oldGreeks, who represented Minerva,their favorite goddess at Wisdom as an

i •Afncan princess, Herodotus pro-i nounces the Ethiopians |he most majes-

tic and beautiful of men. The greatfather of history was fitted to live anddie in the dark, as to this great

“lawof nature!” Why do so many Greek

, and Latin authors adorn with eulogythe beauty and graces of the blackMemnon who served at the siege ofTroy, styling him, in their eulogiums,the son of Aurora? Ignorsmuses! Theyknew nothing of this great “law of na-ture. How little reverence for thissublime “law”had Solon, Pythagoras,Plato, and those other master spirits ofancient Greece, who, in their pilgrim-age after knowledge, went to Ethiopiaand Egypt, and sat at the feet of blackphilosophers to drink in wisdom. Alasfor the multitudes who flocked from allparts of the world to the instructions ofthat negro, Euclid, who three hundredyears before Christ, was at the head ofthe most celebrated mathematical schoolin the world. However learned in the¦ mathematics, they were plainly num-¦ sculls in the “law of nature!”

How little had Antiochus the Greatj the fear of this “ law of nature” beforehis eyes, when he welcomed to hiscourt, with the most signal honors, the

i black African Hannibal; and what animpious perverter of this same law was

i the greafeonquerot of Hannibal, sincehe made the black poet Terence one ofhis most intimate associates and con-fidants. What heathenish darknessbrooded over the early ages of Chris-tianity respecting this divine “law otnature,” when Philip went up into thechariot of the Ethiopian eunuch andsat with him, and when the Spirit ofGod said to him, “Go near and jointhyself to this chariot.” Both grosslyoutraged this “law of nature.” Whata sin of ignorance! The most cele-

, brated fathers of the church, Origen,, Cyprian, Tertullian, Augustine, Cle-

| mens Alexandrinus, and Cyril—whyj were not these black African bishopscolonized into a “negro pew,” whenattending the ecclesiastical councils oitheir day ? Alas, though the sun of

r|gh||oo^3a css. had risen on primitive

ask the age of this law. A lawture, being a part of nature, must beas old as nature: hut perhaps humannature was created by piecemeal, andthis part was overlooked in the earlyeditions, hot supplied in a later revisal.Well, what is the date of the revisededition ? Wc will save our readers thetrouble of fumbling for it, by just say-ing, that this “ law of nature” wasnever heard of till long after the com-mencement of the African slave trade;and that the feeling called “prejudiceagainst color,” has never existed inGreat Britain, France, Spain, Portu-gal, the Italian States, Prussia, Austria,Russia, or in any part of the worldwhere colored persons have not beenheld as slaves. Indeed, in many coun-tries, where multitudes of Africans andtheir descendants have been long heldslaves, no prejudice against color hasever existed. This is the case in Tur-key, Brazil, and Persia. In Brazilthere are more than two millions ofslaves. Yet some of the highest offices'of state are filled by black men. Someof the most distinguished officers in theBrazilian army are blacks and mulat-toes. Colored lawyers and physiciansare found in all parts of the country.Besides this, hundreds of the RomanCatholic clergy are black and coloredmen, these minister to congregationsmade up indiscriminately of blacks andwhites.

A SKETCH FROM REAL LIFE.

On one of those calm moonlightnights in'the month of August, whenthe sun for a while had bid adieu tothis side of the globe, the evening had!closed in all the calm serenity of a|summer’s night, the tremblinghad commenced her nightly task, and,was beautifully wending her way jthrough the still smiling firmament ;above; all was still, save the occa-sional cry of the caty-dids, or the ‘mournful croak of the old frogs. Ex-jtending the eye over the field of na-ture’s beauties, it rests upon a solitaryhut, but almost covered with trees; andat a distance of a hundred yards is astately mansion. Striking is the con-trast between the former and the latter,and equally different are the circum-stances of both. In the former sat anaged man, and by bis side, the com-panion ofbis loneliness, bis wife. Uponan old chest, for they had no table,stood a glimmering lamp. The onlyfurniture they possessed was a mattra**

of straw with a slight covering, onechair and an old bench, on which sat

old Susan, listening with profound, butpainful attention to something relatedby her husband, not very pleasing to

either. To he brief, old John andSusan were riaves. For fifty-five longyearn they ted toiled on the very fiehbyrhirh surrounded them, and bv thesweat of tbetr brows they had' pur-chased for the owner that elegantdomain, and he, with his foimly, were,at the price of the tears, the groans,and the bloodshed of the poor Africans,enjoying It.

But John and Susan were not alone

in this scene ef tritetetk*. God ted

bleated them with • daughter, aa onlydaughter. Unfortunately for her, thepossessed a more than ordinary grace*fa laces of person, and comeliness oflace; aba had a tall easy figure; herfeature* inclined much toward the Eu-ropean; hut her eye! her dark expres-sive eye,• told the gaaer a lofty spiritdwelt within; but her aka was slightlytinged with the African, and this wasenough for the prejudiced world, ifshehad an intellect like Socrates, or aspark like Joan of Arc; still she was aslave, and therefore unworthy ofnotice.

Time passed on, and the girl wascalled from the field to the polisheddressing-room of her mistress. Herbrain was of that kind which needsbut little cukivatfrm, and in course oftime, she managed to gather a gooddeal of what the world calls refine-ment; and this improvement did notpass unnoticed by her mistress, andshe began to dread that her maidmight excel her. The consequencewas, that envy, jealousy and hatred,took possession of her mistress' mind,and fell without mercy on the head ofthe unfortunate victim.

" I shaj! sell her,” said she in a9tcm voice to her husband; she is en-tirely too interesting for a nigger. Ishall sell her, and let her take herchance in the southern market.” Didthe proud spirit of that girl quail underthis awful sentence? Not a nerve wasunstrung, not a muscle distorted; buta tear gathered in her keen eye, andfell upon her work.

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'She knew the face before her; she

knew she must be torn from her agedparents, which was worse than death.This was a dreary prospect, a darkpicture to look upon.

All retired, and she to her lonelybed, but not to sleep; and before an-other sun had risen, she had vowedshe would be free.

It was necessary to see the com-panions of her suffering, her father andmother. Could she leave them to themercy of her enraged pursuers? Couldshe bear the thought to have them sus-pended between heaven and earth,with all the infirmities of old age, toendure the infliction of the cruel whip,for being accomplices in her flight?This was a test she could not stand.

‘Twas past midnight, and all was still!Site crept from her bed and slowlywended her way along the dark passagewhich led to the outer door. At lastshe reached it, and it was not long be-fore she stood in the open air, and in afew moments more she stood at herfather's door. “Mother,” said she ina low voice, trembling w.th emotion,“mother, open the door,” and in trem-Miog ike doorw* opened, butthe young girt was unable to speak;feelings which no pen can write, chokedher utterance, and she sank upon theirbed ofstraw and wept aloud. The agedpair seemed panic struck, to see herat such an untimely hour; but whenthe young girl had gained her self-pos-session she told them her determinationto fly with them to some place of shel-ter bef >re she should be separated fromthem forever. Who would sooth yourdying pillow when lam gone? No, myfather, my mother, you shall not die inthis, dark, damp hovel, but I will bythe work of roy hands procure youcomfort.

Finally, it was arranged; she shouldmeet them at midnight, and a small boatwould bear them on the bosom of thegreat waters at least a distance of 25miles.

She left them and reached once moreher bed in safety. But no sleep closedher eyes till the signal for rising wasgiven, and she heard the angry voiceof her misstressgive her orders, but sheheeded it not, and consoled herself withthe idea that to-morrow she should befree. It was a dark cloudy day, unu-sually so for that season of the year.

Night closed in with all the appear-ance of a storm, but she was not dis-couraged. Accordingly she rose, tookno clothing save those she wore; listen-ed attentively, ail was still save thehowling tempest; the hour had nearlycome, when slowly and cautiously shedescended the stairs, groped her wayalong the dark passage; a thousandapprehensions crossed her mind; wouldthey expect her on such a night? wouldthe little boat ever live on such a trou-bled water? who would shelter them ifthey should ever reach the shore ? Thiswas a trial, but she conquered it, and ina few moments more stood in the pelt-ing rain, and she reached the but insafety. But what was her dismay whenshe found nothing prepared. Theyhad never dreamed she would ventureon such a night; but she urged and en-couraged them, and in fifteen minutesthey were on the beach. By the timethe fugitives got a little distance fromthe land, the thunder reared loudertbau ever, sod the awful gleam mgs oflightning seemed to threaten ire atevery stroke; every wave seemed todrive them nearer and nearer the shore.In vain labored their weary oars; theboat lay and suffered k rsetf to be toss-ed to and fro at the pleasure of the rest-

less water.

The inmates of the great house werearoused from their slumbers by thebowling of the tempest, and die mis-tress of that house called her maid tobring a fight, but she answered not.She procured n Kght, when to hetamazement and hnrrur the gtrt lotfled. In flve minutes every sari is flu

had hidden tram the rage of her mistreat. An instant search was made itthe hovel ofold John, bat they had fie<also, and the eye of the mistress w«instantly on the water, and by the beltof the vividflashes offigbtniag espied !feeble bent occupied by the three.

“There they art,** said she, kfiendish light ;

** now to the heal

aa4 we shall sow slap their trouble-some jouiocy .

Fhre stout hearted men stood andtrembled on the beach to enter thatawfb! conflict. None dared to venture.The/ returned and told the ator/ ; itwas impossible to take them. But theorder was to bring them or perish withthem—According!/ three in one boataad two in another left the shore; theformer straggled until within one hun-dred feet of that littleboat, and anotherplunge would blast all the hopes of thatbrave girl. But a strange commotionof the element shook aad shattered thearmed boat till two of the personssank to rise no more, and tbs rsinntn-ing one left them to their fate.

Finally, the/ reach a shelter, sodthat daughter, by her amiable dispo-sition and industrious habits, foundman/ friends, who enabled bar to sup-port her aged parents, proved a bless-ing to the society in which she stood,and willvery likely, in the day of ac-counts, stand among those who havecome out of great tribulation.—.VctrJtrety Freeman.

A SCENE IN CONGRESS.

THE CArTURED NEGROES.

On Sunday morning, the captain of awood-boat, the Pearl, left the wharf inthis city, taking with him about eightyslaves belonging to persons in Wash-ington and Georgetown, in this District.On Monday morning at two o'clock, thefugitives, black and white, were captur-ed at the mouth of the Potomac, a hun-dred and ten miles from the city; andthis morning the steamer Salem, whichwent in pursuit, brought them into port.They are now lodged in jail to awaitjudicial proceedings.

After the transaction of preliminarybusiness, Mr. Giddings of Ohio, arose,holding in his hand a resolution, whichhe was extremely anxious to offer.—“Read it, for information," cried one;“No, no," said another, and “1 object,"said Mr. Mead, of Virginia.

The Clerk cleared his throat pre-iparatory to reading the resolution.

The S|>eaker —The Clerk will for-jhear until the House come to order.—Members willbe good enough to taketheir seats. (Knock, knock.)

Mr. Mead—l object to the resolution.Mr. Holmes, of South Carolina—

Let’s hear it read.Mr. Mead—l don't want to hear it

read. (“ W'bat is it about ?”)The Speaker—-The gentleman from

Virginia object*. He has a right todo this, in accordance with'a strict rule.By the uniform courtesy of the House,however, when a member has asked forpermission to have a resolution read,general consent has been given, for in-formation merely. But if the gentle-man persists, the resolution cannot beread.

Mr. Mead—lf the resolution has norelation to slavery (laughter), then itmay be read. (Ha! ha! and a voice,“Oh! Mead, let it be read.")

The Speaker—ls the objection with-drawn? (“ Yes," “no.")

Mr. Mead—At the suggestion offriends, I willwithdraw the objection,merely that the resolution may be read,nothing more. (“ That's right.")

The Clerk then read as follows“ Whereas, more than eighty men,

woipen, and children are said to be nowconfined in the prison of the District of;Columbia, without being charged withcrime, or of any impropriety other thanjan attempt to enjoy that liberty for which iour fathers encountered toil, suffering,and death itself, and for which the peo-;pie of many European governments arenow struggling.—Apd whereas saidprison was erected and is now sustained jby funds contributed by the free as wellas the slave States, and is under the !control of the laws and officers of theUnited States. And whereas suchpractice is derogatory (o oar nationalcharacter, incompatible with the dutyof a civilized and Christian people, andunworthy ofbeing sustained by an Ame-rican Congress. Therefore, be it

“Resolved, That a select committeeof five members of this body be appoint- •

ed to enquire into it and report to thisHouse, by what authority said prison jis used for the purpose ofconfining per-sons who have attempted to escape fromslavery, with leave to report what leg-islation is proper in regard to said prac-tice.

“Resolved, further, That said com-mittee be authorised to send for per-sons and papers."

The Speaker—Unanimous consent isjasked to introduce the resolution. (“1!object.")

Mr. Holmes, ofSouth Carolina, (wasunderstood to say) —l would propose anamendment, whether the scoundrelswho helped the negroes to escape oughtnot to be hanged? (“ Oh, no.")

Mr. Giddings^—Mr. Speaker—The Speaker.—The gentleman from

Ohio is not in order.Thus endetb the morning’s lesson on

the “charming boys. ”An hour was appropriated to reports

fa™*rtunding committees.—A*. Y. Her-

Law*stive's Resemblance to Bv-«wr.—ln appearance, Lamartine hassomething that recalls Byron; the samebeauty of feature aad expression, thesama habits of elegance and dandyism;

carriage. If yen add to this, to com-toe resemblance, the retinue of a

hfivtifallrhiiisi*qm^ww*gaaaU!^* on>

you will eoaelude, cSuSTiSimetbe epochof Tasso and Cssmsss, times havesvmewhm changed, aad that k m fea-sible now a days, to he an eminentpoet, without dying in the hospital.—texteg ChmrmcUrt of Front*.

WILLIAMG. SELL. Pnuau.JOHN DICK. PftmTCft.

WHOLE NO—XIX.

WO* OLD ALTAMOXTI

. J*»«hiagtoo Saturday K«aibaa the following artier of a vary iatercsrmg reKe ot a past age:

" l>M»d, in this city, on the £2d teal.,Altamont, a colored man, in the Mthyear of his age. During the old man'slong life, his character was proverbialfor stern integrity and fidelity; andthere is something romantic in bis his-tory He was oiiginaily the propertyof Lawrence Washington, of KinaGeorge county, Virgin, nephew 3General Washington. When the Rev-olution broke out, Altamont was givesto Colonel George Washington, andwgs with bis young master ui ail thaleading battles in the South, endingwith the scige of Yorktown. Subse-quently be became the property of Dr.Barry, and went with that gentleman tcTennessee, where he was liberated foihis good conduct. Having lost ht<wile and children, he expressed a de-sire to go hack to Virginia to see hitformer friends and relations, from whoahe had been separated upwards of halla century. The family of Dr. Barrygave the old man an outfit, and Gen.Jackson and other gentlemen of Ten-nessee gave himkind letters, certificatesof moral worth, and with these hasought the home of his childhood; hutwhen he reached it, he found himselflike the poor prisoner liberated fromthe Castile—there was not one humanface, white or black, that recognizedhim, or whom he remembered. Haturned from there to visit Mou t Ver-non, in whose halls he had been an in-mate and attendant. There the scenewas no less distressing. Instead offamiliar faces and joyous hilarity, thatwere wont to mark the spot, all wassad, dreary and desolate. The estatehad gone to waste, and nothing seemedrespected but the tomb of Washington.This was a cruel blow to the old man,and his spirits sunk under the idea thathe alone, of all he had ever known inhis youth, was left alive. He nextcame to this city, where, by accident,he met with a grand-daughter of hisold master, with whom he never tailedto spend one day in each week, to talkof Auld Lang Syne—the only consola-tion left him. Until within the last fewweeks, the old man might have becoseen sitting out at the base of theTreasury building, with a basket ofapples and cakes, by the sale of whichhe aided in eking out a scanty subsist-ence; but then he had some staunchfriends here and in Tennessee, whoappreciated his worth, and whosekindness lie remembered in his dyingmoments.

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“Tribute tor the N o o.”—Re-ferring to the advertisement on lastpage of our cover, it affords us plea-sure to learn, that so much interest hasalready been manifested in the work,as evinced by the numerous list of Sub-scribers which we have seen; many ofthem conspicuous characters in thawalks of benevolence and philanthropy.The esteemed author, we understand,has just received, in MS., for insertion,a very interesting account drawn upexpressly for the work, by a Friend inLondon, ot an African Prince whosometime resided under h s roof, as alsowith another Philanthropist in thaMetropolis. It is written in a veryinteresting manner from notes made atthe time of his visit. Amidst thovarious attempts which have been madoto depreciate the African character, byexhibiting it as incapbic of improve—-itent, this narrative atfords a strikingevidence of an opposite nature; audihows, that whether their influence be;ood or evil, circumstances operate noess powerfully on the sable inhabitantsif a tropical clime, than on the nativesif more temperate latitudes. He hasilso received a letter from CaptainWauchope, R. N., who, in 1«37,commanded the Queen’s Frigate,Thalia, on the West Coast of Africa;tending for insertion in the “Tribute,”tome account of a negro of remarkableintelligence, whose conduct and coo-vernation much surprised him. Tenpears previous to tho time of CaptainWauchope’» seeing him, this veryN’egro was in the Hold tf a slater.Captain W. concludes his letter bytaying, ” I believe few European intel-lects would have made such a stride, into short a space of time.” We trustFriends will promptly forward theirnames to the Author, and tbercbvpromote the success of his laudableeffort to vindicate the negro chancier.British Friend .”

The Tex Hour Bm..—This bill,which has been under discussion forsome time in tlie legislature, was de-feated in the House on Thursday. As• general thing, there should be in this,as in almost everything else, fret trade,letting the number of hours be a ape-cial agreement between employer andworkmen. There should, however beaoroe limit, where no such agreement ismade, so that the needy may not becompelled to submit to the exactions ofselfish taskmasters. Ten hours' faith-ful labor in the twenty-four is eoougbfor any man; the remainder should bedevoted to sleep and study. Give ourmechanics and working men geoerallvan opportunity of cultivating ike aW,as well as exercising the muuUs, inin order that the nation may beceasestore virtuous end enlightened# NoMS should be required to work morethan ten bones, except to extraordinarycases.— B. D. Alt.

Ncwtrsreas.—The newspaper as alaw-book for the ignorant, a sermonfor the thongfafteea, a library for thepoor; it may rtimeUte the ax* iod.f-foraat, and instruct the most learned.