Frederick Douglass

After a tour of twenty monlhs througli llie British Isle=, Döuglass has returned. [Ie wül doubtless consider his manhood more valuabla sincc it bas been purfiased, and he has the receipt in his pocket, and will ivalk our shores wíth a higher feeling of independence ! flowever, he soems not lo be regarded as any less an object of the tyrant'.s hate, and the prejudice of fools, than beforc. On his passage home on the Cambrin, he was meanly exoliided from the berth he hnd paid for, at the first class pfice ; and was never nllowed to enter the saloon, or to est, but alóne. - Cleveland American. CTpThe next Presiden lial election wil] determine whelher Slavery or freodom will triumph. Sinco every slaveholder in Congress has voted agninst the Wilmot Proviso onJ in favor of ihe extensión of Slnvery, and since Jhe queslion vvhe:ler it shall be extended or not is the great queslion which is to absorb all others in the next Presidentinl campaign, the election of a slaveholder by the people, will be claimed ns scttling the question in favor of its extensión, and, it will be extended. Gen. Taylor is the only slaveholder that could be elected. Nor could he be upon the naked question of the extensión of Slavery. His being a slaveholder however isa surïïcient reason to commatid all the votes of the slnve states, and his military exploits, it is exppeted, will blind the eyes of sufficient Northsrn men to elect bina. How guilty are thoie in thu free states who are set as watchmn upon the wall.s of pur polilical Zion, and vet will not warn the people of fipproaohing danger ! How much more guilty nre those who bind doser the bandiige around tho eyes of the'people, and urge ihem on'to the commission of suiciJe upon theirdearest rights ! - O. Truc Dein. (H5 We have receivecl the May num her of the Merald of Truth. We havp nxamined it soine, and like the genera chnracter of the worlc. lts independence of thnught commends it to the reader while the articlesare veil written. Tlierf , howevor, in sotne of ihem, a lendency to a transcendental form of expression.dcrivod from the school of the Fourierile?, which might be well Mtchangéd for plain, old fashioned, Saxon English. If greni conceptions are simple, as Daniel Webster affirms, they can be clothed n simple language, ensy to be understood. The Grand Rapids Eagle comes otil for On. Taylor for President, and James Wright Gordon for Vico President. It flies thess namn at its masthead, tcgeth f-r with a lerrific look ing cannon just belching out its contents. The device is very appropriate. Is not this James Wright Gordon the porson who was run last year as an anüslavery candidaie for Congre.ss - who expressod a great horror of ihe Slave Power, and who was ready to declare, as a genera] principie, tliat ho would support mi slavchoHcr or hts apologist for office V Gen. Taylor will feel himself liighly honorod by running in company with a man of this stamp. Tho Eagïe liaj forgotien to nol ice this posilion of its candidato. We commend it lo the consideration of that paper. IIow will it takc among the slaveholders, think you ? Boston, in 1800, had twenty.five thousand inhabitants: in 1840, one hundred lid fifteen (housand.