Poetry: Supplication

When on the sad and yearning heart, The clouds of early sorrowfall, Oh! what shall bid their gloomdepart, And lift the spirit from their thralll When 'ïieath the foldin&s of their fall, The lost and beautifii! are laid,- Oh ! who shall answer to the cali By watchful Love in anguish made! When from our daiiy pathslike flowers, Our kindred witlier, one by one, And what shall gild the woruy bours, Or bring again the unshadowed stin To smile all darkeniog scènes uponi - To chase the clouds that round them rise; Recall again each visión gone, And bathe in light the upliftèd skies] "Vfiien, with a shadow o'er ihem fiong % Appear the sear autumnal leaves; And every blast their bougha among Awakens mournful immagcs; What on the lapse of hours like thes-e, Can Earth with all her phantoms fling, When hope hath ceased her meiedies, And folded up her rainbow wing? Is it not svveet when song and (rea m Have passed like sunset's sky of fire;. When Love's false pinions sheds no gleam O'er Pleasure's crushed aud tuneless lyreTo raise with purified de3Ïre The prayer,in earnest supphcation given, Which lifts the imrnortal spirit higher, And antedates the joys of Heaven! 07"What a burning shame for the United Slates to boast of her Democracy, and equal rights, and at the same time by their united suffrage, place a man n office, and clothe him wilh power to reduce to interminable slavery, without ''Judge or Jury," any number of his fellow creatures that his Belfishnesa or caprice may díctate. Read the following facts ponder thern well, and blush for our slavery-ndden country, and talk no more of despotic power in other lands: From the Madison and Ononandaga Abc litionist. Power of llic Marshal in tbc Dis. tiici of Colombia. We opine that o Russia or Constan'.inople the power of the Emperor or the Grand Sultan is not more absolute than thatof the U.S. Marshal. Thia individual has the aulhority to arrest any man who may, in his sight, conform externally to the terms of an adverlisement, which some individual may have handed to him for a ruriaway alave. Now we do not complain that an oiïicer Í8clothed with summary powers in the matter of arrest. He who is suspecied o the commission of a crime may need a long arm to reach him,as the law can onl) guard the rights of it3 members by a quick and searching process. But this can only be justified when the presumpii(:i is ihat crime has been cornmitted. I the law oversteps this boundary it become despolic, and tends in its opcrafion oabsolutism. So f this officer arresta a man by virtue of luw, for np crime, but ior position, he is an agent of tyrrany. Does the luw of Congi;ess, by vvhich this officer is created,and under which authority he acts, empower him to grasp and shut up iojail aman for no crime but an atiempt to secure to hicnself his liberty? Most assuredly. He who goes to the District of Columbia must risk ihe chance ofan arrest at least, for his lïbertis sake. This is the commencement of a process whicli ere it doses, oftimes, strips him of all that he values nnd ends his existence on a slave plantaiion. It is ofien said lliat a single departure from a rule of 'tight, opens the sluice vvays for all evil, anu the truih otlhis proposilion is most cleurly exempli ried in the course pursued by Congress, in clothing a man with a terrible and absolute nuihoiity. We give below soma of the constiluents oí his auihoriiy. l?t. Is the posver of arrest. lie can arrest upon an advertisement without a warrant. 2nd. flecan commii to prison, upnn arrest, for an investigation. 8rd. He is the invcsiigator and and none but he. 4th. He is the adjudicator, that is, ho decides upon thejTaci of the man's answer ing to his advertisement. 5th. He can demand of the impris'med individual, such testimony, in kind and quanlity, as may suil hia caprices. Gih. He is the authorised agent to fced, warm and clothe the individual whilc in durance. 7th. Ho is empowered by law to pet such price upon this food, clothing and fiie, furnisheo, as may suit his avarice. 8th. He is by law authorized to demand that the man pay his ja il fees, in other words, the bill the marshall has filef! in againsl him, or that the marshal shall Uny'e Dowcr to sell him on a given day at public: auction, in the Capítol of the greatest Elepublic in the world. 9th. lie has whetted up to the kecnest edge, his appetite for gold, by being permitted to sell ihe man he has seizcd, for he highest sum possible, aml put the surplus money over and aböye the cancelment of his "bill of fees," into his pocket as a perquisite of office. Reader, put these elements of authority ogether. Weave them, lightly, like Ozer work - spread them over ihe shouliers of one man, and then teil us whciher ie io not a despot - such as conforrns io 'our ic'easof a despot. Give him a suííi:ent sweep and what hinders him from cing a Nero,-and fiddling while the Repiblic burns? Can you teil? Well, dear ;öpd Democrat, this man is the crcaturc f CongresSy and Congress is your crea ure. When willyou coinmence ihe