"As Far, Friend Beckley, As You Go To Sustain The North Again...

"As far, friend Beckley, as you go to ustain the North against Southern dictaion and the exercise of an unjust political superiority on account ofslave reprecntation;and so far as you go toameliorate he condition of the slave, and to arrest he tmffic in them, we join you heart and íand. but did it ever occur to you that as he slave is regarded as a species ofproperty - as the Constitution acknowledges he right to hold slaves as property, we can have no more righttosay to theowner of the slave you must part with that pecies of property, than we have to say o him you shall not own your horses and rour cattleï But admitting the right, vould it not be a matter of doubtful poliy, under all circumstances, to give the laves immediately thcir liberty?" - Kalamazoo Gazetíe. We are nt a loss to understand whethr our neighbor o f the Gazette will go vith us against "the exercise of an unjust )olitical superiority on account o? slave epresentation," or against that representation itself,but we conclude that he meant be former, and intendstosustain this speies of property rcpresentation. Are we ight? I f so, hovv does he reconcile the dea of nineteen members in Congress repesenting property in slaves, with his )emocratic creed which denounces all )roperty qualifications for veters? Will ie teil us why the slave property of South Carolina should be represented in Conjress any more than than the oxen3horses, janks or railroadsof Michigan? Will the Editor show in what part of the Constitution, slaves are acknowledged as roperty? We never read any thing like t. The U. S. Supreme Court has ex)ressly decided that property in slaves is not known to the Constitution. Lastly, it sounds very st range to hear Democratie editor - the advocate of uniei'sal freedom - the foe of aíl tyranny nd oppressioñ - asking if it wo uld not )e tt matter of doubtfulpolicy to have all men enjoy liberty now? It seems by this ie is for keep ing a port ion of mankind in lavery some centuries longer! A beauul Democrat he! But what are the evils of immediate emancipatlon? It has taken lace within a century past in perhaps ifty states and nations. In what counry has ít been detrirnental to the moral, religious, social, politica!, finaricial, agricultural, commercial or manufacturíng nterests of the whole people? Will the Gazette name an instance of this kind?Qr The Washington Correspondent jC the Western Citizen writes: "1 have lately heard oí an exceedingly nteresting occurrence in Virginia, and ïaveso much reason to believe it is true, hat I will relate it. It appears that a roung female slave of excellent moral sharacter, received some time ago a most )rutal attack from a young with a base iurpose,when in defense of her chastity(as understood) she inflicted upon him a blow which caused his death! She was arresed, tried, convicted and sentenced to be mng (I think) in March next, and this "or an act which everywhere but in a and of slavery would be regarded asjüsijiable homicide It is said that the owner, deeply aflected by her fate, has petitioned the Governor for a pardon, and ïas intimations that it may be granted on condition of her sale and transportation out of the United States. And it is also said, he has applicd to some well-known philanthropist of the North, wilh a view to her removal to Liberia or Canada,probably the latter place." fijr The mnjoriiy report of the Senate Comnr.iUee on Capital Puoi&hnient ha6 been publisbed. They take the ground that the punishment of death s wrong in itself - tbat it deprives the State of a Citizen - that the inflictign of death is a usurped power of government - that it was rarely enforced by the judicial codes of Greece and Rome - thot advancing civilization has done away wilb tor ture and cruel executions, and now it demandt that capital punishment itself shall cease. In every trial for n capital offence, the sympathy of community leans very strongly towards the accused, and the slightest doubfs are oftcn magnified into reasons sufficient for hi acquittal. The committee touch on the theological part of the question. The first case of murder was commilted under the imiuediate jnriadiction oí Jehovah, and he did not sen tence Cuin to ('eath. The committee refei to the disgusting horrors of a pub'ic execution and to the fact that in many States they now take place only in private, thus destroying one of the principal alledged benefils of capital punishment. Also that mistakes often oc cur i u judicial trials from the want of testimony, from the prejudice of witnessee, an( from their forgetfulness, and after executioi no rcparation can be made cithcr to the hvini, or the dead.