Selections: The Hon. Richard D. Davis

This gentleman representa in Oongress Iho district composed of Dutchess and Putnam Counties, New York; and has been considered something of an nbohtionist. Bot it appears that Jikc most mere politiciana he wijl trucklO to any inñuence from which he thinks he can derive any advantage, whetber principie i sncriiiced ar not. Bead what lie snid iwo years Ugo, and compare it with what he Knys now. uThe base dough-faced truofeling. of out northcrn men to the South,galls and mortifiea me more than I dare crpress; and if the people of the North could but know the deep nnd indignity which Southern arrogancO impones on the North, they vvould nevei send ini) hero lo tolérate it, nnd befbre l will sanction by my voice, and vote that Llst rule, or ony other a;?sumpthn over the North, I will break forty Unions jnto fragments, and rejoicennd gloryintlieact. i, We have yielded too mnch ond too long to the South. It ia time, high and full tune, for the free States ta us--ert tlieir rights in the Uaiou, and to infiexr ibly. maintain thom." A few daya since, in the cotirsc of the öebate in the House, on the petition of the negro imprisioned in the District of ColumUia o ptispicion of being a slavo and, filthoog-.h free, liabíe by a law of Conress, to be-eold intöslavery for hls jnilfees! Mr. Davis was tannted by Gen. R. M. Sáunders, a North Carolina slaveholding democrat, with being en obolitionist. Mr. Davis denied the chirge and adiled : 'It was impossihlcfor tlie JVorth to be rñ favor of Aholiïion, because if the negroes wero liberated they would overrun the free Stat9, which would prove fh'e grentest cnlamity thal conl'd h'-fall ihem. Jftlie S lave States tser e to abolí sk Slavenf, he tcovld he i favor of animmcdiaie dissoluiion of (he Union rather than cncounter s'jch a curse ns being overrunwith nogroRH. Yrs.Tmmediate Abolition would bo a signul Por final ilisolntion on the part of tho Norther Stntos; if it should ever take ploce ife must be gradual, or that population would fall upon Ihem, and thcir poor-honpea wonld b filled with tliiá c'ass of people. As much 83 ha prized the Union, he did not heaifaie to declare that liejicould rather see it dissohed than to fncovntcr the effects of immediale Abolition of Slavery. He was no Abolitionist, and he wnived Southern gentlemen to divest thensselvesof all opprehensions on iuis subject, bcvcause he assured them that it was not to tbe interest of tho North to havo this nopuiation let looso upon them. Truc, he did not fjret that Slavery bad been abolisheciti thü