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1*1 iii 1 im^ii ii f--^mff cy 1 > -' mm --- aa " a;a i'l'ims of the watchman 3n bscription,per year.two dom-aks payable in ince . bat if not paid in advance two dollars will be eh i rge j u;,;:s i r l ai t > ; m i^v r r c,;i l pent insertion coort orders charged erct higher than these rates a liberal dednc li0 b,o those who advertise by the year to 1 he k-htor uiuft be po-t nu '• cabolina watchman for the wal ilim in messrs editors : — being often asked why ,,_.;!, decay ; if you will permit the fol ■■•' me a few reasons or things which no douhl are annually destroying millions the results ol experiments by dr wescott.j j both vegetable and mineral acids act n the bone and enamel ol the teeth i 2 caiis c potash will readily destroy the i v uniting with its animal matter is whose acids have a stronger aftini-l lhe lime of the tooth than for lhe basef ijlh which they combined are decomposed ids acting upon the teeth 4 vegetable substances have no effect upon intil alter fermentation takes place of ihem capable of acelic fermentation 1 lily after this acid is formed 5 animal substances even while in a staler 0 f putrefaction act very tardily if at all upon bone or enamel i vcetic and citric acid so covered the enamel :, forty-eight hours that much ol it is easily re mo ved wilh the finger nail \. tic acid or common vinegar is not only mmon use as a condiment bul is formed in nouth wlienever substances liable lo fer-j ation are suffered lo remain about then teeth or anv considerable length of lime citric acid or lemon juice though less fre-p v brought into contact with the teeth 1 ; on them yet more readily moiic acid or the acid of apples in its con cenlraled state also acts promptly upon theg teetb f muriatic sulphuric and nitric acids though | v diluted soon decompose the leelh — i phes ■are in common 11-e tartrate of potash or cream of tartar . - the enamel very readily raisins corode and destroy lhe enamel and | jve lhe surface of the teeth the appearance ind consistency of chalk su<*ar has no ellect until it undergoes acet 5 ous fermentation i organs endowed with a high degree of vi j talitv resist chemical action by an inexplica ble and all-controling love of life for the watchnjan to the town commissioners gentlemen — i see by an advertisement stuck an the court house door that you are calling jj die attention of persons who may wish to con tract for the hauling of gravel c to repair our streets the lime is fully at hand for your g attention lo the condition of the borough as 5 ihe season approaches when neglect on your i pait may entail some sickness on our citizens § [ will iu all good feeling suggest to you thai \ • he notice should be published iu our paper — hoi one in twenty of our citizens has any know j lhat such propositions for contracts are j in existence 1 have heard some complaint on jj this head — and on lhat account alone make jj this suggestion jj when you commence your operations — be 1 kind enough to turn your eyes away from the i main street for a moment into lhe adjacent a streets for instance in the direction of the 1 methodist church it is well known among ] the inhabitants in lhal quarter and beyond that g our boot-blacking bill is no small matter to sj purse or servant if we desire a decent ap jj pearance and what may bo the condition of i madam's gaiters or misses slippers after a i promanade thereabout : — " by the powers of mud it suits me not lo say j a town pax payer united statics am spain \ i a washington letter ot june 29 in the s philadelphia north american says : the authentic advices from cuba which have now reached here are not calculated lo j encourage the opinion which has been hereto ?, fore chrished that all cause of apprehension | concerning lhe contoy prisoners would be j speedily removed by amicable negotiation — £ no doubt is entertained lhat the spanish fylin-l isler has employed his best otlices lo prevent any collision between the two governments and exerted his influence lo induce the captain 1 general to act a discreet part in reference lo these prisoners but these wise counsels prompted as they doubtless were by honora ble motives on lhe part of mr calderon do not seem to have been respected and the consul oflh united slates has been distinctly in fi formed that these persons cannot be surrender-1 ed because count alcoy has no authority to deliver them up and it is therefore necessary lo await the views of his government it is not to be disguised that the captain general has prevaricated in his statements onl this subject and that his assurances lo capt.fi tatnall captain randolph and others have not been redeemed in good faith the pre-l sent pretence ol the absence of authority lo release the ptisoners is too feeble and lranspa rent to command serious attention the cap tain general has as much power to act in ihis case as he had iu that of rey's and if he fails to exercise it the responsibility will be his — 1 but while this delay is permitted the lives ofi tiie prisoners may be sacrificed by the severity ol iheir incarceration it is already reported that two of lhe number had died from confine ment and other causes whether this state ment be true or false the duly of the govern rnenl is imperative and cannot be slighted hyp any evasion there has been delay enough | alteady and longer protraction would only en courage lhe false impression in cuba lhat thej government was really indifferent to the falel of the prisoners and was prepared to abide by the course of the authorities there in view of this slate of things it has been ' determined to make a positive demand and tos send out an officer ot ihe navy whose reputa-j lion will carry the admonition that the day fori irifiing is over i sincerely hope that ihe ne-i cessily for this movement may be avoided anj lhat the authorities of the island will see the policy of reviewing iheir past course before such an alternative is presented but it must ] he perfectly clear that the president can 1103 longer remain indifferent as it is that silences on the part of the government might be at tended with the most prejudicial results if the next intelligence — which may be ex pected within a few days — does not remove all doubt in regard to the safety and release of the contoy prisoners steps will bo taken which will give 1 ho whole question a very different tmf r a 1 flt t1v a watttim an jl j_1__i_j yili&\_/j_jal 1 il ff ill villtlillle i from hi new fork meraatik guette preservation and resto ration of the sight this is an important matter yet easily by ihis simple rule when the sigtit is too shorf close the eyes press the fingers gently outwardly from the nose across the eyes short sight is caused by ■too great roundness of the eyes and vi ijping them from their inner towards their outer angles flattens them and thus lengthens or extends their angle of vision bat as long sight is caused by the too great flatness ofthe eves passing the an gers or towel from their outward angles inwardly of coarse rounds ihem up and ibus preserves the sight by this simple means all persons can adjust their sight to their liking so as to read without glass t s just as well u ben olj as young the value of ihis knowledge is second only to that of sight bronson is at present the loading pro mulgator of this idea and claims to have discovered it it may be original with him yet it was known long before bron i son's birth the grandfather of a female friend of ihe editor's practised it fifty years ago and by ils means preserved his eye sight so as to lie able to rend line print at lhe age of 78 years and john quincy ! adams in conversation with lawyer ford of lancaster pa who wore glasses jtold him if he would manipulate his eyes j with his fingers from iheir external an tries inwardly he would soon be able to dispense wilh glasses ford tried it and soon restored bis sight perfectly and has since preserved it by the continuance of of this practice on this point lhe phila delphia ledger remarks as follows — phrenological journal restoration of sight — the boston traveller gives some interesting accounts of experiments made by professor branson in removing imperfection of sight produc ed by age or malformation according to the traveller old people have been enabled to lay aside iheir spectacles and people of all ages who sutler from si^ht have been entirely cured the traveller says that prof bronson is the author of these discoveries and that his practice consists entirely in manipulation pro fessor bronson is well known in this and oilier cities as a lecturer upon elocution and has opened a:i office in new york for medical practice upon the eye in which we wish him success but while giving credit lo professor bronson for his oftorts in doing good and while admitting that his method of treat ing the eve is original with himself we do not admit that he was hc first discov erer the very treatment ascribed to bim for restoring decayed sight was dis covered lotitr ago by john quincy adams and successfully practised upon himself this is not the only case in which scien tific men have made the same discovery without any communication with each other dr franklin in philadelphia and dv ingenhouse in st petersburg without any knowledge of each other m ide simul taneous discoveries iu electricity there fore we do not wonder at professor bran son's discovery concerning the eyes with out any bint from mr adams who had long previously made lhe discovery mr adams did not communicate his discovery to the world but mentioned it incidentally and as of no great importance to two or three friends in the course of bis life we certainly wonder at him and them for not perceiving its general utility mr adams never wore specticles his sight enduring to the last vet those who re membered bim in private conversation — may remember his habit while listening of manipulating his eyes with his fingers by passing them gently over the surface from the external to ihe internal angle the decay of sight that is remedied by corner spectacles is caused by the gradu al absorption of lhe humors or relaxation of the coats rendering the transparent cornea less convex the manipulation of gentle pressure perhaps by stimulating t lie coats and thereby causing them to contract restores the original convexity and subsequently lhe original perfection of sight in rubbing or wining the eyes we naturally pass ihe hand or towel over the convex surface from the internal to the external angle this deminisbes the convexity and thus promotes the decay of sight and therefore should be carefully avoided the pressure whether in wi ping or manipulating shoul i proceed in eyes originally perfect from the external to the internal angle s/tort sight rcmi died by concave glasses is caused by un due convexity of lhe externa cornea whether congenital or caused by disease in this case all wiping rubbing or man ipulation should proceed from lhe inter nal to the external angle the reverse of tlhe motion necessary iu the ca-e first mentioned in manipulation care must be taken against too hard rubbing or continued too long which may develope linflamation the same female friend mentioned above has been troubled for years with a spontaneous weeping of one of her eyes which she h -.-. entirely cured by rubbing an 1 wiping her eyes when she washes inu:ardly she also now reads fine print whereas before she was unable to do fso this subject will of course commend itself to the practical trials of all who may be suffering from imperfect sight or iwenk eyes what is a coquette .' — a young lady of more beauty than sense more accomplish ments than learning more charms of per son than graces of mind more admirers than friends more fools than wise meu flbr attendants ! i excellence is providentially beyond the r reach of indolence that success may be the reward of industry and that idleness maj be punished with obscurity and dis fei ace bruner & james ) /> " keep a check r?ox all your editors 4 proprietors ) rotors ( new series du this and libert v is safe '. gen'l harrison ( volume vii number 10 aspect from what it has heretofore assumed ; and these proceedings may lie precipitated by a movement in congress it is absurd lo sup pose lhat this government will protract t lio : execution of its purpose until the views ofthe cabinet at madrid cud be understood ourj rights are prescribed under the public law and ihey can neither be postponed or restricted by any considerations of expediency public du ly and popular sentiment alike demand lhat the administration should immediately insist upon lhe release of the american citizens captured ii contoy and ihe indications in the british parliament and press in reference lo lhe cu ban question enjoin the performance of this july so promptly and sternly thai european na j ions may understand how little the threals ot j ombination against the united slates are re • peeled the washington correspondent of the phil idelphia north american under date of 29th ill says : il is satisfactorily established that the lead 1 rs of the cuban expedition procured the arms ivhich were used from the slate arsenal of louisiana and with the knowledge if not with hi complicity of some of the highest func ionaries of the state the president has de ermined lhat the law shall be rigidly enforced tgainst all such persons and particularly a 5a in st those high in authority who have con ributed the influence of their character and losilions to complicate the fiiendly relations of he government by outraging its laws and vio ating its solemn treaties when lhe aulhori iea of a sovereign stale so far forget what is ilie lo public honor and integrity as they ap ear to have done in the present case ihey should be instructed under the penalties of lhat justice which they have wilfully offended — there is reason to believe that some of the • distinguished participators in this expedition will lie indicted in the city of new york the president is much more anxious to punish the irompters and managers ofthe movement than he deluded victims of their selfish schemes ll texas attempts to send an armed force nlo new mexico for lhe purpose of seizing he territory ofthe united stales under a pre elision of title and of driving off the united states troops it will be answered with a stein ebuke gen taylor has made no threat — fje has recommended forbearance and direct d the military officers not to interfere there ire other duties however which an armed de nonslration on the part of texas would call nlo requisition and the president is not the nan to shrink from any obligation which his uilh of office enjoins george p fisher esq of baltimore was manimously confirmed as brazilian commis sioner and p n searle esq as secretary if the board from the raleigh times treasonable call on governor manly on lhe 2:3-1 of january last the democratic irgan the raleigh standard issued the follow ng manifesto to gov manly mark the ma csty of lhe language — as though to this edit ir were committed in special charge the des inies of north carolina and all power over he governor " the legislature or his coun cil — to convene either at his command ! — or 0 issue his proclamation to the people to ap luint delegates to the nashville convention : " we suggested last week as our readers nay remember that one delegate be appointed o nashville by one party and another by the ilher parly and that the people should then hoose nine more — one from each congres • ional district if ive cannot do belter we are till in favor of this plan ; — but it strikes us most orcibly that it is important to the character of lhe jommonwealih for various reasons that we should have if at all practicable authoritative state action on the subject we therefore llvll upon gov manly eiiher to convene the legislature or his council or to issue his proclamation to the people advising ihem off he dangers which impend over them and sug [ jesting to them the propriety and importance f appointing delegates lo the nashville con j eniion we should prefer lo see the l p gis»j ature assembled ; but it serious objections should exist to that in the governor's mind or f lie should think any portion of the people aould object to the expense to be incurred le p him call his council together and letj hat body lake such steps as he and they may udge proper and if neither the legislature ior his council let him issue his procla-j nation to the people above referred ro ;■' j reader — have you kept your gravity until ou got through with it ? have you noticed he bombastic style if it does not approach he lunatic of this grave and solemn requisi ion on the governor of north carolina and vhat do you think ofthe pompous vanity which irompted it ? governor manly takes no counsel from those j vho would plunge north carolina into section il agitation or commit her to a conclave of * blotters against the union of the slates lies 00k his stand at once for the union nnd against i he nashville convention and all its advocates no respect for party schemes — no fear of party j denunciation or hostility — could shake for one moment his fidelity to the duty he owed north carolina whose chief magistrate he is — and ill lhe threats of traitors and fanatics passed by him like the idle wind his eluly he need ed 110 locofoco parlizan to tell him — he would illow none to be the interpreter of his oath to support the constitution of the united slates congress was in session — north carolina had lior representatives there ; and her rights werei confided to their hands for the present the people for the governor have rebukedj the impudence of the partizans and agitators andtaken most excellent care of the nashville convention ! dividend the bank of the state of north carolina has declared a dividend of 4h per cent for ilie last six months of which 1 percent goes to lhe stockholders 1 and ] per cent to pay the lax to the state % professoll stuart's pamphlet f on mil webster's speech | i.j this pamphlet which the learned professor jxentitles " conscience and the constitution with hremaiks on lhe icceiit speech of daniel web ster in the senate of the l t . s on the subject raof slavery and which has just been published tein bo.-ton is of course exciting a great deal ofs raattention the defence of such a man as thes gsenator of massachusetts by such a man as the m professor of biblical literature must needs bel t|as important and influential as it cannot be oth-j eferwise than able and conclusive professor ifsluart has had a voice potential in matters sof conscience and of morals throughout all lhe 1 world for many years and no wiiter of ours time hasexercised a more powerful influence ons ai he formation and regulation of opinions in ethi laical matters fe i having signed a paper expressing approba ition of mr webster's recent speech in the sen-1 sate professor stuart was violently assailed therefor by anonymous letters and newspa ijper articles he then addressed a note to mr.i j webster intimating an intention to review the ispeecb if agreeable to him especially with 9 reference to the christian bearings ofthe sub aject mr webster assenting cordially thel wpamphlet before us was written and given to f i the world i the motto selected by the professor is taken g from st paul ; " art thou called being a ser i i vant care not for it after some introductory i pages the reverend author takes up the scriptur s i al view ofthe question of slavery and displays j i much erudition and ability in lhe work we j i will give the reader a specimen or two ol hisl i mode of dealing with this vexata queslio ands i first as to lhe old testament view^f slavery i as an institution the extract is long but it i will be found worthy of perusal j 1 one more passage in the mosaic code claims | our particular notice this is in dent 23 : 15 | i 10 and runs thus : — thou shall not deliver i unto his master the servant which is escaped 1 from his master unto thee he shall dwell withg t thee even among you in that place which he $ shall choose is one of thy gates where it likethl 1 bim best thou shalt not oppress him s the first inquiry of course is : where doesg | his master live ? among the hebrews ori % anions foreigners ? the lansiiajje of the pass-s ■o o o d ib | age fully developes this and answers the queg-b i tion he " has escaped from his master union | lhe hebrews the text says — thee i e israel ;| f he shall dwell with thee among you — in one ofs i thy gates of course then he is an immigrants i and did not dwell among them before his fight | if he had been a hebrew servant belonging log a hebrew the whole face of the thing would bp changed restoration or restitution if we | may judge by the tenor of othct properly la\vs among the hebrews would have surely heen % enjoined but be that as it may the language | ofthe text puts it beyond a doubt that the ser i vant is a foreigner and has fled from a healhan | master this entirely changes the complexion i ofthe case the hebrews were cod's chosen | i people and were the only nation on earth whicha worshipped the only living and true god — j brewscould the fugitive slave cometolhe know | ledge and worship ofthe only living & true cod | on this ground as they were the living depos | ailory of the aracles of god great preference 1 si was given to them and great caution exercised | | to keep them from all tangling alliances and 1 b connection with the heathen in case a slave 1 from them and came to the hebrews | i two things were taken into consideration ac 1 cording lo the views of the jewish legislator | the first was that the treatment of slaves a among the heathen was far more severe and 3 rigorous than it could lawfully be under thea mosaic law the heathen master possessed ihel power of life and death of scourging or impris-s oning or tutting lo excessive oil even to any ex-p lllent lhat he pleased not so among the he-g abrews humanity pleaded for lhe protection ofg gthe fugitive the second and most important was lhat only among the he-|j the clause which says thou shall notg floppress him of course means that he shall she denied none of the privileges of a residents lin the land and that he shall not be subjected tog gjpeculiar taxation or labor the verses before ius do not say that such a refugee servant shall she circumcised ; but the admission of him lotj at he privileges of a freeman implies this theg aservants of hebrews whether of domestic org afore ign origin were all to be circumcised gen 6 117 12 — 15 of course the admitted dcuizenfj in the present case would be required to com u iply with such an injunction by the rile ing he became incorporated into the jew g jish theocratical commonwealth and thereforeg jgeniiiled as even bond-men were lo all its reli-g agious privileges moses therefore would notg gsufler him lo be forced back into the darkness 1 sof heathenism nor allow that he should be de-1 slivered up to an enraged heathen master w'ass he not in he right ? 3 but if we now put the case viz that of es-l gcape from a hebrew master who claimed andg henjoyed hebrew rights is not the case greatly achaiiged ? who could take from him the pro-b iperty which the mosaic law gave him a rights gto hold ? neither the bond-man himself norg sthe neighbor of his master to whom the fugitive 3might come reclamation of him could bea made and therefore must be enforced with this view ofthe matter before us ho\v can we appeal to the passage in question toa justify yea even to urge the retention of f«gi-i stive bond-men in our own country we are bone nation — one so called christian nation — f ichristianity is a national religion among us — 1 l do not mean that all men are real christians gor that christianity is established by law ; but 1 mean that immeasurably the greatest part ofa hour population north and south profess to re-i aspect christianity and appeal to its precepts kas a test of morals and as furnishing us withg glhe rules of life what slate in the union gdoes not at least tacitly admit christianity to ghold such a place ? when a fugitive bondman then comes to its kof the north from a master at the south in what irelation do we of lhe north stand to the south cern master are our fellow citizens and breth-l gren of the south to be accounted as heathen in si^ht no this will never do i knows knot what the'proporlion of real chris'ians in thel salisbury n c thursday july 18 1850 iii-iii ill 11 1 ■•— 1 south may be compared with those ofthe norlbj gbut this i do know from personal observation f made at the south to some extent and from a acquaintance with people of thea south that there are among them many warm shearls and hands in the cause of true christian aity i here is no state where such people may not be found and many of them too a bond sman fleeing from them to us is a case ofjustl rthe same kind as would have been presented i among the hebrews if a hebrow bondman had fled from the tribe of judah to that of ben jamin we do not send back the refugee from the south to a heathen nation or tribe there is many a christian master there and many aloo who deal with their servants as immorta ji beings il may be thai the fugitive has left al j severe and cruel master who will wreak hisl j vengeance upon him for escaping and it mayf she also that if the fugitive lakes up his abode i here he will find those who will maltreat him i \ crimes of this sort have not as yet vanquished from the north but be the master as he may since we of the north are only other tribes off lhe same great commonwealth we cannot sill in judgment on cruel masters belonging to dif ferent tribes from our own and having by so j lemn compact a seperate and independentjuris-i ! diction iu respect to all matters of justice be tween man and man with which no stranger can on any pretence whatever intermeddle j we pitty the restored fugitive and have rea j i son enough to pitty him when he is sent back j 1 10 be delivered in'o the hands of eniaged cm jj j elty but if be goes back to a lenient and a \ ' christian master the mailer is less grievous the responsibility however for bad treatmenl of the slave rests not in the least degree on us of the north the mosaic law does not j i authorize us to reject the claims of our fellow j countrymen and citizens for strayed or stolen j property — properly authorized and guarantied as such by southern states to their respective citizens these states are not heathen wei have acknowledged them as brethren and fel-i low citizens of the great community a fugi live from them is not a fugitive from an an idolatrous and polytheistic people a«d even if the bible had neither said nor im-jj plied anything in relation to the mailer the sol lemn compact which we have made befores heaven and earth lo deliver up fugitives when they are men held to service in lhe stale from which ihey fled is enough to settle the questions ol legal right on the part of the master what-1 sever we may think of his claim when viewedg in the light of christianity but of this morel in the sequel y in the meantime i cannot quit this topic without adding a few remarks on the assump-l tion lhat every slaveholder must he denied theg title of a christian and be denied the regard which is due to a christian brother it is not m too much to say that no man in his sober sen-p ses cue believe or say lhat there are no chris-g tians in the south who are owners of slaves there are thousands of masters and mistresses of exemplary christian lives and conversation | there are many thousands moreover who have never been taught to doubt and never haves doubted the lawfulness of slavery they havel itfelt that they violated no sacred obligation inl holding slaves provided they should treat theiiim in a christian manner whether ihey haveg neglected their duty in pulling by all discussion ofthe subject and all serious examination intos it is another and a different question 1 su f»-s pose there are christians elsewhere besides ing i the south who neglect some of their duties and who are not absolutely perfect if per-u fcclion is the only proper lest of a christian jstale i fear that we of the north might havel jour t ilie to such a name called in question — 1 bul i will say all that i intend now to say mil it his subject by adverting to two notable cases which may at once serve to illustrate and toll justify my assertions f the celebrated and eminently pious johnh newton of london was master of a slave g ship that went to africa several times underl his command be tells us that until the ques-g lion was raised iu england by vvilberforce ands others he never once had a doubt in his miudg of the lawfulness and propriety of the cuineas trade to come nearer home ; who does notg know that the immortal edwards — immortal 1 fas much for his great piety as for his intellectual 1 powers — left behind him in manuscript an es-g say on the slave-trade probably still extant in jwhich he defended the trade with all his abiii ty 0:1 the same ground that moses required h li'he fugitive heathen slave to be detained viz jon the ground lhat il would bring the perishing heathen within the reach of christian inllu-p ence ? that his logic in this case would not well compare with that in some of his printed a treatises i am fully satisfied but the sinipleg i'and proper question is : did he intend anyg wrong had he any motives of self-interest which led him lo argue as he did concerning ihe slave trade ? unhesitatingly we answer bolhs questions in the negative may it not be then ! that there are some christians in the south who arc in thrf-same plight in which newton and he were for one i say emphatically —^ e =-| when will the lime come in which men shall cease to pronounce sweeping judgments ot con demnation on their fellow men without examin ing into their case and giving them a lair and impartial hearing ? i earnestly hope the day j break is approaching although at present ii i seems to be receding but — it is sometimes darkest just before day p thus far i have treated only of iiebrews made slaves among hebrews with the excep tion of one peculiar case of a foreign refugee • i now come after exhibiting the full state ofi things among the jews in respect to slaves off hebrew origin and the many modifications which moses inserted in his laws to mollify the a hardships and rigors of iheir condition : tocon ssider the condition ot slaves who were of hea lhen origin here the abettors of the proposition thatg fall slavery is a malum in se and is to be raiikedj wiih muider and robbery will find matter ofi difficulty with not a few ofthe high-8 toned abolitionists i fear i shall bring mosesjj much discredit by quoting his enactment | bul here it is and it would nol become me to goffer an apology for bim let him speak for himself : lev 25 11 both thy bond-men and hv bond maids which thou shall have shall be of the heathen lhat are round about you ; of ihem shall ye buy bond-men and bofrti-maids 45 ■moreover of the children of the strangers filial do sojourn among you of them shall ve ■buy and of their families hat are with i j which they begat in your land ; ihey shall be fyour possession 4b and ye shall take ihem gas an inheritance for your children after you itu inherit them for a possession they shall bo lyour bondmen lor ever f iwhat now have we here 7 simply and plain ly an unlimited liberty to purchase not to steal bondmen and bond-maids of the heath-j en around and out of palestine within it but when moses says : " ye shall buy bond men and bond maids he is not to lie understood as giving command but permission our trans jators have here made lhe future tense in lie brew imperative and as it were jussive ; but every one acquainted with hebrew knows ih.it j:!ie put tense is erv often permissive i e it bis used as a subjunctive mood however on the libeity to buy there is no restraint whate-j jjver when bought slaves are declared to be j heritable property : to belong lo the children j o the owners " to inherit them for a losses sion then follows the clause which rivets i fast the tenure of ihe property : " they sh till be your bond men forever the heathen bond i men are not put on a level wilh them the i tenure of ihem is perpetual the tenure is of ! heritable property " the middle walls ol par i j tition between jews and gentiles was not yet broken down but just erected the timet j for declaring lhat there was one god and fa j ilicr ofthe jews and gentiles to whom all 1 stood in the same common relation was yet ' far distant there ihen stands the mosaic statute which j was lhe perpetual law of the jews there it stands not to be erased by the hand ofthe j most zealous abolitionists he will probably think very ill < f moses and nol be very court-j i emis toward me for venturing to quote him — j j however if there is any blame here ii lulls ] 011 the great jewish legislator himself and not jj on me he moreover can afford 10 bear it i i in the name of all that is called reasoning now in morals or religion how is the owner ship of slaves which heaven has given express ' leave to purchase to be deemed a crime ofthe deepest dye a malum in sc — an offence lo be classed with murder and treason lei those answer this question who decide a priori what the bible ought to speak and then turn it over in order to see how they can make it speak what they wish but there is no bending or twisting of moses words there they are soj plain that he who runneth may read ifj j abolitionists are right in ihi'ir position then ; moses is greatly in lhe wrong more than this :> then has the god of the hebrews sanctioned with his express leave lhe commission ol a ciime as great as thai which is forbidden in thel sixth or seventh commandment there is m>l retreat from this the position of the aboli-i lionists plainly taxes high heaven wilh misde-l meanor — with encouragement lo commit onel among lhe foulest of crimes what shall we say then ? shall wo consignn moses over to reprobation ? or are we lo re gard him as an ignoramus .' one or the other or both follow from the reasoning and the pre-l mises of heated abolitionists ■] after exposing the relation of servants lo their masters iu the time when st paul preach 1 ed the learn professor goes on to say — i " what have we then on the whole ? plain ly this viz that servants are not to be anxious and uneasy and discontented because they are servants if they can easily and peaceably | obtain their libeity then thev should accept the boon but they are forbidden lo be frac lious and querulous and uneasy merely be cause they are in bondage it should sullieejj lhat ihey are the lord's freemen certainly this is not much like the advice org the conduct ol most ofthe abolitionists among us they excite slaves in every possible wave to change iheir condition al a i hazards and in all relations they set the whole country in commotion to accomplish ihis omnia — loe lum teira miscentui they pour forth vi ■luperation and contumely on every man who ventures to admonish them of lhe sentiments of i paul and if lhe great apostle himself were to re-appear on the earth and come now iuiol the midst of us and preach the doctrine cou-c tained in his epistles he would unquestionably fe incur the danger of living mobbed at all e vents we should have a multitude of indigiia-sj lion meetings got up against bim like those j which have recently appealed in lhe gieat me-jj iropolis of our country alas ! holy and bless-1 ed apostle how little do such men know cij partake of thy peaceful spirit professor stuart expends much space in the examination of senator mason's bill for tbe recovery of fugitive slaves to some of the j features of it he opposes his decided dissent ;: and yields his assent to lhe recommendations - of the committee of thirteen on that point — j he disagrees with the legislature of massa chusetts as to iheir resolution that the case of i the alleged tugitive should be tried by jury in ihe state where lhe claim is made and gives the reasons on which his opinion was ground ed — new york express ocpa sovereign cure for the cholera has hern discovered in mexico it i lhe rais del india he indian roof the monitor advises the government to lose no time in collecting large quantities ofi this root and giving it gratis to the poor i the palanca says : we know from a person of truth that iho most marvel sous cures have been effected l>y this root as an act of charity we call up-m sanora jlloppp who administered herself the specific to numerous persons in ber iids-l bands establishment to come forward and testify to the truth of our statement ! annual expense of funerals in eig'and and wales is 825 000,000
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Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1850-07-18 |
Month | 07 |
Day | 18 |
Year | 1850 |
Volume | 7 |
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Description | The Thursday, July 18, 1850 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly and semi weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
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Date | 1850-07-18 |
Month | 07 |
Day | 18 |
Year | 1850 |
Volume | 7 |
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Description | The Thursday, July 18, 1850 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly and semi weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
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Language | eng |
FullText | 1*1 iii 1 im^ii ii f--^mff cy 1 > -' mm --- aa " a;a i'l'ims of the watchman 3n bscription,per year.two dom-aks payable in ince . bat if not paid in advance two dollars will be eh i rge j u;,;:s i r l ai t > ; m i^v r r c,;i l pent insertion coort orders charged erct higher than these rates a liberal dednc li0 b,o those who advertise by the year to 1 he k-htor uiuft be po-t nu '• cabolina watchman for the wal ilim in messrs editors : — being often asked why ,,_.;!, decay ; if you will permit the fol ■■•' me a few reasons or things which no douhl are annually destroying millions the results ol experiments by dr wescott.j j both vegetable and mineral acids act n the bone and enamel ol the teeth i 2 caiis c potash will readily destroy the i v uniting with its animal matter is whose acids have a stronger aftini-l lhe lime of the tooth than for lhe basef ijlh which they combined are decomposed ids acting upon the teeth 4 vegetable substances have no effect upon intil alter fermentation takes place of ihem capable of acelic fermentation 1 lily after this acid is formed 5 animal substances even while in a staler 0 f putrefaction act very tardily if at all upon bone or enamel i vcetic and citric acid so covered the enamel :, forty-eight hours that much ol it is easily re mo ved wilh the finger nail \. tic acid or common vinegar is not only mmon use as a condiment bul is formed in nouth wlienever substances liable lo fer-j ation are suffered lo remain about then teeth or anv considerable length of lime citric acid or lemon juice though less fre-p v brought into contact with the teeth 1 ; on them yet more readily moiic acid or the acid of apples in its con cenlraled state also acts promptly upon theg teetb f muriatic sulphuric and nitric acids though | v diluted soon decompose the leelh — i phes ■are in common 11-e tartrate of potash or cream of tartar . - the enamel very readily raisins corode and destroy lhe enamel and | jve lhe surface of the teeth the appearance ind consistency of chalk su<*ar has no ellect until it undergoes acet 5 ous fermentation i organs endowed with a high degree of vi j talitv resist chemical action by an inexplica ble and all-controling love of life for the watchnjan to the town commissioners gentlemen — i see by an advertisement stuck an the court house door that you are calling jj die attention of persons who may wish to con tract for the hauling of gravel c to repair our streets the lime is fully at hand for your g attention lo the condition of the borough as 5 ihe season approaches when neglect on your i pait may entail some sickness on our citizens § [ will iu all good feeling suggest to you thai \ • he notice should be published iu our paper — hoi one in twenty of our citizens has any know j lhat such propositions for contracts are j in existence 1 have heard some complaint on jj this head — and on lhat account alone make jj this suggestion jj when you commence your operations — be 1 kind enough to turn your eyes away from the i main street for a moment into lhe adjacent a streets for instance in the direction of the 1 methodist church it is well known among ] the inhabitants in lhal quarter and beyond that g our boot-blacking bill is no small matter to sj purse or servant if we desire a decent ap jj pearance and what may bo the condition of i madam's gaiters or misses slippers after a i promanade thereabout : — " by the powers of mud it suits me not lo say j a town pax payer united statics am spain \ i a washington letter ot june 29 in the s philadelphia north american says : the authentic advices from cuba which have now reached here are not calculated lo j encourage the opinion which has been hereto ?, fore chrished that all cause of apprehension | concerning lhe contoy prisoners would be j speedily removed by amicable negotiation — £ no doubt is entertained lhat the spanish fylin-l isler has employed his best otlices lo prevent any collision between the two governments and exerted his influence lo induce the captain 1 general to act a discreet part in reference lo these prisoners but these wise counsels prompted as they doubtless were by honora ble motives on lhe part of mr calderon do not seem to have been respected and the consul oflh united slates has been distinctly in fi formed that these persons cannot be surrender-1 ed because count alcoy has no authority to deliver them up and it is therefore necessary lo await the views of his government it is not to be disguised that the captain general has prevaricated in his statements onl this subject and that his assurances lo capt.fi tatnall captain randolph and others have not been redeemed in good faith the pre-l sent pretence ol the absence of authority lo release the ptisoners is too feeble and lranspa rent to command serious attention the cap tain general has as much power to act in ihis case as he had iu that of rey's and if he fails to exercise it the responsibility will be his — 1 but while this delay is permitted the lives ofi tiie prisoners may be sacrificed by the severity ol iheir incarceration it is already reported that two of lhe number had died from confine ment and other causes whether this state ment be true or false the duly of the govern rnenl is imperative and cannot be slighted hyp any evasion there has been delay enough | alteady and longer protraction would only en courage lhe false impression in cuba lhat thej government was really indifferent to the falel of the prisoners and was prepared to abide by the course of the authorities there in view of this slate of things it has been ' determined to make a positive demand and tos send out an officer ot ihe navy whose reputa-j lion will carry the admonition that the day fori irifiing is over i sincerely hope that ihe ne-i cessily for this movement may be avoided anj lhat the authorities of the island will see the policy of reviewing iheir past course before such an alternative is presented but it must ] he perfectly clear that the president can 1103 longer remain indifferent as it is that silences on the part of the government might be at tended with the most prejudicial results if the next intelligence — which may be ex pected within a few days — does not remove all doubt in regard to the safety and release of the contoy prisoners steps will bo taken which will give 1 ho whole question a very different tmf r a 1 flt t1v a watttim an jl j_1__i_j yili&\_/j_jal 1 il ff ill villtlillle i from hi new fork meraatik guette preservation and resto ration of the sight this is an important matter yet easily by ihis simple rule when the sigtit is too shorf close the eyes press the fingers gently outwardly from the nose across the eyes short sight is caused by ■too great roundness of the eyes and vi ijping them from their inner towards their outer angles flattens them and thus lengthens or extends their angle of vision bat as long sight is caused by the too great flatness ofthe eves passing the an gers or towel from their outward angles inwardly of coarse rounds ihem up and ibus preserves the sight by this simple means all persons can adjust their sight to their liking so as to read without glass t s just as well u ben olj as young the value of ihis knowledge is second only to that of sight bronson is at present the loading pro mulgator of this idea and claims to have discovered it it may be original with him yet it was known long before bron i son's birth the grandfather of a female friend of ihe editor's practised it fifty years ago and by ils means preserved his eye sight so as to lie able to rend line print at lhe age of 78 years and john quincy ! adams in conversation with lawyer ford of lancaster pa who wore glasses jtold him if he would manipulate his eyes j with his fingers from iheir external an tries inwardly he would soon be able to dispense wilh glasses ford tried it and soon restored bis sight perfectly and has since preserved it by the continuance of of this practice on this point lhe phila delphia ledger remarks as follows — phrenological journal restoration of sight — the boston traveller gives some interesting accounts of experiments made by professor branson in removing imperfection of sight produc ed by age or malformation according to the traveller old people have been enabled to lay aside iheir spectacles and people of all ages who sutler from si^ht have been entirely cured the traveller says that prof bronson is the author of these discoveries and that his practice consists entirely in manipulation pro fessor bronson is well known in this and oilier cities as a lecturer upon elocution and has opened a:i office in new york for medical practice upon the eye in which we wish him success but while giving credit lo professor bronson for his oftorts in doing good and while admitting that his method of treat ing the eve is original with himself we do not admit that he was hc first discov erer the very treatment ascribed to bim for restoring decayed sight was dis covered lotitr ago by john quincy adams and successfully practised upon himself this is not the only case in which scien tific men have made the same discovery without any communication with each other dr franklin in philadelphia and dv ingenhouse in st petersburg without any knowledge of each other m ide simul taneous discoveries iu electricity there fore we do not wonder at professor bran son's discovery concerning the eyes with out any bint from mr adams who had long previously made lhe discovery mr adams did not communicate his discovery to the world but mentioned it incidentally and as of no great importance to two or three friends in the course of bis life we certainly wonder at him and them for not perceiving its general utility mr adams never wore specticles his sight enduring to the last vet those who re membered bim in private conversation — may remember his habit while listening of manipulating his eyes with his fingers by passing them gently over the surface from the external to ihe internal angle the decay of sight that is remedied by corner spectacles is caused by the gradu al absorption of lhe humors or relaxation of the coats rendering the transparent cornea less convex the manipulation of gentle pressure perhaps by stimulating t lie coats and thereby causing them to contract restores the original convexity and subsequently lhe original perfection of sight in rubbing or wining the eyes we naturally pass ihe hand or towel over the convex surface from the internal to the external angle this deminisbes the convexity and thus promotes the decay of sight and therefore should be carefully avoided the pressure whether in wi ping or manipulating shoul i proceed in eyes originally perfect from the external to the internal angle s/tort sight rcmi died by concave glasses is caused by un due convexity of lhe externa cornea whether congenital or caused by disease in this case all wiping rubbing or man ipulation should proceed from lhe inter nal to the external angle the reverse of tlhe motion necessary iu the ca-e first mentioned in manipulation care must be taken against too hard rubbing or continued too long which may develope linflamation the same female friend mentioned above has been troubled for years with a spontaneous weeping of one of her eyes which she h -.-. entirely cured by rubbing an 1 wiping her eyes when she washes inu:ardly she also now reads fine print whereas before she was unable to do fso this subject will of course commend itself to the practical trials of all who may be suffering from imperfect sight or iwenk eyes what is a coquette .' — a young lady of more beauty than sense more accomplish ments than learning more charms of per son than graces of mind more admirers than friends more fools than wise meu flbr attendants ! i excellence is providentially beyond the r reach of indolence that success may be the reward of industry and that idleness maj be punished with obscurity and dis fei ace bruner & james ) /> " keep a check r?ox all your editors 4 proprietors ) rotors ( new series du this and libert v is safe '. gen'l harrison ( volume vii number 10 aspect from what it has heretofore assumed ; and these proceedings may lie precipitated by a movement in congress it is absurd lo sup pose lhat this government will protract t lio : execution of its purpose until the views ofthe cabinet at madrid cud be understood ourj rights are prescribed under the public law and ihey can neither be postponed or restricted by any considerations of expediency public du ly and popular sentiment alike demand lhat the administration should immediately insist upon lhe release of the american citizens captured ii contoy and ihe indications in the british parliament and press in reference lo lhe cu ban question enjoin the performance of this july so promptly and sternly thai european na j ions may understand how little the threals ot j ombination against the united slates are re • peeled the washington correspondent of the phil idelphia north american under date of 29th ill says : il is satisfactorily established that the lead 1 rs of the cuban expedition procured the arms ivhich were used from the slate arsenal of louisiana and with the knowledge if not with hi complicity of some of the highest func ionaries of the state the president has de ermined lhat the law shall be rigidly enforced tgainst all such persons and particularly a 5a in st those high in authority who have con ributed the influence of their character and losilions to complicate the fiiendly relations of he government by outraging its laws and vio ating its solemn treaties when lhe aulhori iea of a sovereign stale so far forget what is ilie lo public honor and integrity as they ap ear to have done in the present case ihey should be instructed under the penalties of lhat justice which they have wilfully offended — there is reason to believe that some of the • distinguished participators in this expedition will lie indicted in the city of new york the president is much more anxious to punish the irompters and managers ofthe movement than he deluded victims of their selfish schemes ll texas attempts to send an armed force nlo new mexico for lhe purpose of seizing he territory ofthe united stales under a pre elision of title and of driving off the united states troops it will be answered with a stein ebuke gen taylor has made no threat — fje has recommended forbearance and direct d the military officers not to interfere there ire other duties however which an armed de nonslration on the part of texas would call nlo requisition and the president is not the nan to shrink from any obligation which his uilh of office enjoins george p fisher esq of baltimore was manimously confirmed as brazilian commis sioner and p n searle esq as secretary if the board from the raleigh times treasonable call on governor manly on lhe 2:3-1 of january last the democratic irgan the raleigh standard issued the follow ng manifesto to gov manly mark the ma csty of lhe language — as though to this edit ir were committed in special charge the des inies of north carolina and all power over he governor " the legislature or his coun cil — to convene either at his command ! — or 0 issue his proclamation to the people to ap luint delegates to the nashville convention : " we suggested last week as our readers nay remember that one delegate be appointed o nashville by one party and another by the ilher parly and that the people should then hoose nine more — one from each congres • ional district if ive cannot do belter we are till in favor of this plan ; — but it strikes us most orcibly that it is important to the character of lhe jommonwealih for various reasons that we should have if at all practicable authoritative state action on the subject we therefore llvll upon gov manly eiiher to convene the legislature or his council or to issue his proclamation to the people advising ihem off he dangers which impend over them and sug [ jesting to them the propriety and importance f appointing delegates lo the nashville con j eniion we should prefer lo see the l p gis»j ature assembled ; but it serious objections should exist to that in the governor's mind or f lie should think any portion of the people aould object to the expense to be incurred le p him call his council together and letj hat body lake such steps as he and they may udge proper and if neither the legislature ior his council let him issue his procla-j nation to the people above referred ro ;■' j reader — have you kept your gravity until ou got through with it ? have you noticed he bombastic style if it does not approach he lunatic of this grave and solemn requisi ion on the governor of north carolina and vhat do you think ofthe pompous vanity which irompted it ? governor manly takes no counsel from those j vho would plunge north carolina into section il agitation or commit her to a conclave of * blotters against the union of the slates lies 00k his stand at once for the union nnd against i he nashville convention and all its advocates no respect for party schemes — no fear of party j denunciation or hostility — could shake for one moment his fidelity to the duty he owed north carolina whose chief magistrate he is — and ill lhe threats of traitors and fanatics passed by him like the idle wind his eluly he need ed 110 locofoco parlizan to tell him — he would illow none to be the interpreter of his oath to support the constitution of the united slates congress was in session — north carolina had lior representatives there ; and her rights werei confided to their hands for the present the people for the governor have rebukedj the impudence of the partizans and agitators andtaken most excellent care of the nashville convention ! dividend the bank of the state of north carolina has declared a dividend of 4h per cent for ilie last six months of which 1 percent goes to lhe stockholders 1 and ] per cent to pay the lax to the state % professoll stuart's pamphlet f on mil webster's speech | i.j this pamphlet which the learned professor jxentitles " conscience and the constitution with hremaiks on lhe icceiit speech of daniel web ster in the senate of the l t . s on the subject raof slavery and which has just been published tein bo.-ton is of course exciting a great deal ofs raattention the defence of such a man as thes gsenator of massachusetts by such a man as the m professor of biblical literature must needs bel t|as important and influential as it cannot be oth-j eferwise than able and conclusive professor ifsluart has had a voice potential in matters sof conscience and of morals throughout all lhe 1 world for many years and no wiiter of ours time hasexercised a more powerful influence ons ai he formation and regulation of opinions in ethi laical matters fe i having signed a paper expressing approba ition of mr webster's recent speech in the sen-1 sate professor stuart was violently assailed therefor by anonymous letters and newspa ijper articles he then addressed a note to mr.i j webster intimating an intention to review the ispeecb if agreeable to him especially with 9 reference to the christian bearings ofthe sub aject mr webster assenting cordially thel wpamphlet before us was written and given to f i the world i the motto selected by the professor is taken g from st paul ; " art thou called being a ser i i vant care not for it after some introductory i pages the reverend author takes up the scriptur s i al view ofthe question of slavery and displays j i much erudition and ability in lhe work we j i will give the reader a specimen or two ol hisl i mode of dealing with this vexata queslio ands i first as to lhe old testament view^f slavery i as an institution the extract is long but it i will be found worthy of perusal j 1 one more passage in the mosaic code claims | our particular notice this is in dent 23 : 15 | i 10 and runs thus : — thou shall not deliver i unto his master the servant which is escaped 1 from his master unto thee he shall dwell withg t thee even among you in that place which he $ shall choose is one of thy gates where it likethl 1 bim best thou shalt not oppress him s the first inquiry of course is : where doesg | his master live ? among the hebrews ori % anions foreigners ? the lansiiajje of the pass-s ■o o o d ib | age fully developes this and answers the queg-b i tion he " has escaped from his master union | lhe hebrews the text says — thee i e israel ;| f he shall dwell with thee among you — in one ofs i thy gates of course then he is an immigrants i and did not dwell among them before his fight | if he had been a hebrew servant belonging log a hebrew the whole face of the thing would bp changed restoration or restitution if we | may judge by the tenor of othct properly la\vs among the hebrews would have surely heen % enjoined but be that as it may the language | ofthe text puts it beyond a doubt that the ser i vant is a foreigner and has fled from a healhan | master this entirely changes the complexion i ofthe case the hebrews were cod's chosen | i people and were the only nation on earth whicha worshipped the only living and true god — j brewscould the fugitive slave cometolhe know | ledge and worship ofthe only living & true cod | on this ground as they were the living depos | ailory of the aracles of god great preference 1 si was given to them and great caution exercised | | to keep them from all tangling alliances and 1 b connection with the heathen in case a slave 1 from them and came to the hebrews | i two things were taken into consideration ac 1 cording lo the views of the jewish legislator | the first was that the treatment of slaves a among the heathen was far more severe and 3 rigorous than it could lawfully be under thea mosaic law the heathen master possessed ihel power of life and death of scourging or impris-s oning or tutting lo excessive oil even to any ex-p lllent lhat he pleased not so among the he-g abrews humanity pleaded for lhe protection ofg gthe fugitive the second and most important was lhat only among the he-|j the clause which says thou shall notg floppress him of course means that he shall she denied none of the privileges of a residents lin the land and that he shall not be subjected tog gjpeculiar taxation or labor the verses before ius do not say that such a refugee servant shall she circumcised ; but the admission of him lotj at he privileges of a freeman implies this theg aservants of hebrews whether of domestic org afore ign origin were all to be circumcised gen 6 117 12 — 15 of course the admitted dcuizenfj in the present case would be required to com u iply with such an injunction by the rile ing he became incorporated into the jew g jish theocratical commonwealth and thereforeg jgeniiiled as even bond-men were lo all its reli-g agious privileges moses therefore would notg gsufler him lo be forced back into the darkness 1 sof heathenism nor allow that he should be de-1 slivered up to an enraged heathen master w'ass he not in he right ? 3 but if we now put the case viz that of es-l gcape from a hebrew master who claimed andg henjoyed hebrew rights is not the case greatly achaiiged ? who could take from him the pro-b iperty which the mosaic law gave him a rights gto hold ? neither the bond-man himself norg sthe neighbor of his master to whom the fugitive 3might come reclamation of him could bea made and therefore must be enforced with this view ofthe matter before us ho\v can we appeal to the passage in question toa justify yea even to urge the retention of f«gi-i stive bond-men in our own country we are bone nation — one so called christian nation — f ichristianity is a national religion among us — 1 l do not mean that all men are real christians gor that christianity is established by law ; but 1 mean that immeasurably the greatest part ofa hour population north and south profess to re-i aspect christianity and appeal to its precepts kas a test of morals and as furnishing us withg glhe rules of life what slate in the union gdoes not at least tacitly admit christianity to ghold such a place ? when a fugitive bondman then comes to its kof the north from a master at the south in what irelation do we of lhe north stand to the south cern master are our fellow citizens and breth-l gren of the south to be accounted as heathen in si^ht no this will never do i knows knot what the'proporlion of real chris'ians in thel salisbury n c thursday july 18 1850 iii-iii ill 11 1 ■•— 1 south may be compared with those ofthe norlbj gbut this i do know from personal observation f made at the south to some extent and from a acquaintance with people of thea south that there are among them many warm shearls and hands in the cause of true christian aity i here is no state where such people may not be found and many of them too a bond sman fleeing from them to us is a case ofjustl rthe same kind as would have been presented i among the hebrews if a hebrow bondman had fled from the tribe of judah to that of ben jamin we do not send back the refugee from the south to a heathen nation or tribe there is many a christian master there and many aloo who deal with their servants as immorta ji beings il may be thai the fugitive has left al j severe and cruel master who will wreak hisl j vengeance upon him for escaping and it mayf she also that if the fugitive lakes up his abode i here he will find those who will maltreat him i \ crimes of this sort have not as yet vanquished from the north but be the master as he may since we of the north are only other tribes off lhe same great commonwealth we cannot sill in judgment on cruel masters belonging to dif ferent tribes from our own and having by so j lemn compact a seperate and independentjuris-i ! diction iu respect to all matters of justice be tween man and man with which no stranger can on any pretence whatever intermeddle j we pitty the restored fugitive and have rea j i son enough to pitty him when he is sent back j 1 10 be delivered in'o the hands of eniaged cm jj j elty but if be goes back to a lenient and a \ ' christian master the mailer is less grievous the responsibility however for bad treatmenl of the slave rests not in the least degree on us of the north the mosaic law does not j i authorize us to reject the claims of our fellow j countrymen and citizens for strayed or stolen j property — properly authorized and guarantied as such by southern states to their respective citizens these states are not heathen wei have acknowledged them as brethren and fel-i low citizens of the great community a fugi live from them is not a fugitive from an an idolatrous and polytheistic people a«d even if the bible had neither said nor im-jj plied anything in relation to the mailer the sol lemn compact which we have made befores heaven and earth lo deliver up fugitives when they are men held to service in lhe stale from which ihey fled is enough to settle the questions ol legal right on the part of the master what-1 sever we may think of his claim when viewedg in the light of christianity but of this morel in the sequel y in the meantime i cannot quit this topic without adding a few remarks on the assump-l tion lhat every slaveholder must he denied theg title of a christian and be denied the regard which is due to a christian brother it is not m too much to say that no man in his sober sen-p ses cue believe or say lhat there are no chris-g tians in the south who are owners of slaves there are thousands of masters and mistresses of exemplary christian lives and conversation | there are many thousands moreover who have never been taught to doubt and never haves doubted the lawfulness of slavery they havel itfelt that they violated no sacred obligation inl holding slaves provided they should treat theiiim in a christian manner whether ihey haveg neglected their duty in pulling by all discussion ofthe subject and all serious examination intos it is another and a different question 1 su f»-s pose there are christians elsewhere besides ing i the south who neglect some of their duties and who are not absolutely perfect if per-u fcclion is the only proper lest of a christian jstale i fear that we of the north might havel jour t ilie to such a name called in question — 1 bul i will say all that i intend now to say mil it his subject by adverting to two notable cases which may at once serve to illustrate and toll justify my assertions f the celebrated and eminently pious johnh newton of london was master of a slave g ship that went to africa several times underl his command be tells us that until the ques-g lion was raised iu england by vvilberforce ands others he never once had a doubt in his miudg of the lawfulness and propriety of the cuineas trade to come nearer home ; who does notg know that the immortal edwards — immortal 1 fas much for his great piety as for his intellectual 1 powers — left behind him in manuscript an es-g say on the slave-trade probably still extant in jwhich he defended the trade with all his abiii ty 0:1 the same ground that moses required h li'he fugitive heathen slave to be detained viz jon the ground lhat il would bring the perishing heathen within the reach of christian inllu-p ence ? that his logic in this case would not well compare with that in some of his printed a treatises i am fully satisfied but the sinipleg i'and proper question is : did he intend anyg wrong had he any motives of self-interest which led him lo argue as he did concerning ihe slave trade ? unhesitatingly we answer bolhs questions in the negative may it not be then ! that there are some christians in the south who arc in thrf-same plight in which newton and he were for one i say emphatically —^ e =-| when will the lime come in which men shall cease to pronounce sweeping judgments ot con demnation on their fellow men without examin ing into their case and giving them a lair and impartial hearing ? i earnestly hope the day j break is approaching although at present ii i seems to be receding but — it is sometimes darkest just before day p thus far i have treated only of iiebrews made slaves among hebrews with the excep tion of one peculiar case of a foreign refugee • i now come after exhibiting the full state ofi things among the jews in respect to slaves off hebrew origin and the many modifications which moses inserted in his laws to mollify the a hardships and rigors of iheir condition : tocon ssider the condition ot slaves who were of hea lhen origin here the abettors of the proposition thatg fall slavery is a malum in se and is to be raiikedj wiih muider and robbery will find matter ofi difficulty with not a few ofthe high-8 toned abolitionists i fear i shall bring mosesjj much discredit by quoting his enactment | bul here it is and it would nol become me to goffer an apology for bim let him speak for himself : lev 25 11 both thy bond-men and hv bond maids which thou shall have shall be of the heathen lhat are round about you ; of ihem shall ye buy bond-men and bofrti-maids 45 ■moreover of the children of the strangers filial do sojourn among you of them shall ve ■buy and of their families hat are with i j which they begat in your land ; ihey shall be fyour possession 4b and ye shall take ihem gas an inheritance for your children after you itu inherit them for a possession they shall bo lyour bondmen lor ever f iwhat now have we here 7 simply and plain ly an unlimited liberty to purchase not to steal bondmen and bond-maids of the heath-j en around and out of palestine within it but when moses says : " ye shall buy bond men and bond maids he is not to lie understood as giving command but permission our trans jators have here made lhe future tense in lie brew imperative and as it were jussive ; but every one acquainted with hebrew knows ih.it j:!ie put tense is erv often permissive i e it bis used as a subjunctive mood however on the libeity to buy there is no restraint whate-j jjver when bought slaves are declared to be j heritable property : to belong lo the children j o the owners " to inherit them for a losses sion then follows the clause which rivets i fast the tenure of ihe property : " they sh till be your bond men forever the heathen bond i men are not put on a level wilh them the i tenure of ihem is perpetual the tenure is of ! heritable property " the middle walls ol par i j tition between jews and gentiles was not yet broken down but just erected the timet j for declaring lhat there was one god and fa j ilicr ofthe jews and gentiles to whom all 1 stood in the same common relation was yet ' far distant there ihen stands the mosaic statute which j was lhe perpetual law of the jews there it stands not to be erased by the hand ofthe j most zealous abolitionists he will probably think very ill < f moses and nol be very court-j i emis toward me for venturing to quote him — j j however if there is any blame here ii lulls ] 011 the great jewish legislator himself and not jj on me he moreover can afford 10 bear it i i in the name of all that is called reasoning now in morals or religion how is the owner ship of slaves which heaven has given express ' leave to purchase to be deemed a crime ofthe deepest dye a malum in sc — an offence lo be classed with murder and treason lei those answer this question who decide a priori what the bible ought to speak and then turn it over in order to see how they can make it speak what they wish but there is no bending or twisting of moses words there they are soj plain that he who runneth may read ifj j abolitionists are right in ihi'ir position then ; moses is greatly in lhe wrong more than this :> then has the god of the hebrews sanctioned with his express leave lhe commission ol a ciime as great as thai which is forbidden in thel sixth or seventh commandment there is m>l retreat from this the position of the aboli-i lionists plainly taxes high heaven wilh misde-l meanor — with encouragement lo commit onel among lhe foulest of crimes what shall we say then ? shall wo consignn moses over to reprobation ? or are we lo re gard him as an ignoramus .' one or the other or both follow from the reasoning and the pre-l mises of heated abolitionists ■] after exposing the relation of servants lo their masters iu the time when st paul preach 1 ed the learn professor goes on to say — i " what have we then on the whole ? plain ly this viz that servants are not to be anxious and uneasy and discontented because they are servants if they can easily and peaceably | obtain their libeity then thev should accept the boon but they are forbidden lo be frac lious and querulous and uneasy merely be cause they are in bondage it should sullieejj lhat ihey are the lord's freemen certainly this is not much like the advice org the conduct ol most ofthe abolitionists among us they excite slaves in every possible wave to change iheir condition al a i hazards and in all relations they set the whole country in commotion to accomplish ihis omnia — loe lum teira miscentui they pour forth vi ■luperation and contumely on every man who ventures to admonish them of lhe sentiments of i paul and if lhe great apostle himself were to re-appear on the earth and come now iuiol the midst of us and preach the doctrine cou-c tained in his epistles he would unquestionably fe incur the danger of living mobbed at all e vents we should have a multitude of indigiia-sj lion meetings got up against bim like those j which have recently appealed in lhe gieat me-jj iropolis of our country alas ! holy and bless-1 ed apostle how little do such men know cij partake of thy peaceful spirit professor stuart expends much space in the examination of senator mason's bill for tbe recovery of fugitive slaves to some of the j features of it he opposes his decided dissent ;: and yields his assent to lhe recommendations - of the committee of thirteen on that point — j he disagrees with the legislature of massa chusetts as to iheir resolution that the case of i the alleged tugitive should be tried by jury in ihe state where lhe claim is made and gives the reasons on which his opinion was ground ed — new york express ocpa sovereign cure for the cholera has hern discovered in mexico it i lhe rais del india he indian roof the monitor advises the government to lose no time in collecting large quantities ofi this root and giving it gratis to the poor i the palanca says : we know from a person of truth that iho most marvel sous cures have been effected l>y this root as an act of charity we call up-m sanora jlloppp who administered herself the specific to numerous persons in ber iids-l bands establishment to come forward and testify to the truth of our statement ! annual expense of funerals in eig'and and wales is 825 000,000 |