Something Strange

Gov. Maltocks,of Vermont, has appoiníed Friday, the fiíth of April, as a day of Fasting and Prayer for the good people of that State; and says in his Proclamation, "Let us pray that God would put into the hearls of the American People to abolish sla very at once and j orever, and to become in all thingsthat happy people whose God is the Lord." Yet while Gov. Mattocks thus prays, and recomrncnds to the people to pray, he intends to vote, and recornménds to the people to vote, for a President, who says: "It is not true, and I rejoice that it is not true. thateither of the two great parttes in this country has any design oraim at abolition. I should deeply lamjsnt it ifit were true." t:I wouíd oppose any scheme of emancipation whatever,whether gradual or immediate." How much will such prayers, accompanied by such action, avail towards abolishingslavery1?(t5 Col. Johnson has written a letter, in which he says he in favor of the annexq#ojn of Texas to the United States, when it shall be in accordance with the wishes of ihe people of both coun tries. flG?0 Read the nrticle on the fourth page, entitled Dr. Brisbane's Freedmen. Rev. J. Bouchers tcslimony as to the manner Methodist ministers treat slaves ís explicit. (JC? A great meeting in favor of the annexation of Texas was called in Philadelphia recent ly,& when thehour arrived, the assembly was found to consist of seven persons, to wit: one lawyer, two reporters, one abolitionist and three annexationists. ffLevi Woodbury.Senator from New Hampshire, says he is not interested in lands or other property in Texas, as has been stated.