The Case Of Nelson Hatckett, The Refugee Slave, Bids Fa...

[SJTThe ca6e oí Nelson Hatckcti, the refugee slavc, bids fait tö receive thoroughinvcstigation. A memorial froni the colored inhabitants of Canada has been presented to the ministers' in England, and Sir Allen RlacNab assurce the signers it will récéive consideraron froni tlie imperial íarliáment, and a full measure of justicë. Sir Allen addresses these 178 pieceaof runaway property as "my friends," and subscribes himself "your obedient servant.' flA writer in the last State Joürrial offirms that ' 'the Whig PARït" holds the following as one of ts cardinal pnncipleá: 5. We assert the inalienable nght of every human being in these United States, to pelition the National Legislatúre for a redress" of grievances in all matters to which the constilutional competency of thé Congress extends: and that the rule of Cougress respecting the reception of a certain class of petitions known as tbe 21st mie, is a violation of óon Btitutional nnd natural right. It might be well for this wfiter t.ó define -who "fTe" is meant to include. If we reremember rightly, VV. C. Johnson, a whig,xvns the author of the last gag, and some fifty ■whigd voted for it, and it has been established in both Houses by whig votes, and now, jU6t before eleciion, the 2lst mie ia discovetCd to1 be a horrible thjng, and WE, the Whig party hold it to be "a violation of constitutional and ■natural right." Will abolitionists becaught rwith such chaff as this? {L?"The following extract from the Liberrjítor shows to what a degree of dpgradation thcenlire peopleofthe Northare reduced. - Only think of it, and then remember thnt a soulhern petition never yet was refused a icourteous reception. Will the people never wdke up? At the Weymouth meeting Mr. Adama sald that it was hia practice, in order that he might get some of the numerous petitions which were entrusted to his care, on various important subjects, before Congress, to send to the Clerk'ö table all that might happen to be in his possession, '.eaving it for the Speaker of the House (a sla veholder) to say which nf them should be received, and which rejectcd! Sothat northern merchante, manufacturen, farmers, mechanics, &c. may be heard in regard tO their rights or interests, on this degradingondtttön- thnt the object and ehapc of their petiüons be agreeabie to the views of me man and hk a L,. vs-deiver!!