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Day
4
Month
November
Year
1844
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Public Domain
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When persons write for newspapers, it is a good ruleto omit all prefnces and introductions, and state precisely what you wish to say, in the plainest and simplest terms you can use. Throw away all far fetched figures of rhetoric, and teil your thoughts. If you have any difficulty to know what to say, hold a dialogue with yourself, as Dr. Waylond.did. When perplexed to know what to write, it is said that his manner was to ask himself, - "Francis Wayland, what do you want tosay?" "Why, I wish to say this or that," naming the proposition in his mind. " Well, ihen, say it," was his rcply to himself. It was good advice, and his writings show that he practised upon it,'with advantage. (tj?0 A correspondent of the Rochester Democrat, (Dawson's Whig paper,) has a detailed conversation hetween Mr. Birney and his nephew, Mr. Fitzhugh, related by the latter to the writer between Flinl and Sagina w, in which Mr. Birney told Mr. F. that he was not in faver of the present Tariff- that he was in favor of Free Trade. and that he considered the Annexation of Texas the surest and most efFectual way of getling rid of slavery. This is all false - made out of whole cloth. Mr. Birney's sentiments on Texas are well known. On the Tariff, he expressed himself thus in a letter to Mr. Errett, as published in the Signal a few weeks since:"I am opposcd to all rash legislation, or to violent changes in the existing or der of things, when lauful interestsbave become implicated with it. Were I now a member of Congress, I should oppose ihe repeal of the present tarifF, before it was fairl y and fully tried. If it should be found to work well for the country, and the country generally were satisfied with it, I should continue to support it. ín this case my theory would be proved false by facts - against which i.o theory ought to be maintamed. But should it work ill for the country, and thero should be a growing discontent with it, I should favor its reduction to the revenue standard - but so generally that all the inierests involved in it might in the highest possible degree, be snved from loss." "A tarifffor revense to meet the ordinary expendituresof the government. wil) have to be the rule. This once seïtled, should occasions arise demanding extraordinary expenditures, the people wil] cheerfully consent to higher dutics to meet fhë exigency. But higher duties than are necessnry for revenue, wil] never, I apprehend, become the permanent policy of the country." 05 The coloree] people of New York held Uieir fifth annual Convention at Scheneclady, on the 13ih, 19ih and 20th of September.- The object s ro obtain equa] polit:cal privileges, and to tnke measures for elevaling the cnndilion of the colored peopiein tlieir moral, intellectnal and social relations. In a report on this occasion, we are happy lo find the opinión advanced, that the cojored people,both as mechanics and farmer can do much belter for tliemselves in the country than in thecit ies. The prejudice against them, after thcir charoctersare once kuown, is less violent tlian n the cities; and the mnn of property, inlellig-ence, nnd moral wornl worth, wbatever be hi (iescenl, will bc esteemed by his neighbors for very neorly what he is wnrth.(Lr Mrs. Cillcy, the widow of ihe Jate Jonathan Cilley, of Mnine, who feil n the du el with Graves, died ecently at Thomaston, Maine. Her health lias doclined ever since the death of herhusband. Grave?, who killed him, heada the WliL Electoral ticket o( Kentucky, and will doubllss. givenn electoral vote for Mr. Cluy, who wrole the f alai challenge! fcf" The Detroit Advertiser says that the Charleston (S. C.) Mercury, haspublished the renunciation of the Liberty party by Robert Edmunds and 23 others of this County. Wonder if they publishedthe exposition of the fraudulent manner in which the names were obtained, and the document got up, as since set forth in the Signal by Mr. Lyon, one of thesigners? Q53 We are happy to find that our new plan of. One Dollar a year, in advance, meets the approbation of all our friends and subscribers. We have not heard a single individual find fault with it. while some are daily paying arrearages, and commencinganew. Asit is now the cheapest paper in the State, we shall do what we can to make it the best. We shall henceforth devote a larger portion to miscellaneous reading. 05 "Thk Hangman," is the startlmg appellation of a new paper about to be comrnenced in Boston by Charles Spear, to be pub'.ished in thirteen numbers. It is to be devoied to the abolition of the punisbment of Death.(X53 There has been quite a f al I of snow in some parts of New 7ork. In LUtle Falle the people went to church in September in si e g lis. {Lƒ= The Abolitionists of the 8th district, Mass., have nominated Gen. Appleton Howe for Congress,. in opposition to J. Q, Adams Q Anson Joños has been etocied President of Texas by a mojority of from eight to thirteen hundred. He is said to be oppscd to I Anncxation. Á at -ni

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