0i ■ r two dollabs-payable in rs^ri p on p i(iin advance two dollars cw who advertise by the year ifl ' must be posi paid fl aus 0 j he '' = for lhe watchman fitfftw when new schemes and , prin into being and are said to rfl available than former means to w en it appears to be right to scru hem.aml compare them with the " ze j of t he gospel and if upon such destination they are found to agree uero then it becomes our duty to orledee and adopt them otherwise . . i ,. m our saviour has taught r piect tut in .' a p r cial manner the lesson ot jjiy both of precept and example nl eek and lowly in heart and so txtas his humility and patience that he was reviled he reviled not again admonished the multitude and his dis , - n ot to do like the scribes and phari vt-ho said he love the uppermost rooms feas ts and the chief seats in the syna des and greetings in the markets and ecailedof men rabbi rabbi but not ve called rabbi ; for one is your er even christ ; and all ye are bre and call no man your father upon earth for one is 3 our -" ht ' ier -. which i heaven neither be ye called mas , f or one is your master even christ i whosoever shall exalt himself shall ,[, as ed ; and he that shall humble him sball be e.xalted father was a name tie of dignity as well as rabbi among hebrew and was applied to their l 0rs and distinguished men and the oof our saviour gave the scribes and r j s ees plainly shows that he disap pd of titles of dignity and the reason jdent because they foster and in se pride had our lord after de icing the pride and arrogancy of the bes and pharisees arrayed himself as of and moved along the streets of salern in a pompous style would it lave invalidated his advice and all irecepts on humility ? had each of postles put on a regalia the ensign malty and furnished themselves with sand flags and paraded the streets ght with blazing lamps or torch light id this have been an example of hu ly and simplicity i think not and n lhe apostles met in council is it pro p that they addressed their president thy patriarch ? this sort of style did rait the taste of those men taught in school of christ nor did it suit the of the founders of our republic — in persons form themselves into a so or an association and name them s the name ought to be appropriate i have now an association who call iselves the sons of temperance — implies that their fathers were tem te men which can hardly be the case general thins - . we read of persons were called the sons of god and why i they called so ? because they re lied god i would seem that the i have imbibed the notion that they pposed because they are endeavor toputdown the unnecessary and bane se of spirits some may oppose them aground hut as a general thing it it the case because there are thous ias much opposed to intemperance lo the use of spirits as a common ' rage as any son of their order as •> 1 can learn the principal ground on h they are opposed is their constitu and their mode of acting they ! adopted titles better adapted to a archy than a republican govern t.such as regalia grand scribe and v patriarch the word regalia ! ; ensigns of royalty and hence it seem that the framers of their con ion were men who were fond of roy fes and sonorific words again their jjof acting by many is not approved aeir parading the streets in the night flags and torch light is thought to be b ntting a military officer mustering en than teachers of moral duties & 1 duties are nearly allied to sacred wand ought to be taught seriously the fear of god otherwise the ef *>" be superficial g g m tells us ■■'; take the degraded drunkards room and carrv them p a course ol beautiful and inter 8 ceremonies and warn them against ant iul influence oi spiritous liquors s * nothing about those beautiful cer j es < but 1 know that ceremonies in fal.and especially a numberof them dl uie value 1 tear the sons have - , ' : inr firearms with much powder '°° bttle lead bishop newton says * church of rome distinguished above all churches by purple and « by richness and splendor of en,i -* by pomp and parade of her es inciting and inveigling with .. nce s ol ornament and ostentation 1!1 their communion and also bts ?! up * ltars a,1li sta,ucs >" tbe and highways and on the tops of s-omn an '' carried mages and relics t p s processions with numerous jt d music and singing the sons tell us that they nse their 11 l gs and iheir regalia to at ro r j nu ° n * and f course to add to l 0s - "■ ! bus their stratagems and chnr'u s . '"' t<)0 much t ( » resemble i h ;>' rome again g g m fe cthm e ,„" otcla ™ any thing like a view b 0 utithi kifhewillcalm r 1 ' u * li ution he will ac ageun ouobe a ythinglikeaper the carolina watchman j j bpiuner ) t?l-t e n • . _ " k p a check upon all ocr editor $ proprietor ) rulers d oth , i s ne series uo this and liberty issafe < gen i harrison [ volume viii number 17 salisbury n c thursday august 28 1851 feet oner the initial fee points to one of its faults the admission fee is too dol lars and in addition to it five cents per week which will amount to four dollars and sixty cents the first year and in each succeeding year two dollars and sixty cents now on these terms a great numberof miserable penny less drunkards must be prevented from joining their or der and consequently cannot be admitted into the a division room to be carried through a course of beautiful and inter esting ceremonies and to be warned a jrainst the baneful influence of spirituous liquors these terms differ very much from the terms of the gospel christ said the gospel is preached to the poor this is one excellency of the gospel it invites the poor in a special manner to receive salvation without money and without price it invites the drunkard who has no money into that fountain of life which cures intemperance and every other dis ease of the soul this i.s the best divi sion room into which a drunkard ever went or can go in this he will find sub stance instead of parade and empty cer ! emonies intemperance as well as all other sins originates from a vitiated heart and it is a spiritual disease and must have a spiritual remedy : natural means in such cases signify just nothing in temperance as well as all other sins go eth not out but by fasting and prayer therefore 1 beg leave to ask — do the sons when they take the degraded drunkards into a division room fervently pray to ! god that he may cast out the demons and restore them to their right minds is air p s white as well furnished i with faith and prayer as he is with laugh able anecdotes ? if he is the evil spirit will not have the assurance to say jesus j i know ; and paul 1 know but who are i you but if he has not these christian | graces the probability is that the demon j will leap upon him as it did upon the sons of scova and cause him to flee naked and i wounded doctor clatke sajs " several i systems of religion have some good ordi nances and moral precepts — they speak against sin and recommend a moral life : but under them not one sinner i.s convert ed ; and why ? because they minister i not the power of god nor does even \ the strong and forcible preaching of the { divine precepts of christianity itself pro ' duce this where juses is not preached as the power of god as well as the wis | dom ot god no sinner is converted from i the error of his life the profligate con j tinues his course drunkards swearers li j ars sabbath breakers the unjust the un { clean and the unholy continue under the i influence and power of sin though they i may frequent the ministry of those who not knowing the work of god upon their own hearts think god works not at all ; and endeavor to produce the wonderful change which the gospel requires and the ' state ofthe soul demands by moral sua j sion and administration of the divine or j dinances ! vain labor ! without this 1 power of god no good can be effected jesus as putting away sin by the sacri j fice of himself and sending forth the en i lightening and powerful influence of the j holy ghost must be clearly faithfully and incessantly preached where this is done sinners will be converted unto god > and believers built up on their most holy faith this was the gospel which st i paul preached because he knew it to be ; the power of god to salvation he had felt it to be such ; and he witnessed it as the only means of saving either a lost world or a lost soul now if the doctor is right and there can be no doubt but he is how can the sons expeet to change the heart of drunk j ards by fantastical means and ceremo nies but the regeneration ofthe heart appears not to be their object because sobriety says " we do not hold that the ; temperance society ever regenerated any one yet they represent themselves as pi j oneers preparing drunkards for the church but if regeneration is not taught and urg ed upon their members they are badly prepared to be put into that sacred build in • in the foregoing observations i have pointed out things in the system of the sons which many think to be repugnant to the doctrines of the bible and it is the wish of many that some writer of their order will confine himself to this point and prove if it can be proved that their doctrines are in accordance with those ol the bible m resolving a difficulty as the cham bermaid of a steamboat upon the ohio was passing out of the ladies cabin an old lady in a plaintively husky tone re quested her to shut the door as she had caught such a bad cold at detroit that she was almost dead at this moment a very phthisic old lady occupying a berth near the door forbade the girl to shut it o:i account of her shortness ol breath shut it or i'll die squeaked the de troit lady , i 1 -• leave it open or i'll smother to death gasped the other as the war waxed warm a waginthe adjoining cabin thrusting his head from his berth decided the chambermaids quandary by ordering to open that door until the detroit lady dies of her cold and then close it until the other one smothers to death from the asheville news to the public various statements of the duel which occur j red between col john baxter and myself on j the 24th inst having been put in circulation for | the purpose of injuring me ; i am constrained in justice lo myself to make a simple statement ol the facts in the case in order ihat the public il they feel any inierest in tbe matter may at least form their opinions correctly and under standingly the cause of our quarrel is a matter of no great importance to the public though it was truly set forth iii an article published in the asheville news of the 24th inst suffice it that col baiter insulted me by proclaiming me j to the world through the messenger as a liar ! and i challenged him the paper containing ! this charge appeared on tuesday afternoon the 15th of july i sent the challenge the same af noon by my friend dr e r jones and re j ceived col baxter's reply through his friend j mr j w wood fin the next morning this re ply ol col baxter was insulting and of a char , acter which would have justified me according to the laws which govern gentlemen under such circumstances to have refused to notice it i however waived any objection to it my se ootid then sought an interview with mr wood fin col baxter's second for the purpose ol ar | ranging ihe preliminaries of our meeting all > that was agreed upon was the weapons dr jones had had several olher interviews with mr woodfin insisting all lhe time that the ' terms of our meeting should be reduced lo writ ing and signed here before we left this pro position was declined and i lelt here in compa ny with my iriend dr hilliard on the 23d knowing nothing of what sort of meeting i had i to expect with col_*_£axter except that we were j lo use the ordinary duelling pistols when we arrived upon the ground a formal acceptance of my challenge dated al the salu da cap was handed me and the terms of the meeting in col baxter's hand writing were submitted to us for out consideration they are as follows : 1st the weapons shall be the ordinary duel ling pistols loaded with one ball and lhe dis tance forly feet 2nd the parties shall hold their pistols by their sides in a perpendicular position with the muse to the ground 3rd the word or signal for fireing shall be given by the friend of one of the parties to be determined by lot in the following manner — the person giving lhe word or signal shall ask " are you ready ?" and on receiving an affirm ative reply from both parties he shall proceed to count " one two three — fire neither parly shall fire or make any attempt to fire be lure the word fire :" and the person giving lhe word or signal for firing shall repeat the manner in which he will do so in the presence ot both the parlies before they take their positions j it will be remarked by those who areconver j sanl with the manner of giving the word on an j occasion of this sort that the method selected j by co baxter was in contravention ofthe or dinary usage no words of halt were called after the word fire and the object seemed to be lo ensure some one being hit my second ob jected to the unusual manner of giving the word but upon a lilile conference between mr wood fin and col baxter — the latter gentleman not yielding the point i instructed my second to make no further objection the seconds proceeded to load the pistols when mr woodfin lound he had no charger for j col baxter's pistol i offered mine which was j accepted mr woodfin charged the pistol — | mr baxter seeing the size ofthe charger told j mr woodfin to put in another charge mrj woodfin hesitating said it was sufficiently well j charged whereupon mr baxter remarked he j could not put in too much mr woodfin accor j dingly put in the additional charge of powper } and mr baxter selected and rammed the ball j down wilh his own hand he then selected a cap put it upon his pistol and we took our po sitions mr woodfin gave the word and at the word fire i distinctly saw col baxter's hand raise and level his pistol at me i shot and | heard but one report dr hilliard my surgeon dr jones my second and my servant who was sianding near me heard but one report mr woodfiii was sianding nearer col baxter and thinks he could distinguish a difference in the report oflhe pistols my ball struck col bax tor between the knuckles of the second and third fingers of his right hand ranged up the hand and arm and lodged in the arm any one may make the experiment and ihey will see at once his pistol was presented at me a few moments after col baxter was shot and while the medical gentlemen were dress ing his wounds dr jones came to me and said that col baxter had auihorized him to s£iy to me that he had not intended to fire at me and should not have done so had my ball not hit his hand and caused his pistol to fire dr jones said to me that as my friend considering the n.uiire of the message and the manner in which it was delivered to bim he thought it his duty to advise me to approach col baxter and show a willingness to reconcile our difficulty 1 said to dr jones ihat i did not believe what col baxter said as to his intention not to fire at me and that his object was only lo get some . advantage of me in bringing the affair belore the public or he desired to put me in a situation where he could insult me with impunity dr jones insisted that i should approach col bax ter he believing that col baxter's message was intended as an offer of friendship ; and i was finally prevailed upon lo do so i advanced to col baxter and said : col baxter from , the message you sent me by dr jones i have been induced to approach you i am willing now that this mailer should drop here and we j should be iriends col baxter said : mr er : win from what has been passed between us i cannot consider you my equal said i slop colonel baxter : i should certainly no have approached vou had i not received lhe message i did by dr jones ; and i turned and walked off l did nol care to bandy words wilh a man who would act thus and i could not resent the insull then as my antagonist was wounded and disabled these are the simple fads in the case i leave it to an unprejudiced public lo say how much credit should be attached to ihis man's as sertions that he did not intend to fire at me — nobody in this community believes it except a few contemptible slaves who will say any thing ihey are paid for and perhaps a few crazy old women marcus erwin the above statement has been submitted to us and we find the facts in it correctly and tru ly staled w l hilli rd e r.jones asheville july 31 1851 dear sir : the accompanying statement of the affair between col baxter and mvself i submit io you for lhe purpose of askino wheth er,'as far as you know anything in it is incur ! recily or unjustly staled very truly yours marcus erwin i j w woodfin esq asheville n c _____ asheville n c july 31st 1851 j dear sir : your article making statements ! in relation to the difficulty between yourselfand col baxter has been shown to me and hastily examined by first expressing my regret that anything further should be said in the public prints in'rngard lo the aflair and renewing mv i formerly expressed desire as made known lo : you and col b that nothing further should be ; said in regard thereto in a public manner i i will answer that i see no statement ol facts giv : en as coming within my observation which i could deny i am of course expressing no opinion upon the correctness of your conclu i sions and particularly with regard to the one j in reference to coi b s intention not to fire | i will state one fact which is referred to in your j article ; i am clear and distinct in this that here was a difference perceptable in the re j port ofthe two pieces i mentioned il imme j diately on the occasion and cannot be mistaken in regard thereto i am very respetfully j w woodfin m erwin esq at his office mob ln columbus ga we find the following dispatches in tbe macon journal and messenger of wednesday last : columbus aug 12—3 30 p m messrs editors : — there is a great mob raging here at present the negro man jarrett convicted by two successive ju ries of the infamous crime of committing a rape upon a little girl of ten years old was to have been hung to-day to the sur i prise of every one he was pardoned by | gov towns this has created great in ! dignation among the populace and a mob j of five hundred persons are now before j the jail awaiting the hour of 4 o'clock at which time they expect to hang him columbus aug 12—6 10 p m the mob assembled at 4 o'clock pro \ ceeded to the jail and demanded the keys i the sheriff refused to give them up — the } doors were broken open and the negro i brought out and hung to a pine tree back ; of the jail beautiful mineral we are indebted to capt eudy super intendent ofthe hodgin mine for a splen j did specimen oi quartz crystals taken : from the deepest tunnel 120 feet he thinks california can hardly beat ourstate for fine specimens of crystal quartz rock the crystals are thrown together in mass , es of the most fantastic forms as though nature had first completed her heavier and coarser work and then sportively , made her playthings of this magnificent mineral — greensboro patriot humors of the world's fair — the bos ton transcript publishes a series of inter esting and amusing letters in relation to the world's fair in london from mr j i v c smith the following anecdotes are related in one of his letters of a late date : '• a portly fellow with an eyeglass pres sed into the orbit inquired of another in the act of inspecting the properties of mr clapp's very beautiful coach from pittsfield whether the americans ever rode in carriages another sapient with pomatumed hair and carrying a gold hea ded stick asked a visitor from the other side ofthe water if the rocky moun tains could be seen from new york a fight and two men drown ed the cumberland civilian says on sunday last as a canal boat was passing through the four locks below the tunnel a fight sprung up on board be tween a white man named snyder at tached to one of the boats and george a negro belonging to the estate of henry bevans deceased in a short time the two combatants found themselves in tbe lock upon rising to the surface they re newed the struggle in the water carried it on so fiercely that in a short lime both sunk to rise no more in life their bod ies were afterwards found in the lock i some things hasten into being others [ to decay of those in being a part is al ! ready gone the world is renewed by flux and change just as time is by the infinite successions of eternity now who would attach importance to matters hurried down the ever restless stream ? discussing secession we yesterday said a word ofthe effects pro i duced towards bringing about secession bv | the merely vindicating it as an abstract right j while confessing that there exists no present j occasion for resorting to it we have now to : speak of other pernicious effects that must in | eviiably flow from all such gratuitous discussion i of one ol those deplorable political catastrophes which if it ever comes at all had better come j upon us unwarned than come prematurely provoked by the rash and irreverent debate of ; a subject too sacred to he touched until we know that it must be deliberated because it i musl be acted on there are public sentiments in abundance — there are private affections — there are prin ciple of morals — there are points of failh which rest not upon reason but are derived from na | lure and the heart ati which none discuss but lools that never fell them or sssphisters in j whom they are lust what is lhe use of con sidering whether a man should love his conn ' try or not his parents or not he has al ready losl half lhe feelings ofthe patriot or lhe son who consents lo hold a question wiih him self of either duty many of the great points of social action must be accepted as instincts adopted as ultimate truths we must adore god not examine him : we must revere mar riage not philosophize wilh our wit about what human wit never invented : we must respect property lest we should by speculating on : how or why it came sink inio thai worst kind of thief who fancifully styles himself a social ist so of a hundred olher things oflhe affec tions and sentiments ; ihey love not to argue ; they recoil from the rough and frigid touch of logic by the lime a woman has analyzed all the principles of modesty and chastitv how many women will have any of either left ? like these is that intimate that reverential that grateful that filiial idea that poliiical in stinct of our hearts which lhe noblest man amongst us have ever cherished and honoured as liitle less than a sort oi religion and myste ry even in that early day when the prophetic eye of patriotism itself could yet see but dimly tbe benefits which this union was to bestow upon us they bade us from the beginning look on it as a consecrated idea a sacred ar rangement of our public safety which it would be profane lo handle they evidently regard ed as not merely for us a national good the vastest but au indissoluble neces-ity from which there was and would ever be no outlet but into absolute mutual ruin its very discussion therefore they charged us with every solemn wan ing never to touch how wisely the event though long after has unhappily proved for the mere raising oflhe question in south carolina some 25 years ago — the mere claim of freedom lo talk about its possibility — the simple enunciation there by that famous doubter of every religiou idea dr thomas cooper bas led by gradual weakening of every inslinctive feeling ol loyally and na tionality to lhe entire slate of popular disaffec tion which now prevails there and exlingiish ed in the general breast every american sen timent every thought of this as their country they began iwenty-five years ago by only claiming that there was no harm in calcula ting lhe value of the union ;" tbey have end ed by the very arithmetical results of that calculation and ascertained by the rules of cocker that it is worlh considerably less than nothing at all ! if we in virginia desire to be led to the same wise conclusion we have only to tolerate tbat presses and politicians should destroy our inherent repugnance to the like by familiar izing the public mind with this fatal idea and uprooting all tbe old reverence for what wash ington and his compeers held too holy for de bate ii lhe very principle of institutions the very ' iiie of states is to be submitted just when it pleases every rash and bad anatomist to his dissecting knife what government ever so healihy musl not presently perish under inves tigation ? what reverence and finally what power of performing its otli-e beniticenlly can the public authority sustain where men even though that authority is themselves ami can al ways be wilh a lilile patience brought to the real expression of their wiil will yet permit themselves to attack its very existence and turn to upsetting when ihey have only steadily and wisely to control it ? there can in short be no excuse for those amongst us who volunteer these discussions of the right of secession and revolution they admit of no apology but an irresistible neces sity men do not discuss such things ihey on ly act them he who talks of them when there is something else to be done besides do ing them is a public enemy whal use what effect can they now possibly have in his slate bul to aid ihe cause ol disunion and en courage the intended course of south carolina . are they meant lor anything else we wiil thank tbe enquirer to explain — rich whig very ferocious — the ultras of jasper co ga held a meeling on the 28th ult ai which ihey resolved that it souih carolina should se cede from the union they would support her cause ' with muskets and daggers unto death as these brave men say nothing about cannon we suppose they musl be deficient in artillery practice the allu-ion to the daggers evident ly contemplates very close quarters we think we see an army of the jasper county chivalry marchin toward the south carolina frontier and earh one exclaiming ' is this a dagger that i see before me what a magnificent ighl it would be — n o picayune canadian and nova scotia rail road toronto august 14 — in tbe canadian as sembly last nighi lhe government resolutions were adopted by which sixteen millions ol d<d lars are appropiiated towards the construction of the great trunk railway through canada to halifax n s the decided action of ihis pio vince and the known favor with which this long talked of and greal national eni<>r|>rize is regarded in the lower province leaves little room to doubt bul that it will now be prosecu i ted to a successful issue whig opinion in louisiana at a meeting of the whigs of ascension : and st james parishes to appoint delegates to a nominating convention the following truly ; national whig resolutions were passed : resolved that however uncalled for and supererogatory under ordinary ciraumstances and in ordinary times mi_hl appear the form al declaration by american citizens of iheir fi . delily and attachment to the federal union tha 1 menacing attitude ol south carolina and the treasonable language of some disaffected spir its in other portions of the south render it in cumbent upon us as southerners to profit by every fitting opportunity to reiterate publicly our profound and unalterable love for the gloy . ous tree republican government under winch we live : ihal accepting in good failh the series of measures known as the compromise as a definitive settlement of the dangerous and ex citing quesiions which for years back have been permitted unwisely to disturb ournational peace we repeat now what we have already pr.>claim ed that we ask for no other constitution and no other union lhan those wiih which we were endowed by the founders ol lhe republic resolved that the present administration deserves the gratitude and hearty support ofall potriotic americans north south east and west lor the firm viand il has taken and main tained at every hazard in favor ol the constitu tional rights oflhe ssiuih ; and that we hail with unalloyed gratification the repeated evidences of a returning sense of allegiar.te to the laws manifested by our northern i#eihren under the teachings of our most eminent political lead er of both parlies hold them to the record so signal has been the defeat ofthe secos sionisls in our slate wherever the issue has been fairly made that every effort will be at lempted by the leaders fo take the back track no stratagem will be left untried to extricate themselves from the position ihey assumed du ling the last session of the legislature and in the recent campaign for congress they al ready see and feel that their dsictrines are odi ous to lhe union-loving people of the slate and whilst ihey do nol intend to abandon those doctrines they will nevertheless endeavor to evade the true issues but their opinions aud purposes are on record that record thev can not expunge they have done whal ihey could lo break down lhe compromise they have bent their whole energies to establish the doctrine of secession they have given aid and comfort " to south carolina in her designs against the i nion they have done all this in the lace ot day let the friends of the com promise and the union be on heir gaard and hold them to their doctrines — make them stick lo lhe record — remember the " standard has proclaimed thai " secession is a fardinal prin ciple of the democratic faith !" keep this be fore the people and we have them just where we want them — raleigh register from the charlotte journal charlotte and s c rail road a meeting of the directors of this com pany took place at chester on the 13lh inst we learn from a gentleman pre sent that the road is progressing as rap idly as possible but it will not reach ches ter as early as was expected as one of the contractors has been materially retar ded by coming across a bed of rock — tbe road has been doing a very good bu siness for tbe past three months which are usually the dullest in the season — the following was taken from the books of the company as the earnings for the three months : receipts for may june & july 9,728 go expenses " " " 5,479 35 balance 81,219 24 this must be principally received from passengers as very little freight could be passing at this meeting the following resolu tions were adopted : i.i that the president ofthis com pany be authorized to make a contract for the remaining portion of the iron for the rail road and that the t rail pat tern of 51lbs to the yard be adopted resolved that the permanent work shops of the charlotte and south caroli na rail road company be established in the town of columbia south carolina resolved that the chief engineer he authorized and instructed to contract for the erection ofthe neccrssnry work shops and procure such machinery as may be required lor the use of the company resolved that the president be author ized to enter into a contract with the post oiiice department upon the terms proposed by the post master general for the transportation ofthe mail on the rail road for a period so long only as the rail roatl is in an unfinished tate resolved that the president be instruct ed to bring to the notice ofthe stockhold ers at their next annual meeting the pro priety of taking some action wiih regard to delinquent stockholders and that it be urjred that no dividends be paid to them who are in arrears after a given day resolved that the chief engineer he instructed to take till the necessary steps to procure as soon as practicable the timber required r the bridge to be built over the catawba river and to have the same framed and ready to be erected as soon as the superstructure reaches that point resolved tbat a free ticket on the char lotte and south carolina rail road fo columbia and back be granted to such survivors of the palmetto regiment as mav attend the celebration of the anni versary of the battle of churubusco on the 20th august resolved that alike privilege be ten dered to such volunteers in the late mex ican war from north carolina as may think proper to attend warrants for the arrest of fugitive slaves boston aug i6tb it is stated that one ol the u s mar shals has a warrant for the arrest of a fu gitive slave in this vicinity the atlair creates considerable excitement among i the abolitionists