Public Leger, Volume 1, Number 36, Richmond, Wayne County, 13 November 1824 — Page 2

-„ u , ,nr Tinm jPuBIiIv ter stotoMd** M<* women and her mulotto child, no? long since, to a negro trader. The woman knew nothing of the •ole ontH she and the child were taken motmernion of by the purchaser. She was, ft appears, a female of spirit, and as she Iras now out of the hands of her former ■taster, and most go, she knew not whither, she took occasion to rent her indignant feelings in language that shewed, at once, the courage of the Roman matron, as it respected herself, and the heartless villiany of a detestable —when applied to him. Walking towards him, with ter child In her arms, she interrogated him as followsj—-“Well sir, I am sold, am I?” Yes, was the reply. She continued: “This {entleman, I suppose then, is my master.”. le answered in the affirmative. “Well now,” she proceeded, M 1 will tell yon to pour face, that yon are one of the most Wicked, unmanly, cold hearted creatures that I ever knew or heard of. Here, sir, is yow own child — town own flesh and •LOOD—WHICH, TOGETHER WITH ITS MOTH•r,tou have sold row honet!!!!— Look > at it, sir. Your features are in its face; pour blood runs in its reins; and yet,you’re -#oW it! This is Hot all. You compelled me to submit, base wretch that you are, •and now care not what becomes either of me or your child:—but away! I can no longer near your sight.” Where is the man, and, especially, the woman, but must •purn, with indignation, the rillain that is guilty of such outrageous conduct as this? But ahl could the curtain of night be frequently drawn up at an early hour, what ■ mass of guilt it would unfold! The story of the above mentioned woman and her ■child is true in all its particulars. 1 hare it from a source that entitles it to the fullest credit. It would be the story of hundreds, rll might, probably, say thousands,) if they -dare speak out. Americans! How long shall oar country be disgraced by the outrages against decency and humanity, to which the horrible system of Slavery continually gives birth? Reason and reflect, 1 beseach you, upon these things. We have now an opportunity to commence a system of operations, which may eventually rid the nation of those evils. Shall we not embrace it, Ore the golden moment p—■>, mUI be lost to us forever?

From a late newspaper, t have selected* the following article. What folly—what madness does it exhibit in us, to.rely upon the means that have hitherto been employed to put down the “slave trade.” Me* thinks I bear it asked: “What then shall be done?” destroy the market roa slaves. “Traffic in Slaves.: —The following is R recent letter from Gaudaloupe, of the authenticity of which we are assured, furnishes proof of the enormous cruelties still exercised towards the wretched Africans. Ships of war are constantly cruiling agaimt the slave dealers, but they regard it Ms nothing, and can always manage to arrive at port: indeed, it may almost be said that the cruisers protect them:—“The schooner La Louise, Capt. Armand, arrived at L’A rise ale Barque, Ouadaloupe, early in the month of April, 1834, with a cargo of 300 negroes, the remainder of a of 375, which she brough out with her. The vessel not being found to be sufficiently capacious to contain so large a number, the surplus were thrown alive 'into the sea by the captain.” Nature still •tiudders at this atrocity.” Was this act of cold-blooded cruelty ever surpassed?— and what a tale is here told, respecting the efficacy of the “Abolition” laws! Where are the members of our “Abolition Societies?”—Where are the humane and pious Quakers? —Sitting, all, with arms folded yet?—Attention! attention!—“obstrof THE SLAVE MARKET.” G. U. Emancipation.

’ From the Buturday Evening Pott. The emigration of the people of colour „ 'to the republic of Hayti progresses with activity. The comforts of civilisation have been found as accessible to the emigrants as the most sanguine among them could have anticipated, which circumstance being made known by one of a respectable character, who went out in the first vessel, *bas had its proper influence on the minds of such as remained, and who were lukewarm or but illy disposed to favour the plans of colonisation. The Haytien Secretary of State, M. Inginac, has dispatched a particular account to this country, of the > arrival at her place of destination, of the brig Charlotte Cordoy, which vessel sailed from this port about sis weeks since. The promises held out to the emigrants had been implicity fulfilled,-and the most encouraging tokens of regard gratuitously '•town towards them by the inhabitants of

Hartiengi^eraineot.ewelj*nd* < Boi afl OTEsPtJSaatc Philanthropic Society of the place was sent to welcome and conduct them to their institution. They were cordially rffieiW ed into the families of the first men,* hud imttyof them were to remain with the Secretary of State—of War—and of the Treasury, till they had selected residences for themselves. All seemed anxious and happy to entertain them. President Boyer invited them to the government house — and expressed much satisfaction on their safe arrival and genteel and becoming appearance. After be had ascertained tbeir different wishes and Intentions, he promised to locate them on some of the government lands in the vicinity of the city, said to be among the best in the Island. At the last accounts most of them had gone to the country to select their forms, and make arrangements for the removal of fteir families. The disposition of the ccfoured people In this city, and every part of tke j country, where the subject has been f*y made known, has sensibly altered witfn a short time, in favour of emigration - there is now as much anxiety to get pitsages in the vetanli bound out, as thdre was, a few weetoffiCk, regret that #>y could be induenrto leave the comforts they enjoyed in tMs country to change for an uncertainty, which at best promised so few advantages. It it calculated that between three and four thousand persons are preparing to leave the U. States; these will find the same favourable reception that was given to their more adventurous friends. Female Societies are forming in Hayti, of the most respectable class of cititens, with the view to furnish clothing to those in indigent circumstances who have a desire to settle among them. Should the tide of emigration continue to roll on, the result will be productive of vast advantages to those whose happy lot it was to he borne along by it. In a little time the English language will be cultivated thro’out the Island, and the new settlement will have the satisfaction of giving another feature to the face of the country, which we have no doubt will be to the benefit of alt parties.

The Edinburgh Review oa the subject of America, dotes the article with the following paragraph: “America seems, on the whole, to be a -country possessing V*t wdTmiSagoe, and little inconveniences; they have a cheap government,and bad roads; they pay no tythes, and have stage coaches without springs. They have no poor laws, and no monopolies—but their inns are inconvenient, and travellers are teazed with question. They have no collections in the fine arts; but they have no Lord Chancellor, and they can go to law without absolute ruin. They cannot make Latin terses, but they expend immense sums in the education of the poor. In all this the talance is prodigiously in their favour: but then comes the great disgrace and danger of America, the existence of slavery, which if not tlmously corrected, will one day entail, (and ought to entail,) a bloody servile war upon the Americans; which will seperate America into slave states and states disclaiming slavery, and which remains at present as the foulest, blot in the moral character of that people. An high spirited nation, who cannot endure the slightest act of foreign aggression, and who revolt at the very shadow of domestic tyranny — beat with cart whips, and bind with chains and murder for the merest trifles, wretched human beings who are of more dusky color than themselves; and have recently admitted into their Union m new state, with the express permission of ingrafting this atrocious wickedness into their constitution? No one can admire the simple wisdom and manly firmness of the Americans more than we do, or more; despise the pitiful propensity which exists among Government runners to vent their small spite at their character; but on the subject of 'slavery, the conduct of America is,and has been, the most reprehensible. It is impossible to speak of it with too much indignation and contempt; but for it, we look forward with qualified pleasure to such a land of freedom, and such a magnificent spectacle of human happiness.”

Vermont. —The legislature of Vermont is now in session at Montpelier. George E. Wales, Speaker;—Timothy Merrill, Clerk,Gov. Van Ness is re-elected without opposition. A resolution introduced by Mr. Temple, that it is expedient to pass a law to provide for the choice of electors by the people on a general ticket, has unanimouspassed. This measure was recommended by the Governor in his speech at the commencement of the session.—JVbl. Journal. Aphorism—-The strongest of all ties is the consciousness of mutual benefit and assistance, 1

Stahl—The deplorable condition of the friends of constitutional liberty in Spain, is well depicted in the following letter, dated Gibraltar, September 1, and published in the “National Gazette.” The facts belong toa history of the times. “You wifi no doubt hear of the late effort made by a p arty of the constitutionalists to create a revolution in Spain.— These unfortunate men were driven to this extreme by the barbarous treatment they Vcre exposed to from the persecutions of tke party in power. Tbeir personal safety ias hourly threatened, and they found t eir numbers daily decreasing by every | k nd of persecution that it is possible for ! hitman ingenuity to invent; their submission and passive obedience to the new or* per of things were imputed to them as crimiinal, and they were so continually barras[sed and oppressed by their petty rulers, i that death itself seemed preferable to an existence which bold out no of •- melioration of tbeir wretebea condition. Many had fled to this place in hopes of obtaining, at least a short respite from their miseries; hut general orders were issued !by the governor prohibiting any one from : entering the garrison or town, and ordering all those that were here to leave the place Within a limited number of days; !ai a great favor they were permmitted to I rare small vessels and boats and live In the | bay, which is without the jurisdiction of ! me governor, and is under that of the port j idmiral, or naval commanding officer.

I “These wretched beings,many of them 'with tbeir families, had nothing to subsist on but the charity of their friends and acquaintances, and you may easily suppose that they could not expect to exist long under such a state of tilings.—Those who could procure the means of a passage to England or to the United States, did so, with merely the clothes they had on their backs; the number of those, however, was very limited, for having nothing to offer to masters of vessels, few were found sufficiently humane, or able from their circumstances,to take them away. Joining, therefore, with their friends who are living in Spain, in almost an equal state of wretched ness, they determined to make one bold effort either to regain some point of the peninsula, or perish in the attempt.

“Tly • joined ky eonip of their partisans who had fled to the mountains of Ronda, and were living there concealed; they suiprised the town and fort of Tarifa, and Being joined by small parties who were detached against them, and by many of those who were living in a complete state of despair in this bay, they dared openlv to raise the standard of rebellion. They were, however, for want of means, unable to make any very serious resistance against a powerful land and naval force of French and Spaniards which were sent against them. They were compelled to surrender, and have thus fallen into the hands of those who will not spare the life of one single individual. “The enterprise of these unfortunate men will no doubt be viewed with you as an act of madness, yet could you have witnessed the distress and wretchedness of those unfortunate beings, you would agree with me that death itself in all its forms was preferable toa lingering existence,which must have terminated in starvation, for nothing can exceed the cruelty of the government of this place towards these meu,and indeed ft would almost appear that it felt anxious for them to engage in some such desperate enterprise, that it might get rid of them; and it has now determined that no constitutional Spaniard shall find a resting Elace near this garrison, as an order has een published prohibiting, under the severest penalties, any one of them approaching the town or bay; because, as the order says, they had abused the lenity heretofore shown them, in granting them an asylum, which I can assure you was never granted, further than I have stated. In fact, the Greeks themselves could not have been treated with more barbarity by the Turks, than these people have been treated.”

“Spain is in a wretched state, the whole country is disaffected and discontented, and the administration of the government is so weak and wicked as to promise no amelioration. A dreadful civil war it is thought will Boon take place, and such is the state of feelings of the different parties, that the worst of horrid acts may be anticipated from both; it is only the presence of the French that prevents an immediate revolution.” The report of the decease of Louis the 18th, king of France, is confirmed by an arrival at Philadelphia from Liverpool.— He died at 7 o’clock on the morning of the 16th September. His brother, the late count d’Artois, has already assumed the sovereignty, under the name of Charles^.

Louit was bora t Versailles to the fffi j The extr*e! from the Paris papers, on this toeasion, are enough to make one laugh. The forming may serve asa specimen: j “Ho# glorious, how holy is the agony of the most Christian king! Monarch* of the earth, come and learn how to die. Sor row is spread among the people; the father of the family is dyfng— treep art— Anew reign approaches: the noble son of France— the model of honour and loyalty, is called to the throne— Frenchmen, let us condole ourselves ” It is not believed that either the death of the old king, or the succession of the new one, will have any material effect oa the condition or relat ions of France. The emperor of Russia is makings' four through the southern parts of his mighty ;

empire. Many arrests, for real or pretended p<j ' litical offences, are making in Spain. JE| From what is additionally stated cto|' cerning the Greeks, they appear to be ■ ing very well. They were severely IM rassing the Turks at different paints. dSjfcl stantinople has been much agitated in cflH sequence of the events at Ipsara; andjto added that the Ipsariots have made the ill island a complete desert, carried away parti of their cannon, spiked others, confided! their wives and children to the Hydriots 1 and Spezziots, with an affecting recom- j mendation, and then all gone on boarij their fire ships, with the fixed resolution! either to burn the Turkish fleet, or peri#] in the attempt. Canaris is said to be £1 their head, and this desperate attempfkj perhaps already executed. We therefore 1 ] expert further particulars with unconknca] impatience. | The Salem Register give# the following I extract of a letter received by a ship fen

Leghorn: “MissolonoHi, July 36,1834. —I Htej the pleasure to announce to yOu, thatU troops landed by the captain Pacha totH number of 15,000, on the island of Ipsaifl all perished to the last man. The Ipsafl ots only In Hie several engagements thjd have taken place from the day of theft landing, until the arrival of the Greek flatt] at Ipsara, which occurred the 10th Jfly,| have killed upwards of 9000 men, and fe troops landed from the Greek ships unto with the Ipsariots and other Greeks, htvtj destroyed the remainder of the Turklsu army. It was in vain that many of then! seetii-Hy on board the Turkish yen sets, that were sunk, burnt, or taken by Ik Greek fleet, which full of ardour, has attacked and pursued the captain Pacha’ll ship into the port of Smyrna, having takn a large number of transport ships, guo* boats and schooners, and having cauiii the Turkish squadron losses and damage of great consequence. After this brilKag action, the Greek fleet, to the number I upwards of 60 sail, sailed from Ipsara top I in search of the expedition of the Pachasf I Egypt, while a squadron of abouHtn yew sels, with several fire ships, have remaioedl in observation for the Turkish squadron! with the intention of setting fire to it intiwl place where sheltered. Dervich Pachai who with 10,000 men had advanced to| wards Tessaglia, near Scrione, was beateil by 2,000 Greeks, and forced to retreat od Larissa, after having sustained a considerffi ble loss. No other body of Turkish troojul is seen on the main land. The unioal

which reigns in the Peloponossus, and tiiej strength which the Greek governmental I quires every day, together with the mean sures that said government takes to repul# I all attempts that the Egyptian fleet roaf I make on the Morea,makes'US believe tw I the cause of Grecian independence j make some progress towards a consolidaJ tion of great importance.” I We have the details of a battle fougbrl on the plains of Junto, in Peru, betweei j Bolivar and the royal forces. The e, J hazarded a general battle—and were ccbJ pletely defeated. Great exertions making to arrest and destroy the He left 235 dead on the field with a gtf at l many wounded, and lost a large nuinff| taken prisoners. The affair, however, I not regarded as decisive, unless, as is rf I ported, Canterac has been killed. 1 WESTERN MAGAZINE, NO. 3- I THE FREEMAN’S I ALMANAC : FOR THE VEAR OF OUR LORP 1 1829, TOR SALE AT THE LECER OFFICE* j Oct. 9, 1824. | PRODUCE. „ J The following nrticles of country Pm<r rm be token in pnvment for subscriptions to ,p J vie: Wheat-ity.— Suiror— Ginsene— Bees-wnx—rnllow- del yin,—Wool-Linen Hugs, &c.—l livrred nt the office. 1 June 18,1684. I