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Day
19
Month
February
Year
1844
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The friends of-theslavo in the "Empire State," are doing nobïy. They have eight lecluring agents in the field, in addition to the General Agent, and the Corresponding Secretary, making ten in all. With such a forcé in the field, they will keep the State alive with agitation. Wc have a right to expect great things from New York, where so much zeal and selfdenial are cxhibited by abolitionists. Petitions to Congress for the re.peal of the law of 1793, for catching fugitivo slaves, have been circulated in Onieda county, and more than 5.000 signatures obtained. The names were all attached to one petition, forra ing a roll 108 feet in length, which has been forwarded to Hon. Samuel Beardsley, who has promised to present it. This Mr. Beardsley, who is now at the head of the New York delegation in Congress, was intimately concerned in the rnobbing of the abolitionists at Utica ín 1835 - so it is stated. "To tkis complexion he has come at last!"flTlie Peninsular Star, the Democratie paper of Ingham County, speaks tlnis: "That the coloied race are capable of appreciating the benefits dorived frorn fiee and liberal governments, and tliat liberfy is as svveet, and held as dear and sacred by the man of color ns to those who would enslave hem, is pretty generolly conceded by the democratie party. They entertain as liberal feelmgs for the enslaved African as do the Abolilionists of the present day." If the Editor be correct, the practice of his party gives the lie to their "liberal íeelings." How are thosre "liberal feelings" manifested lowards "the colored race?r' By disüanchising them constitutionally? By taxing them from year to year without representation? - By denyi ng them the legal protection of an oath, as is practised in many States? How do the "Democracy" of the South treat their slave.%? Will the Editor please explain whnt benefit the people of color have from the Democratie principies of their oppressors? - But his position is not true. Were "the abolitionists of the present day" in power as the Dcmocrats now are, the odions legal distinctions of color would be immediately removed, and the true Democratie doctrine ofEqual Political Rigfits would beenforced.OA large araount ofinieresting matter is nece6sarily excluded this week. We shall bring up the news in our next.It must be a heart-rending situation for a to be forcibly led away by a straneer wilh n halter, tVom the side of a kin,d und Ion cheriahed master.- Kalamazoo Gftzctle' No doubt. But how much more iearU ronding' is the situation of a man chained and handcuffed, who is forcibly led awny by a stranger, from every object of carthly affec.. tiun, for no crime, but on account of his öolor! Does the Editor know that such sepárations continually take place in Washington, Uuo the nction of slave dealers who are licensed by the United Stales? Has he ever protested against the cnormity? He manifests feeü ing for dofs ! Will he consider of how much more value is a man than a hrute? Some of the good peop!e of Boston vCre quite scaridalizod because Mr. Tyler attended the Theatro once in that city, ond becausé Governor Morton wae n. theater-gner. Tne thought it n bad example to the youth of the city . The moráis of the people aie not like ly to be improved in this respect by Lhé election of Mr. Clay. When at New Orieana !ate!y, he visited tlueo out of the four Theatres in that city- the American, tfie Chnrles, and the Orleans. Bat this Bareetf perfectly well wilh the other moral charícteristics of Mr. Clay. Some Christinn people speajc of Theatres as "the ont-doors öf Heil," and yet tney wilfpraise, laud, g]0. rify and vote for this patrón of Thealres, Card-playingf, and Duelling.tt?3 Mr. Grkeley, of t.he Tribunp, 3 ajj Editor of u Jibcrul and expanded mind, and barring h is support of Cla and Whiggery, his paper is wel! caículatéd to benefit Ms readers. He is independent-we Jikc that.- The Tribune and the N. Y. Courier and Enqnirer are the antipodes of ench ofher. In refcrence to C. I. Ingorsull's project of gowg to war wïth Brilnin for the posaessjon of Cuba, Grecley says: "O that the pcople- the all sufféring, toxpnyinjr, bulleí-stopping people, oftbis and of all nations, wouid but jnst blow aside the Ilimsy cnrtain on v hich are painied the swindlingf preioxïs Tor mnrder, misnnnicd 'National Honor,' 'Balance of Power,' National Safety: tic. Thpy woull soon leach these wariuciters a talntary dread, if not of liuman misery, at lenst of genera] abkorrence." 0 The ostens'ble reason why the SpeDÍcer of the House of Representatives refused Mr. Leavitt a seat as reporter was, Ihat there were not desks enough - there being but S2, and tliose were all ó'cco'piefl. Perhaps Mr. Lc-aviti's allusion to' '-the óverflowing', everilowing fountain of tobáceo JMice" that proceeds from the Speaker's mouth, had some-. tbin to do with his rejeetion. ttT We are indebted to Hon. J. B. Hunt for Congresional Documenfs. Ann Arbor, Feb 16, 1844. A slight thaw has ruined the t-leighing, bilt t!io wheeling is excellent. Wheat continúes to come in considerably, buyers pnying to daj 6C ceiv.s per bushel. Flour eeU for $3,50.

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