Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1859 — Page 2

|loctrn. HU S 3 O I’OOK. RV HARRIET E. IIE\EDICT. 'Mid cypress shadows dark and deep.. Her silent form was laid to sleep, With pall all decked in sable gloom, And stately steeds, and raven plume, And mourners sad with many a tear To weep and moan, beside her bier, And giirpliced.bishop by her.sod, ■ To breathe for Iter a prayer to God. We laid our.darling one to rest, . Upon the green earth’s quiet, breast, Where falletjli sunshine glad and free, And summer winds make melody. No deep-toned bell rang out for her A knell unti the sepulcher, And few thej ones who came that day Besido her gjrave to weep and pray. They rcaredfainid the cv.piessjgloom A liiomimedt above her tomb, A form with gazing eye, J And pinions lifted toward the sky— J • And on the marble’s surface lair 1 Are traced Her virtues strahge and rye, That now, u-iltuuclied by death or Urne, May flourish in a fairer clime. f Ah! where cur loved one sleeps ;&me We placed i»o monumental stone; Her loving Words, her winsome glee, Her voice of richest melody, JFprever on < nr hearts are traced, .Tni lines that may not be effaced. O! best belo’ ed, we know that, thou Art higher t mil the angels now. The rich, tin pdor—alike each head Is pillowed in its coffin bed; Both rest in silence lone and deep— All! which if them doth sweetest sleep ! O', God! we thank the;' tiiou hast kmnvi The wealth ®f righteous lives alone: That- when t ion com'st with angel band And rich am poor before thee stand, This the sob riches thou dost know, - To dooid the n unto bliss or Woe!

j Jill st cl (anco 11 s. 1 t't>A t'a-jssutteOr .30ia> it. cook. i Having assured by tire Foutlicrn press that the cjorifession of John E. Cook Woiikl rev-gal an! alarming amount of Northern complicity ijn the Harper’s Ferry affair, tine public, notwithstanding they were prepared from past experience to make uue allowance for live combined influence'.ofdear ajjnJ hope under which it was written, have naturally looked forward to iis appearance vfith interest. It is now published at length in the New Yijfrk Tribune, occupying three columns of that (paper. Much of the narrative, however, is merely a repetition of w ell known tacts. \\ e give all that is new. T Cook states that he became acquainted With Brown at his camp- on Middle Creek, JCansas, just after the buttle ol Black Jack, Ujiiid remained with him un'il the camp was Woken up by C.?l. Summer. In tlie-autumn oil' 185“, he -'ng sin met with him at the house oil E. B. Wviitmr»i*. near Brown i n for.'!-.',! him that he was aho.iiit to organize a company lor the purpose of putting a stop to the Pro-Slavery aggressions. ( :«uk,-wi. being requested to join tl.i s drganizutioii, at once assented, and recommended Richard Real!, L. F. Persons and R. J. Hinton as suitable accessions to its ranks. A day or two after, he met Brow if by agreement at Mrs, Sheridan’s, near Topeka, where they were soon after joined by Stephens, Mullet uiid Kegi. Here, Cook was--first told that tjie parly were about to leave Kansas lor Ashtabula county,'Ohio, for the purpose of military training. - t He was soon after in.formeri that Brown’s ultimate destination xvas Virginia, having supposed thus far that Kansas and Missouri were to be the scenes ofjpperations. The project struck several of the .party unfavorably, and it was only after much wrangling that Cook, ‘Real! and Parsons were induced to continue with Brown. At Tabor, lowa, teams were procured for the transportation of about 1200 Sharpe’s rifles which had been taken there '■about a year before, and were awaiting the corTlers of Brown. “There were, alUo, other stores, consisting cos blankets, clotliiiig, hoots, ammunition, and about 1200 revolvers of the Massachusetts Arms patent, all of which wo transported aciross the,State of lowa to Springdale, and ’from there to Liberty, at which place they were shipped for Ashtabula county, Ohio, wjiOre they remained till brought ’to 16hamhersburg, Pa., and were from there transported to a house in Washington county, Md., which Capt. Brown had rented for six months, and which] was situated about five miles from Harper s Ferry. It was the intention of Capt. 1 town to sell his team in Springdale, and with the proceeds to go on with the rest of the company to some place in Ashtabula county, Ohio, for military instruction, hut lie (was disappointed in the sale.” - .During the winder and spring, the party moved about from plage to place, and during the latter portion of the time staid at Chatham, where the Constitutional Convention, of which we have already published an account, was hold. Wimn the • Convention broke up, news was received that Col. 11. Forbes, who had joined in the movement, had given information to the Government. This, of course, delayed the time cf attack. A day or two njfterward most of tie party took the boat to Cleveland—John I . Kagi, Richard Reals, Win. 11. Leetnan, Richard Robertson and CapJ.aiili Brown remaining.' Capt. I?., hovveyejf, started in a day or two for the East. Kagi went, to some other town in Canada to set up the type and to get the . Constitution printed, which lie completed before he ro-

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turned to Cleveland. They remained in Cleveland for some weeks, at which place, for the time being, the company disbanded Captain Brown had had the plan of the insurrection in contemplation far several years—in fact, told Cook that it had been the chief aim of his life, to carry out and accomplish the abolition of Slavery. It having been previously arranged that Cook and some others, should go to Harper’s Ferry to wait events tliere, Brown went. East to procure funds. Of what followed, the confession gives .the .following account: “In his trip East he did not realize the amount of money that he expected. The money had been promised bona fide, but owing to the tightness of the money market they failed to comply with his demands. The funds were necessary to the accomplishment of his plans. I-afterward learned that there was a lack of confidence in the success of his scheme. It was, therefore, necessary that a movement should be made in another direction, to demonstrate the practicability of lus plan. This he made about a year ago by his invasion of Missouri, and j the taken of about ;l dozen slaves, together with horses, cattle, into Kansas, in del fiance of the Unied States Marshal and his posse. From Kansas he took them to Canada, via. lowa City anil Cleveland'. At the latter place he remained some days, and, I think, disposed cif his horses th we. ft seems tliat tiie United States 111 trsha! was afraid to arrest him, and this was ail that was wanting to give confidence to the. wavering in the practicability of his plan and its ultimate success. lie Game to Harper’s Ferry! about the la.-1 of J unit, though I did not see him till kite in July, or the early part of August, whet) wc met on S i nianlo i h.street, Harper's Ferry, opposite Tearnev’s store, I do mu know who were IBs aiders or abettors, but have heard him mention in connection wiih .it the n lilies of Gerrit Smiih. of New York, llowc of Boston, and Sanborn and Thaddeus Hyatt of New York City. What connection, -and' how far connected with his plan 1 do not know, hut 1 know, lie fwrote a letter a few weeks previous to his attack, to some gentlemen in Boston, which read, as near as I can recollect, as follows: “ G r.:: n : .i,M ra : I .ha ve got nearly all my machines on, and shall be ready t-> st :rt them in a few days, unless prevented by a special Providence. Every t : itig .is Working well. [ shall ,want all the funds: you promised me ! in a few days. rAtirs. truly, - “Calm & Utii.t..” i Fn the mean times the men who had. cn--1 gaged tii go with him, had most ol them arrived at Cihamhershurg, Pa., and been sent to the place which ha had rented in YVash-j j ingtdn county,' Md., about five miles from ■Harper's Ferry. The greater part of the me::.kept out of sight during the day, for ■ fear of attracting~Mtentiun. 'Fire arms, munition.., &.c., -wt Sic -Varied from Ch-ainlmrs-burg to his rendezvous. 'File spear heads and guards came in \trung boxes, and the. 1 shafts passed for fork/handles. They were I put tegether by our Own men, at the house i wheremost of them were found. Letters of i importance came to the Chamhersburg Post ! Office, and were sent hv some of our own party,to headquarters. The letters of miner ; importance came to the Ferry, to J. Snii'li ! , ' 1 j, J ’ • & Sons. All allusions to our business were made in such a blind way, that they would ; not have been understood by any outside j parties, even should they have been misear- ' ried. The attack was made sooner than it I was intended, owing to/koine friends in Bos- ( ton writing a letter, iimling fault with the I management of (’apt, BhNaiid what to them ■ seemed his unnecessary d I lay and expense. 1 do not know who those p rsotis were, or 1 how far they wire cognisant of his ((’ upt. ! IP’s) plan. But I do know that Dr. Howe ! gave Capt. Brown a breech-loading carbine j and a pair of muzzle-loading pistols, all of ! Government manufacture. They were left j either at the house of Capt. Brown or at the i school-house, where most of the arms were conveyed. At what time and for what puri pose they were given to Capt. Brown, I do ; not know. It was supposed that Col. Hugh I Forbes was dead. It was told by Captain Brown, that when on East he had been told j by Thaddeus Ilyatt, of New York, that some ol the negroes at. that place had informed him i (Hyatt) that Forbes had “gone up”—a-phrase which Lapt. B. and the rest of our company ; understood to mean that he had b tii killed. I do not think that I 1 orbes had any cognizance ol our plans from .-the time of ourleuv- : ing Pedee, a year ago last April. Previous . to Ins quarrel with Capt. Brown, we consul erod that lie, would hold a place next to Brown in command. I do not know the ! present, whereabout of Luke F. Parsons or j Charles JVlonett. The last I heard of Par- ; oils was through Capt. Brown, who Informed

liEXSifljLAEli, JASPER COUNTY. IX'it. WEDXESPAV, DEi'EMBEK 7, Sss.

me that Parsons had started for Pike’s Peak, and that lie (Brown) thought lie would be pretty tollerably pealed before he got there. A short time before the. attack of Harper’s Ferry, ('apt. Brown requested me to find out in some'way, without creating suspicion, the number of male slaves on or near the roads leading from the Ferry, for a distance of eight or ten miles,and to make such memoranda that it would be unintelligible to others, hut in such a manner that I could make it plain to him and the rest of the company. He gave me two dollars to pay my expenses with. I took the road,from Harper’s Ferry to Charlestown, under the plea of gaining statistics for a work to be published by John Henri, and to decide a -wager between him and Mr. Smith. I did not go cm any other road. A few days after this Capt.. Brown sent his wagon over by his sun Oliver and Jeremiah Anderson, to bring my wife and myself to his house. They gave me a note from him \Yliich, as near as f can recollect,: read as follows: “Mr.. Cook, —Dear Sir: You will please get everything ready to come with vour wife jto my house this morning. My wagon will wait for you. I shall take your wife to |;C ha tubers burg, and sliali start early to-rnor--1 row morning. Be as expeditious as possiI hie. Be very careful not to say or do anything which will awaken any suspicion. ; “You can sav your wife is going.to make [ a visit to some friends of hers ur the country. ; Be. Very careful that you do not let any of j.our'pbins leak out. Yours', &.C., “J. fc'MlTlf.” My wife and myself accordingly left Har-j per’.: '.Ferry that night, accompanied by Oli-j ! ver Brown and Jejfemiah Anderson,'for'Capt. ! [ Brown's house, to Yv’ashington county, Md, | The next day, after dinner; Captain B. 1 and tils .»• n Wat son, t.aretho'r with my wife | and child, started for Chamhersburg. \Ylien ’.(’apt . if. returned, he told me lie had got a good- hoarding house in Ciiaitihershurir, at ! Mrs. Rißerer’s, and that she liked her board! I ing place very well. There were s imcsix.or seven in our p..rjiy w ho did not know anything of our Constitution, and, as I have since understood, j wore also ignorant of the plan of operations [ until the Sunday morning previous to the [ attack. Among this number were Edwin ! dqi; ie, Barclay t'oppie, Francis J. Murri- ] am, Shields Green, John Copeland, and . k ’.iry. I Tlis Constitution was. read to them by A.! | I). Stephen's, arid the oath afterwards- ad-! i mini.-sered by. Capt. Brown. Sunday eve-! [ ning previous to our departure, Capt. Brown made his final arrangements for the capture; of Harper’s Ferry, and gave to his men their ; orders. In closing, he said, “avd now, <;>nlkriV':i, let me press this one thing on your munis; i/ou all know how dear life is to you, and h.;w dear your lives are to your friendami in remembering that, consider that the lives of others lire, as dear to them as yours are to you; do net, therefore , lake lie life of any one if you can possibly avoid if; but if it is necessary to tube life in order to sure your own, ’-hen male sure work of it .” ! After describing the events of the 17th of j October at Harper’s Ferry, the confession ithus proceeds: I have forgotten to state previously, that before J left Captain Brown iir Cleveland, Ohio, he gave me orders to trust no one xviih our secret, and to hold no conversation with the slaves, which orders I obeyed with but ii j single exception, which I here mention. The exception to. which I allude is simply this: I met a party)of four negroes, two free and two slave, near Bolivar, Jeff erson county, Virginia. I asked them if th.ev hud ever thought about their freedom. They replied, “they thought they ought to he free,” hut expressed doubts that they ever would be. I told them that time might come before many years, but for the present to keep dark ! and look for the good time coining, and .left them. •1 see from some of the newspapers that I have been represented as Capt. Brown's chief aid. This is incorrect. Kagi was second in command, Stephens third, Uazlilt fourth. Further than this I do not know [ that (.'apt. Brown had made known any pre- i ; fcrcnce as to superiority or rank. Edward Ooppie and Dolphin Thomas were the only i lieutenants he commissioned. Owen Brown,: : Barclay Coppie and F. J. Marriam were not ! at. the Ferry during the time the attack! was made, but remained, by order of Capt. 15., to take charge ol the premises, and to guard the arms left at Brown’s house, in ease of .an attack. Ido not know ol any person in the Ferry or its neighborhood who knew of our plan, save our own party, and they were: pledged to keep it a Secret. Richard Reals, one of our original party, ,-.nd pur Secretary of State,came from Chat-: hum to Cleveland a few days before Ca.pt.

“FREEDOM NATIONAL—SLAVERY S EOT! ON A L.' >

Brown’s arrival from the 'EhA. Soon after his arrival, he (Capt. B ) sent- Real: to New York city, at which place he embarked for England for the purpose of carrying out. the plans of Capt. Brown. Reals was horn arid raised in England. He is a peasant’s son. but his native talents brought him into the notice of some of the nobility, who took charge of him and made arrangements to give him a finished education. He was taken into-the family of Lady N >e! Byron, where he made his homo while pursuing' liis studies. Falling in love with a young lady of noble birth who. was a relative, ol Lady Byron’s, he was censured by Lady B, for his presumption. He became .ofiVriUed at her interference, and finally left Lady B. lo work his own way in the world. About this time the Chartist movement was made, which R l If jnjned, and the result was, lie was obl-ihed to sec!: safety by emigrating to America. , He made his home s »m.e years in Shew York city. A part of his"time lie was there, j he was engaged as assi.-tant superintendent !of the Five Points Mission. lie is v. ‘ll known as an author and a poet. He gave up his situation as assistant superintendent, and went to Kansas in the summer or fall of 1856. I fitsLinct him in Lawrence, Kansas, No received from him. to my knowledge, after lie left for England, to ; which place lie went, in his 0.. n capacity ! and that of.our .Secretary ol State, to solicit funds for the support of our organization. He proposed to deliver a course of lectures in various parts of England, and the net pro- ; coeds of which were tube given to carry out I Cant. Brown’s plan. He is a man of rare j 1 j talents, and a powerful and fluent, speaker. !He is about twenty-eight years of age. Mr. [ Kagi. I believe, got a Idler from s:u:id one -in England a few month< ago, stating that RohJtf had sailed, fi r this c. entry, and that lie had quite a sum of ipuri*ey. with him—-hut furtlu i : than thc.r, wo li e. been unalile to find any trace of him. Capt. Brown and the rest cf our comp, nv who knew him, think that he is dead. * * * * * 1 was c >rmn' a-i.jtied a» a ciptain on the fiiimlay of the. ii.sum-ci.iou. at the ; ,aurn lime the others were, and with ihen: took the oath prescribed in Article lorty-cight, ie, tiie Constitution. George B. Gilt joined us before leaving lowa, in the spring, as did Stewart Taylor!

(Froui the TilVin Tiibioio.

The Indian Captive Reclaimed after Thirty Five Years' Abseace-Incd dents of his Life.

The foil awing narrative of the- return c.ml ! recognition .of A!at!tew Bnayton, the J.m_ lost son of Elijah Bray ton tu this count v, who was stolen by the Itidi u'm liiirty-fonr years ago, will he nadwit I* intere. t. It w.is kindly furnished by* M J. \V. Chandierlin ol (!tirey, ntid ca ll be r- licd upon as true: On the . 2#th of •iffcp'temher, 1:2.5, tw o children o's Elijaii Br; vlon, then resiling mar Sjiring.vill' in .this county, were mat. out alter the cows. After going it sh a t distance Irom home the younger one, Mathew-, a lad between seven and eight years of age, j became fatigued-, and started lor a neighboring hot: •' close by, while the other continued the search u,r the' cows. Since that time ■ nothing Iras been hoard of the child until, lately. The country was thoroughly searched bv all the whites and friendly Indians that resided neat this settlement, and continued several weeks, hut w ithout effect. At the time he was lo I there was two scars on Iff-; person, one on 'his head, caused by a boil, ; and one on the big too of his right foot, cansi d by a cut with an ax. During the latter part off hist A'fi'gust it was ascertafiu-d through the medium off the papers that a returned Indian capt ive was at Cleveland searching for Ins relatives. Search was made for this person, but he was not found until Tuesday evening, Nov. 15, w hen he was discovered at a farmer’s house near Sugar Grove, Warren county, Pa., by Win. Brayton, who started with him immediately for Adrian, where Im- arrived on ThfV-aay noun. The news flew like wild-fire through Iho neighborhood; and'people have been \ isiling [ him constantly since his arrival, questioning him and cross-questioning till he was almost exhausted. The scars corresponding to those on Mathew Brayton when lost, were found ion Ims person. He is a man about five feet seven inches in bight and light, complexion:. he has Some tattoo marks on his chest; also, some scars on his right leg, caused by wounds r .'reived in an Indian battle some three years ago. Tld- Indians, in pertorming the j necessary surgical operation, tied him to a log an.l sewed up the vvousid, some eight inches in length, with a buckskin t-heug, making hat three c! iehes.. The scar.-, made by the needle and thong are nearly as large as that by the cut off the tomahawk. lie has with him hi Indian i! g, called lu’ifii-i

UTEtS.IiS: ut 50 i>er Year, in Advance.

and a large pipe made of flint, yvhicu weigns nine ounces. He soys it took him “one moon”’to drill the hole through Iris pipe, which he did with a piece of steel,’ som:' bear’s oil and water. He was stolen by lue Canada and Pottawatomie Indians, ami was shift.ed from one of thus" tribes to the oilier till he was sold by them to the P. paw Indians for.five-gallons and a half of whisky, s.nd they sold him to 1 he r.; for seven gallons and a half. They v. •re living ,in Michigan at tint time. The Cliijipf.vaas houg’itt him of -the, Winnebago: s' and kept l-iim two moil 1 hs and a hr.if, and then sold him to.the Sioux for eleven gallons of tli? “fire, water,” Tiffs lie dees not revelled himself, but.-it was SoM to him by the v." • oits trib, - as luetraced himseif hack to Ohio. He remembers hack to the tliu.e he was , twenty-six years ago. To use his language, “ I was then a 1 . nd shorter than I am now.”' lie was pur. • I April', at Coder Rapids, lowa*,- by the Snakes 'and Copperheadsffwith whom he has resided ; ever since. He lived' -in • lowa two year*. six months; thence to- (’alifornia, where he r< sided five am! a in.” years; thence- to Or'e- ! goji. where lli-cy staid two years: thence to ! the Russian Possession's, where he. has resided ever, since , except, v. lien trav-.-li.iig to and from their trailing pci:lie lived ’ near Behring Sir .its, to. u hundred miles north-west of “Big esquimaux'’ vid luge, 60 deg's n*>rth latitude. 110 ' ha., crossed the | Straits several times in tb.e winter season eti t he ice He w as crossing once, a few winters ago, sharp puce, wlien the elk stepped into an airhole, throwing him ever his head into the ; waiter. At the time this took place the. lamented I)r. Kano with his expedition was ■in that section. After, get-ing o-.ff oF the water lie tn°t one of the crew, a tnatt by the :rr tn+'-4>l i'homas Hickey. Since his return ;*o the States, on lii.s nrr'val at Cleveland when he got oIT the train, he saw Hickey, i who recognized him instantly, called him by pi's jaidian name. ;■: "I Pa was in St. Paul when it oicy cot)! a •ried seven houses. About eight years ago, his ■ tribe being nearly famished by hntiger, he went to Hudson Bay in search of provisions, w here he first learned that bo was a pale face; The whites h.ffng unable to purchase I im. (the I: liiaii.- refusing to part with him.) ’ li-e-tc ned to t him by force, let the c.'t iff.q...riiy of their numbers: prevented ■ them from putting their thro: t in forceleave them or he taken'aw y by tim whites. They t on visit' d Lord Selkirk's settlement j oil Rid ■River',' where they got into a skirmish with the w hit s. The whites told him , there, alsb, tiuft he was. a .white man. He had been at Ss, Paul seven or eight times on ; trading expeditions; also at Lord Selkirk’s seUienuyit, Hudson’s Bay and St- Antlnry's Fall’s: The. whites repeatedly told his .tribe that if they did noV let him go to the States, Lo search :or Iffs relations, tl-u y would take him from thorn -by force! He left his. residence Septe-n.her, 1>58; left St. Paul on the 16 th of April, f A 9, i.n company \\ it li li i> luff! a u lirotleaf,;(c!iie! elect last fall.) six Imlidians, three ponies and live dogs. Thev ; came with iiim to t hycago, where lie was taken sick and placed in the hospital for treatment, and kept there till ho r n \ • two. I His Indian friends there left him' and re- : turned to ’• I• ■ ■;. tribe. He Went from tliete :o Detroit, .Michigan; thenca to Ohio; thence :to Northern Pennsylvania, where ho was ■found by William Bray ton; Esq. 110 was : then on his way to s um: Indians in New : York. He carr speak five different Indian languages, viz: Snake, Copperhead, Crow, j Utah and Flathead. He also speaks the English language very fluently and correctly, [which lie says came, to him a linos!, inluitive|ly on meeting with the whites. The tribe ; with which he lived had a compass and 'watch enclosed in one copper case, wlech [they used in traveling* They purchased it. of the Russians for one hundred dollars. He says the Snakes, Copperheads, Crows, [ Ufalls, and Flutheiids together number }OO,~ 1.500 souls—men, women and children injeluded. He married the daughter of the Grand ] Chief seven .'years ago. lie has two children, son and daughter. His daughter's name is Trelonn, (Tamo Deer) and is five \ ears old. His son’ name is Tulle, usa, two years old lasi June. His o\yn uuusc is Owahov. av Kish me wall. Y\ t:e>i he arrived in j Chicago he w.i.-:dt- sad in Indian c u me, daubed and palptecff hi . hais in u d ■ ' n lo his knees. While in the h itai tii y 'cut off Ida I'utii'. and .scrohh.ed lu'ni wrßv sand. |

soap and Water, until all vestige of the paint was removed-. He eats meat raw, but will Lot eat food containing salt

I From the: Nashville (Teini.) Sews, 17th inst*

The Union and American “most unhesitatingly, earnestly and emphatically” denies that there have been “liberal and enlightened statesmen” in the South, who regard the existence of slavery among us as a “defect or blemish” in our system of government, and it cites the simple statement of this tact by Mr, Bell, asssvidence of his unsoundness on the slavery question. On Tuesday, we published by one of Gen, Washington's letters that he regarded the institution as so great an evil and blemish, that he would have rejoiced, to use his p\yn words in aw feasible;scheme to get rid ofmt. To-day we shall show that James* Madison also regarded it as a very great ‘-defect or b]einish”-—a [perpetual source o t' weakness in oar system. In the first Congress tiiat assembled after the adoption of the Federal Constitution (1789,-) Mr Parker, a representative from Virginia, moved to amend the tarifF\bill by ! inserting a cflttuse imposing a duty of ten i dollars n cv. rv slave imported. In a speech made by Air. Madison,'in sup- . port ol Parker's motion, lie said: -■Tim eo.nfonruling men with merchandize : might be ea-eiy avoided by altering the title jof t!;y bill; it was, in fact, the very object of i the ''motion. to prevent men, so far as the power of (’engross t xtended, from being confoanfled w ith merchandize. The clause in j the Constitution allowing a tax to- be Imposed, tfiough the traffic could not be prohibited for twenty years, .was inserted, he ! believed.yh;- the very purpose of enabling'Congress to give some testimony of the sense of America with respect to the African trade. By expressing a National disapprobation of [ that trade, it is hoped, we may destroy it, aCu [ so save ourselves from reproaches, and our poster i/y from the imbeciPly ever attendant on, <i j country filled with slaves. 'This wasas much [ the interest of South Carolina and of Georj gia as of any State. Every addition they rel ceived to their number of slaves tended lo l weakness, and rendered them less capable of self's dtfensc. lii case of hostilities with- foreign [ Nations, their slave population would be a--1 means, not of impelling invasion, but of in- ; viting attack. “It was the duty of the general gaverh- [ ment to protect every part of the Union,Sand a proper subject for the consideration, ■f li: charged with the general adminis- ; trillion -of .the government.” . Parker, who- made the motion, and who, w c : v • already said, was a representative j from X irginia, among'other tilings, said: ‘■•■The gentleman from Connecticut had ! said that human beings ought not to b.enumi bered with goods, wares and merchandize, j Yet he believed that they were looked upon iby A'rican traders, in that light. He I honed Congress would do all in their pow|er to restore to human nature its inherI cut pricing •••>•; 'to wipe off, if possible, the j stigma under w hich America labored*; to d.> ] atv ay the inconsistency in' our principles ; justly charged upon us; and to show .by four actions, the pure beneficence of the doctrine* ; held < ::t to the worl 1 in our Declaration, of 1 n tie tree;” Pag-, another representative from Virgin--1 i i, in the course of a discussion on the subject of'-siavery, said -‘Ac lived in a Slate which had th misfortune to - have in iier bosom a ; great number of slaves,” and that “he held ; uk.nv himself.” j May we not appeal to the Union and American's Candor and magnanimity to conj fess its error, and to admit that Mr. Bell uttered hut a supple historical truth when he said that “liberal and enlightened statesmen in every part of the world have regarded” the existence of slavery among us us a defect or j 'blemish” in Cur system of government.

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Phis getrtlfctnun, on Monday of fast week, delivered. a lecture iii Plymouth Church, P dry V* ‘-I'd Beecher's.) Brooklyn, on the ••Duties of Life,” to a large audience and with great applause. Mr. Tilton introduced f*2f. Colfax t j.the audience, and said:, ‘Tie spoke of true progress and n/form, and said that jthe lecturer, coming frojin the We-st, vis himself a .'living symbol of its growth and progress. Twenty-five years ago there was a poor boy in a public school in the Ninth I Ward of New York, who always stood-at! the head of his class, a few years afterward there was a young printer standing at his case, half ragged (as printers u sally standi) in a town away in the Qtatc of Indiana; Ijitev still there was an editor who cent no led the most indueutial press in fh.vt Slate; sy.sd not long st-dse there was chosen a.nd re- chosen, out of that editorial -'f-ice, a member of the United States (Congress. Now,; that school boy, that printer, that editor, add that member of Congress, were one and the same man, and his. name was Schuyler Colfax. (Great applause:) (tgg'Soutlieiin 1 'egislatures are everywhere called on by t|e Plantation Presses to make stringent law.-l against Northern pedlars and >g agenjts ot i ,-eiy description. We suga-eot ti. it tjouthern Legislature be also petitioned to enact laws for the abolition of l’c <’ ; siridiovs, so that tho. chivalry may ; lie in danger uf 4 being unnecessarily scared on that laocount.

The Truth of History.

Hon. Schuyler Colfax.